I was pulling trees in Daming, and Lao Zhu begged me to come out of retirement

Chapter 114: Lao Zhu, I've come up with something good

The rulers of the Yuan Dynasty have always been keen on nomadic economy.

Therefore, many of their nobles were always thinking about killing the people under their command and then using the land to graze cattle and sheep.

In their view, it is a waste to use large tracts of land to grow crops.

Therefore, during the decades of the Yuan Dynasty's rule,

The booming economy during the Song Dynasty not only failed to develop further, but instead experienced a significant decline.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang, who originally despised businessmen, also understood the importance of business to the development of a country under Tianyu's influence.

Zhu Chongliu used the excellent rice seeds given by Tianyu as well as high-yield crops such as potatoes and corn to successfully hybridize high-quality mass-produced varieties. After the agricultural pressure was greatly alleviated, Zhu Yuanzhang began to vigorously develop the economy.

The level of material production, especially food production, in each era determines the upper limit of the contemporary population, and the development of agricultural productivity makes it possible to accommodate an increasing population.

Thanks to Tianyu's intervention, the speed of agricultural production has increased by dozens of times.
This resulted in a situation where there was not enough population to consume the surplus food.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, when natural disasters occurred year after year and people died of famine, the territory ruled by Zhu Yuanzhang saw a scene of Datong where grain piled up like mountains and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment.

You have to know that this was after the imperial court collected taxes.

High-yield crops, scientific fertilizer formulas, and fool-proof farming manuals allowed the people to accumulate large amounts of food over the past four years.

On the contrary, the population growth failed to keep pace with the increase in food, resulting in the people hoarding large amounts of food with nowhere to put it.

In addition, since the land of the Ming Empire was publicly owned, it could not be bought or sold but only leased.
Therefore, the surplus food made people come up with the idea of ​​using food to exchange for convenience in food, clothing, housing and transportation.

This would have been an impossible idea four years ago.

However, as the grain in the barns and cellars gradually increased, some of the grain had even begun to mold.

The people had to consider exchanging the grain for more practical items such as pots, pans, clothes, food, and bedding.

However, due to the successive bumper harvests in the Ming Empire, the trading price of surplus grain continued to fall.

This stimulated the vigorous development of many primitive handicraft industries.
The development of handicrafts naturally promoted the prosperity of commodity economy.
Even provinces like Shandong and some southern counties have begun to widely plant cash crops such as cotton, mulberry and sugarcane to meet market demand.

Four years ago, this was totally unimaginable.

In the past, it was difficult for farmers to grow enough food for themselves, let alone grow the luxury goods needed by these "nobles".

Now every household has surplus food, but the price they sell to those hateful merchants is too low.

Therefore, many county magistrates who had studied in Taoyuan Township and possessed advanced ideas forced their people to plant some cash crops according to local conditions, which were then purchased and resold by the government.

In conjunction with the relatively relaxed economic policies set by Zhu Yuanzhang and the Ming Dynasty's national policy that except for grassroots soldiers who had many priorities, the rest of the scholar-farmer, merchant and industrialist classes were all equal.

Within four years, Yingtian became the country's largest trading center for small commodities and raw materials.

Of course, the premise is that everyone is equal, provided that the businessman declares and pays taxes.

Although the Ming Empire was very short of middle and high-level officials,
However, there is advanced knowledge at the grassroots level and in the Ministry of Finance that is far ahead of the times.

There is absolutely no possibility for these businessmen to evade taxes.

Coupled with a powerful tax collection force, once anyone is found to be smuggling or tax evasion, the only thing these businessmen will face is confiscation of property and torture.

In troubled times, heavy punishments are used.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang was not as hostile to merchants as in history,
But when I was a child, I was also a victim of those businessmen who made money from the national disaster.
Therefore, there is no question of sentencing here. He has already been so lenient towards these unscrupulous businessmen. If they dare to commit crimes again, they should simply die.

Originally, Zhu Yuanzhang was going to confiscate the family property and exterminate the clan, but later Tianyu said casually: "If you are a troublemaker, don't let your wife and children suffer."

Then Zhu Yuanzhang expressed the righteousness of the God of Land and changed the confiscation of property and extermination of the clan to confiscation of property and torture.

At the beginning, there were still people who didn't believe it and wanted to take risks. After all, a certain Mr. Ma said that if the profit exceeded 300%, they would trample on everything in the world.

As a result, after swindling more than a dozen people in front of the powerful tax authorities of the Ming Empire, these merchants who were content with their lives became obedient.

Although business tax is levied in a tiered manner, the more you earn, the more you pay.
However, the profits that merchants make from purchasing goods in Yingtian and reselling them to other forces' territories are enough to make them rich.

At this time, a variety of industries have gathered on both sides of the city avenue.

The number of shops in the city has reached nearly ten thousand, exceeding that of the Northern Song Dynasty during its commercial peak.

Restaurants, teahouses, brothels and theaters were open all night long, and artists and vendors could be seen everywhere, shuttling through the streets and alleys.

There is an urban management office every two or three hundred steps on the street. Two or three urban management staff are stationed in the office to maintain traffic order and ensure the normal flow of people and vehicles.

At this time, Tianyu walked out of a flower building full of beautiful girls.

Accompanied by the sweet voices of farewell behind him, Tianyu walked towards the Forbidden City with an excited look on his face.

This was built by Zhu Yuanzhang to conceal Tianyu's underground laboratory. It was definitely not a private Evergrande Song and Dance Troupe built by Zhu Yuanzhang to please Tianyu. Well, absolutely not!

At this time, the people on the street were imitating Tianyu and their clothing style was becoming more modern.

Tianyu only needs to wear a hat and a mask to make people ignore his identity as a god.

When Tianyu found Zhu Yuanzhang, he was holding an emergency meeting with his ministers.
They had received urgent military intelligence that Xu Shouhui's 100,000-strong Tianwan army had marched eastward and arrived at Taiping Ferry.

This news came two days ago, and now Taiping is probably in danger.

Because the communications soldiers responsible for communicating using quantum mechanics on the mc map these two days did not put up safe building signs.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang's troops were able to cross the Yangtze River,
However, as a capital city built close to Changjian, naval battles were inevitable.

So Zhu Yuanzhang was discussing with Xu Da and others how to deal with Chen Youliang's attack.

They are indeed an elite force in land warfare.

However, naval warfare will be affected by many factors such as warships and water properties.
The weakest part of Zhu Yuanzhang's army was undoubtedly the navy.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang had been working hard to develop the shipbuilding industry in the past four years,
However, with the current level of technology, four years is not enough to create a warship that can make up for the gap in level between Chen Youliang's complete and even epoch-making warships.

In addition, Yingtiandi is located in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and does not have the advantage of geographical location. It is definitely not a good strategy to rashly leave the city to fight back.

Tang He hesitated for a moment, scratched his head and said:
"How about we fill up the Yangtze River?"

What he was talking about was building a floating continent on the Yangtze River. Although this would require a huge amount of engineering work, it could still be accomplished with the help of magical weapons. Even if one could convince the God of Land to intervene, it would only take a week.

Xu Da pouted:
"Stupid, do you think the Yangtze River is Chen Youliang's passage? The Yangtze River is our Yingtian's natural barrier. It was by virtue of the Yangtze River that the Ming Dynasty blocked the attack of the biggest enemy, the Yuan Dynasty. Chen Youliang is just a scoundrel in the battlefield behind enemy lines. Now the biggest enemy of the Ming Dynasty is still the Yuan Dynasty. A lean camel is bigger than a horse. If the Yangtze River is flat, the first to take action will definitely be the court."

Upon hearing this, Tang He sneered and shut his mouth. Although he could fight, it was limited to local wars.

Zhu Yuanzhang pondered for a moment and was about to speak when the door of the hall was pushed open.

"Old Zhu, I've come up with something good!"

(End of this chapter)