Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

The situation in front of him also made Zhang Shouren want to cry without tears.

The prosperity of China's maritime trade since Longwan opened the sea has always been seen only in books, but today is really an eye-opener.This kind of situation, presumably, is happening every day in several important trading cities in southern China. The difference is that the ports there are mainly out to sea. Think of places like Quanzhou, where there are thousands of sails and masts in the port, and every day I don't know how many ships are loaded with goods and sailing out to sea. When they return, half of the silver and half of overseas goods, and then they are busy moving the silver and unloading the goods... Over the past few decades, more than one-third of the world's silver has flowed into the sea. What a miracle it is to enter China!

It's just that this kind of miracle is not so wonderful when it is performed in front of my eyes. It is indeed thanks to him. There are quite a lot of people in Fushan who have money in their hands. A small platoon can earn two dollars a year 300 taels of silver, his family members may work in the saltworks, or in the general work office, or in the school or medical center. Anyway, there are many places to employ people. As long as you are willing to work hard, there are not only many opportunities to make money, but also many. Of course, it is generous to pay money. Every time this cargo ship arrives, there must be many family members of soldiers who flock to it.

Trade means that there is a surplus and a surplus. The super-entry means that people sell you more and you go out less. The super-export means that you sell more to others and buy less from others.

Before the Opium War, China had always been in excess, and the reason is very simple. China is a small-scale peasant economy, and even the family can be used as the economic unit. You can grow food for yourself, and spin cloth for your own clothing. In addition to buying salt, you need money to pay taxes. That is to say, you may need money to see a doctor, or buy some meat when you are really hungry. In normal times, even buying furniture and hiring a carpenter can use barter to solve the problem of currency shortage. Such an economy should not It shows that there was nothing good in Europe in the dynasty that could attract Chinese people to buy. Even during the Opium War, those machine-woven cloths did not have much advantage in price. Even if it was lighter and thinner, was it worth the money?Anyway, I have ready-made looms to spin cloth at home, so it is not worthwhile to spend money to buy them. [

The purchasing power of China is like this. What goes out is a boatload of silk and porcelain. Whether it is from the Nanyang region or the European mainland, these things are good things. Wearing Chinese-made silk and using Chinese exquisite porcelain is a measure of the middle class. A benchmark of life, even in the Ming Dynasty, holding a tea party with a full set of Chinese porcelain and Chinese tea leaves was a ostentation that only the decent upper class could afford.

Shiploads of porcelain, tea and silk were shipped out, and what was exchanged was boatloads of silver. This matter is urgent for everyone. The British started to grow opium in India in the early [-]th century and began to smuggle it into China. When Lin Zexu banned opium, opium It has been sold in China for decades, and it is through this rogue method that China's superiority to the world began to stagnate until the West and even Japan used lighter, thinner and cheaper cloth to destroy the foundation of China's farming society.

Now at Zhang Shouren's place, it was someone who exchanged boatloads of goods for the money he had saved from selling salt. If this trade continued, he would have to make him cry.

After coming out of the pier, he went to pick up his wife at his parents-in-law's house. On the way back, Zhang Shouren didn't ride a horse, but sat in a carriage. On the swaying carriage, he remained in a state of ecstasy.