"In this case, it will affect the Western countries who come to my Ming Dynasty to trade, and their income will decline because of this, but they are exchanging the gold and silver directly from the Americas and Africa, and it is not their own hard-earned earnings, so they will naturally not feel distressed when they spend it, and it is feasible to raise taxes on them."
Zhu Youxiao said: "Accurate!
You immediately come up with a concrete plan to raise taxes. ”"Yes!"
Bi Ziyan replied.If the Ming Dynasty wants to maintain its hegemony and not let the domestic gentry suffer, it can only inevitably plunder other countries.Fortunately, the important ministers who are now acting as assistants to Emperor Zhu Youxiao are more experienced than the previous ministers, and they already know how to do this, without the emperor's teaching.Bi Ziyan was even the most active minister among these people to do so.Because he couldn't convince himself anymore to believe that if he was as external as before, he would be able to make the Ming Dynasty prosperous.After staying by Zhu Youxiao's side for a long time, because he was good at money law, he gradually became clear that the Ming Dynasty could be as strong and rich as it is now, all by earning foreign trade and plundering foreign profits.Otherwise, Daming would have died out long ago due to increasingly onerous internal problems."
My emperor Shengming, at the beginning of his accession to the throne, regardless of all resistance, rectified internal affairs, and developed science and technology, only then did he have the ability to control the world today!
Otherwise, we scholars and doctors are afraid that they will already live half of their lives and half of their martyrdom. ”Therefore, after Bi Ziyan returned to the political hall, he said this to Liu Hongxun and Zhu Xieyuan, two auxiliary ministers, because he mentioned that the Ming Dynasty could now transfer the economic pressure to Waiyi."
There may be a lot of martyrs, but half of the words are only afraid of difficulty, in terms of servants, my scholars have not realized how important the supremacy of national interests is until now, and most of them are just clan interests first, or those who are willing to give up their families and be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but in all fairness, there will not be many."
Liu Hongxun replied."
No matter how much or too little, now our scholars can begin to change, especially you and me, who are still standing in the court, and have begun to put the interests of the Han family first, more and more, undoubtedly all of them are the work of Your Majesty, and at the beginning of Your Majesty's accession to the throne, few people understood, even Fang Da was driven to the shelves at the beginning of the rise, and he was against all the scholars who did not know anything."
Zhu Xieyuan said with a smile at this time."
This is true, Your Majesty's insight is always ahead of us, even I, Bi Zichuan, didn't realize that the strange skills and tricks are so important to the prosperity of the country, the so-called cultivation of virtue can make the world peaceful and visible is useless, in the end, it is the food and broken silver brought by the tricks and tricks that are reliable!
The troubles of the Eastern Captives, the Southwest Rebellion, the Mongolians, and the Rebellion of the Japanese are all gone, all because of this. ”Bi Ziyan said.As soon as he said this, Bi Ziyan couldn't help but look solemn, and said: "But the attention to strange skills and ingenuity has also brought a lot of hidden dangers, I don't know if you have ever thought that once Waiyi is really so hungry and cold, and is getting poorer and poorer, so that we can't consume our materials, then how can we rely on the more and more cheap goods brought by all kinds of new machines be exchanged for other useful materials for us, such as grain and ore?"
”After Liu Hongxun and Zhu Xieyuan heard Bi Ziyan say this, they couldn't help but glance at each other."
In the end, it is Yuanfu, who can see farther than us, this is indeed a problem, once the goods are backlogged, the consequences can be unimaginable, all kinds of loans can not be recovered, not to mention, the money has to be tight, I am afraid that there will be many employees unemployed!
My current young people in the Ming Dynasty have worked hard enough because of the old people and children, and they all rely on the increasing income without making them dissatisfied, but once the foreign trade is cut off and the internal consumption of so many commodities is not enough, then these young people are afraid that there will be trouble. ”Liu Hongxun spoke first.Zhu Xieyuan asked Bi Ziyan directly: "What can Yuan Fu do?"
”"In essence, the total amount of money and grain in the world has increased, and it is necessary to properly spill over the benefits, but this spillover cannot be spilled out in vain, and the money must be used to achieve certain purposes, such as making it accept our Han culture, in addition, the share of the government can not be reduced, but also increased, and the private money bank must be banned, and the behavior of minting silver and money without permission will be strictly investigated, so that most of the money and grain in the world will be controlled in the hands of the imperial court, and the imperial court will take this opportunity to continue to build railways and cities, and send the excess money to more people, so that most of the people in the Ming Dynasty have more surplus money, At the same time, advocating consumption, especially luxury consumption, the people of my Ming Dynasty need to be extravagant, and everyone needs to sit on luxury houses and expensive horses, so as to avoid the backlog of goods!
”Bi Ziyan said."
In other words, to go against the norm of frugality and allow extravagance to prevail?"
Liu Hongxun asked."
It has to be so!
The Ming Dynasty is no longer the past, in the past, in order to avoid eating grain, so it had to be thrifty, but now it is necessary to make more goods circulating, which has to make people willing to buy all kinds of things, and there are so many things that people need, and they have to buy what they don't need, such as newly made perfumes, mink coats, ginseng and deer antler velvet. ”Bi Ziyan said and said: "In addition, the etiquette law must continue to open the ban, allowing women and children to show their heads and buy all kinds of precious fat powder and spices to dress themselves, and even improve the status of Han women, so that their husbands can spend more money for them." ”"If you do that, you're really going to have to change customs."
Liu Hongxun said."
Today's Ming is no longer the Ming of the past, if you don't do this, it will be chaotic!
In other words, in the past, we only wanted the people of the Han family to be satisfied, but now we have to ask the people of the Han family to live a life like us scholars, pay attention to taste, pay attention to luxury, and pay attention to elegance!
Otherwise, in exchange for a large number of factories that have closed down in large numbers, a large number of unemployed workers, and a depleting tax revenue!
”"In addition, the public should know, because of the advocating of thousands of years of thrift, so that my Ming people love to save money too much, the savings of Daming Bank are still high, in recent years to encourage the customs, only to increase many interest-free loans, Daming Bank's current profits are not from the people, but all kinds of government company loans to bring income, and these government company loans are actually for more from overseas plundering wealth, it can be seen that the consumption of my Han people has not been stimulated, but not stimulated, Where can we afford to consume our goods by those outsiders alone?
”Bi Ziyan said and said: "If necessary, we must link the qualifications for studying, medical opportunities, and convenient transportation with the size and price of the house you buy, and re-establish the government-run medical hall and academy around the mansion with all kinds of three, four, and even five.If you can't afford it, you can take out a loan to buy it and pay it back slowly. ”"If it goes on like this, if you can't control it, will it backfire, forcing the people of the world to eat food, how to deal with a natural and man-made disaster?"
Liu Hongxun asked."
The servant just mentions it, if you want to do this, there will naturally be a lot of new systems, such as saving food and money, and dealing with natural and man-made disasters can be done by the imperial court."
Bi Ziyan said.