"Do you want Ming Dynasty to reopen Bianji?"
Liu Yi and Yang Ming had been cooperating for many days, and they immediately understood what Yang Ming was thinking.
"No, it's not me."
Yang Ming sat down, "I think it should be you, or all the officials or the princes in the court."
"It's impossible that no one will go crazy over this matter.
Do you know what it means to reopen Bianji?
As soon as the court opens, those merchants will not hesitate to trade with those people with the grain of our Ming Dynasty.
No one How dare you speak like this when you are an official?"
Liu Yi thought Yang Ming was crazy.
Now that the Ming Dynasty had just experienced a natural disaster and there was no food in the country, how could they send grain and salt outside to sell?
What's more, a businessman, what is a businessman?
They are just a group of people who are unjust for profit.
They may be more like their parents than their biological fathers when they see money.
Moral restraints are of no use to them at all.
He can be sure that, let alone a sideshow, even if a little bit of news leaks out, these people will do whatever it takes to establish a relationship until the matter is completed.
You must know that Bianji's trade interests will definitely drive these people crazy.
For example, at the border with Mongolia, the pastures on the Horqin grassland alone can support countless cattle and sheep, and the cowhide, horsetail, and tendon can be sold at a good price once they are brought back to Daming, and they only need Just providing food, salt and iron tools for those damn barbarians.
But those barbarians will have their stomachs full and wander around the border all day long.
Thinking of this, Liu Yi felt a headache.
If Yang Ming really intended to reopen the Bianji, he believed that countless merchants would flock to the capital, get together with their backers, and even get together with all the powerful people.
And that At that time, he simply couldn't imagine the consequences.
"Zi Le, this is not a trivial matter.
Now that you are the magistrate of Sinan County, you should put Sinan's responsibilities first.
As for other matters, you should put them aside for the time being."
The one who spoke was Li Daoyuan.
He didn’t know what to say to Yang Ming now, not only because of Yang Ming’s status and prestige in Guizhou or Tongren Mansion, but the most important thing was that Yang Ming was not an ordinary official.
He had a unique His way of being an official was that when others were still struggling with the Spring and Autumn Taxes every year, he already dared to make bold claims to ask a poor county who could not even afford to eat to pay taxes of three million taels in three years.
Such officials can no longer be viewed with ordinary eyes, and even the big shots in the court will favor Youjia.
However, side collection is undoubtedly another problem, but no matter what, since Yang Ming wants to open it, Li Daoyuan feels that it is not a simple matter.
First of all, this matter is related to the food issue with neighboring countries.
Then the problem arises.
People in our own country are starving and they sell food to others or let others eat to rob themselves.
I don’t know if there is such a problem.
How many people have trouble sleeping and eating.
Secondly, in this so-called open side market, the vested interests are nothing more than those merchants, or the nobles behind them, so the court still has no interest, and with the loss of food and other daily necessities, it is equivalent to endangering the enemy.
If this is the case, firstly, it will be of no benefit to the court, and secondly, it will hurt the enemy, which is simply not advisable for the court.
So basically no one is optimistic about this issue.
However, these are all considerations of predecessors, but Yang Ming is different.
Every idea of Yang Ming can be said to be a golden idea, and his character is recognized by even the three ministers of the cabinet, so his suggestions will definitely be effective. different.
There is just an old saying, that is, if you are not in your position, you will not seek political power.
What Li Daoyuan said was actually a bit euphemistic.
Although it is a good thing to have such thoughts for the country, the country, and the world, you, Yang Ming, are just the magistrate of Sinan County now.
To put it bluntly, those things are still far away for Yang Ming.
Even Li Daoyuan doesn't dare to touch him.
Who will bear the responsibility if something big happens?
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"Teacher, everyone."
Yang Ming waited for several people to finish speaking before he said, "Do you think the harm to the side gathering is greater than the benefit?"
Everyone fell into deep thought.
What is Yang Ming's identity?
Since he raised this issue, he obviously thought it through carefully.
Otherwise, he would not have spoken like this.
"But, food," one of the officials was a little embarrassed to say.
What he meant was very clear.
The Ming Dynasty's food was currently a shortcoming.
Without enough food trading, it would have no substantial effect on those foreign races, even if there was enough salt or tea, it would be the same.
After all, those things can be saved, but food is a problem that cannot be ignored for grasslands and even other countries.
Especially for some ethnic groups on horseback, due to the special geographical location, those places are often not suitable for farming.
Therefore, the problem is that people in these places can only eat meat as the main food and grain as a supplement.
However, after all, only a few people eat meat.
Sufficient supplies or guarantees can be obtained, but the vast majority of people can only find their own solutions, so robberies and even entry robberies will occur.
Of course, everyone knows this problem, but what they think is that if these people are full, will they have more energy to rob?
This is a problem that no one dares to risk, not even the emperor.
This involves an issue of degree.
If this degree goes beyond principles and scope, it is no longer a simple or regional issue.
It will rise to the level of the country and the country.
Unless they were absolutely sure, no one would dare to say this, not even the three ministers in the cabinet.
Moreover, this is still an external problem, so what about the internal problem?
This will also involve the division of many interests, such as the common people, the powerful, the merchants, the officials and even the emperor, who all need to get their dividends.
So this is also a very troublesome thing.
Of course, no one is afraid of trouble.
What matters is whether the trouble can be solved and whether the expected benefits can be obtained.
This is the key.
Obviously, one hundred and fifty years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, no one could find a reasonable distribution standard on this matter, or in other words, they could not satisfy the people.
After all, the people are fundamental, and they will not tolerate such a thing happening if the people have nothing to eat.
Although officials hold a dominant position in this matter, the people will rebel if they don't have enough to eat, so the problem seems to be stuck in a weird circle and cannot get out of it.
"It's true that food is the big problem.
There is not enough food.
Yang Ming, your idea is not practical."
Liu Yi is worthy of being a Beijing official, and he saw the essence of the problem at once.
As he said, unless the Ming Dynasty had enough food for the people, it would be possible to open Bianji, otherwise it would be a utopia.
"What if I said that the Ming Dynasty had enough food?"
Yang Ming said with a smile: "Just this year, a crop called sweet potato will be transplanted from Fujian and other places.
When cultivated in Shu, the yield of this crop is extremely high, even no less than fifty It only takes one year to plant an acre of stone, starting from the middle of Sichuan and radiating to various places, such as Yunnan, Guizhou, Gansu and other places, and then other places, within a year, haha."
Yang Ming smiled and said: "One year will definitely make the entire Ming Dynasty no longer have a small amount."
Everyone was dumbfounded.
Is such food really available?
They couldn’t help but ask themselves You must know that fifty dan is not a small amount, so what about ten acres or a hundred acres?
This is a huge number However, everyone has a question in their minds: can this output really be achieved?
They were doubtful, but unexpectedly Yang Ming immediately resolved this doubt for them.
"Do you think it's a bit unreliable?"
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Yang Ming looked at the crowd and said, "Actually, this matter has already been implemented in the capital.
Led by the cabinet scholar Yang Gong, special personnel have been sent to Fujian to collect materials for use in Sichuan.
In addition to the test-planted root seedlings, Yang Mingcai once presented a plow to the emperor.
This plow can be cultivated several times with the efficiency of today's plows, and the first batch of fifty will be shipped to Sinan in the near future." bomb
Yang Ming's words are undoubtedly a bombshell Let everyone be surprised They never thought that Yang Ming had already begun the layout when he was still in the capital.
It seemed that Especially Liu Yi, he even felt that Yang Ming had calculated every step.
Whether it was liquor, post tickets or even freight, these things were all chess pieces in Yang Ming's chessboard.
And now that he has integrated these chess pieces together, it is obvious that the role played by these chess pieces will bring about earth-shaking changes in the entire Ming Dynasty.
Everyone is sweating coldly What kind of monster is this Yang Ming?
What kind of person does it take to be so scheming?
Even Kong Ming, who was originally known as Mr.
Wolong, is probably incomparable to him.
"Do you mean to use those sweet potatoes to open Bianji?"
Liu Yi asked.
He was more nervous than Li Daoyuan about this matter.
After all, he used to be a censor, so his perspective on the problem is naturally better than that of a place like Li Daoyuan.
The official sees far.
"Sweet potatoes are just one aspect," Yang Ming said: "For example, our spirits are actually a good thing, especially the price of twenty yuan a bottle, which will allow many foreign friends to enjoy the friendship of Ming Dynasty, and there is also salt, as long as they want me You can give them enough salt at a reasonable price So, I think they will be very satisfied with even half of the good things on the market.
Of course, such benefits are not unrewarded.
I need their friendship, such as no more buttonholes, which the people of several of our countries need.
Stability requires a long-term and stable life, doesn’t it?”
Everyone was speechless.
The secret of spirits is no longer a secret.
Except for some common people, many officials are aware of the dangers of industrial alcohol.
Now the imperial court has formulated many strict regulations on the trafficking of spirits.
One of them is That is, it is strictly prohibited to sell within the territory of Ming Dynasty.
After all, spirits are a subsidiary product of industrial alcohol.
In Suizhou, the spirits industry and industrial alcohol industry have become mainstream local industries.
There are countless people near and far who have made a fortune by selling alcohol or manufacturing related ancillary products.
That's right, it's about getting rich You can make a fortune even by making clay pots These spirits have been continuously trafficked to many places for a long time.
Because of their high quality and low price, they have even penetrated into many countries.
No one knew that just a few days ago, the Ministry of Revenue had received the largest amount of tax revenue since liquor trafficking began.
One million two hundred and eighty thousand taels This number alone has made almost everyone in the court celebrate.
Such a large amount of money not only solved the current embarrassment of the court, but also made some contributions to the relations between many countries.
At least many areas have become relatively peaceful areas due to the circulation of spirits.
I have to say this is a very good start "But, Yang Ming, you just mentioned where the salt comes from."
Liu Yi raised another doubt.
You must know that salt has always been a problem.
Even in later generations, there will be insufficient supply in some areas.
For an era like the Ming Dynasty that was almost entirely a handicraft industry, the output of salt is undoubtedly a very huge problem.
He raised this question, and almost everyone realized this.
Although salt is less important to food, it is definitely an important factor that cannot be replaced.
As far as the Song Dynasty is concerned, the exchange value of one pound of salt is one cow, and this trading method even continued until the founding of the Ming Dynasty.
Even the current price is only two pounds of salt in exchange for one cow.
In fact, there were many places producing salt in the Ming Dynasty, but it was precisely because of this huge profit that many salt merchants even smuggled it to sell outside.
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Some even directly sold salt grains mixed with sand, especially the Lianghuai salt merchants.
"Salt is not a problem.
Just like what I said just now, Yang Ming has the same idea as you all, as long as they don't die, it will be fine.
As for salt, I believe there will be a lot.
At this time next year, the Coal Group will One million shi of salt per month was transported to various parts of the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, 500,000 shi of salt were also sent to various border areas.”
"One and a half million stones" Immediately someone shouted loudly.
The annual output of the entire Ming Dynasty was only this, but Yang Ming was so strict, right?
"Yang Ming, you can't talk nonsense."
Li Daoyuan obviously realized the seriousness of the problem.
One and a half million yuan was no longer something that one person or even a so-called coal group could decide.
Such matters must be supervised by the court.
"I'm not lying.
I believe you already know the function of cement."
Yang Ming said to everyone: "I have sent people to Guangzhou since the last time the Japanese pirates robbed grain crops there."
Li Daoyuan and Liu Yi also knew about this matter.
Yang Ming's prospective father-in-law, Xia Shang, was almost beheaded because of that incident.
If Yang Ming hadn't manipulated it, Xia Shang might have stabbed him at Caishikou by now.
However, Yang Ming's mention of this place was obviously not without purpose. .
"There are actually many places to cook sea salt in the offshore areas of Guangzhou, such as Guangzhou and surrounding areas," Yang Ming said calmly.
Boiling sea salt is an important job for people in Guangdong and even many coastal areas.
In addition to the numerous salt wells in the mainland, the main salt production in the Ming Dynasty came from boiling salt.
However, after boiling a pound of sea water, the output is only one to two taels. , and a lot of firewood was consumed, so even if many people were cooking, it could not meet the huge needs of the people of the Ming Dynasty. s: Today’s chapter is presented: