Chapter 781: Rule the world by benevolence, dominate the world by showing strength
The only impact of Kanda Shinichi's incident was that there was an additional specimen in the Jieguan courtyard. Other than that, it did not cause any waves in the Ming capital.
Some of the desperadoes that Kanda Shinichi bribed with money have also been included in the official sea arrest documents. With clues, Tiqi will handle the case very quickly.
The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty even partially recognized Kanda Shinichi's statement. He wanted to publish the article in Di Bao, but both Tiqi and the Superintendent of Ceremonies expressed their clear refusal.
The most surprising news for Zhu Yijun is that Mount Fuji in the Japanese country is in an active cycle. This active cycle will last for two hundred years. The volcanic eruption is a continuous disaster event, which can effectively weaken the strength of the Japanese country and provide a certain basis for the Ming Dynasty to destroy the Japanese. help.
Another reason why Shinichi Kanda's monstrous words failed to confuse the public is that the capital of the Ming Dynasty is now paying more attention to the gold and silver transactions of Yanxinglou Trading House.
Wang Qian's gameplay is a bit too cruel.
It fluctuates repeatedly, cleaning out the unsteady players, and then pulls out a huge increase to attract speculators to enter the market. It starts to smash the market at the highest level, pulls out a huge drop, and starts to fluctuate again at the low level. , complete a cycle.
There are always smart people who want to see through the fluctuations, hoping to sell high and buy low, but even Wang Qian doesn’t know when it is high and when it is low. When the leeks are not enough, they will pull up. The money in the hands of the leeks is almost When the main force is threatened, he starts wielding the sickle.
This has caused several very strange phenomena. From a macro perspective, the price of gold remains in a very stable range over a month, even fluctuating less than 1%. However, from a micro perspective to an individual, within After playing for a while, you can lose everything, and your net worth will shrink by more than 20%.
In this game, if someone loses, then someone will naturally gain.
Zhu Yijun exhaled and said: "In the past year, at Yanxinglou Trading House, small households with a net worth of one hundred silver to one thousand silver accounted for about 85% of the trading house. Within a year, net worth generally shrunk by 25% to 30%, and large households with a net worth of more than 200,000 silver, or private trading fairs with high thresholds, took away more than 2.8 million from trading houses in one year. Silver.”
"Can these private trading fairs with high thresholds survive the disaster? In this gold and silver market, these large investors lost more than three million silver."
Shi Yaoyou must be extremely careful here. Even so, the money earned in the past year has helped Daming collect gold.
Zhu Yijun had the detailed accounts of the trading house. Wang Qian did not hide his methods from the emperor. From the perspective of Zhu Yijun, a superior, he said that if he did not come into contact with the trading house, he would become unfortunate.
Wang Qian explained the secrets in detail in his "Four Secrets of Wang Qian's Fortune". Everyone who enters Yanxinglou Trading House will receive a copy. Wang Qian even wrote on the cover: Ming: How to make money in a trading house? The further away from the trading houses, the better.
"I don't understand. It's obvious that most people are losing money. Why are there so many people entering the trading house one after another, waving the banknotes in their hands and sending their hard-earned money into this trading house?" Zhu Yijun Said with a sigh.
Zhu Yijun is a farmer. He actually hates speculation, but in the process of transforming the small-scale peasant economy into a commodity economy, these are inevitable.
After working hard to save some money, I finally threw it into this trading house. What do you want? Many even went bankrupt and mortgaged their ancestral home to a bank to borrow money, thinking that they would be smarter than others.
Feng Bao thought for a while and said: "Because many people only see the part of the people who get rich suddenly, but not the majority who lose money."
Survivor bias means that when people observe, it is often easier to notice and collect successful survivors, while ignoring losers who are more difficult to notice or cannot be counted.
The survivors stand in the center of the stage with flowers like brocade, and like to tell their legendary stories to everyone, while the losers jump from the attic and sink to the bottom of the Tonghui River, and no one will care.
People always think they can be that survivor.
People have a protective mechanism for forgetting pain. They often close their memories of misery and reminisce about joy over and over again. In the end, only sweetness remains in their memories.
In the trading world, there are no winners, only survivors and losers.
It was these myths of sudden wealth that attracted everyone's attention, so that Shinichi Kanda's desperate act did not cause any waves. His theory was very bold, but no one cared about it, and no one could even take a second look at it.
In the end, Zhu Yijun did not intervene with any clear instructions. He just asked and finally replied, "I understand."
Too much interference will make people say that the emperor controls too much and is too lenient, preventing people from making money more conveniently. These private trade fairs with high thresholds will inevitably be harvested by Wang Qian, and the profits extracted will All turned to gold.
Zhu Yijun sighed and picked up the memorial from the Ministry of Rites. The Ministry of Rites clarified the Ming Guan system. On the surface, it was to set up pavilions at various ports, mainly for trade. On the one hand, it was responsible for the collection and distribution of goods when Ming merchant ships arrived. Prepare local specialties.
From a functional point of view, the Mingguan is indeed a place for doing business.
The owner of the museum is a ninth-grade official, and all scholars can go there. In addition to the owner of the museum, there is also a supervisor, who is mainly responsible for paperwork, accounting, commodity pricing, etc. Anyone can do it as long as the people can calculate the accounts clearly. answer the call;
There is a Guanwei, who is specifically responsible for the defense of Mingguan. He can recruit local braves to accompany him. The court will give ten additional officers. As for how many to recruit and how to raise these Xiangyong, it is Mingguan's own business.
The labor remuneration of the Ming Palace mainly consists of two aspects. On the one hand, it is the salary of the imperial court, and on the other hand, it is the income of the Ming Palace. How much is the operation of the Ming Palace, how much is the income, and how much is the distribution. The Ming Dynasty does not do audits, let alone pay taxes.
The salary from the imperial court mainly represents the relationship with the imperial court, rather than the main source of income.
How much money Mingguan can make, relying on Daming products, depends on their abilities.
Ming Guan is a supporting policy with the special trade license. Not only the imperial court's global caravan can apply for it. For example, a merchant has obtained a special trade license and has his own territory in a certain port. If he wants to have a Ming identity, he can apply for it. Report to the imperial court to apply for a consulate.
The government-sponsored director serves for three years. After returning to the Ming Dynasty, he can obtain the status of Enke Jinshi from His Majesty and continue to seek promotion. If Ming Guan unfortunately dies in a different place, after verification, the Ming Dynasty will inscribe the name of the loyal martyrs in his hometown in the Zhongmarty Shrine. treatment.
If it is really replaced, it can apply for the pioneering lord of the Ming Dynasty. If the territory is large enough, it can become the Governor's Palace of the Ming Dynasty. The relationship between the Governor's Palace and the Ming Dynasty court is that of a territory above the friendly states.
Zhu Yijun felt that no one was going, so the court gave him a name and asked people to work hard, while the Ministry of Rites felt that the power of the owner should be restricted.
Everyone inside and outside the Ming Pavilion is actually a Han envoy. In order to achieve great achievements, sleeping with the Queen Mother probably has no psychological burden. The Ministry of Rites hopes that the Han envoys will not go too far.
"Is this the Mingguan Guanzhu Guan Shenma medal?" Zhu Yijun held a palm-sized round bronze medal with two words on the front, Ming and Ling, and four sentences written on the back:
South Vietnam killed Han envoys and slaughtered them into nine counties;
King Wan killed the Han envoy and hung his head on the North Tower.
North Korea killed Han envoys and killed them immediately;
The Chanyu killed the Han envoy and hung his head in the street.
The identity of these people is recognized by the imperial court. They are all Han envoys. In other words, if they encounter any misfortune locally, the soldiers of the Great Tomorrow are indeed far away, but the global trade caravans can arrive once a year and will help these people. The Han envoys took revenge.
This is a very violent expression.
It can be seen that Gao Qiyu really tried his best to complete the errand of starting a school. If he does not collect enough silver from overseas, it may be difficult for him to succeed in popularizing education.
These four sentences from the "Book of Han Su Wu Biography", Zhu Yijun and Zhu Pi, are the promises of his emperor.
It is foreseeable that the Mingguan system will indeed turn into a small business as Gao Qiyu said.
Gao Qiyu once circled the earth as a special envoy to the West and returned to the Ming Dynasty. In his opinion, the Ming Dynasty should be more overbearing when it should curb unnecessary goodwill.
By practicing benevolence, one can rule the world; by showing strength, one can dominate the world.
"This passage is interesting." Zhu Yijun looked at the memorial from the Ministry of Rites. Shen Li included a little personal information in the political memorial.
During the Kaiyuan and Tianbao periods of the Tang Dynasty, China was strong and prosperous. Going west from the west gate of Chang'an to the end of the Tang Dynasty, it was 12,000 miles away.
Today, the so-called "Twelve Thousand Miles" covers the vassal states of the Western Regions, and Longyou is now the two prefectures of Lin and Gong. Depressed and deserted for thousands of miles, the wealth of ancient times is regarded as if it were a foreign land. How can the benefits of a place be so great?
The temperature has dropped, and the fertile land that was once densely populated and humid has become a desolate and desolate no-man's land. The geographical difference is so huge. Your Majesty wants to reopen the Western Regions and develop both sea and land. The Ministry of Rites has no objection. location, but the focus is still on opening the sea.
This is the private information of the Ministry of Rites. I hope your Majesty will pay more attention to the changes in Kaihai.
"This year, the output of gunpowder should be increased by 200,000 jins." Zhu Yijun approved the Mingguan system. The corresponding industries specialized in the imperial court should also increase production to meet the special trade license and the implementation of the Mingguan system. This is also part of the new policy of opening up the sea. .
"I obey the order." Feng Bao obeyed his leader's order and produced more gunpowder to protect the merchants with swords.
At noon the next day, after the Ming Emperor's court meeting, he put on his regular clothes and went to the Yanxing Building Trading House. The monthly Yanxing real estate accounting was carried out on time. As the big owner of Yanxing Building, Zhu Yijun was responsible for Yanxing Building's Check the market conditions every month.
As the general person in charge of Yanxing Tower, Wang Qian waited for the emperor respectfully, welcomed the emperor into the Tianzihao box, and presented the accounts he had prepared long ago to the emperor.
The current tickets of Yanxinglou Trading House are divided into three categories, large tickets, small tickets and new tickets.
The big ticket is Suiyuan Chidao, Suiyuan Mining, Xishan Coal Bureau, Shengzhou Coal Bureau, Taotushan Baitu, Lanzhou Woolen, Yongding Woolen, Yongsheng Woolen, the five major shipyards, and the global trading fleet. The prices of these large tickets are very low, but the growth rate of ticket prices is very slow, and they mainly rely on dividends.
The small tickets are mainly based on ship tickets issued by civilians. Among them, three-masted plywood ships have stopped invoicing, mainly five-masted ocean ships and fast sailing ships. Only three fast sailing ships are used for ocean trade every year. Such fares The fluctuations are slightly larger, but overall stable.
New tickets are mainly raised by the five major ocean-going trading houses. The Yuanxu Islands are still a popular ticket among this type of new tickets. This type of new tickets is very risky because ocean exploration is still a very risky matter. Many times it's all down to nothing.
"Your father's plan of everyone becoming a shipowner was executed very well." Zhu Yijun read the transaction records of large and small tickets.
The most important role of Yanxing Tower is not to allow speculators to speculate, but to give the powerful right-wingers and rural gentry in the north of the Ming Dynasty the opportunity to become shipowners and enjoy the dividends of opening the sea. It is one of the important distribution tools.
Wang Qian bowed his head and said: "My father always told me not to let big and small votes fluctuate too much and affect the court's distribution."
"So you're targeting new tickets, right?" Zhu Yijun said helplessly.
"To be specific, he is a gambler." Wang Qian bowed his head and said, "You basically can't lose money when you buy large and small tickets in Yanxing Tower. You can receive dividends every year, but you have to spend money on new tickets. That's no wonder. I’m sorry.” “The gold and silver transactions are divided into new tickets, which tells everyone that there is a lot of risk involved.”
Zhu Yijun thought for a moment and said: "How about raising the threshold for new tickets a little, from one hundred silver to one thousand silver? You are the big shopkeeper of Yanxing Tower, what do you think?"
The threshold for Yanxing Building to enter the market is 100 silver, which cuts off the possibility of poor coolies entering the market. If the family property is less than 100 silver, there is no ability to resist risks. Under 100 silver, the more important things are food, clothing, housing, transportation, weddings and funerals.
"I don't agree." Wang Qian said very solemnly: "Your Majesty, if you raise the threshold to one thousand silver, you will be scolded. In addition to being scolded, you will also be questioned for eating alone. This was the first time Yongle opened the sea. Disadvantages.”
"At that time, everyone felt that the imperial court had eaten up the food alone, but they only saw wealth and no danger. The three treasure eunuchs fought in the Malacca Sea Battle and the Ceylon War. The King of Ceylon directly mobilized 50,000 troops."
"After the seventh voyage to the West in the ninth year of Xuande, the Ming Dynasty stopped official ships and official trade, and gave way to the sea. As a result, the Portuguese went to Haojing, and the Spanish destroyed Luzon. Haojing was the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty. , Luzon is a genus of the Ming Dynasty.”
Wang Qian's reasons are very good. He is opposed to continuing to raise the threshold. Once there is widespread public opinion that the emperor leads the big families to eat alone, it will cause more uncertainty in the opening of the Ming Dynasty.
The reason is very good, but it also takes courage to contradict the emperor so directly.
If Wang Qian wants to follow the path of an independent minister, he will not hide his true thoughts from the emperor. The only person an independent minister can rely on is the emperor.
"What you said makes sense. I haven't considered it." Zhu Yijun thought for a moment and said: "I just want to raise the threshold and exclude people with weaker risk resistance. This seems to be a kind of well-intentioned protection. , but people outside the door will feel that I have closed the door and not let them in, and they will feel sincere resentment."
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"The teacher said that Zhuangzi once told me that a man is not worthy of the Dao, he is not generous in arguing, he is not benevolent, he is honest but not shy, and he is brave but not arrogant."
This passage was said by Zhuangzi, and it means: The great road is nameless and it is difficult to describe it with accurate words; the great debate does not need to be expressed in words but with facts; excessive pursuit of benevolent government is a kind of tyranny; true integrity does not mean humility, but humility. It means having the courage to take on responsibilities; great courage does not show off the courage of blood, but the courage to fight in public.
History has repeatedly proven that benevolence is unkind.
"The country's surname is Zhengmao in Luzon. He treated those barbarians as human beings. As a result, he held a grudge and was jealous of the wealth created by the Han people with his own hands. He attacked and killed the good Ming Dynasty. Instead, six members of Ding Yang's family were brutally killed. Daren It’s really unkind.” Zhu Yijun waved his hand and said, “Just pretend I didn’t say that.”
"Your Majesty is wise." Wang Qian bowed his head again. He hoped that Your Majesty would continue to be so wise and would not be stubborn or self-willed. He would accept his good words and take the ship of Ming Dynasty farther and farther on the road to greatness again.
"Pandu Commander Liu Ji led the fleet back to Manila, the Luzon Governor's Palace, and will arrive at Songjiang New Port in the near future. This news reached the capital, and the tickets for ships sailing around the world rose accordingly." Wang Qian introduced today's market fluctuations.
The shipowners of Yanxinglou bear nearly 70% of the ship construction costs and pay for the ships, but they can only share 30% of the profits.
Most of the maintenance, repairs and losses of ships are borne by the shipowners, but even so, the shipowners of Yanxing Tower can still make profits from ocean trade, which is a little less than that of the workshops, but more stable.
Especially the global trade fleet in the big ticket. As long as the Ming Navy remains invincible, the global trade fleet will make a profit without losing money, and it will be more stable than the local owners in the past.
Because of the existence of Yanxing Tower, Ming Dynasty's policy of opening up the sea gained widespread support.
"Someone spread rumors that the Global Trading fleet was sunk in the West. This news spread for several days. The three trader gangs who spread the rumors have been banned from Yanxinglou trade." Wang Qian said a story It's a small thing, the market is like this, with all kinds of news spreading, this is normal, gossip is flying all over the sky.
Wang Qian quickly explained: "The reason why I want to punish you like this is because they published miscellaneous newspapers and deliberately disrupted the large and small ticket markets. This is an operation that is expressly prohibited by the regulations of Yanxinglou Trading House."
It’s not just state officials who are allowed to set fires and people are not allowed to light lamps, some powerful right-wingers are maliciously shorting the big ticket and small ticket markets, and spreading this rumor information through miscellaneous newspapers, and falsely accusing people of sitting in the trading houses.
Miscellaneous newspapers are the only channel for people to understand the news at present. You will be punished for talking nonsense.
This is relatively fair. Most of the people who trade in Yanxinglou Trading House have weak risk resistance and do not seek to get rich overnight. They invest all their money in large and small tickets. This group of people has relatively little information. It is easy to be affected by emotions and suffer losses in the game.
The powerful and powerful people who control the miscellaneous newspapers are equivalent to controlling the mouthpieces. If they manipulate maliciously, they will naturally be punished.
Zhu Yijun nodded and said: "Fines don't work, banning transactions doesn't work, if you knowingly commit a crime and commit it again, please draw up a list and tell me, I will let the tax inspector Tiqi check it."
"You will be honest if you check him thoroughly."
The new ticketholders are all gamblers. The big ticketholders and the small ticketholders are the owners of many industries in the Ming Dynasty. They are iron plates that need to be protected.
"Liu Ji is coming back too." Zhu Yijun planned to have a good discussion with Liu Ji about the Ming Pavilion. Emperor Ming looked at the crowded trading house downstairs and stretched himself. On the road of development, there are many things Bad, but overall, there is more good news.
The Ming Dynasty's ocean-going trading fleet led by Liu Ji returned successfully. After arriving in Ryukyu, the coastal defense inspection notified Songjiang Prefecture as quickly as possible. On the third day of March in the fifteenth year of Wanli, the ocean-going trading fleet successfully arrived at the new port of Songjiang Prefecture. .
On this day, the port was crowded with people who had received the news to welcome the return voyage of the fleet. On this day of return, Xingang prohibited entry and exit from the port to make way for the large fleet, because it would take a day for the huge fleet to just enter and leave the port. .
The sky was cloudless, the sky was blue, and the first mast appeared. The vermilion dragon flag and the seven-star flag were hung on the mast. This represented the dual identities of the Ming Dynasty official ships and the Ming Dynasty merchant ships. Soon Several masts are rising from the sea.
The crowd at the port burst into loud cheers, and the sound of horns and drums became more lively. The seabirds were frightened and spread their wings and flew across the sea.
At the head are three fast sailing ships, namely Tonghe, Tai'an and Anye. These are ocean-going ships specially improved for sea trade. They have three masts and are fully loaded with 1,200 materials.
Compared with the Youlong and Feiyun, these three fast sailing ships have two fewer masts and a lower load of 500 materials, but the ship speed has not been reduced and they are more flexible.
The reason for such changes is actually mainly to adapt to the environment of ocean trade. The three-masted clipper is more like a warship.
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Since the 14th year of Wanli, the fast sailing ship has begun sailing around the world. After summarizing the experience of sea testing, the ship will be further improved. It is expected that a stable ocean-going model will be formed within three to five years. The ultimate goal is to use fast sailing ships to sail around the world. Completely replaces ordinary sailing ships for faster trade.
It only took eight months for a fast sailing ship to sail around the world. Shortening trade time meant making more money.
Behind the three fast sailing ships were twenty five-masted ocean-going ships, fifty three-masted horse ships, and more than a hundred four-hundred-masted warships.
Counting the warships, the ocean-going caravan with less than 200 ships was much smaller in scale than the fleet that sailed to the Western Ocean during the Yongle period. During the Yongle period, the fleet led by Zheng He had only chartered ships. There are more than 260, not to mention the escorting horse boats.
But this does not mean that there will be less wealth brought back from overseas and there will be fewer ships, but the efficiency of obtaining wealth will become higher.
The 400-material battleship has not been eliminated due to the rapid introduction of new ships by the Great Tomorrow. Instead, after several improvements, it can still assume military responsibilities.
Smaller means more flexibility, which means a wider battlefield environment, smaller means faster speed, and can carry out reconnaissance and other tasks.
For example, because the 400-material battleship has a smaller draft than heavy ships, it can sail into some rivers to complete combat missions.
The global caravan led by Liu Ji brought back 5 million taels of silver, 120,000 taels of gold, 6.5 million jins of copper, 20,000 barrels of palm oil, 30,000 barrels of sugar cubes, and 20,000 bales of gold from the Ming Dynasty. of cotton, 1.5 million kilograms of saltpeter, and countless other goods.
The most precious thing here is 10,000 kilograms of Golden Rooster. This stuff is the tax of the Old Port Governor's Mansion this year. The Old Port Governor's Mansion left more silver to support overseas currency notes and used the Golden Rooster to deduct taxes. Endowment.
Zhang Cheng, the admiral of Songjiang Town, asked with confusion: "What are these two horse boats carrying?"
Liu Ji handed the cargo list to the admiral Zhang Cheng. Zhang Cheng's adoptive father is Zhang Hong, the second ancestor of His Majesty. Zhang Cheng is also an internal official of the Songjiang Shipping Department. Zhang Cheng has to check the cargo list one by one. Half of the goods inside will be converted into internal funds after being sold, so we must not be careless.
This is Your Majesty's money!
There is also a boatload of souvenirs specially given to His Majesty the Emperor. This was done through bribery and did not make the Emperor happy. When the Emperor was unhappy, he lost his temper and issued an order to ban the sea, leaving chicken feathers all over the ground, which is not good-looking. , mainly seeds of various plants, sorted into categories for His Majesty to use for his business.
However, after checking the cargo list, Zhang Cheng discovered that there was no cargo on two ships.
"Prisoners." Liu Ji said a little tiredly: "The Ming Dynasty fleet is really too rich, and there are always some short-sighted guys who insist on trying to bully the few and defeat the few, and try to take advantage of the Ming fleet. Here comes the next piece of fat.”
"Obviously, they kicked the iron plate. Not only did they not eat the meat, but they also chipped two of their front teeth."
In addition to the gold and silver cargo, he also brought back a large number of blind prisoners. The official ships and merchants of the Ming Dynasty were all sailors!
"It turns out he is a prisoner. Our family will definitely report to His Majesty the hard work and danger of the navy soldiers." Zhang Cheng said sincerely, doing business with a sword is definitely not a lie.
Liu Ji said with lingering fear: "On the sea, except for the people on the ship, no one else can be trusted. This is a bloody lesson. In the past five years, global trade has been the most dangerous one. This time, I trusted a Western businessman." .”
"Shah Mamet's envoy repeatedly told me in the capital: If you encounter a poisonous snake and a Persian merchant, kill the Persian merchant first; you would rather believe the poisonous snake than the rhetoric of the food merchant."
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"I didn't believe it at first. I suffered a loss this time, so I have a better memory."
Liu Ji lost a five-masted ocean crossing ship and two horse boats before he was able to deal with the joint sneak attack by Persian merchants, food merchants, Portuguese merchants and black merchants. He won, but the ship was burned and seven people were sacrificed. Famous navy soldier.
The West was the territory of Persian merchants and large food merchants. Shah Maimaiti repeatedly reminded Liu Ji not to believe the lies of merchants. Liu Ji kept this in mind and always took precautions against these merchants, so that no catastrophe occurred.
"Commander Liu, take a rest while we finish ordering the remaining goods." Zhang Cheng could see that Liu Ji was exhausted. After returning from the ocean, Liu Ji and the navy soldiers were still a little dizzy when they just got off the ground.
Liu Ji walked into the large bathing pool at the port. After returning from the ocean, he had to wash himself carefully with sulfur soap before staying at the Huitongguanyi in the port. He would leave for Beijing to meet the saint three days later.
This is a necessary epidemic prevention process.
(End of chapter)