Xinshun 1730

Chapter 130 Violence
Money is an extremely sensitive topic for the court.

Money is needed for war, money is needed for disaster relief, money is needed for rewards, and money is still needed for running schools.

This question about Zuo Pingzhang was too sensitive, and immediately made everyone fall into deep thought.

With an annual income of 3000 million, the savings in the world must be at least [-] times more.

If half of the silver was imported from outside, it would be 80 million taels.From the Longqing switch to the Jiashen year, in the 500 years, the average annual deposit was [-] million taels.

However, the tax has not been seen.

This is a simple math problem, and everyone present can figure it out.

Whether it's two out of ten or one out of ten, it's not right.

Obviously, this is a place where you can get money out. Even if you can get out 50 taels of tax every year, it can relieve a lot of financial pressure.

Almost instantly, some words Liu Yu said before resounded in Li Gan's mind instantly.

Normally, he wouldn't care about it, but now that he was brought up by this topic, it became very clear.

In the memorial, Qi Guogong relayed the tariff issue that Liu Yu had mentioned when negotiating with Luo Sha.

Raw silk, porcelain, and tea are all needed by Westerners but cannot be produced by themselves, so they can be taxed, even if they are taxed at three-tenths, Westerners will still come to buy them. Three-tenths of trade costs is not a problem at all.

The taxation of foreign goods must consider whether it will have an impact on the handicraftsmen of the dynasty.

Reminiscent of what Liu Yu said before about the royal family's participation in the trade with Mongolia and Rakshasa, Li Gan, who was crazy about money, had already turned his mind several times.

The royal family monopolizes trade, which is competing with the people for profit, but if Westerners import so much silver every year, if they can control it, wouldn't it increase domestic funds by millions every year?
The temptation is too great.

However, as soon as he changed his mind, Li Gan also knew the problem.

It's easy to think, but it must be completely out of shape when implemented.

And what about taxes?

Now the annual customs duty is not much at all.

But the trade of Westerners is indeed frequent, and they are indeed rich. Doesn't that mean that tax evasion and smuggling are serious?
It was originally a policy theory about the Western Regions, and Liu Yu just wanted to use it to exert a little influence on the "view of the world". Who would have thought that this short [-] words would make Li Gan and others think of money.

This issue is too sensitive, so Li Gan thought it best not to mention it at this time, so he said: "The policy discussion this time is about the Western Regions, so let's not consider it for now. Let's continue to read, this is just a quotation It’s just words. Whether it’s true or not, it’s up to you to judge whether it’s good or bad, and we’ll discuss it after asking in front of the palace.”

Avoid talking about it, the rest of the people obeyed and continued to read.

Sure enough, as Li Gan said, these [-] characters are just an introduction, and after these [-] characters, it leads to the next question.

Times have changed, trade routes have changed, the great countries in the Western Regions have been abandoned, the development of Western silver mines, and the advancement of seagoing voyage technology have all made the Western Regions, which were profitable in the Han and Tang Dynasties, become a complete loser today.

The former Western Regions are no longer the current Western Regions. If Dashun compares itself to the Han and Tang Dynasties, then the Western Regions of Dashun should be in Nanyang.

Geographically, the Western Regions are more like Liaodong in the previous dynasty because of factors such as Zhunbu, Rakshasa, Britain and France, and so on.

The Western Regions of the Han and Tang Dynasties were profitable.So run it, and enjoy it.

Liaodong in the previous dynasty had negative returns, but if it did not operate, the previous dynasty would have suffered catastrophe. We must learn from this experience.

Therefore, geographically, the Western Regions must be operated, and they must be operated at a loss of money.

Where does the money come from?

Is it possible to achieve what Wang Anshi said, to use the country without adding taxes?

leads to the first question.

If the kingdom pacifies the Zhunbu, the snow mountains will no longer be the former Tubo, and the people who sweep the caves in Liaodong are basically Han people. Most of the troops are in the northeast, so where is the threat of Guochao?

Only the east is left. Although the past dynasties have learned that the northern border and the west are the threats, but the times have changed, and thinking about it like this is like asking for a sword.

The only possible threat to the country is the east.

Either Japan.

Or the Western countries.

If you want to put an end to the threat of this dynasty, you need a navy.

With a navy, if you don't manage Nanyang, wouldn't it mean that you have fertile soil and agricultural seeds without planting them?

This leads to the second question, the threat to the east.

After the two questions were cited, the question went back to money.

If Guangdong is considered as Chang'an in the Han and Tang Dynasties, with exchanges of goods, Hu people living together, and trade flourishing, then Nanyang should be the Anxi Protectorate.

You can collect money while sitting at home, of course.

But Liu Yu attached a chart below, using the various prices collected from missionaries to tell everyone that sitting at home collecting money, the money will be earned by second-hand dealers, and there is no middleman to make the difference in order to make a lot of money.

According to the "Biography of Huozhi": no firewood is sold for a hundred miles, and no firewood is sold for a thousand miles.

The Raksha people traveled thousands of miles to sell tea and rhubarb here on dry roads, so you can know how much profit there is.

During the Han and Tang Dynasties, countries such as Dashi and Daxia were extremely wealthy, and Westerners were barbaric and had no money. Therefore, trade in the Western Regions during the Han and Tang Dynasties was profitable and profitable.

But now Dashi and other countries are clinking with poverty, and Western European countries are now full of gold and silver, so as an analogy, Nanyang, which directly trades with Westerners, is the economic status of the Western Regions in the Han and Tang Dynasties.

At the same time, Annan and other places have been separated from Guochao since the time of Zhao Tuo.I fought once in the previous dynasty, but soon gave up. The rainforest was everywhere, and it was difficult to march.

Annan is long and narrow. If there is a navy that transports troops or lands along the coast, and water transports mobile support, if the country is rich in the future and there are changes in Annan, Annan can completely regain it.

Annan, Siam and other places are also rice producing areas.If there is a navy, rice can be transported at any time, there will be no famine along the coast, and the increasing rice price in the south of the Yangtze River can be alleviated.

The navy and the management of Nanyang as the Western Region are two sides of the same body.

If the navigation is strong, you can bypass the second-way traffickers and directly transport silk, porcelain, etc. to Western countries to obtain higher profits, which are enough to cover the cost of opening up frontiers.

If the navy is strong, no matter whether Japan or Western countries want to threaten in the east, it will not work.

No matter how ambitious Japan is, if the navy is invincible, there will be no more Wanli aid to Korea.

Even if Westerners have ambitions, their country is [-] miles away. The navy of the dynasty does not need to compete with the Western countries to rule the roost. It only needs to be able to win the forces of the Western countries in Nanyang to control them.

It seems that the Westerners have great influence in Nanyang, and the former vassal states such as Luzon, Batavia, and Manga have all been controlled by the Westerners.

However, Westerners also have conflicts with each other, and these contradictions can be exploited.

Moreover, in Luzon, Batavia and other places, there are also many Han immigrants, and they are manipulated by Westerners to instigate conflicts with the locals.

These immigrants have been repeatedly oppressed, and once the country's navy becomes powerful, they will immediately become a "returning army".

The experience of Westerners can be borrowed to build cities and rule. Since Westerners are thousands of miles apart, only three to five thousand soldiers can control Luzon and other places. 30 to [-], why can't they control the local area?

Helan Kingdom controls the spices and makes millions of profits every year. If it can control the spices of Nanyang, the country will benefit millions.

If you can go overseas to Europe, you can also make a profit of 500 million yuan in raw silk, tea, porcelain, etc.

Merchants in this dynasty collected money sitting on the ground, so they had no intention or ability to go to Europa. If they could be transshipped to Europa for sale, it would not be a fight for profit with the people.

It seems that the navy lost money, but in fact, once it controls Nanyang, it is like the Han and Tang Dynasties controlling the Western Regions. The wealth increases, the annual tax is millions, and the trade is tens of millions.

Moreover, if there is a strong navy, then going to the South China Sea to survive is not something that the country should worry about.

As long as the navy is strong, those people cannot learn from Zhao Tuo, their strength does not allow them, and they have to be rich and powerful to rebel.

Those who went to Nanyang to survive and get rich must be closely related to trade such as silk and tea, and they certainly would not use rebellion to cut off their wealth.

The immigrants in Nanyang, without the support of the state, would be easily slaughtered by the large number of local natives, so the immigrants there must have their hearts towards the state.

People's will, no matter how threatened by the navy, even if there are ambitious people who want to follow Zhao Tuo's example, it will only increase laughter.

After discussing from the three perspectives of money, trade, and external threats, the follow-up content is a bigger violent discussion.

From ancient times, the rise and fall of dynasties are all in the number of two or three hundred years.

The reason for this is that the population increased, but the land did not increase, and there were serious mergers at the end of the dynasty.

To solve this problem, there are those who treat the symptoms and those who treat the root causes.

The palliative is to suppress mergers, but this is only the difference between early death and late death.

Those who treat the root cause should develop practical learning, increase production, and at the same time extensively emigrate, imitating the wisdom of feudalism in Zhou Dynasty, immigrating to Nanyang and Nuergan, and reducing the contradiction between people and land.

Controlling Nanyang and increasing the revenue of the treasury, the imperial court can support a powerful army.

Even if there is a civil uprising, it can be suppressed.

After controlling Nanyang, Nuergan and other places, it can emulate the Song Dynasty system.

Once there is a disaster, of course we must provide disaster relief, but we should recruit the young and strong among the victims into the Xiang army and send them to Nuergan, Nanyang and other places.

It can open up Nanyang and Nuergan.

On the other hand, if all the young and strong are recruited away, even if someone takes the lead in an uprising, only the old and the weak will be left, which will not do anything.

The initial immigrants are mainly young and old.The old and the weak... If you have money, you will get relief, if you have no money... This is just a bloody and cruel fact.

With more and more immigrants, the cost of immigration is gradually reduced, and it may be necessary to be included in the official immigration of the Xiang Army at the beginning.

After gradually opening up, there will be more and more spontaneous immigrants after they can't survive, and they can live for a few more years.

Nanyang grows three times a year, so it is basically unlikely to starve to death.

It also produces a lot of rice, and controlling Nanyang is equivalent to controlling food. The navy can also transport food along the sea route, and can gradually eliminate the canal, saving a huge amount of expenses, and at the same time reducing the burden on the people in the Jianghuai area.

Shaanxi, Jin and other places, cultivate Mongolia; Hebei and Shandong enter Liaodong; Henan and Shandong go to Nuergan; Jiangnan goes to Nanyang.

At the same time, Westerners have always heard that there is still a fertile land in the south of Nanyang.Calculating according to geography, there are four distinct seasons there, but winter and summer are the opposite of the country's dynasty, and the vastness is no less than ten thousand miles.If Nanyang can be controlled, millions of people can be settled there in the future; but if Nanyang cannot be controlled, it will definitely belong to Westerners in the future.

All of the above are the reasons why Nanyang was established as the country’s Western Regions, which can benefit from the wealth and goods of the Western Regions in the Han and Tang Dynasties; To prevent the enemy from attacking thousands of miles of sea...

(End of this chapter)