Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1542, The Other Side of External Expansion

"First, ensure that everyone can have a mouthful of biscuits, and then consider who will be full first~"

When Emperor Hongzhi heard this, he immediately fell into deep thought.

"This is actually similar to what I said before about the land and farmers."

"Regarding the distribution of resources and property, land mergers are serious, and the living space of farmers is constantly exploited and squeezed, and finally the dynasty will change."

"The current issue of pie is actually the same in essence."

"It's really simple and popular. It clarifies the essence and the essence of governing the country."

Emperor Hongzhi couldn't help but nodded in his heart, and he understood it all at once.

"Of course, the cakes that can be made in one day are always difficult to achieve a leap-forward improvement. Often, the speed of making cakes cannot be improved much in a long period of time, and it is always maintained at the same level. within."

"Moreover, sometimes when there are natural and man-made disasters, the number of cakes made will be reduced. If there is no good distribution system, and everyone from top to bottom can't get a bite of cakes, it will inevitably happen. Something went wrong."

"People who can't eat bread will steal and grab other people's cakes in order to survive. Various problems in society will emerge one after another, and bandits are everywhere. If more people can't eat bread, then It is not a problem of bandits everywhere, but a peasant uprising and riot.”

"Once at that time, the society is in turmoil, and the peasants have no way to make cakes with all their strength, and there will be even less cakes, and the contradiction will be further intensified. The nobles and gentry above will also have no cakes to eat, and their status is still low. to take the brunt of the rioting peasants."

Liu Jin emphasized the importance of the distribution system, and improving productivity is indeed very important.

However, even when the productivity of the later generations is already very developed, there will still be an economic crisis. Under the economic crisis, even if the capitalists pour out the milk, they will not give it to the poor who are about to starve to death. This is not a problem of productivity. Rather, there is a big problem with the distribution system.

The distribution system is actually more important than improving productivity.

Of course, when productivity is greatly improved, the fault tolerance rate of the distribution system will be higher. Even if something goes wrong, it can be adjusted quickly if there is enough wealth.

Hearing everyone, everyone immediately nodded.

"How to make a big pie, how to distribute the pie, that's a good talk."

Emperor Hongzhi said with emotion that he pointed to the essence through many complicated phenomena, and clarified the essence of the operation of society and the country.

"Make more cakes and distribute them reasonably~"

Zhang Mao also followed up and said: "The purpose of colonization and foreign plunder is actually to have more cakes, but these cakes are plundered by other countries."

He thought of Daming's current foreign colonial activities, and said it all at once.

"Yes, since ancient times, countries have been constantly competing and plundering each other. Of course, it's not just countries, but also nations."

"Land and resources are limited after all. If other countries take more share, we will have less share. If we take more share, we will have more land and resources, and there will be more pie for distribution. "

"It's like when our Ming Dynasty expanded its territory to the outside world and obtained vast lands such as Liaodong, Western Regions, Nanyang, and Huangjinzhou. The people who immigrated to these places can easily own hundreds or thousands of acres of land. , is this possible without external expansion?"

"It's simply impossible, because the land in the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty is very limited, and anyone who owns hundreds of acres or thousands of acres of land can be regarded as a big landlord."

"Perhaps from a moral point of view, this external expansion and wanton looting is an act of robbers and a barbaric act, but it is all for oneself."

"When you are strong, you can obtain more resources and wealth. If you don't occupy these wealth and resources, someone will occupy them. But when they become strong, you don't do it for moral reasons. For these things, the number of cakes in the company is not enough, and there is no reasonable distribution, which leads to internal turmoil and weak strength."

"These powerful countries will come and snatch your pie, your land and resources."

"Just like before, every winter, the nomadic tribes in the north would go south to plunder our Central Plains. They robbed our wealth, so they can survive the winter smoothly, feed more people, and become stronger."

"And we were robbed, lost our wealth, and destroyed our homes. We became weaker and weaker, and we will become more dangerous in the long run."

Liu Jin nodded solemnly, which again involved an external issue.

The bald eagles of later generations have encountered huge crises several times. They all rely on printing money to transfer internal problems to the world and let people around the world pay for them. This is an extremely clever way of plundering, not relying on guns Cannon invisibly absorbs the wealth of the world to nourish itself.

In the age of great voyages in history, the rise of Europeans was definitely not due to their technological breakthroughs, but the law of robbers they had always believed in.

Through great voyages, they carried out colonial plunder around the world, robbed huge wealth, and became stronger and stronger, while other plundered areas became weaker and weaker.

The end result is that white Europeans occupy the most land and resources in the world, and at the same time have the right to speak in the world, and are at the top of the food chain.

"Back to our original question~"

"Nanjing's matter, in essence, is actually a matter of distribution. A lot of cakes are produced, but when it comes to distribution, they want to eat alone, and they don't give a bite to the farmers who produce cakes below, so naturally there will be Nanjing. things."

"I believe that things like this will definitely happen in the future. People are greedy, and society is complex and changeable. It is easy to have times when wages cannot be paid, and times when some people want to eat alone."

"So if we want to maintain the good cycle of this country, we must formulate strict rules and formulate a reasonable distribution system to ensure that everyone can have a bite to eat, and at the same time leave enough room. When problems arise, There is enough room for error.”

"This is how wages are paid on a monthly basis. It can prevent some people from wanting to eat alone, and at the same time, there can be some leeway. If wages are not paid for a month, everyone can go to other places to do things, so they won't be hanged on a tree all at once."

Liu Jin brought the topic back to the incident in Nanjing this time, and also returned to the issue of why wages were paid once a month.

After everyone listened, they nodded and understood the reason.

In the final analysis, in order to be able to continue a good cycle, there can also be a certain fault-tolerant mechanism.

Force everyone to pay wages on a monthly basis. Your poor management will naturally go out of business slowly. Anyway, if you don’t know how to operate, it is very easy for you to fail to pay wages at the end of the year.

A reasonable system eliminates those who are not good at management, and at the same time ensures the interests of everyone.

"I am in favor of the introduction of the law. It is indeed more beneficial for everyone to pay wages on a monthly basis."

Liu Jian also stood up to express his support. No matter from which aspect, he, the chief minister of the cabinet, had no reason not to support it.

"I support it too~"

Li Dongyang also nodded solemnly.

"The ministers are also supportive~"

When the other ministers saw it, they quickly expressed their support.

In fact, everyone is suffering in their hearts. Looking back, it is estimated that spending money can no longer be as free and easy as before, and more liquidity must be reserved.

"Well, then this matter is settled like this, Liu Jin, you will come up with a memorandum, write down the relevant regulations in detail, and then distribute it to the world, asking all places to strictly implement it."

Seeing that everyone had no objections, Emperor Hongzhi nodded in satisfaction.

This matter is actually something that benefits the country and the people, and he naturally fully supports it as the emperor.

Then he thought for a while and said, "Liu Jin mentioned in the memorial that he would reduce the number of places in the Nanzhili scientific examination. What do you think?"

Hearing Emperor Hongzhi's words, everyone immediately regained their spirits.

This matter is a major event. The number of scientific examination places is related to the number of officials that may be produced in a place in the future, and the number of scientific examination places in a province is related to how many officials your place can produce in the future.

In history, Jiangxi has always been the hometown of the Ming Dynasty's test masters, but in the late Ming Dynasty, the number of scientific test places in Jiangxi was greatly reduced. It began to go downhill continuously, and it was never the same as before.

Everyone present knew very well that once it was really decided to reduce the number of scientific examination places in Nanzhili, it would be very difficult for Nanzhili to have a situation in which half of the courtiers and half of the south of the Yangtze River would appear again.

If it is in normal times, everyone will definitely object, because more or less everyone is related to officials from the south of the Yangtze River, and many people even have a close relationship.

But this time, Emperor Hongzhi was extremely furious because of the incident in Nanjing and the fact that the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River opposed the imperial court's business tax collection behind the scenes.

Originally, according to Emperor Hongzhi's intention, this time Liu Jin was going to kill in the south of the Yangtze River, which shows how angry Emperor Hongzhi was about the incident in Nanjing.

Starting from the overall situation, Liu Jin did not wantonly kill, but severely hit the original gentry, businessmen, and families in Jiangnan. This is already a good situation.

Now it is necessary to draw the bottom line and completely cut off the follow-up vitality of the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River. No one dares to stand up and express their opposition.

(End of this chapter)