Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2082, Food controls the world

In Liu Jin's mansion in the capital of Ming Dynasty, Liu Jin was looking at the telegram sent back from Hong Kong.

The telegram was sent by Tang Bohu, the governor of Hong Kong. The main thing was to find out that the bishop of a church was translating various Christian classics into Chinese without permission, and he also illegally printed them.

For a long time, the Ming court has always maintained sufficient vigilance against foreign religions. Not only is it strictly forbidden for foreign missionaries to preach in Daming, as long as they are found, they will be sentenced to death. Even if you stand on the land of Daming, it is also a death penalty. Regardless of whether it has been preached to people.

The second is to strictly prohibit Ming people from believing in and studying these foreign religions. Once discovered, they will be severely punished.

In the end, anyone is prohibited from translating and disseminating content and books related to these foreign religions, and it is even more forbidden for anyone to print and disseminate these things on the land of Ming Dynasty.

On this point, always stick to it, and execute it very well.

Even in places such as Heitu Province, Nanyun Province, and Hong Kong, the same has been done. Even if there are foreign religions in these places, they are limited to the local aborigines who believe in them.

And because of the strength of the Ming Empire and the advancement of all aspects of the Ming Dynasty, people in these places are slowly converting to the Buddhism and Taoism that the Ming people believe in, which makes the original local religion gradually decline.

At the same time, the Ming side also prohibited pilgrimage, deprived the church of taxation rights, tax exemption rights, land and property, etc., and isolated and weakened them through these means, so as to eliminate the influence of foreign religions and maintain the purity of Ming culture.

Because Liu Jin is a time traveler, he traveled from later generations, and even religion has a great influence on people. Many wars and conflicts in later generations are actually the civilization of faith in the final analysis.

Liu Jin didn't want Daming to be torn apart because of this incident, and he had many internal conflicts.

If the Ming Empire wants to maintain such a huge territory and control over the world, it must always maintain a unified situation. Only when it is unified can it have absolute external power and will not give any country a chance to rise .

The matter found in Hong Kong was more serious than the death of two Ming couples, so Tang Bohu had to report it to the Ming court.

"This Tang Bohu originally wanted to promote him and transfer him back to Daming."

"This kind of thing can't be done well. There are still people who dare to translate and print these things privately. I guess they must have developed some believers in private."

"We must ask Tang Bohu to thoroughly investigate this matter, and severely punish those Ming people who believe in foreign religions."

Liu Jin thought quickly in his heart.

As for Tang Bohu, he must have talent, a well-known great talent, but his official level is relatively average. In a place like Hong Kong, where it is easy to make achievements, his performance is relatively average.

Sure enough, it also echoes the old saying that real talents are not suitable to be officials, such as Li Bai and Tang Bohu. Talents are suitable for displaying poetry and poetry. Being an official is not as simple as writing articles.

"Charles V wants to buy food on a large scale, it seems that it is for Spain and the Holy Roman Empire."

"These two great empires are big empires on the European side. They have a large population and are powerful. Now that they are suffering from a great famine, the food they need is not a small amount."

"Should we export food to them?"

The telegram sent by Tang Bohu also asked for instructions from the imperial court, conveying the request of Charles V, Emperor of the Spanish Empire and the Holy Roman Empire.

"Food should be exported to them, and exported to them on a large scale, and even if it is shipped to their local area, the price should be cheaper than their local food, and the quality should be better."

"There has been a famine in the past two years, so the food production in Europe is very low, but if the weather goes well in the future, the demand for food in Europe will not be too great."

"Only by completely defeating the enthusiasm of Europeans to grow grain can we completely control the whole of Europe with food."

Soon, Liu Jin thought of some international big grain merchants using grain to destroy the economy of each country, and even using grain to plunder the wealth of each country.

Food is the most basic strategic material for a country, because people can live without gold and silver, but they cannot live without food. Once a country runs out of food and there is a large-scale famine, it will inevitably be in turmoil.

Therefore, since ancient times, or both in ancient and modern China and foreign countries, any dynasty and country have attached great importance to food, and food production is related to all aspects of things.

Daming itself has huge arable land and many grain producing areas. The annual grain output is very large, and the grain produced in one year is enough to feed the entire Ming Dynasty for several years.

Because the grain output is so large, the price of grain in Ming Dynasty has always been very low, and in the three major grain-producing provinces of Liaodong, Hezhong, and Heitu Province, there is a large amount of grain that no one buys.

As a result, grain has to be used to make wine and feed livestock, while reducing the cultivated area, adopting methods such as rotation farming to reduce production and increase grain consumption.

If this is exported on a large scale, it can increase the consumption of grain, and it can also increase the income of farmers in Ming Dynasty and increase their enthusiasm for growing grain.

Of course, before exporting food, the first thing to consider is its own food security.

Because it is in the Little Ice Age period, the extremely abnormal climate is erratic, and no one knows what the situation will be next year. Liu Jin has led Ming to build a large number of grain storages in various places to prepare food, in order to fear that there will be no food when there is a famine. The question of enough food.

There is no doubt that Daming's food security is guaranteed. There are many grain-producing lands in Daming, and now basically all of them have realized the model of large-scale mechanized farming. The total amount of cultivated land is large, the efficiency is high, and the output is large.

Daming is absolutely capable of exporting a large amount of grain.

"Currently, the total population of Europe is about 8000 million. Even if all the food needs to be purchased from our Ming Dynasty, it can be easily handled in terms of our Daming's grain production."

"Our Ming Dynasty is fully capable of relying on food to control the entire Europe."

Thinking of this, Liu Jin's eyes lit up.

What is the scariest thing about the capital age?
That must be the power of capital.

The Ming Empire has a huge industry, which requires a huge market and raw material production areas.

Unlike the industrial revolution in Europe in history, the industrial revolution in Europe only took place in a corner like the British Isles, and the energy that exploded was actually very limited.

If the industrial revolution broke out in the Ming Empire, its scale and speed would far exceed the industrial revolution in history, and the demand for raw materials and markets would be even more different.

From the very beginning, the Ming Dynasty needed a global market and a raw material market, because only this big global market could satisfy the huge appetite of the Ming Empire.

Through overseas colonization and the establishment of vassal states, while developing vassal states, the Ming Empire has incorporated most of the world's regions into its own territory, which is tantamount to incorporating it into its own economic system.

These vast areas became Daming's market and raw material market.

Europe has a large population and a huge market. This is also the market and source of raw materials that the Ming Empire has always needed.

But the traditional feudal economy in Europe has hindered the development of Daming capital in Europe, so the first thing to do is to destroy the feudal small-scale peasant economy in Europe.

At this point, the most prominent performance is the cloth.

Daming's cloth is not only of good quality, but the key is that the price is very low, which has greatly impacted the local cloth production in Europe. For example, the Ottoman Empire had a fight with the Ming Empire because of this matter, but they failed to win. In the end, not only Not only to cede land for compensation, but also had to completely open their own market to the Ming Empire.

As a result, the cloth craftsmen of the Ottoman Empire were hit hard and almost went bankrupt. On the contrary, the output of cotton and wool in the Ottoman Empire increased year by year, all of which were exported to Daming.

"Using low-priced grain to impact the grain production in Europe will make European nobles feel that growing grain has no economic benefits, so they will switch to cotton or sheep raising, and then the entire European grain will be controlled by our Ming Dynasty."

"And the whole of Europe will also be included in the economic system of Ming Dynasty, and become the dumping place of Ming products and the origin of raw materials."

"What a perfect plan!"

Even Liu Jin himself had to be amazed by this bold idea and plan.

Once this plan can be completed, Europe will be inseparable from Daming in the future. Once leaving Daming, people in Europe may not be able to survive, because food is firmly controlled by Daming.

Thinking of this, Liu Jin also took out a pen and paper, and began to write a memorial, explaining to Emperor Hongzhi in detail the stakes at this time, as well as its role and influence on Daming.

Daming needs the European market and raw materials, and needs to be alert to the rise of Europe. The most suitable to rule Europe is actually the Spaniards, because the Spaniards encourage imports and at the same time protect the interests of the nobles to raise sheep in enclosures. For Daming, it is natural the best.

Soon, a memorial was written, and Liu Jin was going to take the memorial to the palace to report to Emperor Hongzhi in detail at this time, explaining the matter.

Just as he was about to leave the house, another person came hurriedly and said, "Master, there is an emergency call from Europe!"

"European urgent call?"

When Liu Jin heard it, he was immediately puzzled. Didn't he just send a telegram back? What happened here?

Quickly opened the telegram and quickly read it.

"The Black Death has appeared again in Europe, and the Black Death has appeared in many places at the same time!"

(End of this chapter)