Daming Town Haiwang

In the study room of the Qianqing Palace in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Zhengde Zhu Houzhao was discussing the current disaster with his ministers.

Since the beginning of spring this year, the disaster has been affecting the entire Ming Dynasty. To be precise, the whole world should have been greatly affected. At the beginning, it was a continuous cold, and it has not recovered in March in Yangchun.

Immediately after that was the death of drought and the death of waterlogging. Taking Daming as an example, the continuous torrential rain in the southern area of ​​Daming led to major flood disasters, and many places were severely affected.

In the northern region, there has been a severe drought without rain for several months, which has caused almost no harvest in the entire northern region. The only places that are less affected are the Liaodong and Hezhong regions.

The Liaodong area is because of the heavy snowfall in winter, and the snow melts into the ground, so that the Liaodong area has abundant groundwater resources. In addition, there are many rivers in the Liaodong area, and the water volume is less affected. The agricultural mechanization and technological level of the Liaodong area are high. , so the effect is small.

In the Hezhong area, the main water resources in the Hezhong area come from meltwater from snow-capped mountains. Although the drought weather has affected it, it is not significant. The agriculture in the Hezhong area is distributed in the main river areas, and irrigation water can be guaranteed.

Except for Liaodong and Hezhong, almost the entire northern region has been greatly affected, and Black Earth Province has not been spared, and the drought lasted for several months.

"Your Majesty, severe droughts have occurred in Henan, North Zhili, Shandong, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Gansu, grasslands, black soil, and North Gold Island. The Yellow River in Henan has dried up. The course of the Yellow River will be dredged, and the silt and soil in the course will be excavated to lower the height of the river bed."

Hubu Shangshu Tong Rui took the memorial and reported to Zhu Houzhao the current disaster situation in various places.

"Well, it's been a year full of disasters and floods, with floods in the south and drought in the north."

After Zhu Houzhao heard this, his expression became serious.

It's not just Daming's disasters, it's the same on a global scale. Even the Tianzhu continent has experienced a severe drought, and it hasn't rained for a long time. It is estimated that the grain production on the Tianzhu continent will also be greatly reduced this year.

In addition, Europe also experienced severe floods in the west and severe droughts in the east. Western Europe basically suffered from severe floods. The potatoes planted were moldy and the wheat was flooded. In Eastern Europe, there was a severe drought and the land was cracked. , the river stopped flowing.

The Ottoman Empire and the Persian Empire were also greatly affected. The drought continued to spread, and even the cultivation of cotton was affected, let alone the cultivation of wheat.

The only place where the impact is less is Egypt. Anyway, they all rely on the Nile River for food, and they grow a lot of cotton, so the demand for water is relatively small.

"Are there enough grain reserves everywhere?"

After thinking about it, Zhu Houzhao also cared about the food reserves, no matter what kind of drought or flood it is, as long as there is food in hand, there will be no panic in the heart, and the common people will be able to stabilize, so there will be no chaos.

"Returning to Your Majesty, the food reserves in various places are very abundant, enough to guarantee use for about two years."

Tong Rui also hurriedly replied.

Then he thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty, all kinds of extreme natural disasters are now being encountered around the world, which will inevitably lead to a significant reduction in food production this year."

"My Ming Dynasty has several large granaries and sufficient grain reserves, so I don't need to worry about anything, but my Ming Dynasty's overseas vassal states and colonies are different."

"Many colonies and vassal states don't even grow food at all, and all their food depends on external imports. Naturally, there is no problem at ordinary times."

"However, in this year's situation, there may be problems with the global food supply, leading to food shortages and insufficient supply in these colonies and vassal states."

"The people of these colonies and vassal states are also your Majesty's people, and they all say that we are Daming people. I think that I, Daming, as the suzerain of these colonies and vassal states, have the responsibility and obligation to help them."

"That's why I think that now we should give priority to supplying food to our own people in Daming as much as possible, reduce food imports from Europe, the Ottoman Empire, Persia, and the Middle East, and even restrict food exports to these regions."

As the Minister of the Household Department, Tong Rui obviously did a very good job. He knew the importance of food and knew how to hold food firmly in his own hands.

"Ok!"

"What do you ladies think?"

When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he immediately nodded slightly. This is obviously very reasonable. There is nothing wrong with reducing food exports in the event of a disaster and giving priority to supplying food to his own people.

"Your Majesty, I think what Tong Gong said is reasonable. It is easy to sell this grain, but if you want to buy it back, there is no place to buy it. Use it in your own hands and give priority to satisfying the needs of our Daming people."

Naturally, Liu Jinna was the first to stand up and express his support. He was thinking of taking advantage of this global disaster to harvest a wave of leeks. Tong Rui's proposal consolidated his mind.

"Your Majesty, I also think that we should reduce the export of food and give priority to supplying food to our own people."

Wang Shouren also stood up to express his approval and support.

This reason is very simple. In the face of disasters, food naturally prioritizes meeting its own needs, and then considers whether to export.

Silver is sometimes very important, but in the face of hunger, silver is not as important as food.

"The ministers also feel that they should give priority to satisfying their own needs before considering exporting. Besides, the price of exported grain has always been very low, so it doesn't matter much whether it is exported or not."

The other ministers followed suit and nodded in agreement.

"Well, since everyone thinks that the export of grain should be restricted, then we will do so and issue an order to restrict the export of grain from now on!"

Seeing that everyone's opinions were in agreement, Zhu Houzhao nodded and gave his order.

"Yes!"

When the officials heard it, they also replied in unison.

Soon, all the officials went back to their yamen to do business, but Liu Jin was the only one left.

"Old Liu, how many leeks can you harvest this time?"

There was no one else, so Zhu Houzhao immediately asked Liu Jinlai with a playful smile.

Daming's grain exports are all in the hands of Tianjin Ocean Trading Company, whose shareholders are Zhu Houzhao and Liu Jin.

Holding the big weapon of grain export in his hand, he has been doing business at a loss all along.

The price of grain for export is really too cheap. Although Daming's grain output is large and the cost is low, this also includes transportation costs and so on.

Tianjin Ocean Trading Co., Ltd. has actually been doing this business at a loss. Although the loss is not much, it really does not make money. That is, it has a supply chain and sales channels covering the world. Other businesses make money. important.

But a loss-making business can’t last for a long time. This time, Liu Jin and Zhu Houzhao also discussed to harvest a wave of leeks, not only to earn back all the money they earned, but also to earn back the interest. .

Daming's grain is not free, it has been sold at extremely low prices, in addition to finding a way for its own grain, it is to impact the grain cultivation in the dumping land.

"Your Majesty, I can't figure it out yet, but this time we can harvest Europe, the Ottoman Empire, Persia, and Egypt. Not to mention more, tens of millions of taels of silver will definitely be no problem."

Liu Jin thought for a while and said.

"Ten million taels of silver?"

"Haha, that's not bad, not bad."

Zhu Houzhao laughed happily when he heard it.

It's still Lao Liu who is so powerful. He used grain to overwhelm the grain production in other parts of the world without making a sound. When the time comes, he can directly use grain to harvest a wave of leeks.

This matter has been planned for six or seven years, and people in Europe, the Ottoman Empire, Persia, Egypt and other regions don't even know that they are already in the game, and they have become meat on the chopping board of the Ming people.

"Your Majesty, after all the calculations, this is actually the income of the past few years."

"Food is such a thing that you don't usually see its importance. You can only feel the importance of food during times of famine. Compared with filling your stomach, everything else will appear unimportant."

Liu Jin also laughed.

Compared with later generations, my current method is still very low-level, mainly because technology has not yet developed to the stage of genetic technology. Later generations of Europeans and Americans use seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, markets, etc. to develop Control the world's food.

People all over the world are almost their leeks. They will harvest a place regularly, and they will harvest the wealth of a place that has worked hard for more than ten years or decades.

Of course, this is not only about agriculture and food, but also financial, economic and other aspects. Harvesting the world through various means, the whole world is their leeks, allowing them to live a very comfortable life.

What I am playing now is nothing at all, it is still very low-level, just getting started, playing with food is nothing, playing with finance is really powerful, after a wave of harvesting, the wealth of a region for decades will be be harvested.

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