Qiming 1158

Chapter 1147 The historical responsibility of Su Yonglin's regime
What Lin Jingchun said was exactly what Su Yonglin did.

Quanzhou and Guangzhou were the two most important and largest foreign trade ports in the Southern Song Dynasty, as well as the locations of the two shipping departments. For the Southern Song Dynasty, the most direct significance was the annual commercial trade tax of more than 200 million guan.

Especially in Quanzhou, there are still a relatively large number of Southern Song clans. The Southern Song government has set up some important central institutions in Quanzhou, so that Quanzhou can directly connect to the central government, which is almost regarded as the center of deputy imperial power in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Its economic and political significance lies here.

For the Ming Kingdom, these two states were also very important.

Su Yonglin had long tried to seize the Southern Song Dynasty's share in the world trade system, but despite his efforts, he still found it difficult for the Ming Dynasty to compete with the Southern Song Dynasty in the commodity economy.

Demonstrate the national strength and existence of the Ming Kingdom through war, and organize caravans to go to Quanzhou and Guangzhou to trade with local foreign businessmen, and then try to pull them to the Ming Kingdom to trade and sell them some Ming Kingdom handmade products and leather products .

However, foreign businessmen generally express distrust of the Ming Kingdom. They trust the two ports of Quanzhou and Guangzhou, which they have established a firm foothold, and the Songshi Shipping Division system that they have dealt with for many years. Be wary.

In addition, the officials of the Southern Song Dynasty and local businessmen fanned the flames, and the caravans dispatched by the Ming Dynasty several times had nothing to gain except for some handmade products and leather products.

Once even negotiated a business order for grassland leather products with great difficulty, and it turned out to be messed up by the officials of the Southern Song Dynasty Shipping Department.

Lin Jingchun, who was angry at the time, was furious and lost several hairs.

But it was really helpless at that time, and the wealthy foreign businessmen really did not trust the strange existence of the Ming Kingdom.

On the one hand, this is due to historical reasons. On the other hand, the business of the Ming Dynasty was not developed, and it was true that it could not compete with the Southern Song Dynasty.

In a state of similar productivity, the Song people created a number of world-class commercial and trade centers through high-intensity exploitation. From the Northern Song Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty, they successively integrated four municipal shipping divisions, namely Mizhou, Hangzhou, Quanzhou and Guangzhou.

After the Jin-Song War, Song Ting lost the north and also lost the Ship Division of Mizhou City. After the Ming Dynasty counterattacked, the Ship Division of Mizhou City was controlled by the Ming Dynasty, but it did not operate for the time being.

Hangzhou is naturally Lin'an, and the remaining two are Quanzhou and Guangzhou.

Several municipal shipping divisions brought huge amounts of financial revenue to the Southern Song Dynasty.

It earns a lot of benefits through trade for the luxury enjoyment of the upper class, which means that the Southern Song Dynasty used the whole country to develop commerce to make money, while ignoring people's livelihood and food production.

The advantages of its commodity economy were established at the cost of low human rights regardless of the people's life and death, so its low human rights advantages were incomparable to the Ming Dynasty, which paid attention to people's livelihood and attached great importance to agricultural production.

This kind of commercial prosperity is built on the basis of cruel exploitation. Once the exploitation is eliminated, the false commercial prosperity that does not conform to the status quo of productivity development will eventually return to practicality and rationality.

The return of agriculture and conservative ideology in the Zhu Ming Dynasty was the inevitable result after the burst of this false prosperity bubble.

Therefore, if left to its own devices, in another ten years, the Ming Kingdom established by Su Yonglin will not be able to compete commercially with the Southern Song Dynasty, and it is estimated that it will take another 20 years or so for some changes to occur.

But the crux of the problem is not here.

After all, national strength cannot be determined by commercial competitiveness. The all-round crushing of the Southern Song Dynasty by the Ming Dynasty has little to do with commercial competitiveness. With the efficiency of government organization and war mobilization in the Southern Song Dynasty, it has increased his economic income tenfold. Unable to fight against the Ming Kingdom.

The better its economy is, the more luxurious the life of the ruling class will be, the actual growth of national strength will be quite limited, the people will not be able to get any benefits, and life will become more and more difficult.

The foreign trade and commercial dividends all fell into the pockets of the upper ruling class represented by the Zhao and Song royal families.

But then again, Su Yonglin also wants to develop overseas commerce, which is a necessary national policy.

The Ming Dynasty not only needed a strong agriculture as the basic disk, but also a certain scale of commerce.

Before there is substantial progress in scientific and technological strength, foreign business activities are a good way to stimulate economic development and revitalize the national economy.

The fact that the Southern Song Dynasty can create a false and prosperous business empire through this empire-led model is enough to prove its advanced nature and effectiveness in a certain sense, and it can help the Ming Dynasty to improve the current single agriculture-oriented economy.

Ming is now an unquestionably agricultural country.

Su Yonglin broke down all false prosperity, abolished extortionate and miscellaneous taxes, and persuaded farmers to cultivate farming, which led to the return of agriculture and the trend of urbanization, which greatly slowed down the urbanization process of the Ming Dynasty and shrank the townspeople.

At the same time, this wave of counter-urbanization has brought about the full recovery of agricultural production and social productivity, which has brought a huge amount of fiscal revenue.

The total fiscal revenue of the Southern Song Dynasty was about 800 million guan, while the total fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty had reached 600 million guan in the fourth year of Hongwu, and the recovery was very significant.

It is expected that it will continue to increase in the next few years, and it is expected to enter the era of [-] million total revenue within ten years.

At the same time, the total output of grain is also increasing year by year, and the growth momentum of output is very strong, and there is no end in sight at present.

At present, the agricultural and financial departments of the Ming Dynasty also estimate that after the successful completion of the Yellow River diversion project, the upward trend of this wave of agricultural production will usher in a new peak.

At that time, the agricultural production income of the Ming Dynasty will create a new record that is unmatched by the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties.

Su Yonglin's revolutionary action shattered the shackles on the peasants, allowing people to return to the position they should be in to carry out agricultural production. This is a practical approach.

This brought about a full recovery of agricultural productivity and brought about real agricultural prosperity.

However, Su Yonglin also clearly realized that this is not a leap forward in productivity, but the restoration of agricultural productivity that should have been suppressed and destroyed under corrupt politics and brutal exploitation and oppression.

The Central Plains is returning to its proper prosperity and prosperity, not a revolution in productivity.

If you indulge in such achievements, the pie brought by the expansion of agricultural production will not be able to continue to expand after this wave of recovery is over.

With the continuous growth of the population and the emergence and continuation of the post-war baby boom, Ming will surely usher in a social crisis severe enough to affect the regime in 40 years at the latest.

This has nothing to do with social ideology, but a pure existential crisis.

Therefore, at present, the task of the Ming Dynasty is to complete the necessary productivity revolution within the 40-year window period. It is necessary to push the social productivity forward. No matter what method is used, it is best to step into the threshold of the industrial revolution with one foot.

Otherwise, the revolutionary cause under the leadership of Su Yonglin will be a short-lived phenomenon in the long history of China, and the next time will not be known.

In order to achieve this goal, not only the driving force of the revolutionary regime headed by Su Yonglin is needed, but also the pull of external demand brought about by huge external demand.

Only when the two carriages drive side by side can they pull the ancient Chinese land out of the swamp and rush to the new world.

Therefore, the historical responsibility of the Su Yonglin regime is also very clear.

One is to maintain the revolutionary nature. While liberating people, it condenses a huge inward driving force, strives to develop science and technology, strives to run towards the new world, and gets rid of the involvement of the old history.

The second is to promote people's awakening and consciousness, open the country's door to look outward, lead the era of great voyages, and use the huge external demands brought about by the era of great voyages to generate strong suction from the outside, and drive the progress of Ming society.

Internally and externally, we will work together to promote the revolutionary leap forward in the productivity of the Ming Kingdom.

The first point is that Su Yonglin has been doing it all the time, and feels that he has made some achievements, as evidenced by the current agricultural prosperity.

And the second point is what he needs to do now.

Pure commercial competition, the Ming Dynasty will not be able to handle the Southern Song Dynasty in another ten years.

But who stipulated that I have to engage in pure business competition with you in your track?

There has never been such a thing as business talk in the world, it is just a beautiful fantasy generated by the weak class
Business should also serve the country's political and military goals. Business without the escort of the state cannot be successful for a long time. However, pure competition will inevitably lead to the intervention of state power.

And now Su Yonglin will use the mighty Ming Kingdom to intervene in this business competition.

He wants to seize Quanzhou and Guangzhou by military means, end the commercial advantage of the Southern Song Dynasty by physical means, and then transfer this advantage to the Ming Kingdom.

"The significance of Quanzhou and Guangzhou to the Southern Song Dynasty is definitely not just high taxes, these two places are the windows of the world."

Su Yonglin used a novel word to describe Quanzhou and Guangzhou, which aroused the interest of the officials present.

------

PS: Ask for a wave of recommended tickets and monthly tickets~~~~
(End of this chapter)