Qiming 1158

Chapter 1218 World Revolution
As for Su Yonglin's plan to search for precious metals overseas and explore the situation in unknown areas, at first, most people in the court did not understand this action.

They generally feel that doing so will cost a lot of money, a lot of manpower and material resources, and it will add a great burden to the government's finances.

If you can't get enough benefits, then it's pointless to do so, and it's just a waste of national money.

A big voyage needs to spend a lot of money. If it is only because of the unknown, it may not be enough to convince the public.

Exploration requires a lot of wealth, and wealth is accumulated by the taxes paid by the people who work hard to cultivate. Every penny should be used for value, whether it is to expand the land, whether it is civil engineering, whether it is building water conservancy, or reclaiming new land. Well, this is all profitable and not wasted.

But sailing and ocean exploration...

To put it nasty, in case of a storm in Shanghai, it would really be lost. Is it really necessary to do so?

Is it really worth it?
This view has a relatively large support group within the imperial court and within the revival organization.

To put it bluntly, the reason why Europeans went to sea is not only the impetus of capitalist production relations, but also the stimulation of the actions of pioneers such as Marco Polo and the writings they left behind.

Their forerunners had already been to China, and they wrote books to let them know that China is a country [where milk, honey, and gold flow]. They came to find China and to make money.

They have clear goals.

And the earliest exploration was not a government organization, but a private private exploration behavior. The government did not pay any fees for this, and there was no risk.

When the private behavior did discover broad possibilities, the government participated in the plundering, and developed this private exploration behavior into a comprehensive exploration policy of a global nature, laying the foundation for subsequent plundering.

At this time, Su Yonglin couldn't say that he knew that there were a large number of precious metal mines, especially silver, in the Pacific coast from North America to South America.

He couldn't say that the Native Americans were so rich that they used gold and silver as daily necessities to make various ornaments and wear them on their bodies.

In addition, their productivity, social organization and civilization are far inferior to those of the Ming Dynasty. Even if the Ming Dynasty does not use the form of war and colonization, it can also use productivity to form a dimensionality reduction attack.

Use all kinds of handmade goods and agricultural products that are not available in the Americas to open up markets, obtain excess gold and silver from Native Americans through legitimate business models, and spread culture, spread revolution, and establish advance teams in the Americas. land development, etc.

In any case, with the vastness of America, some are landless, and whoever discovers it first is who, and there is no moral burden at all.

In this way, there will be a steady stream of gold and silver flowing into Daming, adding enough gold and silver savings to Daming to lay the foundation for promoting currency reform.

This is something that only Su Yonglin knows about and others don't know and can't believe.

Despite this, Su Yonglin used his power and prestige to force this matter, and said that if there was a possibility of breaking the currency deadlock, let alone an expedition fleet, three, four or five could be dispatched.

When the domestic demand cannot be met, we must go out to find infinite possibilities. This is something that must be done sooner or later. Since we have the demand and the ability now, why not do it, and we must keep the three points of this acre and work hard. What about involution?
Why can't we look for new possibilities outside?

Comrades, it is very important to open up your vision and open up your pattern.

With this as the core point, Su Yonglin delivered many speeches at the State Affairs Conference and the Renaissance Association. He talked about the significance of commercial expansion to the economy, the significance of territorial expansion to the country, and the significance of revolutionary expansion to the Renaissance Association itself.

It was at this time that Su Yonglin spoke for the first time about arranging the revolution as far as possible, saying that not only the success of the revolution in Daming was considered a success, but the success of the revolution in the whole world was the ultimate success.

As long as there is still one person being oppressed, then the ideal of the Revival Society will not be considered a success. No matter where the person is, as long as it is a human being, that is the goal of the Revival Society to liberate.

Is it enough to just liberate the Chinese people?

Did the revolution succeed?
No, no, not at all, it's not enough.

Revolutionaries must open up their horizons, open up the pattern, and look at revolutionary issues from the perspective of a game of chess around the world.

In this way, it can be found that from the perspective of the world, although the Ming Dynasty revolution was successful, although it formed an advantage in the region, when it comes to the region and scale, it is still only a spark in the world.

And as the number of our exchanges with foreign countries increases, and the mutual understanding between the two sides deepens, sooner or later the superiors of the other side will discover the difference between Daming and them, and sooner or later they will be afraid of the revolution of Daming.

What will they do after that?
They will close themselves off and cut off communication with us.

They are also afraid that their people will have the idea of ​​putting their royal family and royal family on the southeast branch if they interact with us too much. They are afraid that what happened to Daming will happen to them, so they have to plan ahead, even if Daming does not have that idea.

It's not just an economic issue.

Even if they can't beat us, won't they shut themselves off and cut off communication with us?

There are thousands of miles between us, can we still start an expedition to ask them to open the country?
How much manpower and material resources will it cost?

We cannot allow ourselves to be in the minority, we cannot allow ourselves to be isolated, and we cannot allow ourselves to be alienated. We need to have many friends and few enemies. Therefore, in addition to bringing the revolution to their land and developing vigorously, We have no other way.

The more afraid they are, the more we have to take the initiative!
Only when we liberate human beings all over the world can we finally liberate ourselves.

This is the first time Su Yonglin has expounded his theory of world revolution. He has initially expounded the necessity of a comprehensive revolution from an economic point of view, and then wrote an article and distributed it nationwide. This has sparked a wave of heated discussions within the imperial court and at local revival meetings.

And as a result, it was the first to open a gap in the Ministry of Finance with the broadest vision.

A series of high-ranking officials and senior officials of the Renaissance Society have successively issued remarks in support of Su Yonglin's view, believing that in the process of interacting with countries around the world, even if it is just doing business, when they have truly come into contact with Ming society and Ming's revolutionary policies, they will affect the thinking of some people.

When the thinking of these people is impacted and changed, it will bring unexpected effects to their home countries.

And when the ruler of the mother country realizes the changes brought about by this influence, it will irreversibly generate disgust and fear for Ming.

This kind of bad feeling and fear will prompt them to cut off communication with Daming, from the government to the people, to prevent the revolutionary ideas of Daming from spreading too deeply, affecting the interests of the ruling class, and even triggering a revolution in the country.

And if similar revolutionary actions take place in their homeland, it will prompt them to resolutely cut off contact with Daming, even if this kind of revolution was not initiated by Daming voluntarily.

Although such a problem will not appear in a short period of time, it is very likely to become a reality in ten or twenty years.

Once this situation becomes a reality and Daming has no corresponding preparations, it will have a profound impact on Daming's economy.

Daming does not want to be alone.

(End of this chapter)