Qiming 1158

Chapter 732 Zhao Yucheng's Deep Understanding
According to the explanations of some officials in charge of foreign affairs in Jin Guo, Japan seems to have mainly had official and private contacts with the Southern Song Dynasty these days, and is not interested in Jin Guo.

According to diplomatic records, Japanese people seem to be called Ping these days.

Because Jin Guo's introduction in this regard is vague, Su Yonglin doesn't know who the Japanese are talking about, but he still remembers something like the Yuanping War. If you say this, Japan in this era doesn't seem to be unified. Civil unrest continued.

So Su Yonglin planned to send someone to Japan to learn about the current situation in Japan and the commercial trade between them and the Southern Song Dynasty.

Su Yonglin knew that before the large-scale development and import of American silver into China, Japan was the largest silver-producing country, and a small island country had extremely rich silver deposits.

Through trade with the Southern Song Dynasty, Japan seems to have imported a lot of silver into the Southern Song Dynasty, which solved some of the problems of silver supply for the Southern Song Dynasty, so the Southern Song Dynasty was also very willing to trade with Japan.

However, correspondingly, the Japanese liked the copper coins of the Southern Song Dynasty very much, and took away a large amount of the copper coins of the Southern Song Dynasty through trade, which further aggravated the money shortage in the Southern Song Dynasty and made the deflation more severe.

Thinking of this, Su Yonglin suddenly felt that he could carry out a wave of operations against Japan.

Not to mention commerce, Su Yonglin doesn't care in this regard, mainly because he can master Japan's silver deposits, which can improve China's economy's dependence on copper to a considerable extent.

In the future, Su Yonglin intends to use gold and silver to improve China's monetary system. We cannot let deflation continue to affect the further development of the economy. American silver is just a flower in the mirror, but Japanese silver is available.

Copper mainly occupies a very important position in the future industrial system. Even now, copper also plays a very important role in casting guns. As a country with not so large copper mine production, all economic pressure is poured into copper. body, not friendly.

It seems that the island country in Southeast Asia has a lot of copper?

Su Yonglin pondered and pondered, and felt that the large-scale development of the navy and shipping was an imminent need. Whether it was gold and silver in Japan or copper mines in Southeast Asia, they would all be indispensable and important resources after the country was unified in the future.

Not to mention that it will be used now, but it is necessary to start preparing to master it. The local indigenous people think it is not easy to deal with it.

Japan, in particular, still has a certain amount of armed forces. If it cannot be subdued by force, it will be difficult to obtain enough silver and gold from them to stabilize the currency system of the Ming Dynasty.

So, it's time to start building up maritime hegemony in East and Southeast Asia.

When Su Yonglin began to set a plan for the establishment of Ming Dynasty's maritime hegemony, Zhao Yucheng was also working hard to develop the group power of the Renaissance Society going south, and did his best to expand the influence of the Renaissance Society.

It has been more than a year since Zhao Yucheng went south. At the beginning, he took [-] people to the south and secretly sneaked into Jizhou and Nan'an Army on Jiangnan West Road in the Southern Song Dynasty to launch operations.

Facing unfamiliar terrain, unfamiliar people, living customs, etc., the challenges faced by Zhao Yucheng and others are very severe.

However, they did not mess up their hands and feet, but steadily and slowly developed step by step.

Because the Southern Song Dynasty had stricter household registration examinations, when they entered the Southern Song Dynasty, with the help of the private salt sales team of the Ming Dynasty, they bought the Xinyang Army's Xinyang County household registration from the Southern Song Dynasty Xiaoguan who saw money and became truly a [Song people]. ], before entering the Song Dynasty legally.

The government of the Southern Song Dynasty did not encourage people to leave their household registration places to work and live in other places, and the management of household registration was relatively strict. However, because of their severe oppression, the phenomenon of exile was very common, and many people were forced to leave their original household registration.

The irony is that when encountering such a phenomenon of passively leaving the place of residence and going into exile, the local officials of the Southern Song Dynasty were quite indifferent and ignored it.

Probably because they think that only those who stay in the local area and have an industry are worthy of being managed by them, and the rest are slag, as far as they go, don't increase the burden on the local area.

Not to mention that they like to bully the weak, in fact, sending people to the countryside to collect taxes also has to pay a high price, and sometimes they face the risk of rebellion, not without risk.

So all the unstable factors go away.

Therefore, although subjectively the Southern Song government did not encourage or even dislike population mobility, the brutal oppression led to an increase in population mobility across the country in fact, providing commercial population for the southeast coast in disguise and promoting the development of maritime trade.

Nonetheless, if you are not a refugee and want to legally operate across regions in the Southern Song Dynasty, unless you are an official or a scholar with a reputation, it is the most common to become a businessman and have documents issued by the local government.

Zhao Yucheng and others purchased the Southern Song household registration with the help of the private salt team, and became businessmen. Under the disguise of selling silk cloth, they entered the Southern Song Dynasty from Xinyang Army all the way, and went south to Jizhou and Nan'an Army areas on Jiangnan West Road.

However, this does not mean absolute security.

Compared with the university-level control and management of the grassroots in the Ming Dynasty today, the control and management of the grassroots in the Southern Song Dynasty belonged to the preschool level on an average level.

Of course, in the Southern Song Dynasty, there were also some areas where the performance exceeded the preschool level, and there were also some areas that only performed at the prenatal level.

Unfortunately, Zhao Yucheng and the others went all the way south and tried several levels of grassroots management in the Southern Song Dynasty.

They have never experienced university-level management in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the highest level is only high school-level management. This is considered a good management, and they have only experienced it in one county.

Then there is the junior high school level. I have experienced several counties. The primary school level experience is more, and the preschool and kindergarten level experience is even more.

They are also fortunate enough to experience the prenatal education level.

Specifically, during the journey, they escaped three bandit robberies and one refugee turmoil, were forced to face a group of bandits and succeeded, and then experienced more than ten times of exploitation and interrogation by petty officials along the way and asked for benefits.

They finally successfully arrived in Jizhou, entered Luling City, and stayed at a local hotel that provided food and lodging for businessmen.

All the way south, the journey is not far, but it is really tired.

Compared with the smooth journey they traveled from Zhongdu to the border areas of the Ming Kingdom, reaching Jizhou from the border of the Southern Song Dynasty is not a difficult trek, and it can also be regarded as learning from the West.

There are not only bandits, there are rioting refugees, but also local officials and officials who are more terrible than bandits and refugees.

The officials are greedy and the officials are cunning. These guys are wearing uniforms and have a darker heart. They are several times more terrifying than bandits and refugees.

They were asked by these corrupt officials for tolls and facilitation fees of almost fifty thousand dollars, and they learned a lot of local "customs and customs".

They often take the risk of encountering bandits and beasts in the middle of the night to travel from forest areas or mountains, far away from urban areas and other places with officials, and go out at night. Like some wild animals, they are neither human nor ghost. .

During this process, Zhao Yucheng had a deep understanding.

"The ancients often said that tyranny is fiercer than a tiger. Before, we only experienced the suffering of farmers, but we did not understand the suffering of merchants. Today, we can feel it and understand what it means to oppress in all directions.

When encountering a fierce tiger, a group of 20 people, with weapons in hand, can still fight against it for survival. It is not impossible to kill the tiger, but when encountering a tyrannical government, what if there are hundreds or thousands of people? "

The [-] revival members who were with him were also deeply touched, and nodded in agreement.

(End of this chapter)