Hongwu Daming: Why hasn't my son rebelled?

Chapter 238 How could my Liao king lie to you? (unrepaired)

Zhu Neng can be said to be full of doubts now, and has nowhere to ask.

Originally, the war with Bei Yuan went smoothly, but for some reason recently, the imperial court started doing business with Bei Yuan.

It's nothing to do business, but the border gate heard that there are still some small tribes who often come to harass.

Zhu Neng always felt that if these people on the prairie did not frighten them and always wanted to live in peace with them, it would be a bit of fantasy.

Although Zhu Neng had such doubts in his heart, he did not dare to casually talk to His Royal Highness King Liao about this matter.

After all, His Royal Highness Prince Liao was already busy enough on weekdays, if he went to cause trouble for him again, he would really feel sorry for him.

If he had to say who he admired most in this world, it would definitely be His Royal Highness Liao Wang, who planned thousands of miles away, like a god, predicting every step of the opponent.

And although Zhu Neng had such doubts in his heart, Liao King Zhu Qi naturally couldn't detect his doubts.

After all, I've been busy with doing business with Beiyuan recently, and I've been so busy.

Every day, a caravan would be arranged to meet the representatives of the chamber of commerce, and then issue orders to Jinyiweimen. The most important thing was to eliminate smuggling activities at the border, prevent private transactions with the grasslands, and prohibit counterfeit banknotes.

In this world, any matter with high profits must be thought of by someone who thinks they are smart at the first time.

Just like smuggling and counterfeiting banknotes, these two things have existed since ancient times.

Needless to say, after these people are caught, they will naturally be beheaded.

Smuggling and making counterfeit banknotes are things that pose a very serious threat to Daming's economic plan, so Zhu Qi naturally focused on taking care of them from the very beginning.

Zhu Neng has been in charge of this matter recently, mainly patrolling the border with the guards in Jinyi, and leading his men to arrest those smugglers.

Recently, a group of smugglers from the Central Plains were arrested. There were all kinds of tea, silk, ironware, etc. in their bags.

And the reason why they chose to smuggle was because Beiyuan gave too much gold, silver and jewelry.

After all, there are still a small number of people who are qualified to open trade, and most people don't believe the banknotes used by the border trade opened by Daming.

They still believe in the cattle, sheep, horses, etc. they have on hand, and take these things to directly exchange things with others.

When Zhu Neng took these people to the nearest military base for trial and interrogation, Zhang Yu happened to come back with people on patrol.

Zhu Neng knew that Zhang Yu was also a smart person. Seeing that Zhang Yu had no doubts about doing business with Beiyuan, but was very positive, Zhu Neng couldn't help asking:
"General Zhang, you said this Ming, why didn't he take advantage of this momentum to pacify Beiyuan? Instead, he started doing business with Beiyuan."

Zhang Yu is such a smart person, as soon as Zhu Neng asked this question, he knew that he was puzzled, so he smiled and said to him:
"Does General Zhu think that my Ming army is strong and horses are strong, and the war in the Northern Yuan Dynasty has gone smoothly, so there is no need to go far and near to do business with them, live in peace, and go directly to the army to sweep them?"

Zhu Neng nodded in agreement, that's what he thought, as a martial artist can solve things with his fists, then don't use his mouth, but now Da Ming's operation really makes him a little confused.

Zhang Yu was not in a hurry, and quickly sat down and talked with Zhu Neng in detail. He could understand Da Ming's operation.

"Since ancient times, there are not a few people who have conquered the north by force, such as the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. They are all heroes of Wenzhiwugong.

They all led the army to pacify the grassland, and even reached the point of sealing the wolf and living in Xu, but what was the result?
The nomads on this grassland are still like weeds, appearing in waves in front of our Central Plains dynasty.

And what His Royal Highness King Liao is doing now.which has never been done before,

If the threat of nomads in the north can be completely resolved, it will be done once and for all for future generations, and there will be no need to fight nomads again. "

When Zhang Yu said this, Zhu Neng's eyes lit up. If this is the case, how wonderful it would be.

But can it really be done?

So many heroes of the predecessors could only conquer the north, but it is impossible to completely occupy it or solve the threat of nomads.

Although Zhu Neng knew it was inappropriate to ask such a question, he still asked Zhang Yu.

"I understand what the general said, but the northern prairie people are not a problem that can be solved by doing business.

There are not a few people who did business with nomads in the past, right? His Royal Highness King Liao can subdue them by doing business with nomads? "

It is normal for him to have such doubts, but Zhang Yu continued:
"Naturally, it is impossible to subdue the grassland just by doing business.

But you also know that the resources on this grassland are scarce. If border trade can be opened to let those nomads on the grassland have a way to survive, there are not a few who are willing to fight, and there are many reasons for getting this money. "

Zhang Yu also once wondered why he must pay so much attention to tariffs, banknotes, and mutual trade.

For this reason, he even went to ask His Highness the King of Liao for advice. Naturally, the King of Liao Zhu Qi would not be stingy in telling Zhang Yu his theory.

After all, he was also a subordinate whom he trusted very much, and Zhang Yu also felt amazing after hearing it.

He didn't expect that such a business could produce flowers. He soon understood that this was a big plan to control the grassland forever.

Facing Zhu Neng's strange question at this time, he told Zhu Neng what he understood in his heart, as well as the economic strategy mentioned by Liao King Zhu Qi, and Zhu Neng couldn't figure it out for a while, and he was not an idiot.

Hearing Zhang Yu's explanation, he suddenly realized. He didn't expect to have such a trick, it's so amazing.

Only His Royal Highness Liao Wang can think of it. Zhu Neng's admiration for His Highness Liao Wang with a slap on his thigh is all over the place.

Since then, I have been patrolling the border every day, and I have been active and diligent,

Those who caught those smuggling and counterfeiting banknotes are also very angry, our Royal Highness Liao Wang Liao every day.They are all working hard day and night for the great cause of the nation and the great cause of the country,

You people are here to sabotage His Royal Highness Liao King's astounding achievements just for the sake of petty gains in front of you. You really deserve to die.

However, there are not many generals and people who know about this kind of thing. After all, it was a plan arranged by His Royal Highness King Liao, and it is not foolproof. If it is discovered at the beginning, it will definitely be remedied.

After the other party noticed it later, there was nothing they could do. If the matter had been revealed in advance, and the thunderous means used to cut off the money of the Ming Dynasty, the effect would not be very great.

After two or three months, the border trade has become quite prosperous.

Those prairie tribes quickly brought back a lot of banknotes. Now that the number has increased, those nomads in the prairie are naturally happy to accept Ming's banknotes for trade.

After Zhu Qi saw this situation, he quickly made a plan to deal with it.

To test whether his economic theory is useful, the main thing is to take the banknotes to Beiyuan to buy some good things, and Zhu Qi printed 10000 worth of banknotes after negotiating with the businessman.

Let the caravan set off with the banknotes.

Naturally, there were guards along the way, and after Zhu Neng heard about this, he also volunteered to serve as the guard for this operation.

Wanting to see how His Royal Highness King Liao's astounding strategy was implemented, the excitement in my heart needn't be mentioned too much.

The leading businessman of this caravan is a businessman surnamed He. He also learned a lot of business skills from His Royal Highness Liao Wang.

Naturally, there is no need to mention mathematics. The key is to have a smart head and know what to do and what not to do.

Moreover, he is also very business-minded, and he is also very proficient and agrees with His Royal Highness King Liao's theory of exchanging banknotes for resources.

At this time, with the newly issued banknotes worth 10 gold issued by His Royal Highness King Liao, we arrived at the place where we started border trade with Bei Yuan.

Because the caravan had already been contacted in advance, it didn't take long to see someone from Beiyuan come to meet them.

The main thing is to buy and sell some horses, cattle and sheep, among which war horses are the most important.

It turned out that it was very difficult for Daming to buy war horses from Beiyuan.

As a result, it is now easy to use these banknotes to buy war horses.

You must know that these banknotes are not like silver and gold. If the social credibility is taken away, they are actually worthless at all.

The most important thing is that you can print as much as you want, and if Zhu Neng hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have imagined that he could use this method to buy these cattle, sheep and war horses directly from the north with banknotes.

And those people are also very straightforward, as long as the money is in place, they can give as much as they want.

After all, it is very popular to use Daming banknotes in Beiyuan now.

Because their trade with Daming has been very frequent, and they know that with these things, they can buy pots and pans, tea, salt and iron in the Ming Dynasty.

Soon the transaction was completed, and Zhu Neng watched the merchants of the Ming Dynasty return to the territory of the Ming Dynasty with thousands of war horses. Naturally, none of these war horses were included in the army.

Do you think this is over?
No, this is just the beginning.

The banknote worth 10 gold has now arrived at Beiyuan.

If nothing else happened, the 10 gold bills could be exchanged for goods of the same value in Daming soon.

If this is the case, then there is no practical significance in letting Beiyuan use Daming banknotes.

So the next step is the key point, which is to devalue the currency.

The meaning is also very simple. Originally you used 100 yuan banknotes to buy things from me. After I devalued the currency, now you have to use 200 yuan banknotes to buy them.

That is to say, Daming used banknotes worth 10 gold to buy Bei Yuan's war horses, and then let the currency depreciate.
But Beiyuan wanted to spend these banknotes, but found that their banknotes were worthless, and they could only buy commodities worth about 5000 taels of gold.

Didn't Daming earn 5000 taels of gold for nothing?

Of course, this is only a theoretical operation, and the specific nature cannot be so exaggerated.

But it's not a big problem to depreciate by [-]% to [-]%. The main thing is to ensure the credibility of your banknotes in Beiyuan.

As for the day when Bei Yuan came to his senses, what would he do if he didn't need Daming's banknotes?
This is not a big problem. Even if he doesn't need it, Da Ming can use the trade dispute as an excuse to start a war. Anyway, Da Ming is absolutely not afraid of wars.

And if the economy is controlled by Daming himself, even a war will be of great benefit to Daming.

And one of the invisible benefits is to be recognized by grassland folks.

It is also convenient to carry out a series of operations on the grassland.

The so-called series of operations are naturally bribing the nobles on the grassland with banknotes and so on.

Of course, the devaluation of banknotes cannot be done directly, but a gradual process.

The first is to let out rumors that there is a shortage of goods here in Ming Dynasty, because there has been too much trade recently, and the supply is in short supply.

Therefore, the products that were originally cheap are now more expensive, and the expensive products are naturally more expensive.

Let the people on the grassland be a little bit psychologically prepared, and in the case of these news, they are gradually increasing the price of the product.

Make them more expensive to buy goods, to achieve the effect of devaluing the currency.

Of course, when Daming needs to buy large quantities of goods from Beiyuan, the currency can be appreciated directly.

In this way, the price difference can naturally be earned under one rise and one fall. This is a proper pure profit.

This is naturally to learn from the modern beautiful country and use the US dollar to kidnap the whole world for blood-sucking operations.

And this is just a routine operation, and there is something even more rascal, which is to collect tax on banknotes.

You use my banknotes and I charge high taxes every time you do a transaction here.

In a disguised form, he gained a lot of income.

In addition, tariffs are completely controlled by Daming, and there is no such thing as tariffs in Beiyuan.

No matter whether the goods are imported or exported, it can be profitable for Daming.

A total of three times the wool was collected, and as long as the trade was not good enough, Daming still had gold in his hands, and silver would become more and more abundant.It's all money.

With more and more money under his hands, the more emboldened he is to speak.

Under the ebb and flow, the people at the border of Daming are getting richer and richer, while those at Beiyuan are getting poorer and poorer.

However, the officials and nobles in the Northern Yuan Dynasty were full of food, and Zhu Qi was not merciful at all when he bribed them.

Huge sums of gold, silver and banknotes were sent to them, all they wanted was for them to cooperate with Daming, to increase the value of the banknotes when they should be appreciated, and to depreciate when they should be depreciated.

Anyway, with the help of people from the government like them, they fooled the common people.

It can be said that these officials of Beiyuan have black hearts.

(End of this chapter)