Da Ming Tai Shi

Chapter 115 Ru Taisu is an Injustice
Zhu Biao hurried from Dongge to Jinshen Hall, still wondering why Zhu Yuanzhang summoned him on the way.

Could it be that the father changed his mind and agreed to the abolition of corvee and resumption of business registration?
Being able to wait until he entered the palace and see Chen Yunfu, Zhu Biao felt more at ease.

"My son."

"Sit down first and listen to Yunfu."

Zhu Yuanzhang directly interrupted Zhu Biao's greeting, pointed to the seat next to Chen Yunfu and said, "Don't be polite, tell the prince what you just said."

The latter was about to stand up and salute Zhu Biao, but when he heard Zhu Yuanzhang's words, he could only bow and nod. Fortunately, Zhu Biao didn't mind, so he sat down next to Chen Yunfu and asked a question in a low voice.

"What's the matter, father agreed?"

"Your Majesty has never refused."

Chen Yunfu only had time to say a word, when he heard Zhu Yuanzhang cough lightly from above, he hurriedly stopped the conversation, and then recounted to Zhu Biao the economic philosophy he and Zhu Yuanzhang had expounded before.

Zhu Biao was also dumbfounded.

The experience accumulated in the modern economy for hundreds of years has clarified the logical chain in which macroeconomics and microeconomics complement each other. It would be strange if Zhu Biao could understand.

Although he didn't understand, but Zhu Biao smacked it, it made a damn sense.

The state saves money for the common people, and the common people use the money to buy things from the state. Isn't that still the same thing?

Even if you don't buy from the country and buy from merchants, the red line of the price is there, and the common people don't suffer a loss, but the merchants take the money to increase production, and in the end they still have to go back to the treasury and official funds.

Is it reasonable?
It's very reasonable!

The thinking logic of the macro-economy itself is not to divide the cake, but to find ways to make the cake bigger.

Only by making the cake bigger can all the people guarding the cake be full.

What is the imperial court? It is an administrative organ embodied in the state. Its duty itself is to make cakes, not eat cakes.

What Lao Zhu was thinking about was how to make the imperial court eat more cakes. His starting point was wrong. He was not looking at the economy from a macro perspective, but occupying the national economy from a micro perspective.

Development comes and goes, isn't it just a corner of the south of the Yangtze River?

After dozens or hundreds of years, the sluggish Northwest and Southwest are the heaviest burdens on Daming, and they will definitely bring down Jiangnan in the end.

This is not common prosperity, but common poverty.

Once that time comes, it is reasonable and not difficult to understand that the long-standing Ming Dynasty collapsed with the three ailments of redundant officials, redundant administration, and redundant system.

"You said that you want to draw a circle on the price of goods to promote the recovery of the southwest and northwest. If the merchants in the south of the Yangtze River don't go, will they still do business?"

Chen Yunfu immediately smiled and said: "Your Majesty, businessmen are always chasing huge profits, and if they don't have huge profits, they go after small profits. They may not travel thousands of miles on expeditions, but they can do a lot of business by staying in front of their homes. .

With the unified price of the country, their minds will inevitably shift from buying and selling to expanding production and increasing production. That is called correcting and returning to the right track. Whether it is handicrafts, weaving, coastal fisheries, and salt industries, they are all people-oriented production. .

The more people there are, the more they will produce. Unlimited piles of manpower to increase production will lead to increased labor costs. Businessmen are profit-seeking. If they want to control costs, they must find ways to change. "

"You said they would oppress craftsmen and exploit wages?"

"This kind of phenomenon will inevitably occur, but I am not referring to this piece." Chen Yunfu pointed out: "At present, the silk cloth of our Ming Dynasty is only three renminbi a piece of silver. Only the Song Dynasty is inferior to our Ming Dynasty.

And the farther it goes, the more expensive it is. Basically, there is one reason, the loom.

The loom is a machine, which saves manpower and improves production efficiency, so a lot of labor costs are saved, and the selling price is naturally reduced.

The ancients a thousand years ago did not have looms, so what will future generations have after a thousand years. "

When Chen Yunfu said this, he deliberately paused. Zhu Yuanzhang had been being taken away by Chen Yunfu, so he said anxiously at this moment: "Yes, yes, yes, you can continue."

"We can't see the future, but every day we are in now is creating the future!"

"Businessmen want to control costs, either oppressing and exploiting workers, or racking their brains to invent new objects just like the loom was born."

"However, the imperial court will not turn a blind eye to the oppression and exploitation of workers. Even the imperial court has abolished corvee. Which businessman dares to bully craftsmen?"

"The current treasury economy is tight, and the embarrassment is nothing more than not having too much revenue every year, and only relying on traditional grain taxes to support it. Simply put, there is no living money to enter the pool of the treasury, and the household department will always be a pool of stagnant water.

Our officials are idle, they have nothing to do, that's why they only care about running around. When they are not busy, they either oppress the good, or take concubines to have children, and have nothing to do.

Every year, the standard of the Jingcha is to check whether the official has violated the law or corruption. As long as there is no violation of the law or corruption, the official is a top official.

Because we only measure the moral standards of officials, but never measure the ability standards of officials.

There are some things that I shouldn't have said, but today, His Majesty is enlightened, allowing me to vomit quickly, so I boldly say a few more words. "

"Earlier, when I was a subordinate official of the Crown Prince, Ru Taisu, then Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, had to find the Crown Prince to ask for instructions and report even a few thousand taels of approval. Is His Royal Highness's time only worth a few thousand taels?"

"His Royal Highness gave the reply, and Rubutang will take this instruction and hand it over to the assistant minister or experience officer, and the subordinate officials can implement it layer by layer. When new questions come to Rubutang, Rubutang will just Just take it to find the prince.

The content of this job is too simple. The minister randomly picks a literate child. It doesn't need to be old, he can be in his teens. It is not difficult at all to be the secretary of the household department. "

Zhu Biao held back his laughter and coughed lightly.

How can I say that Ru Taisu is now the Minister of the Ministry of Etiquette, so it is not appropriate for you to compare someone like a child behind your back.

It is not the style of a gentleman to speak ill of people behind their backs.

Clinker Zhu Yuanzhang was completely absorbed in listening at this time, nodded frequently and said.

"Biao'er told me about this before, and I didn't realize it at the time. Now that you said it like this, this Ru Taisu is really annoying. He is also very old. Let him retire."

Well, in a word, Ru Taisu lost his official position if he was confused.

Chen Yunfu subconsciously covered his mouth.

Why do I feel like the courtier in the novel at this moment?
The kind that slanders the emperor and causes loyal ministers to be wronged and lose their official positions.

Comrade Lao Ru will not raise troops to revolt against the Qing emperor.

Ru Taisu: I fucking thank you!

(End of this chapter)