Can you live forever

Chapter 214 The wealth of Jiangnan spans the ages

In the 15th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, the population was 2.8 million.

The more detailed household registration information is all in Xuanwu Lake, and the large-scale making of yellow books every ten years has not stopped, but these information cannot be seen in the capital.

In the past, Jiajing could only ask the factory guards to investigate the population records of the counties and make overall calculations to get an estimated value.

It is actually quite sad that an emperor doesn't even know the number of people under his rule. However, after returning from worshiping the Taizu this time, he plans to change his nationality to govern the people and re-count the population.

"what."

Zhang Zhixiang was quite surprised to get a booklet from the bookshelf, "Population Details of Various Countries" not only records the statistics of Eastern and Southeast Asian countries, Western Luozhou countries, and even Shangzhou countries.

Population, national strength, specialty products, and markets are all recorded.

It can be seen from this that Nanjing is not just enclosing itself. While cooperating with the Tongzhou Association, they maintain a full understanding of the outside world and adjust their strategies at all times.

Daming is the production center of world commodities.

Nanjing directly regulates the production of commodities and raw materials according to market demand and trade throughput, so as to maximize the efficiency of trade.

Planned economy?

It is a joke that later generations say that Chinese people do not understand economics.During the Spring and Autumn Period, Guan Zhong used economic warfare to help the Qi State dominate. The tricks played by later generations are all leftovers from the Spring and Autumn Period.

Even the Song Dynasty, looking useless, gave tribute coins every year.

However, the Song Dynasty relied on trade hegemony and was deeply bound to the Liao Kingdom. The annual trade surplus was several times more than that of the old coins.

Playing with the economy for thousands of years, they can still collapse the Ming Dynasty's finances. This shows that they did not understand, but they did it on purpose. From Zhongzhengying Dynasty to Chongzhen's subjugation in 17 years, Ming Dynasty was premeditated.

Putting down the booklet, Zhang Zhixiang was in a mixed mood.

Often walk by the river without getting wet shoes, this group of people finally played with fire and set themselves on fire.

I think I can control Manqing.

But they didn’t know that the Manchus didn’t care about fame at all, and they didn’t merge with you at all. After entering the customs, they still lived in Mancheng. In the end of the Qing Dynasty, they not only defended against the Han more than against the foreigners, but also joined hands with the foreigners all the time.

at last.

Man Qing domesticated a group of rotten Confucians who could only kneel and lick.

Foreigners got Ming's technological knowledge.

Everyone has a bright future, everyone is happy, everyone is happy...

Jiajing also put down the brochure in his hand. Seeing that the discussion on Annan seemed to have ended, the voting session began. With 48 votes to 24, the second motion was passed.

They decided to give up fighting Qiu Luan head-on.

"You are actually very good at governing the country. Why is the capital often messed up by you? I don't look at the population. I don't know how big your business is and how rich Jiangnan is."

"Of course, your virtues are still the same."

"The treasury in the capital is empty, you are definitely not willing to donate even a tael of silver, and I don't know if the household department in Nanjing has no money, will you donate money, for example, fighting Annan is the second choice because of lack of money. item?"

Regarding Jiajing's question, Xia Yan sneered, "160 million is nothing to Nanjing."

"The money from the household department is just a routine."

"What we want is not to block Qiu Luan from Annan, but to keep him trapped in Annan, Jiajing boy, even if you changed the currency system and built a bank, how many taels of silver are there?"

"Beating Annan is destined to drain your blood."

In order to establish credit for the banknotes, Jiajing, at the beginning of the reform of the currency system, admitted to recycling the old coins of the past dynasties since Hongwu, and naturally bore a debt of 5000 million taels of silver.

Although with the promotion and use of treasure banknotes, the private stock is getting bigger and bigger, and tens of millions of taels of treasure banknotes can be issued into the market every year.

But only gradually.

Even after the treasure banknotes replaced the status of copper coins and squeezed out the proportion of gold and silver, they have reached a period of flattening, and the future growth will be less and less. Jiajing has not been able to save much money in the past ten years.

After all, it is necessary to rectify the Beijing camp, to reform the imperial examinations, to promote foreign mathematics education, to invest in medical care, and to fight wars...

Now it would be nice to have a surplus of 3000 to [-] million taels in domestic funds.

If you need more money, you can only issue additional national debt, which can make Annan fall into a quagmire, and then issue national debt...It will inevitably lead to a decline in credit and currency depreciation.

Therefore, if Jiajing wanted to issue national debt, he had to find a good excuse, and he couldn't issue much, otherwise there would be bad-mouthing remarks from all walks of life.

therefore.

From Nanjing's point of view, Jiajing is still very poor. It only takes one or two wars to make Jiajing stretched. After a few years, he can't even handle state affairs. He can't stand the pressure, and his control over the court and the country is getting weaker and weaker. At that time, it was difficult for Jiajing to survive.

"Do you have any other purses?"

Jiajing was a little surprised. He originally thought that this group of people had a wild nature and would only try their best to get money out of their own pockets, so the annual finance of the Nanjing Household Department was only 800 million taels of silver.

As a result, the breath was so loud that he was a little unimaginable.

Xia Yan was condescending, looked at Jiajing and smiled contemptuously, just like looking at a bumpkin in the country, and said with a sneer, "I might as well tell you that there is a bank in the Nanjing Gongzhong, and the five major business gangs' enshrined silver every year is in the bank. among."

"This money belongs to the Senate, not to anyone alone."

"Over the years of accumulated operation, the assets have exceeded [-] million taels. Since there is a major event, after the meeting votes, funds can be allocated to handle the matter."

"Jiajing, with your little money, why should you fight us?"

Jiajing was stunned for a moment, then murmured: "You guys are really rich, no wonder the land will be white and clean after the death of the Ming Dynasty, if it were me, I couldn't help but want to rob you."

Xia Yan was stunned: "What death?"

Jiajing shook his head with a smile, and said, "You don't know what Yang Tinghe guessed, and it seems he didn't tell you either."

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, it was not only the Jurchens who went south, but also the generals of the frontier army, from Liaodong, from Xuanda, and those who turned to fight against the Southern Ming, weren't they Wu Sangui and the others?
For the Ming Dynasty court, several million taels of Liao pay per year, Zhang Zhixiang's evaluation is to repair the earth.

Actually, not many.

Fighting is enough, but for making money, the general in the north looks at the world of flowers in the south of the Yangtze River, just like a beggar rushing into the vault, it is a carnival.

How much money did the Manchus headed by Jianzhou go southward and rob?
Are there tens of billions?
"My Daming, I'm really rich."

"But with so much money, the people are living so hard. Even though we control the world's trade and resources, the people are still living a precarious life. They borrow money and sell their wives and daughters."

"When will your greed come to an end?"

"Those Yangzhou lean horses are bought all over the world to cultivate seedlings, and then they become oirans. They spend tens of thousands of taels of silver just for the smile of beauties. Whoever wins the laurel crown will be famous as a scholar."

"One hundred thousand taels of silver are spent on women, just to satisfy your desires."

"Play that silly game."

"You guys really have so much money that you don't have a place to burn it."

"Let you continue like this, even for 1000 or 1 years, the lives of the people will not improve at all."

(End of this chapter)