my days with tyrants

Chapter 219 Running into Capitalism
Beijing.

Royal Palace.

"Are you having fun?"

His Majesty the Emperor said very calmly.

In other words, this still didn't kill Yang Feng, this is the first time he called Yang Feng into the palace.

It is estimated that Yang Feng will not take revenge.

After all, since Yang Feng came back, this bastard hasn't stopped doing things. After such a long time, he should have vented. Zhu Yuanzhang has been letting Yang Feng torment his Ming Dynasty for a long time. In fact, the root cause is to find something for him. Do it, lest he is still in a bad mood, always thinking about finding a commanding height outside the palace one day, and then secretly poking at the cat looking for an opportunity to shoot his black gun.

He had tested it with a [-]x mirror, so it shouldn't be a big problem to snipe him within a mile.

And this distance...

It's terrible!

"Your Majesty, you are mistaken.

In fact, I just want Daming to get rid of the original ending.

Although everything in the future has changed with my arrival, there is one thing that remains unchanged. We call it the law of dynastic cycles, and it can be applied to almost all dynasties.

At the beginning of Dingding, because of the troubled times, the population was small, and the land was abundant, everyone could become a self-cultivator as long as they wanted to reclaim land. Landlords did not dare to squeeze too much.Moreover, in troubled times, even landlords have experienced mountains of corpses and seas of blood. They know that once the oppression is too hard and there is a civil uprising, and the world is in chaos again, everything will be destroyed at that time.Their wealth will not keep them alive, and may even make them targets for killing.

They also have fear.

The same officials, nobles, even the emperor are also afraid.

Everyone has experienced troubled times and cherishes the hard-won peace.

Therefore, in the early days of the dynasty, there will be a period of so-called prosperous times.

But after a hundred years, the third and fourth generations have never experienced troubled times and lost their fear. Landlords began to treat tenants as cattle and sheep to be squeezed by themselves, and officials also regarded corruption and breaking the law as normal. The nobles also forgot their ancestral origins and thought they were superior.

Even the emperor really believed that he was destined by destiny, and his country would be eternal.

Begin to learn to act recklessly.

As a result, the relationship between the ruled people and the people who ruled them became worse and worse. At the beginning, the common people might just endure it, and even when they were cornered, they left their homes and fled.

But there is a limit to this.

When the limit of their tolerance is finally exceeded, there is no need to bear it anymore.

Just like you were.

In this way, the dynasty cycled through chaos, and every cycle was a sea of ​​corpses and blood.

Not only for the common people, but also for those emperors and generals.

Tianjie trampled all the bones of the public, and the inner warehouse was burned to Jinxiu ashes.

This line of poem is chanted by Qin Fu of Wei Zhuang in Tang Dynasty. If you ask a scholar, he will tell you that this poem has been lost, indeed it has been lost, but it was found in the grottoes of Dunhuang 500 years later.If you are interested, you can let Song Sheng go there. I will give him the general location, and he should be able to find it. In fact, you'd better let him go to Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, which should be called Thousand Buddha Caves.

Many of the caves where Buddha statues are carved have interlayers, and there are a lot of ancient books in them.

You can move them all.

But be careful when carrying it, some ancient books here are orphans.

Gone is gone forever. "

Yang Feng said.

It is indeed possible at this time.

The Ming Dynasty already had actual control over that area, and because they had to take this route to get horses from the Sultan of Delhi, Song Sheng had already established a series of strongholds there in advance.

"I will arrange it, and I will send another civil servant there."

Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"Don't let civil servants intervene. There are too many messy things in there. Buddhism is the main one, and there are other Taoism, Confucianism, and history. Most of them don't necessarily conform to Cheng Zhu's Neo-Confucianism. It's best to arrange a Buddhist eunuch to go over and let He kept it properly, then transported it back to the capital, built a special storage place, and then arranged for some people to sort it out."

Yang Feng said.

It would also be good for him to start compiling a comprehensive encyclopedia like the Yongle Canon in advance.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded.

"In that case, you are very kind."

Then he said with a hint of sarcasm.

"Your Majesty, do you have other ways to make your Ming Dynasty last forever?

Don't tell me to rely on Confucian scholars.

I can tell you clearly that it is not you and your descendants who are at the pinnacle of relying on Neo-Confucianism to enslave, but the Qing. Classics, even those of the same Confucianism, were all burned.

All non-Confucian ideas are banned, even technical books are banned.

Your science and technology books in the Ming Dynasty were not found in North Korea or even Japan until the end of the Qing Dynasty.

Geographical knowledge is banned.

You drew a map of the world at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and there are two copies left. One was locked in Shenyang to prevent the outside world from seeing it, and the other was not found in the private collection of a North Korean official until the fall of the Qing Dynasty.

As a result, when Taixi invaded, no one in the whole country knew where it was.

They have all done this, but in fact, they only survived for less than 200 years, and the people have already begun to rebel on a large scale, and after 200 years, they faced a rebellion comparable to Huang Chao.In the end, it was even necessary to rely on the help of the Taixi people, coupled with the release of the vassalization to suppress it, but the result also made the whole country actually enter into the vassalization. In the decades after that, it was only by relying on the mind of a heroine that the Sustain a barely state.

As soon as the heroine died, she died immediately after. "

Yang Feng said.

I rely on Lafayette for Qing Dynasty.

Without Lafayette's wrist, Li Ergui and his gang would have divided up the country long ago.

And the rebellion of the unreasonable people in my Qing Dynasty began from the late Shiquan Old Dog, and the White Lotus Sect swept the southwest. From then on, various rebellions continued, until the last Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. final mode.

But unlike at the end of Ming Dynasty, they directly turned into feudal towns.

Only then did Lafayette use a series of clever tricks to catch him.

If Chongzhen turns into a vassal town, maybe he can really survive, but the premise is that he can have a politician at the level of Lafayette.

"So you can do what they do?
All non-Confucian classics were burned, all science and technology books were burned, and folk maps were collected and burned. In the end, only the set of monarchs and ministers was kept. Even Neo Confucianism was not at ease.

It is to study the Four Books and Five Classics word by word.

For 200 years, all Confucian scholars were not allowed to look at anything else. Poems, songs and fu were all low-level, and it was their job to search for chapters and excerpts.

In the end, even Confucian scholars themselves became fools.

Facing Taixi's battleship cannon, he actually defended it with the jump god and attacked it with toilet waste.

Can you do this? "

Yang Feng said.

Strictly speaking, defending the toilet against the enemy was done by Yang Fang, the No.1 general of the Qing Dynasty, but it was indeed done by Song Guojing, the soldier of Hangjiahu, who defended against the enemy.

"Then that tricky trick you did can make the Ming Dynasty last forever?"

Zhu Yuanzhang scoffed.

"Without all generations, the empire will always perish without exception, but I only know that your current set is useless, and it will not bring any benefits to the people, and in fact it will not bring any benefits to your descendants. And my It is not certain whether the set is useful or not, but it can bring benefits to the people, including your descendants. At least your sons and grandsons will not be thrown into the Yangtze River and hacked to death one by one because of the hatred of the people. It is even said that it is made into a blessing feast.

Of course, that is indeed fake.

That rebel didn't have such a strong taste, he just killed your descendant and handed it over to his subordinates for burial. "

Yang Feng said.

The Fu Lu Banquet was of course fake. An official of King Fu knelt down and begged Li Zicheng. Li Zicheng saw that he was loyal and gave him the dead body of King Fu. This man buried Queen Fu and hanged him in front of the grave.

But those princes who were killed in the late Ming Dynasty were real!
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at him silently...

"Your Majesty, you don't know what the future of your design will be like, and I don't know what the future of my design will be like, but I know that my design is the correct development path in the future. This is how the Taixi people walk through it step by step. In the late Ming Dynasty Also started down this path, but was interrupted by the alien invasion, and I'm starting now.

As for the result, I don't know.

After all, this is unprecedented in history. If the Taixi people are going strong like this, it is indeed possible that Daming can go strong like this.

But since we are all walking a path where we don't know the result, why not choose a path that the Thais have tested? "

Yang Feng said.

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed.

"You can do your job in Shanxi, I won't care about you anymore.

As for the relocation of the Jin Fan to Fengzhouchuan, but what you promised the Jin Fan before, you have to honor them. "

He said.

In fact, he really can't see the future clearly.

But he is not a colonial mentality after all. What he really wants is a powerful Ming Dynasty, but he also wants a strong Ming Dynasty. As Yang Feng said, let him burn science books, maps, and all classics other than science. Certainly not.But if he can't even do this, it means that he will never catch up with the latter dynasty in terms of using Confucian scholars to enslave.If even the latter can't live forever, then of course he can't live forever if he can't do the latter.

It is true that Yang Feng engages in unpopularity, but if it is indeed the foundation of the prosperity of the Taixi country, then it is not unacceptable to him.

After all, the unruly people still recognize the Zhu family's rule.

If Yang Feng's unpopularity can really bring prosperity to the country, then the Zhu family's rule will not be overthrown.

Who will rebel when there is enough food and clothing?

If the country is strong, who will overthrow the emperor?

The two routes of enslavement and unpopularization...

Try them all!
The imperial examination should still be taken, and Yang Feng continued to do it in Shanxi.

Yang Feng resigned immediately.

"How about it?"

The little princess who had been waiting outside immediately rushed forward eagerly.

"How about what? Your father and I had a great conversation. We exchanged views on topics that both of us are interested in, and reached a preliminary consensus."

Yang Feng said.

The little princess looked at him sadly...

"Stop thinking about it, you are still young, let's talk about it in a few years!"

Yang Feng stroked her dog's head and said.

"Then how do you go to Shanxi to collect taxes?"

The little princess said angrily.

"Don't worry about them, it's just 280 million shi of millet and wheat. Let's just buy it later. The price of grain in Shanxi is only 200 million guan. No tax is charged in the first year. Let them develop as they please. Afterwards, we will get back the principal with interest.”

Yang Feng said.

He was not prepared to collect taxes in the first place.

Let go of restrictions on industry and commerce first, let Shanxi's industry and commerce enter a barbaric development, and wait until the development is ready to start before starting to collect taxes.

As for business planning and the like...

What a plan!
Liberal capitalism is the best option.

Just let them grow wildly.

After they grow wildly like weeds after the spring rain, they can be harvested with a scythe. Anyway, his bank can control the financial industry. The biggest problem with this tactic is that after the business owners in Shanxi grow wildly, they will face him. Tax collection creates resistance.

but……

Who dares not to pay?

Who would dare not pay his taxes?
On the contrary, the construction of Shuofang City, Jin Palace, and road construction are the most important things.

"Or just build a wooden track?"

Yang Feng pondered.

Building a wooden track between Taiyuan and Shuofang is the best choice. At this time, the wooden track in Liaodong has been laid to Xinzhou, that is, Gongzhuling, which is Xinzhou of Liao Kingdom. It is estimated that it can be laid to Jilin City by this time next year.This wooden track is showing great strategic value. After all, its material transportation capacity is not comparable to that of ordinary roads. Even the Changtu section that was originally built has begun to be clad with iron.However, maintenance requires a certain amount of manpower, so the subordinates of the Liaodong Metropolitan Command and Envoy Division now have a special guard to protect the road.

But if he wants to repair the wooden track in Shanxi, he has to pay for it himself.

or……

To set up a joint stock company?

Yang Feng suddenly discovered a new world.

He can definitely set up a joint-stock company.

Needless to say, Shuofang is the first step, that is too far away, you can go to Datong first.

Anyway, the main trade direction of Shanxi merchants is Xuanda.

If there is such a wooden track, it can completely speed up the circulation of materials, and even raise shares not only in Taiyuan and other places, but also in Beijing. In the future, this wooden track line will be monopolized by the rail transit company, which is also easy to manage, and special carriages will be manufactured for it. Plus maintenance staff.

It doesn't matter if there are not many customers, because Yang Feng himself has to transport food to Datong.

He contracted Shanxi's tax revenue, and a large part of the 280 million shi was transported to Datong for the various armies under the Shanxi Xingdu Division.

So he can let Daming officially create a joint-stock company, and based on his golden brand of making money, those rich people in the capital with a lot of spare money will definitely buy this stock.In the end, he could get a lot of money to build this track without paying a penny, and since he had money, of course he couldn't just use wooden tracks, but he could also cover them with iron.Even in some of the busiest road sections, the rails can be used to lay them completely. The big deal is that the rails are thinner, and it is not a real train anyway.

Bridges need to be built along the way, so the cement industry must also be developed.

The last rail transit has driven the leapfrog development of Shanxi industry.

"Hurry up and invite all the top [-] customers from your place, and tell me that I have a new plan to make money."

He stroked the little princess dog's head and said.

(End of this chapter)