I'm really not doing business

Chapter 885: The universal division of labor must be based on the Ming Dynasty
When Zhu Yijun heard Yin Zongxin talk about his child returning to the hinterland to study, he thought that Yin Zongxin was obsessed with the beauty of his concubines and disliked Princess Yingjia for being a hindrance.

The child is still young, so taking care of the child is a very reasonable explanation, but it is reasonable but not logical.

Zhu Yijun's direct question was to force Yin Zongxin to face the problem and give a correct answer. If he just evaded the question or talked about other issues, he would never be able to return to Luzon.

Yin Zongxin was no fool, so he naturally understood what the emperor wanted. His answer was both a statement and a guarantee that even if he became the Governor-General of Luzon, he would not change his father's established strategy.

The Ming Dynasty and Luzon share the same fate. They are a military, political, and economic community with highly intertwined interests. This is only because Luzon is on the sea. If it were on land, it would have been directly integrated into the Ming Dynasty like Suiyuan.

Yin Zongxin told His Majesty that the princess was going to Chijunshan Port together, and Zhu Yijun immediately softened.

Zhu Yijun looked at Yin Zongxin, who was both civil and military, and was very satisfied with this son-in-law. He said with emotion: "During the transition between the two Song dynasties, the Jin army marched south, and Ji Wang Han Shizhong was in Huangtian Dang. In this life-and-death battle, his wife Liang Hongyu personally held the drum and accompanied her husband to guard the city for 48 days;"

"During the Jiajing period, during the battle of Taizhou, General Qi's first wife, Madam Wang, used the empty city strategy to repel the Japanese pirates in Xinhe City, buying General Qi precious time."

"The princess and Zong Xin guarded the Chijunshan Port together. It is indeed a good story."

The incident of Qi Jiguang inviting his wife to review the troops also happened after the Battle of Taizhou. Qi Jiguang was not henpecked. He was a general who killed people without blinking an eye. He pacified the Japanese invaders in the south and the north, wiped out the Daning Guard, recovered Suiyuan, entered Korea to fight against the Japanese invaders, and invaded Tsushima and Iwami. The number of people he killed in his life is countless.

Friends who often kill people know that when a person is killed, he will die.

In the eyes of these elite soldiers who have experienced many battles, there is no difference between humans and other animals. In fact, humans are much easier to kill than pigs. In their eyes, human life is no different from grass.

This is also the primary difficulty in placing guest soldiers. After fighting in many battles, elite soldiers will become more extreme and will resort directly to violence to deal with many things.

Qi Jiguang respected Mrs. Wang, and this was a friendship of life and death; but he also felt guilty. The general died in a hundred battles, and the warrior returned after ten years. Death would be fine, but being injured or disabled and returning home would be a burden to the family.

Loyalty and filial piety, public and private interests, can never be achieved at the same time.

Yin Zongxin said hurriedly, "The princess has married thousands of miles away. In the midst of the blue waves, Yude is in charge of the household affairs. The governor's office is solemn inside and outside. The Red Army Port is a place full of malaria and cannot be reached by boat or car. The princess is willing to take off her phoenix pendant, change into military uniform, and travel 30,000 miles. I am deeply grateful. I only wish to protect the dragon flag with my seven-foot-tall body to make it shine forever in the South Sea."

"I would like to thank Your Majesty again for your special grace."

Zhu Yijun waved his hand and said, "Your words are so flowery, it sounds like you have prepared them well."

Yin Zongxin was a little confused. He was not prepared in advance. He was speaking on impulse. He thought, said and did so, but His Majesty felt that he was well prepared.

He is good at studying, so can you blame him for studying well and being able to speak eloquently?
He thought about it carefully and said, "Your Highness and I have an agreement. Although we will die, we will live forever."

"That's more like it." Zhu Yijun said happily. This was much more direct.

Yin Zhengmao is from the Qilin Yin family. Qilin is a township in Danyang County, Huizhou Prefecture. Although his family is not a wealthy family, they are a family of poets and etiquette, and are a family of local gentry and cultural aristocrats. This is the tone of their speech and actions.

Yin Zhengmao's father, Yin Qian, was forced to make a living by giving up his studies and going into business. He made a living by traveling around Wu and Yue. He made a lot of money, but he was always unhappy and often felt ashamed of his identity as a businessman. He always urged Yin Zhengmao to study hard.

After Yin Zhengmao passed the imperial examination and became a Jinshi, Yin Qian stopped his business completely for one reason: being flawless is enough for him.

Daming said: Apart from the collar and ornaments, I have no time for anything else.

The word "jinpei" comes from the Book of Songs, "Your green jinpei, my heart is filled with longing; your green jinpei, my thoughts are filled with longing." Later, it specifically referred to the clothing of the scholar-official class and represented their status.

When a Jinshi became an official in the Ming Dynasty, his family would stop all their businesses to avoid trouble and bring disaster, mainly to allow their children to continue to make progress.

What this means is: since you are going to be an official, you and your family cannot have anything else except the status of an official.

If you can do that, then you are spotless. Spotless means: without any stain, without any blemish.

The Qilin Yin family has been passed down to Yin Zhengmao for fifteen generations. Although they were not able to enjoy wealth and luxury in the past, they could definitely be considered a family of poetry, literature and nobility.

When Yin Zongxin visited Lu Shusheng, he didn't have to pay any money. As soon as the doorman saw the visiting card, he would treat Yin Zongxin as a distinguished person and invite him into the house and serve him well.

The Ming Dynasty had actually formed a group of cultural aristocrats. Their nobility did not come from the abundance of money they had, but from their culture and status.

Not all cultural aristocrats are bad people. There is a huge gap between people. Some cultural aristocrats take the people of the world as their responsibility, while some cultural aristocrats spend their days thinking about those shameful and persecuting methods.

"In fact, the princess was very dignified and elegant in the Governor-General's Palace of Luzon. Now that she has returned to the heartland of the Ming Dynasty, she has returned to her mother's home, so she looks a little eccentric." Yin Zongxin smiled when he talked about Princess Yingjia. He saw a different side of the lady.

While her man was away fighting in the battlefield, Zhu Xuanchang had to behave herself properly. When she returned to the Ming Dynasty, she was as happy as a madman.

"That's good, young people should be so energetic." Zhu Yijun did not think that this was out of line. Zhu Xuanchang and Yin Zongxin were both very energetic. On the contrary, he, the emperor, seemed to be old and gloomy because he had been trapped in the vortex of political struggle for a long time.

"I heard from the princess that she has abandoned all those messy rules. She has done a good job. You don't have to worry too much about these rules. I don't like Zhu Xi and Cheng Yixue's Neo-Confucianism. Their narrative of preserving the laws of nature and eliminating human desires is really full of red tape." Zhu Yijun first met the princess and then the prince consort.

Zhu Xuanchang also reported these matters with a nervous mood, but unexpectedly he got the approval of His Majesty.

Within a month of arriving in Luzon, Zhu Xuanchang abolished all the rules because she was bullied by the old maids and eunuchs who followed her.

She was a princess and wanted to meet her husband, but these old maids and eunuchs were not in the right position to do this or that. Their greed for pleasure and lack of moral integrity were exposed.

The princess wanted to meet her husband, but the complicated etiquette alone took two hours. The key point was that Yin Zongxin still felt that this was the duty of a minister and he should abide by it.

Yin Zongxin looked around and whispered, "Actually, I don't like it either, but my lady said so, so I obeyed."

Every time Yin Zongxin met the princess, it took two hours of etiquette. During this time, he also wondered why it was so troublesome for him to see his wife, and why he had to give money to these eunuchs and maids. But it seemed that it had always been like this, and he could do nothing about it.

The maids and eunuchs told Zhu Xuanchang that these rules were to protect the princess! Only in this way can you maintain your noble status, and the Yin family will not dare to despise you.

Zhu Xuanchang believed it at first, but she stopped believing it after only half a month, because after chatting with her husband, she realized that in just half a month, the amount of silver spent on the maids and eunuchs alone was as much as three thousand taels!

Zhu Xuanchang immediately woke up. What a bullshit protection! She was not a real princess who grew up in the deep palace. She lived with her mother Zhou Dingzhi and suffered so much grievance for this. She had seen too much of the world's fickleness.

This is basically treating Zhu Xuanchang as a prostitute. Her husband has to look for her and pay for her. The key point is that this is their family's money!

Zhu Xuanchang felt very aggrieved during that time and didn't know what to do. Even her husband didn't agree with abolishing these rules, as he thought abolishing the etiquette was a dereliction of duty as a subject. Later, Zhu Xuanchang thought of a way to bully others with her power.

Zhu Xuanchang told these maids and eunuchs that if they continued to prevent her from seeing her husband, she would write a letter back to the Ming Dynasty and send all these maids and eunuchs back!
When the nanny and the eunuch thought of the consequences of being driven back to the Ming Dynasty, they immediately understood their identities and dared not to stop them anymore.

The emperor might not care about these trivial matters, but the old ancestor in the palace, Feng Bao, has never been a good person. There is no telling how many eunuchs and maids have been buried in the well.

Luzon was ruled by the Yin family, and the young man Yin Zongxin did not like these rules. Finally, after the couple discussed it, these messy rules were finally abolished completely.

After checking the gold and copper, Zhu Yijun just took a look at the golden gold. Gold, a very valuable thing, cannot be used directly as currency because it is too precious.

Zhu Yijun was more concerned about copper materials. He and Yin Zongxin talked in detail about the development of the twelve copper towns in Luzon. The twelve copper towns were the twelve pillars that supported the Ming Dynasty's rule over Luzon. This industry is now booming.

If Zhu Yijun was a farmer, Yin Zongxin was a geomancer. He was obsessed with prospecting for minerals, and filled the Princess's Mansion in Luzon with all kinds of stones, all of which were various strange and bizarre minerals.

Glowing stones can kill people, so Yin Zongxin did not collect any glowing minerals.

Luzon’s predicament is the same as before: lack of people. Since the Luzon Governor-General’s Office adjusted its policies, it is now short of people who can crack the whip without any psychological or moral burden.

It just so happens that the Ministry of Justice carries out Operation Spring Thunder every year, and those idlers who cannot be resettled can be sent to Luzon to be whipped.

"I heard that the barbarians are very lazy. Is this true?" Zhu Yijun said with a frown. He did not expect that there would be a shortage of people to whip them.

From the Ministry of Rites to Miscellaneous Newspapers, officials returning from Southeast Asia all said that the barbarians were lazy. Zhu Yijun initially thought that this was discrimination under the debate between Chinese and barbarians, but as time went on, it seemed to be true.

Yin Zongxin also said with a sad face: "Your Majesty, there is a huge difference between the plantations in Nanyang and the farmers in Daming. The farmers in Daming have no land, and seeing the land abandoned is like asking for death."

"But in the plantations in Southeast Asia, maybe it's the difference in natural endowments. God doesn't want to starve people, so we can harvest the harvest just by sowing seeds. They are really lazy and won't work unless they are whipped hard and cracked."

"The Ming Dynasty has 36 ports in Southeast Asia, and there are a large number of idle people in these ports. These barbarians are unwilling to work hard even if their wives and daughters are forced to become prostitutes or maids. Even if they have to work because of life's pressure, they will fish for three days and rest for two days. It is simply... unreasonable."

"There are also lazy people in the Ming Dynasty. I have seen them more than once, but it is really strange to see them in such large numbers and so widespread."

As a family of poetry, books, rituals and music, Yin Zongxin always speaks in a refined and polite manner. This is the most elegant evaluation of him.

If Yin Zongxin were asked to speak his mind, he would only say that they were a bunch of beasts in human form.

"I feel really sad when I see the farmland abandoned." Zhu Yijun agreed deeply.

Yin Zongxin thought for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, I dare to say that I think my father is too lenient."

"Oh?" Zhu Yijun asked with a smile, "Just say whatever you think."

"These barbarians are unteachable." Yin Zongxin expressed his opinion in a very tactful way. Unteachable means that they can be driven but do not need to be redeemed.

If Yin Zongxin became the governor, he would only be more ruthless. Yin Zhengmao's approach was actually a continuation of the practice of the Duke of Qian's Mansion, which was to turn the raw seedlings into mature seedlings, and then make the mature seedlings kings.

This is naturally feasible in Yunnan, because even the former Dali Kingdom, whose ruler Duan was from Wuwei, Gansu, was of Chinese Miao descent. However, the situation in Luzon is completely different from that in Yunnan.

The barbarians of Luzon are not the same people as the Ming people. Yin Zongxin has read the theory of natural selection, the theory of human selection, and the unpublished theory of superiority and the theory of partial elimination. Yin Zongxin thinks that the theory of superiority and partial elimination states that the people of the Ming Dynasty are stronger than the barbarians in nature because of the large-scale and tragic dynasty changes and the continuous human selection.

Yin Zongxin deeply agreed with this. His Majesty just had no foreigners around him. The only foreigner around him was a senior talent like Legazpi, the Governor-General of All East Asia, and a genius like Galileo. Therefore, he knew very little about the foreigners.

"Your Majesty, when I lead the troops to fight, the Han people always face death head on."

"The pirates would deliberately hang the wounded on trees to lure the Ming army to rescue them. However, these wounded people would not shout to attract attention, and some would even bite their tongues. This was the case even for the soldiers led by Lin Afeng."

"The calmness of the Han people in the face of the terror of life and death is not acquired through education." Yin Zongxin talked about why the barbarians could not be educated, and he really had sufficient reasons and evidence.

There is great terror in life and death, and Yin Zongxin was deeply moved by the silence and calmness in the face of death. He had never seen such behavior in any barbarian.

This is human nature, not acquired discipline. It is the natural and innate calmness in facing death.

It was difficult for Yin Zongxin to be sure whether the Majesty could understand what he meant, but he had seen such generosity and calmness in facing death many times when he led troops in battle. He also led the Yi people for a period of time, and finally he was sure that the Yi people were not worthy of being used.

When Qi Jiguang heard this, in order to make His Majesty understand, he added: "Your Majesty, the Korean army is also like this, quite noisy."

"Yi Sun-sin himself said: The heavenly soldiers are solemn, while the Korean soldiers are noisy and panic when they encounter a battle. In the Korean War, our troops were defeated when they encountered setbacks, and we finally relied on the royal army and the heavenly soldiers to come to our rescue. This is their nature, and it cannot be changed by education."

"If the Miao policy is applied overseas, it may be like a monkey wearing a crown."

Lee Sun-sin's original words were not flattery; he was really helpless. The Ming army was extremely powerful. The Joseon army led by Lee Sun-sin was already the most capable one, but compared with the Liaodong army led by Zu Chengxun, there was a world of difference. Lee Sun-sin really envied the Ming army's source of manpower.

The Korean War was already over, and the Korean army had not even emerged as a strong army that could compete with the Liaodong Army. In the end, Lee Sun-sin was in despair and could only blame it on his nature.

Zhu Yijun had never led troops in battle, so he really couldn't imagine the scene of calmly going to his death. He thought for a moment and said, "I am not in Luzon, so I don't know the details. If you feel that you have committed too many crimes in Luzon, you can wear a three-inch round dragon flag and the crimes will be my responsibility."

Although he could not understand the horror of such a calm death, he could bear the infamy and guilt. This was the only thing he could do for the soldiers besides providing them with sufficient wages and rewards.

If there really is a wronged ghost, it will come and haunt him.

Qi Jiguang smiled and said, "Your Majesty is always worried that the soldiers have moral burdens. That is a battlefield. If you don't kill the enemy, the enemy will kill you. For the soldiers, the fundamental purpose of wearing the three-inch round dragon flag sticker is to remind themselves why they are fighting."

As long as we fight for the Ming Dynasty and to protect the lights of thousands of homes behind us, there will be no moral burden.

Yin Zongxin felt that the emperor could not relate to what a military commander said, so he took out a memorial and said, "Lin Fucheng wrote a memorial. I am better at fighting."

When it comes to politics and economics, Yin Zongxin feels that he is not as professional as Lin Fucheng. When this guy arrived in Java Coconut Sea City, he even dared to bring a Ti cavalryman with him and sailed across the ocean to a pirate's lair to find out the details.

Lin Fucheng disappeared for three whole months. The Governor's Office of Old Port and the Governor's Office of Luzon were about to turn Nanyang upside down. He was a fifth-rank social science doctor granted by the emperor. He had to be seen alive or dead. This was not only a responsibility to the emperor, but also to himself.

If even angels dare to attack, then these carnivores in Southeast Asia are equally dangerous.

After Lin Fucheng was found, he said that he was accidentally captured by pirates. The captured pirates cried out that it was unfair. The pirates said that Lin Fucheng came here as a scholar, and in just three months, he had become the second in command because he knew a little bit about everything. He was not captured by pirates at all!
Where can we find such high-end talents among pirates?

The reason why Lin Fucheng took a group of Ti cavalry to the pirates' lair was to find out whether the global division of labor is driven by efficiency or profit.

In the Ming Dynasty's wind power public opinion, it is generally believed that it is driven by profit, but Lin Fucheng always felt that there was a lack of key arguments, so he went to the pirates' lair.

During his research on the pirate economy, Lin Fucheng was surprised to find that when it came to hiring people, the pirates first chose Han Chinese, followed by Japanese pirates and Japanese slaves. Only when they had no other choice would they use barbarians, savages, and black people.

Pirates are a completely violent organization. Within this framework, the first pursuit is efficiency, whether it is killing, looting, or plantations.

The reason why this group of pirates chose to use Han people is because they are really useful.

The reason why Lin Fucheng was able to become the second-in-command in just three months was because he was indeed very capable.

In the end, Lin Fucheng reached a conclusion: During the Age of Discovery, the world ushered in the first wave of globalization, and global division of labor was taking place. This division of labor was mainly driven by efficiency, with profit being secondary.

"Isn't this nonsense? Profits come and go in this world, and no one would do business that loses money." After reading the beginning, Zhu Yijun felt that Lin Fucheng was a little different and was too eager to be different.

"I thought so at first, but what he said makes sense." Yin Zongxin said with certainty: "I believe that the division of labor is driven by efficiency. Wherever there is more efficiency, more industrial clusters will gather there."

Yin Zongxin read "Records of the Grand Historian" since he was a child. Sima Qian said: The world is bustling with people all seeking profit, and the world is in turmoil all seeking profit. Even the king of a thousand chariots, the marquis of ten thousand households, and the lord of a hundred rooms still worry about poverty, let alone the common people.

But Yin Zongxin was still persuaded by Lin Fucheng. Sometimes, for some people and some things, you have to do it even if it means losing money.

Yin Zongxin looked at the gold and copper in front of him and said with emotion: "Your Majesty, my grandfather was a businessman. My father said that when he was a child, he was very confused as to why his grandfather would sometimes support a group of idle people when doing business. When business was not good, my grandfather would still support them and would not let them leave. Even if the business was not profitable, he was willing to do it."

"My father didn't do business. He served as the Governor-General of Guangdong and Guangxi, and then the Governor-General of Luzon, but he still didn't figure out this childhood question."

"Later, Lin Fucheng told his father that there has never been a smooth business, and there has never been a calm market, just like the never-ending sea, with ebbs and flows."

“When the tide is rising, if you run slower than others, you will never make money; when the tide is falling, if you try to save costs, you will never be able to turn around.”

“It seems that it is driven by profit, but in fact, the final competition is still about efficiency. Some people got the news in advance and seized the opportunity, but they were eventually caught up by more efficient people.”

“The division of labor is ultimately driven primarily by efficiency.”

Global division of labor is a problem that the Ming Dynasty must face, and it is an issue that the Ming Dynasty must understand in order to build a commodity economy.

Lin Fucheng’s conclusion is that efficiency comes first, but this does not deny the existence of profit drive. The two are in a contradictory relationship, opposing but also unified, a relatively complex and nested relationship.

In countless plantations in Southeast Asia, Lin Fucheng traveled a lot and saw a lot of things. Eventually, he came up with a spiral evolutionary configuration, which is "efficiency optimization-profit realization-reinvestment to improve efficiency", and so on repeatedly.

Efficiency first and profit as the goal are driving changes in the global division of labor.

Once an industry becomes inefficient, cannot realize profits, and cannot improve efficiency through reinvestment, it will flee to more efficient places rather than places with higher profits.

If the profit is high but the efficiency is low, the final profit will be reduced. Efficiency and profit are not completely contradictory, but mutually reinforcing.

Because there is universal competition in the market, low efficiency will lead to the market being occupied by peers, and eventually become the price paid in the test of time.

In order to maintain the division of labor in high value-added industries and keep them in the Ming Dynasty forever, the Ming Dynasty must ensure the stable operation of the efficient model under the performance evaluation system. Once the efficiency is too low, these industries will flee and cannot be reversed by human or political will.

"Huh?" Zhu Yijun walked past the boxes of copper bars and carefully read Lin Fucheng's memorial again. He said seriously, "Interesting. What he said is really interesting. It seems to be true."

"I will think about it carefully after I go back. He said that if this is the case, the division of labor in the world must be centered on the Ming Dynasty; the goods of all nations will converge on the Divine Land."

The copper mines of the twelve copper towns have been in Luzon for a long time, not just today. However, only in today's Ming Dynasty can the mining of copper mines be completed so quickly.

The idea that efficiency rather than profit guides division of labor is really novel. Zhu Yijun suddenly felt that Lin Fucheng's research was very successful.

Lin Fucheng, this opinion basket, painted a big pie for Zhu Yijun and told the Ming Emperor that as long as the Ming Dynasty maintained the current situation or even became more efficient, the Ming Dynasty would always control the high value-added industries. This pie looked very delicious.

"Please take a look, sir." Zhu Yijun handed the memorial to Zhang Juzheng.

Zhang Juzheng frowned. After reading it, he took a deep breath and said, "Your Majesty, the Performance Evaluation System is not a panacea that will work as soon as you take it. But I cannot refute what he said. I am the leader of the Performance Evaluation System and the Civil Service Administration System. I cannot refute it. Moreover, I also agree with his point of view."

"But it is a bit too much to regard the performance evaluation law as the golden rule. Policies are determined by circumstances, times and trends and cannot be set in stone."

After reading the memorial, Zhang Juzheng was convinced. It was not because the memorial was so well written, but because Lin Fucheng, a limited liberal, was really gambling his life, trying to find a way to freedom through practice, to improve efficiency and to gain freedom.

Labor makes people free, and more efficient labor makes people freer.

"When he first appeared, I thought he was a lowly Confucian scholar and I even laughed at him because he was speechless when asked about his first conversation. When he first proposed the word freedom, it was completely based on the imaginary Free Corner and Free City in the West. After so many years, he finally found a way that seemed to be able to reach the other side." Zhu Yijun handed the memorial to Ye Xianggao, the Secretary of the Central Secretariat.

"Secretary Ye, please make several copies of the memorial, give one to the cabinet ministers, and send another copy to the Northern Yamen. Let the Northern Yamen publish it in the official bulletin, and let the scholars all over the world see if what he said is correct." Zhu Yijun called the Secretary of the Central Secretariat Ye Xianggao to his side, handed him the memorial, and asked him to copy it.

"I obey your order." Ye Xianggao hurried forward and took the memorial. He was writing the daily notes of Emperor Wanli. He was so curious about the memorial that after receiving it, he took a few glances at it and quickly put it down.

After reading it again, I no longer have the energy to write a diary.

The emperor had a chat with the Jinchi Governor's Office, mainly about the development of Jinchi. The Jinchi Governor's Office had expanded its territory by another 800 miles. The local barbarians had no resistance to muskets, and the Ming Dynasty was dredging the local rivers. The large and small Jinchi cities had become the granary of the South China Sea.

The way that the Jinchi Governor's Office expressed its loyalty was very direct: it gave gold to the emperor.

The emperor never took the gold for free. A latest-model fast sailing ship, even equipped with a propeller and Shengping No. 6 steam engine, has been deployed in the Jinchi Governor's Mansion.

"Zongxin, have you heard about the recent tribute selection case in the Southern Ya? I have employed a group of people." Zhu Yijun talked about the tribute selection case in the Southern Ya and asked for the opinion of the Governor-General's Office of Luzon. Yin Zhengmao was a local gentry and cultural aristocracy in Huizhou Prefecture of the Southern Ya.

"They deserve to be killed. Those who condone pirates deserve death." Yin Zongxin expressed his opinion directly. His father had never looked at these people in the eye.

For the sake of his son's official career, Yin Zhengmao's father terminated all family businesses, just to let his child "not worry about anything else except the collar and jade pendants, and be pure and spotless is enough." However, among the 170,000 officials in the world, how many can do this?
True cultural aristocrats are well aware that when the nest is overturned, no eggs will be left unbroken, and a strong country means a strong family.

(End of this chapter)