People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 679: Daming is professional in doing business!

It is precisely because of this that the current situation after the injury may have added a lot of uncertainty, because many of the previous steps were actually changed according to the history that Chen Han knew. The determination of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao, father and son, on these historical facts was not actually based on what Chen Han said.

Instead, it was based on the experience of the two people and what Chen Han said.

The reason why Chen Han was able to gain trust was not because his talents were displayed all at once. Both the father and son were shocked.

It was because of the experiences they had shared with each other before his eyes recovered, and they were responsible for the answers they got after being together, so they were both sure that this was what Chen Han said.

Both father and son possessed a very high level of statecraft. They knew very well what they should do, and they even knew to what extent Chen Han's words should be applied. They knew very well how important Chen Han was to the Ming Dynasty.

But they understand more clearly that if they continue to rely on Chen Han's experience, then Chen Han will be like a puppet of theirs, and Chen Han will not be able to play the role he is currently playing.

It is precisely because of this that both father and son have always put a certain amount of pressure on Chen Han.

After they understood the future role very well, they also understood what they should do if they lost the ability to predict the future. So they encouraged Chen Han to do his business and let him use the knowledge he knew about six hundred years later to reform the country. Only then did they achieve the current results and verify their guesses about Chen Han.

They found that Chen Han was not an ordinary person.

Instead, he knew very well how to make the Ming Dynasty better, and understood how to gain the trust of the people and officials of the Ming Dynasty so that he could get more opportunities to display his talents.

He did not simply let the father and son see his talent and then let him do it, but he was very clear that if the Emperor and the Crown Prince had any doubts, his reforms would inevitably not be so smooth.

It is precisely because of this that the reforms that Chen Han is carrying out now can win the hearts of the people so quickly and even quickly make everyone believe that future reforms will be useful. This is the real power.

Now Chen Han has defeated the status of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism and Confucianism. He is not denying Confucianism, but, as Chen Han himself said, after thousands of years of changes, Confucianism has actually deviated from the original intention of Confucius and Mencius.

Whether it was Confucius or Mencius, what they pursued was not to make Confucianism a rope to control the entire world.

They did not want Confucianism to treat everyone as puppets and manipulate them. They wanted Confucianism to penetrate into the hearts of every ordinary person and enable them to live according to this set of ideas.

But because the ruling class also saw this and understood the benefits of this ideology, they began to reform Confucianism. This reform has deviated from the original intention of Confucianism.

But there is no way. Confucianism is like a little girl who allows others to dress her up. No matter how the little girl struggles, those who dress her up are too powerful and it is impossible for them to dress her according to her wishes.

But now that Chen Han has arrived, he has already dispelled this distorted idea, or even the idea that some people have already realized that Confucianism can help them make a profit.

It is precisely because of this that many people are very distressed about Chen Han. What distresses them is not the subsequent reforms and changes, but what they hate is that Chen Han has damaged their interests during the reforms and changes.

In fact, if Chen Han's reforms could be carried out in accordance with their ideas, they would definitely not obstruct it. However, Chen Han understood better what reforms were. The purpose of reforms is to ensure that the interests of these vested interests are no longer guaranteed, so that all interests can be reshuffled.

This will allow more people to benefit, and this will allow his reforms to be more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. At the same time, in order to ensure that he will not become an evil dragon after the reforms, he must set up rules and regulations after the reforms so that the reforms will not revive the slaughtered evil dragon.

This is the path that Chen Han is constantly exploring to complete the reform. As he himself said, the goal he set is not just to reform for the sake of reform, but to allow the Ming Dynasty to have more space after the reform.

It is also to allow ourselves to have more things to do, rather than allowing ourselves to complete the reform and then turn the policy into a perfect process that must decline after reaching its peak.

He must let everyone see that his reforms will not only benefit ordinary people, but also those of you who oppose it and have so many opinions about it, you will see in the future that both ordinary people and you in the middle class can actually benefit from my reforms.

Because Chen Han understands very well that no matter what kind of reform it is, if the interests of everyone can be guaranteed, that is the long-term goal.

Because once the interests of a section of the people are damaged and cannot be fully restored, they will definitely find ways to discredit the reform.

Many people believe that reforms must damage the interests of some people in order to protect the interests of others. If this is the case, it will inevitably lead to the tragedy of the dragon slayer becoming the dragon in the end.

Because no matter whether it is reform or overthrow, there will always be a group of people who will benefit. This group of people will always form a wall for their own interests, and then prevent others from joining, and eventually they will become the interest groups that they have defeated before.

This is not Chen Han’s ultimate goal at all. What he wants is to allow everyone to benefit, no matter how much or how little, just like the current reform.

The interests of the common people come from the prosperity of business, and they will no longer be limited to the small profits they gain from the land.

You can also do some small business. As for the reason why small business can be successful, Chen Han did not say that you will definitely succeed in doing business, but at least the success rate is several times higher than before.

This is because Chen Han wants to open up the entire business channel, to pave the way for the entire business, and to have the entire world's trade handled by the Ming Dynasty.

This is no joke. First of all, the current Ming Dynasty has such conditions. The current Ming Dynasty has unique advantages that are not available anywhere else.

That is, the Ming Dynasty today has absolute fame, and it is the center of the world. The labor force produced is 50% of the world's total. All the goods trade in the world does not produce as much as the Ming Dynasty alone, so it will inevitably form a siphon effect, which will inevitably attract all industries and all funds to do business in the Ming Dynasty.

With such a siphon effect, we can make a big deal in the future. First of all, from tariffs and monetary policies, we can let the people of the Ming Dynasty make a lot of money together.

It turns out that the Ming Dynasty in history actually had such conditions, but why didn't it do so? It was because all the common people, scholars, and the emperor Zhu Yuanzhang did not realize that doing business could make the Ming Dynasty live better and better.

They do not realize how valuable business is, nor do they realize how much ordinary people benefit from the development of business today.

In the past, business had nothing to do with ordinary people because ordinary people did not directly participate in the commercial trading environment. They were closed off, confined to their own small villages and in their own world, and they had no communication with the outside world.

But it is different now. What the Ming Dynasty needs now is a large amount of investment in infrastructure, a continuous influx of people, and a continuous influx of people to drive economic development. This phenomenon will continue to be encouraged in the future.

Of course, I have always agreed with the saying of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce. But why should merchants be suppressed? It is because monopolists are not allowed to emerge. However, there is nothing wrong with business itself, just like a kitchen knife. If you don’t use it to kill people, it is just an ordinary kitchen knife.

Therefore, what Chen Han needs to do is to allow business to flow, but there must not be a small number of monopolistic merchants appearing. The policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce is to suppress merchants, not business.

The extended meaning of this sentence is to make the business of the Ming Dynasty prosperous, to allow ordinary people to participate in business, and to exchange the grain grown from the fields for other products.

We should allow the hardworking people to get more rewards from business, let the business of Ming Dynasty serve the people, and let the people get the goods brought from other countries, such as spices, gold, silver, jade, agate, cat's eye and other gems.

We should allow ordinary people to listen to books and operas, read vernacular novels and pursue more spiritual goals during their rest time after meals.

All of this can only be achieved under very relaxed business conditions, because everyone needs to eat. Those storytellers, opera singers, and writers of vernacular novels cannot work in the fields, so they use their own cultural entrepreneurship methods to obtain the materials produced by the common people. This kind of exchange is also a form of business.

In order to get the people to actively reward these people, there must be a stable environment, everyone must be able to have food to eat, and the people must have extra money in their hands. This is the most important thing Chen Han has to do now.

The Ming Dynasty today has all the conditions and capabilities to make people live better.

Chen Han's current reforms are definitely not just about letting the people see that the court is doing something, but must also let the people feel the benefits of the reforms.

Just like Chen Han's current reforms, which allow common people to eat cheap mutton from the Mongolian grasslands in the north. This was originally something that only the upper class could afford, but now the price has been completely brought down by Chen Han's business activities.

There are also the spices that were very expensive in the past, some of which were even used by the imperial court as salaries for officials.

Now, with the development of Chen Han's navy in the South Seas, a large number of pirates have been eliminated, and those merchants doing overseas trade have smelled the huge business opportunities of the Ming Dynasty. They began to come to the Ming Dynasty in large quantities to sell goods.

After arriving in the Ming Dynasty, they could not exchange their spices for money, but had to exchange the spices for banknotes first, such as selling them to local merchants.

Or you can do business directly with the Baochao Tizhusi.

In fact, this is not a business transaction, but the Baochao Withdrawal Bureau directly negotiates terms with overseas foreign merchants, which is equivalent to centralized procurement.

Since you want to do business here, you must exchange your money for treasure notes. However, not many merchants can take out so much money at one time to buy so many ships of goods from you.

But your goods can never be traded for a long time like our local merchants in Ming Dynasty, because you have to go back and you do not have the right to stay for a long time.

Similarly, when you do business back and forth, don't you have to consider the time cost? You should know that the sea monsoon is absolutely beneficial for saving transportation costs.

Everyone knows that a favorable wind is very beneficial for overseas transportation, so taking advantage of this, the Baochaodu Tizhusi can buy extremely cheap goods from overseas Yangshan at very cheap prices.

As for those merchants, they actually did not lose money. They could sell the goods quickly, then buy other products from the Ming Dynasty and sell them back in their own countries.

As long as they make a few more transactions, even if they sell at a very low price, they can actually make their investment back as long as the quantity is large. It can be said that it is beneficial to both parties.

After receiving the goods, the Baochao Dujiu Si did not sell them by itself, but invited the merchants to sell them to them at a very low price.

These merchants were equivalent to purchasing goods from the Baochaodu Tizhusi, and then trading after returning.

In this way, the Baochao Duzhisi can also earn some income from it.

When the goods of those merchants entered the Ming Dynasty's Maritime Customs, they had actually already been taxed, and then the Baochao Duzhisi bought them at a very low price, which made the Ming Dynasty earn a lot of money...

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