Ming Dynasty: The poisonous imperial teacher, Zhu Yuanzhang advised me to be kind

Chapter 61 Zhu Yuanzhang was furious, Chu Nan, how many people are you going to poison to death?
"Destroy their farming?" Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked when he heard it.

"How can we destroy this? The Ming Dynasty is so far away from the Japanese. Do we have to send troops over to pull up the seedlings in their rice fields?"

"This is simply not possible." The princes also shook their heads.

"If the Ming Dynasty had this ability, it would have wiped out these annoying Japanese long ago. Why would it allow them to harass the Ming Dynasty's coast so frequently?"

Liu Bowen also shook his head: "The Japanese are not strong. The Ming Dynasty can crush them with one foot and squeeze them into pulp with one hand. But the Ming Dynasty and the Japanese are separated by the sea after all."

"It is too difficult to attack them. The sea is rough and logistical supply is a big problem. In the past, the Japanese also wanted to destroy the Japanese, but they encountered storms and the whole army was wiped out, so the plan was shelved."

So they all felt that Chu Nan’s idea was too unrealistic and impractical.

"That's because the Yuan people don't know which places are storm zones, but I know." Chu Nan shook his head when he heard their doubts.

"And the way I'm thinking of dealing with them isn't to just send troops to fight them, right?"

"I think the solution is, aren't they an agricultural society? Don't they have a lot of farmland growing rice and other things? Then we can find a way to stop them from growing these things."

"And the solution is very simple. When Your Majesty trades with the Japanese delegation, you should pay a large amount of silk from them. You should be willing to spend as much as you want."

"Spend money to buy silk?" Zhu Yuanzhang frowned when he heard Chu Nan's words. Why should he do this?

"The silk production of the Ming Dynasty is unrivaled in the world, and the silk is sufficient. Why do we still need to buy from the Japanese?"

"Yes." The princes were also puzzled.

"People overseas like our Ming silk. Why should we go to the Japanese to buy silk? Their quality may not be as good as ours. And we have to preserve it after shipping it over. If it gets worn out, won't we lose money?"

"Your Majesty, don't be anxious. Please listen to me." When Chu Nan saw Zhu Yuanzhang was anxious, he also laughed.

"Your Majesty, silk comes from silkworms. To raise silkworms, they need to eat mulberry leaves. The Ming Dynasty buys a large amount of silk from the Japanese. Their current production is definitely not enough. So what will they do?"

"What for?" Zhu Yuanzhang frowned when he heard Chu Nan ask this.

What will the Japanese do? Fuck him?

"Ah, I understand." But soon, Zhu Biao thought it out.

"If your father spends a lot of money to buy a large amount of silk, the Japanese will definitely raise a large number of silkworms. Raising silkworms requires mulberry leaves to feed them, but the Japanese do not have that much mulberry leaves, so they will..."

“So that’s it!” Zhu Yuanzhang understood all of a sudden. It turned out that it wasn’t about fucking his mother. So this was the real meaning of Chu Nan’s plan?

"What?" But when Zhu Di heard half of Zhu Biao's words, he was confused.

"Why do you only say half of the words? What will the Japanese do without mulberry leaves? Are you going to borrow mulberry leaves from us? And will you return them if you borrow them?"

"You must be a fool!" When Zhu Yuanzhang heard Zhu Di's words, he slapped him on the head.

“Will you return things you borrow?”

"And what you said is so obvious. What will the Japanese do if they don't have enough mulberry leaves? They must plant mulberry trees."

"Damn it!" Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang became extremely annoyed.

"Bang!" He kicked Zhu Di directly on the back.

"I, Zhu Yuanzhang, am also a romantic, suave, rational and decisive man. How could I give birth to such a stupid son like you? Get out of my way!"

"Yes, yes." Zhu Di was also scared, and quickly squatted aside without saying anything.

“Uh…” Chu Nan was speechless when he saw it. He is the Yongle Emperor, he can’t be that stupid, right?

"Lord Chu?" At this time, Zhu Biao also asked.

"So your idea is that in order to get a lot of mulberry leaves, the Japanese would plant mulberry trees, and then stop farming and switch from rice to mulberry?" "Of course." Chu Nan nodded after hearing Zhu Biao's question.

"As expected of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, he is indeed smart and figured it out in an instant."

"Haha." Zhu Biao felt a little embarrassed when he heard it. He was actually praised by Chu Nan.

"Master Chu, thank you for your praise."

"Look!" At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang saw Chu Nan praising Zhu Biao and glared at Zhu Di fiercely.

"They are all my children, why is there such a big difference?"

"This..." Zhu Di was also confused when he heard this. How could he be scolded like this?

"So this is your strategy, Chu Nan, to deal with the Japanese?" At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang also became excited after listening to Chu Nan's strategy.

"If the Ming Dynasty spends a lot of money to buy Japanese silk, the Japanese leaders will order to replace rice with mulberry trees, and then their people will have nothing to eat, they will become unhealthy, and their military strength will become weaker?"

"Chu Nan, you are amazing, can you think so deeply?"

"Oh my God, Lord Chu, your plan is too vicious, isn't it?" The princes were also shocked.

"If you do this, how many Japanese people will starve to death without food? Isn't this too cruel?"

They were all shocked that Chu Nan’s plan was powerful.

"You guys..." But this time, it was Chu Nan's turn to be shocked.

Did the ancients have too high a moral bottom line? How could this strategy be so extreme? Is this considered poisonous? Moreover, this strategy is not perfect yet and still has many loopholes.

In fact, the decision to replace rice with mulberry was made by Yan Song and his son during the Jiajing period in order to increase the revenue of the national treasury.

Silk is valuable overseas, so they want to sell a lot of silk to increase their income, but the common people are miserable. The fields are all planted with mulberry leaves, so there is no rice, and there is no food to eat.

But Yan Song and his people would definitely not care. They only wanted to make the people suffer and enrich themselves.

However, there were many people with insight during the Jiajing period, so it was not easy for Yan Song and others to make things difficult for the people, and they were stopped by many people.

Therefore, if the Japanese high-ranking officials wanted to change from rice to mulberry, it would definitely not be that easy and there would definitely be resistance, so they had to get the consent of most of the Japanese people.

Thinking of this, Chu Nan spoke up: "Your Majesty, it is not enough to just give gold and silver to the Japanese high-ranking officials and ask them to order the rice to be replaced by mulberry. The Japanese people will not agree if they have no food to eat."

"So we, the Ming Dynasty, have to provide food to the Japanese people. Only when they have food to eat will they be willing to switch from rice to mulberry."

"What? How can this be possible?" But after Chu Nan finished speaking, the people present were confused again.

"There are so many Japanese. How much food will the Ming Dynasty consume to support them? If we keep them for too long, won't the Ming Dynasty collapse?"

Zhu Yuanzhang also frowned: "This won't work. It's hard for the Ming Dynasty to support its own people, how can we support the Japanese?"

"Besides, the Japanese are our enemies, how can we keep them?"

"Your Majesty, who said we have to keep raising them forever?" But when Chu Nan heard their question, he smiled faintly.

"I think if we give them gold and silver at the top and grain at the bottom, they should convert a lot of farmland from rice to mulberry, right?"

"Then I became curious. When the Japanese converted a large amount of their land from rice to mulberry trees, most of their food came from Ming."

"Then at that time, if the Ming Dynasty cuts off their food supply, what will happen to Japan?"

(End of this chapter)