open sea

Chapter 550 Four Oceans
Most of the people here are happy with Chen Mu, only Zhang Juzheng, he loves and hates Chen Mu.

If Chen Mu's talent was less, he would leave Chen Mu in a corner or even overseas like Li Zhi, and leave him alone for the rest of his life.

If he can't play a more good role in the court, the harm he will bring will be huge, because he alone will do more harm to the country's instability than the White Lotus Sect.

Although in Chen Mu's mouth and in fact, he has solved the problem of the imperial court's use of silver, and believes that Myanmar and Annan can solve the problem of food for the people, but these wealth are not without cost-the influx of silver has caused the country to be in turmoil. The impact of land mergers has become more and more serious, the employment of factory workers has caused the population to flow, and it is difficult to manage the people going to sea. The original systems of artisan households and military households have begun to collapse, and the anti-traditional thinking has intensified...

Chen Mu didn't care about these incidental problems. If he was replaced by a cabinet minister with a slightly worse role in the country, he would have stopped him long ago.

But Zhang Juzheng did not. First, everything he did needed money, a lot of silver; the national unified tax law is very important, but the difficulty of implementing a whip law in the north is difficult to be ignored. The most difficult reason lies in the north. Due to the lack of silver, copper coins are still circulated in most places in the north, and people have to exchange them for silver taels when collecting taxes. In the north, especially in Shaanxi, there is little silver in the market itself, and the exchange price is naturally high.

For the same tax, the North pays more than the South.

Things are very tricky.

As soon as the Nanyang Jingyun silver was delivered, the local officials immediately suppressed the price of silver, and everything was easily solved.

And the most important thing is that the more Zhang Juzheng knows about Europa, the more he believes that the imperial court has Chen Mu because of the fate of the country—Chen Mu plans to pull the big fleet to other people's doorsteps, so will other countries be far away in the future? Wanli, pull the Grand Fleet to the door of Daming's house?
There is a Great Wall in the north, but not in the south. The mere Japanese pirates make a mess of the southeast, which has not been at war for a long time. If the enemy's regular army and large fleet arrive at the shore, he will reform for decades and accumulate more wealth. It only takes ten years Eight and a half years of turmoil in the country can successfully smooth out all reforms.

"Ming's opponent is in Europe, but not Portuguese and Yi. Spain is considered an opponent. After all, the country is huge and the people are numerous, the king's power is concentrated, and there is fanatical religion. Its advantage is that the overseas colonies belong to the king. The origin of the sea originated from the fact that the Portuguese and Yi fully controlled the spice trade, and the economy depended on others, so they started to go to sea lately. They were a little anxious, and their methods were more ruthless. All the land they had laid down was eager to dig three feet, and they would dig mines and dig mountains to plunder everything. Walk."

A group of important officials may be thinking about being hit, or being confused after being hit hard. Of course, Mr. Zhang Han didn’t listen to what Chen Mu was saying. His eyes were full of the appearance of an elder watching a younger generation become a talent, and he was a little proud from time to time. Looking at the other halls with a smile, the meaning couldn't be more obvious: Look, this is the younger generation of the old man!
The whole thing is that during the Chinese New Year, the elders at home watch their grandchildren, and the elders don’t understand what kind of work you do. They just know that you are making money now and are promising!

proud!

Zhang Juzheng's expression was a little hard to explain, "Everything that has been laid down, I want to dig three feet into the ground, and if I loot it, I will dig mines and mine mountains to take everything away." Chen Shuai, why do you want to run on yourself like this!
They both understand colonial and don't like the word.

Breeding is farming, and people are common people. It can refer to the common people who make a living out of farming, but when included in the actions of the state mentioned by Chen Mu, it obviously means that the people of other countries are raised like livestock.

"Spain's advantage is not only in more land and people. When Catholics and Muslims fought wars, the excellent Arab culture was introduced into the dark Middle Ages, mainly through Spain. They had some schools and improved the overall quality of the people. Portuguese and barbarians did more abroad. Mercenaries, because they were too poor back home; Xiyi is the opposite, most of the priests and nobles have studied in school, and have a high level of art, literature, and mathematics."

"These cultural qualities make them more able to bear wealth than the Portuguese and barbarians. There are still a group of businessmen working for the country, and the governor who has been sent out has better means of governing the colonies. Spain is almost invulnerable. The only weakness lies in their king."

"A pious believer with a broken brain, who wages endless wars for religion, even if the country is big and warlike, it will die."

Chen Mu's remarks have some analysis of what he has seen and heard, and of course there must be success or failure theory from later generations, which is not rigorous and too subjective, but it must be true, because the result of the matter itself is like this, he can only act like Like a high-spirited critic, he stands on the top of the mountain and points out problems, but in fact he has no way to solve them.

But what's the good?Fortunately, it was not his own country, he just had to point out the problem.

After talking about it, he finished talking about the two countries most familiar to the ministers. Everyone had different expressions, but they probably meant the same thing: Then what the hell, I am invincible tomorrow!

"A Portugal can erupt huge power in a small space, and a stronger Spain can almost conquer half of the world. The princes can still see the problems of their country from thousands of miles away, but what about the countries around them?"

"In the future, these countries will all be new challenges. Many years ago, the Ming Dynasty defeated Portugal and obtained a few blunderbusses and Francois cannons. Now the Ming Dynasty is full of cymbals and various Francois machineguns. Mr. Chen is in charge of the Nanyang Army During the four years of the government, not a single warship fell into the enemy's hands, and not a single artillery piece was captured by the enemy."

"Once others get the shark boat and the general Zhenshuo cannon, they can imitate them as well, and they may even be better than ours. If the Portuguese and Yi trade have gained huge wealth and don't know how to develop agriculture and handicrafts, our bird guns will be better than his. Yet?"

"Minister of Nanyang has now retired before the following post. How to make decisions about overseas affairs, the younger generation has no power, at most it is just a suggestion."

Tan Lun raised his eyes to look at Zhang Juzheng. Zhang Juzheng was in trouble. Looking at Chen Mu's eloquent appearance, he really wanted to send Chen Mu back to Nanyang, but the problem was exactly as Zhang Han mentioned. In fact, it has exceeded the scope of Nanyang. No matter what, it is impossible for Chen Mu to be the Minister of Nanyang again.

Listen to what Chen Mu has to say first.

Zhang Juzheng looked at Chen Mu, nodded to him and waited for the next sentence.

"My suggestion is that there is no king's land in the whole world. The land under the Ming dynasty belongs to the emperor of Ming; Those who offer their soil to the Son of Heaven can serve as the local governor for a term of four years and take charge of the military and political power in the country. "

"Above the Governor, please change the Nanyang Military Mansion to the Beiyang Military Mansion, under the jurisdiction of the Sanyang Minister, the Nanyang Minister and the Prime Minister of the Great Nanyang Affairs, and administer Malacca to the southernmost tip of Xinming Island in the south of Japan; add the Oriental Minister, the Prime Minister of the Great Eastern Affairs, to govern America and Europe; add the Minister of Western Oceans, the Prime Minister of Atlantic Affairs, and administer India to Ottoman."

"The three ministers have the right to elect and select officials, and the ministers of the southeast, west, and three oceans have the right to deploy troops, and the power to command the troops rests with the chiefs of the guards. Above the three ministers, Beiyang Yamen is set up in Tianjin, with full power to oversee overseas affairs, and only consults with the emperor and the cabinet. Beiyang The important ministers are the Sanyang ministers, the six ministries, and those with overseas experience are the officials, and the Beiyang ministers are the cabinet assistants."

"The Fourth Army Mansion has only one function, to enrich the land of the Central Plains, strengthen the Chinese army, and delight the Chinese people."

(End of this chapter)