fantasy novels Chapter 643: Kaizhongfa Is About To Collapse, And The Court Has No Money? No, Rich! [Please Subscrib
Chapter 643: Kaizhongfa Is About To Collapse, And The Court Has No Money? No, Rich! [Please Subscrib
On the podium, Yan Changqing looked at Zhu Yuanzhang below, shook his head and said:
"Your Majesty, not everything can be solved by establishing the "Huang Ming Ancestor Instructions"!!!"
"Even if you say something unpleasant, what will happen even if His Majesty enacts the "Huang Ming Ancestor Instructions"?!"
"If future generations really don't want to follow them, then no matter how many ancestral precepts they set, they will be nothing more than a piece of waste paper!!!"
Zhu Yuanzhang is good at everything, but there is one thing that is not good about him, that is, he always wants to do things for thousands of generations to come by himself, and always wants to make clear arrangements for future generations with his own efforts.
Of course, if we really want to say this, it is not only Zhu Yuanzhang who has this bad habit.
For example, emperors like First Emperor Ying Zheng, Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty Liu Che, Emperor Taizong of Tang Li Shimin, etc., who were accomplished and capable, and whose vision was too far beyond the current era, all had such "bad" traits to a greater or lesser extent. Problem".
There's nothing they can do about it. If they don't look beyond their current era and look far enough into the future, then they won't have the idea of "rushing for quick success" and wanting one generation to accomplish what thousands of generations will do.
But it is precisely because they look beyond their current era, they see the "future" that others in this era cannot see, and they also see the disasters in the future that others in this era cannot see.
That's why they want to solve future "disasters" in advance for future generations, so that future generations can live a more relaxed and satisfying life.
From this perspective, it can actually be regarded as the "old father" mentality inherited from Yan and Huang since ancient times.
As "old fathers", even if they are a bit harsh in words, they still feel sorry for their children and grandchildren.
Therefore, I would rather work harder, do more, and enjoy less, and I also hope that future generations can be more relaxed and happy.
Of course, there are also some "old fathers" who simply feel that future generations may be too useless and unable to solve the "disasters" they see in the future, so they roll up their sleeves and get started in advance.
Zhu Yuanzhang below heard Yan Changqing's words, and his face became even more angry:
"How dare they not listen to our "ancestral teachings"?!"
As an emperor with a strong desire for control, the last thing he can accept is that others are beyond his control and do not listen to his orders.
Even if this person is his descendant, it is the same for Zhu Yuanzhang!
If the descendants of future generations are obedient, then they will be the descendants of Zhu Yuanzhang!!
If the descendants of future generations are disobedient, then those descendants of future generations will be bastards!!!
On the podium, Yan Changqing glanced at Zhu Yuanzhang and asked:
"If they really don't listen, what will your Majesty do to you?"
"Could His Majesty still be able to climb out of the imperial mausoleum and angrily scold his unworthy descendants?"
The ancestral precepts and etiquette are actually the same thing.
Some emperors may be shackled by ancestral precepts and etiquette, but there are also some emperors who treat ancestral precepts and etiquette as waste paper and tear it up whenever they want.
For example, among the later emperors of the Ming Dynasty, the "famous Taoist Emperor Taishang Great Way Immortal Heavenly Immortal Purple Extreme Immortal Holy Wisdom Zhao Lingtong Uncertified Ying Yuxu Superintendent Wu Lei Daren Xuandu Jingfang Chun Emperor Jun Jiajing Zhu Houcong. 2
What he was least afraid of were ancestral precepts and etiquette. Just like the Dali Conference incident, he fought with the ministers for three to five years to more than ten years, until finally one wave of people died and another wave of people were punished.
In the end, he got his wish and changed his father's title to "Emperor Huang Kao Gong Mu Xian", and Ming Xiaozong to Huang Bo Kao.
And many years later, he successfully sent his father's shrine to the Imperial Ancestral Temple, and the mausoleum was rebuilt according to the regulations of the imperial mausoleum.
For him, all ancestral precepts and etiquette are nonsense.
The ancestral precepts and etiquette that are useful to him are called ancestral precepts and etiquette.
It is of no use to him, and it may even hinder his ancestral precepts and etiquette. It is just useless paper!!!
And the most important thing is that his combat power is also very strong, and he does have the ability to tear up these "waste papers"!!!
Zhu Yuanzhang was speechless when he heard Yan Changqing's rhetorical question.
Yes, if future generations really don’t listen to his ancestral precepts, will he still be able to climb out of the imperial mausoleum and “rectify the chaos” at that time?!!
Obviously, this is impossible.
And if we can't climb out of the imperial mausoleum to "rectify the chaos", then we really have to watch the descendants of the future generations not listen to his "ancestral precepts" one day in the future, thereby destroying the "Kaizhong." method. This good governance system?!!
Just when Zhu Yuanzhang fell into rage against himself, he was thinking about how to restrict future generations, or how to make future generations obey his "ancestral precepts".
Yan Changqing on the podium also continued:
"And there is no need to wait for future generations to destroy the 'Kai Zhong Law'. The 'Kai Zhong Law' will soon be unsustainable.'
Upon hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes who were present were stunned.
King Yan Zhu Di could not help but ask:
"May I ask, sir, why is this?!"
“Isn’t the ‘Kaizhongfa’ running well now?!!”
"Furthermore, neither my father nor I have destroyed the operation of the 'Kaizhong Method', so why will the 'Kaizhong Method' soon become unsustainable?!!"
Yan Changqing did not answer the question asked by King Zhu Di of Yan immediately. Then he turned his attention to King Zhu Di of Zhou and said with a smile:
"Your Highness, King Zhou, can you think of the reason?!!"
Following Yan Changqing's question, Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes also focused their attention on Zhou Wang Zhu Ju.
Zhou Wang Zhu Ju, who was the focus of everyone's attention, couldn't help but be stunned when he heard Yan Changqing's question, and then fell into thinking:
[Mr. Yan asked me if I could think of the reason?!!]
[So that means, Sir, you think I can think of the reason?!!]
[In other words, it is some of my past or current experiences, or things I have encountered, which made Mr. Yan think that I can think of the reasons why the "Kaizhong Method" will soon be unsustainable!!!]
[So which of my past or current experiences, or what things have I encountered, are related to the "Kaizhong method"?!!]
As Zhou Wang Zhu Ju continued to think about it, he thought of the possible reason within a short while.
Because there are not many things that he has encountered in the past or present that are related to "Opening the Chinese Method", it can even be said that there is only one!!!
And that thing was done together with Yan Changqing!!!
Then King Zhou Zhuji looked up at Yan Changqing and said uncertainly:
"The reason why the 'Kaizhong Law' system established by my father will soon be unsustainable is because of the sea salt in Haizhou City?!"
Yan Changqing smiled and nodded in affirmation.
Zhou Wang Zhu Zhu, who was affirmed by Yan Changqing, also confirmed his guess and further said:
"The reason why the 'Kaizhong method' can be maintained is because of the huge profits from wealth and salt!!!"
"That's why those salt merchants chose to transport grain supplies to the border in order to obtain salt."
"Even in order to save the cost of long-distance transportation of food, people are hired to cultivate fields and produce food on the border, and then put it into warehouses on the spot in exchange for salt, thereby making more profits.
"But now Haizhou City has adopted a 'sun salt method' that is more advanced than the previous 'fried salt method', which has greatly increased the production of sea salt."
"Even in the future, as the scale of salt drying and salt production in Haizhou City further expands, the production of sea salt will further increase."
"The substantial increase in sea salt production will inevitably break the past phenomenon of rare products being more expensive." "
"By then, the price of salt may drop to the price of rotten cabbage, thus losing the huge profits from selling salt in the past."
"And when salt traders lose their past huge profits, those salt merchants will naturally no longer actively work hard to provide food and wages for border transportation in order to obtain salt."
"In the end, without the active participation of those salt merchants, the 'Open China Method' naturally existed in name only and could not be maintained!!!"
When Zhou Wang Zhu Ju finished speaking, Yan Changqing also nodded and concluded:
"Just as His Royal Highness King Zhou said just now, as long as the massive sea salt hoarded in Haizhou City is sold to the people at a fair price, the collapse of Kaizhongfa will be around the corner!"
"After all, businessmen are all profit-seeking people, and businessmen will naturally not do anything that is not profitable."
"Without the participation of businessmen, the 'Open China Law' can no longer be maintained."
After listening to the explanations by Zhou Wang Zhu Ju and Yan Changqing, Zhu Yuanzhang looked dull.
He never imagined that the reason why the "Open China Law" system he established would not be sustainable was actually because there was too much sea salt!!!
His mother, which dynasty in the past was not lacking?!!
It's rare that the Ming Dynasty is not short of salt, but now it is still because of the lack of salt, which has led to the fact that it has finally formulated a policy system that is beneficial to the country and is about to be unable to maintain it?!
Damn Eminem, do you know how difficult it is for him to formulate a policy system?!!
Do you know how difficult it would be for him to formulate a system that would not lead to the collapse of the Ming Dynasty in the future?!!
Do you even know how difficult it is for him to formulate a system that can be praised by Yan Changqing, the current Saint?!!
At this moment, Bao Yuanzhang felt that his mentality was a little broken.
Zhu Yuanzhang, whose mentality was about to collapse, started to speak without thinking. He looked up at Yan Changqing and said:
"Then let's sell the sea salt in Haizhou City in limited quantities, so that we won't destroy the 'opening law', right?!!"
As long as sea salt is sold in limited quantities, the huge profits from selling salt will continue.
In order to pursue profits, those salt merchants will naturally continue to provide food and wages for the border transportation of the Ming Dynasty, and the "Open China Law" will naturally be maintained well.
After hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's foolish speech, Yan Changqing nodded, first expressed his affirmation, and then said:
“The limited sale of sea salt can indeed keep the ‘Kaizhongfa’ going!!!”
"But in this case, His Royal Highness King Zhou and I worked hard in Haizhou City for a whole year last year, and for what purpose?!"
"If the price of salt continues to remain the same, then why should I reform the method of making salt? Why should His Highness the King of Zhou and I have to spend a whole year on the beach in the wind and rain?!!"
"Wouldn't it be better if everything stays as it is?!!"
After all, he and Zhou Wang Zhu Ru worked hard in Haizhou City for a whole year last year. Their purpose was not to reduce the price of salt in Ming Dynasty to the price of bad cabbage so that everyone in Ming Dynasty could afford it. There is no shortage of salt and supervision.
If Zhu Yuanzhang chose to sell sea salt in limited quantities in order to maintain the "Kaizhong Law" from collapsing, the people of the Ming Dynasty would continue to be unable to eat salt and continue to lack salt.
Then he would look for another way to defeat Zhu Yuanzhang's "opening method"!!!
He can guarantee that when "Kaizhongfa" collapsed, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't even know how it collapsed!!!
Most Zhu
Yuan Zhang just guessed that he was probably the one who caused the collapse.
But it doesn't matter even if he is guessed, Zhu Yuanzhang can't kill him now anyway.
As the saying goes, "As long as you are not afraid of death, you will not die." This is the case for Yan Changqing now.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who heard Yan Changqing's series of rhetorical questions below, also calmed down again.
For him, if in order to maintain the collapse of the "Kaizhong Law", the 60 million people in the Ming Dynasty would continue to be unable to eat salt as before, or even lack salt.
He couldn't do such a thing.
On the one hand, everyone in the Ming Dynasty can afford salt and there is no shortage of salt. On the other hand, there is the collapse of the "Kaizhong method".
Just when Zhu Yuanzhang was in a dilemma, his eyes inadvertently glanced at Yan Changqing on the podium.
Then Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but cursed himself for being stupid. With a living Saint in front of him, he actually wasted time thinking about a solution. He just asked!
Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang also asked unceremoniously:
"I wonder if sir, any solution to this problem?!!"
Yan Changqing nodded and replied directly:
"First of all, we need to know the significance of the existence of 'Kaizhongfa', which is to provide food and pay for soldiers on the border."
"What those salt merchants did was to recruit people directly to the frontiers to set up trading camps, so that they could provide food and wages to the soldiers on the frontiers.'
"Now those salt merchants are about to lose huge profits from selling salt, and they are no longer prepared to continue to build commercial villages and transport food and wages to the soldiers on the frontier.
"Then the imperial court will take over the responsibilities previously assigned to those salt merchants, and the imperial court will come forward to hire people to carry out commercial settlements and continue to provide food and wages to the soldiers on the frontier."
"In this way, the problem of transporting food and paying soldiers to the frontier will naturally be solved."
"As long as this problem is solved, whether the 'Kaizhong Method' continues to exist or not will naturally lose its meaning."
After listening to the solution given by Yan Changqing, Zhu Yuanzhang was still in the process of thinking, and Qi Wang Zhu Su on the side couldn't help but said:
“Having the imperial court come forward to hire ordinary people to build commercial settlements can indeed solve the problem of transporting food and wages for soldiers on the border.
"But where do you get so much money to hire so many people for business?!!"
The reason why the imperial court chose to "open the Middle Kingdom" was to let those salt merchants transport food and wages to the border soldiers on behalf of the imperial court (Liao Nuohao).
Isn't it just because the court has no money, and this move can allow the court to save more manpower and funds.
Hearing Qi King Zhu Zun's question, Yan Changqing smiled slightly:
“Does the imperial court really have no money?!!”
Qi King Zhu Shu was about to speak [but Zhu Zhen, the Lord of Chu on the tenth side, looked at him with admiration. Yan Changqing answered first:
"The court is rich!!!"
Seeing the confused look in Qi Wang Zhu Yan's eyes, the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes spoke in unison:
"sea salt!!!"
Of course, it’s not just sea salt, but also salted fish, briquettes, etc.
Even if the price of sea salt, salted fish, and briquettes dropped to the price of rotten cabbage in the future, this price would still be very profitable for the court.
After all, the business done by the imperial court was aimed at the 60 million people of the Ming Dynasty.
Even if it is a small profit but quick turnover, and only earns one penny from an ordinary person, the court can still earn 60 million penny.
In fact, the money the court can earn will only be more!!!
Because whether it is sea salt, salted fish, or briquettes, they are essentially consumable supplies.
Consumable living materials [which represent a steady stream of transactions and profits!!!
If it were not for the backing of such a steady stream of huge profits, how could Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes dare to prepare this year?
Abolition of corvée.
Changed to "work instead of labor", 60 million Ming people were employed to build concrete roads all over the country.
And even the imperial court was able to use the huge amount of "money" to hire people from all over the country to build concrete roads.
That's not to mention the money it would cost just to hire some common people and set up commercial settlements on the border of the Ming Dynasty.
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