Yin Zhengmao likes Chen Mu's invincible context.

The two chatted a lot, and seeing that it was getting late, Juniper went out to bring people to help Fu Yuan's banner army stationed outside the city arrange a meal, and also brought food to the two of them in the port wine shop, and also prepared some wine.

Originally, Chen Mu didn't want to drink with Yin Zhengmao, but now the situation is not bad, at least in the next few years, this will be a colleague, so he asked someone to prepare the table and put away the cups.

However, Chen Mu was still worried about Yin Zhengmao's greed for money, he knew that Yin Zhengmao had strong military, governance and financial talents, and he also knew that Yin Zhengmao was greedy for money, so the problem was that he didn't know how greedy Yin Zhengmao was.

He poured a small glass of wine for Yin Zhengmao, toasted a glass, and said: "I also hope that Princess Yin's Western affairs can take care of Hexingsheng more, and the prosperity of the trade route depends on them, they are not only related to customs taxes, but also related to the entry and exit of materials, and they can't help but fight." ”

Yin Zhengmao nodded, picked up the wine glass but didn't drink it, and thought for a moment before asking: "Hexingsheng, is it all related to Chen Shuai?" ”

He thought crookedly.

Chen Mu smiled and said: "They have nothing to do with Chen, there is no one, they only have a relationship with Daming." To tell the truth, the so-called Hexingsheng in the early days, when Chen was still serving in Xiangshan Qianhu, it was indeed deeply related, when the Yuegang opened Fu, there was a certain share of Chen in the fifty boat citations, and in the second year, a hundred ships went out of the Yuegang in the second year, and seventy bows were nailed to Hexingsheng. ”

"In the Nanyang, the route from the Japanese islands to Penghu is the Japanese Kou, the route from the coast of Fujian and Guangzhou to the Nanyang countries is the smuggling maritime business, the route from Malacca to Haojing is the Portuguese, and the Luzon is the Xiyi. Mengda Sima Wu Gong was blue-eyed, promoted the general banner Chen Mu to a thousand households in Xiangshan, and ordered me to control Haojing, the flag army was poor, and a thousand households only allocated five small boats with 100 materials and a lucky boat. ”

Da Sima is talking about Wu Guifang, which was the official position in charge of the world's soldiers and horses in ancient times, and now it is no longer set up, but people call the military department Shangshu Da Sima according to the old system.

In fact, Yin Zhengmao also holds the official position of the secretary of the Ministry of War, and he is also the great Sima.

"I'm not afraid of Yin Gong's jokes." Chen Mu smiled as he said and recalled the poor sour back then, raised two fingers and said, "The two centipede ships of Chen Bu's wolf machine were taken from the illegal Portuguese by me." ”

"I deterred the Japanese so that Hexingsheng would not have to be robbed, and they delivered the necessary supplies to Xiangshan, and each took what he needed, but this was not the case later. Haojing Kaifu, Yuegang increased the number of ships, established Nanyang Guard, set up Nanyang Military Government, the imperial court saw the benefits of relaxing shipping, and the Hexingsheng merchant ships on the sea increased from 30 to 70, 70 to 200, 200 to 400, and 400 to more. ”

"In the past few years, from Malacca to Japan, regardless of whether it was the maritime merchants who went to sea from Fujian and Guangzhou, or the Japanese in the past, whether it was the immigrants who took refuge in the countries at the end of the Yuan Dynasty or the remnants who crossed the sea in the Song Dynasty, there were Ming ships flying the dragon flag high on all routes, and all Ming ships were prosperous."

"Hexingsheng became a link between overseas merchants and the imperial court, the military government expanded outward to occupy the routes, and the merchants followed to make profits, in the war, they transported baggage for the army, and after the war, they dumped goods on the spot and bought special raw materials at low prices."

Yin Zhengmao interrupted Chen Mu and asked, "So, Jinghai Bo wants to encourage Guangcheng merchants to weave and manufacture?" ”

Chen Mu smiled and nodded, in fact, only he knew in his heart that this order should be reversed or more, this virtuous circle is not naturally formed, but he encourages production, frantically looking for buyers, continues to encourage production and technological innovation at the expense of pressing goods, and finally finds a huge market with a population of more than 10 million in Java, Annam, and Myanmar on the verge of collapse.

However, he was willing to weave this convincing lie, and later generations still felt that Britain had become the world's first-class power or even the most powerful country because of the Industrial Revolution.

But in fact, Britain was strong not because of the Industrial Revolution, nor because of Adam Smith's free economic theory, but because in the era when Watt and Adam Smith's grandfather were not yet born, they defeated the most powerful Spanish Empire Invincible Armada, fought for living space, and then challenged the sea coachman Holland, established the supremacy of the sea, and continued to fight against the powerful France in all corners of the world after the Glorious Revolution.

Be powerful, plundering, and more powerful.

It was the strong ships and the guns that created the steam engine with the sun never setting on the market.

Chen Mu believed that Yin Zhengmao would not be willing to believe that it was a group of outlaws, smugglers, and himself, a pirate leader in official robes, who found an excuse for the expansion of the Ming Dynasty, let alone believe that the Ming Dynasty had no demand at all, and what they created was just people's greedy desires.

But no matter what, now Daming really has the demand for overseas markets.

He smiled and nodded, his expression confident and determined: "It is precisely because Daming needs to produce more goods that I encourage Guangdong merchants to produce and innovate technology." ”

"In the past, we only collected one tax in Haojing and Yuegang, but as long as we occupy a port and sign a treaty to open Fu, we can collect taxes at both the place of purchase and the place where the goods are sold.

"And the prosperous trade route can bring back more goods to the Ming Dynasty, we use the original money to buy back the raw materials, whether it is cotton weaving, cloth clothes, pearls, jade, gold and silver processing jewelry, etc., anything, the Ming has excellent craftsmanship that most countries in the world do not have, and the low-cost raw materials are processed to become high-priced goods, and then sold back, five times? Fifteen times? ”

"Under the huge profits, the merchants and craftsmen themselves will improve their technology, reduce costs, and earn more profits, and the Ming will be able to reap more taxes."

"Therefore, the more prosperous the trade route, the more beneficial it is to the military government, and the more beneficial it is to the Ming Dynasty, this is the reason why I asked Yin Gong to take care of Hexingsheng, taking care of them, it is good for everyone."

Yin Zhengmao really understood what it meant to go abroad this time, and the reason for the huge wealth of the Nanyang Military Mansion had also been answered, he looked at Chen Mu with more cautious eyes, took the sour wine in his hand and poured it into his mouth, paused for a moment as if to fill his mouth with spicy, then swallowed and gritted his teeth and said: "Chen Shuai's words are very vicious to others, and to himself...... It is a cure. ”

Vicious?

Chen Mu smiled lightly, he dared to guarantee that if Yin Zhengmao knew what would happen after this, he would be more vicious than himself.

You were originally a strong and fat little fat man, everyone else is a group of thin boys, everyone else has one meal a day for growth and development, you have two meals a day, others grab each other's food but dare not mess with you, you feel that you are quite satisfied with two meals a day.

But I didn't expect others to rush and grab it, and in the end, those few people didn't starve to death, they all ate five meals a day, and you still had two meals a day.

Can they not beat you when others grow stronger? If you don't beat you, I'm afraid that I won't be able to beat you, and if I really beat you, it means that I already have the confidence to beat you.

After that, others eat every day, you are hungry and thin, and you have to be beaten the next day, after beating you, the midnight dream recalls the shock years when you were still a fat boy, for fear that you will eat fat and strong again, and he will still and pee on your head, saying that you have bad genes, and you are born with no weight - you yourself believe it!

It's just that Chen Mu didn't expect that Yin Zhengmao was already more vicious than him.

"In that case, it's time for the old man to say a third word to Chen Shuai."

He heard Yin Zhengmao say slowly: "It was the thirty-fourth year of Jiajing or the thirty-fifth year, the old man was in charge of the military department, the southern and northern captives were making trouble, and Emperor Sejong was also going to build a palace, and the court had no money to use. Therefore, he started to mine Yunnan copper, transported it from Sichuan to Huguang, and calculated that it was worth 930,000 taels of silver with 390,000 taels of silver and 650,000 yuan of coinage. ”

"The household did not pass, because of the long distance to Huguang, Huguang Chenglingji gathered in all directions, treacherous and easy to prosper, it is better to be close to Yunnan, the remote things are simple, that is, the mountain drum casting. Because the land of Yunnan is not easy to circulate, the money can not be minted more, and the price of more casting is bad, so only 20,000 silver is produced, and 3,3012,000 copper coins are minted in the mountains of Yunnan. ”

Chen Mu listened quietly, and secretly compared in his heart, one tael of silver on the market was exchanged for seven or eight hundred copper coins, and Yin Zhengmao discussed minting money, and three hundred and ninety thousand taels minted six hundred and fifty million wen, which could earn sixty percent.

However, it is also a loss that he dares to think that so many copper coins appear in one place at once, which will definitely make prices inflated, and the people will not be able to live.

Chen Mu blinked, looked at Yin Zhengmao and waited for him to continue.

"Japan uses copper coins, its own coin-minting skills are not good, and its national silver price is low, and my copper coins can be worth four of them."

Chen Mu smiled lightly and said to Yin Zhengmao lightly: "At the moment when the two countries are at war, Yin Gong's idea of reselling copper coins to Japan for silver may be frustrated, wait until the war is over." ”

"No, it's right now! Others can't do this, Jing Haibo is different. ”

Yin Zhengmao sat upright, his cold expression made the nasolabial folds sink deeply, and his palm pressed on the table: "Hexingsheng has a deep relationship with Japanese merchants, those businessmen can pretend to be profiteers to enter Japan to buy and sell, the military is in danger, the military is the first, and the huge amount of money is minted to buy a variety of items in his country, if it is ordinary, if it is not sold, if it is tempted by smuggling armor first, they don't have so much money, only give it a batch of armor, and agree to sell it in bulk in the coming year, and then find businessmen to pretend to buy sundries, and most of them will smash the pot and sell iron in exchange for copper coins." ”

"When it is bought out, the sea and land lanes will be blocked, and the birds and fish will not be allowed to cross...... In a year and a half, its domestic prices have soared, everything is missing, there is nothing but copper coins, and the country can collapse! ”