Chapter 11 Four Oceans
Most of the people present are happy with Chen Mu, only Zhang Juzheng, who loves and hates Chen Mu.
If Chen Mu's talent was a little smaller, he would leave Chen Mu in a corner like Li Zhen or even overseas, and leave him alone for the rest of his life.
If he can't play a more good role in the imperial court, the harm he will bring is huge, because 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 solved the problem of the imperial court's use of silver, and believed that Burma and Annam could solve the problem of food for the people in the future, but these riches were not without a price - the large inflow of silver caused turmoil in the country, the land annexation under the influence of factories became more serious, the factory hired workers made the population flow, and it was not easy for the people to go to sea to manage, and the original system of artisan households and military households began to collapse and intensify anti-traditional thinking......
Chen Mu didn't care about these incidental problems, and if he changed the cabinet minister who was a little worse to take charge of the country, he would have stopped him a long time ago.
But Zhang Juzheng didn't, firstly, everything he did really 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 also difficult to be ignored, the most difficult reason is that there is a lack of silver in the north, most places in the north are still circulating copper coins, and the people have to exchange silver taels when collecting taxes, and the north, especially in Shaanxi, has less silver in the market, and the exchange price is naturally higher.
For the same tax, the North will pay more taxes than the South.
Things are very tricky.
As soon as the silver from Nanyang Jingyun was delivered, the local magistrate immediately flattened the price of silver, and everything was solved.
And the most important thing is that the more Zhang Juzheng knows about Europa, the more firmly he thinks that the imperial court has Chen Mu because of the country's fortune - Chen Mu is thinking about pulling the Grand Fleet to the door of others, so in the future, will other countries also be able to pull the Grand Fleet to the door of the Ming Dynasty from thousands of miles away?
There is a great wall in the north, but there is no in the south, and the few Japanese pirates will turn the troubles in the southeast that have not been war-free for a long time into a pot of porridge, so if the enemy's regular army and the large fleet drive to the shore, he will be reformed for another few decades, accumulate more wealth, and as long as the disaster of half the country in ten or eight years can be successfully put to rest.
"The opponent of the Ming Dynasty is in Europa, but not Portugal, Spain is an opponent, after all, the territory is huge and the people are numerous, the king's power is concentrated, and there is a fanatical religion, its advantage is that the overseas colonies belong to the king, who lays down the governance, Xiyi goes to sea because the Portuguese fully control the spice trade, the economy depends on the people's breath, and then they go to sea, some anxious, and the practice is more ruthless, all the land they have laid is eager to dig three feet into the ground, plunder and dig mines, and take everything away."
As soon as the important ministers were concerned, they either had the thinking of being impacted, or they were confused by being hit hard, of course, like the old man Zhang Han, he didn't listen to what Chen Mu was saying at all, his eyes were full of the appearance of an elder looking at the success of his juniors, and from time to time he looked at other departments with a little pride and a smile, and the meaning couldn't be more obvious: Look, this is the old man's junior!
The whole thing is the kind of old elders in the family who watch their grandchildren during the New Year, and the old people can't understand what kind of work you do, but they know that you are making money now and making money!
Proud!
Zhang Juzheng's expression was a little indescribable, 'Everything that has been laid down is eager to dig three feet into the ground, and if it is plundered, it will open mines and dig mountains, and take everything away', Chen Shuai, why do you want to squeeze yourself so much!
They all understood the meaning of colonization and didn't like the word.
Breeding is breeding, and the people are the people, which can refer to the people who take breeding as their business, but in the national actions mentioned by Chen Mu, it is obviously the meaning of breeding the people of other countries as livestock.
"Spain's advantage is not only in more land and people, when Catholics and Muslims are at war, the excellent Arab culture is transmitted into the dark Middle Ages, mainly through Spain, they have some schools, which improve the overall quality of the people, and the Portuguese are more mercenaries abroad, because they are too poor to go home; On the contrary, most of the priests and nobles had studied in schools and had a high foundation in art, literature, and mathematics. ”
"These cultural qualities made them more tolerant of wealth than the Portuguese, there were still a number of merchants who served the country, and the exiled governors had better means of governing the colonies, and the Spanish country was almost invulnerable, and the only weakness was in their king."
"A devout believer with a bad brain who wags endless wars for religion will surely perish even if the kingdom is warlike."
Chen Mu's remarks have some analysis of what he has seen and heard, and of course, it is necessary to have success or failure theories from later generations, which are not rigorous and too subjective, but they are certainly right, because the result of the matter itself is like this, he can only stand on the top of the mountain and point out the problem like a high-minded critic, in fact, he has no way to solve it.
But what's so good? Fortunately, it was not his own country, and he just had to point out the problem.
Speaking of which, the two countries that several ministers are most familiar with were finished by him, and everyone had different expressions, probably with the same meaning: Then you say a fart, I will be invincible tomorrow!
"A Portugal can explode with great power in a small land, and a more powerful Spain can conquer almost half the world; If you can still see the problems of their countries from a distance, what about the countries around them? ”
"In the future, these countries are new challenges, many years ago the Ming Dynasty defeated the Portuguese, got a few birds, a few Franco cannons, now the Ming Dynasty is full of birds, all kinds of Franco cannons. Chen was in charge of the Nanyang Military Government for four years, and not a single warship fell into the hands of the enemy, and not a single artillery piece was captured by the enemy. ”
"Once someone else gets a shark ship and a cannon from General Zhenshuo, they can imitate it, and maybe even better than us, and the Portuguese trade has gained a huge fortune and does not know how to develop agriculture and handicrafts, won't our bird guns be better than him?"
"Minister Nanyang, now that he has stepped down before the following posts, how to make decisions on overseas affairs, the younger generations have no power, at most it is just a suggestion."
Tan Lun raised his eyes to look at Zhang Juzheng, Zhang Juzheng was in trouble in his heart, looking at Chen Mu's eloquent appearance, he really wanted to put Chen Mu back to Nanyang, but the problem was just as Zhang Han mentioned, the power of the Nanyang Military Government has actually exceeded the scope of Nanyang, no matter how Chen Mu is allowed to be the minister of Nanyang again, it is impossible, but he can be the minister of Nanyang...... Zhang Juzheng was not very happy.
Let's listen to what Chen Mu has to say first.
Zhang Juzheng looked at Chen Mu and waited for him to follow.
"In the following suggestion, the whole world is not the king's land, and the land under the Ming Dynasty is the son of the great tomorrow; The land that was not under the Ming Dynasty was not taken back for the time being and dedicated to the Son of Heaven; Throughout the world, anyone who can take land overseas and dedicate it to the Son of Heaven can be appointed as the local governor for a term of four years, and he will hold the military and political power in the territory, but the chief of the government and the county shall be appointed by the military government, and once the governor has an independent rebellion tendency, the court officials can take him down and investigate it. ”
"Above the Governor-General, under the request to the Nanyang Military Government to be the Beiyang Military Government, under the jurisdiction of the Minister of the Three Oceans, the Minister of the South Seas, the Prime Minister of the Great Nanyang, the jurisdiction of Malacca to the southernmost tip of Shinming Island in the south of Japan; The Minister of Oriental Affairs and the Prime Minister of the Great Oriental Affairs were added, with jurisdiction over America and Europa; The Minister of the West and the Prime Minister of the Atlantic were added, and he governed India up to the Ottomans. ”
"The three ministers have the right to elect and select officials, the ministers of the southeast, the west and the west have the right to transfer troops, and the power to command the troops lies with the commanders of the guards. Above the three ministers, the Beiyang Yamen was set up in Tianjin, with full powers to consul general in overseas affairs, and only asked the emperor and the cabinet for instructions. ”
"The four military governments have only one function, to enrich the land of the Central Plains, strengthen the army of China, and enjoy the people of China."