Looking at the big silver ingot in Mao Jue's hand, Sun Chuanting's old eyes suddenly widened, could it be that he said too much, which made the regent angry and wanted to swallow gold and commit suicide?

However, the old guy's stubbornness came up, and his hands turned out to be silver, and he knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Your Highness, the old minister collided with His Highness, and the crime deserves death, but even if the old minister dies, he doesn't want to see His Highness repeat the disaster of Emperor Yang of Sui, and the old minister will go!"

Bang dang, the old guy really bit down, which scared Mao Jue, fortunately, this ingot of silver is more than 20 taels, two fists are so big, Sun Chuanting swallowed it, in Mao's absolute exclamation, only his two old teeth were lost.

Seeing that this thing spit out two big white teeth with blood, and wanted to bite the silver with the tooth marks, Mao Jue hurriedly grabbed it with tears and laughter.

"Master Sun, it's okay! This king doesn't mean to let you really eat it, but to tell you that this thing can't be eaten, and it can't be used as food to satisfy hunger! Get up!"

Speaking in a descriptive manner, Sun Chuanting is boss stood up with relief, and bowed there again and persuaded him: "Your Highness, gold, silver and jewelry, you should not eat if you are hungry, and you should not wear clothes when you are cold!" As a king, you should stay away from these strange and skillful skills, the end of your business journey, persuade farmers and businessmen, and reclaim land is the right way!"

With a bang, Mao Jue threw the silver ingots into the trash can like throwing garbage, and immediately faced Sun Chuanting, he asked confidently: "Since the silver is useless, this king spent them, where is Lord Sun so unwilling?" ”

The regent always seems to have so many reasons, and once again, Sun Chuanting was choked and only rolled his eyes, for fear that he would come to a bunch of sage clouds, Mao Jue quickly snatched the conversation over, and asked sadly.

"Since the beginning of the Longqing switch, the sea trade has lost no less than 10 million taels of gold from the West, and in the Chongzhen period, why is the imperial court so short of silver that it can't even pay the military salary?"

"This ......"

This question is too heavy, it is related to the political dynamics and military trend of the entire late Ming Dynasty, and it is so complicated that even if he can be a minister like Sun Chuanting, he can't finish it for a while.

"Businessmen are greedy, collude with officials, deceive superiors and subordinates, and embezzle taxes and silver ......"

"This king sees more than that! The Ming Dynasty of the Chongzhen Dynasty let this silver poison to death!"

Pointing to the silver in the trash can, Mao Jue's words were simply earth-shattering.

Later generations once saw a post on the Internet, the empire poisoned by silver, Daming! Mao Jue thought so.

Indeed, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the prosperous maritime trade allowed two-thirds or even one-half of the silver plundered by Spain and Portugal from the Americas to flow into the Ming Dynasty, making the industry and commerce in the south of the Yangtze River extraordinarily prosperous, but this rich capital accumulation not only pushed the Ming Dynasty into a more advanced change, but dragged the Ming Dynasty to the abyss, the reason is because of this silver!

To the West, the capitalists earned gold and silver, and immediately put it into production, expanding production, producing more commodities to earn more money, and this part of the capital in his hands flowed into the hands of workers and peasants in the form of salaries, raw materials, etc., and the workers and peasants then circulated this money to other capitalists through consumption, which stimulated the desire for production, and money continued to circulate and expand in society, promoting the development of the whole society, which is a virtuous circle.

Can Daming? The tradition of valuing agriculture and suppressing commerce and being diligent and thrifty made the original capital circulated by the sea trade did not circulate to the society, driving other classes to become rich and expand domestic demand, but it was dug up and hidden by these Jiangnan families, just like Zheng Zhilong, in addition to the fleet, he was comparable to the old mansion of the imperial palace in Fuzhou, and then there were tens of millions of taels of silver family property, and the heavy silver stones were placed in the treasury, which was also useless like stones.

Jiangnan was originally the traditional grain producing area of China, known as Suhu ripe, the world is full of words, but with the rise of marine trade, amazing interest stimulation, Jiangnan clan has transformed grain crops into cash crops, and the city and town are rising at an astonishing speed, the urban population is not about grain production, special consumption, to Chongzhen for a few years, Suzhou has always been a grain production area even needs to go to Huguang to buy grain, it can be seen that the degree of grain production reduction.

And Chongzhen was also unlucky, during his reign, just in time for the entire world-level economic crisis, the Xiaoice River period not only affected Daming, but also affected Europe, the war caused a large amount of financial expenditure, mainly to supply the Ming silver and two Spanish and Portuguese naturally tightened finances, imported Daming porcelain, raw silk and other goods sharply reduced, but also caused a heavy blow to Jiangnan industry and commerce.

The big families are okay, just keep the money and close the door, and they are the privileged class who don't pay taxes, but they can keep their doors behind closed doors, and without jobs, how can the small people below live? I can't afford to live, and how can I have taxes to donate.

The Ming Dynasty's consistent national policy is to take the southeast and use the northwest, and the southeast is broken, and the northwest is even more intensely cancerous, with soaring prices, food cut off, and the entire empire collapsed in the silver famine.

Of course, this is not to say that the sea trade is wrong, the empire should be like Zhu Yuanzhang behind closed doors, small countries and widows, the pace of social development is unstoppable, how to regulate and digest it, it depends on the ruler's skill.

Mao Jue's magic weapon is consumption, in other words, it is called stimulating domestic demand!

"Lonely repair of this Hangzhou Imperial Square, costing 29 million taels of silver, employing 118,000 workers, each person receiving 2 taels of silver per month, buying porcelain to feed 30,000 people, as well as casino security guards, dealers, shopping mall clerks, shopkeepers, hotel waiters, a total of 20,000 jobs, and more importantly, let 9 million taels of silver bloom in the people!"

"When the people have silver, they will buy clothes, buy houses, plough cattle and fields, and in the process of consumption, they will feed more shops, factories, and shops and factories will have enough silver to hand over to the state treasury, so that you officials can squander and embezzle!"

"When money flows, it is called silver! Otherwise, it is a stone, and this king will not only not be able to advocate thrift and thrift like this, but also promote luxury, and this will soon be October, and the merchants who went to Nanyang will come back with huge sums of money! The use of this Wang Xiu's imperial city square was also revealed, and the silver they were supposed to cellar was snatched over, and then put into circulation, only in this way can the Ming Dynasty make the people rich, and the people will be strong! My Mao Jue's rule can continue, like you who are conformist, put the silver in the treasury to mold, and bind the people to the land, you are the murderers of the empire, Lord Sun, you don't understand! ”

His mouth was about to be revealed, his mouth was dry, Mao Jue was stunned and yelled at Sun Chuanting all morning, these economic truths, Sun Chuanting was dumbfounded, in the education he received, none of the words of the sage mentioned it, but he couldn't refute the vulgar and superficial truths that Mao Jue said.

It was simply a collapse of faith, his eyes were in a daze, Sun Chuanting sat on the chair sluggishly, unable to speak for a long time.

can be regarded as pouring a mouthful of water into his throat to moisten it, and Mao Jue patted him on the shoulder again.

"Lord Sun, no matter what the sage said was diligent and thrifty, the rule of the family or the rule of the arch is to reduce the burden of the people, so that the people can be fed and clothed, so that the dynasty can survive, everything the king has done, is also to let the people have a job to do, income to use, and finally achieve the goal of enriching the people, the people have food and drink, food and clothing without worry, and the army is strong and active, unyielding in a hundred battles, no dynasty has done these two points and perished, Lord Sun, do you think what this king said is right?"

With a heavy bow, Sun Chuanting didn't say a word, turned around and left, now the two of them have been superiors and subordinates for several years, they know his character too well, Mao Jue couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and actually had the heart to joke, and waved heavily behind his back.

"Lord Sun, there are tusks on the third floor of Hangzhou Imperial Square, ivory imported from Southeast Asia, Tiben Wang, five percent discount, don't forget!"

As soon as he walked into the corridor, Sun Chuanting stumbled obviously.

can be regarded as sending him away, rubbing his head and stretching his waist, Mao Jue can finally start the day's office, in the end, it is Adriana's good, her confidential secretary has picked out the memoranda from all over the place, and opened the first article casually, it is Zhang Canghai's request to keep Wu Sangui in Calcutta as the governor.

"Huh! It's actually Wu Sangui!"

If other emperors were to be afraid of these ambitious heroes, but for Mao Jue, it was the opposite, he was still afraid that these governors and generals sent overseas, Xiao Gui Cao, would follow him, and he didn't have the spirit to go in! Without some ambition, how can you dig a few pieces of meat from those big countries?

As for the rebellion? Without the support of the Ming Empire behind you, who can stand in the face of thousands of natives who outnumber you? Even if the governor wants to rebel, it is impossible for the people below to support it, and as for the natives, it is impossible to follow you to war against the powerful Ming Empire! In later generations, the British Empire was known as the empire on which the sun never set, and the colonies were all over the place, and I had never seen the ambitious rebellion of the governor general there.

This is still unfinished, hesitated for a moment, and then Mao Jue continued to write a large line of instructions, and then he was satisfied with the ink.

Under Mao Jue's command, the hierarchy of rights is clear, like some small things like disaster relief or something, the six cabinet departments he delegated power have been disposed of, and there are not many major things that he really needs to deal with, and the normal day's work will be completed in about three or four hours, but today, after reviewing more than 30 copies, Mao Jue's face became dark.

Because next, there is still a mistake with Sun Chuanting, all of them are impeached by the imperial historians in the imperial court for their extravagance and profligacy, and there are many civil officials who attack the East India Company and several railways repaired by Mao Jue, and even some old antiques crying and howling and writing blood letters to criticize themselves, demanding that these railways be stopped immediately, the East India Company be dissolved, and go back to be a doctor with a normal heart.

"Where did these antiques come from!"

After reading three books, the cheeks were really angry, and Mao Jue rang the bell in anger.

"Check it for this king! Those who have written books, if they delay their own work, will be held accountable! And those who are not qualified to go to the book, but through someone to deliver the book, increasing the workload of the king, will also be held accountable!"

"The subordinate obeys!"

Several male and female secretaries who came in from the confidential secretariat immediately nervously took away all the stacks of books, but Mao Jue was still in a daze when she looked at the desk that was finally empty.

Sun Chuanting was persuaded away by himself, but what about the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs? Door-to-door persuasion by yourself? Besides, he is a reasonable person, when he encounters that stubborn old antique, who takes the dogma of Old Master Confucius as a golden rule, even if he says that it is useless, and the truth is not something that can be explained by a knife, unless Mao Jue is mad and kills tens of millions of people, it will be useless to kill people.

How can we transfer the poor acid of these rotten people?

Pinching his chin, Mao Jue couldn't help but think about it......

(End of chapter)