In 1657, the Ming Dynasty ruled for eight years.

The Ming Dynasty signed a loan treaty with Japan, and Gotoku borrowed 5 million silver dollars to the Edo shogunate, but the Ming Dynasty needed to send officials to supervise the shogunate's use of these silver dollars, so that the shogunate could use most of the silver money to stabilize Japanese society, suppress rebellions, and avoid the extravagance and waste of silver dollars by the Edo shogunate.

Judging from the use of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty did not want the Edo Shogunate to fall, and from Wang Yan's personal interests, he did not want the idea of respecting the king and toppling the curtain put forward by the Japanese low-ranking samurai to spread to the Ming Dynasty, so he sincerely hoped that the Edo Shogunate could suppress this trend of overthrow.

During the Hongguang Dynasty, the annual income of the Ming Dynasty was only 5 million taels, and now it borrows 5 million silver dollars from Japan at a time, which is not a small amount.

This kind of supervision actually includes many aspects, including the use of borrowing, as well as financial monitoring of the shogunate, to ensure that the shogunate has financial stability and the ability to repay.

This is equivalent to a certain extent, the Ming Dynasty has intervened in the finances and affairs of the Edo shogunate.

After the loan treaty was determined, the first batch of silver dollars was immediately loaded into the ship, and at the same time, the Ming Dynasty Jinyiwei also obtained a silver dollar, which was used for activities in Japan, buying some prestigious Japanese, and began to advocate Han culture and the Ming Dynasty.

Affected by this incident, Wang Yan felt that this strategy could also be carried out in other regions.

Not long after, Wang Yan drew inferences from others and added another million silver dollars to Jinyiwei for this kind of publicity.

After Jinyiwei got the funds, he moved quickly, and there were local figures in Korea, Quang Nam, and all over Nanyang who took Jinyiwei's money, specifically touted the Ming Dynasty and Han culture, and found and criticized their own culture.

North Korea wants to say that it is the heaviest sweet potato in Sinicization, and it is called "Little China", but this is not enough, the sinicization of North Korea is not thorough, and soon there are North Korean officials who began to criticize the Yanwen created by King Sejong.

This Yan script was originally intended to allow Koreans to learn Chinese characters better, but it is also a language after all.

If Korean nationalism rises one day, then the original role and purpose of Yanwen may change, and it will instead become a tool for de-sinicization, weighing the pros and cons, and this is also within the scope of the crackdown.

Wang Yan is willing to spend so much money to do this, to make people advocate Han culture and belittle the surrounding culture, just to make the entire East Asian region want to be Sinicized.

To do this,It's not easy,To make them completely sinicized,I'm afraid it will take more than 100 years,The decline of the strength of the Ming Dynasty in the middle may be repeated.,But once it's done,It will undoubtedly complete the great expansion of civilization.。

This is very difficult, but fortunately, the Ming Dynasty has both culture and force, and it is itself an example for all countries to learn, so it is still possible to accomplish this.

It is not easy to completely sinicize, but as long as the initial results come out, the Ming Dynasty will be able to form a huge cultural attraction, using the yearning and worship of the Ming culture in various countries, and firmly absorb them around them, so that the Ming Dynasty will sit firmly on the throne of the center of East Asia, and this, Wang Yan will live a little longer, and he should be able to see it.

In terms of pattern, the East Asian countries fighting each other will only make Europa Pala profitable, and will also allow them to take advantage of the situation and support several countries to contain the Ming Dynasty, and if the Ming Dynasty can integrate the forces of the surrounding countries, the power and influence of the Ming Dynasty will quickly radiate outward, and it is impossible to be contained by any force.

When Wang Yan laid out a long-term strategy in terms of culture, the Ming Dynasty finally made a move against the Jin State, which competed with the Ming Dynasty for the hegemony of East Asia.

In 1657, at the beginning of September of the tenth year of Jin Yongzhang.

Since the beginning of the ninth year of Yongzhang, the price of cotton and cotton cloth in Jinguo has soared for a year and a half.

At this time, the income of one acre of cotton field has been about three times that of wheat field, and a wave of crazy cotton planting has been set off in Jinguo, and the textile workshops near Chang'an have also increased by more than two times.

Although the Jin side exercised some control over cotton planting, this control did not have an effect due to the structure of the Jin court and political power.

Under normal circumstances, if you can get more than 10% of the income, people are already tempted, and if you have more than 20% of the income, then people have already flocked to it, if you have more than 50%, then you have to take the risk, if you have more than double the income, the law is not a problem. Now that the income has tripled, the Jin country has gone crazy from the big clan to the common people.

Although the Jin court ordered that the cotton fields in each county should not exceed 30% of the wheat fields, and the best good fields were not allowed to grow cotton, in fact, the Jin court could not control those big clans at all, as well as the warlords in various places, and even ordinary people took the risk of planting cotton.

They earn money for growing cotton and pay taxes for growing wheat, and the local governments collude with the local clans, so as long as they pay taxes, they don't care much.

The county reported to Jin Guochao that the county still has 30% cotton and 70% wheat, but in fact, the scale of the cotton fields has already exceeded 70%.

This was originally seamless, and the Jin court in Chang'an could not find a problem from the accounts.

However, in September, when the autumn grain was to be delivered, the price of grain in the country of Jin doubled, which attracted the attention of Yu Yin, the head of the household department.

In Yu Yin's view, although there is a large area of wheat and cotton planting in the Guanzhong Plain, but with the beginning of the promotion of corn and sweet potatoes in Jinguo, the area of arable dry land in Jinguo has increased, and the output of corn and sweet potatoes can fully make up for the problem of insufficient grain after planting cotton, and the grain price should be maintained at a stable water product, but now when it is time to deliver grain, the grain has doubled, which means that the grain has decreased, and it is somewhat abnormal.

As the head of the household, Yu Yin is very clear about the yield per mu of wheat, corn and sweet potatoes in Jinguo, and also knows the area of paddy fields, dry fields, upper fields and lower fields in Jinguo.

According to the data on the acres of land recorded by the Ministry of Households, he was able to roughly calculate the changes in the grain output of Jinguo, and the data obtained was that the grain output should be the same as last year.

At first, Yu Yin thought that the household department had miscalculated, and if that was the case, the Jin court should adjust the policy and increase the planting area of wheat fields, but he asked the officials of the household department to recalculate the number, but found that there was no mistake in the calculation, and the grain output should be the same as last year.

This made Yu Yin suspicious, and asked people to go down to investigate, and it didn't take long to know the reason.

Originally, some large households had planted cotton in the fields where they had been required to grow wheat, and when it was time to pay the autumn grain, they would buy grain from the market to pay for the autumn grain, which naturally caused the price of grain to rise.

For them, even if the price of grain doubles, they will still make a lot of money compared to the price of cotton, which has tripled.

The family and warlord politics of the Jin State made these people powerful in the local area, and the taxes and food collected by the imperial court were not less anyway, so Yu Yin did not find a problem.

Lintong County, more than 200 miles east of Chang'an, is located on the south bank of the Wei River, on the rich Weihe Plain, with tens of thousands of hectares of fertile land.

At the end of September, Hauge led several officials, escorted by cavalry, along the Wei River to Lintong County.

The Guanzhong area, on the whole, lacks water sources, but the Guanzhong Plain, through which the Weihe River water system flows, is still very abundant, and it is second only to the Hanzhong Basin.

Hauge rode a horse and stood on the edge of the Wei River, which was like a jade belt through the Guanzhong Plain, and every other distance on the bank of the river, there was a tall waterwheel, towering on the bank like a Ferris wheel in later generations.

This shows the achievements of the Jin State's ten years of governance in Guanzhong and the development of water conservancy facilities, but Hauge's attention is not on the waterwheel and the Wei River, his eyes fall on the land on the south bank of the Wei River.

Counting the time, at this season, the south bank of the Wei River should be a yellow wheat field, the eye should be the wheat waves that fluctuate with the autumn wind, and the nose should be the fragrance of wheat, but what enters the eyes of Haoge and others is a patch of cotton fields.

Seeing this scene, Haoge's body couldn't help but shake a few times on the horse, and Yu Yin behind him was afraid that he would fall off the horse in anger.

"Whose field is this, I'm going to kill him!" Hauge steadied himself, his horsewhip pointing at the thousands of cotton fields in the distance, his eyes popping out with anger.

Cotton has little requirement for water source, it is located on the edge of the Wei River, it is easy to obtain water source, it must be the wheat field planned by the Jin State, but it is all planted with cotton.

Such good fertile land has been taken to grow cotton, and other fields, needless to say.

The BMW that Haoge sat down also seemed to feel his anger, and spun around restlessly, Yu Yin sighed, took the horsewhip and saluted: "Your Majesty, according to the minister's investigation, this piece is the land of Kong Xiangguo, and the fields of King Yongping and Han Xiangguo also have a large variety of cotton!" ”

When Hao Ge heard this, his face turned red, Kong Wenfu is a scholar, he can't deal with it easily, and Meng Qiaofang and Han Chaoxuan also have fields and cotton, so he can't handle it at all······

Yu Yin said, "Your Majesty, Kong Xiang may not know about this, the minister found out that it was Kong Xiang's family, colluded with the county order, and took all the shares of cotton planting, and they asked the people to plant wheat, but the people were not convinced, and they also secretly planted cotton." ”

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