"Betting on the country?" Wu Haowen was startled and almost fell off his horse, but one of his servants followed behind and helped him.

Wu Haowen knew about the Zhu Yuan country, and after receiving the dispatch from the sea route city shipping envoy, he still did a little homework and knew about the Three Buddhas, Java, Bagan, Zhenla, and of course, the Zhu Yuan country. In the "Zhufan Chronicles" compiled by the Great Song Dynasty, the state of Zhuyuan is a big country. It is said that the capital city has seven layers, the city is seven feet high, the first and second cities are private residences, and there is a water around the city to isolate. The third and fourth cities are government offices. The fifth and sixth cities are royal palaces. The seventh party is the royal palace. Moreover, the "Zhufan Chronicles" also said that the Zhuyuan country was warlike, raising 60,000 war elephants, each war elephant was seven or eight feet high, carrying huts, and the warriors fought far away with bows and arrows, and killed them with spears, and everyone was brave and good at fighting, and regarded death as home...... Sounds terrible! The Great Song Dynasty is so weak, can it beat the Zhuyuan country with 60,000 war elephant soldiers?

Moreover, why did the Great Song Dynasty fight with Zhu Yuanguo? Who approved it?

"Big brother, why did you fight with us when the country is so far away?" Wu Haowen hurriedly sat down for a few moments, and then asked, "Big brother, is there really someone who provokes the border, seeks personal gain, invites merit and rewards, and corrupts state affairs?" ”

Wu Haogu turned his head and glared at his fat brother: "Second brother, why is it the same tone as those imperial histories?" ”

Wu Haowen hurriedly shook his head: "Big brother, this is not a joke...... I have always been convinced by virtue, how could I fight with the country of Zhuyuan thousands of miles away? ”

Wu Haogu snorted and laughed: "Convincing people with virtue and beating the Western thief as a godson?" Still thinking about Pingliao Fuyan all day long? ”

"However, both the Western Thieves and the Khitan occupy the land of the Han family, and the Zhu Yuan Kingdom is thousands of miles away, so it should be far away."

"If you are far away, you will have no money!" Wu Haogu said with a smile, "Maritime trade is a big profit, and it is related to the rise and fall of the world, how can you not control it?" ”

"How can maritime trade be related to the rise and fall of the world?" Wu Haowen shook his head in disbelief.

In his view, business and trade are the last business, which can be icing on the cake, but it must not be relied on as the fundamental. The foundation of the country is still agriculture!

Wu Haogu smiled: "In the switchboard of your Hailu City Shipping Department, there are the export and import accounts of the Jingdong City Shipping Division over the years, you go to check it carefully, and you will know the pros and cons of the sea trade." ”

Audit?

Wu Haowen frowned, he didn't like to deal with accounts when he was a child. What he likes is literature, poetry and articles can be written to make people shoot cases, but there are always mistakes in settling accounts, and he doesn't plan to make a plan, which is not as good as Wu Haogu.

"You don't have to check it with a pen," Wu Haogu said with a smile, "There is an annual summary, and it is all made by Ji Yizhi, which is clear at a glance." If you look at it, you will know that the Jingdong Commercial City, Banqiao Commercial City, and Penglai Commercial City under the jurisdiction of Jingdong City Bosi have been in and out of excess over the years. ”

"What do you mean by going out and going into the super?"

A man who doesn't even know the surplus and deficit is now in charge of the foreign trade of the Great Song Dynasty......

"The so-called excess means that the export volume is greater than the import value. The excess is that the export value is less than the import value. ”

“……”

Wu Haowen was confused.

"Do you know the money shortage?"

"I know, I know this," Wu Haowen said, "mainly because everyone in the rich room can't hide it!" ”

The wealthy families of the Northern Song Dynasty did have the habit of hiding money, or more precisely, copper. The reason for this is that the consensus at that time and later generations was that the merchants were very bad, and they hid all the copper that minted money from entering the circulation, so that the country's economy was deflated.

As long as all the copper from the merchant's cellar is dug up and minted for money, the money shortage can be solved!

However, in the process of Wu Haogu presiding over the Municipal Shipping Division and the Coastal Preparation Division, he discovered the main reason for the money shortage.

It's unfair international trade rules!

Although the Great Song Dynasty exported a large number of goods, such as porcelain, silk, ships, daily necessities, ironware, salt, and so on. The imported goods were limited, mainly horses, furs, medicinal herbs, jewelry, glass, spices, cotton cloth, and so on.

However, the pricing power of the Song Dynasty's foreign trade, especially maritime trade, was lacking. In other words, the products exported by the Song Dynasty were all low-priced, not to mention that the export volume was very large, but the value was not high. The imported products are highly priced, don't look at the small quantity, but the value is not low - this situation is also related to the huge cost of sea trade, the cost of transportation and customs clearance is much higher than the product itself.

In other words, if China did not master the circulation links of maritime trade in ancient times, then it would have to close itself off from the rest of the country and avoid the continuous loss of the country's currency through strict control of imports and trade.

It is likely that the reason for the Ming Dynasty's implementation of the closed country was to avoid the continuous loss of currency in trade, at least the closed country did play a role in this regard. Therefore, the later Ming and Qing dynasties could use high-value silver as the main currency, and the situation of "money shortage" and "silver shortage" was not as serious as the "copper money shortage" of the Song Dynasty.

"Second brother," Wu Hao Gu said, "You can just look at the accounts made by Ji Yi...... However, several commercial markets under the Jingdong City Bosi have hundreds of thousands of dollars in excess every year! The tax on imported goods is always much more than the tax on exported goods!

And in the imported goods, there has never been gold, silver and copper! ”

"However, the imperial court strictly forbade the export of copper coins and gold and silver......"

"What's the use of the forbidden?" Wu Haogu sneered, "Second brother, where do you think the difference between the entrances and exits has gone?"

There are hundreds of thousands of supermarkets in Jingdong Commercial Market alone, if you count the commercial markets in Mingzhou, Quanzhou, Guangzhou and other places, there are more than one million yuan a year, although there are hundreds of thousands of supermarkets in Jiehe Commercial City, and there will be many people and merchants who spend and buy real estate on our land, but the gold, silver and copper lost through trade every year are always worth hundreds of thousands to hundreds of thousands. Over time, it's not a small amount. ”

If we want to find the reason why ancient Chinese society did not succeed in entering the evil capitalist system, the mistakes in maritime trade are obviously one of them.

In the early days, because of the lack of sea control, the pricing power of sea trade was lost, and it was under the unfair rules of the trade game for a long time, and could only bear the deficit. Although the problem of deficit was solved by closing the country to the outside world, the closure of the country seriously affected the exchanges between China and foreign countries, and it was also quite negative for the development of capitalism.

The reason why Europe was able to move quickly towards capitalism after the beginning of the Age of Discovery, in addition to having a large market (the market in Europe itself was much larger than the market controlled by the Ottoman Empire at that time) and the philosophy and science left by our ancestors that could promote technological progress, was that it obtained a huge amount of gold and silver from the New World.

The massive amount of gold and silver provided cheap capital, and at the same time stimulated the development of the financial industry, so that the seedlings of capitalism got a fairly good environment for growth.

If the Great Song Dynasty is to enter the initial stage of capitalism in the next one or two hundred years, it must change the flow of precious metals in world trade.

And to do this, it is necessary to master sea power!

"Second brother, let me tell you." Wu Haogu said with a smile, "Now that we have taken the Sriwijaya Strait, which is the main trade route between the South and Western Oceans, there will be no more money and copper shortages in the country." Because all the gold and silver from overseas will flow to us.

Not only will gold, silver, and copper coins flow in, but also grain from the South Seas will flow in...... If the Sriwijaya City Shipping Division is properly managed, in a few years, the Six-Way Shipping Envoy will not have to force the people in the southeast to ask for grain. Isn't it just six or seven million stones a year, and one or two million acres in Java will be solved. ”

"One or two million acres can collect six or seven million stones?" Wu Haowen shook his head, "Big brother, you really don't know how to farm...... You have to ask Uncle Seven about this. ”

"Uncle Seventh is almost at Jiehe Commercial Market." Wu Haogu said with a smile, "But you don't need to ask him about this, because the paddy fields in Haizhou are not good, and they can't produce so much." The most fertile paddy fields in the world are in Java, and there is no problem in producing six or seven stones of rice per acre. As long as you can enclose a piece of land on Java Island, you can relocate tens of thousands of farmers to reclaim it. Getting 6 million stone of rice a year is not a problem. ”

There are many volcanoes around the island of Java, which erupt frequently, sending the island deep and fertile volcanic ash soil, coupled with the climate characteristics of rainy, humid and sunshine, which makes the island blessed with agricultural production conditions.

At this time, the island of Java was occupied by a Brahmanical kingdom, the kingdom of Ellenga, and the dynasty of the "King of the Mountain" (the honorific title of the king of Srivijaya translated into Chinese is the king of the mountain) originated on the island of Java. Because of marriage inheritance, he was able to enter the kingdom of the Three Buddhas. And the country of the "Mountain King" dynasty on the island of Java was destroyed by the Kingdom of East Java. Therefore, the "King of the Mountain" of Srivijaya has always wanted to restore his homeland on the island of Java, so there has always been a low-intensity conflict between the "King of the Mountain" of Sriwijaya and the Hindu feudal state of Alenga on the island of Java - the Alenga State was not the opponent of the Srivijaya State, but because of the invasion of Srivijaya by the Zhulin State, that is, the Chola State of India began a hundred years ago, the Sriwijaya had no time to look east and lost all the territory on the island of Java. It also lost control of the small states east of the Sriwijaya Strait. Let the Brahmanical Erlenga grow.

However, due to the intervention of the Song Dynasty, the balance of power in the Srivijaya Strait has been broken. Note: The state of Katoha, the stronghold of the Crady Gorge, had already been broken by the combined forces of the Great Song Dynasty and the Three Buddhas at the beginning of the first year of Daguan.

However, at this time, the state of Zhulin, which was in its heyday, ruled the southeast of the Indian subcontinent, and not only had a huge army with war elephants as the core, but also had a naval army that was not weak. There was also a relatively loose alliance of the four kingdoms of Zhuran, Ellenga, Chenla, and Cham (the four Brahmin states). So it will not be willing to lose control of the Srivijaya Strait and the Kratisha Strait!

At the same time, due to the promotion of Ji Yi and Yuan Jue. The Buddhist Alliance of the Great Song Dynasty, the Three Buddhas, Bagan and Chula has also taken shape...... Therefore, an international war over sea power in the South Sea and the East Indian Ocean is inevitable - this war can also be seen as the opening battle of the Southeast Asian theater of the world war.

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