Looking at the large silver ingot in Mao Jue's hand, Sun Chuanting's old eyes suddenly widened. Could it be that he said too much that made the Regent angry and wanted to give himself to swallow money and commit suicide?

However, the old guy's stubbornness came up, and his hands were in the end. He knelt on the ground and kowtowed heavily: "Your Highness, the old minister should be punished for dying, but even if the old minister dies, he would not want to see Your Highness re-enact the disaster of Emperor Yang of Sui. The old minister will go!"

With a bang, the old guy really bit it down, which scared Mao Jue. Fortunately, the ingot of silver was more than 20 taels, and the size of two fists was so big that it was strange that Sun Chuanting could swallow it. In Mao's absolute exclamation, he only hurt his two old teeth.

Seeing that the guy spit out two big white teeth with blood and wanted to bite the silver mark of the teeth, Mao Jue was amused and crying and quickly grabbed it.

"Mr. Sun, that's OK! My intention is not to let you eat it, but to tell you that this thing cannot be eaten and cannot be used as food to satisfy your hunger! Get up quickly!"

When he spoke, Sun Chuanting stood up with pleasure, and bowed there and persuaded: "Your Highness, gold, silver and jewelry, hunger, not food, cold, not clothes! For the king, it is better to stay away from these strange and lewd skills, and to end the business journey, persuade farmers and merchants to cultivate land as the right way!"

With a bang, Mao Jue threw the silver ingot into the trash can like throwing garbage, and then asked Sun Chuanting with confidence: "Since the silver is useless, I have spent them, why did Lord Sun not want so much?"

The Regent always seemed to have so many reasons. Once again, Sun Chuanting was choked and rolled his eyes, for fear that he would come again to say "Sage Yun". Mao Jue quickly snatched the topic and asked sadly.

"Since the Longqing switch, the sea trade lost no less than tens of millions of taels of money from the West. During the Chongzhen period, why did the imperial court lack silver and so much that it could not even pay military pay?"

"this……"

This question is too heavy. It concerns the political dynamics and military directions of the entire late Ming Dynasty, so complicated that even a capable minister like Sun Chuanting could not finish it for a while. He pondered, but he could only choose the favorable answer.

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

"I see more than that! The Ming Dynasty of Chongzhen was poisoned to death by the silver!"

Pointing at the silver in the trash can, Mao Jue's words were shocking.

Later generations once saw a post online, "The Empire poisoned by silver, the Ming Dynasty!" Mao Jue deeply agreed.

Indeed, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the prosperous maritime trade allowed two-thirds or even half of the silver plundered by Western Portugal from the Americas to flow into the Ming Dynasty, making the industry and commerce in Jiangnan extremely prosperous. However, this rich capital accumulation did not push the Ming Dynasty into more advanced changes, but instead dragged the Ming Dynasty into the abyss. The reason was because of this silver!

To the West, capitalists earned gold and silver, and immediately put them into production, expanding production, and producing more commodities to earn more money. This part of the capital in his hands flowed into the hands of workers and farmers through salary, raw materials, etc., and the workers and farmers then circulated the money to other capitalists through consumption, stimulating the desire for production. Money is constantly circulating in society, expanding and promoting the development of the entire society. This is a virtuous cycle.

But the Ming Dynasty? The tradition of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce and thrift has made the primitive capital flowing through the ocean trade not flowing into society, which has led other classes to become rich and expand domestic demand. Instead, it was dug up a cellar by these Jiangnan families and hidden it. Just like Zheng Zhilong, he was comparable to an old house in Fuzhou in the old palace, and tens of millions of taels of silver and property. He was placed in the warehouse like a heavy silver and stone, which was useless as a stone.

Jiangnan was originally a traditional grain-producing area in China. It is known as Suhu and Hu, and is well-known in the world. However, with the rise of marine trade and amazing interests, the Jiangnan tribes have transformed grain crops into economic crops one after another. Moreover, the towns are at an astonishing speed. The urban population is not responsible for producing grain, but is specifically consumed. In the few years of Chongzhen, Suzhou, a grain-producing area, had always had to go to Huguang to buy grain, which shows the degree of grain production reduction.

Moreover, Chongzhen was also unlucky. When he was in power, he happened to catch up with the entire world-class economic crisis. The Little Glacier Age not only affected the Ming Dynasty, but also affected Europe. The war caused a large amount of fiscal expenditure. The two countries, which mainly supplied the Ming silver, naturally tightened their finances. The import of Ming porcelain, raw silk and other goods dropped sharply, which also caused a heavy blow to the industry and commerce in Jiangnan.

The aristocratic families are fine, just keep the money they have been garrisoned and close the door. Moreover, they are the privileged class and do not pay taxes, but they can keep their own doors and leave their jobs, how can the people below live? They can't afford to live, and how can they have taxes to donate?

The Ming Dynasty's consistent national policy was taken to the southeast and used to the northwest. The southeast was broken, and the place where troops stationed in the northwest became more and more cancerous. Prices soared, food was cut off, and the entire empire collapsed in the silver wasteland.

Of course, this does not mean that the sea trade is wrong. The empire should be kept in the door like Zhu Yuanzhang, with a small country but few people, and the pace of society's development is unstoppable. How to regulate and digest it depends on the power of the ruler.

Mao Jue’s magic weapon is consumption. In other words, it is called stimulating domestic demand!

"I spent 9 million taels of silver to repair this Hangzhou Empire Square, employed 118,000 workers, and each person received 2 taels of silver per month. He also bought porcelain and supported 30,000 people. There were also casino security guards, dealers, shopping mall clerks, shopkeepers, and hotel waiters. A total of 20,000 jobs were created. More importantly, he gave up 9 million taels of silver to bloom among the people!"

"When people have money, they will buy clothes, houses, oxen and fields. During the consumption process, they will support more shops, factories, shops and factories have enough money to hand over to the treasury, so that you all officials will squander and embezzle!"

"If the money flows, it is called silver! Otherwise, it is just a stone. I will not only not advocate diligence and thrift to you, but also luxury. In October, the merchants who went to Southeast Asia will come back with huge sums of money! The use of this imperial city square is also revealed, taking over the silver they were supposed to hide in the cellar and then putting it into circulation. Only in this way can the Ming Dynasty be rich, and the people are rich will be strong! My Mao Jue's rule can continue. Just like you, stick to the rules, storing the silver in Curry and tying the people to the land, you are the murderers of the empire. Lord Sun, do you understand it without any clarity!"

His mouth was almost revealed, and his mouth was dry. Mao Jue yelled at Sun Chuanting for a whole morning. Sun Chuanting was stunned by these economic principles. No saints in the education he received had mentioned it, but he could not refute the vulgar and simple truths that Mao Jue said.

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

After pouring a sip of water into his throat to moisten it, Mao Jue patted his shoulder hard again.

"Mr. Sun, whether the saints say thrifty or ruling, it is ultimately to reduce the burden on the people, so that the people can eat and wear warmth, so that the dynasty can survive. All this king does is to let the people have work to do and have income to be able to achieve the goal of enriching the people. The people have food and drink, food and clothing, and the army is strong and active, and they are unyielding in every battle. No dynasty can do these two points and perish. Lord Sun, do you think what I said is right?"

After bowing heavily, Sun Chuanting turned around and left without saying a word. Now the two of them have been superiors and subordinates for several years. They know his personality too much. Mao Jue couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He actually had the intention to make a joke and waved heavily behind him.

"Mr. Sun, there are fanged ivory imported from Southeast Asia on the third floor of Hangzhou Empire Square. King Tiben is 50% off, don't forget!"

As soon as he walked to the corridor, Sun Chuanting obviously staggered.

It was just like he was sent to him, rub his forehead and stretched his waist. Mao Jue could finally start his day's office. Adrena's goodness. Her confidential secretary had already picked up the memorials from all over the place and opened the first one at a glance. It was Zhang Canghai's memorial request to keep Wu Sangui as the governor of Kolkata.

"Ha! It's actually Wu Sangui!"

If other emperors were afraid of these ambitious heroes, but for Mao Jue, it was the opposite. He was afraid that these governors, General Xiao Gui and Cao Sui, who were sent overseas, would not be in the spirit! Without some ambition, how could he dig a few pieces of meat from those big countries?

As for rebellion? Without the support of the Ming Empire, who can stand firm in the face of thousands of native peoples who have exceeded yours? Even if the governor wants to rebel, the people below cannot support it. As for the natives, it is even more impossible to follow you to start a war against the powerful Ming Empire! Later, the British Empire was known as the empire of the sun never set, and the colonies were everywhere. I have never seen the governor general there rebellion and fight back with ambition. But everyone worked together to scrape the ground. When they read the memorial, Mao Jue wrote a correct word without hesitation.

This was still unsatisfied. After hesitating for a while, Mao Jue then continued to write a large number of instructions again, and then he blew the ink with satisfaction.

Mao Jue's command has a clear level of power. For example, some small matters such as disaster relief, the six departments of the cabinet that he delegated power have dealt with. There are not many major things that really need him to deal with. The normal work of a day can be completed in about three or four hours. But now, after reviewing more than thirty books, Mao Jue's face turned dark.

Because the next thing they had had the same problem with Sun Chuanting, all of them were impeached by the censors in the court who impeached him for extravagance and extravagance. Many civil servants attacked the East India Company and several railways built by Mao Jue. Some old antiques even wrote blood letters and pointed at him, demanding that they immediately stop these railways, dissolve the East India Company, and go back and be a normal wise ruler in the mind of the literati.

"Where are the old antiques coming from this?"

After reading three books, my cheeks turned red with anger. Mao Jue rang the bell in anger.

"Check for me! Those who write books will be held accountable if they delay their jobs! And those who are not qualified to write books but deliver books through people to increase their workload will be held accountable!"

"Sir, obey the order!"

The male and female secretaries who came in from the confidential secretariat immediately nervously took away all the stacks of books, but when they were finally empty, Mao Jue was still stunned.

Sun Chuanting was persuaded to leave by himself, but what about the civil and military officials in the court? He came to persuade him one by one. Besides, he was a reasonable person. When he met that stubborn old antique, he used Confucius' dogma as a golden rule. Even if he said it out loud, it would be useless. The reason was not explained by a knife. Unless Mao Jue was crazy and killed tens of millions of people, even killing people would be useless.

How can we transfer the poverty of these corrupt scholars?
Chapter completed!