Chapter Eleven Four Oceans
Most of the people here are happy about Chen Mu, only Zhang Juzheng, who loves and hates Chen Mu.
If Chen Mu's talent is smaller, he would leave Chen Mu in a corner like Li Zhi, or even overseas, and ignore him for the rest of his life.
If he cannot play a better role in the court, the harm it brings is huge, because he alone will have greater harm to the instability of the country than the White Lotus Sect.
Although Chen Mu both answered and in fact, he solved the problem of the imperial court's use of silver, and believed that the next Myanmar and Annan could solve the problem of people eating food, these wealth did not cost the large inflow of silver caused the country to turmoil. The impact of factories on land annexation became more serious. Factory employed workers to move people, and it was difficult for the people to go to sea to manage. The original systems of craftsmen, military households and corvee labor began to collapse, aggravated anti-traditional ideas...
Chen Mu ignored these side problems. He had already stopped him after changing to the cabinet minister who had a slightly less responsible position.
But Zhang Juzheng did not. First of all, everything he did really requires money, a large amount of silver; the unified national tax law is very important, but the difficulty of implementing the one-whip law in the north is difficult to ignore. The most difficult reason is that the lack of silver in the north. Most local markets in the north are still copper coins. When collecting taxes, people have to exchange silver. In the north, especially in Shaanxi, there is less silver in the market, so the exchange price is naturally higher.
With the same tax, the north pays more taxes than the south.
Things are very tricky.
As soon as the silver shipment in Nanyang was given away, the local chief immediately flattened the silver price, and everything was solved.
And the most important thing is that the more Zhang Juzheng knew about Europa, the more confident he believed that the imperial court had Chen Mu, because of the national destiny. Chen Mu planned to pull the large fleet to the door of someone else's house. In the future, can other countries also be able to pull the large fleet to the door of the Ming Dynasty thousands of miles away?
There is a Great Wall in the north, but not in the south. A mere Japanese pirates will turn the chaos in the southeast that has not been in war for a long time. If the enemy's regular army and the large fleet drives to the shore, he will reform for decades and accumulate more wealth. As long as the chaos in a country is in ten, eight and a half years, all reforms can be successfully eliminated.
"The Ming Dynasty's opponent is in Europa, but not Portuguese. Spain is an opponent. After all, the country is huge and the people are numerous, the king has concentrated power, and the fanatical religion. Its advantage is that the overseas colonies belong to the king, and whoever captures them will be governed. The Western Italians' trip to the sea originated from Portuguese's comprehensive control of spice trade and the economy relied on people's breath. Then he went to sea. He was a little anxious and his approach was even more ruthless. All the land they captured wanted to dig three feet, plundered them all, and mined and stolen them all, and took away everything."
A group of important officials may think about the impact or be confused about the severe impact. Of course, like Mr. Zhang Han, he didn't hear what Chen Mu was saying at all. His eyes were full of the appearance of elders watching the younger generation become talented. From time to time, he looked at other ministries with a little pride and smiled. The meaning was obvious: Look, this is my junior!
The whole thing is like the kind of old elders in the family during the Chinese New Year to see their grandson. The elderly can’t understand what job you do, but they just know that you are making money and have a future!
pride!
Zhang Juzheng's expression was a little hard to explain, "I wish I could dig three feet of the ground after everything I had won, plundered it all, and mined and stolen it all, and took everything away." Chen Shuai, why did you want to squeeze yourself like this!
They all understand the meaning of colonization and don't like the word.
Farming is breeding, and the people are the people. They can refer to people who take breeding as their business, but in what Chen Mu mentioned, it is obvious that people from other countries are breeding like animals.
"The advantage of Spain is not only in more land and people. When Catholics and Muslims were fighting, the excellent Arab culture spread into the dark medieval times. It was mainly through Spain. They had some schools to improve the overall quality of the people. Portuguese were mostly mercenaries outside because they were too poor to go home; Westerners were just the opposite. Most priests and nobles had studied in schools and had high basic skills in art, literature, and mathematics."
"These cultural literacy made them more able to withstand wealth than Portuguese. There were still a group of merchants serving the country, and the exiled governors also had better means to govern the colonies. Spain was almost impeccable, and its only weakness was their king."
"A devout believer who has a broken brain starts wars endlessly for religion, and even if the country is very wary, it will perish."
Chen Mu's remarks include some analysis of what he saw and heard. Of course, there is also a theory of success or failure from later generations. They are not rigorous and too subjective, but it is definitely true, because the result of the matter itself is like this. He can only stand on the top of the mountain like a high-profile critic, pointing out the problem, but in fact he has no way to solve it.
But what's the good thing? Fortunately, it's not his own country, he just needs to point out the problems.
After all, he finished talking about the two countries that the tribes are most familiar with. Everyone has different expressions and roughly the same meaning: Then just say nothing, I am invincible in the world!
"A Portugal can explode huge power in a small land, and a more powerful Spain can almost conquer half of the world; the problems of the country can be seen from thousands of miles away, so what about the countries around them?"
"In the future, these countries will be new challenges. Many years ago, the Ming Dynasty defeated Portuguese and obtained several bird guns and several Franco machine cannons. Now, the Ming Dynasty is full of bird guns and various Franco machine cannons. Chen has been in charge of the Nanyang Military Palace for four years, and no warship fell into the enemy's hands, and no artillery was captured by the enemy."
"Once others get shark boats and General Zhenshuo's cannons, they can still be imitated, and may even be better than we built. The Portuguese trade has gained huge wealth and does not know how to develop agriculture and handicrafts. Wouldn't our bird guns be better than him?"
"The Minister of Nanyang has now stepped down before the following post. How to make decisions in overseas matters? The younger generation has no power, at most it is just a suggestion."
Tan Lun looked up at Zhang Juzheng. Zhang Juzheng felt in trouble. Seeing Chen Mu talking, he really wanted to put Chen Mu back to Nanyang again, but the problem was just as Zhang Han mentioned that the power of the Nanyang Military Office actually exceeded the scope of Nanyang. No matter how you let Chen Mu become a Nanyang minister, he could let Gao Gong be a Nanyang minister... Zhang Juzheng was not very happy.
Let’s hear what Chen Mu said first.
Zhang Juzheng looked at Chen Mu, nodded to him and waited for the following text.
"I suggest that all the land under the world is the king's land. The land under the Ming Dynasty is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty; the land not under the Ming Dynasty has not been brought back and presented to the emperor for the time being; in the whole world, anyone who can take the land overseas to offer it to the emperor can serve as the local governor, with a term of four years, and controls the military and political power within the territory. However, the prefecture and guard are established, and the county chief officer is appointed by the military government. Once the governor has an independent tendency to rebel, the court officials can take it down and investigate it."
"Above the Governor, please request the Nanyang Military Office to be the Beiyang Military Office, which is under the jurisdiction of the Sanyang Minister, the Nanyang Minister, the Prime Minister, the Nanyang Minister, the Southern Ocean Affairs, the Malacca to the south of Japan to the southernmost tip of Xinming Island; the Eastern Ocean Minister, the Prime Minister, the Prime Minister, the Eastern Ocean Affairs, the Prime Minister, the Eastern Ocean Affairs, the Amelica and Europa; the Atlantic Minister, the Prime Minister, the Atlantic Affairs, the Indian and Ottomans."
"The three ministers have the power to elect officials, the ministers of the southeast and west of Sanyang have the power to transfer military forces, and the power to command military officials is to command military officials. The three ministers have set up Beiyang Yamen in Tianjin, and are in charge of overseas affairs. They only ask the emperor and the cabinet for instructions. The important officials of Beiyang are the ministers of Sanyang, the six ministries and departments, and those with overseas experience serve as officials, and the Beiyang ministers are the auxiliary ministers of the cabinet."
Chapter completed!