Chapter: 24

This is his goal!

"A man should be like this!"

Zhu Di slapped the table and exclaimed: "Ji Gang, pour the wine, these eight words are easy to understand!"

Due to the design of the secret room with ears on the partition wall, the sound can only be transmitted in one direction, so Jiang Xinghuo and Zhu Gaoxu cannot hear the movement in the secret room.

After a few glasses of strong wine, Zhu Di's thoughts were completely immersed in the words just now.

He seems to have vaguely grasped something...

If you want to accomplish the feat of "governing the Tang and Song Dynasties, going far beyond the Han and Tang Dynasties", it will definitely not work to rely on the natural recovery and recuperation as in the case of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, or the oppression of the people and the militarism as in the case of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

It doesn't make any sense to squeeze the war-torn people. How much money can be deducted from the land tax? The people have long since become poor ghosts.

Of course Zhu Di understood the significance of the Silk Road, but since the Tang Dynasty, the land Silk Road has gradually fallen into disuse, and maritime trade has indeed become the only way to obtain additional huge wealth.

Therefore, if you want to complete the unrivaled achievements, you have to go to sea!

Heroes see the same thing!

Now the Northern Yuan Dynasty and the other Khanates split from the Mongol Empire still occupy the Silk Road. In order to realize his ambitions, Zhu Di is planning to send people to follow the example of the Song Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty and go west by sea to carry out large-scale official trade.

Jiang Xinghuo, think about it with me!

But what Jiang Xinghuo said was that the wealth he swallowed alone is destined not to last long?

Zhu Di grinned in displeasure, and under the influence of alcohol, his hidden emotions began to manifest unconsciously.

Outside the wall, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help asking.

"Mr. Jiang, didn't you talk about 'how to solve the problem of supporting the clan'? Why did it shift to 'Da Ming's Ocean Trade'?"

Jiang Xinghuo explained unhurriedly.

"Because these two issues are closely related, the core issue of supporting the clan is that 'under the condition of constant salary, the continuously increasing population of the clan will cause huge pressure on the state's finances'."

"And this core problem cannot be perfectly solved by reducing salary, reducing grades, system adjustments, etc. in the first solution. The best solution is to increase national fiscal revenue and do incremental calculations instead of stock calculate."

Zhu Gaoxu didn't understand such advanced terms as incremental calculation and stock calculation, but he felt that he was greatly shocked. He didn't know why, but he just thought it was very powerful.

"If you want to increase the country's fiscal revenue, you need to carry out ocean trade, understand?"

"But the Ming Dynasty has a vast territory, and the farming culture has penetrated into the bones of the people. Even the coastal areas tasted the sweetness of overseas trade in the Song and Yuan dynasties. As an ancient civilization with a long history, China has never lost the habit of farming. "

"So, in essence, Daming still maintains the conservative nature of farming civilization."

"The biggest enemy of maritime trade is the gentry class rooted in farming civilization."

"On the other hand, to support the clan needs to expand fiscal revenue for ocean trade, why doesn't the power of the clan class not be needed for ocean trade?"

Zhu Di, who was listening to the class next door, froze in mid-air with his hand raising his wine glass.

In fact, the ruling class in the Ming Dynasty was not completely ignorant of overseas knowledge.

On the contrary, due to the great conquest of the Mongol Empire, whether it is the completely penetrating Eurasian land bridge or the intermittent sea connection from Dayuan to Mamluks, it has provided a new understanding of each other for the trade between the East and the West that has lasted for thousands of years. Opportunity.

Mongols, Semu people, Westerners, Persians...these people were commonplace in the south at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.