Chapter 53: We are actually just a seller of old spittoons
Many times, Han Xiufen always felt that she still didn’t understand these Europeans, so she found someone who was familiar with European ways of doing things. Someone comes to do some things that you don’t understand on your behalf.
In this way, everyone can truly communicate on the same line of thinking, which will reduce many unnecessary misunderstandings.
Sure enough, in the evening, when Han Xiufen invited Governor Lane and Governor Raymond to have dinner, everyone was very satisfied with the meal.
The pale color on Raymond's face finally had some blush, and a smile appeared on Ren's dead gray vampire count's face.
As for Han Xiufen's big bronze face, it was full of smiles, and she frequently raised glasses to congratulate that this incident that had obviously reached a dead end had the possibility of seeing light again.
On the side, Zhang Chuanli recalled the wonderful impressions of his interactions with the British in beautiful words, while Liu Mingliang described over and over again the wonderful process of his interactions with the British girls.
Only Leonie was sitting on the edge, quietly eating the delicious steak, picking up the wine glass from time to time to echo Han Xiufen's invitation.
It took a full hour to finish the meal. After Governor Raymond and Governor Lane left one after another, Liu Mingliang couldn't wait to say to Han Xiufen: "General, why are we We still need to allow the British to stay in India. Wouldn’t it be great for us to have it all?”
Han Xiufen picked up the white tablecloth and dipped it in the corner of her mouth: “Hey, do you think India is already ours?” ?”
Liu Mingliang said: “Isn’t it ours?”
Han Xiufen looked at Liu Mingliang and said: “Do you know how many people there are in India? How many troops do we have?"
Liu Mingliang said with a smile: "It's just a group of natives. We can defeat them in one battle."
Han Xiufen frowned and asked: "Let's do it. Are you going to India just to kill people?"
Zhang Chuanli said: "Wealth is what we need, and most wealth is not ready-made. It needs to be cultivated and needs to wait to be obtained. What the general means is that , We Ming people are not barbarians, and we don’t like to kill people for nothing.
If we kill everyone, who will help us make money?
This is the point of the British. They did very well. After doing business with Indians for many years, they found that doing business with Indians would be more profitable than taking away the last pair of shorts from Indians.
Yushan Business College. Gentlemen believe that the gold and silver directly robbed will only improve the well-being of the people of the Ming Dynasty.
It is far better to exchange the excess domestic goods with the Indians, for example, to exchange the spittoons we produce for India. People's cotton, in this way, the Indians get spittoons, and we get cotton, and we both gain something, and we don't suffer any loss.
The people in the country can produce spittoons to their heart's content, and they can also use them as much as they like. ChangeCotton comes to produce cotton cloth.
The gentlemen of Yushan Academy believe that the production process is far more important than the result, because a large number of people can participate in the production process, and countless people can get work, support their families, and make a fortune. .
Liu Mingliang said disdainfully; "The production results are not important? Indians are not fools and are willing to trade their cotton for spittoons? I heard that Indians don't use spittoons!
What are you thinking? What about talking about the importance of the production process? There is no result, and the process is of no use."
After Liu Mingliang finished speaking, he realized that Han Xiufen, Zhang Chuanli, and Leoni were looking at him. His eyes seemed to care for the mentally retarded. Although he didn't know what he said wrong, he still spread his hands and said: "Welcome to argue."
Han Xiufen pointed to the door and said: "Get out, you will be the best in the future." Responsible for handling the prisoners, don't get involved in other matters."
Liu Mingliang jumped up and shouted, "If you have something to say, please don't make me angry."
Zhang Chuanli sighed. He said in a tone: "The gentlemen of the academy are all learned people, so naturally they cannot speak clearly. What the gentlemen mean is that the people in the country are only responsible for producing spittoons. As for how to make Indians use cotton in exchange for spittoons, it is us who "
Liu Mingliang looked at Han Xiufen dullly, then looked at Leonie and whispered: "You mean to use cannons to persuade?"
Han Xiufen sighed. Said: "If you can use one mouth to make Indians exchange cotton for spittoons, of course it would be the best. Do you know? In order to encourage the people to actively produce in these years, His Majesty has only made homespun cloth, yes, every Ming Dynasty Women can weave linen. How much has the country accumulated?
Let me tell you, there are 43 million pieces, and this number is still increasing, and it has become the prime minister's office. The project with the largest annual subsidy has a heavy burden on the Prime Minister's Office."
Liu Mingliang said: "It doesn't matter if we don't subsidize it."
Han Xiufen said: "You know. Damn it, the reason why this phenomenon occurs is because the textile technology of our Ming Dynasty is changing rapidly.
Collective operations, coupled with large-scale improvements in technology, those who rely on ancient weaving methods. How can peasant women compare with those big workshops?
China has always been about men farming and women weaving. The life of men farming and women weaving has been maintained for thousands of years. This is the foundation of our Ming society. Do you know what the consequences will be if you let those women weave cloth?
The most direct result is that the income of ordinary people's families will be reduced. The deeper significance is that if textiles are separated from household production, it will Directly causing a devastating blow to peasant women, many social problems will arise.
Of course, newer technology and better cotton will naturally replace linen production. This is a process that we must go through sooner or later. Our mission is to minimize the impact of this technological process on the people of this country."
"Put the spittoon... no., linen sold to Indians?
Han Xiufen rolled her thick neck, and then made a chest-expanding movement and said casually: "Sell to everyone. For example, Count Raymond thinks he can eat it by himself." Ten million horses. "
"He has no money. "
"His family runs a huge cotton business in India. ”
“He wants to help us sell homespun cloth? ”
“No, he gave us the trading house. "
"So, from now on we will stop killing people and start buying things? ”
“Selling the goods produced in Daming to wherever there are people, and then transporting the things we need back to Daming from anywhere in the world, this is the whole meaning of our establishment of Daming West India Company.
This is a strategic change in the role of our Navy. ”
What Han Xiufen said was not wrong at all. The Ming Dynasty occupied enough land, almost beyond the limit that the court could bear.
The army opened up frontiers. It sounds good to people, and it looks good when written in history books.
But who knew that Yun Zhao and Zhang Guozhu were so worried about this that they could hardly sleep?
In Liaodong, Li Dingguo's army is advancing rapidly. The forward has arrived at Hetuala, and Jin Hu's army has officially set foot on North Korea.
In the Western Region, since Xia Wanchun arrived in the Western Region, it is no longer Junggar. The Khanate is causing trouble for the Han people, but the generals under Xia Wanchun are already preparing to seal off the Junggar Khanate and trap this notoriously powerful Khanate in the Junggar Basin. After giving Xia Wanchun two or three years, the Mongol Khanate will see It is about to disappear.
In Uzang, 1,400 Ming officials have stationed in the sparsely populated Uzang, and together with Sun Guoxin’s fanatic followers, they are preparing to re-establish Uzang. Han Lingshan completely destroyed the order.
In the southwest, Hong Chengchou lived up to his reputation as a capable minister. He only relied on his military power to manage the roads in the southwest without closing the doors at night. Not only that, he also repaired the roads.
In Nanyang, Han Xiufen had a huge appetite. Relying on Malacca, she just closed the door to the Strait of Malacca. Closing the door meant that everything east of the Strait of Malacca would be the Ming Dynasty. The territory of the empire.
Also backed by the powerful empire of the Ming Dynasty, the herdsmen in the Lantian City area, because the sales of wool, meat products, and dairy products are booming in the Ming Dynasty, in order to have more More cattle and sheep, more pasture, can produce more meat products, dairy products, and wool. Finally, the herdsmen began to move northward spontaneously.
Since the herders want to go north, then, as a body. In order to protect these herdsmen, the local army had to follow the herdsmen to move north...
Therefore, the amount of money and food requested by Li Dingguo became an astronomical figure. The road never stops.
As for Uzang, it is a big hole that cannot be filled. In Uzang, Sun Guoxin is preparing to improve the lives of the remaining people on this land from serfs to the average level of the Ming Dynasty in an instant.
Nanyang, controlled by Han Xiufen and Hong Chengchou, has always been a profitable unit. Unfortunately, as these two places entered the process of public security and appeasement, their ability to hand over national funds continued to decline.
As a result, the economic situation of the Lantian Dynasty in China for five years was in a mess.
It is not that it is short of money. The Lantian Dynasty has long passed the era of lack of money. The issuance of banknotes has solved this problem. As long as Yun Zhao wants money, he can have as much money as he wants.
However, doing so was of little use to the people of the Ming Dynasty. In a highly self-sufficient society, people's needs were not high, which easily led to overproduction.
Yun Zhao’s top priority now is to open up new markets and cultivate old markets so that he can continue to move forward with this oldest empire.
The important task of opening up the market was given to Han Xiufen. It just so happened that India was also a large continent with a large population, making it an extremely rare commodity dumping ground.
With this dumping ground, Yun Zhao felt that he could stimulate the demand of domestic people by expanding the city, and then readjust the domestic production structure and completely complete the economic transformation of the Ming Dynasty, the oldest empire. Give him enough energy again.
In his opinion, the current time is very suitable. As long as Ming Dynasty takes the lead in taking this step, then within a hundred years, Ming Dynasty will be in an invincible position.