The situation in the Southern Tang Dynasty was very bad, but don’t think that it is impossible to immediately take a pot of slurry to welcome the king’s army!

"Li Hongji's strategy at least satisfies the interests of some aristocratic merchants. Those silk merchants, officials, gentry and merchants, were very happy." Ye Hua said sarcastically: "Although these people will engage in smuggling for the sake of interests and dig up the foundation of the Southern Tang Dynasty. But they are not stupid. If the Great Zhou Dynasty is over, good days will be gone, so they will most likely adopt a two-handed strategy."

Chai Rong said thoughtfully: "Secretly smuggling with the Great Zhou to make money, but on the outside, we should put more strength to support Li Hongji?"

Ye Hua nodded, "Your Majesty, if what I expected was good, Jinling at the moment would be afraid that he would try his best to arrange his Majesty and call His Majesty a man-cannibal ghost, so as to scare the people of Southern Tang, make them loyal and continue to follow Li Hongji."

It has to be said that Ye Hua's judgment was really accurate. On Chai Rong's desk, there were many secret reports sent by embroidered messengers. The scholars who fled south exhausted all means to slander the Great Zhou and poured cold water on their own.

But Chai Rong is not the one who was scolded the most.

"Ye Qing, your reputation in Jiangnan is much more terrifying than me! They say that you are green-faced and fangs, delicious and have to serve you, and you need thirty beauties every day. Also, you say that you are ugly and look like a ghost!" Chai Rong became happier and happier as he spoke, and couldn't help but gloat. Two people were in trouble, which was better than being scolded by one!

Ye Hua was stupid!

Good, I admit everything I said, why do you say I'm so lustful?

I only have one in my family, and this one is no longer something I can’t stand, so how dare I mess with it!

Besides, I don’t think it’s ugly no matter how I look at it!

Ye Hua is slender and has martial arts training. Although he is not as good as Zhao Kuangyin's muscles, he is so strong and exaggerated, but at least the lines are smooth and the muscles are clear, he has a full piece of fresh meat!

Oh my god, the scholars who ran to the Southern Tang Dynasty, don’t think you were just helping the foolish people of the Great Zhou Dynasty, but when I hit you, I will definitely throw you into the Yangtze River one by one, feeding them all green-haired turtles, and none of them will run away!

Ye Hua was so angry that he gritted his teeth.

"Anyway, no matter what, with the support of these super wealthy families, Li Hongji can still control hundreds of thousands of people in a short period of time, and he is very good at making money, at least he will not owe military pay. On the contrary, Wu Yue's situation is even more difficult. After three generations of five kings, they have long lost their original courage, and have accumulated many problems in the country and are disenchanted. Wu Yue cannot resist the pressure of the Southern Tang externally, stolen the country, and cannot appease the people at home. Wu Yue's gentry and bureaucrats are even far more greedy than the Southern Tang. Under such circumstances, how can they count on Wu Yue's power to deal with the Southern Tang? Isn't that drinking poison to quench thirst!"

Ye Hua's words were completely convinced by Chai Rong.

After all, only what is in your own hands is the real power. No one can count on others!

"Your Majesty, I think that we should focus on the navy and build a powerful navy in three or five years. This is the most urgent task!"

Ye Hua further suggested, "I think we can establish military ports and shipyards in Dengzhou and Jiaozhou, and just leave this matter to Taifu Chai."

When Ye Hua mentioned his father, Chai Rong immediately frowned.

"Ye Qing, this is a military and national event, don't do anything wrong!"

"Your Majesty, you should treat people with admiration for three days, and don't always look at people with old eyes. Taifu Chai is now responsible for the rise and fall of the Great Zhou!"

Chai Rong expressed serious doubts that his father could only make the Great Zhou decline, and it would decline to the end!

Ye Hua was really indignant, after all, he was my disciple! If Chai Shouli was still so busy, wouldn’t he say that my master was a failure?

It's simply outrageous!

Ye Hua stretched out two fingers, "Your Majesty, Taifu Chai got these gold for the Great Zhou!"

Chai Rong frowned and said, "I just heard that he had gotten a lot of Japanese girls from overseas. By the way, you have bought a lot of them in your mansion!" To be honest, it is embarrassing to do human trafficking, but Chai Rong was also excited. My father was doing something better than harming the Great Zhou Dynasty when he was struggling outside, so he let him go, but he was always very tired of it.

Ye Hua chuckled, "Your Majesty, it's true that the Grand Tutor introduced women in Japan, but there are many gold and silver minerals in Japan, all of which are lacking in the Great Zhou Dynasty. Tai Fu Chai has already obtained 20,000 taels of red gold for the Great Zhou Dynasty! In the future, the currency reform will rely entirely on these gold as a guarantee! Your Majesty, are you talking about what the Grand Tutor does important?"

Chai Rong became more and more surprised. His father, who was specializing in being a fool, had really done such a big thing? Chai Rong still didn't believe it. He asked repeatedly that there was no need for Ye Hua to hide it.

Chai Shouli went to Youzhou to do business, then set up a fleet in Dengzhou, and went to Goryeo, Japan, and even Liaodong to trade... Japan produced a lot of gold and silver, but its technology was backward and could not be mined. Chai Shouli provided them with technology under the banner of trade, and then went to Goryeo to capture slaves and sell them to the Japanese mines. Japan mined gold and silver, and then took it out to exchange it with the Dazhou.

This business model was designed by Ye Hua and implemented by Chai Shouli. Now it has achieved results and gold has been shipped back to the Great Zhou.

In addition to Japan, the vast Liaodong, especially the primitive forest areas north of Heilongjiang, have rich gold reserves. Now it is still the territory of the Jurchens. They are very barbaric and backward, and are still in the fishing, hunting and gathering stage. It is very difficult to use them to make gold.

However, Chai Shouli insisted on sending people to understand the situation, contact the tribe leader, and look for gold.

Infiltrating Liaodong is not only for the purpose of obtaining gold, but more importantly, the army will emerge from the Great Wall in the future and sweep the Khitan, and the chess pieces in Liaodong will come in handy.

"Your Majesty, the Grand Tutor is so old that he really wants to make money for himself. He doesn't have to work so hard. He really wants to share the responsibility for His Majesty. The 20,000 taels of gold was saved by the Grand Tutor. He told me that he planned to save one million taels and then hand it over to His Majesty. With one million taels of gold, you can give tens of millions of gold coins. This is an amazing huge sum of money!"

Ye Hua sighed: "I have thought about the things that Li Hongji did in the early years, but later I felt that it was very inappropriate. If you want to develop industry and commerce, you must use commercial means to measure the world. What is commercial means? It is nothing more than buying and selling transactions. Grain and cloth can be bought and sold, and labor can be bought and sold! The first step to do these things is to remeasure everything with currency."

In Guo Wei's era, Ye Hua learned to think about problems from a global perspective. He combined his two-life experiences together, and soon Ye Hua discovered that some things were far from as simple as he thought.

Take the germination of capitalism mentioned in the textbook. According to the ideas given by the textbook, from germination to growth, first accumulate light industry, then develop heavy industry, and finally upgrade industrialization... This is a general process given by the textbook... But sorry, no country can achieve industrialization according to this classic process, and it is impossible to do it!

The reason is that every step of development will have both positive and negative impacts.

For example, the most typical late Ming Dynasty, relying on the three major fist products, it has already obtained one-third of the world's silver. Judging from the proportion, it is very amazing, but the problem is just not growing!

To produce silk, porcelain, and tea, it will occupy the land and labor force, and it will cause unemployed refugees. Moreover, a large amount of goods will be added to the market. Without currency support, it will cause price distortion, which will in turn restrict the destruction of the budding.

Ye Hua remembers that in his previous life he watched a series of programs called Rise of Great Powers.

In this series, all these great powers are wise, wise, and powerful, seize opportunities, and stand at the forefront... but they do not mention colonial expansion, plunder and exploitation!

How to resolve conflicts between man and land without seizing colonies, how to resolve gold and silver, how to denominate wealth with currency, smooth exchange, no violent development of overseas markets, how to obtain excess profits, how to encourage inventions, and replace artificial labor with machines... The so-called rise of a great power is absolutely inseparable from colonial expansion. It can be said that without blood, there will be no capitalism!

Of course, there is another way, which is to use the power of the state when there is no hope of external plunder, first extract the agricultural surplus, nourish and strengthen industry, and then use industry to feed agriculture, and use the countryside as the backbone to alleviate development contradictions. To take this more difficult path, divide the land equally, and organize farmers effectively, it has become an inevitable choice... Therefore, the choice of development process and path is really not something that anyone can point fingers at. Just open his mouth and never know the difficulties of a practical worker.

The development path Ye Hua designed for Dazhou was that he wanted to go together, equalize the fields internally, establish a stable rural rear, actively expand externally, absorb wealth, and expand the market.

From the beginning, Ye Hua concluded that Li Hongji would be defeated miserably, and the reason was that he did not dare to reform internally and wanted to expand externally. With the mountain of the Great Zhou, he could not go on either road. Immortality was simply incompatible.

When Ye Hua and Chai Rong went north to hunt, they formed a deep friendship, and Chai Rong could easily understand some of Ye Hua's thoughts.

"Ye Qing's judgment has always been amazing, but if Li Hongji's son can enslave Wu Yue, Jing Chu, and then control the Southern Han and influence Bashu, he may have a way out!"

"So you can't let him succeed!" Ye Hua said: "Your Majesty, Wu Yue is useless. But this pirate leader who attacked Zhan Jinghai is a character!"

Chai Rong has never liked bandits. Official bandits have different water and fire. The emperor is the biggest official family. When he heard the pirate leader, he frowned.

"Even Wu and Yue can't count on it. Can you still count on a thief?"
Chapter completed!