Chapter 12 Development of Guangzhou (Part 2)
"The sea is long and the supply is difficult. You can build a larger ship, load it with soil, bring seeds, and plant some vegetables. This can not only allow sailors to watch, but also improve their lives." Li Jun thought carefully and explained the details. (Note: According to the test, there is a special space for growing vegetables on the ships on Zheng He's voyage to the West.)
Li Jun's meticulous thoughts were not something that Duzong could do. Wen Tianxiang and others were shocked, and were impressed and said, "The emperor is wise! The emperor is benevolent!"
Li Jun said seriously: "There are many strange things overseas, unlike the Song Dynasty. You must not serve the heavenly kingdom and do not respect the customs of other countries. The custom of the Three Buddhas is that you cannot touch the child's head. If you touch it, you will make enemies. The child's father must kill you."
It is very intimate to touch the child's head in Chinese customs. Unexpectedly, Sanfoqi actually had such a strange custom. Wen Tianxiang and others found it incredible, so they nodded and said yes. (Note: Sanfoqi is a powerful country in Malaysia now. Japan all knows it is a little Japan. The body is now India.)
"It's not that sippy." Li Jun felt that he was a little less saliva, so he picked up the tea cup and took a sip of tea, saying: "These countries not only have different customs, but also their languages. It will be very difficult for caravans to deal with local people. What I mean is to allocate a portion of the silver from the trade income, and select a group of people who have been engaged in overseas trade for many years and understand the local language and humanities, and give them salary, and ask them to teach others. The excellent ones can be given titles. The professors can be selected from those talented and virtuous students. The excellent ones can not only give salary but also titles, but even officials."
"The emperor is wise! Candle shines thousands of miles!" Wen Tianxiang and others knew that caravans were often subject to language barriers and caused a lot of undeserved troubles, which was also one of the reasons that restricted the expansion of overseas trade in the Song Dynasty. If Li Jun said, it would not take long before a group of translation talents who mastered language and understood exotic styles would be much easier to trade overseas.
There is a national governance strategy in Chinese history that has been regarded as a classic for all dynasties, that is, "focus on agriculture and suppress the end", attach importance to agriculture, and suppress the development of commerce. This traditional policy has played an extremely important role in history, and its shortcomings are obvious.
It is certainly a good thing to attach importance to agriculture. If agriculture is regarded as the only important industry, it will restrict the development of history. The reason why the capitalist economy that emerged in the late Ming Dynasty was strangled in the cradle was not unrelated to this idea. Li Jun insisted on trade, and had markets but no markets, promoted the prosperity of commerce, broke this traditional policy, laid the foundation for the diversification of the productivity structure, prepared for the birth of the secondary and tertiary industries, and then turned China, a typical agricultural power in history, into a new country with coexistence and development of agriculture, industry and commerce services.
Li Jun's decision has a very far-reaching historical significance. In the short term, it directly promotes Guangzhou's overseas trade, and gradually becomes an international metropolis and accumulates a lot of wealth. In the long term, China started with Guangzhou and gradually embarked on the mercantilist route of a strong country, leading to the emergence of a series of new things, such as the establishment of customs, which specializes in overseas trade. Learning from Guangzhou's successful experience, it has promoted it nationwide and built and developed port cities such as Hong Kong, Macao, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Dalian, Qingdao, Lushun, and Weihaiwei, which have existed or not yet existed in history, effectively promoting the development of overseas trade and driving the country's large-scale development.
War is a bleeding wound, which often makes the country weaker and weaker and its economic strength seriously declined. Under the governance of Li Jun's new policy, the Southern Song Dynasty not only did not weaken it, but instead obtained more sufficient fiscal revenue and became stronger and stronger. It made material preparations for the expansion of military force and the completion of the unification of China.
Therefore, this imperial meeting was the beginning of the new history of China, and it affected not only the direction of Chinese history, but the historical direction of the entire world. The opening of a new trade route and the discovery of a new continent have promoted world exchanges and contributed to the development of the world.
(Note: Adam Smith, the famous founder of economics, wielded the stick of free trade to beat mercantilism to the point of being incomplete, while the famous German economics and pragmatic diplomat Liszt proposed the opposite theory, he believed that mercantilism is a good medicine for the development and protection of national industries. Facts have proved that the industrial revolution in Britain was completed under the protection of mercantilism. If there was no mercantilism as a protective umbrella, would the industrial revolution be so smooth? It is hard to say.
Now, countries around the world are advocating free trade, which is just a cover. What is really used is Liszt's theory, using the banner of free trade as a banner to protect the reality of national industry. For example, the United States, under the banner of free trade all day long, requires other countries to open up the software market so that Microsoft, which dominates the world, will kill the card without leaving any remaining. The reason why the United States dares to play the card of free trade is because it is in a leading position in the software field and has a competitive advantage. If other countries implement free retention, the consequences are self-evident, and Microsoft will destroy other countries' software industries. In industries that do not have competitive advantages, such as the steel industry, the United States will not dare to hold the banner of free trade, and try every means to protect the US steel industry, and even use the arrogant "Super 301 Act."
According to my point of view, the implementation of mercantilism is an indispensable means for a country to develop national industry. Mercantilism can protect national industry well. After the Southern Song Dynasty under Li Jun's governance, it will have a series of benefits. I will introduce them one by one at that time, and I will not repeat them here.)
While the king and his ministers were talking about Xing Zhengjian, Empress Quan rushed in and said, "Emperor, the big things are not good, the big things are not good. Shouhe Shengfu is going to become a monk."
"Become a monk?" Li Jun was dizzy and comforted Queen Quan and said, "Don't be anxious, just say it slowly and make it clear."
Queen Quan muttered, "It's not urgent for such a big thing, so what's the matter?" He took a breath and said, "Your Majesty, this is the matter. Shouhe Shengfu seems to be reading a book of accounts, crying while reading it, and he doesn't eat food. I saw that the emperor was busy painting, so he didn't start the report. Just now, Shouhe Shengfu threw the account book on the ground and scolded, "Jia Sidao, you Jia Sidao, the old lady treats you well, you are so sinister and harming many innocent people. The net of heaven is vast and unlimited, and my Song Dynasty law has not spared you." Next, she asked someone to pack up her things and said she wanted to live in Qixia Temple for a long time."
What Xie Daoqing looked at was nothing else, but a detailed list of Jia Sidao's property, which was a book that recorded the number and source of Jia Sidao's property in detail. It can also be said to be Jia Sidao's most powerful evidence of Jia Sidao. This was specially shown to her after the people knocked on the palace. The purpose was to let her know about Jia Sidao's crimes so that the old things would not be brought up again in the future and the trouble would arise.
Li Jun was secretly funny, thinking that Xie Daoqing's personality was changeable and he was unsure of his mind. It was true. He refused to kill Jia Sidao before, but now he is eager to kill him a few more times. To put it in a bad way, it is faster than taking off his pants.
Xie Daoqing went to the Monk Temple for a long time, which was similar to becoming a monk. This was related to royal dignity. No wonder Queen Quan was so anxious. Li Jun smiled slightly, and was not anxious at all, saying, "Let's go and have a look."
Wen Tianxiang and the others stood up and were about to follow him. Li Jun waved his hand and said, "You are here to wait for me, I will be back later." What I thought to myself was: "You are following now, she really wants to find a monk to relieve her loneliness."
Wen Tianxiang and the others shook their heads helplessly and had to sit down. They thought that Xie Dao Halal would cause trouble. When is it time? She is still in the mood to live in the Monk Temple for a long time. The Mongolian army besieged the city and did not arrest her. In that case, the impact would be great. If she wanted to threaten the emperor, would it be fine?
Chapter completed!