Chapter 316 The reason for banning the sea
"Since European countries need it so much, we will sell it to them." Ying Zheng said.
Qin An nodded and said: "Sold, but basically all countries come to China to buy these things, and we rarely have ships to buy them.
There are two main reasons for this. One is that merchants are restricted and their status is not high. The other is that the imperial court has sealed the seaport and does not allow fishing boats to go out to sea. "
"I can understand the first one, but I can't understand the second one," Ying Zheng said.
Qin An immediately explained: "There are two reasons for this. The first is because when Zhu Yuanzhang first founded the country, there was a wealthy businessman named Shen Wansan, and his business was spread all over the world.
The people called him the God of Wealth, erected a monument for him, made a statue of him, and then paid homage to the statue.
For a time, the people in the world only knew Shen Wansan and did not know the emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.
This made Zhu Yuanzhang very angry, so he issued a series of measures that were unfavorable to merchants, including the ban on sea.
All of Shen Wansan's money was even confiscated. Fortunately, Shen Wansan made a comeback with his own ability and became a wealthy businessman again.
It's just that he restrained himself a lot this time, and Zhu Yuanzhang did not cause trouble for Shen Wansan, and later even summoned Shen Wansan's descendants. "
"What about the second reason?" Ying Zheng asked.
When Qin An heard this, his face suddenly darkened, and he said angrily: "This is about a country that we still hate deeply, Japan."
"What does Guan Dongying have to do with it?" Ying Zheng said in confusion.
"During the Ming Dynasty, the internal chaos of Japan was as chaotic as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period of China, so a profession emerged, the Japanese Ronin.
This group of rogues could no longer survive in their own country, so they came to our coastal city in China. "
"What are they here for?" Ying Zheng asked in a deep voice.
At this time, both Ying Zheng and Li Si had a premonition of something bad happening.
Qin An said angrily: "What else can they do? Of course they came to China to burn, kill and loot. They killed our Ming people, took our Ming money, and occupied our Ming city."
"Damn it."
Ying Zheng's body once again exuded a murderous aura, which was stronger than the murderous aura emitted just now.
Li Si and others were shocked. The First Emperor was about to explode, and he wanted to kill people to vent his anger.
Immediately everyone knelt down and said, "Village Chief, please calm down."
Ying Yinman took Ying Zheng's hand and said, "Father, calm down, this is all history."
Ying Zheng said solemnly: "I know, I'm fine, you all should get up. Qin An, please continue."
Qin An was a little confused. He was just talking about a piece of history. Is it necessary to substitute it in that way? Could it be that I said it too well, or that I showed an angry look of sharing the same hatred with the enemy, which caused my father-in-law to hate Xiaozhi.
Forget it, no matter what the reason is, it doesn’t matter if the father-in-law and the others hate Xiaoli, it’s best if everyone in the world hates Xiaoli.
Qin An continued: "We call the Japanese pirates Japanese pirates, and Japanese pirates have been ravaging the coastal cities of the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years.
Until a man named Qi Jiguang appeared and formed a Qi family army, killing the Japanese pirates so that they did not dare to come to China. Allowing coastal cities to enjoy hundreds of years of peace. "
"Good." Ying Zheng said excitedly, "What a Qi Jiguang, what a Qi Jiajun, a role model for our generation."
"Father-in-law is right," Qin An said, patting his horse.
Ying Zheng's anger quietly retreated a little, and he rolled his eyes at Qin An and said, "Tell me, if the First Emperor of Qin wants to rule overseas, what do you think should be done?"
Qin An scratched his head and said: "During the Qin Dynasty? If you go to sea, only a few hundred people can occupy a place.
Therefore, we don’t need to pay too much attention to overseas countries. We should focus on developing population first. Only with a large population can we occupy other continents, but now many continents have no owners.
During the time of the First Emperor, the population was only 20 million. With such a small number of people, even the land of Baiyue could not be developed. Going overseas to occupy other countries was simply suicidal.
If we really want to develop overseas, it is better to capture Japan first, then capture Jizi North Korea, then build a port there, send troops to occupy Japan, and capture it.
Then one hundred thousand old Qin people were sent to Japan to assimilate the Japanese people, so that Japan would become a part of China from the Qin Dynasty.
To this end, maritime trade was opened and counties were established in Fuso.
In Japan, although there are frequent earthquakes and typhoons and other natural disasters in many places, there are a lot of gold and silver mines there.
In addition, there are not many people in Japan now, and there is still a lot of land that can be developed.
If I were someone working for the First Emperor, I would suggest auctioning the land in Japan and selling the land to the nobles.
In order to develop the land in Japan, the nobles will definitely send a large amount of manpower and material resources to Japan.
This can be regarded as leaving an industry for one's family, or leaving a way out for the family. "
When Ying Zheng heard this, his face suddenly darkened.
What do you mean? Could it be that I will drive out all the nobles and kill them all? Or is it that the court will be detrimental to them.
Li Si and others were more embarrassed.
To be honest, they didn't know anything about overseas affairs or the Western Regions, so they really didn't have any other ideas.
But now that they know it, they will take action. Of course, it is to help the court digest the land of Japan.
"In addition, land annexation has been a very troublesome matter since ancient times. After Japan is developed, almost everyone will have land.
But as time goes by, the land in the hands of the common people will be bought by the nobles, and eventually there will be more and more poor people.
The final result was that the people could not survive, and then they began to rebel against the court, and a dynasty fell.
Therefore, every founding emperor would allocate land to the common people for cultivation at the beginning. Even if not every common person had it, at least the vast majority of the common people had land to cultivate.
Then, a few hundred years later, land annexation occurred, resulting in a large number of nobles owning large amounts of land, which was legally acquired.
The imperial court couldn't even take action against these nobles. "
Ying Zheng nodded slightly and said, "It does make sense. Do you have a solution?"
"There's only one way."
"any solution?"
Qin An said: "Prohibit the sale of land. Or just give the land a high price. For example, one thousand taels of silver per acre.
If the price is lower than this, the court will not recognize it, and the land will still belong to the seller. "
"Hiss~~" Everyone gasped.
That's too cruel. One thousand taels and one acre has been increased a hundred times. Now that you have 10 taels of silver, everyone is eager to sell all the land to you.
The main reason is that there are too many wastelands now, and the land has been abandoned due to years of war.
"This method is good, but unfortunately it is unrealistic and difficult to do." Ying Zheng said.
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