Li Jicheng was riding on a tall Indian folding horse, wearing a sparkling blue satin robe, and there was an orchid riding the same folding horse as him beside him. He was in Paradpur, Orissa Province, India. The daughter of "General Singh" who got it is named Aishwarya. This Hu Ji is wearing a light and graceful red sari, with her navel exposed, bare feet, and gold jewelry on her hair, neck, and wrists. It is really eye-catching. Li Jicheng and Aishwarya were followed by a large group of blue warriors riding horses, all wearing shiny silk robes, carrying flintlock guns on their backs, and carrying Indian waist knives, riding on tall folding-eared horses.
Beautifully dressed and angry horses accompanied by orchids! This Li Jicheng is showing off his wealth properly, just because he is afraid that others will not know that he has made a fortune in India. He has no idea what it means to be low-key.
However, his current status cannot be kept low. He is the grandson of Emperor Dashun, and he has the opportunity to be promoted to the prince. But whether this opportunity can be realized is still a bit uncertain - his father Li Laiheng has many sons, and the current crown princess is not his biological mother!
So Li Jicheng must show off his wealth! We must let the second and third generations in Kunming know that they have made a fortune in India... Those who want to prosper together should come and join me!
The layout of Kunming City is different from those cities in Sichuan that look strict and live in a dull city system. There is no checkerboard pattern - it uses high walls and streets to turn the inner city areas into squares. The small town looks like a chessboard when viewed from a high place. A city with this kind of layout is very difficult to defeat. Even if the outer city walls are broken through, the squares in the city still have to be broken through one by one before they can break through to the inner city and the palace city...
There is no "chessboard" in Kunming. The streets and alleys are all connected together, forming a large area of prosperity. There was a curfew at the beginning, but it was lifted after ten years of joint rule, making Kunming even more prosperous.
Of course, Kunming's prosperity is not only due to the break-up of the city and the lack of curfew. The biggest difference between this city and Chongqing and Chengdu in the north is that it is located on a land with plenty of room for development.
Before Dashun occupied Yunnan, Nuo Da's Yunnan had less than 1.8 million acres of registered land, which was worse than any better prefecture in the southeast. Although there are factors such as insufficient official statistics and a large number of chieftains' autonomy, it also fully demonstrates that Yunnan still has a lot of living space that can be utilized.
After Dashun conquered Myanmar, Yunnan became connected with northern Myanmar, and the living space was even greater!
As the number of Fubing households in Dashun increases, the land in Sichuan becomes increasingly tense, and the development of Yunnan and Myanmar naturally becomes more and more intense.
While Dashun is working hard to develop agriculture in Yunnan and northern Myanmar (there are many plateaus in northern Myanmar, the climate is cooler than that in southern Myanmar, and there are fewer tropical diseases), a large amount of copper and tin mines have also been discovered in the land of Yunnan and northern Myanmar. mine. Copper and tin are strategic materials for making money and cannons, and they can also be used to make money. Because the copper coins cast by Dashun in Kunming, Yunnan were of high quality, they were very popular among profiteers in the Ming Dynasty!
In the smuggling trade between Ming Dynasty and Shun Dynasty (after the large-scale war broke out, the market trade ceased to exist and was replaced by smuggling), Dashun's Gongzhi Tongbao could be exchanged for a large amount of cloth, grain, etc. from Ming Dynasty merchants. Livestock and salt not only effectively supported the Dashun Army's operations, but also alleviated the material shortage in Dashun.
Of course, the behavior of profiteers in the Ming Dynasty was actually legal in the Ming Dynasty, because the Ming Dynasty arsenal also needed copper from Yunnan and Myanmar to cast artillery. In the historical Qing Dynasty, Yunnan copper production accounted for the national copper production. More than 95%.
Dashun could not directly export copper materials to Daming, so Daming could only obtain Yunnan copper in this way.
Stimulated by this special Yunnan copper trade, the mining industry in Yunnan and northern Myanmar also developed, and industry, mining and commerce are not separated. Even though the copper and tin mines in Dashun are mainly official mines, there are still There are a bunch of contractors making a fortune - Dashun is a feudal dynasty after all, and it is impossible to exclude the private sector from the economy and can only suppress it as much as possible. Because feudal land ownership is nominally state-owned (what is entrusted to subjects by the monarch and cannot be bought or sold is feudal ownership, and what is bought from the market is not called feudal), it is actually privately owned and operated, and is not truly state-owned. economy.
Therefore, Dashun's economic base is still privately owned! In this case, the private economy will always gradually grow and erode Dashun's government-run industry and commerce...
The development of the copper and tin industries in northern Yunnan and Myanmar, and the subsequent rise of the Kunming coin industry, required a large amount of labor, which greatly promoted the commercial prosperity of Yunnan, especially Kunming.
On the way to the Wuhua Mountain Tai Palace, Li Jicheng found that Kunming City was more prosperous than when he left a few years ago. The streets were full of shops, some opened restaurants and pubs, some sold silk, some sold jewelry, and some Those who sell paintings and calligraphy, some sell various Western items, some sell swords and armor (not everyone can buy swords and armor, only the military households can buy them), and some sell livestock.
In addition, there are many vendors selling snacks and snacks on the street, shouting loudly and hawking along the street, which is really bustling and lively - this kind of situation will never be seen in Chengdu, Chongqing, because the household registration management in Chengdu, Chongqing is strict. , and the two industries of the people were prohibited, workers did not do business, businessmen did not work, and the farmers outside the city were firmly tied to the land.
"Why are there so many businessmen in Kunming now?" Li Jicheng asked casually.
One of Niu Jinxing's sons, Niu Ben, also followed Li Jicheng. When he heard his question, he replied: "Great Sun, there are many farmers in Kunming who came from Juntianjun, Sichuan. They have field certificates issued from various places in Sichuan, but they are unable to go." With the land reclamation all over northern Myanmar and Yunnan, we can only let them work in the copper mines or do some business, so that people can survive!"
Yunnan has many mountains but little flat land, so the value of reclamation is not too high. In Myanmar, there is a lot of flat land, but the cost of reclamation is not low. Immigrants not only have to face the threat of malaria, but all they can get is forest land. Just cut it. It costs a lot of money to plant trees, dig roots, and build water conservancy projects.
Therefore, most of the Sichuan farmers who were allocated land in Myanmar could only work as tenants in their hometown or work and do business in Yunnan.
And the Dashun court was helpless...
Li Jicheng sighed and said, "It seems we have to go to Tianzhu to find more money!"
Niu Ben nodded and said with a smile: "The prince often says this too... We can no longer fight against Shaanxi, we have to move south, there is money in the south!"
Li Jicheng nodded. He initially wanted to make some money in India, and then buy more flintlock guns from the Dutch to attack Shaanxi.
But when he arrived in India, he found that it was much better than Shaanxi, and there was gold everywhere! And there is no Ming army that cannot be defeated.
"Um, what did Grandpa say?" Li Jicheng asked again.
Niuben shook his head and whispered: "The old emperor disapproves of our large-scale march south."
Li Jicheng sighed and said, "I am getting old, maybe I miss my hometown in Shaanxi!"
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"You are confused, you are a confused prince, you only know that money, money, money...money is poisonous!"
In the Wuhua Palace, Emperor Dashun Li Guo was already a little confused because of his illness and was talking nonsense.
The person who listened to his nonsense was the prince Li Laiheng. Because Dashun was ruled by eight princes and the prince was responsible for the army, the emperor's power was not very great. Li Guo was seriously ill, so of course there was no way to stop everyone from going south to make a fortune.
But you can still talk nonsense!
Li Guo coughed a few times and then continued: "Those who have a state-owned family are not worried about being few but about inequality; they are not worried about poverty but being uneasy... Although I, Dashun, are poor, I am average, so we can share the joys and sorrows. Resist Zhu Ming. That bastard Jicheng doesn't understand, why are you confused? He has plundered so much gold and silver in Tianzhu, and I don't know how many people want to get rich with him. Can my Dashun still be average and stable? ?”
