What Lin Jingchun said was the purpose of Su Yonglin's doing this.
Quanzhou and Guangzhou were the two most important and largest foreign trade ports in the Southern Song Dynasty. They were the locations of the two municipal shipping companies. For the Southern Song Dynasty, their most direct significance was the commercial trade tax revenue of more than 2 million guan per year.
Especially in Quanzhou, there were a relatively large number of Southern Song Dynasty clans. The Southern Song Dynasty government set up some relatively important central institutions in Quanzhou, allowing Quanzhou to have direct access to the central government. It was almost regarded as the center of deputy imperial power in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Herein lies its economic and political significance.
For the Ming Dynasty, these two states were also very important.
Su Yonglin had long planned to seize the Southern Song Dynasty's share in the world trade system. However, despite various efforts, he still found that it was difficult for the Ming Dynasty to compete with the Southern Song Dynasty in the commodity economy.
The Ming Dynasty demonstrated its national strength and existence through war, and organized caravans to go to places such as Quanzhou and Guangzhou to trade with local foreign merchants, and then tried to bring them to the Ming Dynasty for trade and sell them some Ming Dynasty handicrafts and leather products. .
However, foreign businessmen generally expressed distrust of the Ming Dynasty. They trusted the two ports of Quanzhou and Guangzhou, where they had already established a foothold, and the Song Shipping Department system, which they had dealt with for many years. They were even unfamiliar with the existence of the Ming Dynasty. Be vigilant.
Coupled with the efforts of Southern Song officials and local merchants to fan the flames, the caravans dispatched several times by the Ming Dynasty achieved little except selling some handmade products and leather products.
There was even a time when we finally managed to negotiate a business order for grassland leather products, but it ended up being troubled by officials from the Shipping Department of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Lin Jingchun was so angry that he lost several hairs.
But there was really no choice at the time. The wealthy foreign businessmen really didn't trust the strange existence of the Ming Dynasty.
On the one hand, this is due to historical reasons. On the other hand, the business of the Ming Dynasty was underdeveloped, and it was true that it could not compete with the Southern Song Dynasty.
With roughly the same productivity, the people of the Song Dynasty created multiple world-wide commercial and trade centers through high-intensity exploitation. From the Northern Song Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty, they successively integrated four shipping companies, namely Mizhou, Hangzhou, Quanzhou, Guangzhou.
After the Jin-Song War, the Song Dynasty lost the north and also lost the Mizhou City Shipping Division. After the Ming Dynasty counterattacked, the Mizhou City Shipping Division was controlled by the Ming Kingdom, but it was not operational for the time being.
Hangzhou is naturally Lin'an, and the remaining two are Quanzhou and Guangzhou.
Several shipping companies brought huge financial revenue to the Southern Song Dynasty.
It made a lot of profits through trade for the luxury enjoyment of the upper class, which is equivalent to the Southern Song Dynasty using the whole country to develop commerce to make money, while neglecting people's livelihood and food production.
Its commodity economy advantage was established at the expense of low human rights, regardless of the life and death of the people. Therefore, its low human rights advantage was incomparable to the Ming Dynasty, which paid attention to people's livelihood and attached great importance to agricultural production.
This kind of commercial prosperity is based on cruel exploitation. Once the exploitation is eliminated, the false commercial prosperity that is not in line with the current development of productivity will eventually return to practicality and rationality.
The return of agriculture and conservative ideology in the Zhu Ming Dynasty was the inevitable result after the burst of this false prosperity bubble.
Therefore, if left to its own devices, the Ming Dynasty founded by Su Yonglin would not be able to compete with the Southern Song Dynasty in business in another ten years. It is estimated that it would take another twenty years or so before some changes would occur.
But the crux of the problem is not here.
After all, national strength cannot be determined by commercial competitiveness. The Ming Dynasty's all-round crushing of the Southern Song Dynasty has little to do with commercial competitiveness. With the efficiency of government organization and war mobilization efficiency of the Southern Song Dynasty, it can increase its economic income tenfold. Unable to fight against the Ming Dynasty.
The better its economy is, the more luxurious the life of the ruling class will be. The actual growth of national power will be quite limited, and the people will not get any benefits, and life will become more and more difficult.
All the foreign trade dividends fell into the pockets of the upper ruling class represented by the Zhao and Song royal families.
But then again, Su Yonglin also wants to develop overseas trade. This is a necessary national policy.
The Ming Dynasty not only needed a strong agriculture as its basic base, but also a certain scale of commerce.
Before there is substantial progress in scientific and technological strength, foreign business and trade activities are a good way to stimulate economic development and revitalize the national economy.
The Southern Song Dynasty was able to create a falsely prosperous commercial empire through this empire-led model, which was enough to prove its advanced nature and effectiveness in a certain sense, and could help the Ming Dynasty improve the current single agricultural-oriented economy.
The Ming Dynasty is undoubtedly an agricultural country at present.
Su Yonglin exposed all false prosperity, abolished exorbitant taxes, and encouraged farmers to work. This triggered the return of agriculture and the counter-urbanization trend, which greatly slowed down the urbanization process of the Ming Dynasty and shrank the citizen class.
At the same time, this wave of counter-urbanization has brought about a comprehensive recovery of agricultural production and social productivity, which has brought an extremely large amount of fiscal revenue.
The total fiscal revenue of the Southern Song Dynasty was about 48 million guan, while the total fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty had reached 56 million guan in the fourth year of Hongwu, and the recovery was very significant.
It is expected to continue to improve in the next few years, and is expected to enter the era of 100 million yuan in total revenue within ten years.
At the same time, the total grain output is also increasing year by year. The increase in output is very strong, and there is no end in sight.
At present, the agricultural and financial departments of the Ming Dynasty also estimate that after the Yellow River diversion project is successfully completed, this rising trend of agricultural production will usher in a new peak.
By then, the agricultural production income of the Ming Dynasty will create a new record that is beyond the reach of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties.
Su Yonglin's revolutionary actions smashed the shackles of farmers and allowed people to return to their original position in agricultural production. This is a realistic approach.
This resulted in a comprehensive recovery of agricultural productivity and agricultural prosperity in the true sense.
However, Su Yonglin also clearly realized that this was not a leap forward in productivity, but a restoration of agricultural productivity that had been suppressed and destroyed under corrupt politics and cruel exploitation and oppression.
The land of the Central Plains is recovering the prosperity and prosperity it should have, and it is not a revolution in productivity.
If we indulge in such achievements, then after this wave of recovery process is over, the cake brought by the expansion of agricultural production will not be able to continue to expand.
As the population continues to grow, and as the post-war baby boom emerges and continues, within forty years at the latest, the Ming Dynasty will surely face a social crisis serious enough to affect the sustainability of the regime.
This has nothing to do with social ideology, but a purely existential crisis.
Therefore, at present, the task of the Ming Dynasty is to complete the necessary productivity revolution within the forty-year window period. It must push social productivity forward. No matter what method is used, it is best to have one foot on the threshold of the industrial revolution. .
Otherwise, the revolutionary cause under the leadership of Su Yonglin will be just a flash in the pan in the long history of China. I don’t know when the next time will come.
In order to achieve this goal, not only the driving force of the revolutionary regime headed by Su Yonglin is needed, but also the external demand brought about by huge external demand.
Only when two carriages go hand in hand can the ancient land of China break out of the quagmire and rush towards the new world.
Therefore, the historical responsibility of the Su Yonglin regime is very clear.
One is to maintain its revolutionary nature. While liberating people, it must gather a huge inward driving force, strive to develop science and technology, and strive to run towards the new world and get rid of the involvement of the old history.
The second is to promote people's awakening and awareness, open the country's door to look outside, lead the Age of Discovery, and use the huge external demand brought by the Age of Discovery to generate strong suction from the outside and promote the progress of Ming society.
Both internal and external forces worked together to promote a truly revolutionary leap forward in productivity in the Ming Dynasty.
The first point is that Su Yonglin has been doing it and feels that he has made some achievements, as evidenced by the current agricultural prosperity.
The second point is what he needs to do now.
In pure commercial competition, the Ming Dynasty would not be able to defeat the Southern Song Dynasty in the next ten years.
But who stipulates that I must engage in pure commercial competition with you in your track?
There has never been such a thing as business negotiation in the world. It is just a beautiful fantasy produced by the weak class.
Business must also serve the country's political and military goals. Business without the protection of the state cannot be successful for a long time. Pure competition will inevitably lead to the intervention of state power.
And now Su Yonglin will use the powerful national power of the Ming Dynasty to intervene in this business competition.
He wanted to seize Quanzhou and Guangzhou through military means, physically end the commercial advantage of the Southern Song Dynasty, and then transfer this advantage to the Ming Dynasty.
"The significance of Quanzhou and Guangzhou to the Southern Song Dynasty is definitely not just high taxes, these two places are also windows to the world."
Su Yonglin used a novel term to describe Quanzhou and Guangzhou, which aroused the interest of the officials present.
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