Chapter 50 The formation of war industry
He Xi created the company, which highly recognized He Xi’s reforms because they relied on He Xi’s new laws to make money.
It is impossible in any case to want to restore the old law.
The new law enacted by He Xi is essentially conducive to business. In modern terms, it means creating a fair business environment. But the problem is that if the environment is fair, the outcome in the mall will be fair.
Businessmen in Beijing have already adapted to the new law. They have opened factories and have a large number of cheap products in their hands. It just lacks a market, which is absolutely incomparable to other places in Ming Dynasty.
A fair business environment is equivalent to allowing them to invade and occupy the local market share. Turn what the local tycoons used to monopolize their power into what they obtained through commercial means.
This is why He Xi dared to implement the new law throughout the country.
This is a powerful political force.
But the stubborn local forces in the south are still a headache.
When Zhu Yuanzhang launched a large-scale immigration campaign, the number of southerners who immigrated was not too large. Now he is planning to do it again, just to consolidate the border and move all the powerful locals to Annan, and even to new occupied areas further south.
In order to block the mouth of Youyou in the world, their land is given ten times in the south, which is not a problem.
After all, when these powerful locals left their hometowns, they never lost more than just their land. There are many other rights.
If these people are unwilling, they will naturally have a name to deal with them and resist state orders. Justifiably, his house was confiscated.
This is also the ancient wisdom of the Chinese people. Starting from Qin Shihuang, who moved the nobles of the six countries to Xianyang, later generations copied it many times, and He Xi naturally followed the example of the cat and the tiger.
Therefore, He Xi did not want to stop this war.
Although there is actually room for immigrants in the Northeast. But moving southerners to the northeast looks like being sent away. Now, there will be a lot of resistance. This was not what He Xi wanted.
After all, increasing the Han population in the newly occupied territories was also very important to He Xi. After all, territory is temporary, but population is permanent.
As long as Han people grow and multiply in these places, these lands will always belong to the Ming Dynasty. It's Chinese.
These people are a problem within Ming Dynasty. But it is a resource in places like Nanyang.
He Xi hopes that these people can go to various places in Southeast Asia smoothly. After all, many people have gone to sea in recent years, so He Xi doesn't have to do anything. Many people actually know that Nanyang is not a barren land, and death is not certain if you go overseas.
But the bitter cold land in the north is indeed not something that southerners can contend with.
There are still fewer people who go to Nanyang to fight.
In addition, He Xi discovered that the impact of the war on the economy was too great.
Not bad. But good.
In order to get He Xi to support the war, Zhang Ming turned over all Annan's gold and silver, which was not much. There are only a few hundred thousand taels of gold and more than three million taels of silver. But in He Xi's hands, the gold and silver were enough to issue fifteen million taels of banknotes.
This huge sum of money alone is enough to offset military expenses.
Not to mention, Annan is just a little bit of a benefit.
no. Annan's land, population and various resources are all inestimable benefits. Some of these can be directly discounted, and some will be a steady stream of benefits. Such as food. With Annan, Ming Dynasty will have another grain-producing land.
Although it is said that after He Xi captured Nanjing, he had lifted restrictions on food.
There is no need to spend a lot of money every year to keep food prices down. But when He Xi was in Beijing, the fear of food shortages was always there. After all, Beijing has everything, except for the high yield of food.
This is not to mention how many industries the Ming Dynasty invested in the war. How much more business tax has been collected.
He Xi made various plans to attack Annan, but he did not lose any money. He even made a lot of money.
This made He Xi deeply understand why military industry is said to be a special commodity. Before the Civil War, why did it happen?
There were so many shortfalls because it was a civil war. After He Xi captured Nanjing, there were some losses to Nanjing. But in fact, the attack was not heavy, and the property of the Nanjing court was only confiscated. As for other national properties, they were not touched at all.
Now playing Annan is different.
It's not that He Xi underestimated the small Annan court, let's not talk about the gold. Just talking about the silver, it was more than three million taels. Even if the Annan court was sold from top to bottom, there would not be that much money. If there was really that much money , I didn’t know he was playing so poorly. Under heavy reward, there must be a brave man.
Everywhere is right.
This money was naturally contributed by Annan local tycoons and even temples and so on.
Under capitalism, war is special business. That's how it is now. However, the traditional agricultural society is not good. It depends entirely on the consumption of war and the ability to monetize the spoils of war.
This war consumption does not refer to the absolute value of the overall consumption of the war.
In fact, there is no doubt that the war consumption in industrial society is higher than that in agricultural society. The relative value mentioned here. That is, the ratio of war consumption to overall social wealth. The consumption of war in agricultural society was too great a consumption of social wealth at that time. If the war lasts for a long time, people will starve to death.
Industrial society is different. A real war will consume a lot of money. But as long as it is not a long-term war, it is unlikely that people will starve to death. It is because the ratio of war consumption to total social wealth has declined. The ability to monetize loot is also different.
Many people say that gold and silver are useless because they cannot be eaten when hungry or clothed when cold. This is because in an agricultural society, gold and silver are wealth, but in many cases, even if you have money, you cannot exchange it for supplies.
But things are different now.
He Xi directly used gold and silver as collateral and printed more money. This is actually very low-level. In later generations, the moment the war was won, the stock market had already completed the realization of the spoils.
He Xi hadn't felt this before, but now she really felt it. Make money by fighting wars, and the more wars you fight, the more money you make.
Rather than simply picking up the technology tree, light up new technologies bit by bit. To complete industrial upgrading, colonial plunder is the fastest way to make money.
Everyone is criticizing imperialism, and everyone wants to be imperialist.
He Xi could not avoid this temptation.
He Xi even felt that if he conquered the Indo-China Peninsula during his term of office and snatched away the wealth of Burma, Siam, Champa, and Chenla, He Xi would not have to worry about the Ming Dynasty's fiscal deficit.
For all these reasons, He Xi finally decided to let go of the fight.
Anyway, when He Xi was developing industry in Beijing, there were some abnormalities. Put military industry first. The military industry was naturally a little lonely after the war, and it is still in the process of transformation. It is only now that we have discovered that the military industry is not unprofitable.
Instead, you have to sell a special business like war to make money.
Now Zhu Xiongying talked about this matter again.
He Xi couldn't refuse. Not to mention, this is also a good thing for He Xi. Just say He Xi if you refuse. What should we do if Zhu Xiongying misjudges?
Although today's Ming Dynasty can be regarded as the real Ming imperialism. It made He Xi a little uneasy. But he still doesn't want to destroy the present Ming Dynasty.
He Xi said, "Thank you for your kindness, Your Majesty. I feel ashamed to receive it."
Zhu Xiongying said: "Okay, uncle, my second son has also been entrusted to my uncle's care."
Zhu Xiongying’s second son was also born. Zhu Xiongying said this casually. He arranged for his second son to be He Xi, just to prepare the second son to go to Tianzhu to join the feudal clan. On the one hand, there are not many good places in the world, and Tianzhu is much better than some desert islands overseas.
On the other hand, it is impossible for the large area of Tianzhu to be given to He Xi to arrange the second child, which can be regarded as a check and balance.
Of course, it's not about checking and balancing He Xi. There was no one who could check and balance He Xi in the Ming Dynasty, and even more so when he went to Tianzhu. He was the second and third generation of the He family.
After all, everyone is going to die.
But fiefdoms are passed down from generation to generation.
In the end, it was just a sign that the He family and the Zhu family wanted.
There is also Zhu Xiongying's backup for his bloodline.
What will the world be like in the future? Zhu Xiongying is also very confused sometimes.
No need to look at the future given by He Xi. Zhu Xiongying knew that the future had completely changed.
Based on the current political and economic logic of the Ming Dynasty. It will definitely fall into infinite expansion until it takes over the world, but what will happen after it takes over the world?
Zhu Xiongying would not think that the world would be unified and the world would be peaceful.
Zhu Xiongying feels that this is even more dangerous than when expanding externally.
It is estimated that the possibility of internal melee is very high.
The Central Plains is the center, and it is probably the place where the war was the worst. Have you ever seen what the First and Second World Wars have done to the Central Plains?
Is the Ming Emperor really easy to do?
Zhu Xiongying also thought about this issue sometimes. After all, He Xi's abandonment of imperial power not only made Zhu Xiongying feel at ease, but also made Zhu Xiongying secretly doubt that the Ming Emperor would have nothing to do with him in the future. Good ending.
Zhu Xiongying's feeling was quite unreasonable. It could be regarded as his superstition about He Xi.
Zhu Xiongying knew one thing very well, that is, when He Xi left the Central Plains, he would take away too many things. Not to mention that He Xi was at his peak in the Spring and Autumn Period, not to mention that He Xi had many talented people under his command. Tianzhu will definitely not be a rival in the future. After occupying Tianzhu, with Tianzhu as the core, it will definitely be a strong country.
Even in the future, it is very likely that it will be one of the forces that threatens the Ming Dynasty.
If you send the second child there, you may become the monarch of this force in the future. Even if not, he will occupy an important position in this force. Even if he is not, at least the bloodline can be passed down.
Zhu Xiongying will not be extinct.
This is also the sequelae of Zhu Xiongying's seeing a lot of things in the future, that is, he looks too far and thinks too much.
He Xi just smiled and said, "Your Majesty, please rest assured, I will definitely make arrangements for the Second Highness."
