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Immortal Master Chapter 52: Persuasion Education

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    In the first year of Tianqi, during Xu Guangqi's military training, Xu Guangqi's friends asked the Portuguese in Macau to purchase a Portuguese artillery weighing four thousand pounds. After many efforts, they finally succeeded in purchasing it.  .  .  The selling price is said to be one thousand taels per door.  Here, the cannon donors exaggerated the price in order to falsely claim credit, and the actual price should be less than one thousand taels.  If the cannon were made by the foreigners themselves, the cost of each gun would be just over two hundred taels of silver.  "The price difference is so big" Zhu Cixiang was surprised.  Heavenly Master Wen Da smiled and said: "But the so-called four-pound cannon is just a small-caliber artillery that is easy to make. The price is naturally lower. If it is a red cannon, one still costs several thousand taels of silver" And  He smiled and said: "Such a ship is usually equipped with 24-pound guns on the bottom floor, 12-pound guns on the middle floor, and 6-pound guns on the upper floor. The 4-pound guns are not used. However, there are also a thousand of these 4-pound guns.  It¡¯s so heavy!¡± ¡°Hiss,¡± At this time, Zhu Cixiang took a deep breath.  After some calculation, nothing else was said.  The more than 100 cannons on this ship alone cost several million taels of silver.  It is said that the Ming Dynasty was the central celestial dynasty, covering everything.  However, the tax bills that the imperial court could receive in a year were only about five to six million taels in silver.  ¡°If the cost of shipbuilding is added to it, such a ship would cost the court almost half of the tax But how is that possible?  The imperial taxation was insufficient and stretched thin.  Zhu Cixiang had seen him countless times since he was a child. His father was worried about money, and the treatment in the palace was reduced again and again "The foreigners are actually so rich? The country is so powerful!" Zhu Cixiang murmured to himself  .  Something unexpected.  Master Wen said calmly: "The cost of such a ship is about ten tons of silver. One ton is two thousand jin" "That is one hundred and seventy-eight million taels" Although it is slightly less than he thought.  A little, but it was enough to make Zhu Cixi breathless. The imperial court had never looked down on these foreign barbarians, but they never thought that these small foreign barbarian countries would be so powerful if given time  More powerful? "Has His Highness the Crown Prince thought of it?  The eunuch Sanbao once said that wealth comes from the sea, but danger also comes from the sea.  Since ancient times, the imperial court believed that the sea was a natural barrier and there could be no foreign enemies.  But now His Highness the Prince has seen it, so what if there are ten or twenty ships like this?  " If it wasn't clear before, it's been almost half a year since I arrived in Jiangnan. I stayed in Hangzhou for a long time, and I gradually realized it personally. " Now the real prosperous taxing places of the Ming Dynasty are all on the seaside. They are favored by these strong ships.  The artillery was pressed in and bombed indiscriminately, and all the coastal cities were reduced to rubble But they didn't even realize that the Wen Da Tianshi was mixed with private goods.  We can't send ten of these first-class battleships. But what about the future? With the accumulation of European colonial wealth and the invention of the steam engine, technology will advance rapidly.  What will happen? This is the first lesson Master Wen taught Zhu Cixiang! "Sea prohibition is an ancestral system"  Maybe after the sea ban.  If there is no profit, these foreign barbarians will not come, right?  "Zhu Cixi hesitated. "How is that possible?  Wen Fei sneered: "Your Majesty, does your Highness know why so many of Taizu's ancestral systems were overthrown, and why the ancestral system of sea ban is still maintained to this day?"  " "This is probably" Zhu Cixiang was at a loss. This kind of thing, let alone him, Zhu Youjian would not know about it until his death. Among the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di was probably the one who really knew it! Zhu Yuanzhang  After all, the consciousness of small farmers is too strong, which is the same as that of Taizu: "Eunuchs are not allowed to interfere in politics.  Is this an ancestral system?  Merchants are not allowed to wear silk, it must be ancestral Just take out the imperial edict casually.  See how many ancestral systems remain unchanged and cannot be changed?  Zhu Cixiang blushed. When he thought about it carefully, he realized that this was really the case. He bowed and said respectfully: "Please give me some advice from the Heavenly Master!"  " Wen Fei sat still and accepted it openly. He just said: "I can bear this gift from you.  Except for me, there is no other person in the world who can tell you this truth.  " "Then father" Zhu Cixiang asked. "Your father is just like you, the ancestor of your family for generations. The only one who understands this truth is probably Emperor Chengzu!  "    "ah?  " "Let me ask you, what kind of emperor was Chengzu?  ¡±   "This" When evaluating one's ancestors, this kind of pressure is not ordinary.  "If you ask me, he is really the first-class emperor of Qin and Han. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying this in a derogatory sense. Let me ask you, Chengzu moved the capital to Beijing to build Wudang. Hundreds of thousands of civilians were used. Needless to say, you grew up in Beijing.  The big one is the massive construction work in Wudang Mountain, which took 12 years to build a large-scale Taoist architectural complex with 9 palaces, 9 temples, 36 nunneries, and 72 rock temples. Then there were the Five Expeditions to conquer Mongolia and so on.  Abusing people's power is no worse than Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty, right? " "This" Zhu Cixiang's face turned red.  "Even Emperor Qin had the world out of control. If Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty hadn't changed his tune in his later years and allowed the world to recuperate, you know what would have happened to this big man But why was it that at the time of Chengzu, he was already so restless?  During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, he still had the strength to go on an expedition to Annan" Zhu Cixiang was already dizzy when he was surrounded by clouds and mountains and fog in such a big circle.  Heavenly Master Wen Da smiled, no longer pretending, and said straightforwardly: "Nowhere else, actually on the trip to the West by the Three Treasures Eunuch" "Huh?" This answer was really beyond Zhu Cixiang's expectation. He was speechless, but  Never thought of that.  "If it weren't for Sanbao eunuchs who made several voyages to the West and earned Chengzu tens of millions of taels of silver. How do you think the world would have supported Chengzu's method?" "Let me ask you, have you heard of Spain, the Netherlands, and other foreign countries?  Is it a small country? You know how big they are, even Spain is not as big as Sichuan, which is only one tenth of the size of the Ming Dynasty" "Really?" Zhu Cixiang was surprised again.  I had already regarded these foreign barbarians as very powerful, but I didn't expect that they turned out to be just such a small country.  "But do you know why they are so rich and can build such huge battleships?" "Is it still related to the sea?" "Yes, the Spanish built Fuso in one step. A hundred years ago, they shipped away from America on average every year  2,900 kilograms of gold and 30,700 kilograms of silver. Later, the gold increased to 5,500 kilograms, and the silver was 246,000 kilograms. In total, there were almost 5 million kilograms of gold and 200 million kilograms of silver" "There are so many" Zhu Cixang blurted out.  And going out is his position.  When I heard this number, I felt dizzy.  A strong stimulation and jealousy suddenly came to my heart.  These days, the emperor¡¯s family has no money!  Heavenly Master Wen nodded, but of course he did not tell him that the Spaniards had plundered so much in three hundred years. It was only the seventeenth century now. Of course, there were not so many at this time.  "Do you know where the silver used by Ming Dynasty comes from?" Zhu Cixiang's heart moved, but he couldn't believe it.  He didn't say anything and listened to Master Wen's words.  "There are not many silver or copper mines in the original Central Plains of China, and there has been a money shortage in every dynasty. If you look at the old archives in the palace, you will know that at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, how could there be so much silver?  There is no need for Taizu to issue treasure banknotes" "Is this silver really flowing into China from America? But my Ming Sea Ban" "It's just a lie to the royal family!" Master Wen smiled coldly: "You know this.  How much profit is there in a year? If the royal family intervenes, how can they be willing to" "You mean" Zhu Cixiang was really scared this time.  "That's right, those high-sounding ministers and gentry of the imperial court. Especially the gentry from the south of the Yangtze River Which of them is not registered with the sea trade? Even if they are not directly involved in sea business, they are all supporting industries"  "Let me think about it, let me think about it!" The young prince was suddenly so stimulated.  The worldview established by Confucian education since childhood collapsed under the naked words of Master Wen Da!  "I would never have thought that my masters and those high-sounding court ministers would actually work together to hide such a big secret behind their backs.  No wonder those Jiangnan wealthy families are so rich.  The cost of a meal costs hundreds or even thousands of taels of silver.  As for his father, his mother, his concubines, and even the princes, they could only live longer and longer as the palace expenses were cut one after another The dragon robes worn by his father were all marked with  The patch is here! At this time, Zhu Cixi finally understood why his father would say that all ministers of civil and military affairs should die.  "A gentleman never speaks of profit I don't know what's going on in this lie"How much filth is hidden!  "Thank you, Heavenly Master, for clarifying my doubts!" ??Zhu Cixiang's face turned pale and he bowed to Heavenly Master Wen Da again.  If Master Wen hadn't told him this kind of thing, he would never have known about it.  Wen Fei nodded with a smile, he had unleashed a ferocious beast this time.  How this world will develop is really worth looking forward to!  "Your Highness, there is no need to be extreme," Heavenly Master Wen Da said calmly: "Your father is so angry because he trusts these scholar-officials too much. Speaking of which, this aspect is already bad. The education of your Zhu family  ¡­¡± Having said this, even Heavenly Master Wen couldn¡¯t help but shake his head.  The Zhu family's education can be regarded as the most failed among all dynasties!  Without the royal education of that period, so many idiots would have been taught Thanks to Brother Guhun Yeying for the reward (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!
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