Daming: At the start of the showdown, Lao Zhu was stunned

Chapter 548: What can the Japanese do?Of course he is a slave
"Dad, this matter is not urgent." Zhu Su said with a smile. "Brother Mu Ying is presiding over the overall situation in Japan, and General Lan Yu is on his way back from commanding the army."

"It won't be too late to discuss merits and rewards when the army returns. But I have another important task when I return this time."

"Oh?" Lao Zhu became interested and turned his face. "What's the priority?"

"Issuing banknotes," Zhu Su said.

Now that Sado Gold Mountain is in hand and Iwami Silver Mountain is on the way to be surveyed, the Ming Dynasty's gold and silver reserves are no longer in danger.The most important thing now is to immediately build a relevant financial system to digest and utilize this hard-earned "windfall".

After all, the reserves of Sado Gold Mountain and Iwami Silver Mountain are huge. If these gold and silver are directly put into the market, it will inevitably cause the collapse of the already fragile Ming Dynasty economic system.Only by expediting the establishment of a "Royal Bank", using gold and silver as reserves, and issuing Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes can we make the most of this amount of funds and revitalize the entire Ming Dynasty market.

"In addition, how to control and swallow up the Japanese country also depends on these 'Da Ming treasure notes'." Zhu Su said.

At this time, several people had moved to Jinshen Hall again, and the envoys and officials who had just celebrated the Longevity Festival had also left the palace.Only a few people closely related to the New Deal, including Zhu Su and Liu Bowen, were left to discuss matters privately.

"What do you mean by His Highness's words? Hasn't the Japanese country already surrendered? How can controlling the Japanese country be related to treasure money?" Song Lian asked doubtfully.

Everyone, including Lao Zhu, also looked puzzled.Zhu Su explained: "Although the Japanese king has actually been controlled by us, our Ming army has also set up many concessions in the Japanese country..."

"But in today's Japanese country, there are still many famous princes with strong troops. Although they are nominally surrendered to the Japanese king Hou Guishan and the Ming Dynasty Yingzhou Xuanwei Division, if things happen again in the future, no one knows what will happen. No one will rise up and drive our Ming forces out of Japan."

Everyone was silent. There were all well-educated people present, so they naturally knew the old events of the four towns in Anxi during the Tang Dynasty.In the Tang Dynasty, our ancestors made great efforts to open up territory and successfully established Beiting, Anxi and other protective offices in the Western Regions.This coincides with Ming Dynasty's "pioneering and enterprising" strategy.

The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were stationed in the Western Regions and settled and taught the people here. If everything went according to plan, tens or hundreds of years later, this place would be a land illuminated by Chinese civilization, and the Chinese family wealth would be even thicker.

However, things went against expectations. Xuanzong was ruthless in his later years, the Anshi Rebellion broke out, and the northwest border was fragmented.Tubo took the opportunity to capture Chang'an, and the Western Regions were cut off from the Tang Dynasty and became an enclave.Even though the Tang troops in Anxi and Beiting Protectorate fought bravely, Guo Xin, the Protector-General of Anxi, defended Anxi for 42 years until all his soldiers were old.

Thousands of miles away, I am alone, the army is exhausted and the people are exhausted, weeping and bleeding and clinging to death.

In the end, it still failed to prevent this place from being invaded by barbarians again.The Western Region was supposed to be another rich and prosperous place in China. Today, only the barbarians and the loyal souls of the Tang army soldiers remain.

The Japanese country still has its minions and claws. The Ming Dynasty can station its troops for a while, but it cannot guarantee that it will be stationed forever.Moreover, the Japanese country is far away from the sea, and it is almost an enclave.If something happened to the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming army on the island was finally annihilated like the Anxi Protectorate and Beiting Protectorate in the Tang Dynasty, wouldn't it be a failure?
It is difficult to expand the land, but it is even harder to defend the land.Not to mention that the barbarian land must be completely transformed into Chinese land.How to transform it really needs to be considered by Haosheng.

"How to treat it, Lao Wu, what do you think?" Lao Zhu said.

"It's not a new idea. It's just people. As long as the Japanese country... ahem, as long as the number of Ming people in Yingzhou exceeds the Japanese, then Yingzhou will naturally become a Chinese territory."

"It just so happens that our country, Dingkou, is now in ruins, and there are still countless fertile fields in the north that are uncultivated. Therefore, I want to... move the Japanese people to Yingzhou to enrich China."

"No." Ru Taisu said. "Although your highness's idea is right, it is extremely difficult to implement it. Just now, your highness also said that there are still famous Japanese princes in Yingzhou. These people are under the influence of our Ming military power, and because the Japanese king has been I am in control of Ming Dynasty, but I have no righteousness, so I have to obey." "It is better to say that it is restraint than to rule."

"But if we forcefully move its Dingkou... it is tantamount to blatantly pulling out its wings. I'm afraid that in an instant, these famous names will regard us as their mortal enemies. I, the Ming Dynasty, must invest more troops to pacify Yingzhou... Such a situation If you come, it will be a waste of people and money, and it will be of no use."

"Moving to Dingkou will naturally be opposed by the big names of the tribes. But keeping the officials in check is not a long-term solution." Zhu Su said. "That's why I said that we need to issue bank notes as soon as possible... The reason for this is for two considerations. One is to stimulate the business development of our Ming Dynasty and quickly enrich our Ming Dynasty treasury."

"Both, we will use the money collected from the gold and silver mountains of the Japanese country to buy all the Japanese people..."

"Buy...buy it?" Ru Taisu was stunned, and everyone was stunned.

This...how should I say this, whimsical?still……

I have never imagined this...

"Dad, gentlemen, you have never been to the Japanese country. If you have been, you will know that the land of the Japanese country is really extremely barren." Zhu Su said. "Its land has many poor mountains and rivers, and arable land is scarce. Although the Japanese have learned farming methods from China, no matter how intensively they farm, the grain produced every year is often only enough for the Japanese to barely make ends meet."

"Not to mention that the internal strife in the Japanese court was extremely serious. In this small country, dozens or hundreds of daimyo were divided into enfeoffments... These daimyo had attacked each other before they had nothing to do, and the people they recruited to fight for them were all farmers. Home."

"It is not an exaggeration to say that the people of the Japanese country live in dire straits. If there is a chance to escape from the sea of ​​suffering, they will be very willing."

"Oh?" Lao Zhu's eyes narrowed slightly.He didn't think that his son had suddenly developed a sense of womanly kindness. Even before the people of the Ming Dynasty took pity on him, they began to pity those unrelated Japanese people. "So, you want to use this as a gimmick to coax all the Japanese people to come to Ming Dynasty? Have you thought about what those barbarians will do after coaxing them here?"

"What to do... Of course I am a slave." Zhu Su chuckled. "The Japanese are also good at farming, so it would be most suitable for them to become serfs after being coaxed over."

"Those uncultivated wastelands and wastelands in the north just don't have to worry about relocating the people. They are directly designated as the land of my Ming Dynasty court."

"The Ming court came forward to form many agricultural cooperatives and drove these Japanese serfs to cultivate land everywhere."

"In the Japanese country, they often only had one meal to eat. In the Ming Dynasty, as long as they had a roof over their head and two meals of gruel a day, they were grateful and rushed to sell themselves to the Ming Dynasty to make a living."

"They cost less and know how to farm. There is no more suitable candidate for serfs than them. These Japanese farmers were used to being oppressed by the daimyo in the past and did not know how to resist. The daimyo simply regarded them as livestock, and as long as they had money, they would Those famous Japanese people are very likely to take the initiative to sell these Japanese people to us."

"If we can buy millions of Japanese people, our annual grain production in the Ming Dynasty will definitely be millions or even tens of millions more. Moreover, the Japanese moved to the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming people came and went to the Japanese concessions to do business and live in peace. After a few decades, If there are more Japanese Ming people than Japanese people, Yingzhou will become the territory of our Ming Dynasty."

(End of this chapter)