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"How can you say that? If it weren't for a blind man, who would want to bring irrelevant people to make a fortune." The matchmaker looked unhappy.

"What about the other one?" Liu Changshun's wife didn't give up.

"Speaking of the other one, it's even more serious. The girl's father is a blacksmith. I heard that he can make a lot of money in a year by building large ships at the shipyard run by the Songjiang government. Your son will be married, and there will be no burden at all."

"Wait, why did my son get married?"

"The girl has something wrong with her leg"

Well, Liu Changshun's wife understands that she has no condition to marry a normal person with her own son. This introducer has already looked down upon the old Liu family, and the introduction is either blind or lame.

"It's not uncommon to want to marry a normal woman." The matchmaker said with a face that was not a face, and a nose that was not a nose: "There are a lot of Japanese women in Huai'an, and your son is married to a big wife, so you can pick a lovely one. If you want to accomplish this, just take the money."

"The imperial court issued a notice a long time ago that Japanese women cannot be regular wives, but only concubines. The children of Japanese women are second-class citizens." Liu Changshun felt annoyed, dropped his flesh with a slap, and yelled loudly. go back.

"If you don't want to marry a Japanese girl, then your family needs enough dowry money. How can there be such a good thing in the world, such a big girl with yellow flowers, can I give it to you for nothing?" The matchmaker twisted her waist and left angrily.

And just in front of Liu Changshun's house, he paid for the carriage and gave Liu's family a bad mouthful at the end.

"Father, mother, I don't want to marry a wife anymore. I just stay at home and take care of the crops." At this time, the eldest son came out of the house sullenly.

In fact, it was not difficult to marry a daughter-in-law in Daming. Although the emperor encouraged three wives and four concubines, the imperial court collected taxes on concubines, and it was not low.The more you marry, the more money you have to pay, and you pay it every year.Many daughters of decent families are still unwilling to be concubines.

However, the imperial court stipulated that marrying Japanese women and Nanyang women can be exempted from tax, but the children of Japanese women can only be regarded as second-class citizens.These children are not eligible to go to school for free, and there is no division of land. Unless they grow up and marry a Ming woman, they may become first-class citizens, similar to the aborigines in Nanyang.But everyone knew that that Daming woman would marry such a person?

It is said that only Japanese women who married to the Northeast in the first few years will be pardoned.Now these Japanese women can only marry the poorest or disabled men in Ming Dynasty, or become the playthings of the rich.

"What nonsense, you don't want to get married, do you want the old Liu's family to die?" Liu Changshun scolded his son.

But he can't help it. The three sons of their family have no way to make money, so they can only waste money.You can't die from starvation, and you can't get rich from being rich.

"Father! It's a good thing, it's a good thing." Liu Changshun was in a daze while his second son shouted from outside and ran home.

"In a panic, what do you look like?" In fact, the second son of the Liu family has also reached the age of marriage, but the eldest has not married, let alone the second.

"Father! I just came back from the county, and rumors are going crazy. It is said that the Dasu Kingdom discovered gold, and it is much older. It is also said that people who come back from there are all shopping with gold bags. It's gone." The old man was full of excitement and kept making gestures.

"How can there be such a good thing in the world." Liu Changshun didn't believe it.

"Father, don't believe me, didn't the patriarch say a few months ago that our family would send a strong man to go to Dasu country. The patriarch will not lie." The second son added.

When Liu Changshun heard this, it really happened. At first, the patriarch was supposed to be the boss of the Liu family, but he changed his mind midway and was replaced by an official clansman with his own son.After this incident, Liu Changshun understood that it must be a good job to go to Dasu, otherwise he would not be robbed.But what about gold?

"Go, go to the old patriarch and ask." Liu Changshun still thought it was clear to ask.

"Father, so you agree?" The eldest son was also happy. In fact, he really wanted to go out for a break.

"If it really happens, the three of us will go together, we can't miss this opportunity again." Liu Changshun secretly decided.

Chapter 734: Economic Aid vs Financial Aid

Zhu Youjian's third move is financial aid.

The population can be given for free, firstly for the needs of the grand strategy, and secondly for the purpose of reducing the population pressure in Ming Dynasty; but economic aid cannot be given free.In the final analysis, the system of the Great Su State is only a vassal of the Ming Dynasty and is independent.

Therefore, all aid projects must be independently accounted for and cooperated in the form of loans.Then Zhu Youjian's economic aid is not simply a loan, it is somewhat similar to the Soviet aid in the 50s.That is, Daming uses existing technology and personnel to help North America develop.But Daming didn't want to get a share of it, so he sold it to the Dasu Kingdom with a hammer, but the money had to be paid back later.

Technology and equipment can be counted as funds, so of course the personnel cannot be converted, and this part of the people is directly immigrants.

And Li Yan put forward a bolder idea. He directly paid for half of the boat tickets for all the immigrants who came to North America, which made more people able to cross the ocean at once.

People who are willing to travel thousands of miles to seek a living are those who dare to buy a one-way ticket.When the ticket was so cheap that it was only two months' salary, many people went crazy.

"You just sprinkled all this gold, are you afraid you won't get it back?" Zhu Youjian watched the gold mountain decrease every day, and he didn't know whether it was good or bad.

"As long as more people from Daming take root here, I believe the emperor's plan will come true in the end." Li Yan thought to himself: The plan was proposed by your emperor, Dasu really can't go on, isn't it because Daming is still behind it.

"I was thinking about a question just now, what will happen if so much gold is scattered on the shipping industry?" Zhu Youjian suddenly remembered this matter.

"The emperor's words reminded me, should I lower the fare and bid openly?" Li Yan said suddenly.

"That's right. Now it's not the navy that's in charge of shipping, but several government-run and private-run companies. There should be a public bidding every month and let them bid. You only need to count the number of people here." Zhu Youjian's eyes lit up.

"Will that lead to an accident?" Li Yan was a little worried.

"They dare! If it's a man-made accident, I'll let him go bankrupt." Zhu Youjian said fiercely.

"In that case, the entire transportation industry will push the shipbuilding industry to continuously reduce costs, and more transportation companies will join in." Li Yan speculated a future.

"Oh my God! Millions of people immigrated, at least tens of thousands of ships are needed. How many sailors are needed? No, it can't be done like this. I have to send out the steamship technology quickly, otherwise I can't complete such a large transportation with sailboats. Quantity." Zhu Youjian slapped his head and remembered a more important matter.

The technological revolution is not driven by the technology itself, there must be market demand, otherwise the technology can only be shelved.Daming already had the technical foundation of the steam revolution, but society has not changed because the market does not need it.

One of the reasons for this is that Ming's agricultural population is too large, and domestic demand has been suppressed; while the export market is too far away from Europe, no effective competitiveness has been formed.In the end, the steam engine was only used in a small area, such as the government-run enterprises of the imperial court.

Only market competition can drive technological change, because it is determined by lower prices.Only a lower price can seize the original market, and if the product price is lower, the cost can only be reduced; therefore, it is thought of improving production efficiency and replacing people with machines.

Zhu Youjian could even imagine that the great development of shipping would definitely bring down domestic grain prices, and that a larger scale of farmers' bankruptcy was imminent.The only way out for bankrupt farmers is to immigrate.This is the same as the Industrial Revolution in Britain.

If Ming Dynasty didn't have a place to transfer these labor forces, there would definitely be problems. Now, the land in North America just solved this problem.

"I'll give you more financial assistance and loan you 1000 million taels of gold without interest. Let you use this money to pay your salary." Zhu Youjian said.

"Ah! So much gold, I'm afraid I won't be able to pay it back." Li Yan was frightened, and he didn't understand what the emperor was doing.

"It doesn't matter, your gold was given to the shipping company, and the shipping company gave it to the shipyard, and the shipyard bought technology from the imperial court, so it's back to the imperial court's treasury!" Zhu Youjian figured it out a long time ago. That's right, the money just went around in circles, and eventually it will go back to Daming's treasury, and he just took out the steam engine.

Only when North America piles up like a golden mountain, can the flow of population be accelerated more quickly, and the flow will promote the development speed of this revolution.

"The co-author didn't do anything, just let the gold turn around, and he made double the money and went back?" Li Yan was stunned, and directly understood the truth that money begets money.

The imperial court still has so much gold, but I owe a lot to the imperial court. Didn't the imperial court double it without doing anything?It's so easy too!

"No, I can't just take your money, I have to find someone else to take advantage of." Zhu Youjian patted his head and remembered something again.

"Who are you looking for?" Li Yan asked.

"Didn't Feng Xin bring back a sum of money when he came back from delivering food last time? He also connected with that Henry. I guess the British already know about our affairs in North America by now. This money just happened to be lent to the British. Man, let's change our battleship by the way. I always feel that the money is not long, and it is a bit of a loss." Zhu Youjian said shamelessly.

"That money can't be attributed to Daming's family, it has to belong to North America. You can't favor one over another." Li Yan knew that there was oil in it as soon as he heard Zhu Youjian's words.

"Then half of the family?" Zhu Youjian tilted his head and thought about it, and he was right. The money was from the American side, and he really couldn't keep it alone.

"My Majesty, a group of Westerners came from the east, saying that His Royal Highness King Charles II of the British Empire sent a letter of credence to His Royal Highness the Great Su Kingdom." Deng Wenchang happened to report at the foreign exchange.

"Look, you can say whatever you want." Zhu Youjian laughed.

The British are indeed not stupid. They have already discovered Ming's intentions from the news that happened in North America this year and the information that Henry sent back to England.Cromwell died and Charles II came to power, but the British demand for Ming remained unchanged.