Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

"Not even 5000 million..."

Liu Fangliang looked at Zhu Youjian in surprise...

Listen!

Listen!

What is this called?

Not even 5000 million?

Liu Fangliang looked at the disdainful emperor and just wanted to...

Grab a handful of snow and stuff it into his neck!

Let him wake up...

Have you forgotten that before, as a ninety-five-year-old man, you begged your grandpa to sue your wet nurse...

Pretending to be a grandson everywhere, licking his face, and persuading officials to donate——

As a result, they will give you a few hundred taels...

Might as well send the beggars away!

Your Majesty, the Great Emperor!

These things……

Have you forgotten?

……

Liu Fangliang looked at the high-spirited emperor and was speechless...

He wanted to say - Great Emperor, you are floating!

Think back then...

Our Emperor Dashun confiscated so many high officials in the capital, and only then did he get 7000 million silver.

today--

A mere merchant from one place copied 5000 million silver.

This is 5000 million silver!

This is [-] times what thousands of officials and gentry in the capital gave you when you persuaded them to donate!

It’s a hundred thousand times!

Leaving you here, you are just a "talent"? ? ?

O king!

You are floating!

You forgot that you originally——

I, Old Liu, are helping you in Wuqiang, blackmailing...

Uh……

Sell ​​land!

You were so happy when you sold 450 million silver!

Great Emperor, you are floating now!

5000 million silver, you can’t even see it!

Liu Fangliang looked sad...

……

Just 5000 million silver...

Zhu Youjian really doesn’t care anymore!

Even, there is no wave in my heart...

Robbed……

Uh!

Normal business!

He has received hundreds of millions of dollars in silver deposits from Huizhou merchants, and he is already "rich"!

The person he is today is no longer the person he was yesterday!

The Dog Emperor is no longer a local tycoon, but a "gold tycoon"...

……

After he arrived in Shaanxi, the court sent news——

Before Zuo Liangyu left Guangdong, he told the uncooperative wealthy families...

All bombarded!

I have collected half of the silver and sent it to the court!

He is really "grand"!

……

In this era, the richest group of people were businessmen (politicians) in Jiangnan.

Their basic trade base is Japan.

This is not just Japan!

Contrary to the understanding of later generations, the West in this era, including the British East India Company, was still an organization for importing goods...

Uh!

wrong!

Their accurate statement is that they are bandit organizations from all over the world except the Ming Dynasty!

Then, he took the looted materials and did business with Daming.

Before the fall of the Ming Dynasty, basically [-]% of the money stolen from the Western world remained in the Ming Dynasty!

The King of England at this time...

Whether it was Elizabeth I before or Charles I at this time, there was only one main task for the East India Company -

Ship back the calico!

That is, Daming cotton cloth.

It's the Songjiang cloth made by Huang Daopo's loom.

The East India Company robbed cotton in the subcontinent and then transported it to Japan.

Then he met with the wealthy gentry in the south of the Yangtze River and exchanged the stolen gold, silver and jewelry for Ming Dynasty cotton cloth.

Because - at this time, although the UK had launched a sheep-eating man movement.

However... they are still barbarians in sheep's clothing!

According to British records, cashmere at this time was unbearably itchy to wear, while Ming cotton was hundreds of years ahead of the rest of the world.

Therefore, in exchange for cotton cloth, it became Britain's most important trade import.

As for the country under the control of the Habsburg family, it has obtained the only trading rights in Japan. (Daming, Netherlands)

You know, in this era -

Controlling Japan is equivalent to controlling the largest trade power in the world.

Because the largest manufacturer of various goods in this era was the Ming Dynasty.

And Jiangnan merchants are Japan’s largest suppliers!

It’s not that Guangdong businessmen don’t want to enter Japan, but—since Zheng’s monopoly on the China Sea, the hands that Guangdong businessmen extended to Japan have been cut off.

As a result, Guangdong businessmen turned their attention to Nanyang, the traditional main business area of ​​Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian.

(Even in later generations, Japanese trade still accounts for one of the largest shares in the Jiangnan area.

Nanyang commerce still accounts for one of the largest shares in Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian. )

The upstream supplier connected to Japan - the world's top and most complete Daming.

The lower reaches of Japan are connected to the Habsburg family, which is the most extensive in the West and is even known as the empire on which the sun never sets.

And Nanyang... the share is naturally incomparable!

The people you do business with are different, and the wealth you accumulate will naturally be very different!

The main thing is-

The businessmen in Guangdong and Guangxi are different from those in Jiangnan.

Jiangnan merchants are loyal to their hometown. After making money, they want to return to their hometown.

The most important thing for them is the integration of business and government, and they pay attention to making money behind the scenes and serving as officials openly.

And Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian...

In later generations, they went all over the world.

Chinatowns around the world are mainly composed of the people in this area.

In this era - even more so - Nanyang has long been turned into a back garden.

Even the whole family moved to Nanyang!

After making money, I built an ancestral hall in my hometown and came back when I was worshiping my ancestors. Usually, the whole family is in Nanyang!

……

Although Zuo Liangyu was not bombarding the wealthy gentry of Jiangnan.

Just a second-rate wealthy family from Guangdong and Guangxi...

However, as one of the top gathering places for foreign trade giants in this era——

There is so much money that I can’t even pull it out!

……

Zhu Youjian didn't know how much money Zuo Liangyu robbed.

Anyway, the "half" that has been shipped to the Han capital and handed over to Zhu Youjian——

It's thirty-seven million taels of silver.

There is more gold, a total of 430 million taels.

As for whether what Zuo Liangyu handed over to Zhu Youjian was "half" as promised...

Zhu Youjian didn't know.

However, according to the nature of businessmen in Guangdong and Guangxi, the amount handed over by Zuo Liangyu must account for at least [-]%!

……

(Thesis "Estimation of Silver Stock in the Late Ming Dynasty": During the Ming Dynasty, the total amount of silver imported from overseas and self-produced was 500 million taels.

There are also some papers that believe that the increase in silver in the Ming Dynasty should be 5000 million taels.

As mentioned before, coupled with the absorption and mining of previous dynasties, the amount of silver deposited in the late Ming Dynasty was between 12 billion and 15 billion.

The amount of silver circulating on the market is about 3-4 million, and the rest has been hoarded.

This data is currently recognized as relatively reliable.

Of course, if any more archaeological evidence is discovered, I will take back my words.

After all, the materials before the Ming Dynasty were almost destroyed by the Qing Dynasty.

All I can verify is the information that is now publicly available.

The richest people in the Ming Dynasty were Jiangnan merchants, who should have accounted for more than half of the total silver.

Others are worse...)

……

Although it is a one-shot deal.

but……

Zhu Youjian really doesn’t like this mere 5000 million yuan!

He is waiting, Lao Zuo is on the subcontinent, killing all directions——

This is related to Zhu Youjian's gold coin business!