The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

So Lin Run stood up.

"Hmph, I didn't say that all these victims would starve to death. Although the food in the north is reduced, isn't there still food in the south? Besides, our Ming Dynasty is now prosperous in foreign trade, so it's okay to import food from foreign countries? Throughout the ages, then There are many natural disasters, and there is no large-scale overseas immigration, why should I emigrate this time? Is my Ming Dynasty not as good as the Song and Tang Dynasties in the past?"

Jiajing also nodded.

Indeed, natural disasters are encountered, but there are still many countermeasures, and it is not necessary to emigrate to complete.

There is no food in the north, so it is okay to rely on the south to transport it.

If there is no food, imported food is fine.

Yan Song curled his lips and winked at the team behind him.

Wang Jiaping, Yin of Shuntian Mansion, stood up and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, I have just stepped down as the Secretary of Shipping, and no one knows more about water transportation and foreign trade than I do, right?"

Jiajing nodded approvingly: "Wang Aiqing is my pocketbook, and she knows the most about foreign trade and water transportation, so it's okay for you to say so."

Wang Jiaping collected his thoughts and said eloquently, "My lords, do you know the population of my Daming?"

"1.6 million! That's 1.6 million mouths!" As expected of the director of the customs, Wang Jiaping is very familiar with numbers, so he opened his mouth and said, "At present, according to our calculations, how much food will be needed in the event of complete failure and no harvest in the north? ?”

"Everyone needs food every day. A total of about 5 taels of rice, about half a catty of meat, and about one catty of vegetables and fruits a day. Of course, in today's famine, ordinary human flesh must not be considered, so everyone needs to eat food. This is the conversion Come down, everyone must eat at least one catty of grain a day, no less!"

Wang Jiaping said in a deep voice: "Among the 1.6 million people, the population in the north who can't produce food at all accounts for a full 5000 million people! Every day, 5000 million catties of food are eaten! What kind of concept is this?"

He stared at the conservative officials with piercing eyes and said, "I, Tianjin Shipbuilding Division, built the largest granary in the world, with a total capacity of only 4 million catties! In other words, the grain in Tianjin is only enough for the north to feed for four days." !"

"In the north, due to the severe cold, grain transportation takes a lot of damage. For example, in Xi'an area, it will cost at least four times to transport a catty of grain from Tianjin to Xi'an!" Wang Jiaping said in a deep voice: "Generals, what about this matter?" They are all very clear. Because Shanxi merchants developed because they transported military rations in the northwest."

Hu Zongxian, Qi Jiguang, Ma Sanduo and other generals all nodded.

The farther the military food is transported, the more serious the loss is, and everyone knows this.

"So, in fact, the daily food demand in the north is actually higher than 5000 million catties!" Wang Jiaping said with a wry smile, "This is still the minimum requirement to maintain human life. All the officials and landlords have to eat meat all day long, one catty a day Such a small amount of food is definitely not enough..."

He spoke with sarcasm, saying that the conservative landowners were all blush.

Yes.

The extravagant landlords want to eat more than a catty of grain?

They also eat meat and drink alcohol, which requires ten times more food to produce.

And their servants, servants, will never eat less.

"There are also horses, cattle and other livestock that also need a lot of food, otherwise they will starve to death. We can't have cavalry in Ming Dynasty? Just one horse needs to eat the food and grass equivalent to four people in one day. The snow in the north is now four feet , the grass has already been frozen to death, and we can’t do without food.” Wang Jiaping did his calculations bit by bit.

"If we don't give enough food, my Daming's Jiliao iron cavalry and Guanning iron cavalry will all become infantry." Wang Jiaping smiled and said, "Is that not possible?"

Jiajing is distressed...

Ma Sanduo egg hurts...

Li Rusong was in pain, and shouted: "Of course not! Absolutely not! My horse is more valuable than a human! Without a horse, how can we fight? How can we fight with gold wild boar skin?"

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Chapter 1777 Mathematical statistics will not lie, use data to speak [8]

"That's right," Wang Jiaping said calmly, "In the whole of the north, people eat and feed horses, and the grain is at least 6000-7000 million catties a day. Tianjin can only supply three days!"

"How much food can Southeast Asia and Japan import?"

Wang Jiaping said calmly: "Now, my Ming Dynasty has sent dozens of fleets to various places to mobilize food to fight against natural disasters, but the emperor and all the ministers, do you know that the price of food in various places is soaring all the way?"

"Take Annan (now Vietnam), a big rice country, as an example. I received news three days ago that Ming merchants have a keen sense of smell and have begun to buy grain there. Because of the large-scale purchase of grain, the price of rice in Annan has dropped from six yuan to one stone. , directly rose to three taels of silver a stone of rice. Japanese rice also rose to four taels of silver a stone of rice!"

"What is this?" Unconvinced, Lin Run stood up and shouted, "Isn't it just money? Isn't my Daming rich in money?-"

"Money? Do you have enough?" Wang Jiaping smiled lightly and said, "Master Lin, I have done the math. I have to buy all the food in Daming. How much money does it cost a day?"

"A stone of rice is 125 catties. Even if the current rice price remains unchanged, without considering the factors of rising demand and insufficient supply, which lead to price increases, to supply the grain of the entire Ming Dynasty, we need 224 million taels of silver per day!"

"One month, it costs 6720 million taels of silver!"

"My Ming treasury's silver deposits are as much as 3 million taels because I just finished the war and plundered a large amount of war indemnity from Japan. But..."

Wang Jiaping smiled slightly: "At most, it is enough for the people of Daming to eat food for 5 months! This is the evil result that our Daming was affected by the natural disaster of the Little Ice River, and the north was unable to carry out agricultural production."

Jiajing and the officials were all confused by a series of numbers.

We are math scum...

"One day, more than 200 million silver will be eaten?"

"One month, it costs more than 6700 million silver just to sell grain?"

"My Ming Dynasty also received a huge amount of war indemnity, and it can only last for 5 months?"

"Is it worth it?" Jiajing's face suddenly became very 'hateful', so much money, wouldn't it cost his life?

He lives in the ninth level, and he doesn't understand that the people are already full of grievances, and he doesn't even know that the price of rice in Japan and Annan has been pulled down to 4 taels of silver per stone by the strong demand of Ming Dynasty.

"What's worse!" Wang Jiaping said with a hint of anger in his voice, "I'm afraid that adults don't know, and I'm afraid that in another month, even if we are willing to pay 100 taels of silver for a stone of rice, Japan and Anna Won't sell us a grain of rice!"

"Why?" There was a trace of coldness in Jiajing's voice: "They don't want to live? Aren't they afraid of my Ming army?"

The ministers also have this curiosity.