Chapter 772 Confiscated hundreds of millions of taels of gold to return to China (three in one)(1/2)
"It's no point in saying this. Those poor people who don't cooperate with us are hateful, but they can't be killed anymore!"
"Because, according to the contents of the surrender agreement signed with the Ming army, we have lost our right to rule since the Ming army entered Switzerland. If we continue to kill people, we will be punished for massacre of civilians."
Sennard said, "So, we have to disband the Major League anti-traitor team and stop the pursuit of the poor who do not cooperate with us."
The other Swiss nobles could only agree helplessly.
Therefore, Switzerland then disbanded the anti-traitor team.
However, in the Swiss states, due to the delay in executive orders, the pursuit of poor people who are unwilling to cooperate has not been completely stopped.
"Ottawa, do you want this box of gold bars?"
The poor Geneva workers, who were arrested, were being questioned by the traitors of a noble team.
Ottawa spat on the slut and replied, "No, I don't accept the wealth that I don't get from my own labor. In addition, what I need to declare is that I also have the right to refuse labor."
"Another one who doesn't cooperate, then you are looking for death!"
The dog-legged man took out his gun and shot Ottawa directly.
"You bastards!"
Ottelón's neighbor, Mudel, who was a poor worker like him, cursed angrily.
The dog-legged man turned around and asked Mudel: "Do you want this box of gold bars?"
Mudel looked up at the sky and ignored the dog's legs.
"Okay, I'm really stubborn. I don't want even if I have gold bars. I deserve to be poor!"
The dog leg was about to shoot, but at this moment, a harsh gunshot sounded, and the dog leg fell to the ground on the spot.
When everyone looked back, there were a large number of Eastern troops in wool uniforms, and one of the officers wearing bright epaulettes was holding a gun and facing him.
The Swiss present naturally guessed that these Eastern armies were Ming troops without asking.
Among them, Swiss poor people like Mudel actually opened their mouths after seeing the Ming army appear, their tight fists gradually loosened, and began to take the initiative to walk towards the Ming army.
These people started running as they walked and rushed towards the Ming army desperately, as if they were heading towards the warm and gentle sunshine.
The Ming army on Zhang Huangyan's side formed the flame-like red color, as if the civilians of different ethnic groups were attracted by this.
As for those who slaughtered the poor for the Swiss nobles, they were at a loss for a moment, and stood there motionless, neither daring to shoot the poor people who refused to give gifts in front of them, nor dared to shoot at the Ming army.
"We have always been looking forward to your arrival from the East."
Mudel even smiled and said his inner words to the Ming soldiers who appeared in front of him.
Zhang Huangyan has learned French and German by himself, while Switzerland mainly speaks these two languages. So when Mudel spoke, he could understand and said:
"You should already know that my Emperor Ming Dynasty has an order to only follow the minimum assets owned by the Swiss, as the legal property that everyone in Switzerland can own, so you need to register your assets with us first."
"I am willing to cooperate! In addition to my life, my assets are the dirty clothes I wear and a long black bread left in the house."
Mudel said with a smile.
Zhang Huangyan nodded and asked someone to register for him.
Then, Zhang Huangyan pointed to the dog legs of the Swiss nobles in front of him: "Let them disarm, otherwise, they will be killed without any hesitation!"
After receiving the order, these little ladies dared not cooperate and surrendered honestly.
The Ming army successfully entered the city of Geneva.
After that, Zhang Huangyan came to Mudel's wooden house and saw that there was really only one black bread in the house. He pinched his nose and asked, "Did you refuse the gifts from the nobles?"
"Yes, we don't want to be with them and betray our integrity for money."
Mudel replied.
"Very good, you are the people that my Emperor Ming Dynasty is very willing to see and respect."
When Zhang Huangyan was talking, he saw the boxes of gold bars that were still placed outside, and he ordered his official school: "Protect the safety of Mr. Mudel and all civilians in Geneva! In addition, confiscate these gold bars and let the people from the Logistics Department take them away."
"clear!"
Because Mudel, who refused to cooperate with the Swiss nobles, was not violently eliminated by the Swiss nobles after the arrival of the Ming army, Zhang Huangyan then used sufficient reasons to fill all the gold, silver, jewelry, land, and other industries in Switzerland, except for the clothes he wore, the small wooden house he lived in, and a loaf of bread.
This is not the result of the crazy plunder of the Ming army, but the choice of many Swiss people.
Perhaps in many cases, when the ruler can do something that is better than a slave, the ruled will do something that is better than a friend's country than a slave.
The Swiss nobles naturally dare not disobey it.
After all, they are just losing their property now. If they resist, they will lose their lives.
In addition, Zhang Huangyan also mobilized local nobles like Mudel who wanted to turn the nobles of his country into poor people to form a picket team, and to picket nobles who did not hand over their property truthfully.
So much so that the Swiss nobles had to hand over almost all the wealth in Switzerland.
And the Ming Dynasty naturally gained a wealth of wealth.
The trains responsible for transporting this wealth have run many times.
After all, this is the wealth that the nobles of European countries have plundered the world for hundreds of years.
Gold alone costs hundreds of millions of taels!
In addition, the wealth obtained when the Ming Dynasty annexed other European countries.
All of this, in total, is naturally a considerable number.
Almost all the property and technical accumulation that could be moved in Europe were moved to the Ming Dynasty.
What cannot be moved, such as arable land, is distributed to local civilians.
Therefore, the European commodity market did not shrink due to the Ming Dynasty's expansion in the local area, but instead expanded because the Ming serfs were rescued and they had higher incomes.
As for movable wealth, almost all of them were moved to the Ming Dynasty. The question before Emperor Zhu Youxiao and his court was how to use this considerable wealth.
"Technology must continue to be a key investment place, and technology can be improved by the help of large-scale projects. For example, to the Ming Dynasty ministers stationed in Tibet, who had just realized the garrison, and was stationed in Uszang, who was officially ruled by the Central Ming Dynasty, a railway must be built. However, many places there are frozen soil all year round, with high altitudes and large temperature differences between day and night, which have higher requirements for railway tracks and buildings, which can drive the improvement of smelting industry and construction industries with this purpose."
"In addition, spacecraft, optics and communications, the planes must fly higher and farther. The Academy of Sciences has made the camera continue to improve, and try to make the people in the photos taken by the camera move, and there is communications. I hope that radio technology can be further developed until it can really be like a god, and can see people and scenery thousands of miles away."
"There is also the power needs to be vigorously developed. The Ministry of Industry, the Governor of the River, the Academy of Sciences, and the Academy of Engineering will discuss whether it can try to build several large power stations, especially hydropower stations, to see if it can achieve the ability of every household in my Ming Dynasty to use electric lights. From power generation to transmission to access to electrical appliances in thousands of households, there are many skills that need to be improved."
"Don't be afraid of no results, and don't worry about how much it will cost to do so. In short, as long as there is a technology that revolutionizes it, it will be worth it!"
"There are also basic research, so don't underestimate this. Most of the investment in science and technology must be spent on it first. The cabinet, the academic department, the Academy of Sciences, and the Academy of Engineering will discuss whether to build a number of royal laboratories;
The so-called royal level is not to say it is my laboratory, but to show its scale and its responsibility level in the Ming Dynasty's technological progress. The tasks undertaken by the royal level are mainly breakthroughs in various major basic research, such as whether light is wave or particle that is actively discussed by the academic community, and to see what the cells will be if they are divided further through a high-power microscope."
When Zhu Youxiao discussed with his assistants how to turn the gold and silver obtained from the Ming Dynasty from the world into a booster that is conducive to the development of the Ming Dynasty, he also mentioned how to increase investment in science and technology.
After all, if gold and silver are stored, they are just a pile of heavy metals. If they are directly spent, they will only turn into luxury artworks such as gold spoons, gold hairpins, and gold hairpins, which have little significance for the progress of Chinese civilization and even the entire human race.
If Emperor Zhu Youxiao had not been able to successfully foresee the emergence of some scientific and technological achievements many times before, Wen Tiren, the assistant ministers present, listened to what Zhu Youxiao said to allow Us to connect to the railway. People could see people and scenery thousands of miles away, and every household would have powered on, and they would think it was a fantasy. But now they dare not question too much, and even looked forward to what kind of world would be if this was really achieved.
"What Your Majesty said is that, in my opinion, we must secondly spend more time on education, especially vocational education. Nowadays, major factories lack craftsmen, especially those with excellent skills;
The students trained by various universities still focus on cultivating students' mastery of knowledge rather than cultivating skills. Although students who do not learn theoretical knowledge well have few skills, and although the enrollment of this dynasty schools has been repeatedly expanded, the enrollment examinations have finally excluded most students. Therefore, these scholars who have not become juren are still the majority of the Ming Dynasty scholars, and most of them can only farm or engage in some simple jobs;
But now the major factories in the Ming Dynasty are expanding globally. With the expansion of the global market, the factories of the foreign nobles have gone bankrupt in large numbers, and emerging factories have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. It is necessary to have enough craftsmen to engage in related and technical work. Therefore, in the opinion of the minister, we should immediately add some people who specialize in cultivating theoretical knowledge and cannot learn well and accept professional work."
Du Yinxi said to Zhu Youxiao with a vision and knowledge.
After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao agreed very much: "The court cannot give up every Chinese, and everyone must become a useful person. Moreover, there are enough skilled craftsmen. This will also be the basis for our Ming Dynasty Central Court to continue to dominate the world. Your cabinet and academic department will discuss how to vigorously start vocational education!"
"Abide by the order!"
"Is there anything else to give me advice?"
Zhu Youxiao continued to ask.
"have!"
Zhang Tongchang stood up and replied, "I believe that when we further reform the monetary system, since we have so much gold in the Ming Dynasty and have the conditions to issue paper money, we can change silver coins to paper money!"
After Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne, he asked social science institutions such as the Hanlin Academy and the Supervisory Yuan to study the reasons why the treasure banknotes issued in the early Ming Dynasty were abandoned, and also asked Bi Ziyan and other professionals to carefully study whether banknotes would need to be re-produced in the future.
Until now, because of the increasing number of bulk transactions in the Ming Dynasty, printing technology has also improved a lot. In addition, financial theory knowledge is also improving with each passing day, and more and more financial experts have begun to realize the benefits of banknotes in the country and the people.
Therefore, whether it is the people or the court, there have been calls for the change of silver coins to the imperial court to issue paper money based on economic conditions.
Now Zhang Tongchang has proposed this, this is no exception.
Zhang Tongchang also said: "In addition, I believe that we should also find a way to define the issuing banknotes as global currency, and trade between the various vassal states and the central courts of the world, namely international trade, we should use the banknotes issued by the central court of the Ming Dynasty to trade, so that the central court can control the global economy and then control the global vassal states through the control of banknotes."
"This is a good idea. Oil will undoubtedly become the largest transaction in the future. After the globalization is gradually unified, it is naturally necessary to link our Ming Dynasty currency to global oil transactions!"
Zhu Youxiao nodded and thought to himself: "Sure enough, once these Ming Dynasty officials have mastered enough economic knowledge in the future, they will also use various economic means. Originally, there was not much wisdom in history, but they may have been confined to the theoretical and scientific development level of the times, or they have gone wrong. After all, they have used economic means to manage the country as early as the Guanzhong period, but later the fiscal system became worse and worse, so that the emperor himself suffered greatly. The Engel coefficient continued to rise, and the eggs they ate rose to twenty taels."
Next, the central government office of the Ming Dynasty began to spend the large amount of wealth obtained from Europe as agreed by Zhu Youxiao and his assistants.
The difference between the Ming Dynasty and some countries was that from the beginning, the foreign expansion was dominated by the state, rather than the civilian social forces, that is, the wealth obtained from the foreign expansion was mainly concentrated in national treasury, and the distribution rights of these wealth obtained from the foreign expansion were also controlled by the court.
Of course, there was also a period of time when the Ming Dynasty, a large amount of profits earned from the world mainly flowed into the people, but because it was a civilian force, and mainly the coastal areas of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian and Guangdong, they enjoyed this global profit, so the distribution rights of wealth obtained from the world were controlled by these local forces.
As a result, the serious phenomenon of wealth in the south and poverty in the north.
Now, thanks to Zhu Youxiao's use of his imperial power, industrialization and global expansion brought about by the official industries and steam engines, the distribution of global wealth is at the hands of the court.
Therefore, the Ming Dynasty still has great economic control over the court.
To be continued...