Sugar from Liuqiu, rice from Chameng, hemp from Bengal and cotton from credibility, cattle and sheep from grassland, spices from Nanyang.

The resources from all directions gather in the Central Plains, and the port cities along the Central Plains have flourished because of this. The Lingnan land, which was once despised by the Central Plains, is now extremely prosperous. Which port is not a dot of white sails?

According to incomplete statistics, Dahua now has more than 50,000 merchant ships, and this number is quite amazing. From the East China Sea to the South Ocean, then to the Pacific Ocean, Xindu Ocean and even the Atlantic Ocean, from the Liaodong Peninsula to the Korean Strait, then to the Bering Strait, from Luzon to Lijiapo to Xindu Port, from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, even from Dahua to Australia to the Americas to the Extreme Ocean, there are Dahua’s merchant ships everywhere above the ocean.

Dahua has been awarded the title of a sea coachman.

There are basically thousands of merchant ships parked in the ports of Jiaozhou, Qinzhou, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Yangzhou and Dengzhou all year round.

Dahua's merchant ships account for almost 99% of the total tonnage of the world today and monopolize almost all maritime trade. The number of merchant ships in other countries is very small, and foreign merchants are more willing to hire Dahua's merchant ships to transport goods directly.

The Navy of Dahua is even more invincible across the sea, including Arabia, Rome, Jiri, Saliva, and other countries. No country can have a fleet that can truly fight the Navy of Dahua.

Even the pitiful navy of Rome and Arabia were actually completely the product of borrowing money from Dahua to military purchases. Most of the warships used were old warships after Dahua was eliminated, or warships that were manufactured in the Zhenguan period. Now all of these warships have been retired and replaced with the latest warships.

Their fleet is small, their warships are small, and the number of sailing battleships and gunboats is amazing. It can be said that it is completely impossible to use that little warship to confront the Dahua Navy.

"The Age of Discovery is truly coming, and our Dahua is also standing on the brink of wind and waves."

In Beiyuan, Zhang Chao was wearing casual outfit, and was so uncomfortable to enjoy the tea and cool down.

"In just twenty years, there have been earth-shaking changes. Generally speaking, it is good, but after careful observation over the years, I have found many bad signs."

Fang Xuanling was in charge of the Hanlin Academy. As an important official who specialized in the power of sealing and refuting and deliberation, he changed from being responsible for decision-making and governing in the past to sealing and refuting and deliberation. His position was different, and his perspective on the consideration of problems also changed greatly.

"In the past, men farmed and women weaved, and silk and silk were also in the world with copper coins. The lives of the people were very stable, and there would not be any changes for several generations. But now, it is extremely liquid. Just talking about this silk, silk is no longer a currency, and cannot be traded directly with silk as currency, nor can it be used to pay taxes."

"The most important point is that technology is changing with each passing day. With the emergence of this patent law, new technologies can benefit a lot after obtaining patents. Especially those with capital can use new technologies to transform them into more benefits."

The new spinning wheel loom has been improved by ten times or even dozens of times more efficient than twenty years ago, especially the emergence of large hydraulic spinning wheels.

In Jiangnan, there are textile factories everywhere.

In those textile mills, thousands of female workers and thousands of textile machines are already considered to be of average scale. Even those larger ones have tens of thousands of workers.

They use new technologies and new machines to produce them using assembly lines. The output per day is a quantity that ordinary peasant women dare not even imagine in the past.

However, the silk, cotton and cloth produced by these textile factories are large in scale and lower in cost, and under their impact. Nowadays, the traditional model of men's farming and women's weaving is basically too broken.

In the past, the whole people planted mulberry seeds, spinning and weaving cloths, and the silk cloths were woven every year. But now, under the impact of factories, most women have given up on home textiles. Their textiles have no advantage and they can't make money at all.

Many farmers are still planting hemp and mulberry trees and raising silkworms, but they no longer weave them. They directly sell the collected hemp to merchants and sell the silkworm cocoons to cocoon merchants.

Of course, there are also some bold farmers who expand their business and specialize in silkworm raising business.

In the past, mulberry planting, silkworm raising and textile were all integrated, but now they are being separated.

"Keep, this is actually a good thing. The textile industry is emerging, with more and more factories, the cost is getting lower and lower, and the production capacity and efficiency are getting higher and higher. Although it has an impact on traditional family textiles, you should also see that most Han families in Dahua are now divided into many fields. They do not weave, but they can buy cheap silk, cotton, and cloth. Women no longer weave cloth, but they can specialize in planting mulberry and silkworms, or help plant more land, or engage in family breeding."

This is how social development is, not static, nor is it enough for everyone to be self-sufficient. Self-sufficient sounds good, but it is actually no development.

The more division of labor, the better. Everyone only engages in the same division of labor, has more skilled skills, higher production capacity, and lower the cost of goods. Everyone uses their own work income to buy the rest. This model is the norm in life in later generations.

For the court, if everyone is self-sufficient and only has a small amount of transactions, then there is no commodity circulation or commercial transactions, what will the court ever collect taxes?

Relying on taxes and land taxes to collect? Then the tax is too small. Even if you add a captive tax such as salt tax, you can't adapt to the current situation.

In the past, the court emphasized the fact that there were few officials and officials, and the management was even more sheep-like management. Now, the court has many officials and many officials and many military forces, and there were even special police forces such as tax police.

The management of the court is more detailed.

"I understand this, but I still want to remind Your Majesty. In the past, although merchants had capital, they had no status. Their capital was often restricted and they could not exert much crop. But now that capital has been released, they have shown increasing strength, especially industrial and commercial capital, which has merged with the nobles and bureaucrats, forming bureaucrats and aristocrats, and landlord capital, and they are involved in various fields."

Capital has the instinct of seeking profit, and they are born to pursue profit. For this instinct of desire, they sometimes even overwhelm everything in front of them.

Zhang Chao was also wary of this, so he formulated early on such a labor protection bill, formulated minimum wage standards, formulated work-related injury compensation standards, formulated standards for paying for overtime work, and also issued standards for business administration bills, industrial and commercial tax laws, etc.

These bills issued are to restrict this emerging capital force.

"The collusion between officials and businessmen and transfer of interests has become increasingly serious. Many businessmen have become guests of officials now, evading taxes, using illegal workers, not meeting the minimum wage standards, working overtime without paying wages, and even maliciously failing to pay wages, and fined workers' wages for various reasons."

"The collusion between officials and businessmen will definitely be like corruption among officials. Even if Dahua first founded the country, there are fewer such things, but it is difficult to eliminate them. The court cannot say that because of collusion between officials and businessmen, the current system must be changed and backed back to the past."

"Although the relationship in the past is simpler, it is not a good system. No matter what, everyone's life is better now than in the past. At least most Chinese people have solved the problem of food and clothing. Most children can go to free elementary school and can open their eyes to read and no longer be blind."

No matter when, society is always bound to problems, but we have to look at it in the better direction.

Of course, now that the industry and commerce are booming, everyone is gradually changing their minds towards money, even laughing at the poor but not at the prostitute, everyone is pursuing profit and talking about money, and the world is declining.

But everyone's lives have indeed improved.

"We should insist on the unchanging reform and opening up. For those illegal businessmen, officials, and even nobles, as long as they commit crimes, they will be hit. If they dare to shake the foundation of our Dahua, Dahua will dare to destroy them first."

Zhang Chao established a tax police officer specifically for facing the increasingly complex taxation environment.

The six doors and flying cavalry in his hand are also used to monitor and fight corruption.

"In fact, in the face of this situation, there is not a solution. If the situation is not serious, then just hit and beat. If it is serious, kill a group of people. No matter what, no matter when, killing people is always the most effective." Emperor Zhang Chao's words revealed a cold murderous intent.

No matter how the merchants jumped or how they colluded with the nobles or bureaucrats, as of now, none of them could confront the court.

After all, it was the beginning of the country, and capital had not yet formed a terrifying situation that could influence the government and national power. Zhang Chao said in one sentence, there were flying cavalry and six fans, and it would be easy to find a group of typical examples. At that time, the emperor had the word "kill" and all the court officials, civil and military officials, and the princes from all over the country, who dared to say "no"?

If you kill a group of people, you will definitely be able to manage them for a while.

With such a sharp sword hanging over your head, everyone has to be more cautious.

Zhang Chao never thought that it would be like Zhu Yuanzhang killing corrupt officials and even peeling those officials into pieces, but he could not eliminate corruption. However, in the Zhu Yuanzhang era, corrupt officials were still much better than in the late Ming Dynasty.

"The Hanlin Academy takes the lead, and then the three courts, the two houses of the parliament will be added with six gates, the Jinyiwei and the Feiqi jointly established an inspection team to specifically supervise this special issue. From the central government to the local government, from the Central Plains to overseas, all regions must investigate it, and even cross-check and go back to investigate."

This action is to carry out an economic crackdown.
Chapter completed!