The word capitalist did not exist in ancient times, but the logic was clear.
Assuming that the Shanxi merchants, vassals, and despots of the Ming Dynasty were classified as capitalists, the salt in their hands was the stock that controlled the empire's finances.
Now that there was a risk in the imperial court's supply of salt, they transferred the risk of their stocks to tens of thousands of small merchants and individual citizens.
Although they suffered a small loss, they had already reaped a large amount of benefits from the salt industry.
Then, after shifting to the bottom, there would be thousands of broken families like Uncle Ma.
Uncle Ma was lucky because Su Ce had backed him up.
However, there were even more ordinary families who exhausted their family assets to buy salt and were prepared to do it on a large scale. In the end, they found that it was just a mirage. They invested all their family assets and finally had no way out.
Who would endorse this absurd reality for them?
Were they counting on those powerful nobles from Great Shang and Fan Kings?
It was impossible.
Unless the imperial court used a series of policies to adjust it, but this would require a very high-level strategy.
Coincidentally, the person who set up the trap for the empire was sitting quietly in the small courtyard of the Green Vines!
"Brother Ce, from what you said, it seems that the ones who suffer in the end are the commoners!”
"Right now, we're only seeing Uncle Ma's family. How many such families does Big Ming have?”
"Why are those big merchants and nobles so black-hearted? Don't you know how to think for the country?"
Heh.
Wei Hongying, who was on the roof, had a look of disdain on her face. Do you think everyone is as sickly as the person in front of you? Do you think that everyone is like him, worrying about the Great Ming Country even when he is so sick? Did they have such a broad mind?
Su Ce smiled." We can't ask others to do what they want. People are all driven by profit. Everyone has different thoughts."”
"But this doesn't mean that we can't do anything.”
"I'll tell you how to break the situation of the collapse of the system first, then discuss how to break the situation of the salt.”
"Ah?" Su Ce said in shock. Brother Ce, you know about it?"
"Heavens! How do you know everything? I don't think any of the ministers and ministers in the court are as powerful as you!”
Zhu Houzhao didn't even finish listening and started to praise Su Ce. This was because Zhu Houzhao believed that Su Ce had the ability to do so.
Because he had seen too much of his little brother's power, he believed that his little brother had the ability!
Su Ce smiled and took a sip of tea. He then began to speak calmly. Throughout the entire process, he had a commanding position, as if the entire empire was just a game in his hands.
"The fundamental reason why the Kaizhong system was proposed by Taizu was because of the difficulty of transportation.”
"If we want to solve the problem of transportation and save the cost of transporting grain for the imperial court, we don't necessarily need merchants to participate. The imperial court's current dispatch is enough.”
"Brother Ce, this isn't right." Zhu Houzhao hurriedly said.”
"The imperial court's army is stationed in various places and is responsible for national defense. If we participate, it will reduce the number of soldiers in the national defense. No matter how powerful your words are, the higher-ups will never agree.”
Wei Hongying, who was on the roof, nodded. She was actually very curious as well. She wanted to know how Su Ce would break out of this situation. What Zhu Houzhao said was also what she wanted to ask.
Su Ce nodded." It's like this. We can't use the military. The local government's dispatching ability is not enough to support the grain transportation from Huguang to the northern border.”
"Then what should we do?"
Zhu Houzhao thought for a long time and finally shook his head helplessly. There was no way!
That's right. You said it yourself. The army can't be used, and the local government can't be used. Then the imperial court can't let the central officials directly go down to direct the transportation, right?
This is an unsolvable problem…Wei Hongying thought to herself.
Although she was a Jinyiwei, she still knew a little about these things.
"What about the relay station?" Su Ce suddenly asked.
What?
Zhu Houzhao, who was in the courtyard, and Wei Hongying, who was on the roof, were shocked.
What was the meaning of this?
" The relay stations in the military towns on the northern border are very important," Su Ce said." What about the south?"”
"Putting aside the chieftains of the southwest and the Japanese slaves of the southeast, most of Jiangnan is peaceful.”
"The relay station was initially built to transmit military intelligence, but how much intelligence has Jiangnan transmitted to Bei Zhi Li in the past hundred years?”
"Of course, I can't get this data. I need to get the data from the Ministry of War, but I'm sure that compared to the relay stations on the nine sides, most of the relay stations in Jiangnan must be idle.”
"If that's the case, why don't we mobilize the resources of the relay stations in the provinces and counties of Jiangnan?”
"Instead of letting them waste the imperial court's financial budget by eating dust in Jiangnan, why don't we make them a specialized department for grain transportation?”
Before this, most of the open system's transportation was through water transport. It was difficult to transport on land because it required a lot of transportation costs. Even if merchants participated in the open system, they would also use water transport.
Although land transportation was relatively slow, the Ming court did not lack time. It was not like the nine sides fought every day.
For the basic transportation of grain, let the relay stations in Jiangnan transport grain directly from land to Jiubian.
After Su Ce finished speaking, Zhu Houzhao was silent for a moment, and his shocked expression was written on the paper.
He clenched his fists and said,"Yes!" Why didn't I think of that!"
"Why didn't so many people in the Imperial Court think of such a simple thing?”
It wasn't that they hadn't thought of it, but because they didn't want to change the relay station to transport grain to the north. Because in this way, under the open system, how would the big bureaucrats get salt and earn money?
"The key to this matter is to get the approval of all the departments in the Imperial Court, including but not limited to the Emperor, the Cabinet, the Six Ministries, and the Imperial Censorate.”
"It's difficult and simple.”
"The point is that I need a set of authoritative data to prove the importance of my point.”
"For example, the military intelligence that the Ministry of War has received from the various relay stations in Jiangnan over the years, the expenditure of the relay stations in Jiangnan over the years by the Ministry of Revenue, the idle personnel of the relay stations in Jiangnan by the Ministry of Personnel, and so on.”
Su Ce told Zhu Houzhao everything.
What he couldn't do, the crown prince could easily do.
"After collecting these data and writing a manuscript, it will be easy to persuade the emperor to change the Kaizhong system and remove the dominant position of merchants in the Kaizhong system.”
He couldn't let these big merchants continue to grow.
After the Shanxi merchants became powerful, the small merchants wanted to invest in the open system, but they had already set the threshold. In other words, they were full, but they didn't let others eat. They were rich, but they didn't allow others to be rich.
In the long run, these parasites would affect the future of Great Ming for generations!
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