Old Zhu looked embarrassed.
He had said that a piece of wood should not go into the sea.
Moreover, in order to prevent future generations from secretly obeying and secretly disobeying, Old Zhu treasured this sentence as an ancestral precept!
He didn't expect to be slapped in the face by Zhang Che here.
Although it was awkward, Lao Zhu felt that Zhang Che's words made sense.
As expected, he was still too humble!
"Then what do you think we should do?" Old Zhu asked.
Zhang Che was a little speechless.
"What else can we do? Of course, it was to lift the ban on the sea and even encourage the entire population to open up the sea!”He struck while the iron was hot.
"Those countries in Western Europe have a population of only a few hundred thousand, but because they encourage maritime trade, they have made a fortune. According to this trend, conquering the overseas countries, perhaps the labor and resources of those places were inevitable. If the barbarians can do it, why can't I, Ming, do it?”
In the hearts of future generations, the Great Ming Dynasty was the most regretful dynasty in the history of the Xia Dynasty!
Da Ming's bones were hard, it was obvious to all.
The Son of Heaven guarded the gate of the country, and the king died for the country!
Other emperors might have said similar things.
The only one who truly did it was Da Ming!
However, from another perspective.
Which emperor liked to guard the country? Which king would want the country to die?
All of this was actually forced!
In the Ming Dynasty, starting from Old Zhu, who had obsessive-compulsive disorder, the decision-makers of the past generations were more or less paranoid.
This kind of paranoia led to many mistakes in decision-making.
It had to be said that the collapse of the Ming Dynasty was closely related to these many mistakes in decision-making.
For example, the ban on the sea that started with Old Zhu went against the trend of the world in this era.
One step slower, every step slower.
In the end, when the small countries in Europe rapidly accumulated wealth through opening up the sea and made rapid progress on the road to becoming rich countries.
However, Da Ming was stuck in his old ways and remained stagnant.
Originally, Da Ming had such an opportunity.
Everyone said that Zheng He spent a lot of money and effort on his voyage, but who knew that Zheng He brought back a huge amount of wealth for Ming Dynasty!
Otherwise, where did Zhu Di's military expenses come from?
Could it be that all the civil and military officials in the court were really a group of fools and couldn't see the huge benefits that going out to sea could bring to Great Ming?
The reason was not that complicated.
The money bag was too big. Zhu Di's future generations could not grasp it!
Opening the sea was not just a simple order. It involved various levels of struggle, which was not something that ordinary emperors could play with.
In the end, they had no choice but to carry out Old Zhu's ancestral teachings and continue to ban the sea.
If I can't play, no one can!
After this series of events, Ming, who was originally the most qualified to colonize overseas, fell behind the world.
Let's not talk about overseas colonization, just take the most direct example of overseas trade.
The Great Ming Forbidden Sea was also an extremely muddled decision!
Ming's domestic industry and commerce were actually very developed and had the strongest trade competitiveness of this era.
But no one knew what the imperial court was thinking. The concept of a business tax practically did not exist in the entire court.
It was because of this that opening the sea for trade was not worth it in the eyes of some of the big shots in Ming Dynasty.
Little did they know that if they were to formulate a business tax.
Just the tax on overseas trade alone was enough to make Da Ming eat until his mouth was full of oil!
Do you think Big Ming doesn't care about this bit of money?
It really wasn't!
The grand Daming Empire's annual taxes were only equivalent to three to four million taels of silver.
What level was this?
It would be bullying to compare them in the future. Let's use the Song Dynasty as a comparison.
At the peak of the Song Dynasty, a year's tax was equivalent to 160 million strings of silver!
A difference of 500 times!
However, if the ban on the sea was lifted, just in terms of trade, the Ming Dynasty would crush the Song Dynasty in terms of income in the blink of an eye.
The world had always been realistic. If you stuck to your old ways, no one would wait for you.
The world was only so big, and there were only so many places.
If you don't occupy it, others will.
Even a small place like the Netherlands could become a sea carriage driver and show off in the world.
However, because of one wrong move, not to mention occupying the dominant position of the sea wave, even his own coastline was invaded by the pirates!
Changing this situation only required a single thought from the current Emperor Hongwu.
As far as Zhang Che was concerned, there was no better deal in the world than this.
Thinking of this, he sighed.
"Unfortunately, I can only talk to you guys about these things. I can't tell outsiders.”
Old Zhu raised his eyebrows and asked with a smile,"Oh? If you have the chance to meet Emperor Hongwu, how do you want to convince him?”
"I will tell him that if Great Ming still doesn't open the sea, there will be endless trouble in the future! When the people saw the benefits of sea trade, there would definitely be people who would ignore the law and take risks. The nobles of the royal court were not blind, and they would definitely participate.”
In history, the so-called sea merchants of the Ming Dynasty, who were both thieves and merchants, colluded with the outside world for the sake of profit, which gave birth to an extremely bad atmosphere among the merchant community.
In the end, the Eight Great Imperial Merchants ate their own flesh and almost emptied Da Ming.
When the benefits were big enough, there would naturally be people who would put their heads on their belts and do the business of killing them.
Instead of doing this, it would be better to simply lift the ban on the sea and bring it under the control of the imperial court.
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