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306 Yang Ning goes to Hanyang

Bai Minghe feels like he wants to go crazy, but what can he do!

Seven days, seven days are waiting, counting the days every day, and taking care of the bridal chamber prepared by myself every day.

Qinghe hid in the distance and looked at Bai Minghe secretly. Huaiyu beside her asked in a low voice: "Brother-in-law seems to care about that room. Although it is very beautiful, it is not the best of her own room."

"Silly girl, my husband cares about you." Qinghe clicked on Huaiyu's forehead.

Huaiyu didn't understand very much, so she just nodded foolishly.

Finally, when he heard the palace maid say that Huaiyu's menstrual period was over, Bai Minghe ran to the kitchen excitedly and was about to make some side dishes himself, Bai Minghe's shadow-like guard appeared beside Bai Minghe. Fortunately, Bai Minghe was used to this elusive and without a guy, nor was he scared.

"Master, the Ministry of Rites sent envoys, and the Minister of Rites Yang Ning and Yang have arrived at the dock. There are three cargo ships and representatives of the merchant gang. There are dozens of other officials of all sizes, but it is not important to the master." If the guard's words were heard by civil servants, Bai Minghe would receive at least one hundred impeachments.

But facts are facts, and those ordinary little officials and white-famous cranes can really ignore them completely.

Bai Minghe sighed long: "Where are the two sirs, Hu, who are the two adults?"

"I'm already changing the official uniform."

"I'll go and greet you too. No matter what, I am the Minister of Rites of the Ming Dynasty. No matter how you do, I cannot let the bastards look down on us." Bai Minghe was really helpless, but what can I do? Official affairs are always the most important.

Not to mention the white-famous crane, even Huaiyu was very disappointed.

On the dock, the people from Li's Goryeo had already lined up and Yang Ning had already got off the ship. Bai Minghe had notified him a little late. However, this was what Yang Ning meant. Yang Ning believed that welcoming him was the obligation of Li's Goryeo, and Bai Minghe and Hu Yi and Gao Gu came to greet him, but the welcome between colleagues in the Ming Dynasty was a courtesy and a friendship.

If we put it together to welcome it, then we will lose the face of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, after Li's Goryeo first greeted him according to the formal process, Hu Yi, Gao Gu and others then greeted him as colleagues in the Ming Dynasty. Even if he represented the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty on an envoy, he would not be willing to hurt his colleagues' face.

Yang Ning's excuse for dealing with the banquet was the same as that of the Baiming Crane.

King Wenzong of Li's Goryeo was seriously ill and should cancel all banquets and stop singing and dancing.

After the necessary welcome process was completed, Yang Ning did not live in the garden where Bai Minghe was located, but lived in the Yingbin Garden according to etiquette. After arranging his subordinates, Yang Ning then came to Bai Minghe's garden.

Bai Minghe, Yang Ning, Hu Yi, Gao Gu. The four of them sat at the corner of the square table. On the table was a map of Li's Goryeo.

"Long live the white-named Hero, Long live the will. In fact, in one sentence, I don't like Li's Goryeo, and I don't like it since I recognized the word. I asked Long live the reason. Long live said that when he was a child, no matter who was in charge of this place, he was a capricious villain. The Ming Dynasty had its benefits, and they were stuck in trouble, but they were in trouble. On the contrary, they were in trouble. They would keep asking for help from the Ming Dynasty. In their eyes, the Ming Dynasty people were stupid!"

Bai Minghe didn't dare to answer the conversation. He didn't even dare to raise his head. Hu Yi and Gao Gu's eyes could definitely emit death.

If they could stare at one person to death, then they would at least stare at Bai Minghe seriously injured.

"Don't be angry, two adults. When the students first heard this, their first reaction was like this. It must be that Bai Minghe used some strange theory to influence Longsui, but after really calming down and thinking, according to the history books, this is indeed the case. And according to another theory of Bai Minghe, Goryeo is very dangerous!"

Yang Ning was actually talking to Bai Minghe, and the two old men were a little surprised.

Let Yang Ning continue talking.

"The two adults, since ancient times, the largest territory of Goryeo was three times that of now. After all dynasties, Goryeo took the opportunity to expand north. It was after the founding of our Ming Dynasty, Goryeo was still 300 miles north, which led to the current national borders. Goryeo people will seize every opportunity to expand, or whether it is a big country or a small country, they will expand once they have the opportunity."

"This statement... makes sense!" Hu Yi had to admit that what Yang Ning said was the official history.

Yang Ning continued, "I think about the prosperous Tang Dynasty of the Sui Dynasty and Tang dynasties, when the Koreans could fight, they would fight, and if they could not fight, they would just surrender. I just said that this fake surrender... Haha!" Yang Ning laughed dryly, and in his heart he was already a shameless villain.

"Goryeo was a county in the Han Dynasty!" Gao Gu whispered aside.

"Master Gao, the voice is louder!" Bai Minghe asked loudly on purpose. Hu Yi cursed after hearing this: "I am over seventy years old, and I still hear what Master Gao said, you, a young man, can't even hear it."

Bai Minghe laughed dryly: "I didn't say anything but I couldn't hear it, I just said, please shout out louder, Gao."

"I don't want to speak loudly because this matter is contrary to my Confucianism and Taoism. Confucianism will reconcile the world, but it is not fighting the world." Gao Gu did not mind Bai Minghe shouting on purpose. He knew what Bai Minghe meant, so he explained.

Bai Minghe asked back: "Li Jing, Li Yaoshi, don't you think he is considered a Confucian general?"

"Anyway, Wu'an Jun Bai Qi doesn't count!" Gao Gu replied stiffly.

As the possibility of a quarrel was about to occur, Hu Yi quickly said, "Everyone is more stable, they are all for the Ming Dynasty."

"My opinion is very simple, I don't like sticks." Bai Minghe said immediately after Hu Yi finished speaking.

Yang Ning asked curiously: "How to solve the stick?"

"There is a story here, that is, the Goryeo. They are ambitious but actually very poor. The people in front of the battlefield are holding weapons, and the people in the back row are a wooden stick. The people in front die or find weapons on the enemy's corpse on the battlefield. Only the people in the back have weapons, but they are unwilling to throw away their wooden sticks, because the wooden sticks are more smooth than the weapons they picked up. The reason is very simple. They are used to using wooden sticks. Then! The weapons they picked up are more exchanged for wine, meat, and money. Anyway, the soldiers in the front row are still provided by the government when they fight next time."

The white-famous crane is completely nonsense.

But the three old guys believed most of them because the iron craftsmanship in Goryeo is not good and they are very poor.

According to the information from the Ming Dynasty, when the Li family's Goryeo people were at the highest level, it reached 450,000. With the population of Goryeo, this was almost a six-to-one ratio. Goryeo could not afford to provide so many weapons needed by the army.

"Okay, I'll call you a bastard. What are you going to do?" Yang Ning asked Bai Minghe.

Bai Minghe laughed: "I have started to do it. The business gang that followed Lord Yang here is actually a chess move. But how effective this chess move depends on the reactions of the sticks."

"What is this move?"

"Dumping!" Bai Minghe said a word confidently.

(Modern explanation: if in normal trade, a product is exported from one country to another, and the export price of the product is lower than the comparable price of the same product consumed in its own country, that is, entering the commercial channel of another country at a lower than its normal value, the product will be considered dumped.)

What is dumping? Baiminghe gave a detailed explanation:

"All daily necessities and workshop products. All the goods produced are of better quality than rods, and the price is almost the same. In less than a year, the various workshops here will be completely attacked. From another perspective, this kind of thing is also a war, a war between commodities and silver."

After listening to Bai Minghe's explanation, Yang Ning asked: "Bai Minghe, if someone treats Daming like this, how will you fight back?"

"Closing the customs and increasing tariffs. We have always added tariffs to balance the prices of foreign goods with domestic goods. In short, foreign things cannot suppress the development of our country's workshops."

Bai Minghe's explanation satisfied the three older adults, which was a way to protect their own interests.

Hu Yi also asked, "What if Li's Goryeo did this?"

"Not to say whether they understand the theory of dumping, even if they are blocked from tariffs, then I have three ways of dealing with it, namely, literary fight, military fight, and national fight. First, talk about military fight, I will cut off all the goods and purchase goods throughout Goryeo, making Goryeo useless, and destroying the original workshops in Goryeo. Then I will send people to spread rumors, making the people unstable, and even changing the dynasty."

"It's a vicious plan that can work!" Hu Yi made a small comment on Bai Minghe's theory.

Bai Minghe didn't respond: "I'll talk about Wendou again. Wendou means giving up my interests and then giving the manufacturing rights of many products to Goryeo. In this way, Goryeo, whether it is a noble, a merchant, or a commoner, can get a profit, but all the technology, equipment, raw materials and other aspects of various workshops are in my hands, slowly swallowing them, and then preparing for the national fight!"

"What is a national fight?" Hu Yi had a premonition, but he was still waiting for Bai Minghe to say it himself.

Bai Minghe was very direct and only said two words.

"war!"

"Can war solve the problem?" Hu Yi did not think that war was a good idea.

"This war can be fought, because no matter the court, the nobles, the merchants, or the people, they cannot earn money because of the restrictions on our trade. The grudge of cutting off people and wealth is deep enough."

A smile finally appeared on Bai Minghe's face, a very proud smile.

Hu Yi, Gao Gu and Yang Ning whispered a few times.

Hu Yi said: "White-famous He, I have to admit that if it is really as you expected, you can get no less than 30 million taels of silver here a year..." Hu Yi stopped and thought about the words. Yang Ning added: "Gross Product!"

It must be said that the white-famous crane brought many new words to the Ming Dynasty.

Hu Yi continued: "I thought that 30 million taels were a limit. Once this number exceeded, the silver suddenly flew away because of the official limit of Li's Goryeo. As you said, the whole Ming Dynasty would hate Li's Goryeo, and this war is probably supported by the whole nation."
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