As for the rapid spread of this situation all over the world, the reason is simply too simple.
When it comes to things like becoming a prince and becoming a prime minister, it is strictly speaking, time and destiny. Great talents must have a chance to fall on their faces before they can be displayed. Otherwise, people cannot make waves on their own to display their talents, and others will have to.
Isn’t it alive?
therefore.
Although in the early years of Wude, people in the world are still not so peaceful. After all, the troubled times have just ended. Who knows whether the troubled times will suddenly come back? It can even be said that no one can even be sure that the troubled times are really over.
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But at this point in time, anyone who is not blind can see it.
No, even the group of people headed by Wang Jing cannot deny that the Tang Dynasty has become extremely rich and powerful. With such a wealthy situation, countless and immeasurable capital has been continuously created, and all the people in the world, even the lowest, are
The food and drink conditions of farmers in very remote areas have improved a lot compared to the past - they are all so bad. Even if there are real hidden dangers and the possibility of changes, it is obviously not what it is today.
In such a context of the times.
Whether it is ordinary farmers or local heroes, basically no one has thought about the possibility that troubled times will suddenly come again. And because of the gradual development and even development of the industrial and commercial industries in the Tang Dynasty, there are wives
It's a mediocre way to make money, and naturally no one thinks about bloody things.
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After all, China has just experienced hundreds of years of chaos during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties!
After such a long period of troubled times, although the world is now at peace, the people will no longer think about becoming king and hegemony. However, this does not mean that the people will not talk about becoming king and hegemony!
Although the long period of troubled times is a disaster, once that period of time has passed, it is a perfect talking point. After all, as the saying goes, times make heroes, this kind of talk is not a problem. After all, heroes in troubled times are not always the same.
They are all bad guys with arrogant ambitions. There are also real heroes in them. Then again, if they are all bad guys, then even if there is a certain degree of uneven distribution of spoils and small-scale chaos, generally speaking, the troubled times should have ended long ago.
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In this discussion, in fact, although no one wants to be king and hegemony anymore, it is not necessarily the case, because even though the world is peaceful, people have not changed.
An empire will never lack young people!
Of course, it is not entirely young people who are most motivated to do things. Young people are idealistic, but those who are more greedy are middle-aged people. Mainly speaking, of course, they are all kinds of maritime merchants.
These people are not aliens who fell from the sky, these guys are the current generation of Tang Dynasty, the previous generation of young people who like to talk about various heroes in history when they have nothing to do, and they are more enthusiastic than the average person.
Although they no longer engage in all kinds of things that happened in the chaotic years of the late Sui Dynasty after becoming merchants, the thoughts in the minds of these merchants are middle-aged people after all. How can they be completely eliminated and completely changed suddenly.
This kind of obsessiveness that one knows is meaningless. As time goes on, and the year of Zhenguan has come to this day, gradually this group of maritime merchants themselves do not actually take this set of things seriously, but only use it from time to time in shopping mall struggles.
Many means of struggle were used. However, as soon as the news of this "public offering" came out, things changed instantly.
All maritime merchants in the entire Tang Dynasty realized that the situation was changing!
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In fact, because Li Er wanted to open up the sea, he had been mobilizing the merchants to take action, and he skipped directly to the link of using emotion and reasoning, and fast forwarded directly to the core content of talking about profit - Jane
In other words, as long as you go overseas to open up settlements, even if the Tang Dynasty does not make you a prince, at least it will give you one.
No, Datang no longer needs to give you anything.
At that point, does it matter whether the Tang Dynasty can make you a prince or not?
It simply doesn’t matter anymore!
Of course, the actual wording of the official document will definitely not be so realistic, but it can be said to be quite tempting after it has been rhetorically crafted by the great Confucian scholars of Shangshu Province.
However, even with such an attractive prospect in front of them, these maritime merchants were basically in a state of indifference - otherwise, there would not have been all the things that happened in the past two years, and the entire imperial court was simply busy with this.
Everyone was very worried. Of course, the Romans were also very worried about this kind of thing.
As for the real reason, it is naturally risks, costs, and expectations. To be more clear about this series of things, the real reason is ultimately finance. As the saying goes, there are people who do the business of beheading, and no one asks about the business of losing money.
And this logic doesn't even need the first half, because the reason why someone does the decapitation transaction is 100% because the reverse loss is huge.
However, even if it is something with high returns, in fact most people, even professional businessmen, will not really choose to risk their heads. After all, no matter how professional businessmen are, they are still mortal and have a life to make money.
It would be ridiculous to lose the life flower.
However, this kind of thing is not without exception. The exception is that although the probability of decapitation is real, it is very low. To put it bluntly, this is how unscrupulous businessmen occur.
The business of going overseas is different. No one supervises this business, but there is the most powerful natural regulatory department, and that is God.
If God thinks that you have not paid enough, then you will get nothing. In short, the so-called "decapitation business" can actually be reduced by "money can make the world go round".
The probability is different when going to sea.
Although you can buy a better seagoing ship if you have money, this is limited after all. And then again, before going to sea, you must prepare a seagoing ship that can actually go to sea. This is simply the most basic necessity.
In other words, the real risk, at least from the current perspective, is almost unavoidable - this is why the Tang Dynasty court used a series of various methods to stimulate these maritime merchants' overseas business activities.
And this time.
Originally, these maritime merchants had almost made up their mind that going to sea would result in loss of money and probably no profit. At the same time, the income was obviously very suspicious. It was such an unbearable task, but everyone had to do it, because even if we did not talk about the final outcome, the king
As things stand, there are now more and more maritime merchants along the coast of the Tang Dynasty. Although the money is still very easy to earn, compared with the initial profit of maritime trade, it has fallen too far.
