In the field of maritime trade, such a large decline has already existed, and the rest is not difficult to imagine. Maritime merchants are not stupid, and they will naturally wonder whether this trend will continue in the future? No one can say this Not good.
The reincarnation of Zhang Liang and Chen Ping, I'm afraid, is uncertain.
At the same time, while the revenue from sea trade was decreasing day by day, His Majesty also strictly prohibited the hoarding of land by the people. There is no doubt that the five surnames and seven kings were expelled, as well as a series of intrigues for this expulsion. This proves the attitude of the imperial court.
The road of hoarding property is impossible! It is impossible to open it up again under any circumstances, absolutely impossible.
And if these maritime merchants were in the past, their reaction to the imperial court's attitude would usually be non-committal. In fact, the Five Surnames and Seven Hopes are not a unique and unique evil force, but a unique evil force. Like many other landlords and scholars of that era, they were no more vicious than others.
Even if the cultural education of the Qiwang family of the fifth surname is included, these people are even kinder and give more in what they do than the ordinary Qiwang family of the fifth surname.
Most of the landowning scholar families actually knew this, so no matter how the various kings in the Southern and Northern Dynasties for hundreds of years really or hypocritically cracked down on hoarding of land, they actually didn't care that much, because in the final analysis , these kings actually do not have enough power to fight against the powerful people who are hoarding land. Who does he rely on?
But now His Majesty can really crack down on land hoarding, because with the rise of sea trade, a way to make a lot of money without hoarding land has emerged.
With such an economic foundation, Li Er naturally has new power to use. This does not mean that Li Er himself is unavailable. After all, the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion are not just decorations.
However, when it comes to power comparison, more is always better. It is a matter of having food in hand and not panic. The twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion seem to be famous generals like clouds and advisers like rain, but they will come again after the world is peaceful. To level the world in more detail, this kind of secret struggle and consumption will lead to the results.
There is no need to consider the consequences at all, because the Turks and Xianbei people going south will not consider such things.
When a country faces the threat of barbarians, it is actually the same as when an ordinary family or individual faces a threat to their survival. It is just that they have no choice but to do so. But now that there is maritime trade and the new group of maritime merchants.
Many things can naturally be settled. Although Li Er's "settlement" did not seem to cause an obvious bloody battle, the maritime merchants gradually understood that the reason why the battle was not bloody was because of His Majesty's team. The means were excellent, so the end was quick, not because there was no struggle or the struggle was not cruel.
In other words, this is a real dynasty change. The lifestyle of the people in this world of China has undergone fundamental changes since the construction of various factories.
Although there is no clear reason, no matter how you look at it, it is basically unfeasible to continue to go back to your original hometown and play hoarding property.
It is not feasible to hoard land, and the profits of the existing sea trade routes are constantly declining. Although it seems that there is a possibility that the trade profits will stabilize at a certain level, when living at home, the calculation of the future cannot be so casual. And because of this At present, one of the two roads has become impossible to walk, and the other has become increasingly difficult to walk. The only road left is, of course, America.
However, going to the Americas is not easy to do after all. Although going to the Americas can establish new commercial ports, new routes, and new huge profits, it can even be reasonably speculated that this huge profit can be achieved because everyone is already there.
The commercial methods on the route to the south coast of China have already been relatively mature, but more calculations are needed.
This "count more" becomes even more shocking and exaggerated after taking into account the huge profit attributes of the new route itself.
At the same time, the Americas are said to be fertile and beautiful - the scale of arable farmland is much larger than that of the entire China. However.
Although there are various reasons, going to sea is still in a completely unfamiliar vast sea outside the East China Sea. More importantly, the voyage is too long.
It is almost as far away as the entire southern coast of China to Tianzhu!
And such a long distance, not to mention far, even now, ships sailing across China will encounter storms from time to time, or run aground on rocks, in short, various situations, and then capsize. As for the first times when the sea is opened, the ship capsizes.
The probability went directly to half.
This even directly exceeds the proportion of army losses in most wars!
When Shenzhou opened the sea, it was only from Hangzhou to the southeast direction. It was the best sea route. Although there was no "needle road" composed of islands that were the simplest and most capable of ensuring the survival of sea ships, the most convenient sea route along the road was
At least the probability of encountering an island is not low - at least it's not easy to find it "directly", just to dock.
But going out of the East China Sea is completely different!
The difficulty of this route is simply amazing.
Of course, in view of the difficulty of this kind of navigation, the Tang Dynasty court actually thought of ways. This method was mainly to open up the frozen land areas in northern America and northern Liaozhou, and use these land routes to indirectly shorten the sea voyage.
This degree of shortening was even observed to the extreme by China's outstanding army through continuous reconnaissance, and the specific data of this extreme is that a strait and a long sea route have been reduced to an astonishing level, but,
Although the sea route has been greatly reduced, things are still difficult to handle.
Because of the transportation of people and materials, the cost of land transportation is much higher than that of sea transportation!
This "higher" is too much, basically more than ten times the bill. This is by no means an exaggeration, because in ancient military activities, the cost of transporting grain, grass and winter clothes was really so outrageous. In the most exaggerated cases, it was even calculated.
More than twenty times.
As for why it is so difficult, the reason is too simple. First of all, land transportation cannot be compared with ocean transportation. After all, the ship floats on the sea, which does not require oxen and horses to pull the load. This saves an amazing amount of money out of thin air.
Secondly, the north is too cold, which is naturally unfriendly to any carbon-based organisms.
Then again, the northern permafrost country in later generations has a vast territory, but its population has always remained about the same as that of the island country in the south. The reason for this is easily imaginable. This was not the case even when the northern country was at its most prosperous.
