The learning of Guan Zhong? The art of enriching the country and the people?
What a loud tone!
Gao Shi and Yuan Zai both looked at Wang Yadong in confusion. Are there any Confucian scholars practicing Guan Zhongzhi today?
The art of enriching the country and its people is too loud!
Yuan Zai first asked: "What is the art of enriching the country and the people?"
Wang Yadong said proudly: "The way to increase the world's wealth is to enrich the country and the people!"
Yuan Zai looked at Wang Yadong with great interest and continued to ask: "These are all empty. Let me ask you, if you are appointed as the head of Jiangnan City's Shipping Department, what will you do to increase the wealth of Jiangnan?"
Wang Yadong had already made preparations on the way here. He talked eloquently:
"The problems in Jiangnan are firstly money shortage and secondly water transportation!"
Yuan Zai and Gao Shi looked at each other and realized that what Wang Yadong said was indeed on point.
Jiangnan was originally prosperous, but due to water transportation, a large amount of manpower was consumed in the water transportation system, resulting in a huge water transportation burden in Jiangnan. The imperial court collected a large amount of taxes every year, which actually caused the burden on Jiangnan Road to be much greater than other roads.
The problem of money shortage is tantamount to amplifying the exploitation of the people of Jiangnan Province, and the superposition of the two makes Jiangnan's problems even more serious.
"Then how to solve these two problems?" Gao Shi asked.
Wang Yadong said categorically: "Of course it's sea trade!"
This is the same solution as Li Daoyuan said, but how to solve the problem of the outflow of Tang money caused by sea trade?
Wang Yadong said: "But it is not just as simple as developing maritime trade. You two have thought about why our trade in the Tang Dynasty is so prosperous, but money is still flowing out?"
Gao Shi and Yuan Zai both shook their heads.
"That's because of the trade deficit. When the goods exported by the Tang Dynasty are less than the goods imported by the Tang Dynasty, it is a trade deficit. A country is like a business, like a store. If the store sells less goods than it buys, then this store
The shop will naturally lose money."
Wang Yadong's metaphor was easy to understand, and both Gao Shi and Yuan Zai nodded.
Although the Tang Dynasty exported a large amount of silk porcelain every year, the demand for foreign goods such as spices and jewelry was equally strong.
Those big food merchants traveled thousands of miles to come to Datang to do business, isn't it just because doing business in Datang is profitable?
The Bohai State was able to develop only by profiting from the grain trade with the Tang Dynasty, which created a prosperous country in the east of the sea.
Although Wang Yadong did not have specific economic data, his judgment that Datang Sea Trade was in deficit was still accurate.
Yuan Zai was very interested in Wang Yadong's metaphor, and he asked: "How to increase the wealth of Datang?"
Wang Yadong said: "Exports are greater than imports, which means a trade surplus. If you want to enrich the country and the people, you must increase Datang's trade surplus, so that the world's wealth can flow to Datang."
"Then how to increase the surplus?" Gao Shi asked the question he was most concerned about.
Wang Yadong said: "Just like each household, it is natural to increase the export of goods and reduce the import of goods."
"This is about the Shipping Department. The silk of our Tang Dynasty is very popular among merchants. However, because there is no unified price, various places compete to lower the price for a little profit. Silk worth tens of thousands of gold overseas is often sold at extremely low prices in Jiangnan.
The price is low, which is one of the reasons for the trade deficit."
Yuan Zai nodded, Jiangnan is the origin of silk. When sea trade was not prohibited, various ports often started price wars to compete for merchants to dock, and the selling price was very low.
"My approach is to grade the silk sold at all ports according to quality, and set a minimum price for each grade of silk. If the price of silk sold to merchants is lower than the minimum price, the seller will be punished."
Yuan Zai nodded, this is a good idea.
Wang Yadong said: "In fact, there is another important reason why people's silk is sold cheaply. That is that people do not know the value of silk overseas, so they are deceived by foreign merchants and buy it at low prices."
"If people knew the value of overseas silk, how could they sell it at a low price?"
Yuan Zai couldn't help but clap his hands at this time. In fact, Wang Yadong also had another meaning. If the Tang Dynasty official or private organization organized a fleet to go to sea, even if the price of the purchased silk was low, it would still be Datang's profit after it was shipped overseas.
Instead of being like now, where most of the silk trade was made by foreign merchants.
"In addition to encouraging exports and encouraging the people of the Tang Dynasty to participate in maritime trade, there are also restrictions on imports."
Yuan Zai asked: "How to limit this?"
"Imported spices and gems are not necessary for the people of the Tang Dynasty. Naturally, heavy taxes will be levied on both buyers and sellers on these things."
"Implementing heavy taxes will, firstly, reduce the profits of those merchants, which is also a means to keep the wealth of the Tang Dynasty in the country. Secondly, it will make the prices of these imported luxury goods higher, so the number of people buying these goods will naturally decrease.
Already."
Yuan Zai couldn't help but said to Gao Shi: "Congratulations to the envoy. With such a great talent running the shipping department for the envoy, Jiangnan's money law will definitely be great!"
Hearing what Yuan Zai said, Gao Shi quickly walked down the hall. He supported Wang Yadong and said:
"Wang Lang, a great talent, are you willing to run the Jiangnan Shipping Department for me?"
"Don't you dare obey me!" Hearing Wang Yadong's immediate agreement, Gao Shi felt very happy and ordered his subordinates to hold a banquet to entertain Yuan Zai and Wang Yadong.
At the banquet, Yuan Zai discussed the issue of national financial control with Wang Yadong. Yuan Zai was surprised and delighted as Wang Yadong revealed everything about his self-taught Keynesianism.
What is surprising is that in Wang Yadong's theory, the importance of national finance in political power is the first.
Wang Yadong put forward the explosive argument that "economy is the first priority, and all political issues are economic distribution issues." However, after his explanation, these arguments sound so natural.
In fact, since historical development, the status of finance has been getting higher and higher.
Nowadays, financial ministers can join the political affairs hall and become prime ministers, and even every prime minister's team must have a prime minister who is proficient in finance.
The status of the Department of Husbandry has also fallen from the lower end of the six departments, and now it is second only to the Department of Personnel, which manages hundreds of officials.
But according to Wang Yadong, the most important thing for the imperial court is finance, and the household department should be above all other departments.
It does sound a bit controversial at first, but after Wang Yadong's explanation, it seems to make some sense.
The operation of the imperial court, the salaries of officials, the salaries and rewards of soldiers, and even royal expenses all require money.
During the Anshi Rebellion, without Jianghuai's continuous blood transfusions to Guanzhong, the Li and Tang court would have been defeated long ago.
Finance is the lifeblood of the imperial court! This statement is very popular with Yuan Zai, who was a financial minister. After the two exchanged ideas, Yuan Zai even introduced Wang Yadong as a confidant.
Jianghuai City Shipping Secretary was the minister of Jianghuai Jiedushi. Gao Shi only needed to appoint Wang Yadong and prepare a report to the court. After granting Wang Yadong the official seal and official uniform, Gao Shi asked his subordinates to escort Wang Yadong to take office.
The Jianghuai Shipping Department is based in Donghai Port east of Yangzhou (the coastline of Jiangsu in the Tang Dynasty was further west than now, and Yangzhou is very close to the coastline). This is the largest port for foreign trade in the Jianghuai region. It only takes half a day to sail through the waterway of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
You can arrive.
At this time, Li Daoyuan was also supervising the construction of new ships in the dock of Donghai Port. When he heard the news of Wang Yadong's appointment, Li Daoyuan also came to the port to greet him.
After seeing Li Daoyuan, Wang Yadong held his hand tightly and shouted: "Great God! I finally met the great God in person!"
As a star player, Li Daoyuan has a great reputation throughout the Internet.
His "Travel Notes" series of travel videos to the Tang Dynasty have been viewed more than 10 million times online.
Wang Yadong looked at Li Daoyuan excitedly and asked quickly: "Does Master Li come to Yangzhou to go to sea?"
Li Daoyuan nodded, and Wang Yadong asked again:
"Where are you planning to go to sea?"
"I'm going to cross the sea first and go to Fusang to have a look."
Wang Yadong showed such an expression. Since it was confirmed that the game will introduce elements of great voyages in the future, players have been discussing in the forum. Fuso, Ryukyu, Treasure Island and Nanyang are the top destinations currently ranked by players.
The most popular among them is naturally Fuso.
Today's Fuso is in the middle and late stages of Dahua reform, and it is also an era when Fuso is fully learning from the Tang Dynasty.
The Daika Reform was the second largest reform movement in the history of Fuso after the Meiji Restoration.
The origin of the Daika Reform can be traced back to the reforms of Prince Shotoku. With the assistance of Ono Meiko, the famous envoy to the Sui Dynasty, Prince Shotoku implemented the reforms of the "Twelve Ranks of Crowns" and the "Seventeen Articles of the Constitution".
With the reorganization of Prince Shotoku and his death, the social conflicts in Fuso further intensified.
By the end of the seventh century AD, that is, during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Fuso Kotoku (reign name Dahua) followed the example of the Tang Dynasty and implemented the reform of the "bantian system" throughout the country.
The class-field system was actually modeled on the land grant system of the Tang Dynasty, which implemented a system in which land was owned by the state and then granted to adult males.
Before Dahua's reform, Fuso was still in a very backward and primitive tribesman system, in which the great aristocrats enslaved the tribesmen, which was a backward era of semi-slavery.
After Dahua was reformed, the class-field system allowed Fusang to enter a more advanced feudal era, and Fusang also ushered in an economic boom.
In 710 AD, as the capital was moved to Heijōkyo, Fuso entered the Nara Period, which was also one of the most prosperous cultural and economic times in Fuso's history.
The merchant players are clamoring to send Fuso a "black ship attack" in advance, and the general players are clamoring to break into Fuso and arrange a five-star emperor for Fuso.
Wang Yadong looked at Li Daoyuan with admiration. While others were still talking, Li Daoyuan was already building a ship and preparing to go to sea.
In another port, there is another competitor in this race to explore the sea.