Chapter 662 made the old man very excited! Chen Han had told Zhu Yuanzhang more than once that the reason his economic policies failed was because the methods he used in many situations were really ridiculous. Sometimes, most of the economic vitality was directly sacrificed, causing the economy of the Ming Dynasty to come to a standstill. But now Chen Han is here to tell him how to better utilize the economy to leverage the economy. Just like now, on the surface, Chen Han did give money to ordinary people all over the world, but in fact it doesn’t seem like he was giving money to ordinary people. He was just stimulating consumption by spending money. This kind of stimulation is beneficial to the common people, and at the same time, it can also allow more people to join the ranks of consumers. Chen Han has said more than once that the Ming Dynasty was a dynasty lacking economic mobility. The Ming Dynasty was not actually short of supplies. In such a vast territory, many ordinary people had used their very hardworking hands to solve the problem of most of the things on the market, and they did a very good job. So why do people always say that the Ming Dynasty lacked commerce? In fact, they did not lack commerce, nor did they have insufficient supplies, but there were some problems in the circulation process. For example, no one encouraged the development of commerce, no one allowed commerce to have further possibilities, and commerce was not even allowed to become a true mainstream. This was a particularly big problem that truly restricted the development of commerce in the Ming Dynasty. However, in the eyes of many Confucian scholars, this issue is a so-called thorny issue. If anyone raises it, it will inevitably have a huge impact on these so-called vested interests.

So they specifically formulated some laws, or they specifically used various propaganda to make people instinctively feel that you businessmen are not allowed to do this or that. That is indeed the case. In fact, at the beginning everyone believed that what these scholars said was right, because in many cases, a businessman did not do anything good and did cause the common people to suffer losses. But we need to look at this issue rationally, because in many cases, without the support of business, agriculture is very vulnerable. Because even though the Ming Dynasty had vast territory and abundant resources, it had to face one problem, that is, some things are determined by the local environment and the local environment. If this is the case with humans, let alone misunderstandings, let alone these errors. Precisely because it is impossible to concentrate so many products, it is only through mutual circulation that they can be enriched. Since ordinary people do not have many ways to earn so much from farming, they have to trade. Since people in ancient times understood this truth, why don’t people in the Ming Dynasty understand it now? Since even the ancients knew that without trade, the income from farming would be very limited, so in this situation, it is necessary to let the people understand how important trade is. Chen Han is not blindly advocating these businesses, because from some subsequent facts it can be seen that no matter what era it is, excessive commercialization will cause a large number of industries to hollow out. Take the United States today for example. The reason why their country is hollowing out due to commercialization is because their capitalism has encountered a big problem. The wages of the people in this country are too high, so their costs are very high, so they transfer their industries to other countries. This can indeed reduce a lot of costs for capitalist factories, but it greatly harms local workers. Without the support of so much business in the factory, the local workers no longer have much salary, and without wages they fall into a vicious circle. Then these capitalists will start to control education and implement happy education, which will continue to deteriorate among the descendants of these industrial workers, making these industrial workers feel that they deserve to be so poor. This kind of permanent control is indeed very useful. To a certain extent, it makes these workers believe that they should remain poor and that they deserve to be poor. Under such circumstances, many problems arose. A large number of workers did not know what they should do, and a large number of workers felt that being poor was their due. Under such circumstances, how could these industrial workers be capable of mastering more things? So why can't we allow business to go too far? Because once business goes too far, they can control many things. Once they have control over these things, something particularly bad will happen. They will independently choose places with low costs, but places with low costs mean losses to their own country's economy.

Therefore, Chen Han will not allow excessive commercialization. Of course, the current situation in the Ming Dynasty is that there is no business at all, and this situation is also abnormal. It is precisely because of this situation that Chen Han implemented partial commercialization in the Ming Dynasty, so that some people can become richer because of business, and some people can enjoy more good things because of business. It is for this reason that Chen Han is doing so many things now, and it is for this reason that now is a good opportunity for Chen Han. This is what Chen Han thought. He always felt that the Ming Dynasty was a blue ocean, so it was useful for him to encourage business now. The premise of his encouragement of commerce was that he hoped that commerce could drive the development of agriculture, because agriculture was an industry that urgently needed to be developed in the Ming Dynasty. Without agriculture, the Ming Dynasty would have no reason to exist. So when Zhu Yuanzhang heard Chen Han's plan, he was actually quite interested besides being shocked. He probably didn't even expect that Chen Han would have such an idea, let alone that this thing could be done in this way at this time. "You can give out money to everyone" was something Zhu Yuanzhang had never thought of. Moreover, Chen Han’s so-called distribution of money was not to blindly give money to the people as Zhu Yuanzhang thought, but to distribute the money in the form of vouchers in a planned manner. After this kind of money is distributed, ordinary people will not have any resistance or any shadows just because they get the money directly. Especially now that the economy of the Ming Dynasty has reached this level, it is necessary to get these things. As for the current Ming Dynasty, it needs the support of business to make the entire Ming Dynasty develop further. So in this situation, business is not just business, it is also a tool. If this tool is used well, it will be of great help in the future, so Chen Han said that now is the best time for Ming Dynasty. What the Ming Dynasty needs now is to continuously develop commerce, increase the flow of people joining, and continuously strengthen infrastructure construction on the basis of exchanges. Only with business, people will think about developing infrastructure. Only with the construction of infrastructure based on business development can the infrastructure not lose money. Only then can more people enjoy this virtuous cycle and push the Ming Dynasty into a prosperous state. This is also Chen Han’s current goal, and the realization of this goal must have these foundations. So for him, some things are necessary, and it is also necessary to distribute money to all the people this time. Moreover, the method of distributing money to the whole nation this time is not as simple as just distributing money, there are more considerations of interests. For the Ming Dynasty, this opportunity is extremely rare. After Zhu Yuanzhang understood what Chen Han said, he also knew what he meant and immediately agreed with him. So he didn't even look at what was written in these memorials, but asked Chen Han a question very seriously: "Monkey boy, you said that our Ming Dynasty is facing an opportunity and a challenge. What exactly is this opportunity you are talking about?" Chen Han also explained to the old man: "In fact, the opportunity is very simple. Now our Ming Dynasty, I told you that we are in an extraordinary period. "During this period, it is not just the Ming Dynasty that is facing a particularly big challenge. The entire West is also facing a challenge. “In fact, the entire West is now thinking about how to change, and their way of change is to complete the great voyages of discovery. They will send many sailing teams to various parts of the world to find new lands. "The new land they found is what is now America. Of course, after the discovery of America, many new food species were discovered there. "After discovering these food species, their economy will take off, and this economic boom will be a particularly big challenge that the Ming Dynasty will face in the future. "The future Ming Dynasty may not be able to compete with them to a certain extent, because there is such a phenomenon in modern times. In fact, in the nearly 100 years of my era, our Chinese people fell into a period of humiliation. "This humiliation is not just about being defeated, but about almost losing our country to those foreign devils.

After Chen Han said this, Lao Zhu was immediately terrified: "Is it so serious?" “It is indeed that serious, because during that operation, the Ming Dynasty was indeed at a disadvantage. "I told you that after the Ming Dynasty, the Manchus entered the country. After the Jurchens took control of a lot of the initiative, they used some very disgusting means to suppress our Ming Dynasty, no, to suppress the Han nationality from becoming stronger. They did this because the number of Jurchens was too small. “Under that situation, the Han people of the Ming Dynasty—no, it should be said that the Han people—were in a very weak state, so these things happened. “Of course, that one or two hundred years was the darkest time for the Han people. So Chen Han slowly told Lao Zhu about modern history, especially those things that happened in the Qing Dynasty. The Han people in particular were ravaged time and time again, and even faced the crisis of national destruction. At that moment, Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry that he almost shed tears. Who could have thought that such a thing would happen in such a great country as China? Who could have imagined that the Han people, who were so powerful back then, could also encounter a situation like the Jurchens where their country was destroyed? What is even more difficult to imagine is that after experiencing hundreds of years of humiliation, they finally stood up, but the price of standing up was huge. Precisely because the price is too high, Chen Han now says that he never wants the Ming Dynasty to pay such a price, so the development of the entire West must be curbed. Since we want to suppress the development of the West, we must develop the Ming Dynasty well. Especially now that the Ming Dynasty is in a very prosperous situation, the Ming Dynasty needs to develop business now. Because Chen Han told Zhu Yuanzhang that business itself can drive a large number of jobs and enable a large number of people to live a better life. It can enable all the people to get the respect they deserve, allow the people of the Ming Dynasty to obtain more materials, drive the development of commerce in other places, and make more people prosperous. Don’t you want to achieve such a goal? If we want to achieve such a goal, we cannot just focus on the Ming Dynasty itself, we cannot always think that the Ming Dynasty does not need business now, and we cannot discriminate against these businesses and businessmen because they have done too many bad things. If we want to have this kind of mind, we must let go of this prejudice. If we let go of prejudice, we must have this kind of mind to develop. So now after Chen Han told him so much, Old Zhu immediately clapped his hands: "Good! Good! Right! Right! You are absolutely right, the Ming Dynasty really needs such an opportunity." "The current Ming Dynasty, without any foreign invasion, is indeed the best opportunity." "It is most appropriate to transform the advantages gained by the Ming Dynasty under such circumstances into advantages against invaders from other ethnic groups in the future." "Those damn foreign devils actually want to catch up with our thousands of years of culture through just one or two hundred years of voyages. That's simply a joke." "So we can't let them have this tendency, we must curb it, we must develop business well, we must let all the people and subjects of our Ming Dynasty live the best life, only in this way can we be worthy of them, this is what we should do now." "We have decided that we must develop business first and ensure that the people get the best help possible." "I used to look down on those merchants, thinking that they were all ruthless people, but after listening to what you said, I think you are right." "We can't be so stingy. We can't delay our people." …… (End of this chapter)