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Silver mine!

Following the San Francisco gold mine location.

The canopy once again revealed the location of the mineral deposits.

And it was also a silver mine that was crucial to the Central Plains Dynasty!

Not to mention the silver mine in Bolivia.

After all, it's too far.

But the silver mines of Japan.

It really made all the emperors’ hearts move!

To know.

Lack of money was not just a problem of the Ming Dynasty.

China's gold and silver mines are not rich.

Shortage of money.

This is a problem of almost all dynasties!

For example, the Tang Dynasty.

Except for copper coins.

Cloth and grain are also used as real currency in circulation!

"Japanese country!"

"There are so many silver mines in this Japanese country?"

"Oh my god, this......One point, two points, three points......Are these lit places all silver mines?"

"The silver mines in this Japanese country are too rich!"

"What Japanese silver mine, that clearly belongs to China! As we all know, this Japanese country has been ours since ancient times......."

"That's right! Xu Fu took 3,000 childhood virgins out to sea, and the small island of Japan became inhabited. Since their ancestors are from China, then these silver mines also belong to China. Is this no problem?"

"no problem! As it should be!"

It's not just the emperors.

The people are also looking at it with great enthusiasm.

The sky is not deceiving....

There is indeed wealth overseas!

I have always been eager to go to sea. this one.

Even more enthusiastic!

Are Japan's silver mines rich in resources? certainly.

Don't mention anything else.

Just lift that stone to see the silver mountain.

Just this silver mine.

At its peak, the constant amounted to one-third of global silver production!

And this is only one of the three largest silver mines in Japan!

And back to the Jiajing period.

The silver from Japan also greatly alleviated the currency crisis of the Ming Dynasty.

Canopy:

【After the silver mines in Japan were discovered, some civil society groups on the southeast coast began to take action.】

【Because the Jiajing Dynasty was still following the maritime ban policy, the trade at this time was mainly armed smuggling merchant ships.】

【Later, they even merged with Japanese pirates and formed some huge pirate groups.】

【So why would you rather lose your head than smuggle it?】

【Because in the empire's almost closed internal market, the purchasing power of precious metals is very strong, and the price of silver within the Ming Dynasty is much higher than anywhere else in the world!】

【Whether it is ordinary transactions or using cheap Japanese silver to arbitrage gold, the benefits are huge.】

【More and more private businessmen and even dignitaries began to participate in it】

【They smuggled their excess products out, exchanged them for silver, and then purchased land and real estate. The smuggling trade was booming.】

【Another focus is on facing the European direction】

【In the late 16th century, the Spanish established a colony in Manila, Philippines】

【Immediately following the first year of Longqing in the Ming Dynasty, that is, 1567, the imperial court announced the Longqing Switch, lifted the maritime ban, and adjusted overseas trade policies.】

【On one side is Spain, which holds a large silver mine in the Americas and wants to launch ocean trade; on the other side is the Ming Dynasty, which is in urgent need of silver.】

【The two sides immediately hit it off and started large-scale trade with Manila as a transit point.】

【From then on, private maritime trade gained legal status, and the overseas trade of the Ming Dynasty entered a new era, with the emergence of many maritime trade routes to America, Europe, and Japan.】

【The scale of Ming Dynasty’s foreign trade began to expand crazily. Specialties such as silk and porcelain from Ming Dynasty were continuously exported to Europe and America.】

【The demand from overseas markets not only revitalized the Ming Dynasty's commodity trade, but also brought a huge amount of silver, which greatly alleviated the Ming Dynasty's currency shortage dilemma. 】

really.

The silver mines of Japan alleviated the currency crisis of the Ming Dynasty.

See this.

Lao Zhu breathed a sigh of relief.

The BC Yuan Dynasty was due to trade with various countries in the Western Regions.

This led to the outflow of silver from the Ming Dynasty.

And the trade failed.

Prosperity also comes from trade.

The king of future generations who arrived in Ming Dynasty.

Actually, relying on trade with the outside world has greatly alleviated the current problems. only......

Seeing the sky, the price of silver in Ming Dynasty is much higher than that in other parts of the world.

Lao Zhu is still not satisfied

"This silver is so valuable in our country, Ming Dynasty"

"Then wouldn’t this trade cause me to lose a lot of profits?"

The reason is very simple.

Because the Ming Dynasty was rich in silver, silver can be used to buy rare goods.

In other parts of the world, the same silver can buy goods, but you can get more in the Ming Dynasty.

In this way, it is a loss for the Ming Dynasty.

So although Seeing that foreign silver solved Ming's immediate crisis.

But it still failed to satisfy Lao Zhu

"Let's face it, even if it's just trade, if we send troops to occupy the Japanese silver mines, wouldn't everything be solved?"

Lao Zhu's words made Zhu Biao's eyes darken after hearing this.

After all, we are also a celestial country. If we do this, aren't we just like bandits?

"Although the loss was a little bit, at least there was an inflow of silver, which solved the problems of the Ming Dynasty."

"That's acceptable, right?......"

Dissatisfaction with Lao Zhu.

Zhu Biao thought it was okay.

Compared to losing a little profit.

It is more important to help Ming survive the current currency crisis. but......

Did this really help Daming solve the problem? not at all. on the contrary.

This trade model instead put Ming Dynasty into crisis.

Later, it became the root cause of the country’s subjugation.

【Later historians estimated that as much as half of the precious metals produced in the New World of America flowed into the Ming Dynasty】

【Coupled with the silver flowing into the Ming Dynasty from other regions, until the fall of the Ming Dynasty in 1644, a total of about 200 million of the silver produced in the world had flowed into China.】

【So in the late Ming Dynasty, the market economy in Jiangnan suddenly prospered, a large number of farmers turned to handicrafts, and the civil society was full of vitality.】

【In fact, the economic and social development of the Ming Dynasty has been closely linked to the world pattern as never before.】

【Therefore, changes in the situation in other parts of the world will in turn affect the fate of the Central Plains Dynasty, and the demise of the Ming Empire is also related to this. 】

The economy of Ming Dynasty is closely connected with the world pattern.

Instead, did it become the reason for the fall of the Ming Dynasty?

That’s why reading history can help you know the ups and downs.

Especially this comes from future history.

For a while.

All the emperors took it very seriously

【At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the world's climate entered a Little Ice Age, with temperatures plummeting and crop production declining on a large scale.】

【Northern nomads and fishing and hunting peoples continued to invade the borders of the Ming Empire.】

【But to be honest, at that time the Manchus did not expect that they could conquer the Ming Empire and take over the Central Plains】

【You must know that even in the last years of the dynasty, conquering the huge Ming Empire is something that the Manchu nobles dare not imagine.】

【Unless Daming itself has irreparable internal problems, they have no chance.】

【And this opportunity came as soon as it seemed, that is, there was a big problem with the world's silver supply. 】

See this.

Lao Zhu had a bad feeling.

Yes.

He guessed correctly.

The Ming Dynasty's currency crisis made them overly dependent on silver inflows from the outside world.

And once the outside world flows into Ming's silver, there is a problem.

Or cut off the supply.

That would bring unimaginable consequences to the Ming Dynasty!

【At the end of the Ming Dynasty, serious problems arose in the supply of world silver to the Ming Dynasty.】

【It turned out that Spain Y had silver capital at its fingertips at that time and made huge profits from ocean trade. The rulers of Spain Y became so complacent that they began to pursue hegemony and start wars everywhere.】

【From France to Flanders, from the Protestant countries of southern Germany to the Ottoman Empire】

【Spanish Y's wealth was consumed rapidly on the battlefield】

【Coupled with the fiscal easing policy supported by massive amounts of American precious metals, when the Thirty Years War broke out in Europe in 1618, Spain really couldn't hold on.】

【Spain Y borrowed money from bankers in Genoa many times, but it was still a drop in the bucket, and later the interest could not be repaid.】

【The predicament of Spain had a profound impact on the Ming Dynasty, because the silver from the American colonies turned to Europe at this time, extending the life of Spain】

【On the other hand, the Japanese Kingdom in the late Ming Dynasty also ended the Warring States Period, and the Tokugawa Shogunate also began to control silver mines. 】(To read exciting novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

【Tokugawa Ieyasu himself claimed that banning silver was a major financial issue. In the end, Japan decided to ban merchants from Gate A from trading in Nagasaki, and the amount of Japanese silver flowing into China also began to decrease sharply.】

【All this led to serious economic problems in the Ming Dynasty】

【Not only did the reduction in exports lead to large-scale bankruptcies of Jiangnan handicraft workshops, but more importantly, the supply of silver was cut in half, leading to terrible deflation.】

【You must know that deflation will lead to falling prices, which may seem like good news for consumers, but it will seriously inhibit investment and production. 】

Lao Zhu doesn’t understand what deflation is.

But he knows the simplest truth.

The problem of Ming Dynasty was lack of silver.

The temporary solution to this problem is to continuously flow silver from abroad to the Ming Dynasty.

But now.

With external channels cut off.

Ming Dynasty's currency problem is bound to reappear. gradually.

Lao Zhu's head fell.

At this moment, he finally understood why Tianmu had been talking about it from the beginning.

The fundamental reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty came from the silver capital of America[]

It can be said to be prosperous because of it.

Because of this!

"silver......money!"

Lao Zhu murmured to himself.

At this time, his desire for money, or his desire for silver, was extremely strong!

It was not just Lao Zhu.

When he saw the dilemma of the Ming Dynasty in the sky, every emperor also felt deeply I am deeply aware of the influence of capital on a country.

The people are stable and no one rebels.

Is this enough for a country to survive for a long time?

No.

Capital is the eternal truth!

"External silver is cut off, this Ming Dynasty......Not a good situation."

The plane of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Er seemed to feel the same.

He couldn't help but mourn for this last Han Dynasty.

In fact, this was indeed the case.

After the silver channel was cut off, the situation of the Ming Dynasty took a turn for the worse.

【Faced with this situation, many large households have hid their silver in the snow.】

【As for ordinary farmers and handicraftsmen, they will continue to face the high prices of the previous economic boom period, and the savings in their pockets will soon disappear.㡳】

【The destructive power of the economic crisis gradually spread to all aspects of the empire】

【Soon, civil unrest broke out within the Ming Empire.】

【At this time, Li Zicheng, the King of Chuang, was also laid off by the station. He was unemployed and returned home, wanting to cause trouble.】

【Facing peasant uprisings in various places, the imperial court had to find ways to collect more taxes to deal with uprisings in various places.】

【But what's even more terrible is that there is a shortage of silver, but the number of copper coins has not changed much.】

【The relative quantity of copper coins increased, causing copper coins to depreciate relative to silver.】

【The imperial court still followed the whip method implemented during the Zhang Juzheng period to collect taxes from the common people.】

【People must exchange the copper coins they use daily into silver before they can pay taxes.】

【Well, now, it’s not just a disguised tax increase, it’s a naked harvest of leeks!】

【The common people looked at it and said: Is the court really treating us like idiots? Hooray, so more people who couldn't survive went to Li Zicheng】

【With the vigorous peasant uprising, the national destiny of the Ming Empire inevitably fell into the abyss.】

【On March 18, the 17th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng led his army to conquer the capital. Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself in Meishan, and the Ming Dynasty was destroyed. 】

March 18, the seventeenth year of Chongzhen.

Li Zicheng led his army to capture the capital.

Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself in Meishan.

The Ming Dynasty is destroyed!

Although the words are silent.

But it fell into Lao Zhu's heart.

But it is no different than hitting the ground with a heavy stone!

"Our Ming Dynasty.....Perished?"

He couldn't believe his eyes.

He couldn't believe that the Ming Dynasty actually perished in such a way!

As an emperor from a peasant background, he deeply understood the hardships of the people at the bottom.

Therefore, he killed corrupt officials and punished evil officials.

But now......

【Hooray, so more people who couldn't survive went to Li Zicheng......】

When I saw this sentence in the sky.

Lao Zhu was about to collapse!

He never expected it.

The reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

It turned out to be because the people didn't have enough to eat.

An empire built by peasants.

Was he overthrown by farmers who had no enough to eat?

Suddenly his vision went dark.

He almost fell down!

"Money, make money!"

Old Zhu's eyes are red!

At this moment, he finally knows why future generations will use economic wealth as an important indicator when evaluating a country's strength. In this world, stability is not enough. What's more important

......And get richer!

Make money.

It became Lao Zhu’s only goal at this time!

【Looking back at the history of the Ming Dynasty, it is not difficult to find that】

【With the great geographical discovery and the rise of ocean trade, the history of China is inevitably linked to the changes in the world situation.】

【The national destiny of the Ming Dynasty rose to a new level with the great geographical discovery and the silver brought from overseas.】

【Later, because of the war in Europe and a decision made by the Y court in Spain, I fell directly into the abyss.】

【And reviewing the entire historical process】

【Only then can we better understand the saying that everyone is very familiar with: development is the last word. 】

Development is the last word.

When I saw this sentence. at this time.

Everyone feels deeply

"Indeed, the most important thing in life in this world is money. Without money, everything is useless. Just like the Ming Dynasty, no matter how powerful the force is, the people will still perish if they don’t have enough to eat."

"I didn't expect that a small amount of silver would be so important. Unfortunately, there are too few silver mines in China. How many years has it been since a new silver mine was discovered?"

"If there were more silver mines, the Ming Dynasty might not have perished, and it would not have to rely on overseas silver to survive."

"From this point of view, if we want to have a long-term national destiny, we must become rich! Only when the country is rich can the people have enough to eat and enjoy long-term peace and stability."

"After all, it’s still money, it’s still money!"

The common people sighed sincerely.

This is true for the common people. And the same is true for the emperors. Although this is not a serious economic lesson. But after reading the reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty , every emperor felt deeply Hearing the importance of capital to a country. In the Tang Dynasty, Li Er became more serious than ever. The importance he attached to the overseas trade of rich countries has reached a higher level! Of course. The lessons of the fall of the Ming Dynasty were also taught to him. A wake-up call. You can open up and strengthen trade with the outside world. But you must also be wary of being too closely related to the world. This will make the national destiny of the Tang Dynasty depend on external forces. Otherwise, the Ming Dynasty will learn from the past. Looking at the sky, Li Er let out a long sigh. Suddenly he sighed Tao enter..