"In this case, the impact will be on the Western Europeans who came to our Ming Dynasty to trade. Their income will decrease. However, they used gold and silver that they snatched from the Americas and Africa directly for exchange, and they did not earn it themselves. They would naturally not feel sorry for spending it, and it would be feasible to increase taxes on them."

Zhu Youxiao said, "Accurate! You immediately discuss a specific tax increase plan."

"Abide by the order!"

Bi Ziyan replied.

Since the development of the Ming Dynasty, if we want to maintain hegemony and prevent the domestic powerful and noble gentry from being damaged, we can only inevitably plunder other countries.

Fortunately, the important officials who are now serving Emperor Zhu Youzhao are more experienced than the previous ministers, and already know that they should do this without the emperor's teachings.

Bi Ziyan is even the most active minister among these people.

Because he could no longer convince himself that if he was to the foreigners as before, he could make the Ming Dynasty prosperous.

Because he was good at money-making, he stayed with Zhu Youxiao for a long time and gradually realized that the Ming Dynasty was as strong and prosperous as it is now, all by earning foreign trade and plundering external benefits.

Otherwise, the Ming Dynasty would have long since disappeared due to increasingly heavy internal problems.

"My emperor, at the beginning of his ascension, did not hesitate to rectify internal affairs and develop science and technology, and then he achieved the goal of controlling the world today! Otherwise, our scholars and officials would have been half alive and half dead."

Therefore, after returning to the Political Affairs Hall, Bi Ziyan started to say this to Liu Hongxun and Zhu Xieyuan, the two auxiliary ministers, because he mentioned that the Ming Dynasty could transfer economic pressure to foreign barbarians.

"There may be many people who die for the pride, but half of them are afraid of difficulty. Judging from the servants, we scholars and officials have not realized how important national interests are before this. Most of them are just clan interests, or those who are willing to sacrifice their families and be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but to be fair, there will not be many."

Liu Hongxun replied.

"No matter how many, our scholars and officials can start to change, especially those who are still in the court, who have begun to take the interests of the Han family first, and more and more of them are undoubtedly the achievements of Your Majesty. When Your Majesty ascended the throne, few people understood it. Even Fang Daxing was driven to the shelves at the beginning and opposed all the scholars and officials who were unreasonable."

Zhu Xieyuan smiled and said.

"This is reasonable. Your Majesty's insight always comes ahead of us. Even Bi Zichuan, I, did not realize that strange skills and tricks are so important to the prosperity of the country. It is useless for Neo-Confucians to say that cultivating virtue can make the world safe. In the end, the food and fragments of silver brought by strange skills are reliable! The troubles of the Eastern Barbarians, the She'an Rebellion in the Southwest, the troubles of Mongolia, and the Japanese Rebellion, are now all gone, and they are all due to this achievement."

Bi Ziyan said.

As soon as he said this, Bi Ziyan couldn't help but look solemn, and said, "But the emphasis on strange techniques and tricks also brings many hidden dangers. I wonder if you have ever thought that once the foreign king continues to be so hungry and cold, and becomes poorer and unable to consume our supplies, how can we exchange more and more cheap goods brought by various new machines for other materials that are useful to us, such as grain, ore?"

After hearing Bi Ziyan's words, Liu Hongxun and Zhu Xieyuan couldn't help but look at each other.

"After all, it's Yuanfu, which is far from us. This is indeed a problem. Once the goods are accumulated, the consequences will be unimaginable. Not only can all kinds of loans be collected, but the money will be tight. I am afraid that many employees will be unemployed! My young and strong people in the Ming Dynasty have already worked hard enough because there are many elderly people and children. It depends entirely on increasing income, so they will not be dissatisfied. But once foreign trade is cut off and so many commodities are not consumed internally, these young and strong people will probably have trouble."

Liu Hongxun started talking first.

Zhu Xieyuan asked Bi Ziyan directly: "What kind of way can Yuanfu have?"

"In essence, the total amount of money and grain in the world has increased. It is necessary to appropriately overflow the benefits, but this spillover cannot be spilled out in vain. This money must be used to achieve certain purposes, such as allowing them to accept our Han culture. In addition, the share of the official business cannot be reduced, but it must be increased. Private money houses must be banned, and private minting and minting are strictly investigated to control most of the world's money and grain in the hands of the court. The court will take this opportunity to continue building railways and cities, and send the excess money to more people, so that most people in the Ming Dynasty will have more money. At the same time, they advocate consumption, especially luxury consumption. The people in the Ming Dynasty need extravagance and need everyone to own a luxury house to avoid the backlog of goods!"

Bi Ziyan said.

"In other words, we should instead of the norm of thrift in the past and allow extravagance to prevail?"

Liu Hongxun asked.

"It must be! The Ming Dynasty is no longer the past. In the past, it was to avoid eating food from the Yin and Mao, so it had to be frugal. But now it has to make more circulating goods. This makes people willing to buy all kinds of things. There are so many things that people need, so they have to buy unnecessary things, such as new perfumes, mink coats, ginseng and antlers."

Bi Ziyan said again, "In addition, the ban on etiquette must be lifted, allowing women and children to show up in public, buy all kinds of precious powders and spices to dress themselves up, and even improve the status of Han women and let their husbands spend more money for them."

"If you do this, you will really change your customs."

Liu Hongxun said.

"The Ming Dynasty is no longer the Ming Dynasty of the past. If you don't do this, you will inevitably be in chaos! In other words, in the past, we only asked the people of the Han family to fill their stomachs, but now we have to ask the Han people to live in a strict life, with taste, luxury, and elegance like us literati! Otherwise, it will be exchanged for a large number of bankrupt factories, a large number of unemployed workers, and a growing tax revenue!"

"In addition, all the people of Ming Dynasty should know that because of the advocacy of thousands of years of frugality, the people of our Ming Dynasty love savings too much. The savings of the Ming Bank are still high. In recent years, in order to encourage the emergence of customs, many interest-free loans have been added. The current profits of the Ming Dynasty Bank do not come from the people, but from the income brought by various official company loans. These official company loans are actually to plunder more wealth from overseas. It can be seen that the consumption of our Han people has not been stimulated, but not stimulated. How can the foreigners consume our goods?"

Bi Ziyan said again: "If necessary, you must link the qualifications, medical opportunities, and convenient transportation to the size and price of the house you bought. The official medical clinic and academies will be built around a luxury house with various types of three, four, and even five. If anyone wants to see a famous doctor and a good academies, you must buy a big house! If you can't afford it, you can buy it with a loan and pay it back slowly."

"If this continues and cannot be controlled, will it be counterproductive? Force the scholars and people in the world to eat the food of the emperor. What if there is a natural disaster or man-made disaster?"

Liu Hongxun asked.

"I just mentioned it. If I want to do this, there will naturally be many new systems. For example, the court can deal with natural disasters and man-made disasters."

Bi Ziyan said.
Chapter completed!