The most arrogant in history

Chapter 401: The country will be forever secure.

Ye Kun comforted Song Poliu:

"In fact, I knew from the beginning that you couldn't take it. But this time we went out to sea, we have accumulated experience, which will be very beneficial for the development of the navy in the future. In addition, attacking Jiaozhi was Xiao Dequan's idea at the time, so we don't need to rush.

You are still young, are you afraid that you won’t be able to get the address in the future? "

Ye Kun’s current mission is to stabilize Jiangnan and digest it.

There is no rush to attack Jiaozhi.

Once Jiangnan is stabilized and the navy is officially formed, we will have no problem attacking Jiaozhi, or even the Asan Peninsula!

Only then did Song Poliu gradually calm down.

Ye Kun added: "Take good care of the families of the brothers who died in the battle, and give them preferential pensions. Then summarize the lessons learned from this voyage, report to the Navigation Research Institute, and be a responsible person."

Song Poliu nodded and went to find Qin Chou to hand over the Southeast Asian products she had brought back.

Unfortunately, no rubber trees were found.

I guess at that time, rubber trees were still in South America and had not yet been introduced to Southeast Asia.

The coveted peanuts, corn and sweet potatoes were nowhere to be found.

Therefore, Ye Kun was anxious to develop the navy and to arrange a round-the-world voyage as soon as possible to bring these things back from America.

Sweet potatoes and corn are not in urgent need.

The current food production is more than enough to feed this population.

However, there is an urgent shortage of rubber trees. Without this stuff, rubber tires cannot be made, which greatly restricts development!

There is still a long way to go in terms of technological updating in Jiangdong region.

Ye Kun handed over the government affairs to Zhuge Feng and the nine ministers, and continued to lead the scientific research team to overcome technical difficulties.

There are iron and copper mines in Jiangdong, with large output.

The equipment and technology for iron and copper smelting must be upgraded.

There is also the design of naval ships. First, we make drawings, then models, and then arrange wind and wave tests.

Shipbuilding also requires steel. Fortunately, Jiangdong has enough steel in stock, so there is no need to worry.

Ye Kun also ordered that all obsolete armor and inferior weapons be recycled for civilian use and shipbuilding.

Yu Guinong did not understand and said:

"Xiao Dequan's arsenal always has hundreds of thousands of sets of armor and weapons reserves, and he never dares to let them go. Why did the lord destroy all these armors and weapons? I think they can be used after repairing them."

Ye Kun explained: "With the development of guns and cannons, armor will be completely eliminated by history. Instead of developing armor, it is better to develop guns and cannons to fight non-contact wars. Therefore, it is enough for our army to have 200,000 sets of armor on hand. All the excess defective products will be destroyed."

His future opponents were Xiahou Chang, the Huns, and the southern barbarians.

But Ye Kun still has time to develop, and his gun and artillery technology will be further improved. Why does he need so much armor?

In the mountainous areas of Jiangdong, people also lived in poverty and lacked iron farm tools.

Only by turning scrap copper and iron into farm tools and daily tools can we increase productivity as quickly as possible.

Gongsun Erniang was still in charge of the construction of ventilation stoves in Jiangdong. She went deep into the people and knew their sufferings. She suggested that Ye Kun distribute tools to poor people for free.

It can resume production and win people's hearts.

Considering that Jiangdong had sufficient steel reserves and that the steel could be mined vigorously, Ye Kun approved Gongsun Erniang's suggestion and launched a project called "Steel into Every Home".

Any household that converts to a ventilated stove can receive a set of tools, including a kitchen knife, scissors, sewing kit, shovel, hoe, and pancake pan.

for free!

It is limited to individual farmers and free people, and farmers and farmhands managed by gentry are not included in this scope.

There are only about one million scattered farmers and free people in Jiangdong, about 300,000 households, which Ye Kun can afford.

When the decree was issued, Jiangdong was shocked and the people could not believe it was true.

It was not until Gongsun Erniang really distributed the steel tools that everyone realized it was real and cheered continuously!

Ye Kun also opened technical schools in Jinling, Qiantang and other places, and vigorously cultivated local blacksmiths, carpenters, leatherworkers, and bamboo weaving talents in Jiangdong.

It was very difficult for ancient people to learn a craft.

It takes three years of apprenticeship to get to the point of understanding.

Not only that, you also need connections, otherwise you won’t be able to become my disciple.

Ye Kun directly set up a crash course, and it would take three months, or even one month, to train a skilled knife craftsman, and let them go back and slowly learn, practicing while doing.

Anyway, it is just to make ordinary tools for ordinary people, and it does not require the craftsmen to have high skills.

Jiangdong is close to the sea, and the sea can be boiled to make salt.

Ye Kun further improved the technology, expanded the coastal salt fields, increased production, and lowered the price of salt to be consistent with that of Yizhou.

During the feudal dynasty of China, the two important commodities that choked the people were salt and iron.

A large part of fiscal revenue comes from salt and iron.

Ye Kun implemented new policies and almost completely liberalized these two industries.

The nine ministers and Zhuge Feng were all very worried and went to Ye Kun to discuss:

"Almost all of the salt and iron industries have been liberalized. Where will our fiscal revenue come from in the future? The head tax has also been abolished. The treasury will soon be empty and there will be no money to spend!"

"We don't need money. We only need food, salt, iron, silk, hemp, cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs, chickens, ducks, fish and shrimps. That's enough."

Ye Kun smiled: "To live, people only need food, clothing and shelter, not money. No matter how much gold, silver or copper coins you have, they can't be eaten."

The essence of money is a country's IOU.

If you sell me a dan of rice, I will give you a banknote. This banknote is the IOU. If you don't have rice to eat in the future, bring the IOU and take the dan of rice back.

The more money is issued and the larger the face value, the poorer the people will be!

Ye Kun’s thinking is very simple.

All we need is supplies, supplies are money.

Is it not possible to pay the salaries of officials at all levels and workers' wages with grain, ironware, porcelain, silk, sesame oil and tea?

It is enough for the currency on the market to circulate.

Wu Qiong wanted to argue further and counted the expenses of each matter in detail.

Ye Kun waved his hand and said, "You will know when we collect grain in autumn. With the development of productivity, our grain collection will double. All other agricultural taxes will also double.

There really isn’t enough money. We have copper mines, so we just need to make more money.”

There were several copper mines in Jiangdong’s original jurisdiction, and they were quite large in scale, so there was no shortage of copper coins!

Tongling in southern Anhui is known as the Millennium Copper Capital. Copper has been mined there since the Shang and Zhou dynasties until later times, and it has not been fully mined for three thousand years.

There is also a large open-pit copper mine in Jiangxi Province, which cannot be fully mined even in 10,000 years.

Because of Ye Kun's crazy selling and unlimited arrogance, the people of Jiangdong region won over within three months and there was no more opposition.

In fact, most of the money Ye Kun spent was still Xiao Dequan’s inventory.

Poor Xiao Dequan, he plundered the people's money but ended up making wedding dresses for others. Ye Kun did him a huge favor.

Early summer, May.

Ye Kun led the nine ministers and other government agencies back to Xiangyang.

Coincidentally, news came that Xiahou Chang ascended the throne and became emperor.

Xiahou Chang named his country Wei and proclaimed himself the First Emperor of Wei, hoping that his empire would last forever and his country would be stable forever.

The former emperor of the Dading Kingdom was deposed and exiled to Liaodong, where he was honored as Duke Xian.

Ye Kun convened a meeting of nine departments and asked for everyone's opinions.

Guan Yafu attended the meeting and burst into tears:

"Our Da Ding Kingdom has lasted for 400 years, but now it has been overthrown by Xiahou Chang, which has angered both gods and humans. My lord should support Da Ding and use the whole country's strength to fight against the traitors in the north!"

Even after being taught by Ye Kun for so many years, the old guy is still very stubborn.

He still believed that the country belonged to the emperor of the Great Ding Kingdom and no one could interfere.

There are still many such old people and die-hard fans of the Da Ding Kingdom.