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Chapter 62: Using colonies to contain the vassal king, Zhu Yuanzhang was confused after hearing this

Ye Xuan's explanation contains a lot of novel vocabulary.

It was an eye-opener for Zhu Yuanzhang.

Ye Xuan explains the novel vocabulary.

"In supply base, supply refers to the supply of required materials, and base refers to the area where a certain business foundation is developed. Together, it is the place where required materials are supplied."

"Cheap resources, cheap refers to cheap prices, and resources refer to various material factors such as human, material and financial resources possessed by ten countries or regions.

"Divided into social resources and natural resources."

"Social resources include information resources, human resources, and material wealth created through labor."

“Natural resources include land, mineral deposits, animals, air, water, sunlight, forests, grasslands, etc.

"Can sunlight be considered a resource?"

Zhu Yuanzhang was surprised.

"Naturally."

“Each region’s environment is different, and the resources it brings are different.

For example, some places are dry all year round and the sun is strong, and local people can use the dry environment and strong sun to expose fruits and food, thereby preserving the fruits and food for a longer period of time. "

"Besides, sunlight can also illuminate."

"For a living thing to survive, it needs sunlight.

Ye Xuan explained.

In addition, Yangguan can also provide a variety of energy sources, such as light energy and heat energy.

And green plants need sunlight for photosynthesis.

Coal, oil and other energy sources all come from this.

Therefore, sunlight naturally counts as a resource.

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but nodded, "That's it."

Ye Xuan continued to explain the novel words used in the capital (colonial) plunder just mentioned.

"Cheap labor, as I have just explained, cheap means cheap price. Labor refers to people's labor ability, including people's physical and mental strength. The combined meaning

They are cheap social animals...that is, cheap people who can work. "

Ye Xuan kept explaining.

Zhu Yuanzhang acted half-understanding and half-uncomprehending.

Too many novel words.

He was a little overwhelmed.

He looked at Ye Xuan with an even weirder look.

Where on earth did this kid know so many weird and novel vocabulary and knowledge? He had never seen or heard of such weird and novel content throughout ancient and modern books.

When Ye Xuan explained capital colonial plunder to Zhu Yuanzhang, he was thinking about the origin of capital colonial plunder.

Colonization: The country expands its economic and political power to backward regions and countries.

Colonial plunder did not originate in Western Europe.

But it originated in ancient Greece.

Various city-states in ancient Greece used colonization to expand their territory.

The West used colonization to treat people in backward areas and countries as slaves and developed a slavery system to rule the colonies.

But China is different.

For example, the Qin Dynasty expanded its territory by annexing, integrating, and immigrating to conquered areas, allowing immigrants to mix with local people, bringing new technologies to the local area, and educating local people. Immigrants and local people were equal and accepted the dynasty's rule together. Cultivation and control.

It did not enslave the local people like the West.

The different governance methods between the West and ancient China must be traced to the country's capabilities.

The Western native countries are weak.

So colonial rule was adopted.

First, you can plunder conquered areas and strengthen your homeland.

Second, it can weaken the resistance of the conquered areas.

Apply both together.

Colonial rule can be extended.

The native countries in the East were powerful, so they adopted territorial annexation, civilized rule and equal treatment of the people in the conquered areas.

First, improve the production enthusiasm of the people in the conquered areas.

Second, reduce the resistance to immigrants entering conquered areas.

Because of the strength of the native countries in the East, they can "integrate into the conquered areas without fear of backlash from the conquered areas."

The same cannot be said for Western countries.

Western native countries are relatively weak in terms of population size, military armament, territorial size, economic status and other national strength. If they adopt territorial annexation, they will definitely suffer severe backlash, so they resort to colonial plunder.

In previous lives, the Empire of the Sun Never Sets, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and other countries were famous for their plundering of other backward areas.

It is also told in history books.

Countries such as Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands are all small countries.

The local country is not strong.

So these countries also adopted colonial plunder.

They carried out capital (colonial) plunder, allowing the country to accumulate countless wealth and resources, but it also caused the people in the colonies to live in poverty and suffer exploitation.

Even these Western countries want to enslave these colonial people.

Trade them like livestock.

Zhu Yuanzhang listened for a long time and couldn't help but say:

"Ye Aiqing, although I have roughly understood the content of capital colonial plunder,

"but--"

“How can capital colonial plunder control feudal kings and feudal states?”

Ye Xuan smiled mysteriously.

"emperor."

“The way capital plunders is so brutal.”

"What do you think will happen to those colonies when faced with the tyrannical kings who plunder them?"

Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned for a moment and said directly without thinking:

"."What will happen?"

"Of course they will resist."

"In this way, the people in the colonies are not treated as human beings, but treated as livestock. The people in the colonies are living in poverty. How can they endure it?"

"Remembering that in the past, we took the path of resisting the Yuan Dynasty because we couldn't bear to endure hunger. At that time, if we didn't resist, there was no way to survive.

Ye Xuan echoed:

"Yes, this is exactly what I want."

"Those colonies are not our subjects of the Ming Dynasty, they are just the colonies of the feudal king and the slaves of the feudal king. No matter how exploited by the feudal king, it will not affect the mainland of the Ming Dynasty."

"The colonial people are so oppressed by the vassal kings. Just as your emperor said, they will resist."

“And what they rebelled against was the feudal king.

"Not the Ming Dynasty."

"The feudal king's capital colonial plunder will cause huge conflicts between the people of the colony and the feudal ruler."

"By that time, the vassal king will only be tired of suppressing the colonial rebels."

"Their power simply cannot become stronger or bigger."

"I don't even have the time (good money and good money) to care about Ming Dynasty."

"If there are some weaker vassal kings who cannot suppress the rebels in the colonies, they may have to ask the Ming Dynasty to send troops to help them suppress the rebels in the colonial areas."

"That's it, that's it!"

Zhu Yuanzhang stood up with surprise on his face and paced back and forth.

"We were just wondering how to use capital colonial plunder to control the feudal king. It turned out that the colonial rebels were used to contain the feudal king.

"This is indeed a good idea."

"Our Ming Dynasty can control the vassal king without spending a single soldier or spending any financial and material resources."

"Ye Aiqing, how on earth do you have such a big head, that you can come up with so many weird things, and you can come up with such a clever plan.

"It's incredible."

Zhu Yuanzhang had a look of emotion on his face, thinking that Ye Xuan's resourcefulness might surpass Liu Bowen's.