Imperial Master of the Ming Dynasty

Not to mention the secret room, back to the old crooked neck tree.

Zhu Gaoxu looked at Li Jinglong. Li Jinglong's expression was complicated, but Zhu Gaoxu pondered for a few breaths and then said calmly.

"Two people are making decisions, and if they conflict with each other, it will make things difficult for Mr. Jiang. It's better to do this. You are much smarter and more reasonable than me. Emperor Yuan, you come and pretend that I am listening by the side. Anyway, I made the choice to build the Yellow River. The tone in my heart That’s okay.”

Seeing what Li Jinglong wanted to say, Zhu Gaoxu said sincerely.

"Don't refuse, it's for my own good. Otherwise, I would have to worry about the life and death of the people. It would be so uncomfortable once. If I do it a few more times, wouldn't it just add to my inner demons?"

Seeing that Jiang Xinghuo didn't say anything, Li Jinglong nodded and accepted Zhu Gaoxu's suggestion.

"Then, as the ruler of the Yuan Dynasty, you gave up the option of repairing the Yellow River and entered the annual settlement process."

"In the twenty-fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty, counting 5 points of fiscal surplus, the fiscal revenue is 80 and the national destiny is 45."

Without the dispute between the two, the progress of the simulation was much faster. Li Jinglong rarely thought for a long time and made decisions based on the most rational choices in a short period of time.

"In the twenty-fifth year of the Yuan Dynasty, because the rebels had not been suppressed the previous year, Zhong Mingliang's troops entered Jiangxi and attacked Nan'an, Ganzhou, Zhangzhou, Meizhou and other places; Taizhou Yangzhen revolted in Yushan, established a great empire and rejuvenated the country, and the reign was stable, with more than ten people Ten thousand; Zhaoqing Yan Dalao, Huaiji Xiao Dalao, Daozhou Chen Dalao, Jinlin Zeng Dalao, etc. revolted. Should they suppress it? Suppression requires 15 points of finance, and if not suppressed, 10 points of national luck will be reduced."

The rebel army captured the city, causing more and more harm to "our Dayuan", Li Jinglong said without hesitation.

"Suppression!"

"A special event occurred in the same year - Haidu invaded the border."

"The Great Khan of the Ogedai Khanate, one of the four great khanates of Mongolia, and your sworn enemy Borjijin Haidu personally led tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry to invade your border. The last rebellion of the Zong King Naiyan has proved that your The generals and soldiers have no intention of fighting against enemies of the same clan and clan, so do you choose to lead the expedition yourself?"

This time Jiang Xinghuo did not directly give a choice of consequences, but it was not difficult for Li Jinglong to analyze that if he did not go on a personal expedition, he would probably be completely defeated. Not only would his finances be deducted, but his country's destiny would also be lost.

"Personally conquer!"

"After receiving the news, you held on to your body, which had become increasingly aging after the last personal expedition against Zong Wang Naiyan, and marched on the expedition yourself. However, you did not encounter enemy troops at the border. Haidu took advantage of your reputation and led his troops to retreat. This Just a false alarm. Fiscal -10."

"In the twenty-fifth year of the Yuan Dynasty, including 5 points of fiscal surplus, the fiscal revenue is 60 and the national destiny is 45."

"In the 26th year of the Yuan Dynasty, Hua Dalao, Huang Dalao, Qiu Dalao, Longyu tribe in Yangzhen, eastern Zhejiang, Ye Dawu, Taigu County, Jixi Hufa, Rao Bicheng, Lu Chonger, Yang Yuanliu, east Zhejiang, Hangzhou Tang Zhen, Xianyou Zhu Sanwu and others revolted continuously. Should they be suppressed? Suppression requires 10 points of finance. If not suppressed, 10 points of national luck will be reduced."

This time Li Jinglong didn't want the scale of the uprising to expand at all, so he said directly.

"Suppression!"

“Special events occurred in the same year—natural disasters occurred frequently.”

"Jiangyin, Ningguo and other roads were flooded, and more than 400,000 households were displaced. Quanzhou earthquake, Wugu Road earthquake, ground subsidence, and more than 7,000 people died. Finance -5."

"In the twenty-fifth year of the Yuan Dynasty, counting 5 points of fiscal surplus, the finance is 50 and the national fortune is 45."

Time moved forward with Li Jinglong's quick decision.

"In the 30th year of the Yuan Dynasty, the Yuan army attacked Java and returned to Quanzhou after suffering heavy losses. Finance -10, national fortune -10."

"In the 30th year of the Yuan Dynasty, counting 5 points of fiscal surplus, the finance is 45 and the national fortune is 20."

"When you pass away in the thirty-first year of the Yuan Dynasty, you will continue to play your son Timur."

"In the same year, the Yellow River burst its banks in Qi, Fengqiu, Xiangfu, Ningling, Xiangyi and other places, and again in Kaifeng. Should the Yellow River be repaired?"

At this point in the game, Li Jinglong's face turned pale.

Li Jinglong looked at Zhu Gaoxu and said with a wry smile: "Maybe you are right. If you had chosen to build the Yellow River back then, your finances would still be able to sustain it now, and the Yellow River would not burst its banks year after year."

"It's too late." Zhu Gaoxu was also a little stunned.

The game continues.

"In the first year of Dade, the Yangtze River in Hezhou Liyang overflowed, destroying more than 18,500 houses. The Yellow River overflowed in many places, and then broke through Bianliang, and then Pukou, Qixian County. Finance -5."

"In the second year of Dade, the river broke through 96 places in Pukou, Qixian County, flooding Bianliang and Guide counties. The finances were -5."

"Three years of great virtue."

"Four years of great virtue."

Not only the Yellow River, but also the Huaihe River, the Yangtze River, and even the Han River began to suffer from continuous floods.

Beads of sweat dripped down from Li Jinglong's forehead.

He had to weigh the pros and cons and went to rescue the disaster with conditions, but he could not save the disaster.

"In the fifth year of Dade, a special event occurred - the Yunnan Chieftain Uprising. Do you want to suppress it?"

Li Jinglong buried his head in his arms and said in a dull voice: "Do I have any choice?"

At this time, after a series of "rational" decisions by Li Jinglong, with the first goal of maintaining finances, the Yuan Dynasty still had 15 points left in its finances, but only 5 points left in its national destiny.

In other words, the finances of "We Dayuan" are still holding up, but it is estimated that the country will be destroyed next year.

After all, the value of National Fortune has increased much less than it has decreased.

Even if we are lucky enough not to deduct the national fortune in the next few years, the finances will no longer be able to sustain it.

The Yellow River, Huaihe River, and Yangtze River have all become the bleeding mouth of the empire because of the lack of maintenance of water conservancy projects.

Every year, the financial value of 10 points upward is constantly deducted from the money Li Jinglong saved through various efforts.

Li Jinglong also realized his fate. He didn't want to choose at all. This time he directly lost the country in order to maintain finances!

And the irony is.

——If he had chosen to build the Yellow River at that time, then after two or three rulers, the Yuan Dynasty would have ushered in real governance.

At this time, the finances could no longer support the construction of the Yellow River, and there was no chance of repairing it.

Li Jinglong was very frustrated. He had doubts about his own reason and decision-making.

Not building the Yellow River is a rational result. It is foolish for Zhu Gaoxu to build the Yellow River even if he wants to destroy his country. This was Li Jinglong's judgment not long ago.

Now that I have reached a dead end, I am slapped in the face.

Li Jinglong hammered his head with his hand and asked himself in disbelief.

"How is it possible? How did it get to this point? There are obviously many, many choices!"

No one answered him, and Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but interject.

"If it doesn't work, then [change money]."

Li Jinglong raised his head, his eyes filled with disappointment. He cleared his throat before he could speak.

"[Bianqian] is just drinking poison to quench thirst. I admit defeat and stop playing."

In the secret room.

Zhu Di said thoughtfully: "So no matter what you choose, as long as you are not playing games, in fact, when a ruler faces something that affects the fate of the country, the final choice he makes is to sacrifice finances to preserve the continuity of the country. "

Xia Yuanji nodded and said immediately.

"After all, if the finances are in ruins, we can [change currency] and sacrifice the people in exchange for the continued existence of the country."

"Of course, the financial saving effect of [banknote changes] will decrease as the number of times increases. This is also very true. The people have lost trust in the court through banknote changes again and again."

Zhu Di concluded: "In other words, the decision to [change banknotes] is actually bound to happen. It is just a matter of the length of time. The will of the ruler does not have a greater impact."

"Your Majesty, that is exactly what it is."

Xia Yuanji was also a little helpless and said with some relief: "Jiang Xinghuo's game has made it very clear how the banknote method will collapse. It will eventually collapse. It's just a matter of time." . At least since the Southern Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty started to play with banknotes, I have never seen any kind of banknotes that can escape the fate of not being able to last forty years. Basically, it will collapse in more than ten or twenty years."

"Is there really nothing we can do?" Zhu Di asked seriously.

"There's really nothing we can do!"

Xia Yuanji said sincerely: "Predecessors in the past have no solution, and now the Ministry of Revenue has no solution, and I don't think that anyone in my lifetime can come up with practical solutions to solve the problem of the gradual deterioration of banknote law."

This is what Xia Yuanji said in his heart.

From the beginning to the end, the man who best understood the economics of the country and the people in the Ming Dynasty did not believe that Jiang Xinghuo's "silver banknotes" could solve the root problem of the corruption of banknotes.

Even though Jiang Xinghuo had explained the origin and development of currency in detail during his previous lectures.

Even the simulation game Jiang Xinghuo is currently working on clearly shows the choices that the rulers of the empire will inevitably make when facing national destiny and finance, which will lead to the inevitable corruption of the banknote method and the inevitable occurrence of [banknote replacement].

Although Jiang Xinghuo made it clear, Xia Yuanji also admitted that Jiang Xinghuo had extraordinary insight into the ways of running a country and benefiting the people, and his reasoning simply pointed to the source of the problem.

The most frightening thing is that Jiang Xinghuo can take the most subtle and profound things hidden in the fog of history and use them in a simple, easy-to-understand and immersive way so that ordinary people who don't know much about the economy of the country and the people can understand it. , How did the phenomenon of [changing banknotes] come about.

But the more clearly Jiang Xinghuo showed, the less confident Xia Yuanji was in preventing the corruption of the banknote method.

because.

——He understands too!

It is precisely because of seeing through that I feel hopeless.

Just like some people fall into the arms of theology precisely because they believe in science.

Li Jinglong was still in a depressed state, and he had once again doubted life more deeply.

Is it wrong to make a rational decision and weigh the pros and cons?

Recalling the battle of Jingnan, he made rational and irreproachable decisions again and again. However, in the end, he faced Zhu Gaoxu, who was "indecisive and reckless when encountering difficulties", but lost consecutive battles.

Li Jinglong fell into confusion.

On the other side, Zhu Gaoxu also thought for a long time, then lowered his head and asked: "So the meaning of Mr. Jiang's game is that [money change] is inevitable, and no matter what choice you make, it doesn't matter. Am I right?"

"If you look at it from the perspective of a ruler of a traditional feudal dynasty based mainly on agricultural taxes, well, just like the perspective in the simulation game just now, then there is really no solution to the active or passive choice of [changing money]. of."

Jiang Xinghuo affirmed: "In fact, this is what I want to tell you in this game."

"That means whether it is Kublai Khan who is a talented and arrogant man, or Prime Minister Tuotuo who wants to turn the tide; whether they are serious about standardizing the establishment of banknote laws, or they just want to make money and save the country through banknote laws. The final outcome is [changing banknotes], time It’s just sooner or later.”

"Do you know the source of the problem?"

When Li Jinglong heard this, he finally raised his head. Even a person like him, who had been trying to save the finances and was unwilling to change the money when the country was about to be destroyed, finally realized that there must be some hurdles here.

Otherwise, how can we explain that the banknote law was so corrupted that it could not be stopped no matter how many choices the ruler had?

Jiang Xinghuo said word for word.

"Because the over-issuance of currency is a shadow of the real value. The more over-issuance of currency, the bigger the shadow will be, reaching the limit, and it will eventually engulf the entity."

"The only way to prevent the shadow from devouring the entity is that the growth of the entity must at least catch up with the growth rate of the shadow, or control the growth rate of the shadow."

"And this is doomed to be impossible to achieve in a country that relies on growing food to create real value and relies on collecting agricultural taxes to fill the gap in currency over-issuance!"

"This is why, in the 'Currency Game: Simulating the Yuan Dynasty', no matter what you choose, [currency change] will inevitably occur."

Li Jinglong suddenly realized, and he asked urgently: "So, Jiang Lang has a way to get rid of the ending of [changing banknotes], right? It's the 'silver banknotes' you mentioned!"

"exactly."

Zhu Gaoxu also suddenly realized: "I also understand, this is the purpose of Mr. Jiang letting us play this game!"

Jiang Xinghuo's words seemed to lift the roof of the secret room, shining in a scorching sun!

Xia Yuanji was originally struggling with the dark fate and despair of "the banknote method will inevitably be destroyed".

Standing frozen on the spot.

The reason why Xia Yuanji is desperate is because he sees too thoroughly and understands too much theory.

And exactly like this, when Jiang Xinghuo directly pointed out to him a clear way to break the fate of Baoqian's corruption from a theoretical level.

With Xia Yuanji's wisdom and many years of experience in managing Ming Dynasty's finances, he understood Jiang Xinghuo's meaning with little effort.

And his experience and knowledge told him immediately that Jiang Xinghuo's new theory was right!

This set of theories points out from the root why banknote law must be devalued and corrupted.

It is because the speed of banknote issuance exceeds the speed of creating real value. There is more money on the market but not many valuable items, which means that the money is worthless, so the banknotes are depreciating more and more.

Xia Yuanji understood this truth, but Xia Yuanji did not understand the meaning behind Jiang Xinghuo's words.

How to create other real value? How to get rid of the dependence on agricultural taxes for taxation, and then add other revenues to fill the gap in currency issuance? How to effectively prevent the devaluation of banknotes?

After thinking about all this.

Xia Yuanji suddenly lost his composure and threw himself down in front of the ceramic wall, pressing his ears tightly against it, as if he could hear the news he wanted to know most immediately.

"Tell me quickly!"

"How on earth can we stop the shadow from devouring the entity?"

Xia Yuanji's eyes were full of hope.