Chapter 63: The last resort

Children grow up very quickly, just a few years have passed.

In recent years, Zhou Mengchen has wanted to return to Wuchang countless times, but he was kept by the Empress Dowager.

Zhou Mengchen actually knew that he had been used as a political bargaining chip by the Empress Dowager. He used him to check and balance Zhang Juzheng. Zhou Mengchen was in the capital for one day and told Zhang Juzheng that there would be people who would replace him at any time.

However, Zhou Mengchen must leave this time.

On the one hand, he taught Wanli everything he could teach Wanli. It was useless to stay here. The disciples made Zhang Juzheng uncomfortable, although Zhou Mengchen felt that he and Zhang Juzheng would not be separated because of this matter.

But no matter how good the friendship is, it must be maintained.

On the other hand, Zhou's mother was seriously ill a few months ago.

Zhou Mengchen is in his fifties and Zhou’s mother is over seventy years old.

Although the medical care in Beijing is not much better than before, it is extremely helpless for a person to live a lifespan. Li Shizhen has already issued a doctor's advice. Now, the old lady has good food and drinks. She has to do anything she wants to do.

What the implication is that it is obvious.

Zhou’s mother’s idea was to return to her roots and go home to bury her with Zhou’s father.

Zhou Mengchen was also ready to give up his home business in Beijing and return to Wuchang.

And today is the last lesson Zhou Mengchen taught to Wanli.

Wanli handed over the previous homework.

Zhou Mengchen looked through them one by one.

"The Future Development Trend of the Ming Population", "Beijing Class Survey", "The Current Financial Situation since Wanli", "The Development Trend of the Ming Dynasty since Wanli", etc. More than ten points.

Zhou Mengchen looked carefully, and after reading it, he said, "Your Majesty, I have taught you all the imperial skills. The old minister will leave the capital tomorrow."

Zhou Mengchen did not review these homework contents. He knew that these contents were not done by Wanli, but by Wanli obtained data through the Dongchang Jinyiwei and finally sorted out them out by himself.

Zhou Mengchen didn't know how big the error was. He didn't care.

He just hopes that Wanli can master this perspective of looking at things.

Moreover, these contents basically meet Zhou Mengchen's expectations.

In the past forty years of Jiajing, the population of the Ming Dynasty has entered a stage of rapid growth, especially high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes and corn. From the 40th year of Jiajing to the sixth year of Wanli, a total of seventeen years, nearly a generation has been around.

Although the re-formulated yellow book cannot be very accurate. After all, there are still many errors in the population surveys in later generations, let alone this era. But even if it has been confirmed, the population of the Ming Dynasty was between 200 million and 300 million around forty-five years.

And now the population of Ming Dynasty is more than 300 million.

The above is just an estimate.

If we continue to calculate it based on mathematical formulas, things will happen in the 20th or 30th year of Wanli, because the people can no longer survive.

By then, the population will reach 400 million, which is a number that Wanli can't believe at all.

In addition, there are also crises in other aspects.

The gap between the rich and the poor in Beijing and Beijing is getting bigger and bigger. In the Jiajing Dynasty, there were not many families with millions of household assets. However, now that the family assets are more than tens of millions of yuan, many of them have appeared in the entire Ming Dynasty. There are also many extremely poor working class.

Although Beijing is not as good as Datong, it is also an important industrial center in the north. It gathers hundreds of thousands of extremely poor workers and is very poor in treatment.

It was also the law that Zhou Mengchen had guaranteed all personal power at the beginning, which made some powerful people not dare to be presumptuous. It was better.

This made Wanli feel that he was simply on a powder barrel.

In addition, there are the financial trends of the Ming Dynasty and the financial trends of the Ming Dynasty.

The fiscal trend is that fiscal surplus is getting smaller and smaller.

After all, Zhang Ju was just in a grand manner to build the railway, build the Yellow River, and increase the salaries of officials. That would be a waste of money?

After Zhang Juzheng took office, the Ming Dynasty's fiscal surplus was always stagnant between tens of millions of taels and eight millions of taels.

Zhou Mengchen had no objection to this. After all, too much money is not a good thing in the hands of the court. But I know to pay attention to another thing. As mentioned earlier, the addition of gold, silver and copper coins of the Ming Dynasty were only hundreds of millions of taels of silver.

Even in the past decade, overseas trade has developed rapidly. Every year, a large amount of silver flows in, minting into currency.

However, the wealthy people in the country have a net worth of tens of millions. If the wealth of the top 100 rich people in the Ming Dynasty is added together, it will definitely be a number far exceeding the total amount of currency circulating in the Ming Dynasty, which is 700 to 800 million taels. It is likely to be 200 to 300 million taels.

This is the top billionaires, and there are more people below. So what is the total amount of currency? It is really hard to count.

This is not because these rich people brag.

It's currency multiplication.

But Zhou Mengchen didn't know if this situation could be held back. Wanli felt sincerely afraid of these money that was made out of nothing. He was popularized by Zhou Mengchen what was an economic crisis.

In short, one sentence summarizes the current situation of the Ming Dynasty.

It is best to continue to prosper. But there is a big pit on the road ahead, which has already appeared and disappeared.

Wanli said: "The teacher must leave, and the disciples dare not try to keep him. They just asked the teacher to leave a solution. I can also rest assured."

Zhou Mengchen smiled slightly and said, "Your Majesty, many problems must be solved by themselves, and cannot rely on others. And my idea may not be misleading Your Majesty, but some things that the old minister can do, but your Majesty cannot do, and some things that the old minister can do."

"Your Majesty has grown up too. This is the last question left to Your Majesty by the old minister."

At this moment, Wanli had long forgotten the knot of Jiajing's incident. The teachers of Wanli can be said to be the best teacher group in the Ming Dynasty. But in Wanli's opinion, his other teachers were not worthy of Zhou Mengchen's carrying shoes. If Wanli knew nothing and knew nothing, it would be fine.

But Wanli himself is smarter and receives the best education. He just wants to know, but he doesn't understand it. After contacting his other teachers, and Zhang Juzheng, he is sure that Zhou Mengchen is much more intelligent than others in governing the country.

Even Zhang Juzheng, who is known as a capable minister, is far inferior to Zhou Mengchen.

He always wanted Zhou Mengchen to stay and assist him. However, Zhou Mengchen decided not to break his rules and did not speak out to the government, and it would be even more impossible to break his rules.

This made Wanli admire him, but also felt extremely troubled.

This report was created by the Wanli organization, how could he not understand it? It was because he understood it that he felt that only Zhou Mengchen in the world could solve this problem.

Wanli said: "Teacher, even if the teacher does not do it for me or for the people of the world, I would like to give advice."

Zhou Mengchen smiled softly and said, "Your Majesty, there are many ways to solve this problem. The worst strategy is that the court is already doing."

Wanli was stunned and said, "I'm already doing it? What's the matter?"

Zhou Mengchen said: "Myanmar?"

Wanli immediately reacted. In the third year of Wanli, Yin Zhengmao could no longer bear it and reported all kinds of rebellious actions in Myanmar to the court. The court sent people to reprimand, but the King of Burma did not care.

Therefore, the imperial court ordered a conquest to conquer Myanmar.

Yin Zhengmao has led hundreds of thousands of troops in the southwest and has been fighting for more than two years. Yin Zhengmao wanted long-term stability and stability, so he fought so slowly because Yin Zhengmao spent a long time to build a road and wanted to build an official road from Yunnan to the Dajinsha River.

It is so difficult to build a road in the tropical rainforest. Fortunately, there are many steel and cement materials now. It’s just that the progress is slower.

Overall, the progress is still going smoothly.

Wanli was also very smart. He immediately said: "What the teacher meant is to expand territory and expand territory, immigrate to the border?"

This is a way to transform internal contradictions into external contradictions. Zhou Mengchen told him before.

Zhou Mengchen said: "This is the easiest way, but it is just to divert the contradictions, but it does not resolve the contradictions. If your Majesty feels that there is no other way one day, use this way. However, you must pay attention to the rhythm. You must know that although the country is big, forgetting to fight will lead to danger, and fighting will lead to death."

Wanli immediately said, "Disciple understands. Please rest assured by the teacher." He now made up his mind to send more people to Yin Zhengmao and send more people to Yunnan to farm. But he had not thought about how to do it for a while.

However, Zhou Mengchen's words laid the main theme of the Wanli dynasty, namely war.

People are lazy and will always use it when a method is easy to use. Wanli is not surprised.
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