Chapter 669 14. Eight Strategies in Danzhenggong Mountain (Part 3)

In fact, Xiao Pingtai sees it very clearly. The so-called freedom of speech is nothing more than the highest level of information control!

Nowadays, the thoughts of the East and the West collide fiercely, new ideas continue to emerge, and all kinds of possibilities are bursting out in infinite possibilities!

Of course, those that are beneficial to the rule can be allowed to become popular. If it is not clear whether there are advantages or disadvantages for the time being, it can also be dealt with at discretion. If it is obvious that you want to overturn the table of our ruling class, then I'm sorry!

My small country and few people can't afford to serve you, a big Buddha!

Please go away!

"Uncle Tanzheng, what about the last two strategies? What do you say!"

Let alone Xiao Pingtai, this overall view is first-class. After all, knowing the past 500 years and the future 500 years, it has long been clear in mind. If Oda Nobunaga sat in front of Xiao Pingtai, he might have already embraced and talked happily, and just waited for Xiao Pingtai to continue talking face to face.

"The last two policies must be implemented together, but in order."

"What are they?"

"Develop industry and commerce! Open the sea for trade!"

It's a very simple truth. It's the same old saying. Japan is a small country that produces almost nothing except rice and silk. Material shortages are an established reality and cannot be avoided at all.

What Japan exports today are actually mainly precious metals such as gold, silver, and copper, plus some other small things. Half of the credit for the circulation of silver in the Ming Dynasty was due to the influx of Japanese silver, and the red copper used for copper coin casting in the first fifty years of the Qing Dynasty also came almost entirely from Japan.

The outflow of a large amount of precious metals made Arai Shiraishi bluntly advise the emperor that if the country continued to do this, it would have no gold, silver, and copper currencies, and all of them would have flowed out of the country.

Nowadays, with many heroes fighting for power, naturally no one cares about this kind of thing. The daimyo need iron cannons, gunpowder, and saltpeter to fight. The growing population in cities and towns has created a huge demand for consumer goods that Japan cannot produce on its own.

Silk, brocade, spices, dyes, medicinal materials, books, and all kinds of precious goods are in great demand in Japan. There are countless people who can afford them, and they are exchanged for gold, silver, and copper, which are produced in abundance in Japan year after year.

But there is a limit to the abundance. For example, the famous Ikuno Silver Mine will slowly dry up, and then the Iwami Silver Mine will be mined. Although the gold mine in Sado has not yet been discovered and mined, its output is not enough to cope with the outflow year after year. As for the Ashio Copper Mine and Besshi Copper Mine, although they are both rich mines, they are not endless!

In the final analysis, Japan's industry is underdeveloped and there are no bulk commodities for export!

Therefore, these two strategies of Kobayakawa must be put together. Only after developing industry and developing special products, so that Japan has bulk products for export, can it truly open up the sea for trade and conduct large-scale trade.

To put it more unpleasantly, after 20 or 30 years, when Yamauchi Taro is in his prime and in his prime, the most severe climate disaster will happen next door.

It would be fine if it happened to be a climate disaster. The entire empire was so huge that it should be able to survive. Unfortunately, it happened to be the end of the dynasty when political struggles were extremely fierce, land annexation intensified, and at the last critical moment, a full-level micro-manipulation god was encountered.

Too diligent! Diligently, the entire ancestral land of more than 200 years was lost!

It would be fine if it happened to be a climate disaster. Then, in a few years, the barbarians suddenly rose up, almost at an incredible speed, and quickly destroyed the once huge empire, bringing endless destruction and massacres, and the overall regression of the entire social development.

At that time, the huge handicraft production workshops in the south of the empire, as well as the prosperous maritime trade, accumulated over hundreds of years of hard work, and millions of skilled handicraft workers, would be completely wiped out in the nearly devastating change of dynasties!

The only sparks left in the ruins soon declared bankruptcy in large-scale coastal wars and maritime ban policies! By the time of the so-called great prosperity of eating bran and drinking thin, the vast market that was originally firmly occupied had long been divided up.

The textile industry of the British Empire, which rose on the bones of three million Indian textile workers, seized the opportunity with infinite luck. Even the European silkworm industry, which was originally destroyed by the Ming Dynasty, could be revived.

The large number of gaps in the market provided an unprecedentedly broad market for countries such as Britain and the Netherlands.

If you can fill it in Britain, why can't I fill it in Japan?

Moreover, Japan has the advantage of geographical advantages and cheap labor. As long as we start to cultivate and develop our own handicrafts at the right time. Even if we can't completely seize the market, we can still get a share in the trade competition.

A small share is enough to feed the surplus population of this island country due to agricultural production, stabilize society, promote development, and prolong the life of the current ruling class.

As long as the people have a way to survive, even if it is just a mouthful of hot soup and rice every day, it can ensure the long-term stability of the entire shogunate.

After a long talk, it was dark in the evening.

The servants brought the hot soup and rice prepared by the hostess of the house, and everyone felt hungry and started to eat. There was a loud clattering sound. In those days, people were very simple and there was no fake rule that they had to be silent when eating. The warriors were "naturally" unrestrained.

Holding their rice bowls, the children, big and small, were not idle, and asked Kobayata questions about their doubts. Some asked about the etiquette of making friends with foreigners, and some asked about the rules for the exchange of new and old currencies, and the feasibility of letting the Yamanouchi Gold Bank handle it.

Kobayata spoke in detail, and everyone listened carefully. It was said that he was in a good mood when he was happy. Kobayata actually ate an extra bowl of soup and rice today, and felt a little full.

After the attendant brought hot tea to help digestion, Kobayata continued to expound his ideas on governing the country. He spoke at length, but no one felt tired or bored. Kobayata was giving advice to the future shogunate and doing his best to help Yamauchi Taro rule the country for a long time and stably.

Asking the male owner of the house for paper and pen, Kobayata wrote down the following in order:

1. Expand the territory.

2. Establish laws.

3. Listen to public opinion.

4. Unify currency.

5. Unify measurement.

6. Make friends with foreign countries.

7. Develop industry and commerce.

8. Open the sea for trade.

One by one, written clearly, he handed it to Yamauchi Taro. Yamauchi Taro took the paper with the eight policies written on it from Kobayata very solemnly, as if he was taking over a unique treasure.

"My uncle's teachings are pearls of wisdom!"

"I hope I can help Your Highness in the future!" Kobayata certainly hopes that these policies can be implemented.

In the near future, once Yamauchi Taro is able to ascend the throne of the shogunate, Kobayakawa will most likely serve as the shogunate's executive and assist Yamauchi Taro in handling government affairs.

By then, all of my life's ambitions will be fulfilled!