"Silver City" once mentioned such a sentence. "In the 16 and 17 centuries, one third of the world's silver flowed to China through trade. So today, let's discuss the middle and late Ming Dynasty in the ZTE era. To what extent has folk wealth reached?

In the early Ming Dynasty, the domestic economic structure was single, and the agricultural economy accounted for 90% of the total economic output. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, private capital developed unprecedentedly, especially the handicraft production technology in the south was obviously improved. Silk, porcelain, tea and other commodities were most welcomed by European nobles, so these commodities were once heated up, so that Spanish gold and silver benefited from the navigation era and flowed into the Ming Dynasty. It can be said that at this stage, the luxury of dining in Ming Dynasty became popular. For example, ordinary people in Jiangnan can pile food on the table with one post, especially not only ordinary food such as meat and vegetables, but also many exotic fruits. Even a big meal, the food consumed can make people eat for months. Even Shen Shixing, the cabinet minister in Wanli period of Ming Dynasty, sighed in his notes. Now there are tens of millions of sauces and butcher shops in the capital.

In addition, Zhang, the most famous cabinet official in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, put forward the viewpoint of "the rise and fall of rural businessmen", which brought greater benefits to more people engaged in handicrafts. In addition, commercial books appeared in this period, and literati no longer focused on imperial examinations and official careers, but devoted themselves to commercial trade. Therefore, the phenomenon of "Jia Yizu" and "Jia abandoned Confucianism" appeared in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

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