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Chapter 354
The memorial was opened, and just looking at the title, Emperor Chongzhen's eyes lit up.The title turned out to be "Opening the Ocean"!
Who is this person who has such vision and knows to open the sea ban!Emperor Chongzhen thought about it, and couldn't help being very curious, and hurriedly pulled to the bottom to see the signature, only to find that it was He Qiaoyuan who had already retired and returned home.

Emperor Chongzhen had an impression of this person, and he knew that his alias was Xiaoxiao, and he was from Jinjiang, Fujian.Born in the 37th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1558), he is now 72 years old, which is considered old.

As soon as he thought of this person, he immediately remembered that when He Qiaoyuan resigned at the beginning of last year, he also wrote a memorial titled "Small Discussion on the Sea".

It's just a pity that the Emperor Chongzhen at that time was not the current Emperor Chongzhen who was passed through by the soul of later generations. He Qiaoyuan's "Small Discussion on the Sea" memorial did not attract much attention.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen remembered, perhaps because of the fusion of souls, his memory was very good, and he immediately remembered the content of the memorial to the "Sea Shore Discussion" at that time.

At that time, He Qiaoyuan mentioned in the memorial that the Ming Dynasty had collected sea taxes before, but after the pirates became rampant, the imperial court had no money to suppress the pirates, so that the number of businessmen who took the normal route was decreasing day by day.The people in Luzon saw that the goods I trafficked from Ming Dynasty were decreasing day by day, so they made deals with the people in Taiwan, and the tax money was earned by pirates and Hongyi.

He Qiaoyuan suggested that the imperial court should collect sea tax again and let Zheng Zhilong eliminate pirates.This person knows where the pirates' lairs are, and he is often used to sea battles at sea. If he comes forward, the pirates will definitely be wiped out.

However, after Zheng Zhilong surrendered, the court had no money to pay, and Zheng Zhilong had always paid for the bandit suppression.This kind of thing can't last for too long, otherwise if one day Zheng Zhilong runs out of money, what will he do?If they rebel again, who will destroy the pirates?In the past, there was a decree for the three provinces of Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong to jointly eradicate pirates, but in the end, none of the provinces took action because they had no money to send troops.

According to the current law, the murderer dies!But why the murder, if you don't find out clearly, it would be unfair to just judge the case based on the murderer's death.He Qiaoyuan even gave an example to illustrate this point, and then immediately talked about pirates.

He said in the memorial that pirates cannot be killed with a single shot, and there are various situations in them, and he hopes that the court will treat them with caution.Hearing that Li Kuiqi also wanted to be recruited, he suggested accepting the recruit.At least after recruiting Li Kuiqi, he can be controlled, and he can be dealt with whatever he wants afterwards.If he doesn't agree, even if Zheng Zhilong is asked to exterminate him, it will cost money, food and human life, and this kind of thing is not worthwhile.

Emperor Chongzhen recalled this, and he couldn't help sighing secretly that this He Qiaoyuan was worthy of being a Fujianese, and he knew much more about maritime affairs than most people in Ming Dynasty.What he said made sense, but it was a pity that the original Emperor Chongzhen didn't pay attention to it.Otherwise, there is no need to add Liao pay if the sea is banned to collect taxes, and the Ming Dynasty may last for a few more years.

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen secretly sighed in his heart, and then he couldn't wait to read the memorial of "Opening the Sea" in his hand.

"The sea is the land of the Fujian people. Fujian is narrow and there are no rivers for boats to move between Jiangsu and Zhejiang for trade. The only way to sell the sea is their livelihood..."

He Qiaoyuan started with an analysis of the actual situation in Fujian, starting with Emperor Taizu's ban on the sea, and first demonstrated a point of view.Even the Forbidden Sea is useless.No matter who and who, how severe measures are used to implement the national policy of banning the sea, the final result is that pirates are rampant and the people are in dire straits.

However, starting from the early years of Wanli, the imperial court once opened foreign taxes in Haicheng County, Zhangzhou. At that time, the tax collection received a total of more than 13 gold. The people were happy and the military was well paid.At that time, the profit from selling Nanyang was very high, and the overseas silver mountains were overflowing, unlike Daming, which had to dig wells and the like.The implication is that there are many benefits to opening the sea ban.

It was only later that Hongyi got in the way and robbed the goods, so that more and more thieves followed suit.At that time, the local government told the imperial court that only by cutting off the tax for opening up the oceans, can those thieves who are pirates not get anything.

Thus, the forbidden sea began again.But in this way, the pirates began to go ashore to plunder, and there was still no peace.In addition, there are more smugglers, and the ban on the sea just makes the court lose its income, that's all.

He Qiaoyuan then introduced the so-called Hongyi in detail, saying that the native country of the Hongyi is Jialiuba, while the native country of Luzon is Fulangjiye.His understanding is only at the Nanyang level, and he doesn't know the situation in Europe.But this understanding, for the people of the Ming Dynasty, is already very valuable.

At the beginning, these Hongyi were forced to buy and sell in Luzon, which was disliked by my Ming people.Because of this, most people do not trade with Hongyi.So, those red barbarians started to rob.He Qiaoyuan believes that the original intention of these red barbarians is to trade to obtain profits, and they don't really want to rob from the beginning.Now those red barbarians occupy Taiwan, cooperate with pirates, and collect sea trade taxes.

As for Taiwan, He Qiaoyuan was afraid that no one in the court would know about it, so he also explained it, and even explained how long it took to get there by boat, so that people could have an idea.But indeed, at this time, Daming actually didn't care about islands like Taiwan at all.

He Qiaoyuan also introduced the basic situation at sea today: According to today's Luzon and Hongyi two barbarians entering our land, this is the so-called Oriental.In addition, there are Siam, Cambodia, Guangnan, Hue, and Japanese Japanese, so-called Western.

He specially introduced the special products of these places, such as rhino horn, ivory, sumac and pepper from Siam, such as Xiliuba, Western rice and bird's nest, which he did not have.Cambodia, Guangnan, and Hue also produce sumac and pepper. Although Japan also bans the sea, some people still smuggle their specialty silver.These trades are all in Taiwan now, but I, Ming, can't receive a cent of tax money. It's really a pity.

Even after talking so much, He Qiaoyuan gave his idea of ​​opening up the ocean: if you talk about big vendors, you should quote them from Luzon; if you talk about small vendors, you should quote them from chicken coops and fresh water; If the treacherous people help and benefit me, I will make Quanzhou a coastal defense to know the master.The oriental barbarians and the big merchant Lu Song were still introduced to Zhangzhou, so that Zhangzhou's coastal defenses knew the master.Prosperous Datong, life is easy, there are few thieves and robbers, this is the great benefit of China.

He said in the memorial that although opening the sea is indeed risky, nine out of ten people who go out to sea will lose, and one out of ten of those who get married will win, but people will still compete for it.For this reason, he used an example that all Daming people knew, to prove that this matter should not be too alarmist.

　To be honest, when I found these materials, I was quite surprised. I didn't expect someone to make these suggestions in the late Ming Dynasty.I believe many readers have never heard of it.And this matter is also very important, so to put it bluntly in my own words, there are more references in this chapter.If you are interested, you can Baidu the name of the memorial, you should be able to find it, and you can read the original text of the memorial.

　　
　
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