Daming: At the beginning, the big snow dragon rides to create a martial arts court

Too domineering!

All the cities in Wansanqian were wiped out at this moment, a mouthful of reversed blood almost spurted out, eyes almost turned white, and finally suppressed, tremblingly said: "Enough, enough."

The endless humiliation and grief made Wan Sanqian almost want to scream, but in the end, it only turned into a sigh: "Let Your Majesty dispose of it."

If he hadn't been involved in smuggling, if he hadn't considered it wise to weigh in for a long time before coming to see him, he might have ended up like this.

He is still a businessman at heart, and he is best at weighing the pros and cons.

He had no doubt that if he refused, Zhu Qiyu would immediately send him to see Lord Yan.

Compared with life, hundreds of millions of family property seems not so important.

Besides, as long as he is still there, he can still earn it back in the end.

Zhu Qiyu is clear in his heart, Wan Sanqian is worthy of the name of the richest man in Ming Dynasty. He has been in business for many years and is worth over 5000 million. [-] million taels.

Daming's annual taxation is equivalent to only 2000 million taels, and the worth of 117 can be called [-], which is truly incomparably rich.

He has all the handles in his hands, and Zhu Qiyu will definitely make the lion open his mouth.

Of course, if Wansanqian really refused, Zhu Qiyu would not have pulled the wool, and would have slaughtered the sheep directly.

He has taken a fancy to Wan Sanqian's business talent, but he is not irreplaceable.

"You are a smart man, do you know why you were involved in border smuggling, did I not kill you?"

"Grass people are stupid."

Zhu Qiyu said: "I appreciate your business talent. With your knowledge, you should know how much that mirror is worth. How much are you willing to pay for that mirror?"

"1 taels!"

"Do you know the cost of that mirror?"

"Less than one or two."

"what?"

Wan Sanqian's eyes almost turned into copper bells: "That mirror costs less than one tael, did the grass people hear wrong?"

"You heard me right, it's just one tael. I want to give you the mirror to sell, and I'll give you [-]%."

The thoughts in Wan Sanqian's mind turned wildly: there is no doubt that this is a slap in the face and a sweet date for himself.Based on his knowledge, he knew very well that mirrors were not worrying about selling. The profit was so high that it was almost lying down to make money. Even if it was a [-]% profit, that was extremely objective.

But if he agrees, he will be firmly bound to Daming from now on and become an imperial merchant.

Royal merchant, is it good or bad? .

Chapter 127 The Huge Profit Network of the Sea Ban

"Open the sea?"

During the court discussion, Zhu Qiyu raised this issue, and the expressions of all the officials were inexplicable.

Since the Yongle Dynasty, banning the sea and opening the sea have always been a big problem. Some emperors of the Ming Dynasty supported the banning of the sea, and some tried to open the sea. But until now, opening the sea seems to have become a taboo in the court.

Once someone proposed to open the sea, they were mobilized and attacked. If an emperor wanted to open the sea, all the ministers jointly signed a petition, saying that they would waste the people and waste money, and took out big hats to put on the emperor's head.

In Wenyuan Pavilion, a needle could be heard for a while, but no one spoke.

No one in the court knows that behind the sea ban is a huge chain of interests, which involves hundreds of millions of interests.

After the Yongle Dynasty, there seemed to be two invisible forces in the court, the sea ban and the sea ban. compromise.

There are many smart people in the court, and they all know how much benefit Da Ming will bring after opening the sea. Among other things, Da Ming's finances will not be so stretched.

But once the sea is opened, it will cause huge damage to that interest chain.

Because the root of this chain of interests is the sea ban.

Without the sea ban, most of this chain of interests would be disintegrated.

On the southeast coast, countless dignitaries and wealthy merchants have mastered the interests of the sea trade by virtue of the profit network they compiled, and used the sea ban to forge a high wall. Ordinary people cannot cross the wall at all, and the beneficiaries in the wall are only a few.

They are like gluttons, devouring the profits of sea trade greedily.

The benefits have been obtained, and they want to get more benefits, longer-term benefits, so that they will become staunch supporters of the sea ban.

These dignitaries and wealthy businessmen not only have money, but also use money to support scholars. The scholars who took the imperial examination and entered the court became their umbrellas.

For example, in Zhejiang Province, the number of Jinshi born is the highest among all states. Some people have been promoted step by step, and they have become six ministers, ministers, and even the cabinet. If such an important official resigns from his old age and returns to his hometown, and returns to Zhejiang Province, can he protect his fellow countrymen?

Local clan forces continue to subsidize scholars to obtain fame and fame, enter the court as officials, and influence the court.

Over time, government orders did not leave the capital, and the local military, government, and economics were all controlled by local forces.

This was the case in Ming Dynasty in history, being sucked dry.

For example, the six ministers, Yu Qian, Minister of War, Hu Wei, Minister of Rites, Jin Lian, Minister of Household, who was exiled for three thousand miles, Shi Pu, Minister of Industry, and Yu Shiyue, Minister of Punishment, are all from Zhejiang.

Of the six ministers, five are from Zhejiang Province, which makes people feel restless. Since Zhu Qiyu knew their household registration, he felt a little bit like a pain in his back, like a stick in his throat.

He finally knew why some emperors were so suspicious and almost crazy.

Of the six ministers, five are from the same village, which emperor would it not be a headache to change?

Fortunately, Zhu Qiyu has a golden finger, and he has a big hole card, so he is not very afraid. Even so, he is still thinking about how to find a reason to change one or two people.

Now Jin Lian is replaced by Mao Yi, but there are still four left.

Of course, not all of these four are under the umbrella of the Zhejiang Interest Network.

But as long as there are one or two, this umbrella is also big enough.

After Zhejiang Province, Jiangzhou has the most Jinshi. Unfortunately, Chen Xun, the old cabinet minister, Wang Zhi, the official secretary, and Mao Yi, the new household secretary, are all from Jiangzhou.

There are only so many officials that can be promoted in the court. If Zhejiang Province does not refuse to promote, well, then you can promote Jiangzhou. If Jiangzhou does not want to, then Tianzhou.

What, you don't want to promote officials in these states to prevent them from forming a party for personal gain, you want to promote officials from Ganzhou, Yunzhou, and Nanzhou?

I'm sorry, they may not be able to get a Jinshi in one imperial examination, and even if they pass the Jinshi exam, they may not be capable, and the officials who are qualified to go to court may not be from Ganzhou, Yunzhou, or Nanzhou.

Perhaps Zhu Qiyu could dismiss the six ministers without reason and promote a few officials who were not from Zhejiang Province, but all of this requires a reasonable reason.

For example, Jin Lian, he was involved in the Nanzhou massacre, Zhu Qiyu took him down, no one would gossip.

But if Zhu Qiyu dismisses Wang Zhi and takes Yu Shiyue down now, even if no one dares to object publicly, no one will gossip in private?

No matter how strong Zhu Qiyu is, can he still be able to stop the people of the world?

It's all about the rules.

Imperial court laws, laws and even Confucian etiquette all belong to the category of rules to some extent.

It is the court that speaks the rules.

Zhu Qiyu can rely on the power in his hand to kill whoever he wants, and dismiss whoever he wants to dismiss from office, and follow the example. Officials mess up, everyone learns from it, don't pay attention to rules and evidence, kill whoever wants to kill, what kind of situation is that? ?

There have been times like this in history.

Northern and Southern Dynasties and Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

It was an era when ceremonies collapsed, order collapsed, morality deteriorated, all the officials were trampled on the streets, and the people were in dire straits.

Without rules, the law will die, the court will die, and the country will die.

When Yu Qian heard that Zhu Qiyu raised this issue, he couldn't help but secretly sweat for Zhu Qiyu.

He was born in Zhejiang Province, and he also understands the enormous power of this force.

Seeing the expressions of the ministers, Zhu Qiyu sighed secretly in his heart. According to the intelligence, maritime merchants, dignitaries, and wealthy gentry have intertwined a large network, completely monopolizing the terrible interests of maritime trade. Touching this taboo is a provocation to these huge vested interests.

They will fight back with all their might.

The interests of these maritime merchants, dignitaries, and gentry are the same, even if there is also competition among them, but once someone wants to touch such a sweet and delicious cake as Haimao, they will definitely fight back unanimously.

Even if you are the emperor is no exception!

Yu Qian was the first to stand up (to get Zhao), and said in a deep voice: "¨Opening the sea is beneficial to Ming Dynasty, and I support it¨.."

As expected of Yu Shaobao, as worthy of being the person who can compose the poem "You are not afraid of being crushed to pieces, you must leave your innocence in the world". Although he is from Zhejiang, he has not become the umbrella of Zhejiang's interest chain.

"Yu Shangshu's words are outrageous."

At first, everyone was watching their eyes, their noses, their noses, their mouths, and their hearts. When they heard Yu Qian’s support, Wang Pu came out to oppose: “Before the sea ban, some people in the coastal area colluded with Japanese pirates, causing the Japanese pirates to pose a huge threat to the lives and property of the people along the coast. Afterwards, the troubles of Japanese pirates have obviously decreased a lot.”

Yu Qian shook his head: "Wang Shangshu only knows one thing but not the other. It's true that there are Japanese pirates along the coast, but how strong are the Japanese pirates in the Danwan land? I'm afraid it's not much stronger than bandits and bandits. Is it because of bandits and bandits?" The difficulty of eradicating is too great, so why not exterminate? The Japanese pirates are difficult to exterminate, so should we cut off the sea trade because of choking?”.

Chapter 128 What I want is for them to jump over the wall in a hurry!

Wang Pu snorted coldly, as if he didn't want to argue with Yu Qian: "Your Majesty, in order to protect the coastal people from the Japanese pirates, I don't recommend opening the sea."

"I had a doubt when I was young."

At this time, Yu Shiyue spoke, which sounded like it had nothing to do with this topic. Everyone looked at him, and Zhu Qiyu was curious about what he was trying to trick.

"Why don't the merchants charge heavy taxes?"

"Farmers are poor and weak, why do they have to be forced into corvee?"

"Warrior in the Jianghu, why don't you add security?"

Yu Shiyue didn't think about who would answer him, and asked and answered by himself.

"Later, the minister understood."

"Businessmen are highly profitable, and they should not be allowed to be in high positions, otherwise, no one will be willing to farm and work, and farmers are poor and weak, and they must be given the same rank as scholars in the imperial examination."

In the official status of scholars, farmers, businessmen and commerce, farmers are only ranked under scholars.

"Warriors in the Jianghu, if they break the ban by force, they must not be recruited easily, otherwise, there will be a large number of strong thieves who don't think about hard work, only know about fighting and killing, so-called heroes and celebrities."

"If the imperial court is middle-class peasants, the peasants can feel at ease. If the imperial court is middle-class merchants, it will oppress morality and the people's morals will be corrupted."

Yu Shiyue originally lowered his head to speak, but at this point, he looked up at Zhu Qiyu, and made a generous statement: "Your Majesty, this is the case in the Southern Song Dynasty. According to statistics, since the founding of the country, there have been more than two hundred rebellions of a certain scale."

"Those people are really 117 rebels? I'm afraid not. Once they rebel, the solution of the Southern Song Dynasty court is to recruit security, and Xu Yi's leader will be a high position. Therefore, those strong bandit bandits, heroes and celebrities in the Southern Song Dynasty who only know how to fight and kill see a Jin Dynasty. The rank of the body."

"As for me, Ming, there are only a handful of people, because once someone rebels, the first thing I think of is to forcefully suppress it, so there is no such step to advance."

"The Southern Song Dynasty paid equal attention to agriculture and commerce. Everyone wanted to do business. Many people were unwilling to farm and work. Once the sea was opened and commerce flourished, it would shake the foundation of our Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Qiyu sneered in his heart, Yu Shiyue, who looks thick and big-eyed, is actually a smooth-tongued person.

Yu Shiyue's remarks were just a sneaky change of concept, which eventually magnified and highlighted the disadvantages, but did not mention the advantages.

Di Renjie was also on the list of court discussions, and he chuckled lightly upon hearing this.

"Di Shilang, what's your opinion?" Yu Shiyue looked at him displeased.

"The lower officials have different opinions."

Di Renjie took a step forward: "Yu Shangshu only mentioned that agriculture and commerce in the Southern Song Dynasty were equally important. Everyone wanted to do business, and many people were willing to farm and work."

"But don't mention that the tax revenue of the Southern Song Dynasty is more than twice that of my Ming Dynasty."

"I also didn't mention that many people who don't farm are actually not unwilling to farm, but that they have no land to farm, and the business is prosperous, so many people who have no land to farm can eat three meals a day."

"Your Majesty, I support Kaihai!"

"Your Majesty, I also support Kaihai."

"Opening the sea is not good for my Ming Dynasty."

"Your Majesty, sea ban is our Ming Dynasty's national policy."

"Your Majesty, the sea is forbidden."

Most of the nearly [-] court officials supported the sea ban, which made Zhu Qiyu see how powerful the sea ban is.

Zhu Qiyu smiled, and skipped the topic: "Let's not mention the sea ban for now."

As soon as these words were uttered, many people breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time they were a little puzzled. How could His Majesty give up so easily now that His Majesty is extremely tough?

The next moment, Zhu Qiyu's topic made them tense again.

"Issuing commercial tax?"

The temperament of the Chinese people always likes to reconcile and compromise.