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Then Ling Moxiao changed the subject, narrowed his eyes, and said coldly: "My lady is too soft-hearted towards them, that's why she has such worries."

Dong Su raised his head slightly, looked at his eyes narrowed in anger, and asked hurriedly: "Your Majesty, what are you going to do? You must not ruin Qiu Qian's great cause because of a momentary anger."

The shipping craze, the prosperity of maritime commerce, the establishment of banks, etc. all depend on business to promote. She doesn't want Ling Moxiao to make things difficult for her and tighten the policies, thus tightening the newly developed market again.

Ling Moxiao stroked her hair and said, "Don't worry, my wife, I will never destroy something that you value! But, I will be the bad guy, and you will be the one who saves them."

Shen Dongsu soon knew what Ling Moxiao was going to do. Since the maritime merchants and the powerful were dissatisfied with the commercial laws that the queen wanted to promote, she would not push them forward.

However, because Daxia was fighting against Japan, in order to prevent the possibility of Japanese spies among the maritime merchants, restrictions were placed on ships going out to sea, and only a small number of merchants were given the right to go out to sea.

Before the maritime merchants and the wealthy could even groan, the imperial court revoked the maritime bank's right to raise currency overseas. Only the imperial court could raise currency. Your Jiang family wanted to raise currency overseas. Are you trying to rebel?

Haishang Bank was on the verge of bankruptcy.

When everyone saw that even the Jiang family, whom the queen trusted the most, was suppressed by the court, they dared not speak out even more.

All the workshop owners in Youzhou were terrified. If the imperial court really issued another maritime ban, they would have to sell their goods to foreign merchants or sell them at a low price in the country, which would result in heavy losses!

For a while, the whole Youzhou was in panic. Fortunately, the maritime fever had not yet spread across the country, otherwise there would have been unrest.

The Jiang family was in a panic. Jiang Hong was on Liuli Island and had not returned. The other members of the Jiang family were not qualified to meet the queen, so they finally came to Jiang for help.

Jiang brought Baoer to the palace to ask for an audience with the Queen. Dongsu did not hide it from her and used the Jiang family as an excuse because they were hers.

Don’t worry, the Jiang family will not be affected after the official policy is released in a month at most.

It's just for this month, and the Jiang family needs to cooperate. There's no need to do anything else. Just cry everywhere and take the lead in supporting the Queen's new maritime law.

Jiang was so smart that she understood immediately that the emperor and the empress had joined forces to set up a scheme, with one playing the good guy and the other playing the bad guy, so that the difficult-to-implement maritime law could be supported.

Jiang herself was born into a business family, but sometimes she wanted to curse. Businessmen are like this. If you give him 30% profit, he wants 50%. If you don't give it to him, he will call you black-hearted.

But if you cut his profit by 5% and then give him 3%, he will immediately be grateful.

In fact, it’s not just businessmen, everyone is the same, they are grateful for a little bit of rice and resentful for a big bit of rice.

Don't you think that it has only been a few years since the imperial court lifted the maritime ban? If the queen hadn't come to Youzhou and fully supported maritime merchants, there wouldn't be the situation today.

If you dare to make such noise again, the imperial court will once again take one-size-fits-all measures and impose a total maritime ban, then you can just cry!

Dong Su knew very well that ordinary maritime merchants would not have the courage to do this. It was because after the capital was moved, those powerful and noble families also joined the sailing that the current situation came about.

They believed that with such strict policies issued by Ling Moxiao and the news that the emperor was extremely angry about maritime merchants and banks, they would definitely beg the court to come up with policies and change commercial laws as soon as possible.

As long as the policy is officially released, even the emperor cannot change his mind overnight, but people's hearts will definitely be unsettled during this month.

Sure enough, in the following period, every day there would be a dozen or so people, and at least a few, all of them were dignitaries from various families who wanted to see the queen and presented her with valuable gifts.

Some merchants and workshop owners were not qualified to give gifts to the queen, so they asked the powerful and wealthy to send them on their behalf. The big merchants gave the most generous gifts, including boxes of gems, pearls, and coral trees half a person's height.

Everyone tacitly agreed to send treasures from overseas, and reminded the Queen in various ways that there were many treasures from overseas, and urged the Emperor not to impose a one-size-fits-all ban on the sea again!

Ling Moxiao left the gifts behind on the grounds that the queen was pregnant and could not meet guests, but did not meet any of the guests.

Everyone went to ask Jiang's family and found that every member of the Jiang family was dejected, as if there was a sword from the imperial court hanging over their heads. They were all shocked.

The Queen doesn’t even protect the Jiang family. Are maritime merchants really going to decline?

The powerful and wealthy were all anxious. The court's new land reform system made it impossible for them to accumulate wealth from land, mines, gardens and other industries as before.

If sea merchants are banned again, we can only rely on foreign merchants, or develop towards Beijiang County. How hard life will be then!

Some people proposed to submit a joint memorial, asking Your Majesty not to abolish the Maritime Law.

But no one dared to agree. His Majesty's temper was not as good as the Queen's. His Majesty was worried about the war against Japan. If anyone offended him at this time, they would be exiled to Lingnan to grow sugarcane.

We still have to follow the Queen's path. The Queen attaches great importance to commerce and industry and supports small trading workshops. The Queen is also a living god of wealth. She gives away money at every turn, such as patent awards and scientific research awards.

Even if a farmer presented the seeds of a particularly large cabbage grown in his field, she would reward him handsomely.

A little scholar who just played with an abacus could get a reward from the empress.

There are so many places where the Queen needs to use money, not to mention whenever there is a natural disaster. In addition to the disaster relief silver from the court, the Queen will also allocate silver from her private treasury to help the people rebuild their homes.

If the court bans maritime trade again, the one who will suffer the most will be the Empress, so if we go to ask her for help, she will definitely be able to persuade the Emperor.

But now it is difficult to see the Queen, so everyone can only take a roundabout way and report back to Lord Mo and Lady Cai first. As a result, the couple went to Chang'an and have not returned yet.

I also found Zhongyang who was studying in Wanshu Pavilion, and even went to the manor to look for Old Master Shen and Shen's father, but the Shen family just shook their heads every time I asked them about maritime merchants and banks, and they didn't understand what I was saying at all.

After a month of panic, good news finally came back that made the emperor very happy: the navy that set out from Goryeo successfully landed on Japanese soil.

The emperor was in a good mood. Then news came that the queen's fetal position was stable and she did not need to stay in bed to take care of the pregnancy. He began to receive female officials.

What are you waiting for! All the dignitaries who could get through the female official's way were mobilized, and soon Chen Luoxue brought nearly a hundred letters of request to the queen.

They all asked the Queen to quickly finalize the Maritime Law and the Banking Law. Once the law was promulgated, the matter would be settled.

Shen Dongsu couldn't describe how she felt right now. The thing that had worried her so much at the beginning was actually solved by Ling Moxiao in this way.

As expected, she has no political acumen and doesn't know how to play power struggles. If Xiao Pan were the advisor, he would probably have thought of this method as well.

In order to promote something, one must first suppress it. With just one move, the powerful and wealthy will behave themselves.

Aren't you afraid that the Queen will change the commercial law and suppress the development of banks? Aren't you privately discussing that the Queen will be abandoned after she has done her job?

All right! Then the emperor will do something big, just take a one-size-fits-all approach, ban maritime merchants, and take away the bank's right to raise currency, and there will be no trouble!

Because the fruits on the tree are not red enough and not big enough, I just cut down the tree. Do you still complain?

Once the big boss was replaced, everyone realized how relaxed and free they were when working under the Queen. Now, without the Queen mentioning anything, they were begging the court to pass the law as soon as possible.

The law had already been drafted, waiting for the right time to be introduced.

Dong Su felt that under the current circumstances, if she made the laws ten times stricter, the dignitaries and maritime merchants would accept it and applaud.

Dong Su agreed with Ling Moxiao's suggestion and left the matter of enacting laws entirely to the court to supervise, and would not even send female officials to participate.

From now on, she will be a "good person", and the court and the emperor will be responsible for making things difficult for others, and our queen will only be responsible for distributing the money.

It has long been known that the Emperor respects the Empress. This maritime merchant incident has let the powerful and wealthy know to what extent the Emperor respects the Empress!

They waited for a month before the word finally reached the queen, and the emperor announced the new maritime law and banking bill the next day.

And it was implemented nationwide, and at the same time, imperial envoys were sent to build the Minzhou port and the Lingnan port. In other words, the emperor not only did not impose a maritime ban, but also fully supported the whole country to join the maritime craze.

With just one word from the Queen, not only did she save the tree that was about to be cut down, she also created a forest for the tree!

The powerful and wealthy were so surprised that they were dumbfounded, and the chain reaction of this incident was that the powerful and wealthy were more supportive of their daughters studying to become female officials.

Because they discovered how lucky they were to be able to talk to the Queen and to have a daughter working under her.

Although the Empress has not been involved in state affairs and seldom appears in public since she became pregnant, her words are more powerful than those of a hundred officials in front of the Emperor!

Of course, this will bring many benefits. The laws are fixed and cannot be changed at will, so investment in maritime commerce can be liberalized.

But the imperial court wanted to build seaports in Minzhou and Lingnan, which meant that Youzhou Port would no longer be the only port, and wealthy businessmen from all over the world would come to grab a piece of the maritime merchant pie.

Even though Lingnan is now a place of exile and miasma, there is one thing in Lingnan that is extremely popular among the Indians. According to the Jiang family, some small countries in the Indian area even use this thing as currency.

The locals like this thing more than gold.

That's sugar! Cane sugar from Lingnan is easier to get than beet sugar from Youzhou.

Although the imperial court had just put forward the policy of building Lingnan seaport, some merchants, like honey smelling honey, began to invest in sugarcane planting in the south.

The northern border is still being developed, and a large market has emerged in the south. The maritime boom has driven more than just economic prosperity, it can truly change the lives of the grassroots people.

Dong Su learned from the original owner's memory that the original owner had eaten tofu for the first time when he was eight years old, and that was thanks to his second uncle, who went to serve wine and got a clay jar full of leftovers from a banquet.

There would never be any leftover tofu and meat. The few pieces of tofu were specially added to his bowl by the host because he was happy. He was reluctant to eat them and took them home to feed his children.

A few pieces of tofu were shared by a group of children, and the original owner only got a piece as big as a fingernail. It was the first time he ate the snow-white and soft tofu, and he could not forget it for a long time.

Can you imagine? It’s just a piece of tofu, but in low-class farmers’ houses, it is an ingredient that only distinguished guests would buy.

As the least favored daughter in the family, the original owner was not even allowed to eat tofu during festivals.

But when you think that the lower-class people in Gwangju are suffering, people from other places will say that Gwangju is at least in the Central Plains and there are fewer people starving to death there.

After crossing the Five Ridges, the people suffered even more. As for food, if it is not poisonous enough to kill people, it can be eaten. If it is not poisonous enough, they will think of removing the poison and eat it.

Snakes, rats, and insects are also meat dishes.

In this era when the average life expectancy is less than 30 years, eating is the most basic requirement of the people.

Dong Su’s goal is not only to ensure that the people have enough to eat, but also to ensure that they eat well!

She believed that the court's promulgation of formal laws on maritime merchants would stimulate a nationwide maritime craze and the construction of ports in Fujian and Lingnan.

From now on, the farthest place we can go to will not be India. Our Great Xia Navy can reach anywhere in the world.

At the same time, only economic prosperity can drive the industrial revolution. She has laid a solid foundation for the industrial revolution and believes that this time the maritime law will have an impact.

The industrial revolution will surely be launched in an all-round way. The wealthy merchants in Shuzhong and Jiangnan are much more active in buying tools from Momen than those in Chang'an.

Of course, there is another major premise, which is to completely destroy Japan and firmly control the sea routes.

It can be said that under the leadership of the Queen, the imperial court officially promulgated maritime laws, which made the dignitaries and maritime merchants who had been waiting anxiously and anxiously grateful to the Queen.

The next thing the Queen did was to make all the merchants in the world kneel down and worship her.

That is, the Queen established the Imperial Chamber of Commerce, and all merchants who joined the Chamber of Commerce had to abide by commercial laws, respond to national policies, and pay taxes according to the law.