The winter night came early, and the time had not yet arrived, the Qianqing Palace first lit a huge wax, and the candlelight was blown slightly by the cold wind that came in from the hall, and a little eunuch with clever hands and feet quietly walked over, and wanted to close the palace door with eyes, but was glared at by Li Xing on the other side, and he suddenly didn't dare to move.

Li Xing raised his eyes lightly and glanced outside the door, the crown princess was still kneeling under the Danqi, and the cabinet scholars Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong and Jin Youzi who were waiting in the hall were obviously also uneasy, only the emperor who was lying on the desk approved the song without distraction.

Li Xing couldn't help but sigh in his heart, he also saw the emperor's iron heart this time, because the prince violated his majesty, so that today, the prince is still confined in the dark room, no matter who comes to intercede, there are even two of them to stain the blood in the matter - but the emperor is still indifferent and refuses to release the prince.

He gave the sullen little eunuch opposite him a look, and told him to go and find clothes for the crown princess—who could stand it if he had been kneeling for nearly three hours.

However, as soon as the little eunuch left the palace gate, he saw the crown princess being helped up and walked away without looking back.

At this time, Yang Shiqi in the hall raised his head as if he had a feeling, and it happened that the emperor saw a letter and said: "The Japanese invaded Panshiwei in eastern Zhejiang, killing thousands of households and one person. This is the first report of the year on the dismissal of the Japanese Invaders?"

Yang Shiqi said: "A month ago, the Japanese invaded Fuzhou Pinghaiwei, in April, the Japanese invaded Qinzhou, last March, the Japanese invaded Qingzhou, and Anyuan Hou Liusheng was ordered to pursue the Japanese until Jinzhou. ”

In fact, the Japanese were divided into small streams, and the coastal areas, from Liaodong to Fujian, were all harassed by the Japanese invaders.

"These thieves," the emperor said angrily, "I ordered Chen Xuan, the commander of Pingjiangbo, to lead the sailors to pursue the Japanese from Shamen, Fujian Province to the territory of North Korea, saying that they had captured more than 40 small boats and drowned hundreds of people—and Liu Sheng, and I told him to go to Shandong, saying that he had also killed the Japanese and fled, so why could these Japanese invaders be eliminated?"

There are many reasons why the Japanese are inexhaustible, and the most unspeakable is that the Ming Dynasty's own pirates and hooligans, undear scholars, escaped prisoners, maritime merchants who could not do business, and displaced people who depended on maritime merchants, wore Japanese uniforms, hung Japanese flags, and pretended to be Japanese pirates, and the number was three or four times that of the real Japanese people. Even if he didn't pretend to be a Japanese coward, he also acted as a fine work for the Japanese coars.

This is also the result of the strict sea ban policy in the Hongwu period, the Hongwu Emperor banned all overseas trade in an all-round three-dimensional way, and even led the ferry, strictly guarded the armor, and searched for traitors, resulting in the inability of maritime merchants to operate, and the displaced people who depended on maritime merchants could not go to sea, and could only retaliate against the society. After all, the coastline is so long, the sound of the east and the west, the inside should be combined with the outside, grab and run, the sea is high and the waves are urgent, what can you do to me?

Although the sea ban has been lifted now, this policy has always been unstable, because there have always been opposing voices in the DPRK and China, and the Guangdong City Shipping Division has been suspended for about a year because of this, and at this time, the Municipal Shipping Department has also been very strict with the maritime trade of the people. After all, the emperor was also quite constrained, so he could only gradually adjust the policy of strictly prohibiting private overseas trade from top to bottom. It will take a while.

"If you don't say it, I also know," the emperor said, "This is caused by Emperor Gao's policy of banning the sea, like the great thief Chen Zuyi, isn't it because he has forbidden the sea that he has no way to make a living that he has fled to the sea to become a thief? That's why Emperor Gao ordered the sea to be forbidden, in order to cut off the thieves from the mainland. ”

Later, Emperor Gao realized that the forbidden sea could not stop the Japanese invaders, so he allowed the port to be opened for trade by the state, and private individuals were not allowed to do it without permission. This is the origin of the holy edict issued in the 27th year of Hongwu "dare to have all kinds of private mutual markets and strict laws" and in the 30th year of Hongwu "prohibit the people from going to sea without permission to trade with foreign countries", which is actually a ban on allowing the state to trade and not private trade.

Now the emperor set up the city of the department, is to carry out official trade, the emperor does not want to let private trade, but at the present stage, to strictly control the private overseas trade, what stage is it now, how many wars have been experienced, the country is tired and the people are tired, when they need to recuperate, if the people are invested in marine trade, the huge profits will make them not think about work, pure business, is this a good thing for an emerging country?

Yang Rong nodded and said: "Your Majesty has a long-term vision, and the opening of the market is beneficial for a long time. Not only can it bring huge profits to the Ming Dynasty, but it can also control private trade in the hands of the state, and it is forbidden to sell vital materials, so that profiteers have no way to make profits. ”

The emperor said with a serious expression: "The people have no profit for the time being, I can allow them to go to sea to fend for themselves, just like Shi Jinqing, I no longer regard them as pirates, and I will not order the Ming Sailor to hunt them down, but if they are like Chen Zuyi, colluding with the Japanese and carrying out smuggling, so that they plunder the prefectures and counties, and harm one side - then it is no wonder that I want to exterminate them, but if they are involved with the crime of 'Tongwei', I will not condone and tolerate them." Moreover, I also made a decree before, and the Ministry of Household Affairs strictly prohibited foreign traffic. China's gold, silver, copper coins, gunpowder, weapons and other things are not allowed to be used, and if anyone dares to trade these things privately, I will punish him!"

The core of the market system is the ban, that is, the monopoly. Iron tools, firecrackers and other materials related to national security are not for sale, and smuggling is strictly prohibited among the people, of course, tea, silk, porcelain, etc., if there is a slight smuggling trade, the emperor will not care about it - everyone knows how many ships King Zhao himself has, and he trades with foreign countries.

I saw that Yang Rong was still talking about the prevention and control of the plague: "...... The Japanese specially landed at the junction of the two provinces, and once they encountered the main force of officers and soldiers, they rushed into the neighboring provinces......" Yang Shiqi sighed in his heart, he was ready to admonish and let the emperor release the prince, and he held a book in his hand, of course, this note was not written by him, but it was written very cleverly, and it was asked by the emperor to recall the emperor's eldest grandson, who was far away in Beijing.

When the emperor's eldest grandson was on the emperor's northern expedition, he guarded Beiping, although he was still an immature child, but in the end it was taught by the emperor himself, and it is said that there are rules and methods for handling things, if the emperor is very dissatisfied with the crown prince, then he is quite satisfied with the emperor's eldest grandson, but the emperor's eldest grandson is also the prince's child, and the father and son can still be separated and cannot be separated? Now that the father is imprisoned in the dark room by his grandfather, how can the emperor's eldest grandson, who is a son, not intercede? The emperor should also dissipate his anger in the face of the emperor and grandson.

Yang Shiqi made up his mind and was about to speak, but he heard a commotion outside, and the emperor also heard it, and said with a frown: "Go and see, what's going on?"

Li Xing came back soon, and said with a difficult face: "It's the crown princess, she is going to break into the secret room!"

The secluded room is in the diagonal side of the Qianqing Palace, after a row of rooms, the crown princess scolded the guards to enter, and the voice could naturally be heard in the Qianqing Palace, and the emperor said irritably: "I know that she is restless! Pull her back, pull her back! There is no woman in the world like this!"

Li Xinggang answered, but saw the emperor suddenly stand up and walk out of the main hall.

Zhang Zhaohua was still confronting the guards: "You dare to stop me! What position are you Jingwei?"

This person had no choice but to say: "The minister is Guo Jing, the commander of Jingwei Longxiangwei." ”

"Guo Jing, okay, I remember your name," Zhang Zhaohua said: "Now get out of the way, I want to go in!"

"Where the minister's duty lies, you can't move an inch!" Guo Jing refused to get out of the way: "Please go back to the crown princess!"