The discussion in the hall lasted for more than two hours.

During this period, Ma Enhui also specially instructed the Shangshan Bureau to send a lunch, and the five people did a lot of repairs and tax ratios around the opening of civil and commercial affairs, Zhu Yunwen was worried that he would not be able to remember, and he also called several scholars and politicians who were on duty in the Wenhua Hall to be responsible for the record.

In addition to relaxing the punishment at the beginning and lifting the ban on civil business, Fang Xiaoru also put forward the idea of reducing the clan salary.

"Although the prince's annual salary was reduced from 50,000 stone to 10,000 stone in the 28th year of Hongwu, the expenditure is still huge, from the prince below, Taizu Dingjun Wang, Zhenguo General, Auxiliary General, Fengguo General and the third lieutenant rank, all have the imperial court year, when the world was first surveyed, the imperial court was still strong to bear, he was spreading and multiplying, and within a hundred years, the imperial court finances were probably going to be dragged down."

The biggest drawback of the patriarchal law left by Taizu may be this one, as long as it is a descendant of the clan, no matter how many generations later, you can receive it from the imperial court, this is a hardcore crop.

Ordinary people are subject to wealth and productivity, they may only need a daughter-in-law in their lives to support one or two children, how can these clans have these pressures, they can rest assured that they can boldly marry wives and concubines, and give birth to offspring, the ability of the old Zhu family to have children is also worthy of this surname, which branch will give birth to ten or eight casually, and after five generations, there will be tens of thousands of people in the clan!

The Hongwu Dynasty is to raise so many dozens of clansmen all over the world, and the pressure is naturally not great, and when it comes to the Hongzhi Dynasty and the Wanli Dynasty, it is to raise hundreds of thousands of clansmen all over the world, how can there be spare strength to feed the army?

Why were Mo Nanwei and Shandong Wei eliminated, and why when Zhu Qizhen succeeded to the throne, only the three battalions of the Beijing Division and the Shandong Reserve Japanese soldiers were left who could fight, and when they arrived in the Chongzhen Dynasty, even the three battalions of the Beijing Division and the reserve Japanese soldiers were gone, leaving only the army of the Nine Sides? So much so that the peasant uprising in the northwest can so easily sweep the world and go straight to Beijing?

Because the finances of the Ming Dynasty could not afford to support the surplus army.

The cabinet of the Hongzhi Dynasty knows it, and Zhang Juzheng of the Wanli Dynasty also knows it, but no one can change the situation, why? Four words to describe it: it is difficult to return.

Abolishing the clan annual salary is to force hundreds of thousands of clans to rebel in one go, knowing that keeping this policy is a chronic suicide, but chronic suicide is much better than dying the country in an instant.

Some people say that Daming died in the Xiaoice River, in fact, even if there is no Xiaoice River, Daming's national fortune will not last for 50 years, and the people of the world will definitely revolt and rebel.

From the moment Taizu left the ancestral family law to be promulgated, it had already pushed the Ming Dynasty to the road of no return.

"I know that the ancestral family law may not be all right, but this matter has been put on hold for the time being and will not be discussed."

Zhu Yunwen lightly clasped the table, "The matter of the prince of the clan, I have my own considerations, and the old man of Fang Ge must not mention it in the court in the future." ”

Fang Xiaoru's political acumen is too bad, when it comes to clan affairs, can't you see that people are violent and Yu Xin never speaks? As a cabinet minister, he doesn't even have the most basic political wisdom.

If it weren't for Fang Xiaoru's own great prestige among Shilin and Confucianism, Zhu Yunwen would never let him enter the cabinet, only talented people are only suitable for being professors, and what is more needed in governance is political vision and overall situation.

Fang Xiaoru touched a gray nose here, and he was a lot more honest, and Xie Jin's side proposed the matter of the sea ban again.

"In the 30th year of Hongwu, overseas mutual markets were banned, and six border markets in Fujian and Guangdong were suspended. The minister thinks that the opening of overseas mutual markets will help me broaden my horizons and obtain a lot of wealth through trading, so please reopen the sea ban. ”

Zhu Yunwen frowned, Taizu is an enlightened king, and the Ming Dynasty did not ban the sea at the beginning of the founding of the country, how could he close the overseas mutual market in the thirtieth year of Hongwu?

"Back then, why did Taizu ban the sea?"

Xie Jin moved his gaze to Yu Xin, who opened his mouth to explain, "In recent years, there have been Japanese pirates on the sea, and in the countries of the South Seas, there are Hongmaoyi who colluded with the natives to become pirates, and our silk, porcelain, tea and other goods were looted as soon as they went to sea, and suffered heavy losses. ”

Zhu Yunwen frowned slightly, "I read the manuscript of the Min Zhejiang Sailor a few days ago, and I have eight hundred warships!" You told me that it is not good to suppress bandits? ”

The Ming Dynasty Naval Division, worthy of the name of the world's first navy in the 14th and 17th centuries, the Minzhejiang Naval Division left by the Hongwu Dynasty, has a full 1,000 patrol ships and 800 warships, of which there are more than 200 large ships that can go to the sea, not to mention nearly 600 Cao Yun ships parked in the Yangtze River, the Grand Canal, and Poyang responsible for domestic transportation, this number is not very shocking?

Many people may think that the Hongwu Dynasty is only thirty-one years, since the beginning of the world, how can a new dynasty born from the ruins and tattered to be so powerful in just thirty years, Hu Weiyong has taken great credit!

Back then, Taizu summoned Hu Weiyong to the prelude and asked him, "Can you be the prime minister?" ”

Hu Weiyong really has the ability to govern the country, and he made a military order on the spot, "Give the minister ten years, and the world will be like the year of Zhenguan." ”

So Taizu to Hu Weiyong as the phase, granted the right to govern autocraticism, Hu Weiyong did not disappoint Taizu, in power for more than ten years, the national strength of the Ming Dynasty is thriving, plus God appreciates food, there is no natural disaster, the productivity of the Ming Dynasty is developing rapidly in an almost explosive way, and later Hu Weiyong was killed, but the national policy he formulated was not overthrown, and the world is still in the process of rapid development.

Later, in the Battle of Jingyan, the Ming Dynasty fought a four-year civil war, and still did not delay the war between Monan and the Mongols, Yunnan and Annan, and Luchuan, Zhu Di usurped the throne, Zhu Gaochi supervised the state affairs, and the little fat man didn't have to do anything, just need to continue to implement the policy left by Hu Weiyong, and his supervision work was enough to create a prosperous Yongle world.

Yongle Dynasty, the compilation of the Yongle Ceremony, the construction of the Beijing Forbidden City, the five expeditions to the Mobei, seven to the Western Ocean, any one of these to take out, will cost a few decades of national strength, the Yongle Dynasty can be carried out at the same time, but also all completed, how terrible is the national strength of the Ming Dynasty?

It is precisely because Zhu Di is too good and happy that he hollowed out the family funds left by the Hongwu Dynasty and exhausted all the national strength of the Yongle Dynasty. Followed by the change of civil engineering, Daming went downhill, which made people sigh.

Hearing Zhu Yunwen's questioning, Yu Xin hesitated for a moment before replying, "Your Majesty doesn't know, but before Taizu had the heart to conquer the pirates of the South Seas, because there were many wars in the north and southwest, plus several conquests, the thieves escaped and hid on the sea, and there was no trace of them, and then Taizu was seriously ill and the domestic political situation was unstable, so the matter was stopped." ”

Zhu Yunwen nodded, and understood the reason, "That is to say, if I want to reopen the sea market, I must first exterminate the pirates in the South Seas and the pirates on the southeast coast, right?" ”

Yu Xin nodded, "At this time, the southwest is using troops, and the border city of Liaodong and the Tatar Department is about to open, although the charter has been drafted, and the Arutai side has agreed to follow the rules, but it is not my race, its heart will be different, and it must be guarded against, so the southwest and the north will be unstable for a while and a half, if there is another war, the minister thinks it is inappropriate, and these pirates have always been sneaky, and if they do not fight with our army head-on, I am afraid it will be difficult to completely calm down for a while and a half, so the minister suggested that the matter of the ban on the sea market be suspended. ”

Only then did Zhu Yunwen understand why Daming had nine sides and Monan, and Taizu had to increase the number of troops in Shandong, which was originally used for land defense against Japanese invaders.

Shandong Wei is not the predecessor of the later Shandong Bei Japanese soldiers.

From this point of view, there are many places where the court now uses soldiers.

Zhu Yunwen pinched his eyebrows a little irritably, picked up the schedule he had set before and revised it, "Then let's do it first, first implement the criminal law and civil and commercial affairs of the elder of the Tyrant Pavilion and the elder Yu Ge, and suspend the matter of the maritime ban, and by the way, inform the Firearms Bureau that from today onwards, the new muskets and bayonets will be processed and produced in full force, and the new army will be equipped as soon as possible." ”

Zhu Yunwen can't wait, he has to speed up, otherwise many things will drag on in time.

"The ministers receive orders."

The four of them stood up and bowed, and retired from the palace.