Wang Yuan looked at this person carefully, with a big head, a beard, a short man, and small eyes, he was a bit like Yan Chixia played by Wu Ma.

"Friends are lifters?" Wang Yuan asked.

Zhang Xuan arched his hand and said: "Hongzhi was raised in the eighth year, and he went to the examination six times, but he didn't rank first. ”

Wang Yuan was speechless for an instant, the time for this person to participate in the examination was already about to catch up with his own age, and he had been admitted to his mother for eighteen years!

Zhang Xuan also sighed in his heart, the governor in front of him was too young. And he is also a scarce mid-list jinshi, but he can soar to the position of a waiter, in comparison, he seems to have lived to a dog at his age.

Wang Yuan didn't ask questions about teaching, and asked directly: "What do friends think of Kaihai?" ”

Zhang Xuan said: "There are pros and cons. ”

Wang Yuan asked, "What's the benefit?" What are the disadvantages? ”

Zhang Xuan said in detail: "In the land of Zhejiang, there are many official fields, and the small people are miserable; In the land of Fujian, there are many people and few places, and the people have no livelihood. Therefore, the sons of good families have abandoned their hometowns and fought for survival regardless of life and death. If the sea can be opened, then Zhejiang and Fujian provinces, all the people can rely on this for a living, and industry and commerce can also prosper because of this. As far as the country is concerned, it can also greatly increase the commercial tax, so that the household finances can be assured. ”

Understand, people!

Wang Yuan only knew Zhang Juzheng, but he didn't know Zhang Zhang, the "pioneer of the Ming reform". However, just listening to these remarks, you must have real skills.

Zhang Xuan also said: "The disadvantages come from farming. If the sea is successful, industry and commerce will surely prosper, the people will seek profit and neglect farming, and mulberry hemp and cotton will seize the fertile land. As a result, the grain in Zhejiang and Fujian provinces has dropped sharply, and the two provinces need to purchase grain from abroad. Once encountering the catastrophe in Huguang and Zhili, Zhejiang and Fujian are afraid that food prices will soar and famine will be everywhere! ”

Wang Yuan nodded and said, "This is very true. ”

In ancient times, the cost of transportation was very high, and it was too difficult to buy large quantities of grain from other provinces. Coupled with the existence of profiteers, if there is a catastrophe, I don't know how many people will starve to death! It is necessary to build an overseas grain base, and it must be supplemented by force, otherwise it will be difficult to ensure the food security of the province that opens the sea.

Wang Yuan asked again: "If you want to open the sea, how should you act?" ”

Zhang Xuan asked rhetorically: "Can President Wang know which is the largest maritime merchant in Zhejiang?" ”

Wang Yuan said: "I don't know. ”

Zhang Xuan said: "The largest maritime merchants in Zhejiang are all from Fujian!" Because Fujian has many people and few places, and they are good at shipbuilding, they have the strength to sail long distances. Not only Zhejiang, but also the entire Ming Dynasty, the largest maritime merchant is Fuqing Xue's! ”

Wang Yuan was a little surprised and asked, "How many Jinshi has the Fuqing Xue Clan produced?" ”

Zhang Xuan said: "For more than 100 years, there have only been two or three Jinshi from the Xue family in Fuqing. But the Xue family and the Lin family have been married for generations, and if the Lin family is counted as side branches, there are dozens of Jinshi! The lineage of the Xue family and the Lin family has not only spread throughout Fujian, but also spread to Zhejiang and Guangdong. ”

These inside information, Pang Jian, who was born as a pirate, is not very clear, and he has to ask Zhang Xuan to do this kind of trick.

Wang Yuan asked, "Is there no maritime merchant in Zhejiang?" ”

Zhang Xuan said: "Yes, but it is not on a scale. Whether it is a gentry or a fugitive pirate in Zhejiang, anyone who wants to be a maritime merchant must go to Fujian to order a sea ship. And the Fujian sea ships, which are controlled by the Fujian clans, how can the Zhejiang maritime merchants grow? The local gentry in Fujian, mainly as land merchants, bought goods everywhere and sold them to Fujian maritime merchants to sell in Japan. ”

The pirates in the Zhengde period are really not enough, and under the suppression of the wealthy maritime merchants, they cannot form pirates like Wang Zhi and Zheng Chenggong at all.

For example, Yan Qisheng, a Fujian pirate during the Tianshun period, was the "ancestor of Macao's opening of Hong Kong" and once roamed the South China Sea. Even so, Yan Qisheng only dared to jump in the South China Sea, mainly engaged in Southeast Asian trade, and did not dare to come to Zhejiang and Fujian to grab business with wealthy maritime merchants.

Even, even the pirate organization system was learned from Fujian maritime business, with the positions of ship owner, ship owner, deputy treasurer, chief manager, and direct warehouse.

Among them, the owner of the ship is the most awesome, in charge of navigation command, cargo trading, dredging the government, etc., which belongs to the real "Da Na". Some shipowners simply do not go to sea themselves, but only pay to build ships, solicit maritime merchants and pirates, or simply rent out their ships for commissions.

Wang Yuan carefully sorted out his thoughts and asked, "Who is the largest onshore supplier in Zhejiang?" ”

"Ningbo Yang's." Zhang Xuan has to answer all questions.

Wang Yuan continued to inquire: "What is the heel of the Ningbo Yang family? ”

Zhang Xuan said: "At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the entire county belonged to the Yang family. Emperor Taizu attacked Haoyou, the Yang family's ceremonial room was directly extinct, and the righteous house abandoned his family and business, leaving only a few grass houses. The patriarch and wife of the Yang clan can't even find a burial place, so they can be said to have no place to bury. was even falsely accused that he couldn't even keep a few thatched houses, so he had to move to rent a house again. “

Wang Yuan sighed: "This Yang family is also considered to be full of disasters and difficulties, and it can actually make a comeback." ”

Zhang Xuan said: "Although the Yang family abandoned his family and business, he never abandoned his books, and his family passed down the "Yi", "Poems" and "Books", all three classics, and believed in Lu's Xinxue. ”

is another believer in Lumen's psychology, it seems that businessmen like Lu Jiuyuan.

Wang Yuan asked: "This Yang family doesn't even have land and a house, what do they rely on to make a living?" ”

Zhang Xuan said: "Teaching private school, barely making a living. ”

Wang Yuan asked again: "How did you make a fortune?" ”

Zhang Xuan said with a smile: "The Yang family has three classics, which is very rare at the beginning of the dynasty, and it is a mansion with three or four entrances built by teaching. They also followed the Lumen mentality, and were quite proficient in the way of merchants, and enriched their families with the business of breeding goods. ”

Wang Yuan asked: "Since the poetry is heirloom, there must be many officials. ”

Zhang Xuan said: "During the Xuande period, the Yang family began to raise people. To the Jingtai and Chenghua dynasties, in just over 20 years, the Yang family produced six jinshi, three of which were official scholars! ”

"Shhh

Wang Yuan gasped, Ningbo Yang's horror was like this!

Wang Yuan asked again: "What about now?" ”

Zhang Xuan said with a smile: "It's strange to say, since the Hongzhi Dynasty, the Yang family has not had a single jinshi, but a lot of people have been raised." ”

To be honest, Wang Yuan admires Ningbo Yang very much.

This is a family that was hit by Zhu Yuanzhang and couldn't keep the grass house, and the patriarch couldn't find a place to bury him after he died. But with his family heirloom knowledge, he rose again, a family of six jinshi, and a family of three scholars!

Reading changes your fate.

If he can win over the Ningbo Yang family, Wang Yuan will get twice the result with half the effort. If the Yang family is stubborn, then Wang Yuan doesn't mind being the governor of the broken family, so that the Yang family can return to the situation where they can't even live in a grass house.

Wang Yuan suddenly got up and stepped forward, held Zhang Xuan's hand and said, "Mr. Bingyong's great talent, are you willing to stay as my guest of honor?" ”

Zhang Xuan replied with a smile: "I want to do it." ”

Wang Yuan said: "I have a heavy responsibility to Mr. Bingyong to persuade the Ningbo Yang family to cooperate with the opening of the sea!" ”

Zhang Xuan asked: "How does the general system plan to open the sea?" ”

"Open a little, open ...... quickly" Wang Yuan retreated left and right, and only said in detail to Zhang Xuan.

After hearing this, Zhang Xuan smiled, and arched his hand: "In this way, if you are a little sure of it, it depends on whether the Yang family understands current affairs." ”

Wang Yuan said domineeringly: "If he doesn't know the current affairs, I will tell him to have to know the current affairs!" ”