After arguing for a while, King Yu and Gao Gong found that Qian Yuan, who had caused the topic, didn't say a word, and was happily eating with chopsticks in his hand.

After taking a sip of wine, Qian Yuan found that it was quiet, and said with a dry smile: "Your Highness is right...... Uncle Shi is also right. ”

At this time, King Yu and Gao Gong were not satisfied, and Qi Qi looked at it with an unswerving face.

"Now that there is chaos in the southeast, Your Majesty ordered a strict ban on the sea, and rashly proposed to lift the ban on trade in the sea, from Your Majesty to the cabinet, and then to the six ministries and six departments, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Hanlin Academy, no one responded...... Qian Yuan said softly: "Lord Gao is not unwilling, but I just persuade His Highness to stay and move, and I ask Your Highness to understand." ”

"What's that?" King Yu hurriedly got up and supported Gao Gong, who was about to bow down and ask for sin, "I know that Master Gao is for my good." ”

After reading this, Qian Yuan said: "Since Emperor Gaozu expelled the Tartars, restored the Han people's clothes, built the Ming Dynasty, and the Japanese have appeared, during the Yongle period, the ancestor set up Jinshan in Songjiang to guard the Japanese, until the thirty-second year of Jiajing, the Japanese invaders flocked to the city, and the southeast coast was full of war, and the people wailed, His Royal Highness and Gao Daren know why?" ”

Although Gao Gong was proud, he also knew that he was far inferior to Qian Yuan, who was involved in the beginning of the southeast rebellion, and he arched his hand and said: "I am willing to listen to the high opinion of Zhan Cai." ”

"Three reasons, one is that since the beginning of the tenth year of Jiajing, the Western and Oriental maritime trade has gradually flourished, and the scale is far greater than that of the Zhengde period.

For the first time, Qian Yuan gave an approximate account of the events that were taking place around the world in this era, describing to King Yu and Gao Gong the book "The Travels of Marco Polo", which he had never read himself, and depicting the Western merchants who flocked to the city for gold, porcelain, tea, and silk.

From the point of view of later generations, the root cause of the southeast Japanese rebellion was the collision between the gradually formed commercial and trade exchanges between the East and the West and the ignorance of the Ming government, and the mainstream view of the Ming Dynasty was the forbidden sea after the invasion of the coast by small groups of Japanese invaders.

Gao Gong listened attentively, "Therefore, a large number of merchants appeared on the coast, which was the starting point of the rebellion. ”

This matter can't be said in too much detail, and there is no need for this, after all, the times are different, the three views are different, and people can't understand it, Qian Yuan can only nod.

"The place where the Japanese Dynasty has repeatedly made chaos, but there has never been any big chaos, I have looked through the local chronicles of various places over the years, only Songjiang, Jiaxing will have several times of Japanese rebellion every few decades, but the scale is also very small."

"So, the second is because of people." Qian Yuan raised a second finger, "Wang Zhi is across the sea, known as the owner of the Five Peaks, occupies a large territory in the Wa Kingdom, all Han people are well-dressed, and he calls himself the King of Hui, but Wang Zhi is not the key, the key is Xu Hai." ”

"I've heard of this Xu Hai." King Yu frowned and said: "In the past few years, there have been two relatively large wars, and the leaders of the Japanese are Xu Hai. ”

"This person is the same as Wang Zhi, and he is also from Huizhou." Qian Yuan said carefully: "When I was a teenager, I was a monk in Hangzhou Hupao Temple, and was later taken to the sea by his uncle, this person is really extraordinary. ”

Qian Yuan glanced at Gao Gong and sighed: "Born to be a talent." ”

"Born to be a talent?" Gao Gong was a little surprised, "The unusability of the soldiers of the Southeast Guard Station is the main reason, right?" ”

"Not at all." Qian Yuan shook his head, "Where the southeast is full of chaos, the guards are unusable, and they will be defeated when they encounter the enemy, but then the imperial court set up a governor of Zhejiang and mobilized soldiers and horses from six provinces, among which there are also strong soldiers who can fight, but they are still not as good as the Japanese under Xu Hai." ”

"In fact, the so-called Japanese are scattered, and there may be seven or eight branches in a thousand Japanese soldiers, but three years ago, Xu Hai defeated Yu Dayou, so as to integrate the Japanese at sea, and the number of Japanese under his command once exceeded 30,000."

Gao Gong and King Yu were silent for a while, and the former sighed: "It is not uncommon to see it in history books because of one person. ”

King Yu knew that Qian Yuan did not approve of opening the sea and banning trade now, in fact, he himself knew that it was not realistic, he just expressed his attitude in front of the two henchmen, "Zhancai, is there one last reason?" ”

Qian Yuan licked his dry lips, picked up the wine cup and paused in mid-air, and said calmly: "Of course, it's because of Wang Minying." ”

Seeing Qian Yuan drink it all, Gao Gong, who had discussed this topic together, explained softly: "In the thirty-second year of Jiajing, Wang Min should order Lu Bo and Tang Kekuan to attack Zhoushan Ligang, Ligang was destroyed, Wang Zhi fled westward, and a large number of merchants became pirates and pirates. ”

Seeing that King Yu hadn't understood yet, Gao Gong lowered his voice and explained carefully for a while, and King Yu slapped the table and scolded a few times.

"Zhancai was also in Hangzhou that day, he and Wang Minying's eldest son Wang Shizhen were good friends, and they had privately persuaded each other, but Wang Minying insisted on going his own way, and the consequences were basically the same as Zhancai's expectations."

After drinking four or five glasses of wine in a row, Qian Yuan shook his head to try to stay awake, and said with a smile: "Your Highness, whether you are in the court or in the opposition, you need to wait for the time to move. ”

Gao Gong looked at this smiling young man with complicated eyes, although he asked for leave to go south in the name of visiting his widowed mother, he knew very well that Qian Yuan would not return to Beijing in the short term.

The meal had been eaten for almost an hour and a half, the soup in the pot had been boiled dry, the coals had been extinguished, and the three of them only picked up a few plates of cold dishes to eat.

In terms of qualifications, King Yu is much worse than Emperor Jiajing, but he also has his own advantages and self-knowledge, so he never hesitates to ask others for advice, but his disadvantages are also obvious, the art of power checks and balances is not very skilled, and he is very blind.

Receiving the eyes handed by Qian Yuan, Gao Gong coughed twice, "Zhancai will leave Beijing tomorrow and go south, and it coincides with the princess's pregnancy, His Royal Highness set up a banquet to see Zhancai off, I don't know what else to explain?" ”

King Yu was stunned for a moment, shook his head blankly before he came to his senses, looked at Qian Yuan and smiled: "Zhancai, just say something...... You're a lonely lucky star. ”

Qian Yuan left the table and said, "Your Highness, the matter of opening the sea and banning trade is absolutely impossible in the short term, but this matter needs to be prepared as soon as possible. ”

Yuwang became interested, "Zhancai, what do you mean?" ”

"It is said that the household department of the court can starve rats to death, and His Royal Highness will be the great treasure in the future...... At that time, the silver was most in need. Qian Yuan accentuated his tone.

King Yu reacted very quickly at this moment, nodding again and again, and his brain was not broken, and he knew that Emperor Jiajing cultivated to the end...... It is not a fluttering two hands that fly into the sky, but should be buried in the grave.

It is a simple ritual for ordinary people to die and bury them in the grave, and the official eunuch family has to be prominent, but it doesn't cost too much silver taels, but the ceremony is more complicated, but the emperor is different...... Spend a million taels of silver, that's shabby!

Therefore, the first thing King Yu had to do when he ascended the throne was to build a household warehouse and see how much silver there was.

Qian Yuan glanced at Gao Gong and added, "And Your Highness is now a hidden dragon, and it is also necessary to recruit people of insight for silver...... Not everyone is as noble as the tall man. ”

King Yu nodded again and again, and he didn't know whether to agree with Qian Yuan's words, or to thank Qian Yuan for the good hat cover...... It's not that the lonely black eyes can't see the silver, there is really no way!

Facing the suspicious eyes of Gao Gong and the ardent expectations of King Yu, Qian Yuan arched his hand and said: "This time I go south, the ministers will settle in Taizhou, if the suppression of the Japanese goes well, I want to form a fleet to sail to the sea, and I hope that His Royal Highness will allow it." ”

King Yu got up and walked back and forth a few steps, thinking that he wanted to respond in one bite, but he was jealous.

"I mentioned this matter in Xiyuan a few months ago, and Your Majesty didn't say anything." Qian Yuan spied on King Yu's face and added: "When His Royal Highness is in the throne, the fleet will naturally be handed over...... When the time comes, it's the royal fleet. ”

Yuwang's eyes lit up, and he turned his head to look at Gao Gong, who looked at Qian Yuan deeply after thinking about it in his heart, this guy has put a lot of effort into this, but I am afraid that he has already had this idea.

Regarding the City Ship Division, Gao Gong knew in his heart that the mainstream opinion of the Chinese officials in the DPRK was to ban the sea, on the one hand, because of the chaos in the southeast, and on the other hand, because the City Ship Division belonged to the eunuch's sphere of influence.

There is a fleet directly under the royal family, and it is possible that the city shipping department will be turned into a formal yamen of the foreign dynasty, and it will be governed by civil officials, and Qian Yuan is doing a good job.

After pondering for a long time, Gao Gong nodded slightly to King Yu, "Let Zhancai handle this matter, but don't make a noise, even if it is other officials in the palace, it is better to ......"

King Yu smiled and nodded, "Zhancai, this time I will go south to show my ambitions, and I am waiting for you to come back!" ”

Qian Yuan smiled lightly, he was very confident today, because the only one he needed to persuade was King Yu, and Gao Gong would not object.

The reason is very simple, Qian Yuan remembers very clearly, in the history of the Ming Dynasty, there were not many officials who proposed to replace Cao Yun with sea transportation in the Fuyuan Dynasty, and Gao Gong was one of them, which was an exclusive benefit for travelers. (Recommended reading: Reading Files 2013)