Emperor Hongzhi has been the emperor for eleven years, and in this position, he naturally has a lot of feelings and gains.

Although he reused the civil servants, the relationship between the monarch and the minister was very good, and the Ming Dynasty also reversed the situation when the Hongzhi Emperor was cheap and his father Ming Xianzong was in one fell swoop.

But after being an emperor for many years, he is actually quite aggrieved an emperor.

The food and clothing of his family of three are saved again and again, but he still receives a lot of requests every day for Emperor Hongzhi to be thrifty, diligent and thrifty, and not to be extravagant and wasteful.

One by one, they all pointed to Emperor Hongzhi's nose and said that Emperor Hongzhi had eaten too much and was too good, and he should reduce his expenses and be more frugal.

In the past ten years, it is not easy to save money, and the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty are staring at it every day, and the household Shangshu Zhou Jing is known as the pig chop skin, and it is the emperor's pig, and it just so happens that the Hongzhi Emperor is also surnamed Zhu.

The armament is sluggish, the border army is in a difficult situation, and the combat effectiveness is low.

Emperor Hongzhi also wanted to reorganize the army and increase investment and expenditure in this area, but he was always subject to the six ministries of the cabinet, and in terms of military spending, these civilian officials in the court could be reduced if they could, and suppressed if they could, and it would be good to be able to maintain the original, but it was simply impossible to reorganize the army.

Therefore, every time the little prince goes south to buckle the border, he can only defend passively, and it is impossible to be like Emperor Chengzu back then, hunting in the north, chasing Yuanhu in the north, and fighting the northern nomads one by one.

From all aspects, he feels a huge restriction, even if he wants to make some changes, he is often powerless, and what makes him feel the most is that he has no money, he is too poor.

Now when I heard Zhu Houzhao's analysis of peeling back the cocoon layer by layer, I was immediately deeply touched and couldn't help but nod my head.

Then he looked at Zhu Houzhao, and he really didn't believe that he could analyze it, so he also said: "These are all what Liu Jin told you, right?" ”

"No, do I need him to talk about it?"

"With my ingenuity, I can figure it out myself."

"It's easy to analyze this matter, but it has something to do with Liu Jin more or less."

Zhu Houzhao was not happy when he heard it, and he was not happy that what could not be analyzed was to be counted on Lao Liu's head.

"Since you analyzed it, what can you do?"

Emperor Hongzhi nodded, also half-convinced.

"This is easy to do, I have three plans, do you want to listen to that first?"

Zhu Houzhao rolled his eyes, thought about it and said.

"Oh, there are three plans for the upper, middle and lower, you can tell them all."

Emperor Hongzhi immediately became interested and said with interest.

"The strategy is very simple, we have to find out who resold the grain, and whose hands the grain ended up in, it shouldn't be difficult, and then punish these people with thunderous means, take back the grain, and use the grain to survive this famine, but this plan can only punish some grain merchants and officials, but it is harmless to the real people behind it, and they will have similar schemes against us in the future."

"The middle strategy, we can first plan and lead the snake out of the hole, find out how many of their people are above the court, and then not only annihilate this profiteer in one fell swoop, but also sweep away these moths above the court."

"The best policy is to take this matter as an opportunity, we not only want to let these profiteers go bankrupt, let these moths and profiteer spokesmen above the court be swept away, but also completely get rid of their control over us in terms of money, so that we can control the right to speak on money, and when we want to do anything in the future, we will no longer be constrained by money."

Zhu Houzhao said the three strategies in his heart in one breath.

"Your best strategy is good, but how do you implement it?"

"Now that the food is in their hands, if we don't find out and forcibly take back the food, how will we survive this famine now?"

Emperor Hongzhi listened carefully, thought carefully, thought for a while and asked, "Is it really necessary to use the money he has saved with great difficulty to buy their food?" ”

"Father, you got to the point."

Zhu Houzhao nodded, and then said: "The reason why these people dare to formulate this conspiracy is because they have food in their hands, which is the biggest bargaining chip in the famine period now, and if they don't solve the food problem, we will always be led by their noses." ”

"But I already have a way, father, you may not know, here in Tianjin, many victims have eaten meat until they vomit."

"Eat meat until you vomit?"

When Emperor Hongzhi heard this, he was immediately dumbfounded, there was no food, and he actually said that he ate meat until he vomited, how could this be possible.

"Father, they eat sea fish and meat."

Zhu Houzhao laughed happily when he saw Emperor Hongzhi's expression.

"Sea fish?"

Emperor Hongzhi was even more confused.

"Yes, there are too many fish in the ocean, and the fleet going to the Americas is training at sea, and Lao Liu feels that he is going to sea anyway, and he can also take fishing or something."

"So the use of trawl fishing, this boat goes out to go around the sea, back and forth is a day and a night, can bring back tens of thousands of catties of sea fish, there are a few boats in Tianjin, go out to fish every day, the fish that come back can not be eaten, so it is also recruited a large number of victims to do things."

"If there is no food, they will be given fish and meat, and the fish will be used as food, and they will eat the meat until they vomit."

Zhu Houzhao smiled and told the matter here in Tianjin.

"How many tens of thousands of catties of fish in a boat? Back and forth for a day and a night? ”

When Emperor Hongzhi heard this, he was also stunned, meat is very rare in this era, and he didn't expect the harvest of this fishing to be so big, it was unbelievable.

"There are infinite treasures in the ocean, this fishery resources are extremely rich, all kinds of marine fish are hundreds or thousands of times more than river fish, as long as there is a boat to fish, you can get a large number of fish casually, and this marine fish has high nutritional value, it is definitely the best meat."

"We only need to send more boats to fish, and the daily harvest of sea fish is enough to feed tens of thousands of people, and this time the three provinces of Beizhili, Shandong, and Shanxi that were affected by the disaster, Beizhili and Shandong are all close to the sea, and it is very convenient to go out to sea to fish."

When he said this, Zhu Houzhao also said with feelings: "I have seen those hungry people eat the bark of the tree, and the stomach of the hungry people who eat Guanyin soil is as high as the pregnancy in October. ”

"There is no food on land, but there is too much food in the ocean to eat, so why don't we open the sea and ban fishing?"

Hearing Zhu Houzhao's words, Emperor Hongzhi fell into deep thought, about the matter of the sea ban, this was decided by the ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang, but he, the emperor who guarded the city, had never thought about this matter.

I didn't expect the harvest of this ocean fishing to be so big, a boat can bring back tens of thousands of catties of marine fish in two days, these tens of thousands of catties of marine fish are tens of thousands of catties of meat, as long as the number of boats is enough, the sea ban is opened, with the Ming Dynasty stretching thousands of miles of sea territory, how many sea fish can be harvested, and how many people can be fed?

Thinking of this, Emperor Hongzhi's heart was also shaken, this is to use practical things to explain the benefits of opening the sea, that is, you can fish, you can get a lot of food, or meat, and you can feed more people.

It's just that when he thought that this was set by the ancestors, thinking of the many things that Zheng He went to the West during the Chengzu period, and thinking of the fierce opposition of the courtiers, he frowned again, it is definitely not so easy to open the sea ban, and it is not something that Emperor Hongzhi said he would open.

"The Tianjin shipyard is building a special fishing boat, and it will be launched soon, and the amount of fishing will be even larger to meet the needs of the victims in the Beijing-Tianjin area."

"In addition, Liu Jin has also sent a fleet to the North Korean side for short-distance route training, and by the way, he is also doing business with the North Korean side, selling the glass and mirrors of the glass factory, and then buying grain from the North Korean side, and it only takes less than half a month to go back and forth once."

"Now the first batch of five ships should be almost in North Korea, and they will be able to return in five or six days, and then they will be able to buy a lot of grain."

"After the problem of this grain is solved, the biggest bargaining chip in their hands will have no effect, and we will transfer grain from the south at the same time, and with a three-pronged approach, the price of this grain can be quickly suppressed, so that these profiteers will go bankrupt, and the most important thing is to keep their own financial resources and master greater resources, so as to get rid of their control over us step by step."

"As the saying goes, if you have money in your hands, you don't panic, as long as we have the royal family with our own sources and channels of money and enough resources, they will not want to control us in terms of money."

Zhu Houzhao saw Emperor Hongzhi pondering, and continued to finish his best plan, the core point is actually to solve the problem of food, only with enough food in his hands can he have enough confidence to fight back.