Originally, I thought that the opening of the sea should be a matter of benefiting the country and the people, merchants could go to sea to do business and make huge profits, ordinary people could also go to sea to fish, get cheap food, and the imperial court of the Ming Dynasty could also levy tariffs accordingly to solve the old and difficult financial problems.

Originally, I thought that even if there were people who objected, it would not be too much, and with the consensus reached on the above side, there should be no big problem with opening the sea.

But who would have thought that the opposition above the court would be so loud, one after another ministers stood up to express their opposition, and the more they talked, the more serious it became, what shook the country, the world was in chaos, the people were not happy, the Japanese were raging, and so on, as if as soon as the sea opened, the Ming Dynasty would be over.

And he, the eternal saint who has always been praised by the ministers, will also become a disloyal, unfilial, unkind and unrighteous eternal monarch, and will be the king of the dead country who directly buried the great country of the Ming Dynasty.

Hearing such words, how could Emperor Hongzhi be happy, even though he had always been happy and angry, even if he had always been a good man, his face was getting darker and darker.

“… Your Majesty, as soon as this sea opens, the Ming Dynasty will be shaken, the society will be in turmoil, the world will inevitably be in chaos, the beacon smoke will be everywhere, the princes, and the heroes will compete for the deer, once the country is lost, how will Your Majesty have the face to see the ancestors and ancestors, and how will the people of future generations evaluate Your Majesty! ”

An imperial historian said bitterly, and he really dared to say anything, and directly said that Emperor Hongzhi was the king of the dead country, and he didn't notice that Emperor Hongzhi's face was already black and terrifying.

Or that he didn't care about Emperor Hongzhi's feelings at all, Emperor Hongzhi was a good man, who didn't know this from the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, the most favorite thing for the imperial history and Hanlin to do was to point directly at Emperor Hongzhi's nose and admonish, and if he didn't spit on Emperor Hongzhi's face, it would not be considered a success.

"Enough!"

Emperor Hongzhi snorted coldly, and immediately the entire Jinluan immediately quieted down, and there were many ministers behind who wanted to stand up and express their opinions, and they all immediately stood back with interest.

Emperor Hongzhi has always been gentle and elegant, and he rarely gets so angry, which makes these ministers in the court stop admonishing one after another.

Emperor Hongzhi's gaze swept around the golden luan, and Zhou Jing still looked calm, as if he didn't care about the words of the other ministers at all, and didn't care about those who impeached him.

As for Liu Jian, Xie Qian, and Li Dongyang, the three elders, they frowned slightly and pondered, as if they were thinking about what the ministers said before; The generals and nobles, as always, looked at their noses and noses, and seemed to be listening carefully, as if they were air, without the slightest sense of existence.

"Zhou Jing, you also heard it, since you proposed to open the sea, then what do you have to say?"

The bell is still tied to the bell, since it was proposed by Zhou Jing, and now that Zhou Jing has been impeached and attacked, it is natural to give Zhou Jing a chance to speak.

"Although the implementation of the sea is the ancestral system left by Emperor Taizu, the reason why Emperor Taizu formulated the policy of the sea during the period was because at that time, the land of Shenzhou had been poisoned by the Northern Yuan Dynasty for a long time, and the lives were ruined and all kinds of waste were waiting to be rebuilt.

"That's why Emperor Taizu formulated various policies that can restore national strength, and Hai is just one of them."

Zhou Jing listened, thought about it and said slowly.

"However, the times have changed, I have been founding the Ming Dynasty for more than 100 years, after the hard work of the previous kings, my Ming Dynasty has been different from the past, the country is rich and the people are strong, and the Japanese in the southeast coastal area have also been absolutely clean, and it is obviously not appropriate to implement the sea."

Zhou Jing first talked about the origin of this sea, and at the same time, he also talked about the truth of the change of time, believing that this sea no longer meets the development needs of the times and must be changed.

"Secondly, unraveling the sea does not affect my Ming Dynasty's agriculture-oriented national policy, on the contrary, the ocean is rich, and the fishery resources are extremely rich, with almost endless fishery resources."

"People live on food, and the fish in the ocean are the cheapest and most easily available food."

"Therefore, unraveling the sea will not only not shake the country's foundation, on the contrary, it can benefit the people of Li, and now Tianjin fishing, a boat can get more than 100,000 catties of sea fish is enough to illustrate this."

Then he talked about the country, and the entry point is sea fish, this cheap and easy food, now it is sold for a penny and a pound in the capital, and there is no such cheap food in the world.

The key is that the amount is still very large, there are only a few boats in Tianjin, and more than one million catties of marine fish can be caught every day, which is strong enough to make it impossible to refute.

"As for the Japanese on the southeast coast, most of them are actually pretended to be Ming merchants, and their purpose is to trade at sea and make huge profits, and less than one-tenth of them are really from the Japanese country."

"The reason why the merchants on the southeast coast pretend to be Japanese and go to sea without permission is naturally because of the huge profits and huge profits of maritime trade, and at the same time, our Ming Dynasty implements a strict sea, so it will slowly form a Japanese trouble."

"As the old saying goes, it is better to be blocked than to be sparse, since the businessmen have the need to go to sea to do business, it is better to simply allow the merchants to go to sea, so that the trouble will disappear."

Speaking of the Japanese Invaders, Zhou Jing told the truth about the Japanese Plague, the number of Japanese Invaders who really came from the Japanese Kingdom was very small, and most of them were actually merchants and big families in the southeast coastal areas who pretended to be Japanese Invaders to go to sea to make profits.

"As for the tribute paid by the vassal states, my Ming Dynasty has its own fixed number, first, we can strictly stipulate the scale, number of people, and frequency of tribute, and second, my Ming Dynasty and the various vassal states have been friendly for generations, and it should be light on wealth and righteousness, and the same should be true for tribute."

Speaking of this tribute, Zhou Jing has a deep understanding that every tribute is a bloodletting for the Ming Dynasty, which kills people, so he also put forward the concept of light wealth and righteousness to reduce the burden on the Ming Dynasty.

"As for the remarks of impeachment of the minister, the minister believes that he has always been loyal to His Majesty, and he has lived up to His Majesty's trust and trust, and he has not dared to forget the suffering of the people."

"Now that the famine is raging, the land is full of hunger, and the minister has seen with his own eyes that the hungry people have eaten up the bark and grass, and he has also seen a different scene here in Tianjin."

"Here in Tianjin, because Your Majesty's people are like children, I heard that there are high-yield and improved varieties in Jinzhou, and I specially set up a fleet to introduce seeds back to my Ming Dynasty, so there is a fleet to go to sea for fishing training."

"Because of marine fishing, Tianjin has not only not been affected by the famine in the slightest, but even everything is new and vibrant, not only not a single victim starved to death, but everyone lives and works in peace and contentment."

"His Majesty should send those who impeach and attack the ministers to inspect the situation of the victims, and let them eat and live with the victims, and taste the taste of hunger, only in this way can they truly feel the suffering of the Li people, instead of standing on top of this temple and shouting about the Li people, but without taking them to heart in the slightest."

In the end, Zhou Jing unceremoniously refuted those impeachments and attacks on others, and this time he really felt a lot when he went out.

On the side of the capital, the victims were hungry, eating tree bark, grass roots, and hungry skin and bones, but on the Tianjin side, the victims could eat at once, and those who went early were hungry, because they ate every day, all of them were strong and powerful, and at the same time, under the organization of Liu Jin, they built ports, cities, cement roads, etc., so that the whole Tianjin has undergone earth-shaking changes.

All this is because there are sea fish, just because there are a few boats, which can go out to sea every day to fish and feed tens of thousands of people, and even now they can support the capital side.

"Your Majesty, Zhou Jing is talking nonsense, it is simply a fallacy to confuse the public, please ask Your Majesty to immediately dismiss him and investigate him."

"The minister impeached Zhou Jing for his fallacies and bewitched the public, bewitched the saints, and deceived the saints to listen to ......"

After Zhou Jing's words were finished, it was no surprise that someone immediately jumped out and pointed at Zhou Jing's nose and began to attack.

"Hmph~ Have you ever felt hungry?"

"Do you dare to go among the hungry and take a look?"

"Will you be able to get food for the hungry?"

"Every day, a king and a family, a mouthful of Li people, last time I donated money and food, I remember that you Xu Ziyuan seems to have only donated five hundred taels of silver, as far as I know, you Xu Ziyuan is a child of the Jiangnan clan, your Xu family has ten thousand hectares of good land, but you only donate five hundred taels of silver, you still have the face to say me?"

"And you Xu Long, although you are a noble Hanlin, but your Xu Long's father-in-law seems to be a big salt merchant in Huaiyang, Jiangsu, it is said that you are rich in Jiangnan, and you don't even seem to have donated five hundred taels of silver last time, right?"

Zhou Jing snorted coldly, and unceremoniously counterattacked, his words were extremely sharp, hitting the vital point of those people.

"Okay, this is Jinluan, not a place in the market, you are important ministers of the court, not small people in the market, this is not a place for you to quarrel at will."

Emperor Hongzhi looked at the courtiers and knew that if they were allowed to argue like this, there would never be a result, and if Zhou Jing fought with one tongue against the Confucians, it would inevitably be difficult to defeat with two fists and four hands, so it was time to add allies to Zhou Jing's side, and they must be heavyweight allies.

Therefore, Emperor Hongzhi's eyes looked at Liu Jian, Xie Qian, and Li Dongyang, the three of them were the most important people, and they had already discussed it yesterday, and everyone's opinions were unified.

"Liu Qing, what do you think about this?"

The first thing Emperor Hongzhi asked was naturally Liu Jian, the first assistant of the cabinet.

Hearing Emperor Hongzhi's question to Liu Jian, the ministers also immediately quieted down, and they all quietly prepared to listen to Liu Jian's words.

Liu Jian studied under the great Confucian Xue Xuan, learned profoundly, and dared to give direct advice, and has always taken the world as his own responsibility, plus he is a veteran of the three dynasties who has gone through Emperor Yingzong and Emperor Xianzong, and is the teacher of Emperor Hongzhi, and the trust of Emperor Hongzhi is very high.