Zhu Cihong knew that Zheng Sen's words were mostly true, because in the original history, the Zheng family had managed Taiwan as a base that could confront the entire Qing Dynasty, and had resisted for forty years.

If you lose money every year, you don't need Shi Lang to attack Taiwan at all, and you will die at a loss.

Although the Ming Zheng group was finally defeated by the huge Qing Dynasty, they also made the Qing Dynasty pay an unimaginable price, and this price even evolved into two tumors that were enough to bring down the Qing Dynasty!

One of the tumors is called the Relocation of the Forbidden Sea!

In history, the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty in order to deal with the Zheng family on the island of Taiwan, even took the killing of 100 enemies, self-loss of 3,000 to move the border to the forbidden sea, according to the records of the people at the time, "the period is only three days, the far one does not know, the near one knows but does not believe." More than two days, the ride is coming, a moment of staggering, the rich abandon their money, the poor husband and wife, wives and children, carrying buckets of rice, coercing the manuscript, looking at the door and perching. From Jiangsu and Zhejiang, to Fujian and Guangdong, thousands of miles of fertile soil were donated as basil, and the indigenous people migrated to the end! ”

In this difficult time to move the border and forbid the sea, hundreds of thousands of people died in the southeast!

Even the second son of the traitor Li Yongfang, Li Shutai (who has been Ling Chi in this time and space), confessed in his widowhood: "The ministers are in Guangdong first, and the people still have a livelihood. ”

It is no exaggeration to say that the policy of moving the border and banning the sea during the Kangxi period was another heavy blow to the economy of the southeast coast after the massacre policy in the southeast, Fujian and Guangdong, and at the same time, it also closed China most completely - this kind of closure far exceeded the Ming Dynasty's closed policy. Because no matter how closed the Ming Dynasty was, it was impossible to empty all the coastal areas, considering the management ability of the feudal dynasty, as long as the coastal areas were not emptied, there was no way to really prevent the sea exchanges.

Therefore, the real sea ban of the Ming Dynasty actually only ended from the large-scale Western Ocean (the existence of the official Western Ocean action, it cannot be regarded as a real sea ban, otherwise Spain, which prohibits private overseas trade, must also be regarded as a sea ban country) until the Jiajing Japanese Kou, before and after more than 100 years. And the blockade is not reliable, otherwise where did those big Japanese who exported to domestic sales come from during the Jiajing period?

The relocation and prohibition of the sea during the Kangxi period can be said to have really cut off the communication channels between China and foreign countries that were already very smooth in the late Ming Dynasty, and also closed the windows that can look at the world.

Later, in the face of the invasion of Western powers, an important reason why the Qing Dynasty was slow to make progress in various reforms and salvation was that it was interrupted for too long – Guangzhou Xu was an exception, but the Chinese elsewhere, especially the ruling class, were too long out of the world.

Even Fujian scholars like Lin Zexu don't know whether foreigners' knees can be bent, the closure of the Qing Dynasty can be imagined, and the sequelae of moving to the sea can also be imagined!

And the other cancer is Hongmen! Although Hongmen was not necessarily founded by Zheng Chenggong, its birth must be related to Chen Yonghua and Zheng Ming Group.

Mr. Zhongshan, who later led the revolution and overthrew the Qing Dynasty, was also a disciple of Hongmen! And many of the backbone of the revolutionaries also had Hongmen backgrounds.

Therefore, the Manchu Dynasty really paid an extremely heavy price for the destruction of the Zheng family, a maritime group!

And the fact that the Zheng family could rely on the small territory of Taiwan Island and the coastal areas of Fujian to fight against the Manchus to such an extent shows that their ability is outstanding. It is also enough to prove that the Zheng clique is a new type of political and business clique that is different from other bureaucratic aristocratic warlord cliques in the late Ming Dynasty!

You must know that after Taiwan was occupied by the Qing Dynasty, the result of counting the population was only 120,000! Considering the factor of the Qing army's butcher's knife, the Han population in Taiwan under the rule of the Zheng family is at most more than 200,000.

If the strength of the Zheng family is a little bigger, the territory is a little more, and the population is more, the life of the three generations of the Zheng family will be a little longer...... It is uncertain whether the Zheng family will become the Orange family of China!

And the current Zheng family is a Zheng family with greater strength, more population, more territory, and a longer life expectancy!

And now the Ming Dynasty is not only a big bourgeois family based on industry and commerce, but many similar big bourgeois families...... It is also concentrated in the core of the Ming Dynasty today - the territory of eight southeastern provinces such as four rivers and two lakes, Fujian and Guangdong.

And the leaders of these industrial and commercial families are undoubtedly the Zhu, Zheng, and Shen families!

Zhu and Wu Gongjiangnan do not exist, but Zhu and Zheng and Shen Gongjiangnan are obvious......

"Senior brother," Zhu Cihong looked at Zheng Sen, who had died of a tropical infectious disease in the original history, but was still in good health (he, the commander of the Dongning Festival, was stationed in Quanzhou for a long time, and basically did not go to Taiwan), and said with a smile, "Exchanging Ryukyu for Quanzhou still makes your family suffer. How can I be so unfortunate to my heroes? Otherwise, Ryukyu would still return to Dongning.

Besides, I will seal your family again! Big brother, where do you want? ”

When Zheng Sen heard that Emperor Zhu was going to seal the country for himself, he sighed in his heart - what a loss!

The feudal country that can make money has long been occupied by the surnamed Zhu, and most of the remaining territory is a loss-making market, and the Zheng family has to take money to fill the hole!

Moreover, the Zheng family is different from the Wu family, they are not feudal warlords, and they have a bunch of bows under their hands - these are merchants, not samurai who can only cut people and keep rents, so it is difficult for them to occupy too much unprofitable territory. A Taiwan has already given the old Zheng family a headache!

"I don't know where Your Majesty wants to give the concubine's father and brother?" Zheng Chagu, who was accompanying her, saw that the atmosphere was a little awkward, and immediately interjected.

Zhu Cihong smiled: "You can't lose the hero, you have to find a richer chassis...... How is the country of Sulu? The original sultan of Sulu moved to Aceh, and the land of Sulu and nearby Palawan and Sabah on the island of Boni was vacated to establish a feudal principality. ”

Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Sen breathed a sigh of relief at the same time - this piece of land is not profitable, but it does not lose much, and the Zheng family can still eat it for a long-term investment......

The father and son glanced at each other, then stood up and saluted.

Zhu Cihong smiled: "Get up...... This is what your Zheng family deserves. However, neither Old Taishan nor Senior Brother can go to Sulu to join the country, and you still have to stay in the capital to assist me. ”

Zhu Cihong sent the Sulu Kingdom to the Zheng family to let them lose money, not to send the Zheng family's father and son out of the country - he used this method to weaken the Zheng family's financial resources in order to maintain the royal consortium's advantage over the Zheng family's consortium.

Emperor Zhu paused, and then said: "Old Taishan is old, you can choose one of the three divisions and the three dukes, and be my advisor." I plan to let Shen Chongming pick it up, and Shen Chongming's Ministry of Works will be given to Senior Brother!

The Ministry of Industry was originally a money-spending yamen, but under Shen Chongming's care, it has now become a money-making yamen...... Now leave it to Senior Brother, and I will be able to sit back and relax! ”

Shen Chongming is Shen Tingyang, the second richest man in the Ming Dynasty! He was originally a loyal minister, and he got the Ming lord of Emperor Zhu, so of course he could play to his heart's content. First, he was in charge of the "North Household Department" (in fact, it was the work of the Beiyang Minister of the Governor of Zhili), and later the North Household Department was abolished, and he became the secretary of the Ministry of Works.

Zhu Cihong also put all the canals, official roads, and mining affairs in various parts of the province under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry.

In Shen Tingyang's new operation, canals and official roads can be "charged", and commercial markets can also be opened along the way; Mining can be contracted to collect package taxes, or it can be operated by the imperial court; There are also many industries belonging to the Ministry of Industry in the ports and cities in some northern regions, so the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty has actually become a money-making yamen - the expenditure of river workers, road workers, miners, city and port construction within the province can be solved by the income of the Ministry of Industry, and there is a surplus!

Now Emperor Zhu has given this money-making ministry to Zheng Sen, and at the same time let Shen Tingyang take over the household department, plus the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Grand Duke Luo, Ma Shiying's Criminal Department, and Zheng Jiangong's Admiralty, and now the Nanren Party led by Zheng Shen Luo and the three of them account for more than half of the ministers of the Ming Dynasty!