"Tell Shen Guangnan and let him send a warning to the Jinling Imperial Court, if you make trouble for us in private commerce and trade, then don't blame me for not being merciful."

In Cangzhou City, Zheng Zhilong sat in the state office where the smoke had not yet dissipated, holding a letter and newspaper handed by the black ice platform in his hand, and said in a very flat tone. It seems that he didn't want to warn the Jinling court at all just now, but to give Emperor Chongzhen a greeting to him.

Zheng Sen has fully taken over the Black Ice Platform, I have to say that the scale of this institution surprised him, he has always known about the existence of the Black Ice Platform, but he does not have a very specific understanding of it, and now he finally sees the full scope of the Black Ice Platform.

Although it still has great limitations, for example, it has only set up passive intelligence bases in the southwest and northwest and many regions of the country, and its only role is to collect some hearsay information, or to carry out slow-progress counter-insurgency work, and the actual effect is very poor.

But in the north and south, beside some high-level officials in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the tentacles of the Black Ice Platform are approaching its core position little by little.

No, the decision made by the high-level of the Jinling Imperial Court has already been spread by the Black Ice Terrace, just because the tentacles of the Black Ice Terrace have reached the side of many important members of the Ming Court.

Emperor Chongzhen was in urgent need of silver now, but he didn't hit the gentry and people under his command with his idea, but first targeted Zheng Zhilong.

"Every time I pick up a history book, Zhao Song is full of emotion. How rich is Zhao Song, and how poor is Daming? "Although Dr. Song Mingshi has long criticized the weight of Zhao and Song taxes, he is afraid that he will be limited to hundreds of officials; Whoever takes wealth from all the peoples, he does not leave anything surplus. But the Emperor of the Zhao family at least doesn't have to worry about lack of money like the Emperor of the Zhu family, right?

"Your Majesty......" A group of ministers were shocked, didn't the emperor want to learn from the old Zhao family?

"The Song law is too harsh on the people, and I don't take it." Emperor Chongzhen said firmly, giving everyone a reassurance, and then he also put forward his own opinions - first set up a card to collect taxes, and then restore the city.

The Zheng family has its back to the mainland, monopolizing the trade between the east and the west, silk, porcelain, cloth, rhubarb, etc., as well as the tea that is slowly opening up the market, and a lot of silver is put into his arms, which one is not greedy?

Emperor Chongzhen was not ready to use force with the Zheng family, and he also knew that if he reached out to Zheng Zhilong to ask for money, it would be impossible. So, he thought of controlling all kinds of commodities and goods flowing into Quanzhou Prefecture, setting up checkpoints, and collecting taxes from them, not to mention twenty to one, that is, thirty to one, which is a lot of money, enough to solve the urgent needs of the Ming court.

But this is harming the interests of the Zheng family.

Although it is not big, although Zheng Zhilong can completely turn a blind eye. But Zheng Zhilong knew that the ultimate goal of Emperor Chongzhen was not to simply set up cards to collect taxes, but to restore the city and ship division, and it was not their old Zhu family's city and ship system that was restored, but the city and ship system in the Song Dynasty.

The system of the city in the Zhao and Song dynasties can be summed up in one sentence, that is, the government monopoly system. Imports and exports are all in the hands of the government, sellers need to sell goods through the palm of the government, and buyers need to sell goods through the palm of the government. Incoming and outgoing goods are priced by the government, and the government can also purchase some goods at its own price first.

Emperor Chongzhen wanted to restore the system of the city and the division of the city, in order to raise military spending, the so-called 'capital of the military state', nothing more than that.

Zheng Zhilong can ignore the checkpoint and collect taxes, but he must not watch the establishment of the city. Overseas trade was the financial source of the Zheng family, not the old Zhu family. Emperor Chongzhen still honestly went to bite the scholars in front of the Jiangnan gentry.

This is just a trivial matter in Zheng Zhilong's eyes. In the final stage of his 'life', that precious time should not be wasted on such trivial matters.

Therefore, he directly asked Shen Guangnan to warn Chongzhen of Jinling City, and then put all his energy on the current battle situation. Instead of asking Hei Bingtai to secretly contact and win over some more pure businessmen, so that there was a split within the Ming Court.

Such an approach is very simple, as long as Zheng Zhilong introduces a few policies to improve the social and political status of merchants. The Zheng family, which relied heavily on trade in terms of money and food, was inherently inseparable from the merchant class, and it was logical for the Zheng family to improve the social and political status of the merchants. This is completely unrelated to the heavy taxes that Zheng imposed on merchants.

It is not that the light tax on merchants is the improvement of their social status.

The commercial tax of the Ming Dynasty is thirty taxes and one, which is very light and light, isn't it? But did the merchants have a high social status? Not high. Even though they had formed a very close connection with the gentry class in Jiangnan, the social status of the merchants was still low.

Even if the actual rights and interests of the merchants have long been second only to the scholars and gentry, they are still nominally the last of the four people.

Zheng Zhilong introduced several policies that are beneficial to enhance the social status of businessmen, and once they are launched, they will inevitably affect the hearts of businessmen all over the world.

Even Jiangnan, who shouted at Zheng Zhilong and shouted and killed, would be divided and divided in attitude.

But Zheng Zhilong didn't do this, and he left this opportunity to Zheng Sen. He even asked the Dutch to find the Magna Carta of England and the Estates-General of France, and what to do depends on Zheng Sen's own choice.

After all, he has to walk the road on his own.

Zheng Zhilong broadened his horizons, trained him early, and gave him family affection, and now Zheng Sen and the historical national surname are two completely different people. He believes that even if Zheng Sen can't be as open as a traverser, he will definitely be able to become a king who sees the world with an eye on the world.

What's more, although Ming Confucianism is just as rubbish, what makes Ming Confucianism better than Manchu cynicism is that Ming Confucianism is willing to accept foreign culture, or it is not blindly arrogant enough to despise all foreign civilizations, unlike Confucianism in the Manchu Dynasty, and the word 'scholar' is an insult to them.

This is a style of study, this is a kind of social consciousness.

Since there is such a good atmosphere in the Chinese cultural class at that time, when the Zheng family swept across the Quartet and established the country, it would be natural for China and the West to have close exchanges. It is not even limited to cultural and military aspects, but is related to all aspects of society as a whole.

Even when the Zheng clan also entered Tianzhu, the Americas, Africa and other places, the two sides would become rivals, and it was not uncommon for large-scale wars to break out.

And the victory or defeat of the war will only make the two sides pay more attention to each other.

People are not ostriches, they will be ashamed and brave after defeating a battle, they will understand why they are defeated, and they will learn war in war.

When there are close state-to-state and people-to-people exchanges between the East and the West, and even when fierce wars break out between them, then China's scientific and technological and military standards will certainly not be pulled down by Europe.

During the Civil War in the United States, everyone still played platoon guns to kill, but after the Franco-Prussian War, the breech-loading rifle completely replaced the front-loading gun, right? Because the effects of the war are there. Then the rear-loading guns ushered in the rapid development.

Just like that Ottoman Empire. Although the Ottomans were known as the sick men of Europe in history, the Ottoman army would never have been equipped with a large number of front-loading smoothbore guns when the enemy had popularized rear-loading rifles.

Also at war with Britain and France, John Bull and the Gallic Chicken would never dare to send only one or two thousand men to conquer Istanbul.

Therefore, in this time and space, even if the first industrial revolution is still the first to break out in Europe, China will not end up as miserable as the original time and space, and the century-old history of shame will no longer exist.

This is because war is the most effective catalyst for the development of science and technology. Those who are corrupt and incompetent like the Manchus have to cheer up after every defeat.

As for the Zheng family's determination in the world, what will happen to the people who read all over the world? Zheng Zhilong is hehe.

Who would think that a scholar would dare to follow the dynasty and go all the way to the dark? Historically, Confucianism has changed its face, and it is not uncommon for it to change its course.

Emperor Zheng hated science, and if he wanted to beat Zhu Xi into the mud pit, they would only come up and step on it happily, even if their faces were full of regret.

What's more, Zheng Zhilong didn't want to completely exterminate Confucianism, thousands of years of time, Confucianism has been completely glued to Chinese civilization, how can you destroy it?

Your code of conduct, your three views on life, as well as this traditional virtue, and this political correctness in society, many things are tied to Confucianism, how can you break it?

The turmoil set off by that god-man did not achieve this goal, and who would think that he was better than that?

Zheng Zhilong just wants to turn Song Confucianism into 'the study of merit' and turn talking about the heart into doing practical things, which is also the proposition that many Confucian scholars have put forward at present.

Not to mention the present, the proposition of the Yongjia School in the Southern Song Dynasty in history is very good. The so-called: to achieve success, is to be virtuous, to help, is reasonable. The representative Ye Shi advocated "utilitarian learning", in his words, "If there is no utilitarianism, the moral is useless nonsense". Moreover, although people attach importance to merit and advocate "pragmatism rather than retreat", it is by no means "dedicated to deeds", but only uses "utilitarianism" to measure whether the righteousness is correct. Theories must be tested through practice before they can draw conclusions, and if they are not tested, then they will become "those who do not test things, those who do not agree with their words, and those who do not test their instruments, their ways will not be transformed." In human beings, it is manifested that morality cannot exist independently of utilitarianism, that is, "if there is no utilitarianism, then morality is useless nonsense".

Zheng Zhilong really thinks it's very good.

And now within the Zheng family, a group of people led by Chen Ding and others are already beginning to look for Yongjia. There is no way, the Yongjia School, which stood with the School of Science and the School of Mind back then, has long since existed in the history books.

But Chen Ding and they didn't really want to completely restore the Yongjia school in the Southern Song Dynasty, they extracted more of some ideas of the Yongjia school, some of the propositions that Zheng Zhilong agreed with and agreed with, and then brewed for the center in turn. In the final analysis, they are just looking for a glamorous "ancestor" for themselves.

But as long as China can move from science to utilitarianism, Zheng Zhilong feels that China (this time and space) in the future, with its basic plate, with its population and economic size, will really be worry-free.

"The merit is in the contemporary, and the benefit is in the future. Lao Tzu, this is the merit in the present generation, and the benefit in the future! ”