Chapter 1297: Interest Groups

Wei Zhongxian looked at the name of the excerpt in his hand, only to feel that his legs were a little weak, and a hot breath came out of his brain.

Wei Zhongxian only felt that both hands were trembling, where is this a twist, this is simply a 10,000-strong enemy, if you don't get it, you will blow people to pieces.

What is one errand and one food? This meant that both officials, landlords, and scholars had to pay taxes, that is, their privileges of exemption from taxation should be abolished.

After being stunned for a while, Wei Zhongxian threw the fold on Yang Feng as if he had taken a red-hot iron, "Duke Xinguo, you should hand over this fold to Your Majesty in person, and our family will not mix it." ”

Yang Feng stared at him and said slowly: "Why, just now I said that I came to help my father on the order of His Majesty, and now I don't even have the courage to hand over a copy of the excerpt?" ”

Wei Zhongxian said angrily: "Are you an excerpt?" You are roasting a lit 10,000 people in our hands, if our family reads this fold in front of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, those people's spit will not scold our family to death! ”

"What are they scolding you for, and they didn't sign your name."

"Hey......" Wei Zhongxian smiled angrily: "So many people have been scolding our family all these years, and now they should all be allowed to come and see, feeling that you, who is known as the pillar of the Ming Dynasty and the contemporary champion Hou, are the most shameless." If our family folds this recital on the Jinluan Palace, even if it does not have our family's signature, do you think our family can still get rid of it? ”

"What if you can't get rid of it?" Yang Feng stared at him and said solemnly: "Father-in-law Wei, now the sea ships flying the banner of the commercial house go back and forth between Daming and Nanyang and Dongying every month, and the silver you earn every month dare not be said to be gold and silver, but at least it is also the sea, right?"

But you ask yourself, why your ship can sail safely without pirates to harass you, it is because our Fujian sailors are escorting you, otherwise you really think that silver is so easy to earn?

Now that you've made so much money, it's time for you to contribute? Otherwise, do you really think that this father is a bad and good person, working for you for nothing, but you don't want any benefits? ”

"Let's ......"

Wei Zhongxian's mouth opened, but he couldn't say anything, because the truth was the most difficult to refute.

Since Yang Feng rebuilt the Fujian Naval Division, the Ming Dynasty's maritime power has entered the fast lane of expansion, and there are no less than sixty new warships every year, in addition to the second and third level sail ships, the Ming Dynasty can now build all the warships below the fourth level, and even has begun to try to cast bronze cannons, which all show that the influence of the Ming Dynasty has begun to expand further.

Thanks to the strength of the Fujian Navy, coupled with the collapse of the Zheng Zhilong Group and the power of the Dutch and Spaniards have been expelled from Taiwan and Nanyang by Su Tong, today's Ming merchant ships can sail in these waters at will, and there is no maritime power at all that dares to take the lead, which also makes the maritime trade of the Ming Dynasty more and more prosperous.

Taking the eunuch group led by Wei Zhongxian as an example, every time their sea ships went to sea, they pulled out silk, porcelain, tea and other things, and brought back precious metals such as gold, silver, and bronze, which can be said to have made a lot of money.

Why did Yang Feng repeatedly squeeze Wei Zhongxian in his words just now, but this guy could swallow his anger, it was not Yang Feng's wanton anger, but because of the silver, after all, no one would get along with the silver, and it didn't matter if they offended others, if they offended Yang Feng, would they want to go to sea to make money in the future?

"Okay."

Wei Zhongxian's expression was extremely uncomfortable as if he had been punched, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Ming'er is an early dynasty, let's help you read this excerpt again." ”

"Okay, then thank you, it's still Lao Wei, you are righteous!" Yang Feng patted Wei Zhongxian's shoulder with great joy, it hurt him so much that he bared his teeth, and at the same time glared at Yang Feng angrily, who are you calling Lao Wei, this is also what you can call?

Yang Fengcai didn't care what Wei Zhongxian thought, with the support of this nine-thousand-year-old, the possibility of this proposal passing was at least thirty percent more certain.

Don't underestimate these three layers, if this proposal is put forward by someone else, let alone grasp, it will be good if it is not killed on the spot, even with Yang Feng's strength and Zhu Youxiao's support, the probability of this day passing is less than thirty percent, but with Wei Zhongxian's support, at least this possibility has exceeded fifty percent, what a big progress.

For a long time, when people in later generations saw Wei Zhongxian when they read the history of the Ming Dynasty, they did not have a good impression of this nine-thousand-year-old, thinking that he was a eunuch who could only slander and flatter, but in fact, in all fairness, Wei Zhongxian was actually a very capable person.

During the period when Wei Zhongxian was in power, although the Later Jin often acted as demons in Liaodong, the situation in Liaodong was generally stable, whether it was Sun Chengzong or Xiong Tingbi guarding Liaodong, Wei Zhongxian was able to raise enough food and pay to send it to Liaodong in time.

Not only that, when Wei Zhongxian was there, Wu Sangui, Zu Dashou and other Liaodong generals were also relatively honest and did not dare to be demons. Moreover, when he was in power, he also made every effort to suppress the Donglin Party and prevent the Donglin Party from taking power, because even if there were natural and man-made disasters in the Ming Dynasty during the Apocalypse, life could finally go on.

But when Zhu Youxiao and Wei Zhongxian died, the successor Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen was stunned that he was fooled by the Donglin Party into abolishing his martial arts, deposing Dongchang, staying away from Jinyiwei, and wantonly promoting the Donglin Party, a group of fools who only boast and only know how to shirk in case of trouble, plus he is a hard-working fool, and finally buried the Ming Dynasty.

And the reason why Wei Zhongxian was able to force the Donglin Party to retreat was not by himself. Nonsense is good, a hero has eight gangs, Wei Zhongxian has a large group of thugs to do things for him, whether it is the servant Shaoqing Zhu Tongmeng, Guo Yunhou, or Dali Temple Cheng Lu Pengyun, Sun Jiewei, or Xu Zhaokui, Wang Shaohui, Qiao Yingjia, Xu Shaoji, Ruan Dacheng, Chen Eryi, Zhang Yangsu, Li Yingjian, Li Song, Yang Chunmao, and even Cui Chengxiu, the secretary of the military department, are his right-hand men.

With these people waving the flag and shouting for him, Wei Zhongxian was able to call for wind and rain in the court to defeat the Donglin Party and retreat, and Yang Feng wanted to pass this fold, so he had to rely on the help of these people, which is why Yang Feng has always been open to the overseas business of the firm headed by Wei Zhongxian.

For adults, it is only interests that bind two different groups together.