Natsuhara Yoshi's mood is good.

The share capital of this so-called Far Eastern firm is indeed quite expensive, and the price of 1,000 taels and shares is not something that anyone can afford.

However, the future of the Far Eastern firm is also very bright - with the participation of Zhu Zhanji, the grandson of the imperial grandson, it is equivalent to the participation of Zhu Laosi and Zhu Gaochi, and the endorsement of the three generations of the royal family means that this firm will continue to make profits in the future.

In addition, the complete lifting of the sea ban means that everyone has another way to make money, and no matter how high-ranking officials are, they will not dislike their legal income too much.

What's more, Daming is short of silver.

The first target of the Far Eastern Merchant was the Wa Kingdom, which had Iwami Silver Mountain.

Therefore, Xia Yuanji's speed of leveling the civil officials was very fast, coupled with the speed of Xu Jingchang to level the nobles and military generals, in just a few days, the civil and military officials reached a rare agreement, intending to promote the opening of the sea ban together.

It's just that what Xia Yuanji and Yang Shaofeng never expected was that the matter of completely lifting the sea ban would actually be stuck on Zhu Laosi's side.

Unlike the situation where the Chinese officials did not agree to open the sea ban, the current situation is that Zhu Laosi is not very willing to let go of the sea ban - completely lifting the sea ban is good for the people, good for the treasury, but not good for the internal government.

Because the fleet under Zheng He is not only the largest fleet of the Ming Dynasty, even if you look at the whole world, it is worthy of the title of the first fleet.

"And when it comes to a foreign country, the disrespectful of the king will be captured; Destroy the barbarian raiders. ”

In the First Opium War, the British fleet was only 4,000 at first, and then increased to 19,000 in succession, and in the Second Opium War, the total number of British and French troops was only 17,700.

The fleet under Zheng He numbered more than 27,000 people.

With such a powerful fleet in hand, as long as Zhu Laosi is willing, all the maritime business will be his own, and there will be no tariffs and commercial taxes involved, and there is no need to give even a mouthful of soup to others to drink.

However, once the sea ban is completely lifted, it means that more people will participate in maritime business, plus the commercial taxes and customs duties mentioned by Yang Shaofeng and Zhu Zhanji, all the silver that originally went to the interior will be divided into a part of the national treasury.

Therefore, as soon as he heard that Zhu Zhanji and Yang Shaofeng proposed to completely lift the sea ban, Zhu Laosi's face was a little unpleasant.

Yang Shaofeng and Zhu Zhanji wanted to toss what kind of business, and wanted to take Xungui and the ministers of civil and military affairs to go to sea to do business or something, Zhu Laosi didn't mind, and even planned to allocate them a few more treasure ships.

After all, it's his grandson who hurts himself.

But if the sea ban is completely lifted, there is no need to talk about it.

Yang Shaofeng had a headache.

Zhu Laosi made a mistake that was not a mistake.

He is awesome himself, and he can put the nobles and civil and military officials in any posture he wants, but his children and grandchildren can be so awesome?

Look at the unlucky boy hanging on the coal mountain, but if he has the three-point means of his fourth child, he will not be forced to sell the gold and silver utensils in the palace to raise military expenses.

After pondering for a long time, Yang Shaofeng bowed down and said, "Grandfather, think about it again?" ”

"Don't think about it," Zhu Laosi directly rejected Yang Shaofeng's proposal without thinking about it: "The sea is extremely stormy, once it encounters an accident, it will be the end of the ship's destruction and death, and I can't watch the people take this big risk just because of the treasury."

You and Zhanji want to toss, I can let you go, I can allocate some more treasure ships for you, but this matter of opening the sea and banning, let's not talk about it again. ”

Xia Yuanji, who was as painful as Yang Shaofeng, bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, if you don't let go of the sea ban, these people will not be able to go to sea to do business in the future, just with Gonggong Zheng's fleet and His Royal Highness the Imperial Grandson's Far Eastern Merchants, how many customs duties and commercial taxes can they bring?" ”

Zhu Laosi flicked his sleeves, his face full of displeasure: "Far Eastern merchants have to pay taxes, why should Zheng He's fleet have to pay taxes?" They are not caravanserais.

Besides, I have exempted the people of the world from paying taxes, and now there is not much surplus grain in the internal funds, all pointing to Zheng He's fleet can subsidize one or two, and you still want me to pay taxes? Why don't you say that you have given all the money from your treasury to the treasury? ”

"Your Majesty......" forcibly swallowed back the two words of Shengming in the back, and Xia Yuanji decided not to provoke Zhu Laosi for the time being.

Yang Shaofeng took over the conversation, bowed down and said, "Grandfather, think twice." Sun Er thinks that it is better to let go of this sea ban, so that those people's eyes are fixed on this little land of Daming.

The most important thing is that Zheng and Zheng Gonggong's fleet still have to send envoys to the Fan State, and his fleet can't be counted on to do business, right? Think about it, how much silver did he get for the inner money after going to sea these few times? ”

Zheng He, who was innocently lying on the gun, hurriedly bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, the slave is incompetent. This fleet sent to the country of Fan, and it was true that it could not carry too much cargo, and more of it carried supplies and tribute. ”

Xia Yuanji also bowed down and said, "What Gonggong Zheng said is true. If the sea ban is lifted and the people are allowed to go to the sea to do business, it will not only bring a large number of tariffs and commercial taxes, but also all kinds of overseas treasures, which can promote the development of the dockyard and feed more people.

The most important thing is that once the sea ban is lifted, and the civil and military officials benefit from it in the future, no one will propose a sea ban again. ”

Yang Shaofeng didn't care about Zhu Zhanji's innocent shot, so he continued: "Grandfather, think about it, the righteous brother is pure-hearted, if the civil and military officials shout together for the sea ban, can the righteous brother withstand it?"

When the time comes, they themselves are doing maritime business in private, and then they abolish the fleet in a different way, so who should guard the thousands of miles of sea frontier of my Ming Dynasty? Grandfather is a martial artist, so he naturally doesn't care, but ......"

"Who dare!"

Zhu Laosi was suddenly furious, and snorted coldly: "I have stripped them of their skin!" ”

Xia Yuanji bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, there was an empty seal case during the reign of Hong Wuye, and there was also a Linqing case in my dynasty. ”

When Xia Yuanji said this, Zhu Laosi was suddenly a little deflated - tens of thousands of people were involved in the Linqing case, dozens of people were killed by Ling Chi alone, and thousands of officials were skinned and weeded, but now there are still people who are greedy.

Zhu Laosi simply set his eyes on Yang Rong again: "Yang Qing, can you tell me?" ”

Yang Rong pondered and said: "The minister thinks that there are advantages and disadvantages to completely opening up the sea ban. However, on the whole, the advantages still outweigh the disadvantages.

If His Majesty does not open the sea ban, then the sea ban inherited from the years of Hong Wuye will become the ancestral system, and there will be no way to let go in future generations, and there will indeed be the situation that Xia Butang and Yang Hanlin said.

If Your Majesty lifts the ban on the sea and makes it an ancestral system, then the ministers of civil and military affairs in later generations will inevitably not find an excuse to enforce the ban again, and the people will benefit, the treasury will benefit, and the internal treasury will also benefit.

In the short term, the income of the domestic treasury may drop sharply, but in the long run, both the internal treasury and the national treasury will have a small stream of revenue. ”

"That's it," Yang Shaofeng interjected: "The meat is rotten in the pot, isn't the money in the hands of the people still the money of the Ming Dynasty?" If you can't get this money to Daming, no matter how much money you have, it has nothing to do with our Daming? ”

"However, the sea is unpredictable, and the people ......"

Zhu Laosi is still unwilling to give up.

Yang Shaofeng said: "Doing business, naturally there are profits and losses, and people must be psychologically prepared before going to sea.

As the Son of Heaven, my grandfather gave them the opportunity to make a fortune, even if their lives were bad, but they could not blame my grandfather, on the contrary, they would be grateful to my grandfather. ”

Yang Rong glanced at Yang Shaofeng with disdain.

Lick somebody's boots?

"Your Majesty, the people were exempted from taxes the previous time, and the people are all grateful to Dade, and many people are even offering His Majesty's immortal tablets at home.

If the sea ban is opened again, I don't know how the people should be grateful to His Majesty Longen? I would like to ask Your Majesty to choose a place to try to open the sea. ”

Xia Yuanji looked at Yang Rong, who suddenly began to slap his ass, and immediately glanced at Yang Rong with disdain, and then bowed to Zhu Laosi: "The minister seconded the proposal." ”

"The grandson also seconded the proposal."

Zhu Zhanji followed and bowed down and said: "Grandpa Shengming, this matter of the sea ban is related to thousands of generations, and my grandson asks the emperor to think twice and choose a place to try to open the sea." ”

Zhu Laosi had a gloomy face and did not speak.

The truth is indeed such a truth, and the matter is indeed such a thing, from Yang Shaofeng to Xia Yuanji to Yang Rong and Zhu Zhanji, these people are right.

But Zhu Laosi just didn't want to open this sea.

Zhu Gaochi looked at Zhu Laosi with a gloomy face and didn't speak, so he had no choice but to bow down and say, "Father? ”

Zhu Laosi waved his hand impatiently and asked, "Do you also think that the ban should be opened?" ”

Without waiting for Zhu Gaochi to answer, Zhu Laosi snorted angrily and said: "I can agree to lift the sea ban, but you and Zhan Ji can think about it, and there will be less money in the treasury in the future, but don't blame me." ”

Zhu Gaochi bowed and said, "Father Emperor Shengming." ”

Xia Yuanji and Yang Rong also bowed down together and said, "Your Majesty Shengming! ”

Zhu Laosi stood up from the chair, flicked his sleeves, and said, "Shengming is a fart!" I know the benefits of opening the sea ban, but opening the sea ban is to cut meat from my inner money to subsidize the treasury! ”

Stretching out a finger at Yang Shaofeng, Zhu Laosi continued: "And you, don't think that I don't know what your idea is." I tell you, Far Eastern Firm, let you and Zhanji go to toss. But if I can't make any movement, I can open this sea, and naturally I can ban this sea! ”

On September 19, the 17th year of Yongle, just a few days after the Double Ninth Festival, a group of officials and a large number of students in Shuntianfu spontaneously held a large-scale farewell event.

Sending off Yang Shaofeng Young Master Yang and a group of nobles to the Wa Kingdom - Xungui is not a good thing, Yang Shaofeng is not a good thing, now it is rare for two groups of people to get out together, how can you send it off?

Get out, get out of the country, it's better to die there, make more money for everyone, you Yang Shaofeng don't come back, even with your seventy-three students who are not in a hurry to participate in the imperial examination and those moth-like nobles!

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