"Taishan Gong, who is this?"

Yang Xin saluted while looking at the green worm in his thirties beside Ye Xianggao.

"In Lower Zhangzhou, I have seen Yang Daozhou!"

The latter arched his hand and said.

"Uh, luckily!"

Yang Xin said.

The two great masters of Confucianism at the end of the Ming Dynasty!

As for Huang Zongxi, he can't count the end of the Ming Dynasty, this is strictly said to be the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, and Huang Daozhou and Liu Zongzhou are counted as the end of the Ming Dynasty, after all, people did not live in our Qing Dynasty, Liu Zongzhou died of hunger strike after the fall of Shaoxing, as for Huang Daozhou, the family followed Longwu until death!

Yang Xin invited Ye Xianggao, Zhu Guozhen and Huang Daozhou to the garden pavilion.

At this time, it was already the beginning of April, the grass in the south of the Yangtze River was flying, mixed with peanut trees, and it was completely spring, and even those little maids had changed into single clothes, looking delicate and lovely.

"Things are not people!"

Ye Xianggao said sadly.

"Are you blaming the juniors?"

Yang Xin said with a pure face.

Of course, he is a person, this is originally the garden of Ye Maocai's family.

"The blame for participating in it is self-inflicted, Yang Yanshi is just a duty, the old man is just touching the scene, doing the sigh of the old man, counting the old man and Brother Jinghan are also close friends, since Yang Yanshi is the son-in-law of Brother Jinghan, then the old man will ask frankly today as an old friend of Brother Jinghan,"

Ye Xiang raised his teacup and looked at Yang Xin.

"When do you want to stop?"

He said.

"Taishan Gong, that junior also said frankly,"

Yang Xin looked at him as he learned.

"When the thing is done, it will naturally stop."

The guy said with a smile.

"Do you want him to die?"

Ye Xianggao said with a frown.

"Yes!"

Yang Xin replied very dryly.

"But can his son be spared?"

Ye Xianggao said.

"No, because his son is also an accomplice of Qian Shisheng, and the younger generation has not let go of the noble habit of people who want to bombard me with cannons."

Yang Xin said.

"Can't you give the old decay a thin face?"

Ye Xianggao said.

"Taishan Gong, people have to pay the corresponding price if they make a mistake, this world is very fair, no one will pay the price if they make a mistake, all the consequences have a cause, those who touch the scales must have the consciousness of death and annihilation, Gao Panlong's result today was already doomed when he took those scholars to cry in the temple.

It was useless for me to let him go.

He has been a dead man since I left the capital and went south.

Taishan Gong, we are all people who understand, and the same is true for Brother Anju and Brother Huang.

Then let's talk about it quickly.

Why didn't they give up when it had come to this?

It's not me making trouble now, it's that they're making trouble, it's they who refuse to admit defeat, and they are still desperately struggling to recognize the reality, they think that we are poisoning the gentry, but in fact we all know very well that the Ming Dynasty is the emperor after all, and they are courtiers after all. They thought that the emperor should be what they wanted, but they didn't know that the emperor could only be the emperor's appearance, they had no qualifications to ask the emperor to change for them, and how the emperor treated them could only be decided by the emperor himself.

Emperor Shenzong is Emperor Shenzong.

The first emperor is the first emperor.

And the emperor at this time is the emperor at this time.

They are not alone.

And what this Jiangnan gentry needs is to understand this.

Emperor Shenzong is indeed accustomed to them, but they can't think that the emperor should be used to them, that's just Emperor Shenzong himself, and now that he has a new monarch, then all they need to do is accept the new monarch.

It doesn't have to force the new monarch to be the same as Emperor Shenzong. ”

Yang Xin said.

"Is that right or wrong?"

Huang Daozhou said with obvious dissatisfaction.

"What is right and wrong? Who defines right and wrong?

You will say the way of the sages, but is the way of the sages really right?

The way of the sage is just one of the hundred schools of thought of the sons, the Qin Methodist dominates the world, and the technique of the Han Dynasty and Huang Lao achieves a strong man, even if the Tang Dynasty may not be said to be the way of respecting the sages, on the contrary, the Song Dynasty that really respects the way of the sages has become a weak Song Dynasty, so that there is a disaster of the cliff mountain.

Is that the way of the sages right?

At least I didn't see it. ”

Yang Xin said.

"Then why does Yang think it's right or wrong?"

Lao Huang said angrily.

He is the two major trolls of the Ming Dynasty who are as famous as Liu Zongzhou.

"Black cats and white cats, catching mice is a good cat.

It is useless to talk about the way of the sages, it is the right thing to truly enrich the country and strengthen the army so that all the people can sing and prosper. ”

Yang Xin said.

"You can make the country rich and the army strong?"

Huang Daozhou sneered.

"Yes, I can!"

Yang Xin said very simply.

Zodiac Zhou was speechless, mainly defeated by his brazenness.

"What else does Your Majesty want to do?"

Ye Xianggao said solemnly.

He understood what Yang Xin meant, this struggle was just to clarify the emperor's authority, including Gao Panlong's life and death itself was not important, but the Donglin Party accepted this reality, which meant that they admitted defeat, they recognized the emperor's authority, and then the next thing was the most important. This is essentially the struggle between the imperial power and the gentry, the struggle between the imperial power and the gentry power of the Ming Dynasty lasted for hundreds of years, in the final analysis, the key to the real struggle is the interests, the gentry power to resist the imperial power is the gentry to profit, once the imperial power overwhelms the gentry power, then the emperor will move forward.

The purpose of Donglin Qunxian's death is to tell the emperor that he can't move forward yet.

But the problem is that it can't hold on anymore.

Yang Xin, the thug of the imperial power, is too ferocious, and the gentry's thug Donglin Party has been defeated and retreated, so at this time, you have to try to negotiate peace, if the emperor's next request is not too much, then the gentry don't mind taking a step back, after all, the loss of continuing to fight like this is too great.

Wuxi has actually changed.

Yang Xin only needs to expand outward and continue to do so.

His set of ghost things is too lethal, it can be said that wherever it expands, it will change the sky, give him a few years and the entire Su Songchang will completely change the sky.

I can't stand this.

"What else could it be? Of course, it's silver, the imperial court has filled in 20 million in Liaodong for two years, and then the three major halls have to be built, how can you pay taxes every year? However, it is no longer possible to add land endowments, and if we continue to add them, there will be a landslide, and the only thing that can be added is industrial and commercial.

First tariff.

We all know very well how much silver flows into the sea in a year, even if Emperor Shenzong's tax supervisor only gives the emperor hundreds of thousands a year, and now there is no tax supervisor, just the tens of thousands of taels in Guangzhou and Yuegang, to put it mildly, is this a way to take the emperor as a meal? The emperor's meaning is very simple, since you don't like tax supervision, then let's do tax packages along the coast, Guangzhou, Zhangzhou, Fuzhou, Ningbo, Songjiang, Dengzhou, Tianjin, seven ports of trade, and each of the seven ports set up customs.

All importing and exporting merchant ships are required to pay customs duties.

Private traders are allowed to contract customs.

After the contract, the imperial court is no longer in charge, whether it is tax collection or anti-smuggling is the contractor, every three years, the highest price gets, Guangzhou Customs 400,000 per year, Zhangzhou 150,000, Fuzhou 100,000, Ningbo 150,000, Songjiang 100,000, Dengzhou 30,000, Tianjin 20,000, this is the starting price. As long as they can hand over these to the emperor every year, then the contractor can earn as much as he wants during this period, and after his death, he will give it to the imperial master, and the sailors of each port are under his command, and they will use warships to intercept smuggling at sea. ”

Yang Xin said.

Huang Daozhou wanted to say something again, but was stopped by Yang Xin.

"Brother Huang, if there is no contractor, then Your Majesty will issue an order to seal the sea, and then form a fleet to go to the West like Emperor Chengzu did."

Yang Xin said.

Zodiac Zhou immediately shut up.

"You are from Zhangzhou, you know very well how much silver flows in a year, I just killed Chen Xinji, do you think I don't know how much silver they bring back from the Wa Kingdom every year? What is 150,000 taels? Each port on Kyushu Island adds up to more than 100 merchant ships from the Ming Dynasty every year, which ship cannot be fully loaded with hundreds of thousands of taels of various goods? They brought back the silver from the Wa Kingdom to buy it from you, so did they take out a shipload of this silver and give it to your Majesty a lot?

If you don't even want that, then it's better to break up.

Yang really wants to be His Majesty's Zheng He.

I know how to build a ship for the red-haired people, and I even know the route from Daming to the hometown of the red-haired people, and I will even say to them, do you think that if I build two hundred merchant ships from Daming to Malacca with full loads of goods, you coastal gentry still want to continue to make money by boat?

Your Majesty doesn't want much.

At present, all the customs combined, His Majesty will need less than one million taels a year.

If you accept it, we will get rich together, if you don't accept it, then you will break up, and it will be a big deal for me to go down to the West for the emperor. ”

Yang Xin said.

This number is very scientific.

The 400,000 in Guangzhou is indispensable, because at this time, the annual inflow of silver into the Ming Dynasty is about more than five million taels, and more than half of it is landed in Guangzhou, but considering that after the multi-port trade, there will definitely be a large number of merchant ships transferred to the ports in the north, even if there are still two million inflows.

A five-point tax rate is not much.

And it's a net inflow, and the tariffs aren't just for exports.

The remaining Zhangzhou, Yuegang and Ningbo are second only to Guangzhou.

Fuzhou was originally the main trade with the Ryukyus, and the Ryukyus were actually re-exported to Southeast Asia, so 100,000 taels is still a reasonable number.

Don't underestimate the Ryukyus.

At this time, the Ryukyus were also a major maritime trading power.

However, with the influx of the Dutch, the current Ryukyu has begun to decline, especially after being beaten violently by the Shimazu family, and now they are playing the game of one servant and two masters, while claiming to the Shimazu family, and at the same time paying tribute to Daming very diligently.

As for Songjiang is a new mouth, but it is the most potential in the future, as long as it is switched here, it will not take a year for a bunch of merchant ships to come, and it is here to undertake the materials flowing out of the entire Yangtze River, including the Portuguese, they all know the meaning of the switch here. In fact, Dengju was mainly for North Korea, with the aim of increasing the cost of obtaining grain from wild boar skins, and North Korean merchants had to pay customs duties after buying grain there. The rest of Tianjin Customs is Yang Xin's own, he doesn't care about paying 20,000 taels to Tianqi every year, to put it bluntly, he is a leading role model, but at least he doesn't expect the customs to make a fortune in a few years.

Besides, the apocalypse may not necessarily want his 20,000.