"Mr. Tao, I heard that you took a picture of a box of Sanbao navigation files?" Zhu Youzhen didn't bother Xu Guangqi to think, and instead chatted with Tao Wanhua.

"Not bad."

"This box of files is extremely important to my Daming, I hope Mr. Tao can keep it properly, maybe it won't be long before this box of files will be used." Zhu Youzhen said solemnly.

"I have been imposing a ban on the sea for a long time, so does the prince have a different opinion?" Tao Wanhua came to Xu Mansion this time to discuss this box of files and the issue of the sea ban with Xu Guangqi, and there are few people who can see through the importance of maritime trade, so Tao Wanhua wants to see what this young man thinks about the sea ban.

"The sea ban began with Taizu, because of the serious trouble, in order to strengthen the coastal defense, there was an order that 'the board should not go to the sea', Hongwu three years to strike Taicang Huangdu City, Hongwu seven years, revoke Fujian Quanzhou, Zhejiang Mingzhou, Guangdong Guangzhou three cities of the ship, overseas trade was cut off. In the fourteenth year of Hongwu, Taizu still did not collect a footprint with the Japanese Kou, and ordered to prohibit the people from the sea from forbidding overseas countries, and in the twenty-third year of Hongwu, Taizu once again issued a 'ban on foreign domain traffic order'. In the 27th year of Hongwu, it was forbidden for the people to use and buy and sell imported incense and goods. In the thirtieth year of Hongwu, Hongwu again issued an order prohibiting the Chinese from going to the sea. However, the plague is still endless, but it has cut off the livelihood of the people living in the sea, and the people have no way to survive and gather to die, and enter the sea to become a criminal. In fact, if the city is generally good, the business will be turned into a business, and if the city is banned, the business will be turned into a business. During the Jiajing period, the plague of the Japanese was very serious, but in fact, the disaster of coastal pirates was far greater than that of the Japanese pirates, and it was precisely because of internal and external collusion that they were repeatedly recurring. ”

"However, during the Yongle period, Emperor Chengzu sent Sanbao to the West to communicate with other countries, but the cost was huge, not only hurting money and laboring the people, but also those who earned could not make ends meet, how to explain this." Tao Wanhua asked.

Zhu Youzhen didn't know that Mr. Tao was deliberately considering, thinking that he didn't see the importance of maritime trade, but in fact, if he really couldn't see it, how could he spend a lot of money to photograph that box of files.

"At that time, Zheng He went to the West seven times because of the tribute and the thin exchange, just to show the majesty of my Ming Dynasty, the private trade was still not passable, and it was not beneficial to the people's livelihood, but became a burden. However, lifting the sea ban and switching trade is fair trade and mutual benefit, not only the coastal people can be self-sufficient, but also can drive the southeast handicraft industry, the landless people can engage in manual production, the household can increase income and reduce the burden, the seafaring ships are profitable, will reduce plunder, maintain trade, reduce the burden of the navy, save military spending, why not. I Ming silk, tea, porcelain, etc. are deeply loved by overseas countries, but the lack of domestic demand, resulting in the lack of workshop start-up can not be sustained, and my Ming smelting, forging and other technologies are slightly insufficient than overseas, the switch trade can not only buy our dynasty urgently needs high-quality knives and horses, cattle and sheep, furs, precious stones, spices, etc., but also introduce foreign technology to make up for the shortcomings, in the future of the Ming Dynasty is beneficial and harmless. ”

"Even so, now I have been affected by disasters in many places in Daming, the household department has allocated funds for disaster relief is still insufficient, and Liaodong is in urgent need of military salaries, the city walls and passes need to be repaired, the equipment of the Beijing camp needs to be replaced, and the officials of various ministries have been in arrears ~ for a long time, all need silver, where is there silver to open the sea ban, not to mention the reopening of the city, even the cost of building sea ships is unknown, not to mention the reopening of clubs, workshops and so on." Tao Wanhua may have been thinking about it when he asked Tao Wanhua before, but this time he really wanted to hear Zhu Youzhen's opinion.

"Now that the household department has no money, this is indeed a problem, but it is not the main problem, the difficulty is that no one in the DPRK supports the opening of the sea ban, not to mention that now in the state of the emperor, there is no possibility of opening the ban. In fact, it does not take much silver taels to open the ban on trade and mutual market, only need to repair the port and the yamen of the city shipping department, the gap is only 100,000 taels of silver, as long as the city shipping department is opened, the southeast and Western countries will naturally come to the mutual market, as for the maritime trade, just to build a sea ship is required to be huge, not to mention that even if there is a sea ship, no one in the imperial court can go to sea. Nowadays, there is a serious shortage of personnel in the various yamen, and the top priority is to fill the vacancies in time, otherwise even if the time is ripe to open the city, I am afraid that there will be many problems due to poor management, and finally it will be difficult to escape the fate of re-closing. If the sea ban is opened in a hurry, it will not only be useless but harmful, so I said that I hope Mr. Tao can keep the box of files properly. ”

At this time, Xu Guangqi said in a loud voice, "The prince has unique insights, and the old man admires them." ”

Regarding the pros and cons of the sea ban, Xu Guangqi and Tao Wanhua have discussed a lot, but how to solve the problem of funds for the sea ban, they don't have any good solutions.

"Lord Xu has won the award, now that the matter has been said, it is time to say goodbye." Zhu Youzhen got up and said goodbye.

Xu Guangqi got up and said, "The prince walks slowly, now that we are neighbors, we might as well have more contacts in the future, the old man admires the knowledge and insights of the prince very much." ”

At this time, I only heard the sound of "poof", as if something had been kicked over in the hall, and then I saw Xu Erjue being pushed out from behind a screen, "I'm just passing by, you continue, continue." Xu Erjue smiled wryly, then turned around and ran inside.

In fact, after Xu Erjue ran in and told Xu Ming'er Zhu Youzhen's identity before, the two of them kept hiding behind the screen and eavesdropping, until they heard that Zhu Youzhen was leaving, and Xu Ming'er accidentally touched the screen and was exposed.

Xu Erjue ran away, and Xu Ming'er had to come out from behind the screen and say, "Brother Zhu is leaving, I'll send Brother Zhu for my grandfather." ”

Xu Ming'er sent Zhu Youzhen out of the door.

"I didn't expect Brother Zhu to be the son of the world."

"Miss Xu, forgive me, because my identity is inconvenient, and I didn't mean to deceive."

"It's okay, Ming'er and Brother Zhu intersected not because of their identity, but because of their personality and knowledge."

"That's fine, then I'll take my leave first."

When Zhu Youzhen was about to turn around and leave, he saw a galloping carriage stop on the road in front of him, and then several people got down from the carriage, led by Fang Shihong, the son of the first assistant Fang Congzhe.

A few people walked towards this side a little drunk.

"Miss Xu, how did you think about what you said last time?" Fang Shihong didn't see Zhu Youzhen on the side, and walked straight to Xu Ming'er and asked.

"I'm sorry, but I'm not interested in your business." After speaking, Xu Ming'er wanted to turn around and go home.

At this time, one of the people who followed Fang Shihong said, "Today is a good day for Brother Fang to be promoted to Shangbao Si Cheng, our brothers are still waiting for your pot of flowers to go to Fenglaiyi to have fun, you don't want to toast and eat and drink." ”

"Hmph, a nest of snakes and rats." Xu Ming'er snorted coldly and continued to walk inside.

"Xu Ming'er, my son is in a good mood today, don't you disturb my son's Yaxing, don't you like that Jiaowei qin? If you agree to sell that orchid to me today, I can add another guqin to 300,000 taels, and if you don't agree, my son will split the qin and burn it tonight. Fang Shihong said drunkenly.

At this time, Zhu Youzhen understood why a few people came here, it turned out to be the same purpose as Zhang Zhiji, and I am afraid that it was all for Feng Laiyi's Furong.

Xu Ming'er hesitated a little after listening to Fang Shihong's words, she didn't care about the silver, and she didn't want to get the guqin, but if such a precious thing was really burned by Fang Shihong, she really couldn't bear it.

Seeing Xu Ming'er stop, Fang Shihong took out a stack of silver tickets to hit the railway while it was hot, "The silver is also brought, and the piano is also in the carriage, as long as you agree, it will be yours immediately." And do you know how my six-grade Shangbao Si Cheng came from? That was specially arranged by the prince in order to win over my father, and even the prince wanted to please my father, do you know the consequences of offending me? Even if you don't think about yourself, think about Lord Xu's career. ”