Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but stand still, he didn't expect that there would really be civil officials who dared to stand up and clearly say that he was willing to play to let the imperial court fully open the sea.

But in any case, Zhu Houzhao is still very pleased, after all, there are civil officials who dare to be the first in the world, which also shows that among the scholar class, there are still good ministers who are not confined to the ancestral system and think about the people.

But most of the court officials were not as pleased as Zhu Houzhao, some of them were as angry as Wei Ying, some were as happy as Liu Yu, and some were like Wang Qiong shaking their heads and sighing.

However, there are still many officials like Wei Ying who oppose the opening of the sea, although the benefits of sea trade are in front of them, but for them, the ban on the sea means that the trade is heavy and agriculture is suppressed, even if the tariffs belong to the imperial court, but they think that the imperial court really uses silver is not large, and grain income is the foundation of the country.

At this time, Wei Ying stood up first: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the sea ban must not be completely banned, the sea ban is the ancestral system, and the ancestral system cannot be violated!" ”

"Your Majesty, the opening of the sea between the two provinces is already a violation, and the comprehensive opening of the sea will only make the people of the world all farmers and businessmen, and hurt the peasants and threaten to destroy the foundation of the Ming Dynasty!"

Tobu Lang Zhongguan Dongsheng also stood up at this time and said.

Seeing this, Zhu Houzhao stretched out his hand to stop the other officials who wanted to follow him to prevent him from opening the sea in an all-round way, and beckoned to Xiong Hun "Come here!" ”

Xiong Hun walked over to Zhu Houzhao: "Minister, supervising the imperial history Xiong Hun has seen Your Majesty!" ”

"A gentleman has no jokes, as long as you dare to play, I dare to promise you", Zhu Houzhao said and returned to the Royal West Garden.

"Command!" Xiong Xun replied.

At this time, Wei Ying walked over to Xiong Hun and waved his sleeves and snorted.

The other officials also looked at Xiong Hun meaningfully and did not speak.

After Zhu Houzhao returned to the Royal West Garden, he did not continue to summon the cabinet ministers to discuss the matter of opening the sea, he knew that this matter was urgent.

Now, for him, the emperor, what is more important is the question of how to deal with the gold and silver that entered the Ming Dynasty through plunder and trade.

Zhu Houzhao didn't want Daming to have inflation problems.

"Your Majesty, this is the latest situation investigated by Dongchang, and the price of grain has risen by one percent compared with last month,!"

At this time, Gu Dayong of the East Factory reported the latest grain price situation to Zhu Houzhao.

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but fall into deep thought after hearing this, he had to admit that with the entry of a large amount of silver, it has begun to lead to the rise of prices in the Ming Dynasty, and he has to spend this silver abroad as soon as possible in exchange for various raw materials, otherwise these silver hoarding in China will only be a bunch of precious metals, but will lead to a rise in prices.

"Sent an order to the cabinet to prepare for the establishment of the Daming Grain Industry Bureau, and to prepare to raise ships and corresponding officials to be responsible for purchasing grain from overseas! I can invest first, and 35 million taels will not be a problem! ”

"Send an order to the Cabinet, the Ministry of Households, and the Royal Bank to prepare to convene a court meeting to discuss the reform of the money law!"

"Send an order to the cabinet to immediately negotiate a patent system and prepare to promulgate it to the world!"

"I sent an edict to the Cabinet and the Faculty of Studies, and to immediately select from previous years and this year the most outstanding people in new theories, new inventions and new technologies, divided into five categories: Chinese Studies, Gewu and Arithmetic, Chemical Engineering and Metallurgy, Medicine and Physiology, and Money and Law, and set up the highest royal science and technology awards, no more than three people in each category, and 10,000 taels of silver in each category! Give me the title of Shangshu!"

Zhu Houzhao immediately issued four edicts in succession, all of which were edicts to spend money abroad, in addition to the edict on monetary reform, and the purpose was to spend all the hoarded silver and curb the rise in prices.

After receiving Zhu Houzhao's edict, Liu Yu, the first assistant of the cabinet, did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly began to prepare for the establishment of the Daming Grain Industry Bureau.

"This is called how the old man is going to build, the Manchu Dynasty is civil and military, and no one knows how to open a company, except for being able to write eight shares, he can write poetry, and even cockfighting", Liu Yu was in trouble for a while.

"It's better to choose an official from Beijing Normal University, whether it is Wen Jinshi or Wuju people, they are not useful," suggested Wang Qiong, the second assistant.

Liu Yu also thought deeply about this, and hurriedly said: "Then let Li Chongsi come, go to the right attendant of the household department, Li Chongsi!" ”

The first assistant of the cabinet is now equivalent to the prime minister, and also has the power to directly summon subordinate officials, so Liu Yu can also send people to directly meet Li Chongsi.

Zhu Houzhao's edict is generally publicized to the government and the people, so at this time, the officials of the household department also know about the establishment of the Daming Grain Industry Bureau.

With the advent of the Daming Royal Industrial Company and others, officials from various ministries also knew that this was a fat gap.

Thus.

When the officials of the household department learned about it, they were eager to participate in the establishment of the Daming Grain Industry Bureau.

When the cabinet wanted to meet Li Chongsi, the right attendant of the household department, the officials of the household department could also guess that Li Chongsi must be responsible for the formation of the Daming Grain Industry Bureau.

"Why did the elders want him to let Li Chonghe, a third-class Tongjinshi, be responsible for the establishment of the Daming Grain Industry Bureau, this official is from Hanlin, and he is a left waiter, so he should be filled by this official!"

But in any case, Li Chongsi was elected by the cabinet, and Zhu Houzhao officially issued an edict to promote Li Chongsi to be the head of the Ming Grain Industry Bureau.

At the same time, Zhu Houzhao summoned Li Chongsi that night and asked Li Chongsi: "How do you plan to go overseas to buy grain?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, what the minister wants is to buy it with silver", Li Chongsi replied.

"Silver is not enough to buy, you have to plant! It is a pity that the Ordnance Bureau has a batch of flintlock pistols that are not used in vain, and I will allow you to go to the Ordnance Bureau to buy a batch of flintlock pistols and go to the Japanese Kingdom, Korea, Cochin, Java and other places to arm the tuntian," Zhu Houzhao said and continued to explain to Li Chongsi how the Grain Bureau operated.

Thereupon.

Li Chongsi organized the armed team of the Daming Grain Industry Bureau in accordance with Zhu Houzhao's request.

This armed team not only has a number of warships eliminated by the Liangguang Naval Division, but also a batch of flintlock guns and firearms eliminated by the Ordnance Bureau.

……

Osumi Castle of Wakoku.

The 3,000 employees of the Ming Grain Industry Bureau bombarded the place, and hundreds of Japanese people were all escorted out, and they were loaded and transported away to an unknown Japanese village.

At this time, this was already an important branch of the Daming Grain Industry Bureau in the Wa Kingdom, and as soon as Li Chongsi saw that another group of Wa people had been arrested, he immediately ordered: "Each person will be given a hoe, let them loosen the ground first!" ”

As soon as several of the Japanese were untied, they rushed towards Li Chongsi with a scream, and Li Chongsi's guards immediately opened fire, knocking several Japanese to the ground.

"All the widows cut off their arms and use them as ploughing cattle! Put the ploughshares on them! Let the Luzon natives help the plow! ”

Seeing this, Li Chongsi simply ordered his grain bureau to arm the employees to cut off the arms of these captured Japanese people one by one.

Suddenly, there was a miserable howl.

But the effect is good, these Japanese people have settled down, and after being forcibly put on the plowshare, they began to cultivate the land in a regular manner, like ploughing oxen, while the Luzon natives who were captured by the grain bureau supported the plowshares behind the Japanese people, and the grain bureau helpers (supernumerary personnel) held whips to supervise behind, and those who were lazy naturally served directly with whips.

The main task of the employees of the grain bureau was to stand around with flintlock pistols and kill them if they tried to rebel.

Within three years.

The Daming Grain Industry Bureau relied on its powerful armed forces to reclaim millions of acres of barren land abroad, of which 20 percent belonged to the operating expenses of the Grain Industry Bureau and 80 percent to the imperial court.

In the first year, 3 million stone grains were brought back by sea.

……

"His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, recently the Han pirates are rampant, frequently disturbing our Korean sea border, they have taken away my people to 10,000 people, and even directly occupy Tuntian, its artillery is excellent, our officers and troops are invincible, please Emperor Ming Emperor sent troops from the Heavenly Empire to help suppress ah! Whining! ”

The Korean envoy Li Khan denounced the scourge of piracy in front of Zhu Houzhao, and Zhu Houzhao knew that he was talking about the armed personnel of the Daming Grain Industry Bureau, but on the surface, he could not say that he was instructed by the emperor, and he also feigned anger and said:

"What a bastard! North Korea is a friendly country, although these pirates are Han Chinese, but they don't even care about my Ming Dynasty's righteousness to the vassals, Lin Qing, your Guards General Staff has to come up with a way to exterminate the pirates! ”

"Your Majesty, it is not difficult to exterminate this pirate, the difficult thing is that this pirate costs silver, now the Ming Dynasty is paving roads and bridges everywhere, the silver is insufficient, the silver allocated by the Royal Tax Administration to the Guards is getting less and less year by year, if the Korean country is willing to pay five million taels of silver to help the sailor suppress the thief, the brothers of the sailor are naturally willing to contribute to the Korean country!"

Lin Tingxuan, who had been transferred to Beijing to take charge of the Guards, understood the thoughts of His Majesty the Emperor, so he directly opened his mouth and asked the Korean State for five million taels of silver.

Seeing this, the Korean envoy Li Khan had no choice but to give up.

However, the activities of the Daming Grain Industry Bureau outside the country are becoming more and more rampant, and the surrounding countries have no way to take him.

In the end, North Korea could not be bothered, so it had to ask the Ming Dynasty to send troops to help it suppress the thieves at the cost of 5 million stone of grain every year.

Only then did Zhu Houzhao agree.

As a result, the Daming Grain Industry Bureau withdrew its forces in North Korea.

As a result, North Korea had a year of peace.

The following year, the Daming Grain Industry Bureau made a comeback, there was no way, the southern part of Korea has a lot of arable land, a large population, and close to the sea, which is very suitable for tuntian.

The DPRK handed over another 5 million stone of grain, and it had another year of peace.

In the end, Ouyang Dan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, couldn't stand it, and with a sympathy for North Korea, he suggested that the imperial court sign a "Mutual Assistance Treaty" with North Korea, so that North Korea would pay tribute to grain every year, and the Ming Dynasty would protect the sea frontier for North Korea every year.

Zhu Houzhao agreed, and sent officials to the DPRK for talks.

North Korea also had to agree, and finally paid an annual tribute of 6 million stone grain to Daming, and Jeju Island was used as the base of Daming's naval division in North Korea, so that the Korean maritime frontier could be repaid.

Thereupon.

Neighboring countries have followed suit and paid tribute to Daming.

The Daming Grain Industry Bureau had no choice but to withdraw its business focus to the South Seas and Sumatra region and even India.

However, the Ming Dynasty gets more and more grain every year, and in the sixteenth year of Zhengde, the grain collected from abroad has reached more than 10 million stones.