After Liu Lingyu, the governor of Puzhou, was arrested by Zhong Dewu and others with a holy decree, he was beheaded on the spot, and his family members in Puzhou were also taken away by Jinyiwei, and they were ready to be handed over to Li Xin, who was recruiting troops in Henan, and they were sent to Lushun.

And the new Puzhou governor Shi Kefa is also on his way to Puzhou.

In the first year of Chongzhen, Enke's champion Gongshi Kefa, since he took up his post in the Hanlin Academy, he saw his former friends Niu Juming, Li Xin, and even his colleague Zhang Pu of the Hanlin Academy, all of whom had done a career, and he couldn't bear it anymore in his heart.

In order to let him set an example for those Qingliu who were unwilling to leave Beijing in the court, Emperor Chongzhen directly appointed him as the governor of Puzhou this time.

This time, Emperor Chongzhen promoted Shi Kefa by two levels, from a sixth-grade Hanlin Academy to a five-grade Puzhou governor.

After a series of arrangements and adjustments to the front line of Shanxi's suppression of thieves were completed, Emperor Chongzhen's attention quickly shifted to other places.

There are so many chaos in the late Ming Dynasty, even if the current Emperor Chongzhen cares about everything, if he cares about everything, he will sooner or later be like the original one in history, tired and half dead, and it will be in vain.

At the same time that the thief rebellion in Shanxi came to an end, the Miao Yao rebellion also broke out in Guangdong, far south of the Lingnan, and the Miao Yao rebels who lived in the mountains elected a man named Chen Wan as the leader, and occupied the mountains as the king in Lianping, Shaoguan and other places in northern Guangdong.

In this regard, Emperor Chongzhen was really anxious and had no way except to order the ministers of the governor of Liangguang to gather troops and horses to quell the chaos.

According to the report of Wang Zhichen and Jinyi Weinan Zhenfu Division, this time the civil unrest in northern Guangdong was also related to Guangdong's opening of the sea and trade.

This man, Chen Wan, was the head of an indigo industry guild in Lianping, northern Guangdong, which had relied on indigo and indigo (a dye) for generations.

Blue, is a dye, commonly known as dyeing grass, which used to be mainly used to make indigo dye used to dye cloth.

In the past, most of the indigo dyes needed in Guangdong and even in the south were made and sold by these Miao and Yao people living in the mountains, which was the only source of indigo for the dyeing industry in Guangzhou, Foshan and other places.

However, with the vigorous and resolute development of the sea trade in Guangdong, Wang Zhichen, the governor of Guangzhou, not only did not sell the local indigo in Guangdong, but fell into a predicament because the cloth merchants and silk merchants in Guangzhou, Foshan and other places had more and better choices.

Every year, it is planted in February, and the blue indigo harvested in May is suddenly no longer wanted by May this year.

Coupled with the drought and famine in the mountainous areas of northern Guangdong for many years, and the government's requisition of grain to support Zhu Xieyuan's southwestern rebellion, the mountains of northern Guangdong were ignited at once, just like the dry firewood that had encountered Mars.

However, when Emperor Chongzhen said the news of the civil unrest in northern Guangdong, he did not feel how terrible it was, because even if there was no sea and trade, such a thing still happened in history, but it happened two years later.

The most important thing is that the civil unrest that occurred in the Miao Yao residential area in northern Guangdong was put down in less than a year.

However, to the annoyance of Emperor Chongzhen, because the workers of the Blue Industry Guild in northern Guangdong and Miao Yao in the mountainous area of blue cultivation gathered together to make trouble, there were once again signs of controversy between the government and the opposition over the previous opening of the sea and trade.

Wang Zunde, the governor of Guangdong, who had cooperated with Wang Zhichen in implementing the policy of opening the sea and trade, immediately changed his attitude towards the opening of the sea and trade, and broke with Wang Zhichen, and wrote a letter of impeachment to Wang Zhichen for treating overseas merchants and not caring for the people in the country, and asking the imperial court to reconsider the policy of opening the sea and trade.

He wrote in the imperial court: "The general merchant's department store is popular, and the Cantonese people's industries are withering, and today's nine indigo-making indigos are in turmoil, all because of the sudden opening of the market, the merchants gathered, and the goods were popular." If the Guangzhou City is not abolished, the Cantonese people will be in turmoil! ”

In the end, Wang Zunde, the governor of Guangdong, also said in his song that the imperial court originally wanted to seek heavy profits through the opening of the sea and trade and open up a new source of wealth for the imperial court, but "now the benefits have not been seen, and the disadvantages have been revealed", if the precipice is not reined in, then all walks of life in Guangdong will face the situation of "planting blue indigo seedlings", and at that time, the consequences will be unimaginable.

In any case, now this Emperor Chongzhen has a soul from later generations, so he can fully understand the situation and phenomena that Wang Zunde talked about in his book.

That is to say, based on the common sense of later generations, he also knew what happened in Guangdong after the opening of the sea to trade.

However, understanding is understanding, and he cannot accept Wang Zunde's conclusion and proposition of stopping the opening of sea trade.

In any case, he will not allow the current Ming Dynasty to return to the forbidden sea or semi-forbidden sea of the past, that is, the closed state of the country or the semi-closed country.

Just after receiving the recitals from Guangdong and Nanjing, Emperor Chongzhen asked people to invite the ministers in Beijing, as well as the ministers of the household department and the official department.

After Wang Zunde's letter was sent to the General Administration Department, it was first distributed to the cabinet, so the cabinet chief assistant Li Guoqi and the cabinet minister Xu Guangqi had both read it, but they knew the emperor's attitude towards opening the sea and trade, so in the draft, in addition to proposing that the Liangguang Governor's Mansion suspend the levy and support of the grain quota in the southwest, it was recommended that the Nanjing Military Department should recruit Fujian and Zhejiang soldiers and horses into Guangdong as soon as possible, and fight north and south together with the Liangguang Governor's Mansion to suppress Chen Wan's rebellion.

The cabinet did not say a word about the issue of Guangdong's opening of the sea to trade, and neither expressed support for Wang Zunde's proposal, nor did it express its opposition to it.

After Emperor Chongzhen read it, he understood that Li Guoqi and Xu Guangqi also had a sympathetic understanding of the problems pointed out by Wang Zunde, but they also understood very well that it was impossible for the emperor to stop the opening of sea trade, so they simply did not mention it.

However, Emperor Chongzhen can't let go of such a sign, and the cabinet's vote is not going to mention a word, but as the emperor, he can't let Wang Zunde go unchecked.

Although the Miao Yao civil rebellion under the leadership of Chen Long, the leader of the small guild of the indigo industry guild, was a problem, it was a small problem compared to the general policy of opening the sea and trade.

After listening to the introduction of Wang Zunde's life and official products, Emperor Chongzhen said to several important ministers present: "Opening the sea and trade is a major national policy, and since it has been announced to the world, how can it be changed overnight?!" What Wang Zunde, the governor of Guangdong, said in his book is absolutely not feasible!

"There will definitely be some problems when Guangzhou opens a city port department to encourage businessmen to go to sea or stop at merchants, but there are problems that can be solved, rather than being closed off from then on.

"Closing the country to the outside world has a small benefit for the indigo industry and even all walks of life in Guangdong, but in the long run, it has a big disadvantage for the country and the people.

"All of you Aiqing are important ministers of the imperial court, and the truth in it naturally does not need me to say more. Since April, Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Ningbo, Shanghai, and Dengzhou have all reported on the five city shipping divisions, and the political envoys from the north and south of the household department must also be very clear that although there is no heavy profit now, its income has been considerable, and the five city shipping companies have handed over more than 200,000 taels of tariff silver to the household department, and Guangzhou has made a particularly rich profit. In time, why should the imperial court worry about the exhaustion of financial resources!

"For this reason, regardless of the local officials in Beijing, if there is a proposal to abolish the market, they will all be dismissed from their posts and punished!"

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the emperor to drink tea and moisten his throat, Bi Ziyan, the head of the household department, hurriedly said: "Since Your Majesty's edict to open five places including Guangzhou this spring, except for the Dengzhou City Shipping Division, where there are fewer merchant ships coming and going, and the tax and silver have not been benefited, Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Ningbo, and Shanghai have newly established seaports to collect taxes and silver from merchant ships, which are comparable to Zhangzhou Yuegang.

The minister also believes that the imperial court has only opened the sea for a few months, and the results have begun to appear, and in time, it will be a major source of wealth for the imperial court. Therefore, it is absolutely not feasible to abolish the market and stop the opening of sea commerce. ”

After he said this, he said that "the benefits of opening the sea and trade have not been seen, and its disadvantages have been revealed" is untenable.

At this time, Li Guowei, the first assistant of the cabinet, pondered and said: "Your Majesty, it is not entirely unreasonable for the minister to read what Wang Zunde, the governor of Guangdong, said in his letter. It goes without saying that the opening of the sea to trade is in the great interests of the state, but the merchants gather and the goods are popular, and for the small people who rely on hundreds of workers for a living, there will be damage after all, and they must be prevented.

"Between the ministers, the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Political Envoys of the North and the South still have to come up with a tariff regulation as soon as possible, and the already abundant property of the Ming Dynasty will be heavily taxed on those who import it, and the exporters of the goods that are in short supply in the Ming Dynasty will be heavily taxed, and the importers will be subject to light taxes or even no taxes."

After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen looked at Bi Ziyan and said: "What Li Aiqing said is good, the matter of formulating tariff regulations will be handed over to the Ministry of Household and the political envoys of the north and south, and the regulations will be agreed upon as soon as possible and reported to me for review." ”

After saying this, Emperor Chongzhen looked at several ministers and said: "Opening the sea to trade is a national policy set by our Emperor, and we must not allow any wavering. Since Wang Zunde has clearly advocated the abolition of the Guangzhou City Bosi, then he can no longer serve as the governor of Guangdong. The cabinet issued a decree to remove Wang Zunde from the post of governor of Guangdong with immediate effect and ordered him to return to his hometown. ”