Looking at the dozens of papers sent by the celebrant to discuss the recent gains and losses of the government, openly and secretly questioning and criticizing the emperor's decision-making, Emperor Chongzhen sighed and shook his head, and began to read them one by one. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

And these are sent to the cabinet by the general envoys, and the cabinet ministers draw up the handling opinions, and then the ceremonial supervisors divide the priorities, and then forward to the emperor's recitals.

A considerable part of the music, because when criticizing and educating the emperor, the rhetoric is too fierce or the words are inappropriate, etc., will be filtered out by the general envoys and cabinets, and then after the supervision of the celebrant to ensure that there is nothing insulting to the saints, they can finally come to the emperor.

Of course, this is a channel for the ministers of the court to present the recital to the emperor through an open channel, but now there is an additional channel, but it is the general administration or the cabinet, the celebrant supervisor, and even the military aircraft department have no right to intervene.

Because the secret fold took the channel of Jinyiwei and Dongchang, and its nature is a bit like a private letter to the emperor, unless the emperor himself is willing to transfer it to the military aircraft department or the cabinet for handling, no one knows what the emperor has, or what the officials who have the right to secretly fold the matter report to the emperor in private.

Recently, Emperor Chongzhen received several secret folds, including joys and worries.

The good news was that Mao Weizhang, the imperial historian of the Dongjiang Town Supervisor and the guard of Yingzhou Town, said that Kong Youde returned to Yingzhou Island with the fleet, and in addition to some of the military salaries and ordnance that Chu Xianzhang had taken to Dongjiang Town, there were more than 50,000 men, women, and children from the Han people in Liaodong.

And a considerable part of these Han refugees in Liaodong are the families of the standard battalions of the supervised army recruited by Mao Weizhang, Chen Jisheng and others in Tieshan, Dingzhou and other places.

Now after these refugees landed on Yingzhou Island, Mao Weizhang also gave them land on Yingzhou Island in accordance with the emperor's will to Dongjiang Town.

Mao Weizhang also asked for instructions in the secret fold, in order to consolidate the defense of Yingzhou Island, and to recruit another 2,000 young and strong soldiers from among the refugees who landed on the island.

In this regard, Emperor Chongzhen of course agreed, and had already sent people to Jinyiwei to Dengzhou to chase Jiang Yueguang, Li Xin, Zhang Pu and others who were sent to Korea, and they were taken to Dongjiang Town.

It was the supervisor of Yansui Town, Yu Shi Ma Maocai, who once again reported the drought and famine in northern Shaanxi, and once again asked the emperor to ask for pay and grain for several border towns in the northwest, especially Yansui Town.

Emperor Chongzhen had already transferred this secret to the Military Aircraft Department.

The Military Aircraft Department has not yet received a public message from Sun Chuanting, the governor of Yansui, or Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of the three sides.

Because the secret fold will always go much faster than the public to the court.

First, the secret fold was transmitted through the channels of Jinyiwei or Dongchang, and the stations and funds of Jinyiwei and Dongchang were much more than those of the imperial court's post stations.

Second, the secret fold is a direct communication between the official and the emperor, not an official document, and does not need to be reviewed by the governor's yamen or the governor's yamen, which saves a lot of procedural trouble and saves a lot of time.

Later, when the Manchu Emperor Yongzheng introduced the secret folding system, many people commented that this was a manifestation of the peak of spy politics, saying that it was a major malpractice.

But in today's time and space, it is not necessary to say how much the officials who have the right to perform secret folding things like this system, even those courtiers who do not have the right to perform secret folding affairs, and most of them now admit that the secret folding system has its own incomparable advantages.

In the past when communications were extremely backward, this kind of direct communication channel from officials to the emperor would save a lot of time and unnecessary infighting and internal friction.

Of course, none of these officials outside Beijing who now have the power to perform secret folds have used this channel to criticize and blame the emperor for doing something wrong, etc., first, they are all given heavy responsibilities, they are busy to death, and they have no time and opportunity to care about what happens every day in the court, and second, this is a secret fold, and it is meaningless to scold the emperor in the secret fold, because no one knows.

However, the Qingliu people above the court, who are mainly imperial historians, like to find trouble when they have nothing to do, and they have nothing to do to scold the emperor to earn fame and prestige, which is their daily routine as officials.

After the end of the New Year's Day festival in the second year of Chongzhen, the various yamen had already closed their doors and sealed, and they went home for the New Year.

However, several major court policies announced at the New Year's Day court meeting were not forgotten, on the contrary, during the Chinese New Year, they quickly spread in the circle of the official eunuch family in Beijing.

Some people agreed, some opposed, and some people grabbed that this matter had not been openly discussed in the imperial court, so it was decided by a few cabinet ministers in a vague way, so they also folded their opposition.

And what is placed on the emperor's bookcase in front of him is precisely these criticisms of educating the emperor, which is not right, that is not right, in short, it is not right.

Some criticized the Ming court for surrendering its identity, scheming with North Korea, a small country, and competing for those worthless lands, which really violated the ancestral teachings of the emperor and Ming Dynasty that Korea was a country not to be conquered, and damaged the glorious image of the Ming Dynasty as a country of etiquette.

There are also criticisms that the Ming Dynasty is now suffering from serious internal and external troubles, all of which are caused by the emperor's failure to cultivate virtue and politics, and rewarding the two lands of Korea to the Wufu of Dongjiang Town will only encourage them to open border provocations, and from then on the Ming frontier will never be peaceful, please ask the emperor to take back his life, and so on.

Of course, the twists and turns on the North Korean affair are still a minority, accounting for only 30% of these dozens of notes.

The rest, without exception, were all against and questioned the imperial court's edict on opening the sea.

Emperor Chongzhen looked through it, and there were various reasons for opposition, some said that opening the sea violated the ancestral teachings of the emperor and Ming, because the Ming Dynasty advocated the ban on the sea since Emperor Taizu Gao.

Although this reason is simple, if you look at it, most of the opposition to the opening of the sea has this clause.

In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, advocated a sea ban with a clear purpose, not to ban maritime trade, but to cut off the connection between Zhang Shicheng and Fang Guozhen, who fled to the sea that year, and the coastal people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Although such policies were written in the Emperor's ancestral teachings, later history proved that they changed with the development of the times, after all, Zhang Shicheng and Fang Guozhen, the subordinates of the late Yuan Dynasty, had already disappeared from the sea.

Only a few decades later, in the era of Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming court's maritime ban policy had been loosened, and it was even more useless later.

The period when the maritime ban policy was really strictly enforced was also the most serious period of the Japanese rebellion, that is, the period of Emperor Jiajing.

At that time, the strict maritime ban of Zhu Kun, the governor of Zhejiang, not only did not ban the Japanese invaders, but made the Japanese rebellion more and more intense.

In the Longqing period after Emperor Jiajing, some people in the court had already discovered this rule, that is, the stricter the sea ban, the more serious the trouble.

Because many fishermen and maritime merchants who lived by the sea along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang lost their jobs due to the imperial court's maritime ban policy, these people either colluded with the Japanese to continue smuggling, or simply went to sea and became pirates.

It is also for this reason that during the time of Emperor Longqing, the imperial court set up Haicheng County in Yuegang, Zhangzhou, Fujian, opened the city shipping department, and officially opened the port of Yuegang, allowing the people of Fujian to go to sea in Yuegang and carry out overseas trade.

The location of Yuegang is at the entrance of the Jiulong River in Fujian. Compared with Quanzhou, which was famous on China's Maritime Silk Road in the past, the geographical location and port conditions of the Moon Port are not dominant, and the reason why it was able to be selected by the Ming Dynasty during the Longqing period is entirely because before the imperial court opened the Moon Port, because of the concealment and inconspicuousness of the geographical location of the Moon Port, it has long become a paradise for smuggling trade along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang.