Sun Yueling didn't know what Zhu Qinxiang wanted to say, so he also pricked up his ears and listened to him change the topic, "Since the previous governor Nanju Yijinghai suppressed the Kou and severely punished the lotus, although the pirates have reined in and the Hongyi have retreated to Taiwan, but recently, these thieves who have been causing trouble to the sea and Xinjiang have been desperate to try to get involved in the coastal trade of Fujian again and disrupt the deployment of the imperial court. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Tian Lai Novel.2 Therefore, the government has decided that the imperial court's strategy of Jinghai and the policy of mutual market should be strictly implemented, and these people must not be allowed to behave indiscriminately, and regard our Ming Gang as child's play. ”

As soon as these words fell, Sun Yueling didn't feel anything, and there was already a group discussion below, and there was a buzzing noise.

He couldn't help but be a little surprised, Zhu Qinxiang wanted to strictly implement the Jinghai strategy and implement it in accordance with the imperial court's policy of mutual markets, why these officials would talk so much, and there seemed to be different opinions on this.

However, it is no wonder that he does not understand, because he just wishfully believes that the maritime trade along the coast of the entire Ming Dynasty is extremely prosperous, but he does not know that since the "Longqing Switch", according to the law of the imperial court at that time, it was only authorized to Zhangzhou Yuegang as a sea trade checkpoint, and all maritime ships, if they did not get the ship guidance released by the government, had no right to trade at sea.

However, with the opening of the moon port and the quick enrichment of many maritime merchants, many businessmen were ready to move, and they did not hesitate to buy sea ships to go to sea to do business. Due to the limited number of ships released by the government, and the merchants did not hesitate to take risks for the sake of violence, smuggling merchant ships appeared in large numbers, and gradually became an unstoppable phenomenon in the coastal areas.

It is precisely because the cross-sea trade is profitable, and can greatly promote the development of local people's livelihood and improve the level of living, so in the long-term practice process, the officials in the coastal areas not only do not block these merchant ships that trade privately, but also silently connive at them, and even many official eunuchs also participate in the operation.

In the middle and late Wanli period, the emperor even sent the eunuchs from the palace to Quanzhou to participate in the collection of taxes and silver for maritime merchant ships, and established the so-called "sea supervisor" department, thus completely depriving the local government of the right to collect sea taxes, resulting in several conflicts between the local government and the eunuchs sent by the palace.

Now, Governor Zhu Qinxiang's words are undoubtedly announcing that he will end the non-governmental free trade model and return to the previous directional model assigned by the government, which undoubtedly detonates high explosives in the deep altar, which surprises everyone, and they can't imagine that he actually has such an idea.

Fuzhou Prefect 6 Wen Heng sang the opposite tune first, stood up and arched his hand at Zhu Qinxiang, and said: "Lord Zhongcheng, this matter must not be!" ”

Zhu Qinxiang frowned when he heard this, and said unhappily: "Why not?" ”

6 Wen Heng said: "My lord, the reason why my Fujian province can have this prosperous trend today is due to the popularity of civil sea trade, which has greatly promoted the integration of coastal cities and countries in the southeast ocean, and has made the six provinces in China have come to my place to open a chamber of commerce and operate trade. ”

Zhu Qinxiang glared at him angrily and said: "This government didn't say that it would close the sea ban, but it was just to act in accordance with the laws of the imperial court, why should you be alarmist and demagogic here." ”

6 Wen Heng was glared at by him, and was suddenly so frightened that he didn't dare to speak anymore, so he sat back in a daze.

Zhang Ruzhen, who participated in the politics of Zuo, put down his food and persuaded him euphemistically: "Lord Zhu, if according to what you said, we will do everything in accordance with the rules of the imperial court, and the ships released to the maritime merchants every month will not be more than 50 leads, and only 50 ships will be allowed to go to sea, but now I am in the ports of Nandu, Hekou, Hewei and other ports in Fuzhou, and there are no less than 1,000 sails of ships going to sea every month. ”

Zhu Qin saw that the person who spoke out against it was Zhang Ruzhen, and snorted coldly: "How can this government not know about this matter? Am we waiting for the benefit of only one place and ignoring the decrees of the imperial court? ”

Zhang Ruzhen smiled and said: "My lord, why did the imperial court reopen the sea ban back then, it was nothing more than to create a peaceful trade environment for the coast, so that those who were engaged in smuggling turned into public sellers, and let those who became pirates for their livelihood turn back to the shore. That's more than worth the loss! ”

Zhang Ruzhen's painstaking words were very irritating in Zhu Qinxiang's ears, but he knew that Zhang Ruzhen, a left-hand politician, was in charge of the account books and grain revenues and expenditures of Fujian Province, so where is the majesty of the imperial court? If there is a clear order from the imperial court in the future, will we still act according to the will of the imperial court? ”

When everyone saw him raise his big hat to oppress people, they were silent for a while. Allowing free trade among maritime merchants and opening ports to various places without permission was a matter that was expressly forbidden, and everything was only done with tacit consent, and now Zhu Qinxiang actually wants to act according to principles, which makes them feel that it is difficult to refute.

Zhu Qin was speechless when he saw that everyone was speechless, thinking that his words were reasonable, and his confidence soared, and then said: "What Zhang and 6 said in this government are not without consideration, they are all worried that after the ban on free trade, the tax and silver in the treasury will be reduced by half, and pirates will be even more rampant. After a pause, he continued, "This is exactly what this government wants to tell everyone here that since the sea tax has been reduced, we can increase it slightly from other taxes such as commercial tax and agricultural tax, even if it is not as good as the sea tax, at least there will not be a big gap." As for the piracy rampant in 6, this is why the government has just given the important task to Deputy Envoy Sun, as long as Deputy Envoy Sun and Governor Yu cooperate sincerely and fight with all their might, this government believes that it will be difficult for pirates to form a climate at all, and it is impossible to cause trouble to coastal towns. ”

When Sun Yueling heard this, he already understood in his heart that Zhu Qinxiang was going to make a drastic move to change the current situation.

Just as he was secretly guessing, Zhu Qinxiang suddenly turned his face and said to him: "Deputy Envoy Sun, do you have confidence in fighting pirates and robbers and maintaining law and order in the prefecture and county?" (To be continued.) )