Zheng Guang and Emperor Jiajing finished talking about things, it was already the second half of the night, Zheng Guang never said all the complete plans in his belly, only knew that the more he talked about it today, the higher the interest of Emperor Jiajing, the more he didn't want to stop talking, and finally talked about the opening of the sea ban from the aspect of anti-Japanese affairs, Emperor Jiajing originally did not plan to talk about it for so long, but he did not expect Zheng Guang's insight to be so extraordinary, not only the strategy of fighting against the Japanese, but also his own unique views on the matter of opening the sea ban. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Emperor Jiajing did not think about increasing taxes by opening the sea ban, imitating the old things of the Yongle period, but not only the internal resistance of the imperial court, a large number of courtiers opposed the opening of the sea, and took out the ancestral system of Taizu to obstruct the opening of the sea.

However, this is impossible, not only has it brought a lot of negative effects, but also made the great cause of reform difficult, and the reform of the Ming Dynasty is the most difficult in all dynasties.

And reopen the sea ban, rebuild the city of the city, also need money, but also need officials to take office, the rest of the officials to cooperate, the rebuilding of the sailor and a series of big actions, without nearly 10 million taels of silver can not solve this matter, everyone knows that the sea is good, but the most direct difficulty, is not the ancestral system, but money, the court has no money, according to the current court annual income of less than 4 million taels of silver and eat grain dilemma, want to come up with 10 million taels of silver, ten years can not do.

But Zheng Guang didn't see it that way.

When Zheng Guang was a student, he was familiar with some of the old things that Tang Shunzhi gave him about Taizu forbidding the sea and becoming an ancestor and opening the sea, and he also knew some twists and turns, Tang Shunzhi found some clues from it, and told Zheng Guang his own thoughts, Zheng Guang did not expect that these ideas would become the only hope for moving away from the ancestral mountain - Emperor Taizu did not want to completely ban the sea, but to ban the sea conditionally, and at the same time, he also agreed to open the sea conditionally, otherwise, what Emperor Chengzu did was not to deceive the teacher and destroy the ancestor? Do you want to say that Grandpa Cheng is a rebel?

No one dares to say this, this is the first breakthrough, the second breakthrough, Zhu Yuanzhang repeatedly affirmed the ban on the sea, but did not say it to death, but said more and more loosely, the last ban on the sea is clearly written, can not trade important items such as the steelmaking law, the firearms manufacturing law, precious metals and cultural relics with foreigners, and the people are not allowed to trade with foreign businessmen in private, to put it bluntly, call some silk, porcelain, tea, these things that foreigners like very much, through the official channels of the city, it is still possible!

It is not that the country is completely closed to the country, but conditionally, and external transactions, using the surplus things of the Ming Dynasty to earn money from foreign countries, subsidizing the state, and giving the coastal people more opportunities to live, so it is said that the most important technology and cultural relics of the Ming Dynasty can not be sold out, some handicrafts, in-demand products, can be sold.

In fact, in today's southeast, many coastal industrial and commercial cities have traces of foreign merchants, most of them cooperate with the Japanese maritime forces, get their protection, so that they can land, give the officials a sum of money, the officials turn a blind eye, the southeast people also know most of them, willing to trade with these foreign merchants, silk porcelain and tea in exchange for what they do not have in China or gold and silver.

For example, the peanuts in Zheng Guang's hand were bought from a Francophone merchant, and no one said anything, and the former prefect Fan Qing didn't seem to care about it.

Then Zheng Guang said to Emperor Jiajing, Emperor Taizu meant not to let the people trade with foreigners in private, so as not to leak out important things in the Ming Dynasty, such as iron smelting and gunpowder skills were secretly learned by foreign Yi, but Emperor Taizu did not kill with a stick, you can establish a city shipping division, and then announce to everyone that you want to trade, you can, foreigners want to come, you can, but you must get the consent of the city shipping department, and you can only enter the designated city and trade with the Ming Dynasty with the certificate issued by the city shipping department.

Before entering, you must pay a deposit, to ensure that you abide by the law, fair trade, do not deceive the people of the Ming Dynasty, etc., with this guarantee, you can obtain the qualification to enter the Ming Dynasty, the deposit only needs to be paid once, thousands of taels of silver, you can get a valid period of five or ten years in and out of the Ming Dynasty trade port certificate, issued when entering the city, no one is embarrassed, but if they violate the law and do not abide by the laws of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming has the right to arrest them, and punish them!

With the tightness of Daming commodities, the demand for porcelain, silk and tea from Waiyi, Daming can easily earn a considerable amount of margin fees, this amount is about millions of taels of silver, Daming's urgent need can be alleviated to a certain extent, after that, the transactions between Waiyi and Daming merchants, each of which must be taxed proportionally, must be witnessed by the officials of the city and the Ministry of Commerce, the tax rate can be ten taxes one, because this kind of transaction has huge profits, and it can be heavily taxed.

When commerce develops further, we can raise the commercial tax again, nine taxes one, eight taxes one, seven taxes one, the income of this kind of commercial tax will completely exceed the income of agriculture, and these taxes belong to the municipal shipping department, and the municipal shipping department is directly subordinate to the household department of the imperial court, and the income is directly handed over to the household department, and the local government shall not interfere with all the actions of the municipal shipping department, and the household department of the imperial court and His Majesty the emperor can directly send special envoys to supervise, pay it once a quarter, and directly receive the tax to the household treasury for sealing.

Once the maritime trade is driven and the reputation spreads, there will be more and more foreign merchants to trade in the Ming Dynasty, the coastal people can be hired to do things, the production of various products can be expanded, a large number of mercenaries will be recruited to do things, the problem of land annexation can be curbed to a certain extent, a large number of unemployed and landless people will get jobs and be able to make a living, and the problem of the Japanese will naturally be solved from the root.

Emperor Jiajing was greatly admired by this kind of thinking, and said that if he could really do this, he would fully support Zheng Guang to do this, rather than let this money be corrupted by those corrupt officials and corrupt officials, it is better to let it return to the hands of the imperial court, so that the imperial court has money, and can do great things, I have already understood, but if you want to really open the sea, you need the victory of the southeast, and also, it needs to be time - you go and do something for me.

When I returned home from the palace, it was already the second half of the night, Ma Tao personally escorted Zheng Guang back to the Zheng Mansion, before leaving, Ma Tao said to Zheng Guang with envy: "Before the official award, you can be personally received by His Majesty the Emperor, and talk about state affairs with the emperor. Don't forget to give me a boost! ”

Zheng Guang smiled: "No matter how powerful I am, I am not as powerful as Governor Lu, right?" Governor Lu is His Majesty's milk brother, this difference between relatives and relatives, do you still need to say it? ”

Ma Tao shook his head and said: "Brother, you still don't understand it now, but, when you really become an official and understand Jinyiwei, you will know, let's ah, the surface is glamorous, the authority is in hand, in fact, we have been dancing on the sword, a place where you can die without a place if you are not careful, even the Governor of Lu is not exempt from this kind of encounter, brother, in the future, it will depend on you more!" ”

Zheng Guangzhi didn't really want to have too much to do with Jinyiwei, but at this time, it would be good for the future to form a good fate, at least before Lu Bing's death, Jinyiwei still covered the sky with one hand, and even the eunuchs had to retreat, and if he wanted to do anything at that time, he would inevitably deal with Jinyiwei.

So Zheng Guang solemnly arched his hand and said: "As long as Brother Ma doesn't dislike my small strength, within the scope of my ability, I will definitely help." ”

Ma Tao nodded, arched his hand, and said, "Thank you." Then he disappeared into the night.

Zheng Guang went to the palace late at night, under the operation of Jinyiwei, even Zheng Guang's own family didn't know, and that subordinate was also strictly ordered by Zheng Guang not to tell what happened that night, so the rest of the people in the palace didn't know, even Xu Pang didn't know, so it was very strange when he got up early in the morning to practice boxing, because he didn't find Zheng Guang's figure, this is not scientific, Zheng Guang will supervise him to get up and practice boxing every day, why did he get up today, and Zheng Guang hasn't gotten up yet? Slept late yesterday?

Of course, Zheng Guang finished sleeping, and played against the emperor, consuming a lot of energy, he fell asleep on the bed after a while, and didn't get up when he should get up in the morning, and after Xu Pang was lazy, Zheng Guang woke up, and when he saw the sky, he knew that he had slept, and in desperation, he could only get up slowly, get dressed and push open the door, and he unexpectedly saw Xu Pang panting and looking at himself with a smile, and said: "Master Zheng, I can't sleep too lazy to get up to practice boxing, hehe, it's really a miracle!" ”

Zheng Guang said helplessly: "I read too late yesterday, and I got up late today, but you are still good, quite conscious, not bad, according to this trend, before we give the official, you can at least lose weight, and it will look good when the time comes, and you can be treated special if you don't do it well when you give the official!" ”

This is not a joke, the past dynasties have certain requirements for the appearance of the officials, for the Son of Heaven herdsmen must be dignified and majestic, with official authority, so as to deter the people, even if they are not handsome, at least they must be able to see, people who look strange and affect the appearance of the city, even if they are talented, there is no way to be reused, you think about it, when the court is rich and handsome, suddenly there is a Yan Wuscum, ugly, just like a mouse feces in a pot of white porridge, how to look at how uncoordinated, he must be expelled.

This is a world of desperate faces, human beings judge people by their appearance, throughout, consistently, if there is anything that human beings have insisted on since ancient times, probably, it is to judge people by appearance! So Xu Pang's appearance as a fat man is obviously not enough, if the full score is one hundred, Zheng Guang is confident that he has ninety points, and Xu Pang is currently about fifty points, failing.

But Xu Pang has an advantage, he is not ugly, and he is even a little handsome, but he is dragged down by only one body of flesh, his body is rectangular, no waist, a whole abdominal muscle, and there is probably a B cup, but as the saying goes, every fat person is a potential stock, and before he loses weight, he can't determine his real appearance, so Xu Pang still has a chance, as long as he loses weight, Zheng Guang believes that his appearance is at least seventy points, and he can gain a foothold in the court!

"Come on, as long as you can lose weight and look good enough, I guarantee that you can gain a foothold in the court!" Zheng Guang cheered him up like this.

Xu Fat's smug face turned into frustration now: "No one told me before that the award of officials should be based on their appearance and grade!" ”

Zheng Guang, as a person who has never been worried about his appearance, can only comforted helplessly: "It's okay, when we have the power and abolish this rule, now, you are still honestly losing weight, you see, I have six pieces of tendon meat on my abdomen, and you are a whole piece, I don't have high requirements for you, four pieces are enough!" ”

Xu Pang looked at his entire abdominal muscles with a eating expression and sighed deeply......