Chapter 341: Assigned Again
Peng Yue's recital went up, but there was no response for many days. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Of course, this is also in Peng Yue's expectations, originally there was nothing too abnormal about his letter, so he didn't expect Zhu Houxi to sell his own face.
In fact, he did this to a large extent to make his conscience feel better, because Peng Yue really couldn't sit idly by. To some extent, he was also influenced by Yang Jisheng, that is, don't think too much about your own interests, and some things are just to know that you can't do them.
Therefore, Peng Yue often sighed that he was really inferior to Xu Jie in some places, because he was much more rational and calm than himself. This is also the reason why Peng Yue has always asked Xia Yan to vigorously promote Xu Jie, and now he can be regarded as being able to take charge of himself.
Of course, in order not to conflict with Yan Song, Peng Yue did not mention Yan Song's matter at all, but this is also because Peng Yue understands that as long as Yan Song is mentioned, it may make things worse.
However, even though Peng Yue was very careful, Yan Song did not let him go, his principle was very simple: the friend of the enemy is the enemy. Now that Peng Yue is helping Yang Jisheng speak, it is clear that he wants to go against himself.
Some time ago, Peng Yue was quite "honest", and because of Yan Mengyun, Yan Song was reluctant to go against Peng Yue anymore. Of course, this is also because Peng Yue is quite favored and difficult to deal with.
In Zhu Houxi's eyes, Peng Yue is indeed a rare capable minister. In the past, he took care of the household department, which has always been in good order, and has created a lot of income for the national finance. Later, in the military aspect, he also showed extraordinary talent and ability, and now Peng Yue has become a very important part of the northwest war situation.
However, since Yan Song had made up his mind to deal with Peng Yue, he must have seen an opportunity, and this opportunity was chaos.
It turned out that under Peng Yue's suggestion, although the opening of trade was finally realized, the Japanese rebellion did not disappear with it. The reason is simple: the root cause of the Japanese rebellion is the internal war in Japan, and many Japanese have no livelihood, so they have to engage in piracy.
And in this pirate business, there are also many Koreans, Portuguese and other foreigners, and of course, the indispensable Chinese. The reason is also very simple, China also has the lower class people who can't get along, and they will also be attracted by the huge benefits of robbery at sea.
Facts have proved that Peng Yue's idea of relying on export and trade to ban the rebellion is unrealistic. But then Peng Yue also figured it out, Britain was also opening up trade at this time, and it was still the principle of free trade, but British pirates were more famous than other places. Therefore, interest is the first driving force!
However, to Peng Yue's surprise, smuggling activities at sea are also rampant. It is said that since the imperial court allows the people to trade with foreign countries, then there should be no one to smuggle, but then Peng Yue also figured it out, even in modern times, the country's trade rules are so sound, but there is no shortage of smuggling activities, the reason is very simple, interests are the first driving force, and smuggling is more profitable!
Moreover, Zhu Houyu also "helped a lot" in smuggling activities, because Zhu Houyu forbade trade with Japan, which actually laid the groundwork for smuggling activities. It is not unreasonable that the more forbidden you are, what you will do.
Of course, this is not because of curiosity, but because the profits are too great. You must know that part of Japan is now in the so-called "Warring States Period", and there is civil strife all day long, and it is poor and has nothing, so it urgently needs China's material aid!
As a result, some adventurous Chinese embarked on this smuggling route of trade with Japan, ranging from porcelain and silk to arms and weapons, which can be described as all-encompassing, and the Japanese were happy to buy them at a high price.
Many Chinese who have made a lot of money have set a good example, and naturally more people will follow suit, so smuggling activities have intensified.
The imperial court spent a lot of thought and money in this regard, and many ministers suggested that the sea ban be implemented again. Zhu Houxi has already tasted the sweetness from trade and trade, so naturally he will not give up this profit easily, but the problem of chaos does give him a headache.
However, every time he picked up a pen and calculated, he still had a lot of profits in surplus, and he still had a lot of profits in removing the funds for eradicating the Japanese rebellion and investigating smuggling, and Zhu Houyu repeatedly put this matter on hold, and even if the sea ban was imposed, the Japanese rebellion and smuggling would not necessarily disappear, and Zhu Houxi also understood this.
Of course, the imperial court has put a lot of thought into eradicating the rebellion, but the effect is not good.
For example, a while ago, a group of Japanese robbers, of course, there were many Chinese in it, directly landed on the shore to invade Taizhou, broke Huangyan, disturbed Xiangshan and Dinghai, and caused riots in the entire eastern Zhejiang.
So the imperial court sent Wang Chen, the governor of Shandong, and ordered him to be the governor of Zhejiang and supervise the coastal military affairs. To say that this Wang Chen is also a capable minister, and he has a strong ability to recognize people, he recruited the generals Yu Dayou and Tang Kekuan as henchmen, and recruited generals by them. Temper the soldiers, lead the troops to attack, the effect is not bad, and many battles have been won.
However, the Japanese were treacherous, taking advantage of their mobile warfare, and carried out plundering everywhere on the principle of changing places with one shot. Sometimes dozens of Japanese people plundered Shanghai, Nanhui, Chuansha, Songjiang City and other places, sometimes they invaded Jiading, Taicang and other places, and sometimes plundered Rugao and Haimen counties.
Under this mobile method of warfare, Wang Chen was completely defeated, so he also encountered the situation of impeachment by the courtiers. This time, Zhu Houxi was quite considerate of him, but he was transferred to the right deputy governor of Yushi, and he was appointed to serve as the deputy envoy of Xuzhou, Li Tianzhong.
Li Tianzhong also gradually felt overwhelmed in the process of pacifying, so he asked the court to send another important minister. So the imperial court sent Zhang Jing, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, as the imperial envoy of the right capital, and the squire of the military department, and the governor of Jiangnanbei, Zhejiang, Shandong, Fujian, and Huguang, and acted cheaply.
To say that Zhang Jing is indeed a capable minister, he has made great contributions to quelling the rebellion and shaking the border areas before, but I didn't expect Zhang Jing to go to the southeast coast, and things are still not easy to do.
No, now Yan Song has received another report from the southeast: the Japanese invaders plundered Su and Song from north to south, galloped into Zhejiang, invaded Zhapu, Haining and other places, and then fell into Chongde, and plundered Tangxi, Xinshi, Hengtang, Shuanglin, Wuzhen, Linghu and other places, only dozens of miles away from the provincial capital.
In fact, the matter of the southeast Japanese invaders has always been an important weight in Yan Song's hands to deal with Peng Yue, and now since Peng Yue is going to oppose himself, he can't blame himself for being polite, so Yan Song handed this report to Zhu Houxi, three times and two times, on a central theme: Peng Yue has an unshirkable responsibility for the rebellion of the Japanese invaders, Your Majesty will look at it!
What can Zhu Houxi do? There is so much profit there, I can't enforce a sea ban again, right? You must know that Yan Song doesn't agree to do this, people are on the southeast coast, and they also have a lot of business!
Not only him, but many officials in the DPRK and China have some business on the southeast coast, you must know that if the sea ban is implemented, but it will cut off people's financial routes, it is strange that people don't work hard with you! In normal times, those who advocate the implementation of the sea ban are some officials who are not afraid of death and love to find trouble, and some officials who can't eat grapes and say that grapes are sour, and some big corrupt Confucians.
So Yan Song provided a good solution: to untie the bell, you still need to tie the bell, so let Peng Yue go to the southeast to fight against the Japanese!
Yan Song's wishful thinking is like this: when Peng Yue arrives at the place, he naturally has no way to go against him, at least he can't collude with Xu Jie in the court. Of course, if you are unlucky and die on the front line of the anti-Japanese war, then you will be embarrassed, don't worry, I will posthumously present you with the title of martyr for my daughter's sake.
Zhu Houxi didn't have so many ideas, he just felt that Peng Yue was also a good hand at fighting, since Zhang Jing couldn't do it, then Peng Yue would go! So Peng Yue suddenly received this order... (To be continued.) )