After Zhang Mu finished speaking, Li Yunchang only cared about eating steamed buns and no longer took the stubble, Zhang Mu saw his attitude, and felt that this matter was not as simple as he thought.

After a while, Li Yunchang wiped his mouth, then raised his head and said: "Muzhi, to be honest, this official really admires you, of course, not because you are lucky or anything, but at your age, you often see blood when you look at problems, and it does make sense to hear you say this." However, opening up the maritime frontier is far from a simple issue. ”

Speaking of this, Li Yunchang walked to the window, looked at the drizzling rain outside, and said in a deep voice: "According to what you said, opening up the sea and frontier is beneficial to the country and the people, and I also understand. However, to change a national policy, it is by no means something that you and I can do.

You have never been an official in the imperial court, and you don't know that there is an undercurrent in it, even if it is a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people, it may become the authority of the party struggle. Putting these aside, let's just say Your Majesty, do you know that the taxes of a province in Songjiang are similar to those in a province in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Although His Majesty is a little harsher with the officials in the world, he absolutely loves the people like a son, but only Songjiang is the only one that His Majesty hates to the core. No matter how many people took turns to go up, His Majesty ignored them, and even rebuked them. The national policy of sealing the sea and forbidding the sea is a holy decision of His Majesty, even if you have leveled the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, how sure are you that Your Majesty will be able to change this national policy?

Besides, we are courtiers, first of all, we must be loyal, and secondly, we must help Your Majesty govern the world, and Your Majesty's holy judgment, how can I, a martial artist, participate in it? My mission is to die on the battlefield for Your Majesty and serve the country loyally. And even if we take 10,000 steps back, if we really want to open up the sea frontier, it can't be at this time. Do you know why? ”

Zhang Mu said: "Haikou is becoming a climate day by day, even if you want to open up the sea frontier, you must first clean them up, slap them in the face, and feed them a sweet date, so that they can be obedient." ”

Li Yunchang smiled with satisfaction: "Yes, soldier, Wang Dao." If they make a few troubles, they will open up the sea frontier, then they will only think that you are cowardly, and in the future, once they are not satisfied, they will come to make trouble at every turn, which will breed their arrogance. However, all these years the state funds of the imperial court have been spent on Mengyuan in the north, so there is still money to build ships to deal with the Japanese invaders?

At first, His Majesty sealed the sea and forbade it, but it was also a helpless move, the Japanese Kou had been bred since the chaos at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, plus some of Zhang Shicheng's defeated generals fled overseas, if the sea was not sealed, then there was kung fu to deal with the Meng Yuan in the north? So things have developed to this point, even if Your Majesty has the heart to open up the sea frontier, he does not have the power. ”

When Zhang Mu heard this, he sighed secretly in his heart, and also understood the truth of the phrase that a weak country has no diplomacy, although the Ming Dynasty was strong and strong, but the sailors had not yet become the climate, and now the Japanese were so ferocious, it had become the climate, and the opening of the sea frontier at this moment could cause a certain amount of containment to the Japanese invaders, but they could not be eradicated.

The premise of opening up the sea frontier is that the Ming Dynasty must have a powerful and unrivaled sailor as a backing, but now the Ming Dynasty has no money, so it fell into a dead end, plus although Zhu Yuanzhang is said to be a wise and martial emperor, but in the end the peasant background, the ass determines the thought, in his eyes, Meng Yuan is a big trouble, and the Japanese are just a stubborn disease, after all, the Japanese are so noisy, they can't threaten his throne.

And Meng Yuan went south, it was possible that his hard work would be burned.

Considering many factors, we have reached the current deadlock, and if we want to open up the maritime frontier, we still need to go a long way, and it cannot be done in one or two days.

Zhang Mu pondered for a moment and said, "No matter how difficult this matter is, I will try my best." Otherwise, it will always be like this, and sooner or later the widows will become a big problem. ”

Li Yunchang was a little stunned, so he smiled and said, "I thought that as soon as I said it, you would die." ”

"How could I give up on such a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people? Cathay Pacific can be safe, but on the other hand, if you want people to be safe, you must enrich the people. Only when the people have money can the country prosper. It is imperative to open up the sea frontier. It's just that I won't be like this Meng Lang in the future, and I won't make a move easily. I'm going to gather strength and wait until the time is right to do something.

Even if it is an iron wall, I have this heart, one punch today, one palm tomorrow, I will always get this thing done. Zhang Mu said calmly.

When Li Yunchang heard this, he turned around and smiled: "Ambition!" No wonder Your Majesty thinks so highly of you. ”

Speaking of this, he patted Zhang Mu on the shoulder and said, "In the imperial court, it is not easy to do things, and it is even more difficult to do a good deed. It is as difficult as climbing to heaven to do a great deed. Think twice before you do anything in the future. Officialdom is like a battlefield, and if you are not careful, you will be wiped out. Therefore, if you want to do great things, you must learn to judge the situation, wait for the opportunity, and don't be so impulsive. ”

Li Yunchang said these words in his heart, Zhang Mu was very grateful in his heart, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, my lord, I have my own measure." ”

Li Yunchang said: "That's good, to tell the truth, this official also wants to see that one day, I will come to the Ming Dynasty, drive Yuanrong to the north, and return to the heart of the four seas." If the time is ripe in the future, the official is still alive and willing to help you. It's just that the time is not yet ripe. If you want to open up the sea frontier, you need the imperial court to have a supporting order, a strong sailor, a special yamen and laws, all of which can not be completed overnight.

You are still young, and you have great prospects in the future, so I want you to be a capable person, not a foolish person. To change all this, it is necessary to come up with practical things, not with enthusiasm, although the official is a martial artist, but he is also familiar with the annals of history. Changing a national policy often comes at a cost of blood.

Shang Ying in the Qin Dynasty, Wang Mang in the Han Dynasty, Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and Wang Anshi of the Great Song Dynasty, which of these people did not have the talent of the heavens and latitudes, but in the end, they all hit their heads and broke their blood to promote the change of national policy, however, even so, how many of them have a good end?

Therefore, don't hope that you will be able to change the national policy in a sentence or two, even if it is Your Majesty, not everything will go well. Those pedantic stupid scholars, whose heads are full of sage articles, think that they can really rule the world after reading a few books. If it were so easy, the Song Dynasty would not have perished. ”

Zhang Mu secretly admired in his heart, Li Yunchang was also a feudal official, he was indeed more mature and practical in looking at the problem, and he was a person with real experience in governing the country, so he got up and said: "Thank you, my lord, for your words today, I know what to do." ”

"Well, well, let's talk about the most important thing at the moment." Li Yunchang sat down and continued to talk about Haikou with Zhang Mu.