Chapter 623 Closure

In the city of Beijing in August, the top strata of the entire Ming Dynasty gathered here, participating in or paying attention to the most "spectacular" struggle in the 200 years of the Ming Dynasty. This may affect the national fortunes of the Ming Dynasty for 200 years.

This struggle has already begun, and it has come to the last moment since the emperor announced in a high-profile manner that he would help restore the Ryukyu Kingdom. The reason why it broke out immediately is simple, everyone needs a certain amount of time to contact the layout, coordinate and sort out the internal forces to make final preparations, as for who has the last laugh, it depends on their respective means.

After Beiyang Sailor and Zheng Zhilong received the emperor's holy decree to help the Ryukyu Kingdom restore the country, it didn't take long for them to start sealing the voyage, strictly prohibiting the ships of the Ming Dynasty from approaching the Wa Kingdom and the Ryukyus, and also strictly prohibiting the ships of the Wa Kingdom from approaching the Ming Dynasty. The reason is also simple, since we want to help the Ryukyu Kingdom recover the country, we must fight with the Japanese people, and since we want to fight, then everyone should stand far away, so as not to hurt the innocent; Second, don't send supplies to the Japanese state, let alone invest in the enemy.

It is the time of the year to do business, but it is not allowed to get close to the Wa country, so there is so much raw silk produced, where are the products of the sea trade sold? Nanyang doesn't have to think about it, first of all, he can't pass Zheng Zhilong's pass, although he is now recruited, but he is still a pirate, let you not pass, it completely depends on his heart, as for whether there is an emperor's instructions, no one can say. In addition to Zheng Zhilong, there are other pirates, and the number is not cheap, in addition to other pirates, there are also Yi people, after these hurdles, you can go to Nanyang,

I have to go through this kind of difficulty again, and if I have to go there to do business, I almost have my life to go, and I have no life to return. Now the trade between the Japanese and Korean countries has been interrupted again, and the maritime trade has completely come to a standstill.

The news of helping the Ryukyus to restore the country spread to the south, and many families who relied on sea trade to make profits could no longer sit still, and began to secretly contact and find a way, in addition to the families that relied on sea trade to make profits, there were many families who opposed paying taxes, and they also began to participate in the contact, the emperor's way

It can be said that it is very clear that the emperor has changed his way to ask everyone to pay taxes, and today it is these maritime merchants, and it will be their turn in the future, so there are many people involved in the secret contact.

People from all over the world gathered in the capital, which also provided convenience for the liaison and development of this matter.

After a period of liaison, fermentation, layout, and integration, this matter can be regarded as on the cusp, and it is time for the two sides to apportion.

The news of the closure of the sailors can be said to have sounded the clarion call for the final decisive battle between the two sides. As soon as the news entered the capital, all the people held their breath.

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The teahouses in the city of Beijing are hotly discussing these things

It's public, and there is neither the imaginary Jinyiwei's investigation around, nor the official's inquiry.

This tea house is quite quiet. Only these few people are drinking tea in the entire teahouse, which is completely different from the lively scene of other teahouses.

"The sailor really wants to cut off overseas trade." Cao Yubian was the first to speak, just as he had expected, what the emperor said to help the Ryukyu Kingdom restore the country, but in fact he aimed the spearhead at maritime trade.

In this teahouse, all the high-ranking officials and dignitaries sit here, and they come here for one thing, that is, to pay taxes.

"Fortunately, I had expected it and prepared for it, otherwise, wouldn't we be passive today?" The other said, with a smug face and a slight smile, as if he had guessed the emperor's thoughts.

Han Yi had to despise in his heart, was this expected? This is the emperor clearly telling everyone, how the emperor wants to do it, you have a relationship, someone is looking for someone, and the emperor wants to clean up together, this is worth being proud?

This person's words are really not very good, that is, he laughs alone, and the others are all strained and can't laugh at all.

Although they are gathered together, it seems that the strength is huge, but I have to say that the emperor is the emperor, and what he does has a heroic atmosphere, a high-ranking official in his left hand goes to sea, and a sweet potato wine in his right hand, which eliminates their momentum invisibly, in view of the pressure of the emperor's hands, how can they laugh? Coupled with the fact that the sailors are now almost clearly informed of the forbidden sea, the emperor doesn't seem to take them into account at all, and they do things in a clear way, they come and go clearly, and they don't make a black hand at all, if they can freely discuss how to deal with the emperor here, this will undoubtedly make them laugh. The more this is the case, the more invisible pressure comes to the world, and only the kind of person with a tendon in the head can laugh. ,

"The matter of the sailor, can you mention it to Your Majesty again, it's better not to seal the sea, otherwise, even if you can win, the loss this year will be big!" One person suggested that they were fighting the emperor, and it was obviously impossible to knock the emperor to the ground at once, even if

How big of a deal would it have to be to knock the emperor to the ground? What else do you still want to worry about overseas trade? In other words, the best period of trade this year has to be missed, and this year's losses are doomed.

"How can this be stopped Your Majesty? Even if the sea is not sealed, wouldn't it be worse if a pirate and a ship went to sea? If you are robbed by pirates and pirates, you can still pay it back

Not? The reason why His Majesty is sealing the sea, instead of acting in the name of pirates and pirates, is because His Majesty cherishes feathers and is unwilling to use black hands, so it is basically impossible to stop His Majesty from this matter......" Cao Yubian asked rhetorically, and also explained that this matter, as a top boss, knows the cause and effect of the matter best, knows the ins and outs of the matter, and explains it to this person immediately.

"Zongxian has a point, alas, ......" The person who had just said that he would mention the matter of the sailor again sighed and shook his head, and had to admit this, knowing that the emperor could seal the sea, because he wanted to help the Ryukyus enrich the country, he could secretly pretend to be pirates, in short, the sea could not get out.

Cao Yubian vetoed this matter, and in the teahouse, there was only a sound of drinking tea.

Cao Yubian was even more depressed, how to fight with the emperor, until now, he still hasn't thought about it, originally Han Yi was the "boss" among them, but Han Yi didn't seem to be very vocal anymore, and let him be the "boss". He is the boss, how to fight with the emperor is a headache for him, how to fight with the emperor, and win, he really can't think of any tricks.

Ordinary methods don't seem to work well now. Learn to splash fù sprinkle, if this method is used again and again, it is too tasteless, not to mention the price, it will be laughed at; If there is no strong reason, it is obviously impossible to use the sea of people to suppress the emperor, and the emperor also has a time when he can use the sea of people, although it is not much, but it can be used so many times a year, and it is enough for them to bear.

If you want to say that the impeachment of the people of the imperial party is a shortcut, but now none of the people of the imperial party are easy to impeach, and those who are easy to impeach are all sesame characters, and those who cannot be put on the stage are not the real imperial party.

The real imperial party, the core figure, Xu Guangqi has presided over immigration all the year round, and basically has no intersection with the DPRK and China, and impeaching him is really incompatible; Sun Chengzong is not so easy to impeach, he basically does not get involved in the affairs of the DPRK and China, except for the occasional speech in the military, he almost does not speak on anything else, and even this dispute over tax payment does not seem to take it to heart, and it seems that nothing happens.

Shoufu Shi Feng came, it seems to be very easy to impeach, but people are batter, batter is that although he has no ability, he doesn't speak hard, and he can't manage things, but people don't care about things, they will do less wrong things, and they can do basically not bad things, and it is not so easy to catch him.

The household department is self-strict, it seems that it is easy to impeach, but in fact, it also has a great reputation, many people in Beijing are still very supportive of Bi Ziyan, not to mention anything else, at least this salary is never in arrears, not to mention the full amount, this salary can still rise, to this day, the salary of Beijing officials,

"Rise" a few times, just by virtue of this, Bi Ziyan's reputation in the officialdom in Beijing is good, and it is also difficult to impeach him, not to mention that he has a good relationship with Lin Zhu and Liu Zongzhou, and impeaching him is afraid that in the eyes of those who are dedicated to education, it will cut off their money, and something may happen. Lin Zhu and Liu Zongzhou's group of people are not to mention, they are tied into a group, and one of them is to do it against those people who are engaged in education, I am afraid that things will not be as simple as they think, when these people are ruthless, the emperor will make trouble from it, I am afraid that it will be worse, to talk about the clean ass, the group of people who are dedicated to education are much cleaner than them, and those people who are dedicated to education are now biased towards the emperor's side, but they have not completely fallen to the emperor, if they move the people among them, I am afraid that things will get bigger and bigger, In the end, it turned out that they were fighting with these people, and the emperor was afraid that he would laugh off his big teeth.

In addition to these people, there is also some weight in Fan Weicheng, and the others are all small fish and small shrimps, which are not worth his own action, he is the identity of the Ming Dynasty, if he shoots at some small fish and small shrimps, I am afraid that it will make people laugh. Fan Weicheng slipped his head, although he was an imperial party, he didn't reject them, they wanted to send a draft, a newspaper or something, Fan Weicheng basically didn't refuse, they all said that they didn't stretch out their hands and don't hit smiling people, Fan Weicheng can do this, he can't impeach him as a general constitution, and impeach him with other small people, but the effect is not good, I don't know how, the petty officials who impeached Fan Weicheng suddenly stopped talking, and there was no follow-up, and this matter was over. ,

In fact, to the resignation of the imperial party, there are other ways, for example, the heaven and man induction, with the disaster on the ground to ask the cabinet ministers to step down, and even the emperor bows his head, this hand, is not impossible, but this kind of heaven and man induction thing is too mysterious, to say this kind of fantasy thing, the emperor is more qualified than them, at least the emperor once predicted the natural disaster in Shaanxi, such as today, people believe that the emperor can see the god man in his dream, so, to say this kind of ethereal thing, the emperor is more likely than them, and then the emperor only needs to casually talk about how the god man is, They just can't stand it. At this level, they are not the emperor's opponents, and using this method against the emperor will only make people laugh.

In fact, the best way is the way to deal with the Wanli mine supervisor back then, there is no way to take the emperor in the court, you can collect taxes from the emperor locally, and the emperor can't do anything about them.

For this matter, Cao Yubian now realizes what it means to be bitter and can't say it, now this tax supervisor is different from the past, the current tax supervisor is not allowed to pay taxes to others, and the Wanli Emperor will be completely different, what tax supervisors say to disturb the people, bully the people, where does this start? No one else lets you pay your taxes, and you basically don't go out and walk around much, so how can it bother you? How did they bully you? If you play the trick of resisting taxes and not paying taxes, the tax supervisors will ignore you at all, and it can be said that it is useless to pay taxes, even if you can "kill" the tax supervisors in the south, but Cao Yubian knows that those guys who "voluntarily" pay taxes will automatically pay taxes to ......the northern tax supervisors, which is the biggest difference between "voluntary" tax payment and tax collection, and this is what makes Cao Yubian most distressed. Asking them to kill the northern tax supervisor under the emperor's nose, this kind of difficult work, Cao Yubian has not thought about it.

What other more cruel and taboo methods, Cao Yubian only dared to float slightly in his head, these methods, Cao Yubian didn't dare to think about it, let alone find someone to discuss, these methods, as soon as they were said, they were completely hopeless.

Cao Yubian took another sip of tea, at this time, he hadn't come up with any good way to deal with the emperor, and Cao Yubian could only take one step at a time.

The room was silent for a while.

"I heard that the Holy Father of Yan was reprimanded by His Majesty,

After that, I just closed the door, what do you think about this? "A person suddenly said this, this matter, also caused a lot of wind, the reason is that the news from the palace, it is really a little surprising, Yan Shenggong is said to have knelt in front of the emperor for most of the hour,

After that, it was like a different person.

"Yan Shenggong is a descendant of the saint and a model for scholars in the world, how can Your Majesty reprimand Yan Shenggong so harshly?" Some people are upset about Kong Yinzhi.

"Even so, I don't know what it is, Your Majesty actually reprimanded it so harshly, it's really a little inappropriate!" Someone intersected.

Han Yi glanced at Cao Yubian, and couldn't figure out what was going on, this matter was really strange, they all said that the emperor reprimanded Yan Shenggong, and the reprimand was extremely severe, but everyone stood and watched from a distance, and no one knew what the emperor said, it stands to reason if

It was the emperor who reprimanded Yan Shenggong, so Yan Shenggong rarely had to go to the book to ask for guilt or something, but now I only see Yan Shenggong closed the door, and he has not done anything, let alone the emperor has issued any holy decree about Yan Shenggong, which is strange, so as for whether it is reprimanded, this remains to be determined.

"Now that His Majesty has reprimanded Yan Shenggong, Yan Shenggong must be dissatisfied, perhaps...... If we can get the support of the Holy Father, this matter will definitely be done. Someone came up with an idea.

Cao Yubian was drinking tea and was also thinking about this matter, why did the emperor reprimand Yan Shenggong? Could it be that they have an opinion about their meeting with Yan Shenggong? The emperor is also afraid that the Holy Father of Yan will get involved with them? can

In the process of talking with Yan Shenggong, Cao Yubian couldn't figure it out, Kong Yinzhi was very shrewd, let him say that his mouth was dry, but he didn't get any promises, so why did the emperor reprimand Kong Yinzhi so harshly? Could it be that His Majesty still wants to drive Kong Yinzhi to their side?

Here, Cao Yubian was even more troubled, he really couldn't see the emperor's path clearly. I felt that Han Yi glanced at himself with his eyes, and also looked over, and the information he got was also suspicious and uncertain.

"I'm afraid that Yan Sheng Gong will not easily get involved in these things, and if you want to move Yan Sheng Gong to help us, I'm afraid it will be difficult to ......" Another person had a negative attitude towards this matter.

"Why is it so difficult? Could it be that if Your Majesty collects taxes, he will not collect taxes from the Holy Father? Who doesn't know, the Kong family is in Shandong, and there is a county to worship ......," the man immediately retorted. ,

"What about a county? Can you come to our side? Can you support us? The court's preferential treatment of Yan Shenggong is not only available today, compared to these, what is a little tax? Your Majesty only needs to take a little bit out of his hand casually, and it will be enough for the Holy Father to enjoy, how can that tax be compared? ......" immediately retorted.

"As a descendant of the saint, Yan Shenggong should be on our side, His Majesty's new interpretation of Confucianism is to move the knife on the head of Confucianism, can Yan Shenggong have no personal pain? To prevent His Majesty from dismantling Confucianism, the only way to do this is to stand on our side...... "Someone will fight for it immediately."

This point has been approved by many people, and many people have nodded, the new interpretation of Confucianism, the interpretation of Confucianism into human needs, this is the real family to divide Confucianism!

"In this matter, the old man will visit the door again, test the situation, and talk about it if it succeeds." Cao Yubian immediately concluded that everyone had come here, and finally came up with a better news.

Everyone nodded yes again, and the atmosphere was a lot more lively. Han Yi also nodded, but he was confused in his heart, what kind of move did the emperor take? Did you do it on purpose or did you faint? He couldn't read it, and he couldn't understand it.

The meeting will be opened here, and it can be regarded as almost open, Cao Yubian was upset, looked at Han Yi, and said, "Does Elder Ge have anything to say?" Han Yi gave up the position of "boss", but it was Cao Yubian's turn to take charge.

"The old man won't say much, everything depends on the general constitution." Han Yi thought about it, he didn't plan to stand on the front line against the emperor, this kind of thing was too big, Han Yi felt that he was afraid that he would not be able to hold on, so it was better to retreat to the rear and let Cao Yubian come out, the comparison of strength between the two sides really didn't see any chance of winning here.

"Okay, this time is close to a decisive battle, we must stop Your Majesty from collecting taxes, and this matter requires you to work together to tide over the difficulties, success or failure in one fell swoop." Cao Yubian made a summary, although there is no good way to deal with the emperor, but Cao Yubian feels that he can use all the means that cannot be used again and form a dragon, maybe it will have a miraculous effect, and after making up his mind, he is ready to break up the meeting.

…… RO@。