Since Zhu Laosi moved the capital to the north, the Son of Heaven has been very bold in guarding the country, but it has brought a fatal problem, that is, the information gap between the north and the south is too big.

For example, the economy in Jiangnan is booming, commerce and trade are booming, and the decision-makers of the empire are still stuck in the traditional small-scale peasant era, instinctively rejecting change and rejecting it. But the trend of the times is irreversible, what Tang Yi has to do is to hit the monarchs and ministers of the Ming Dynasty hard, so that they can open their eyes and look at the world again!

"Your Majesty, the ministers and other five people, all live in the southeast for a long time, ears and eyes, although Xiyi is barren, the people's livelihood is far less rich than the Ming Dynasty, but the so-called ruler is short and long, Xiyi is not only rich in local gold and silver reserves, and the poor think about change, nearly 100 years, Xiyi frequent voyages, trying to find a way to the East, covetous, is my Ming silk porcelain, by mistake, they actually found a new continent, gold and silver minerals are innumerable, Xiyi is therefore steep and rich, the southeast sea, often can appear Xiyi fleet, The whole shipload of gold and silver was transported, and the amount was staggering! ”

When everyone was listening, Li Mo couldn't help but burst into a loud shout, "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Tang Yi is a bunch of nonsense!" If Xiyi is really full of gold and silver, isn't it rich and far more than Ming, who can believe this kind of nonsense? ”

Tang Yi was unhurried and smiled contemptuously, "Dazai-sama, if you were to be put on a deserted land and given you a bag of gold and a bag of rice, which one would you take?" ”

Without waiting for Li Mo to answer, Tang Yi said with a smile: "I think normal people will take rice, Xiyi is like this, I once asked a Xiyi missionary, in their place, the price of vegetables and fruits is dozens of times, or even hundreds of times that of the Ming Dynasty." When they saw that a lot of vegetables could be bought for a few pennies in the southeast market, their jaws dropped one by one. Tang Yi said in an exaggerated tone: "It is precisely because Xiyi's products are limited, and there is a lot of gold and silver, that it is profitable to trade with them, and a piece of silk can be bought at most ten taels in Daming." If it is sold to Xiyi, it will be at least twenty taels, and it is said that it has traveled across the ocean and transported to their country, and a piece of silk can even reach as much as fifty or sixty taels......"

In order to prove that he was not lying, Tang Yi asked Zhu Dazhu and Tao Dalin to take out all the news they had obtained from Bingchenke's mouth in the same year these days and present it to Jiajing and the ministers present.

I have to say that the scholars of the Ming Dynasty are not comparable to the Manchu Qing Dynasty. They are conceited, but they are not closed.

In fact, many ministers present had also heard a lot of things about Xiyi, which were just jokes in the past, but after Tang Yi's tidying up, it gave a great shock to the monarchs and ministers of the Ming Dynasty.

For example, there is one in it, due to the relative shortage of silver in the north of the Ming Dynasty, the price of gold and silver is eight or nine to one, and the south is about ten to one. And because of the abundance of silver in Xiyi, their gold and silver ratio is thirteen or four to one. Although the shogunate stipulated that the price of gold and silver was the same as that of the Ming Dynasty, it was ten to one, but many feudal lords who owned the mines ruled that the price of gold and silver was even five to one, and Xiyi often used the difference between gold and silver. Profiteering from the Wa Kingdom, and then used to exchange for the products of the Ming Dynasty......

Many people couldn't understand this, but the two geniuses present were shocked, and Yan Shifan may have been the first to react because he knew it at a glance. Immediately afterwards, Jiajing was also taken aback.

"Tang Yi, you said that the gold of the Wa Kingdom is twice as cheap as that of the Ming Dynasty?"

Tang Yi smiled bitterly and nodded, "The confessions of many true Japanese captives do show this. ”

Yan Shifan almost jumped up with joy and shouted: "Your Majesty, the minister has a way to fill the shortfall, as long as the silver of the Ming Dynasty is transported to the Wa Kingdom and exchanged for gold, one million taels of silver can be exchanged for 200,000 taels of gold, isn't it equivalent to two million taels of silver, which is enough to earn twice as much!" ”

Jiajing also suppressed his excitement and asked in a changed tone: "Tang Yi, is Yan Shifan right?" ”

I have to say that Yan Shifan's genius surprised Tang Yi, no wonder this dead fat man is so greedy for money, he is really agile.

"Back to Your Majesty, what the little pavilion elder said is very true, but at the moment, I can't do it."

"Why?"

"It's very simple, we don't have a sailor, we don't have a ship that can sail far away from the Japanese Invaders, and the situation of the Japanese country is not clear, so if we go with the silver, we will only be robbed by the Japanese Invaders, and we will not be able to exchange the silver at all."

When Jiajing heard this, he couldn't help but feel deflated, but a thought was deeply implanted in his heart, as long as he could open the sea and turn around with the silver, he could get double the huge profits, and just thinking about it made people's blood boil.

Among the ministers present, who does not have a bunch of big families behind them, who does not want to eat with a mouth full of oil.

Tang Yi and Wang Shizhen teamed up to overthrow the ancestral system, the mountain pressing on their heads was gone, and if they went to make a fortune and make money, the big guy had no psychological burden at all, and even became eager to try and couldn't wait.

It's just that some people are still not interested, Li Mo was continuously humiliated by Tang Yi, and almost became a laughing stock, he couldn't take care of Jiajing's cannibalistic gaze, and rushed out to stop him: "Tang Yi, let you talk about it, the rebellion in the southeast of the Japanese Invaders, starting from the city, once the sea is opened, it will inevitably be everywhere, and the court will not benefit from it, so it will be harmed first, what are your intentions?" ”

Tang Yi is really fed up with Li Dazai's paranoia and aggressiveness, to deal with such a mad dog, it is better to leave it to Xu Wei, who is a master of cultivating the dog-beating stick method!

Tang Yi's eyebrows raised slightly, and Xu Wei immediately understood and laughed. Yan Shifan, who was on the other side, narrowed his eyes and asked, "Xu Dacaizi, what are you laughing at?" It's better to be happy alone than to be happy, and everyone listens to it. ”

"Yes, Xiao Ge Lao, some people say that the Japanese Kou started from the City Shipping Division, isn't this a big joke?" Xu Wei shook his head, "The so-called Japanese Invaders, there have been in ancient times, and they can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty, when the Tang Dynasty General Liu Renliang fought at the mouth of the Baijiang River, killed 42,000 Japanese Invaders, and sent the severed ears back to the Japanese Kingdom. After the Song and Yuan dynasties, there were Japanese pirates along the coast from time to time, and they did not cause major disasters after all. As for our dynasty, the case of Hu Weiyong in the fourteenth year of Hongwu, one of the charges was to be a collaborator, let me ask, there was no city department at that time, why was there a crime of forbidging? Li Dazai pursues the ancestral system everywhere, does he think that the grandfather is also wrong? ”

"You don't want to slander the old man." Li Mo was so angry that his old face turned purple.

"Hmph, I don't dare." Xu Wei continued: "The Hongwu Dynasty's Japanese troubles have nothing to do with the City Ship Division, but the Japanese civil strife, causing some samurai to lose their jobs, wander the sea, and become bandits and robbers, and then the unification of the Japanese State, Cheng Grandpa reached a survey trade with the Japanese State, and then the Japanese Dynasty disappeared, until the Chenghua period, the Japanese State again civil strife, the southeast Japanese disaster intensified, the shogunate under the jurisdiction of the Daimyo in order to deceive the **** reward, impersonated the tribute, which led to the Jiajing two years of tribute incident, the then official department to the matter of Xia Yan hastily suggested the abolition of the City Division, This move is no less than covering your ears and stealing the bell, which is really ridiculous! ”

Xu Wei said bitterly: "For generations, although the Japanese have been continuous, they are all scabies, and there has never been a martyrdom of this dynasty. If, as a certain adult said, the plague originated from the city's shipping division, then I abolished the city's shipping division for more than 30 years, how can the plague become more and more serious? Isn't this a ridiculous thing in the world! ”

Xu Wei spread his hands and glanced at Li Mo defiantly, and Li Dazai was speechless when asked.

At this time, Tang Yi assisted again: "Your Majesty, what Xu Wei just said, the minister summed up a context, the main responsibility for the formation of the Japanese troubles lies in the Japanese State, not in the Ming Dynasty. When the people live and work in peace and contentment, there will be fewer robbers, and the plague will be reduced or even disappear. In the midst of civil strife and the lack of livelihood among the people, they naturally took risks, and the troubles were fierce. In addition, the existence of the city shipping division, normal trade is unimpeded, and there is less trouble, and the city shipping division is abolished, and the Japanese people covet the goods of the Ming Dynasty, so they use knives to loot, resulting in serious troubles. It is unreasonable to say that the city has caused the Japanese to be a wolf. The city is just a place for tributary trade, and if you really want the Ming Dynasty not to be disturbed by external troubles, in the final analysis, it lies in Your Majesty's hard work, in the assistance of hundreds of officials, and in the soldiers who kill the enemy in blood, and resist the enemy's country! ”

"As for the current rampant Japanese robbers, beyond the past dynasties, the reason is that the city of the ship division was abolished, after more than a hundred years of recuperation, the Ming Dynasty is rich in the people, the household registration has increased greatly, relying on the land alone is no longer enough to survive, more and more people into the workshop, become weavers, rely on the sea trade to survive. The city was suddenly abolished, and the merchants and weavers along the coast could not continue, so they colluded with the Japanese who were operating in the open sea of the Ming Dynasty, used the Japanese as thugs and forwards, looted property, and sold them to Xiyi, who in turn provided ships and weapons and a large amount of gold and silver to finance the Japanese to become bigger. Among the leaders of the Japanese Invaders, there was Chen Sipan in the front, Wang Zhi, Xu Hai, Ma Ye, Chen Dong, and so on, which of them was not from the maritime merchant background of my Ming Dynasty, but he claimed to be the king and dominated the ****** and became the so-called Japanese Invaders. If the Japanese are really decent Japanese people, how can they run rampant in my Ming Sea Frontier, as if they were in a no-man's land......"

Shock, in addition to shock, is shock!

Tang Yi used rigorous logic and impeccable arguments to thoroughly dissect the intricate situation in the southeast...... For the first time, the monarchs and ministers of the Ming Dynasty looked at the southeast and overseas from an unprecedented height.

After being silent for a long time and digesting all the information, Jiajing's eyes were blazing, and he said sharply: "I have decided to open the sea!" ”

There was nothing else, Yan Song took the lead, all the ministers knelt on the ground, Li Mo was reluctant, he could only kneel, Yan Song burst into tears.

Zhuang Yuanlang's lofty remarks made the old minister suddenly enlightened. Lao Chen must do his best to do a good job of opening the sea, so that His Majesty can rest assured! ”

The hundred officials also echoed, and the most excited were Xu Wei and Wang Shizhen, compared with the many old fritters present, they were just small officials, and they were able to succeed in one fell swoop and promote the great cause of opening the sea. Bingchenke's name is bound to be shocked, and it has a special weight in Jiajing's heart.

They were so excited that they didn't have time to think about it, but Tang Yi was worried, because he heard that Yan Song was going to do his best to let this old guy get involved, the sea, can it still be opened? (To be continued.) )