The prohibition of the sea and the prohibition of smuggling are really two different things!

Just when Liang Chongru and a bunch of frustrated scholars were sitting on smuggling boats, swaggering towards the other side of the ideal. The envoys of the two Zhejiang provinces of the Great Song Dynasty, Dr. Chaosan, and Liao Yingzhong, a direct scholar of Longtu Pavilion, were inspecting the commercial port wharf at the mouth of the Dahu River.

What was once a bustling port is now a depression. The door of the Yamen of the Trade Department was closed, and the sea ban decree issued by the imperial court was also posted on the door: Chinese and foreign trade was immediately banned, the commercial port and the city were blocked on the same day, and the Han merchants left immediately and were not allowed to stay any longer.

On the empty street, all the shops were on the door panels, and there was no one inside, and there were no pedestrians on the street, only a group of Qingyuan Mansion regiments wearing battle jackets and wearing Fan Yang hats patrolled back and forth. They are all soldiers of the Dinghai Third Battalion, and the Dinghai Third Battalion is the soldiers of Ma Zheen, the regimental training envoy of Dinghai County and the deputy envoy of the Qingyuan Mansion.

Ma Zheen was a famous scholar in Dinghai, and he was born as a martial arts student - that is, a student of Chen Huaiqing, but his position was different from that of his teacher.

During the period when martial arts were under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council, he also followed Chen Huaiqing to learn Chen Dexing's art of war. Therefore, his three battalions in Dinghai were all established in imitation of the Thunderbolt Navy in the early years. The main equipment is a crossbow, a thunderbolt and a spear. The three battalions all have "talented officers", who are specially responsible for preaching the righteousness of Confucius and Mencius, and the great principles are really a set!

"Bachelor Liao, please look," Ma Zheen is as his name suggests, a very old-fashioned person, five short figures, white face and long beard, thirty years old, always righteous and awe-inspiring on his face, he is by Liao Yingzhong's side at this time. He raised his hand and pointed to several warships patrolling the mouth of the Dahun River under the banner of the Great Song Dynasty, and said loudly, "Those are the warships of the Coastal Control Division's naval army." Patrol the estuary every day, and you won't let go of even a sampan! The imperial court's ban on the sea. No one dares to disobey in my Dinghai! ”

The surface of the Great Hun River is really empty, except for the warships of the Great Song Dynasty Navy, which are not much bigger than sampans. There is not even a small fishing boat - the fishermen on the sea of Qingyuan Province are not fishing now, they are all smuggling!

Liao Yingzhong touched her beard and nodded slightly, looking quite relieved. But I was thinking in my heart, I don't know if those forged Tiandao tickets have flowed into the Zhoushan market. He came to Qingyuan Mansion in the name of inspecting the implementation of the sea ban, but his actual mission was to sit in Qingyuan and command the Tiandaozhuang.

And the first step in running on Tiandao Village is to disturb people's hearts with fake Tiandao tickets.

As for how the fake ticket leaves the country? Of course, it was through smuggling! Liao Yingzhong knows about smuggling, although he likes to collect books and engrave books (but he is a famous book collector in the Song Dynasty), but this does not mean that he is a nerd.

The truth that the sea is forbidden is not private. How did he not know? The ban on the sea is legal foreign trade, and the smuggling is illegal, and of course it is not within the jurisdiction of the sea ban!

It's not just a matter of swatting tigers and flies...... The purpose of this forbidden sea is to kill the pro-Ming maritime merchants, compress their profit margins, and make them gradually lose their vitality. As for smuggling, the profits are obtained by the coastal wealthy, and if they are banned together, it will offend the giant room. "It is not difficult to be in government, and you must not offend the giant room". How did Liao Yingzhong not know?

Moreover, if you really want to ban private affairs, what should you do if there are so many handicraft workshops in Qingyuan Mansion, Lin'an Mansion, and Shaoxing Mansion? There are millions of citizens who rely directly or indirectly on these workshops for food, and if they don't have food to eat, they will rebel? Offend the two Zhejiang giant rooms first. Then force the civilians of several big cities to rebel, so that without Chen Dexing's army, the two Zhejiang provinces will have to change banners!

Jia Rudao and Liao Yingzhong are not stupid enough to this extent!

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Zhoushan Island. Changguo County.

Liang Chongru walked on the street with his sleeves folded, and he had already arrived in Zhoushan with a group of old scholars who were determined to become the leading party of the Ming Dynasty. There was no danger on the way. The warships patrolling the sea under the banner of the Great Song Dynasty simply ignored the existence of this smuggling ship -- it was smuggling. It was not for legal trade, and of course it was not banned by the sea, and bribes were also given......

However, this policy of banning the sea and not prohibiting selfishness is still effective to some extent, and the market in Changguo County is even more depressed than it was when Liang Chongru left a month ago. In the past two to three years, Changguo County and the neighboring city of Shenjiamen have developed into a center of Sino-foreign maritime trade and a financial center in the southeast coastal region. A large number of maritime merchants moved here. As a result, the market is extremely prosperous.

Not only is the urban area of Shenjiamen several times larger than before, but even the city walls of Changguo County have been leveled, the moat has been filled, and the whole city is expanding in all directions, and there are construction sites everywhere -- because there are too many maritime merchants and sailors who have moved here, the land in Changguo County is in short supply at all, and the price has risen again and again! In the end, in order to increase supply, the Changguk County Assembly simply passed a resolution to tear down the city wall, fill in the moat, and let the city expand "freely".

But now, the real estate market in Changguo County seems to have encountered a cold winter. Almost more than half of the construction sites that are under construction have been suspended. Obviously, the maritime merchants who bought the land to prepare the mansion are now a little tight on hand!

The business district of Changguo County is now more depressed than it was a month ago, with significantly less pedestrian and vehicular traffic on the streets, and Yemen is lined with restaurants and brothels. Maritime merchants and sailors are masters who are accustomed to spending a lot of money, and in their business, isn't it easy to get money and kill them? Of course, when you have money, you will not be reluctant to spend it, but now that the market is depressed, it seems that it is really difficult to do business.

The leading party also wants to stay in the hotel, even if there are really few copper plates in their pockets, they can't lose this share. Everyone is here to ask for officials, and there is no place to sleep well, freshen up and dress up, and eat a good meal, how can you have the strength to go to the examination room? The difficulty of this Chen Ming's official examination for these scholars is not in the article, but in the sword dance, in the appearance - it can't look too old. So you have to keep your spirits up and dress up well.

However, most of these measures have no money, and the best hotels cannot afford to live in, so they can only find a small shop with a simple façade to enter.

As soon as I entered, I heard someone arguing in the store.

"Does the straight thief have long eyes? Do you know the Heavenly Dao ticket? Dare to say that Lao Tzu's heavenly ticket is fake? Isn't it too long! ”

The one who shouted loudly was a black man with five big and three thick, with a horizontal face and a long knife in his waist. With him were three other black men, eating the rest of the food around a table. Needless to say, these guys must be sailors who run the sea.

"The guest officer ...... Of course, this ticket, this ticket is not fake...... But the small shop has a small profit, and we can't find such a big ticket for you. Or...... Do you have the trouble to go to Tiandaozhuang in the city to redeem the ticket? A little fat man dressed as a shopkeeper had a bitter face, pinching a ten-run face value of the Heavenly Dao ticket, and his face was covered with beads of sweat.

Of course, the Heavenly Dao ticket in his hand is fake! During this period of time, I don't know what happened, there were many fake Tiandao tickets on the market in Zhoushan. The level of printing is quite high, and the anti-counterfeiting seals are also very similar, but the paper is different from the real ticket - the paper used to print the Tiandao ticket is the finest Goryeo paper, which is produced by the best papermaking craftsmen in Korea in the paper mill of Myeongdu, and all of them are supplied to Tiandaozhuang. Because the recipe was kept secret, the craftsmen of the Song Kingdom could not imitate it.

But for ordinary people, this difference is almost non-existent. Therefore, many maritime merchants ate fake tickets in the process of trading with Song merchants, and then issued fake tickets to sailors as wages, and these fake tickets also flowed into the Zhoushan market......

Many merchants in Changguo County and Shenjiamen have suffered losses, so they are very careful about receiving Tiandao tickets, and many shopkeepers have also specially consulted the guys of Tiandaozhuang, so they can accurately distinguish the real from the fake.

'It turned out that Liao Yingzhong's fake ticket ......' Liang Chongru had known about this for a long time, but he was not in a hurry to report to Chen Dexing, and now Chen Dexing has not given him a suitable official position. Therefore, he was not busy giving advice to the Ming Dynasty - although he already had a clever plan to "peacefully liberate" the two great cities of Lin'an, Qingyuan, and Shaoxing.

Let's see what Sage Chen has to do! If he has no choice, Liang's chance will come......

Liang Chongru thought of this, so he found a seat by the window and sat down, watching the quarrel with relish, while beckoning a few old scholars who were with him to sit down. Seeing that Chen Dexing was in trouble, Liang Dacai was in a good mood and was ready to have a meal.

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"Fake tickets...... The printing is really good, and it looks like the craftsmanship of Lin'an Books! ”

Chen Dexing really pinched a few fake tickets at this time and looked at them carefully with a crystal magnifying glass, and after looking at them for a long time, he dropped the magnifying glass and said coldly: "All fake tickets are carved out of a board!" ”

Qu Huajie frowned slightly: "In the past few days, a few Tiandaozhuang branches on Zhoushan Island alone have reported hundreds of fake ticket cases, involving more than 100,000 yuan!" Now, there is panic in the market, and many people dare not hold the Heavenly Dao ticket......"

Chen Dexing shook his head: "This Heavenly Dao ticket is indeed easy to imitate...... Water mirror, is there any way to do it? ”

Anti-counterfeiting has always been a big problem for banknotes, since the issuance of Tiandao tickets, has been looking for anti-counterfeiting methods.

Qu Huajie nodded, took out a very beautifully printed, and had an extremely soft texture of the Ten Runs Face Value Heavenly Dao Ticket, and handed it to Chen Dexing with both hands.

"It's ...... Parchment? Chen Dexing took this Tiandao ticket and touched it, and found that it was not made of paper at all, and immediately thought of the parchment paper that is currently popular in the West.

"Exactly." Qu Huajie said, "Some of the lustful slaves in the Ming capital can make parchment, and the minister also saw the parchment that was handed down from the Western Regions when he was in Lin'an, and knew that it was not easy to make, but the quality was excellent, and it could be printed and painted extremely exquisite pictures, and it was not easy to be damaged. If you use it to make a Heavenly Dao ticket, it will be more difficult to imitate. (To be continued......)