What Yan Hong wants is Wang Cuiqiao's words. After all, he lacks a grasp of the actual situation, and the so-called harm of the Japanese invaders, what is the cause, and how powerful is it, but he has to ask from Wang Cuiqiao's mouth. Therefore, he said: "What my sister said is that after all, I am far away in Jingshi, and I am not familiar with things at sea. I also asked my sister to say more for me to solve my doubts. ”

Wang Cuiqiao smiled deliberately at this time: "That's okay." It's just that now my sister is talking about dry mouth, what should I do? ”

Yan Hong smiled slightly, got up and refilled a bowl of tea for Wang Cuiqiao, held it to Wang Cuiqiao with both hands and said, "The younger brother will pour tea for my sister and serve." ”

Wang Cuiqiao took the tea, took a sip and said: "What a Hong brother who has no shelf, although there are many men, it is rare to see those who are willing to put their lower bodies to serve women." It's also a blessing to be able to find you to be a father-in-law, if you serve your sister well, your sister will reward you with green beads to be small. She was half-joking and half-serious, but also to use the maid to trap this so-called godbrother, and not let him beat her own ideas.

Yan Hong said with a straight face: "Sister, brother, I am honest with each other, and I have said it many times. Although the green bead girl is a beautiful woman who is hard to find, but her heart is different, and I can win love? Brother, although I am greedy for money and lustful, I want to be a righteous person in some aspects. Sister, don't tease your little brother again and again. really made me that evil star, everyone's faces were ugly, and my brother-in-law couldn't please me. ”

Wang Cuiqiao heard Yan Hong say this, and finally believed his sincerity completely, so he got up and said: "So, but it's my sister's, I'm here to make amends to Brother Hong." In the future, you and my sister and brother will put their hearts in their hearts and bear great things together. With that, Ying Ying bowed down.

Yan Hong hurriedly held on: "Sister, be careful not to hurt my little nephew." My sister recognizes her brother's true face, and that is also a blessing for my brother. "Say goodbye and bow down.

The sister and brother worship this time, and they can really be free of worries. Wang Cuiqiao did not hide it, so he explained the situation at sea to Yan Hong.

What Wang Cuiqiao said is not far from what Lu Bing said to Yan Hong in the Jinyi Guard Yamen. The so-called Japanese are actually ten Japanese and nine Han, and the Japanese are often not dominant. In fact, among the powerful forces of several major Japanese workers, the bosses and the main workers are Chinese, and the real Japanese serve as the backbone of the business.

And the reason why these Chinese, who are good at the Celestial Empire, are not appropriate, want to be a widow, and even the old ship owner Wang Zhi went to Hirado to establish a country, mainly because of the sea ban of Daming. It is forbidden for private individuals to go to sea for business, and violators will be regarded as traitors and punished.

The overseas trade of the Ming Dynasty was a tributary trade model, that is, overseas vassal states declared themselves vassals to the Ming Dynasty, paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and then the Ming Dynasty gave back the property. Tribute missions were allowed to carry goods and were also allowed to take advantage of the opportunity to do a little business. Other than that, there are no big dealings of money and goods. This model of thick and thin may seem silly in the eyes of later generations, because the value of the Ming Dynasty's reward items is much higher than the value of the tribute items several times or even dozens of times, from the economic account, the Ming Dynasty is definitely a loss.

But if you calculate the political account, this is not the case. Through this model, the Ming Dynasty established the status of the suzerain, with all countries as vassals and the Ming Dynasty as co-masters. Since you want to be the boss, you naturally can't worry about the little brother, on the one hand, you call yourself the boss, but on the other hand, you have to worry about how much you pay tribute, how much I will give you, can you still have a face? It's not a lighthouse hope country in later generations, and he always wants to take advantage of his younger brother, and Daming is not so shameless.

Therefore, the political trade of the Ming Dynasty obtained intangible potential political benefits. In peacetime, he gave some money, and once the war started, he could also order the vassal state to send troops to help through his status as the boss. Of course, with the change of the situation, the strong arrival of the big and small Franc machine people, and the long-term inaction of the Ming Empire, this suzerainty is now shaky and no longer majestic. A group of countries in the East and the West, which were once subdued by the eunuchs of the Three Treasures, have now been shaken by the guns of the European sailing ships. But on the whole, the Ming Dynasty officials were by no means brain-dead, and the tributary trade was not useless as later generations imagined.

However, the above is a transaction between countries, not an economic account. On the other hand, in terms of non-governmental trade, the Ming Empire was completely forbidden by the sea, and those who went to sea to do business were all regarded as crimes, arrested and even killed. That's a bit too much.

If it is said that in the era of Zhu Yuanzhang, because the war had just ended, it was full of devastation and ruins, and a large number of people were needed to cultivate the land to resume production, so the people were not allowed to trade in the sea, so as to prevent everyone from going to business for profit and affecting more fundamental agricultural production, this also has a certain truth in him.

However, in the Jiajing era, when the so-called capitalism in China began to sprout green, it was really undesirable to insist on this kind of closed-door and closed-off regulations. This not only reduced the large amount of trade that might have been possible, but also allowed the common people along the coast, in order to pursue the profits of maritime commerce, not hesitate to go to sea in groups, armed to the sea, and even organize fleets to wage a frontal war with the officers and men.

And since they have been armed to kill officials, it has also become the choice of some people to burn and loot by the way. In this case, the participation of some Japanese ronins made the strength of these groups even stronger, and finally became a large-scale plague.

During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, on the one hand, it was said that the rampant Japanese invaders made the imperial court adopt a more severe ban on the sea, but at the same time, the more severe the ban on the sea, the more maritime merchants colluded with the Japanese invaders, or became the Japanese themselves, which can be said to have formed an irremediable vicious circle.

So, do the princes of the DPRK and China really not understand this situation? Not really. The goods of the East and West Oceans have never been cut off in the market, and in the ports of Ningbo, Hangzhou and other places, the trade ships going to sea are constantly shuttling back and forth.

The actual reasons for this are complex. On the one hand, the officials of the faction who advocated the ban on the sea had the "Taizu Decree" as a golden signboard, and in that feudal era, they had an innate absolute advantage. Whoever wants to argue with them, this is a pit that cannot be bypassed. Those who insist on this point of view are often stinky and hard-hearted, and no one dares to provoke them.

Second, the long-standing party strife between the DPRK and China has made it quite difficult to break through the stereotypes and carry out reforms in this regard. After all, it is much safer to stick to the old system, and to break this red line, if you are not careful, you face the danger of being caught by the tail by the enemy. Therefore, the various factions in the DPRK and China contain each other, and no one dares to go first, and everyone is waiting to collect the body of the person who comes first, so they are naturally so entangled and conservative.

If the above two aspects mainly involve the imperial court, and people like Xu Hai and Wang Cuiqiao are not very clear, then the third point is something that Wang Cuiqiao deeply understands. And this point, it just so happens that Yan Hong knows relatively little.

That is, the big merchants on the coast have come into their own right. In the context of the ban on the sea, on the one hand, it has cut off the possibility of small and medium-sized families legally going to sea to do business, and on the other hand, the state will no longer strictly collect overseas trade taxes. This creates better opportunities for those powerful landlords to make profits.

Relying on the large number of households, they colluded with the Japanese and foreigners, and obtained a huge amount of wealth for themselves by getting close to the seemingly blatant smuggling. Because of their own strength, it is often difficult for small groups of officers and soldiers to provoke them, and when a large number of officers and soldiers enter to suppress them, they can rely on the eyeliner of planting and bribery, and immediately avoid them. Therefore, even if it is ten votes and five losses, but one profit is one hundred profits, and the money is full of money.

Relying on wealth, on the one hand, they build their own smuggling army, and at the same time, they rely on wealth to support agents in the imperial court, or simply let their own family members study and become prominent, forming a complete chain of interests. In this case, the "illegal" environment is conducive to their fishing, and naturally no one advocates opening the sea ban. After all, as soon as the ban is opened, there will be full-scale legal competition, and the central bureaucrats and the wealthy people in the interior may also flock to it, so the monopoly interests of these businessmen may be limited with the "legalization".

Whether it is Wang Zhi, Xu Hai, Chen Dong, Ye Ma, and these Jiangnan giants, they all collude with each other and use each other, but also compete with each other and infringe on each other.

In particular, Wang Zhi himself has a huge caravan and is unscrupulous on the ocean, and in the eyes of these merchants who dare not completely tear their faces with the imperial court, they are really envious, jealous and hateful. But the merchants were not afraid to often take out their silver to participate in Wang Zhi's trading, or simply send a few of their own ships to join Wang Zhi's fleet.

As for Xu Hai and other pirates, they may rob merchant ships, or go ashore and burn to the detriment of merchants, but sometimes they accept the employment of merchants to help escort them on long voyages, collect protection money or dry shares. They were even invited by them to intercept and kill competitors against the captured officers and soldiers, or to land and burn to attract the attention of the officers and soldiers, so as to facilitate their merchant ships to take advantage of the opportunity to sail.

And the officials of the southeast and even the imperial court are also inextricably linked with the interests of these businessmen. In short, during the Jiajing period, on the 10,000-mile sea frontier of the Chinese Empire, officials, merchants, thieves, and cowards were so intricately entangled that they could not be solved.

Therefore, it is no wonder that although the imperial court has won many battles, it has lost many battles. In addition to the corruption of the Ming army itself, there were all officers and soldiers who colluded with pirates, and the businessmen who reported the case may also be accomplices of the pirates. In this case, it is not normal to be sure.

And the root of the endless troubles is no longer in the number of Japanese soldiers, compared with the strength of the imperial court officers and soldiers. In fact, there are thousands of poor and desperate people along the coast, whether it is the imperial court, the Japanese pirates, or the maritime merchants, as long as the banner is erected, there are enough troops to recruit. As long as the sea ban exists for a day, killing a few Xu Hai so many times is just replacing Zhang Hai and Li Hai to inherit the banner of both merchants and thieves.