Yan Hong's ins and outs of the ban on the sea in the second year of Jiajing can now be said to know better than anyone in the court. He took the opportunity to say: "Back to the old man's words, in the boy's humble opinion, in the second year of Jiajing, Ningbo fought for tribute, although it is a Japanese people who do not know etiquette and law, greedy and cruel, but our officials also have mishandled them, and there is no bowl of water. This street businessman has to fight in order to grab the stall. What's more, the Japanese people admire the Celestial Empire, and regard the opportunity to pay tribute as the same as visiting the gods and worshiping the Buddha, and our officials do not treat them equally, which naturally leads them to make trouble. Coupled with the lax armament along the coast at that time, this caused chaos. From the boy's point of view, although this incident is a disaster, if the so-called eating a trench grows a wisdom, if you learn a lesson from it and make more efforts in the exchange with foreign countries, you may not be able to get some benefits from it. I am the superior state of the Heavenly Empire, and I am a rare saint in the world today, and such small things can be easily solved. ”

But he saw that Emperor Jiajing was silent. Yan Hong continued: "Now the situation of this widow, I also asked from Xu Hai's mouth. It is probably because it is difficult for the people along the coast to make a living, so they take risks and go to the sea to become criminals. When they go to the sea, it is actually a hard road, most of them barely make ends meet, or even lose their lives, and the real oil and water are all taken by those wealthy families who control smuggling. Here, the imperial court can't make foreign silver, and it has to take money to suppress bandits, which really outweighs the losses. Today, the Son of Heaven is in power and is sympathetic to all the people, so it is natural that the dragon's heart is worried. It's just that he was deceived by a cadre of ministers and didn't know the benefits of opening the sea. That Xia Yan deceived the king, and entered into this slander, hateful, hateful! ”

When Yan Hong said this, his vest was slightly numb. He knew that Xia Yan's reputation had always been good, especially the purple-clothed Chang'e's grandfather. Now in order to open the sea. had to sacrifice Xia Yan. These words must not let Xia Zisu know.

In fact, this Yan Hongben is a gentleman who only cares about making money, and Yan Donglai's historical knowledge is nothing more than that. He doesn't know much about the specific situation of Xia Yan, and the inner meaning of Xia Yan's excerpt is even more ignorant of it. Just stand on the position of opening the sea. Naturally, there are not so many Taos that are divided into two, and it is serious to push it to step on two feet.

Seeing that there was no displeasure on Emperor Jiajing's face, Yan Hong said again: "My Yan family has received the emperor's grace, and I am always grateful for the grace of heaven, how dare I not report it according to the truth when I see this scene?" In the foolish opinion of the boy, if the sea ban can be opened, one can make money from abroad, and the treasury will be abundant. Long live the use of the Lord is not so tight; Second, when the coastal people have a way to live, they are grateful to the emperor for his grace and will not go to be a widow again. Third, my Ming foreign trade is also an opportunity to promote the prestige of heaven, which is enough to make overseas countries come to congratulate. The boy is young and ignorant, and his knowledge is shallow, and everything he says is sensitive. If there is something wrong, I am willing to be punished. ”

He stretched out his hind feet first, even if there was something really wrong, he expected to say it in his youth and ignorance. There may not be any bad consequences.

After listening to Yan Hong, Jiajing picked up the tea bowl and took a sip: "What punishment is not punished." There is no emperor here today, so I will leave this to me when I write a recital. I'll ask you again. Is there really such a big benefit in overseas trade? What is it like overseas? ”

This. Yan Hong had already prepared, and what he had to do today was to stun the emperor. To be convincing, concrete examples are obviously much more effective than abstract theories. He took out the confidence to fool the customer, took a long breath, and then said:

"You are old and good-looking, I have thousands of miles of sea borders and overseas countries. There are big and small Franc machines in the West...... "He came up with the method of stunning Xia Shisu again. However, compared to that day, there are a lot more dry goods, after all, there is a supplement of information from their own staff, on the one hand, they have a lot more understanding of overseas products, and on the other hand, they have a better understanding of the relationship between these feudal states and the Ming Dynasty in recent years, tribute, trade or armed conflict, so it is more fluent to say.

Although Emperor Jiajing was a smart person, he did not specifically investigate the overseas situation after all. Listening to Yan Hong's storytelling, talking about the size, strength and weakness of these many countries, as well as the diplomatic events with the Celestial Empire, etc., I also relished it. In particular, Yan Hong himself traveled through the 21st century, and he talked about the national system and history of European powers, although he was full of mistakes, but he was ten times more detailed than the ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty. Originally, Emperor Jiajing only had an abstract concept of these countries, especially the development of Western countries, and was completely confused. Now Yan Hong is hyping up the fact that Spain, Portugal, Britain, France and other navies have been dispatched to seize colonies and plunder wealth, and they are full of vigor and fascinating.

When Jiajing heard that overseas Fusang was rich in gold and silver, North Korea had a large amount of copper ore, and large and small Buddha Lang machines plundered countless silver from other countries and wanted to trade with the Ming Dynasty, and so on, Yan Hong's eyes couldn't help but glow, the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, and his lips were slightly open, and he almost dripped his saliva down.

It is also this son of heaven who is too poor. The so-called Son of Heaven is rich all over the world, this sentence is more like a joke in the Ming Dynasty. In other words, the four seas belong to the Son of Heaven, but the silver from the four seas cannot be moved casually. For example, the silver collected by the household department is not something that the Son of Heaven can use if he wants to. A fixed amount of money goes into the inner treasury every year, and in addition to this, the will to transfer the silver taels will be rejected at any time.

Even so, the ministers were not satisfied, their eyes were more focused on the inner treasury of the Son of Heaven, not only did they not put it inside, but they always wanted to escape from it. Whether it is rewarding the nobles of the national dynasty at the end of the year, or rewarding the border army, raising military salaries, and even when I answered the soldiers in Gyeonggi, most of the military salaries of King Qin's division were allocated by internal funds. In the eyes of the ministers, the money was wasted and squandered by the emperor anyway, so it was better to use it up in business.

And the emperor's internal money is not much, and it is nothing more than the operating income of the north and south Beijing Jiaofang Division, that is, the so-called fat powder money, and the one million taels of gold and silver converted from the fields of Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Huguang, Fujian, Guangdong, and Guangxi provinces. It's just that this income is being watched by the household department, and it has been shouting that most of it should be taken away and filled into the treasury, not to mention that now due to the problem of the Japanese invaders, the food and salary used by Jiangnan Tianfu to exterminate the Japanese are too insufficient, how can there be any spare strength to support the imperial court? Gold and silver are greatly discounted.

As for the previous mining tax, because Emperor Jiajing did not trust the eunuchs very much, now even the eunuchs in various places have been abolished, how can there be a mining tax to collect? Nowadays, most of those mining taxes only stay in the account books, and the actual silver, I am afraid that it has already entered the pockets of local tycoons or some civil officials, how can it still be collected? If Jiajing wants to send eunuchs to collect mining taxes, he will wait to be sprayed to death by civil officials.

In terms of Huangzhuang and Qiliang, the income was only tens of thousands of taels that year? As far as the entire court is concerned, it can't help at all, at most it's just a little bit of stuffing between the teeth. In short, there are too few places to make money, but the places where money is spent are fierce and terrifying, especially in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan Province, 97 prefectures occurred in a huge earthquake, more than 830,000 people died, and the disaster relief money was spent innumerable. Most of this money also comes from the emperor's pocket. Up to now, Emperor Jiajing can't even afford to repair the Taoist temple, and the financial difficulties of the Taoist can be seen.

Seeing that the emperor listened with great interest, Huang Jin said coldly: "Young Master Yan, what is the situation in this overseas country, I am afraid that no one in the Heavenly Empire can understand clearly. You are talking about it here, could it be that you are telling a story? ”

Yan Hong said that he was on the head, but he didn't expect to be stopped by Huang Jin, and he couldn't help but be secretly annoyed, and said in his heart: Master didn't recruit you, why can't you get along with me. Jiajing was happy to hear it, but he was unexpectedly slapped by Huang Jindou, and he couldn't help but block his heart for a while. But he felt that what Huang Jin asked was not unreasonable, Yan Hong's story was too story-like, could it be that he was making up a book? He asked, "That's right, you kid has never been to sea, how did you know this?" ”

Huang Jin asked this, but it had a deep meaning. Although the smuggling of the Ming Dynasty has only one step away from the blatant, nominally, the Ming Dynasty is still forbidden to trade at sea. Overseas envoys are also received by the Ministry of Rites. If Yan Hong said that he learned from the foreign envoy, he would undoubtedly be caught by Huang Jin, saying that the Yan family had formed a foreign feudal alliance with bad intentions and so on. Of course, Huang Jin would not say this at this time, but with this handle, it is okay to slowly take some eye medicine in the future.

However, Yan Hong's response to this situation was not the first time. He didn't care about Huang Jin's intentions, and he didn't think about it, so he replied: "Old man, it's a coincidence to talk about this matter. I think that at the beginning, when I was a child, I met a Westerner named Michael in the wilderness of the capital. Jackson's. He told me a lot of things overseas. ”

Jiajing also suddenly, he remembered that when Lu Bing played how to break the White Lotus Secret Technique, he also asked Yan Hong how to know these tricks, and Lu Bing mentioned this Westerner at that time. nodded immediately and said: "Okay, what a Westerner, but it's a pity that he can't be used by my court." ”

Yan Hong hit the railway while it was hot: "Back to the old man, now that the Holy Son of Heaven is in power, all directions are returning to the heart, just because of this sea ban, so that foreign people enter the road of my Heavenly Empire, which is relatively closed." If the sea can be opened, then there will be wise men from overseas who will come to surrender. Just one Michael. What is Jackson's way to say? ”

Who knew that when these words came out, Huang Jin sneered: "Overseas foreigners are nothing more than blonde hair and blue eyes, like beasts. There is also a group of rats, who are traitors. Like the fire man Yasan, pretending to be a Buddha machine man, he secretly played tricks in front of the first emperor, and was favored, and when his family ascended the throne today, he discovered his treachery and beheaded him to show the public. You want to bring in more foreigners, but what's the use? ”

What Huang Jin said was Yasan, the leader of the Portuguese mission to China during the Zhengde period. This person was not Portuguese, and he was favored in the Zhengde Dynasty, but after Jiajing succeeded to the throne, he hated him for impersonating his nationality and beheaded him. Huang Jin knew that Emperor Jiajing had always been stubborn and self-serving, and refused to admit his mistakes, and he cited this person as borrowing the Jiajing of the past to fight today's Yan Hong. (To be continued......)