At this time, Huang Jin also came over and said to Xu Dong with a smile: "Congratulations to the second brother, the fifth prince has been sent to the palace." The Holy One will summon you to the palace quickly. Without further ado, let's go back quickly, don't keep him waiting. ”

Xu Dong said: "Okay, let's go to the face saint first." said goodbye to the officials, and followed Huang Jin and Lu Bing back to the Forbidden City.

In the Qianqing Palace, Emperor Jiajing was dressed in a Taoist robe, sitting on the cloud bed, and Xu Dong was laughing with a pleasant face. Huang Jin and Lu Bing waited on the side.

Emperor Jiajing smiled at Xu Dong and said, "The fifth prince was able to return safely this time, thanks to you." I originally planned to reward you with a knighthood, but the officials refused to obey. ”

Xu Dong said: "Within a few days, the emperor has repeatedly added officials to his disciples. This is a rare Ron since ancient times! It is indeed inappropriate to add another title, and it is no wonder that the ministers oppose it. ”

Emperor Jiajing shook his sleeves and said: "You are free and easy, in my opinion, it is also the right thing for you to be knighted." You're a man who can do things. Those pieces of waste, except for making a big fuss in the court, don't use it! At the critical moment, can they solve my problems? Can't count on it! ”

Xu Dong said with a smile: "The disciple can only run errands for the emperor and do some small things within his ability." The emperor has not yet been consulted, how should the Governor's Mansion close the case of the abduction of the five princes? ”

Emperor Jiajing's face was gloomy and he said, "Closed case? Could this be a kidnapping case made by ordinary bandits? Did the Japanese who came back have their identities been revealed? ”

Xu Dong replied: "This person is an envoy sent by Ashikaga Yoshimasa, the shogun of the Wa Kingdom, to negotiate trade affairs with our court, named Arai Kanbei. However, according to Arai Kanbei's confession, the abduction of the five princes was not instigated by Ashikaga Yoshimasa, but by Arai's own initiative. It is said that when Arai came to the Ming Dynasty, Ashikaga Yoshimasa told him to promote the opening of maritime trade with the Wakoku no matter what method he used. So he thought of this way to kidnap the prince as a hostage and coerce the Ming Dynasty to open a maritime business. ”

Jiajing slapped the coffee table next to the bed and said angrily: "How can this be reasonable! The sea ban is the ancestral training of Emperor Taizu! How can I just open it! If it weren't for the fact that the treasury is empty now, and the Wa Kingdom is one of the fifteen non-conscripted countries in Emperor Taizu's posthumous call, I would have sent a large army to destroy it! With a great hatred in the heart of elimination! ”

Xu Dong said softly: "This Japanese country is indeed hateful, and the Japanese have repeatedly violated my coastal counties. However, this maritime trade is indeed very profitable! I heard that coastal smuggling has been repeatedly prohibited, and many maritime merchants do not hesitate to take risks. It is said that as long as a boatload of tea, silk or porcelain from our dynasty is transported to the countries of the South Seas, it will make a profit of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver......"

Jiajing sighed: "I don't know about the huge profits of maritime merchants! Even Emperor Zhengde once wanted to reopen shipping, what was the result? The ministers of the Manchu Dynasty all admonished each other to death! Holding Emperor Taizu's ancestral teachings to threaten him, if the sea is banned, it is to betray his ancestors and forget his ancestors, so what can he do! ”

Xu Dong sneered: "Of course those ministers are going to try their best to stop it!" Because if the ban on the sea is abolished and everyone can buy a ship and go to sea to trade, then they will not make any money. ”

Jiajing frowned and said, "How do you say this?"

Xu Dong saluted Jiajing and said, "The emperor knows that since the Yongle Emperor sent Zheng He to the West, the sea ban has been hundreds of years. But every year, a large amount of tea, silk and porcelain flow into the Nanyang countries. How does this stuff get out? ”

Jiajing said: "Isn't it because of smuggling?"

Xu Dong smiled: "That's right! Smuggle! But the emperor probably didn't know that the backers and major shareholders behind those smuggling ships were Your Majesty's ministers in the court! ”

Jiajing said angrily: "This matter is serious! I see! It is no wonder that as long as the previous emperors mentioned the abolition of the sea ban, the ministers of the court and the central government opposed it as if they had dug up their ancestral graves! These cysts! Traitor! They make a lot of money, and the imperial court barely survives on the millions of taels of taxes every year! Is there still a big Ming in their eyes! And I haven't been there! ”

Xu Dong said: "The emperor is angry! This has been a matter for a long time, and many ministers of the DPRK and China have benefited greatly from it. Therefore, the courtiers will be unusually united in this matter, and it is really unwise for His Majesty to force them to come. ”

Jiajing nodded and said, "You have a point. So how to deal with this matter? ”

Xu Dong smiled: "It's very simple, increase the intensity of the sea ban!" Crack down on smuggling. ”

Jiajingqi said: "What? Aren't you trying to find a way to abolish the sea ban? Why is the sea ban going to be tightened again? ”

Xu Dong pinched his chin and said: "As long as there is a strong sailor loyal to the emperor, block the sea routes along the coasts of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong, and forcefully crack down on those smuggling ships in the name of sea ban." On the other hand, as long as the sea route is controlled, the emperor can also do this smuggling business. In other words, it is to cut off other people's financial routes, and the emperor will do it. After a long time, does the emperor think that those ministers will still oppose the abolition of the sea ban? ”

Jiajing was silent for a while, and after a while, he let out a long laugh: "Hahahaha!" Good! Good strategy! It's worthy of my unicorn! It's up to you! I just don't know how much silver I can make every year? ”

Xu Dong said with a smile: "As long as the sea is controlled, the emperor can earn about no less than 20 million taels of silver every year."

Jiajing was overjoyed and said, "Okay, good!" I won't let you do it in vain, you just need to give me a million taels a month, and the rest will be yours. ”

Xu Dong raised his eyebrows and said, "Thank you for the emperor's reward!"

Jiajing said to Huang Jin: "The proposed purpose is that due to the attack and harassment of the coastal pirates, smuggling is rampant. The Ming Dangkou Water Division was specially established, and Xu Dong, the commander of the Governor's Mansion, was appointed as the commander of the Dangkou Water Division. ”

Huang Jin knelt down and said, "Obey!" It's just that Your Majesty, I'm afraid the cabinet will not agree to take the money out to establish a water division......"

Jiajing snorted and said, "Let the household department find a way, no matter what, take out no less than 600,000 taels to Xu Dong as soon as possible."

Huang Jin reluctantly agreed: "Obey!"

Xu Dongdao: "The disciple retreated first, but what about the captured Japanese Arai Kanbei?"

Emperor Jiajing sat cross-legged on the cloud bed with his eyes closed, and slowly replied: "You have no jokes, you said that if you let him break the corpse into ten thousand pieces, he will break the corpse into ten thousand pieces." Ling Chi. ”

Xu Dong bowed and retreated, and Lu Bing and Huang Jin also gently withdrew from the Qianqing Palace.

Out of the Qianqing Palace, Huang Jin hurriedly said: "Second brother! You've stabbed a hornet's nest! This sea ban is easy to touch! ”

Lu Bing smiled heartlessly: "Hehe! My brother usually doesn't admire anyone, so I'll obey you! I was scared in the hall just now, brother, I was careful of my liver! This is a tiger's mouth! Those civil servants probably ate your heart. ”

Xu Dong snorted and said, "I'm afraid of an egg!" That's tens of millions of taels of silver! Whoever stops me, I'll cut him! How? The two elder brothers also have shares in the sea? ”

Huang Jin sneered: "I'm bah! Our family is an internal official, but we can't participate in the business of those people in the DPRK and China. At most, it will send tens of thousands of taels every year. But Lu Bing may not be able to say this. ”

Lu Bing said angrily: "Fart! Why can't you say? Who doesn't know the identity of Lao Tzu, to put it mildly, it's a dog on the saint! How could those civil officials in the DPRK and China let Lao Tzu get involved in the shipping business! At best, it's about the same as you, and it means to take a little silver every year. ”

Xu Dong smiled: "What do you mean?"

Lu Bing held his head high and said proudly: "100,000 taels!"

Huang Jin said angrily: "! Why is our family only 50,000 taels? Do those civil officials look down on these eunuchs in our family! ”

Xu Dong smiled: "Is it such a little silver to send a meal?" As long as the sailor is built, shipping will be our own business! When the time comes, the money will come in a hurry. Don't talk about it, after all, the saint has to give enough. I guarantee that the two elder brothers will not be less than 1 million taels per year, and if you are lucky, 2 million taels will also be available. ”

Lu Bing was overjoyed and said: "This dare is good!" If there is anything you want my brother to help with, my brother just said. ”

Huang Jin said with a smile: "It's good to dare to help, just in a while, our family is going to go to the household department to pass the decree and help the second brother ask for the 600,000 taels of water builder's silver." But that household department is still Liang Cai, and even his mother is afraid of picking it up. Lu Bing: Don't you want to help? Go with our family, Liang Cai will beat him if he doesn't give money. ”

Lu Bing said depressedly: "Go and go!" It's just that Liang Cai is so stupid that he doesn't even go to the beggar in front of his house, so it is estimated that he has no money to beat him to death. ”

Xu Dong exclaimed: "There is such a strange person? The public's money is not his money, he picks a yarn? ”

Huang Jindao: "You don't know this, although the household department is in charge of taxes, everyone wants to take money from the household department." You also know that our local taxes in the Ming Dynasty are not in Beijing, and every year for the grain tax of more than 4 million taels in this district, we have to pay a lot of money, and we have to repair the official office, and there are many other places that need money. The household is really poor. ”

Xu Dongdao: "Where does the use of the Holy Lord and the palace come from?"

Huang Jindao: "The saint has a private treasury, don't you know?" The mining tax of this dynasty is owned by the Holy Lord. ”

Xu Dong was speechless for a while...... I thought to myself, Emperor Lao'er, you are so rich, and you still have to go to the household to pick out the 600,000 taels of silver, where is your conscience?

is also helpless, Xu Dong sighed and said: "It's good to get the money, don't force it if you don't get it, I'll tell the saint in person." But the most important thing for the builder is people, and the two brothers have to help me with this favor! There are 140,000 people in Jinyiwei, how many people are there in the East Factory? ”

Huang Jindao: "The number of people in the East Factory has always been small, but Liu Jin, the factory governor of the previous dynasty, with the support of the first emperor, once developed the East Factory to more than 40,000 people. Today, although the number of people has been cut several times, there are still more than 24,000 people. ”

Xu Dongdao: "Okay, please give me all the subordinates who know how to water." Damn, before Lao Tzu took more than 100 people to chase those Japanese dwarves, and none of them knew how to water! almost killed Lao Tzu. Listening to the fact that Jinyiwei and Dongchang can have nearly 170,000 people combined, it is estimated that there may not be many people who know water. ”

Lu Bingdao: "Northerners, there are really not many people who know water. We'll go back and make it up for you, it's a big deal to let the children practice swimming in Shichahai these days. Anyway, your 600,000 taels of silver haven't landed for a while. ”

Xu Dong said with a smile: "You don't need too many people, one or two thousand people are enough, and they are all used to be officers of the water division." I'll recruit sailors separately. ”

Huang Jindao: "Then it's no problem, you're tired too, go back and rest early." We'll just take care of the rest. ”

Xu Dong hugged his fists and said: "Okay, those two brothers will choose good people in the next few days, and let them teach them navigation and naval battle command and other knowledge." Please! ”

Huang Jin and Lu Bing both hugged their fists and agreed.

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