The ban on the sea was issued by the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, and the emperors of all dynasties did not dare to violate this ancestral system, or in other words, some people wanted to break this ancestral system and open the sea, but they were all used by the civil official group as an excuse to desperately oppose and threaten, forcing the emperor to dispel this idea.

The sea is an inexhaustible gold and silver mine for wealthy businessmen, and wealthy businessmen who make a lot of money will do a good job of military-civilian relations with civilian officials in order to keep this financial road, and gradually form a situation where you have me, I have you, and no one can do without anyone.

Zhu Yuanzhang set all kinds of rules and gave civil officials so much power, the original intention was for the good of the descendants of the Zhu family, but he forgot one thing, this emperor has to be as strong as him to work, but few of his descendants can be as good as him, and it gradually evolved into a situation where the monarch is weak and the minister is strong, and the power of the court is in the hands of the civil official group, and the Son of Heaven is a dozen passers-by with soy sauce.

The ancestral system is a trump card, and it has been used repeatedly to resist, but they encountered the imposters who wore the soul to wear, and the trick failed, not only was Zhu Jian used the sea to fool him, and achieved the purpose, but also took advantage of the name of the ancestral system, and ordered Zheng Zhilong, a big pirate who had just descended to the Ming Dynasty, to strictly ban the sea, and found that a strict investigation was carried out, not only cut off the financial routes of those wealthy businessmen and civil officials, but also took the opportunity to control the sea power in his hands, and Zheng Zhilong happily shared the dirt.

The Donglin Party didn't expect such a result, they were so angry that they were picking bones, looking for Zheng Zhilong's stubble every day, and impeaching them to death, and those wealthy businessmen who had cut off their financial routes were even more angry and spent a lot of money to hire killer pirates, wanting to kill Zheng Zhilong.

Zheng Zhilong's power was so strong that even Zhu Jian was afraid of eight or nine points, and won the support of the people in Fujian and other coastal areas, Zheng Zhilong knew that he had many enemies, and he had just returned to the Ming Dynasty, acted cautiously, and avoided hundreds of assassins' assassinations, and relied on his strong sea strength to defeat a number of pirate coalitions that united to ambush the Zheng family's fleet, and killed the sworn enemies hiding in the shadows one by one.

These heroes were killed by Zheng Zhilong, which is equivalent to cutting off the arms and financial resources of the Donglin Party, so that they can no longer be able to get involved in the sea power, they can only grit their teeth and wait for the opportunity to bring down Zheng Zhilong, however, they will never have this opportunity, Zhu Jian took the opportunity to get rid of the eight imperial merchants, dug a pit and waited for the Donglin Party to be trapped, but the Donglin Party really jumped into the pit, the Donglin Party has become a thing of the past, and there is only a branch that has not yet formed a climate.

Now it is equivalent to the endless wealth of the Zhu and Zheng families monopolizing the sea transportation, and the annual financial resources are rolling innumerable, and the military expenses such as the formation of the navy and naval divisions of the empire all come from the income of sea transportation, which makes Zhu Jian relieve the huge financial pressure, but at the same time, it also makes him uneasy about the Zheng family's increasingly strong wealth and power.

The reason why Zhu Jian wants to open the sea, the purpose is to benefit the people, let the coastal people benefit, let the Ming Dynasty benefit, the competition in the business field is fierce, in addition to the abundant funds and other reasons, the most important thing is to pay attention to credibility, reputation is the golden signboard, who does not talk about credibility is to smash their own signature rice bowl, each with the ability to make money, in short, the benefits of opening the sea and trade are so many that you can not count them with your toes.

Another purpose can be regarded as a test for Zheng Zhilong, Lao Tzu has opened the sea to benefit the people, if you don't know how to be a man, then I'm sorry.

"I want to open the sea, what is the opinion of the secretaries?" On the Jinluan Palace, Zhu Jian's words were amazing, his eyes swept over the hundred officials, and his expressions and reactions were examined.

"The emperor is wise, and the minister seconded the proposal."

Before the ministers could react, Ruan Dacheng, the first assistant to the cabinet, stood up for the first time and told about the various benefits of opening the sea, the increase in the empire's finances, the profits of the people, and the benefits are endless.

A few days ago, Song Xiance, the chief of the imperial military staff and the imperial military advisor of the Son of Heaven, asked him to have tea and revealed the news to him, the emperor is going to open the sea, what do you think?

What do you think?

Ruan Dacheng is a thousand-year-old fox who has cultivated well, an old oilman in the officialdom, how can he not understand the doorway inside, this time is another big test, he dares to object, it is estimated that it will not be long before he will have to go down to drink with Qian Qianyi and other buddies, he is now standing at the peak of his life, and he wants to live a few more years, retire in the limelight, and make fun of his own head with a stupid pen.

Aside from this, open the sea, he raised his hands and feet in favor of dropping, the huge wealth of the previous sea was controlled by the Donglin Party, which made others jealous and jealous, but he couldn't get in at all, he didn't want to take a bite, but the Donglin Party regarded this big cake as a forbidden body, and strictly guarded it, and couldn't find a chance to start, so he could only sit and wait for the opportunity.

The Son of Heaven took advantage of the new sea ban to take the sea over, which made the Donglin Party grit its teeth and hate it to the bone, Ruan Dacheng and others clapped their hands and applauded, trying in every possible way to find an excuse to open the sea and carve up a little big cake.

"The minister seconded the proposal."

"The minister also seconded the proposal, and the emperor is wise."

Since the fall of the Donglin Party, it is now Ruan Dacheng's Jiangnan faction that is the dominant family, and the bosses of the family have publicly supported it, so they naturally have to fully support it, even those who have no gang and no faction are fully supported, and it is a fool's pen to make money or not.

Nowadays, the power of the imperial party is also getting stronger and stronger, and it is not weaker than the Jiangnan faction at all, even if some people oppose it, they will be crushed by the two major factions, and there is no resistance to the agenda of opening the sea.

The second major topic of today's court meeting is that the shipping business is taxed, of course, it must be treated equally, and the whole country will be taxed, so that it is fair.

It is not a new thing to levy taxes on rich businessmen, Wei Zhongxian played it when he was in power, and added a certain amount of income to the finances of the Ming Dynasty, but he also offended those rich businessmen and heroes, and even more offended these people, relying on the Shandong Lin Party, which was used by the Donglin Party to make a bad reputation with the sword of public opinion, and became a heinous traitor.

It's Zhu Jian's turn to play this trick, the situation is very different from Wei Zhongxian, Wei Zhongxian is using the power in his hands to play, the Son of Heaven just acquiesces, but there is no order, Wei Zhongxian is playing with a bad name, his words are not good, plus the Donglin Party and him are dead, using various means to make him stink, in short, there are too many reasons.

Zhu Jian is the emperor, he has his own decree to play, there is no Donglin Party constraints, the support of hundreds of officials, the name is justified, and the failure to pay taxes is a violation of the new laws of the Ming Dynasty.

The officials knew that the Son of Heaven had made a big cake for the benefit of shipping, and in return, the national tax collection must be passed, and it was useless to oppose it.