Black eyes, no red banknotes!

For Chongzhen, a poor dick for a long time, instead of trying his best to persuade him to open the sea ban and boycott the Donglin Party, it is better to tell him the benefits directly, and he may be tempted by the time comes.

And when it comes to maritime business, we have to say the Zheng family, the family that has achieved the pinnacle of maritime trade.

Therefore, Zhang Yun did not hesitate any longer, and said directly at the moment: "Your Majesty doesn't believe it before, the maritime merchants are rich, so the poor Dao will tell the story of the maritime merchants to Your Majesty, and when it comes to rich maritime merchants, then you have to mention the Zheng family." ”

"And the Fujian Zheng family, this family of half-pirates and half-maritime merchants, all the silver in their hands can definitely be tied up with the eight imperial merchants of Shanxi!"

"And that's the result of the huge benefits of maritime trade."

"Facts speak louder than words, smuggling at sea is to make money, and anyone who can participate in it is basically a big deal."

"The worth of many of them has long exceeded His Majesty's imagination, and it is said that they are rich and rival the country, so they really look down on them, after all, the tax of the Ming Dynasty is only 4 million taels of silver a year!"

"So Your Majesty, you should pay attention to the issue of smuggling, the Southern Song Dynasty only has such a small piece of land, and the arable land and population are naturally less than those of the Ming Dynasty."

"But they were able to withstand the heyday of the Jin Empire for more than a hundred years without being destroyed, and the merits of those maritime merchants in the middle of this are indelible."

"The development of maritime trade brought more than ten times more commercial taxes to the Southern Song Dynasty than the current Ming Dynasty, so that the Southern Song Dynasty was able to survive, so it was not destroyed for more than 100 years that the Jin Empire was confronted, and it was not until the rise of the Mengyuan Dynasty that it collapsed......

"And because there are such huge interests in maritime trade, naturally there are people who take risks, and even do not hesitate to drag the entire court and the nation into the abyss together!"

"For example, the eight traitorous businessmen in Shanxi, they did just that, so to speak, wild boar skin can rise so quickly, their credit is definitely the greatest."

"So these smugglers are very hateful, and after making a lot of money by smuggling, they even want to reach out where they shouldn't."

"Poor Dao once said that these maritime smugglers are the backstage of the Donglin Party, why do you say that? Your Majesty, please also listen to the analysis of the poor way. ”

"After these maritime smugglers succeed, they will pursue greater interests, such as investing in some scholars who have not yet made a career, and after these scholars who have been invested by them have reached high positions in the imperial court, they will send large sums of money to form an alliance of interests with them."

"In this way, these smugglers became stronger and stronger, and in the end, they were even able to fight against the imperial power!"

"In the more than 200 years of history of the Ming Dynasty, it was not that people without foresight wanted to open the sea ban, but unfortunately in the end they were stopped by the literati group that had grown and grown, and found all kinds of high-sounding reasons."

"That is to say, even if Your Majesty wants to reopen the sea ban and collect commercial taxes, they will try all kinds of ways to stop it, and find all kinds of reasons to oppose Your Majesty......"

"It's like the eunuchs who collected taxes all over the world a few decades ago, and in the end they basically failed. Because the scholars who had the right to speak at that time announced to the whole world that they were evil, and they were competing with the people for profit! ”

"This is a stark representation that the smugglers at that time already had a lot of power and power."

"Since the Tumubao Incident, this situation has continued for more than a hundred years, and has had a profound impact on the entire world, and with their efforts, even His Majesty feels that the collection of commercial taxes is to compete with the people for profit, not for the sake of gentlemen, these are all good things that they smugglers have done!"

"And these businessmen who smuggle on the sea, all of them have big businesses, and the small ones are worth millions of taels of silver, not to mention the big ones, after they have money, they naturally want to pursue political status."

"But the Ming Dynasty did not allow businessmen to be officials, and they were cut off from their own way of mastering the government, so the smart people among them were investment scholars, and after more than a hundred years of this situation, there was such a deformed monster as the Donglin Party!"

"Many people in the Donglin Party are doing maritime business in private, and many of them are worth at least one year's tax equivalent to the Ming Dynasty, and all of them can be called rich and rival countries."

"So they know how profitable it is to be in the smuggling business. Therefore, whenever the imperial court wanted to collect a commercial tax, they would try their best to prevent it. ”

"Why do they stop it, it is because there are huge interests behind it, and the Ming Dynasty's maritime ban policy has been implemented for one or two hundred years, for such a long time, they have prevented the opening of the sea ban, and secretly went to maritime trade, how many families have they accumulated after a long time? Your Majesty can also calculate it in your heart! ”

"Ahem......"

Zhang Yun said that he was about to continue, but at this time, Chongzhen was a little impatient, so he coughed again and again and forcibly interrupted Zhang Yun's words.

After being interrupted, although Zhang Yun was a little unhappy, he did not continue to speak, but looked at Chongzhen and did not speak.

Under Zhang Yun's somewhat unhappy gaze, Chongzhen spoke, "Just now, the Taoist chief pulled a lot of nonsense, and I was confused!" ”

"I have also concluded that the Taoist means that the maritime merchants are very rich, but they are trying their best to prevent me from getting involved, so that their interests will not be harmed."

"And the Donglin Party is their spokesperson, so the family of the Donglin Party members is also very rich, the Taoist means to let me do something to these maritime merchants, these I understand, but the Taoist is a little off-topic, I originally asked why they dare to violate the laws of the imperial court? But the Taoist has given me so much! ”

"I understand what the Taoist means, but I'm afraid that I don't understand the twists and turns in the middle, but the Taoist is too worried."

Chongzhen said this, even with Zhang Yun's cheekiness, he couldn't help blushing, he did go off topic just now, but fortunately, Chongzhen didn't care about Zhang Yun's reaction at all, but continued his topic......

"What's more, after going through so many things, I am no longer the same as before, so there is no need for the Dao Leader to treat me as a fool."

Seeing that Chongzhen was smiling a little cheaply, Zhang Yun was also a little unhappy, so he asked unceremoniously: "Then now Your Majesty still wants to ask, why do those maritime merchants dare to smuggle?" ”

Chongzhen smiled and shook his head,

Chongzhen knew very well in his heart that Zhang Yun was just deliberately trying to hit the Donglin Party, that is, he wanted to give the Donglin Party a fatal blow!

In addition, after figuring it out earlier, I knew that since I couldn't get rid of Zhang Yun, I was afraid that Zhang Zhangyun would rely on someone else......

So between Zhang Yun and the Donglin Party, Chongzhen finally chose Zhang Yun, as for the Donglin Party!

After pondering for a long time, Chongzhen spoke again, "I won't say anything superfluous, I also understand that Daochang Zhang said so much, why in the end?" ”

"What about the maritime ban policy? I can't take care of it for a while, so I'll just talk about the Donglin Party today. ”

"Here I can tell you plainly that it is absolutely impossible for the Donglin Party to continue to be prosperous......