Chapter 939: Sailing to the Sea
"The ministers welcome Your Majesty back to Beijing, Your Majesty's martial arts have far surpassed Taizu and Chengzu, even Han Wu and Tang Zong are beyond their reach. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info "Li You went out, and the good news was constantly sent to Beijing, every time Sun Chengzong and others felt dumbfounded, the three-way army annihilated Lin Dan Khan, anyway, Lin Dan Khan was also beaten by Huang Taiji before, Huang Taiji has now been completely pacified by the Ming Dynasty, what is Lin Dan Khan, but what they expected is that after defeating Lin Dan Khan, Li You did not stop, but waved his army straight into the Western Regions, and successively won the Western Regions, Qinghai and Wusizang, greatly expanding the territory of the Ming Dynasty. It can be said that the current territory of the Ming Dynasty is not much different from the heyday of the Han and Tang Dynasties, so they have to sincerely admire it.
"That's the Great Khan of the Mongols, right? It looks really unusual. The people who followed them to see the excitement turned their eyes to Jiu Jiu Bai Xu, which was also regarded as a trophy by Li You, and was sent to the Taimiao with the head of Lin Dan Khan to show the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty.
"You Aiqing are flat, after I left Beijing, you Aiqing have worked hard." Li You turned over and dismounted to help Sun Chengzong up, although he was far away from the capital, but Dongchang and Jinyiwei still continued to use fast horses to send the latest news in Beijing, from these news it can be seen that these ministers are quite regular, and not many people dare to take advantage of his departure from the capital to plot against him, and the series of reform policies it launched continue to be implemented in an orderly manner.
In the voice of countless officials and people, Li You returned to the palace, and immediately held activities such as offering prisoners at noon, suing the Taimiao, etc., to highlight the martial arts of the Ming Dynasty, whether it was the envoys of the various vassal states or the people who came to visit, they were shocked by this, the people of the Ming Dynasty were full of pride, and the envoys of those vassal countries were full of horror, for fear that their country would anger the Ming Dynasty, which would lead to a catastrophe. However, these people have already made up their minds that they will have to be more deferential in the future.
After dealing with these things, after a few days of rest, Li You summoned Hong Chengchou into the palace again, and asked him about the changes in Jiangnan during this time, judging from the results reported by Hong Chengchou, the gentry in Jiangnan are now basically stable, and they dare not act as unscrupulously as before, the taxes paid by Jiangnan to the imperial court have returned to a normal state, and the treasury of the Ming Dynasty has been enriched a lot.
The silk, cloth, tea, porcelain and other items produced by Jiangnan were also sold to overseas countries through sea trade, and the taxes on this item alone have exceeded all the taxes paid by Jiangnan before, which brought a big surprise to Li You; In addition, Shen Baiwu's experiment of changing the sea transportation to the sea is also progressing very smoothly, and the first batch of cao grain successfully arrived at the port of Tianjin, which is much less expensive than the previous Cao Yun in terms of loss and freight.
"So now you can officially change the water transportation to sea freight?" Li You asked, a canal has fattened countless officials and businessmen, but the court and the people have not benefited much from it, and it has deepened the burden, this matter has reached the point where it has to be changed.
"That's true, it's just that countless people along the canal make a living from it, and if you don't arrange a livelihood for these people, I'm afraid there will be a big mess." Hong Chengchou replied respectfully, when he was in Jiangnan, he had guessed that Li You would deal with the matter of Cao Yun next, so he did some investigation and told the news he heard immediately.
"Hundreds of thousands of people along the river depend on the canal for their livelihood, and it is indeed inappropriate to change the transportation from water to sea transportation." Although Hong Chengchou's moral level may not be high, he is still very outstanding in his ability to do things, so Li You trusts him more than those righteous gentlemen who only know how to talk about their hearts.
"That's true, the affairs of the people are easier to do, whether it is immigrants to reclaim Liaodong, Liuqiu, or recruit into the army, they can always think of a way to solve it, but there are many gangs and sects on the canal, and they rely on these people to have the wealth they have now, how can they be willing to give it away?" Hong Chengchou replied that although there is no such big force as the Cao Gang on the canal now, the Luo Sect has gradually developed and grown, and if you want to solve the problem of Cao Yun Minfu, it is not possible to solve these people.
"This is not Hong Aiqing's job, but Hong Aiqing can be so attentive, if the officials of the court can be as loyal to the country as Hong Aiqing, why should I worry about the world?" Li You praised Hong Chengchou, and then said, "Now I am afraid that the DPRK and the Central Committee will not be able to find that minister who is more familiar with Caoyun than Hong Aiqing, since this is the case, I will work hard for Hong Aiqing again, I will mobilize the army, Jinyiwei, Dongchang, etc. to assist Hong Aiqing in handling this matter, I don't know if Hong Aiqing is willing to serve as the Qincha and go south again?" ā
"Wechen obeys! Wechen will definitely handle this matter well. Hong Chengchou knows that now under Li You's hands, officials who dare to do things and can do good errands will be promoted faster, so although he knows that this trip will encounter all kinds of difficulties and obstacles, although the power of those gangs and sects on the canal is not as big as the Jiangnan gentry, but they act more ruthlessly, if they are not careful, they will have to worry about their lives, so the risk this time is even more than before, but for the sake of the future future, Hong Chengchou did not take this risk to heart, and decisively agreed.
"Although Caoyun has been changed to sea freight, other goods shipped from Jiangnan to Jiangnan may also be changed to sea freight." The cost of shipping is indeed much cheaper than that of the canal, as long as the transportation is changed, those merchants will definitely follow, "but the shipping also needs manpower, those rich merchants on the canal can form a fleet, and those people can also change to sailors at sea; And this does not mean that the canal is useless, and some short-distance transportation will still give priority to taking the canal, which can still feed many people. ā
Li You reminded that these can also be used to divide the gangs and churches on the canal, as long as they are obedient, this cake will also consider giving them some, but if they are still obsessed, don't think that Jinyiwei and Dongchang are eating dry rice.
Hong Chengchou happily accepted the order, and immediately went down to convene the staff to discuss how to deal with this matter, and then the various yamen of the imperial court also sent personnel to join Hong Chengchou's Qincha team, after the pacification of Jiangnan last time, many officials involved in this matter have been promoted, in view of this, the people who signed up this time are more enthusiastic.
Now that the sea transport has begun, it seems that the next step is to let the Daming Sailor go out for a walk.