"Land, river and sea transportation are the three most normal transportation methods, and each has its own advantages and disadvantages, but this is not the most important, the most important thing is people's livelihood!"

Zhu Houwei's face looked extremely serious at this time: "The Ming Dynasty implemented the sea ban policy because the Japanese invaders ravaged the coast, in order to prevent the people from colluding with the Japanese invaders, so Emperor Taizu issued a sea ban, prohibiting the people from going to sea!"

I don't judge whether the maritime ban policy is right or wrong, but in my opinion, even if it is right, it is inevitable that it will be suspected of abandoning the basics.

There is an old saying in China, called 'relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to eat the water', the ocean is the foundation of the coastal people's survival, losing the ocean, and there is not enough land to feed the whole family, I want to ask Yang Aiqing, what should the people take to survive! ”

Yang Yiqing smiled, but didn't speak, because he didn't know how to answer, and his face became very embarrassed.

"In order to survive, the people can only sneak into the sea, but once they are caught, it is the crime of killing their heads, what do you let the coastal people do?

So they could only smuggle, and then they were coerced with the pirates, and they turned around and plundered the coast, and the people were plundered more, and it was more difficult to survive, so more and more people became thieves and pirates!

This is a typical vicious circle, even a thousand-person team of Japanese robbers, the real Japanese are only a few dozen, and the rest are the people of the Ming Dynasty!

I don't blame these thieves, because I know that they are forced, but if there is still a way to live, who wants to live a life of licking blood with a knife! ”

"Your Majesty is talking about ......," Yang Yiqing sighed.

"The Japanese island country is now in the Warring States Period, and as long as those Japanese bandit leaders are defeated, they will have no place to stand, so they can only go to sea and find a small island to survive, so they will plunder, this situation has lasted for more than a hundred years, but it has not yet reached its peak.

In my opinion, there are still a few decades left at most......"

Zhu Houwei didn't say the latter words, and Yang Yiqing was also confused, not knowing what the emperor meant by decades.

"The ocean is the greatest wealth given by nature to mankind, and the ocean also contains incomparably huge wealth, how to use the ocean, so that coastal residents can live better, is the problem that the ruling officials should consider, instead of blindly passing the buck and avoiding responsibility, then what use do I need officials in this world!"

"Ministers are afraid ......"

Zhu Houwei said coldly: "The Age of Exploration has been opened by the Ming Dynasty, who knows what the Great Voyage means to the process of civilization?" No!

The Manchu officials will only stick to the old ways, only know how to stick to dogma, do not know how to be flexible, the sea is banned, and it is not the Japanese who are forbidden! What is forbidden is the way of life of my Ming people!

Have the princes of the Manchu Dynasty ever thought about it? I thought about it, but I was just too lazy to take care of it, and the guards were a regular army that didn't take military pay but ate imperial food, and they couldn't even exterminate the Japanese bandits, but made the situation of the Japanese invaders more and more intense, which was simply useless and a waste of food!

Now the coastal military region has a heavy army, and the officers and men of the new army have encircled and suppressed the Japanese invaders several times, and the results have been remarkable.

But using the army to suppress it, after all, it is a symptom but not a cure, the sea ban will not be opened for a day, and the coastal area will be difficult to determine for a day, Yang Aiqing, as the first assistant of the cabinet, how do you think to deal with it? ”

Yang Yiqing said: "First, open the sea ban, so that the livelihood of coastal fishermen can be settled.

Second, the garrisons along the coast were often dispatched to clear out bandits.

Third, when a sailor was sent to patrol the open sea, but in the event of a Japanese attack, he immediately exterminated it.

Fourth, a clear decree was issued to inform the coastal areas that the people who had previously been thieves and slaves should return to their hometowns immediately, and set a time limit, and they should not be blamed for returning to their hometowns within the time limit, and after the time limit, they would be regarded as rebellion! ”

Zhu Houwei nodded with satisfaction, this is the decision that a minister should make.

The ministers of Confucianism are not all incompetent, especially for these officials who have been in politics for decades in the court, there are still many people who are quite capable of ability, skill, and courage, but the overall environment of the officialdom determines the way of officials, and tends to make them mediocre officials.

Now Zhu Houwei is equivalent to holding a whip in his hand and constantly whipping the officials of the Manchu Dynasty, letting them know that it is impossible to play the golden mean when they are officials in the Jiajing Dynasty!

Think that if you have enough qualifications and someone in the DPRK and China, you can climb steadily? That's a dream!

Emperor Jiajing can't be an official who controls the whole world, but the courtiers under his nose still want to eat a vegetarian meal, so it's difficult not to roll.

If the four points put forward by Yang Yiqing can be fully and effectively implemented, then the trouble of the Japanese will inevitably be extinct in the Ming Dynasty, but it is easy to say, but it is difficult to really do.

The naval forces of the Ming Dynasty have never been weak, and the naval divisions of Fujian and Liangguang themselves have shouldered the heavy task of killing pirates, but the fact is that because of the fierce war in the Japanese State, there are more and more Japanese invaders, and the number of raids on the coast is becoming more and more frequent.

It's not a problem to exterminate a small group of pirates with the power of a sailor, but what about the giants?

It is often hundreds of pirates dispatched by warships, even if the officers and soldiers see it, they can only avoid its edge, the firepower of the Daming Navy Division is indeed far superior to the pirates, but if the pirates forget to die, besiege and play broadside battles on all sides, even if the officers and soldiers are strong, they can't bear it......

This is generally the case with giant robes, not to mention Wang Zhi, a sea giant who was known as the 'King of Hui' in later generations, and the Zheng family fleet who beat the Dutch, known as the sea coachman, to the bottom of the ballot......

If you want to extinguish the pirates, in Zhu Houwei's opinion, you must have at least two or three fleets composed of steel giant ships, demarcate areas to sweep back and forth, and use the cooperation of the navy and army to directly destroy the pirates' lair!

The most conventional way of fighting for pirates is to besiege the broadside, but in front of the steam warships with high-speed maneuverability, they are as fragile as three-year-old dolls, and they still want to take the broadside? If you can run, Zhu Houwei will lose!

But three fleets, even if there are only ten ships in each fleet, that is thirty steel giants, and according to the current production capacity of Tianjin Wei Shipyard, thirty ships...... At least ten years!

"Just do what Yang Aiqing said, tell the Admiral of the Fujian Navy Division, the Admiral of the Liangguang Naval Division, and the Admiral of the Zhejiang Naval Division, and tell them to do their best to build treasure ships and giant ships, and in terms of finance, I will give the greatest support to the naval divisions in various places, and I must have enough naval combat power to exterminate the raging thieves, and also prepare for future immigration! Tell them to exterminate the Japanese Invaders, I will give them a promotion, and if the Wolves still land on the coast and plunder the people of our Ming Dynasty, they will be punished! ”

"Obey the order!" Yang Yiqing received the order, he could feel the urgency of the emperor, and he could understand the emperor's helplessness.

According to the preliminary estimate of the cabinet, after the prince becomes an adult, the emperor will launch a colonial war against the Americas and Australia, and how many immigrants will be needed to complete the colonial rule?

At least 50 million!

According to the current scale of the navy, how long will it take to transport 50 million people to the sea?

Obviously, the emperor didn't want to wait at all, so even if he didn't like wooden boats, he decided to expand the scale of the sailors first!

The emperor's vision is too long-term......

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