Seeing that Ye Zongliu actually saluted himself, Shen Yichen hurriedly went over to pick him up and replied: "Chief Ye, Mr. Bian once helped me once, and now you have saved me once, and you already owe two favors." ”

"So there is no need for a big gift, it is my duty to repay the favor. And it is said that it is a way to live, and I am not completely sure in my heart, so I can only say that I will do my best to obey the destiny of heaven. ”

Shen Yichen didn't dare to say that it was too full, his so-called way of life was just the prototype of a plan, and no one knew how useful it was.

"It's okay, someone Ye believes in Shen's judgment!"

For Ye Zongliu and others, they were desperate except to raise the flag and rebel.

Shen Yichen's performance today, which can be called a prophet, coupled with Bian He's attention to him, is enough to make Ye Zongliu like a drowning man, like a life-saving straw, and wants to desperately seize this opportunity to live.

"I wonder if Leader Ye knows about the Wa Kingdom?"

"Naturally, we know that Fujian and Zhejiang have been harassed by Japanese slaves since the beginning of the Taizu Dynasty. Last year, they also attacked eastern Zhejiang, burning and looting all the way to Songjiang Mansion, and it can be said that the people of the two places were deeply affected by the Japanese slaves. ”

"The way I gave me to survive was to cooperate with the Japanese slaves."

"What?"

Hearing Shen Yichen say that he wanted to cooperate with the Japanese slaves, Ye Zongliu was shocked.

Not to mention him, even the faces of the few miners who stayed on the ship immediately became extremely ugly.

You must know that Fujian and Zhejiang have been violated by the Japanese for a hundred years, and even in order to prevent the coastal traitors from colluding with the Japanese invaders, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, once ordered that "no piece of the board shall go to the sea", which is the prototype of the Ming Dynasty's ban on the sea.

Ye Zongliu and others are miners in Zhejiang, and they have also opened private mines in Fujian all the year round, how can they not know the cruelty of the Japanese slaves? Even many of the relatives and family members of this group of miners have been looted and even killed by the Japanese pirates.

To them, the Wako are enemies of the world. This kind of hatred for generations has been deeply engraved into the bones of the people of Fujian and Zhejiang, and it is almost the same as the attitude of later generations of Chinese people towards Little Japan.

Now you ask Ye Zong to keep them to cooperate with the Japanese Bandits, isn't it equivalent to being a "traitor" to be the leading party?

This kind of way of life, Ye Zongliu and others would rather die than accept it.

"Shen case, among our brothers, many relatives died tragically under the knife of the Japanese slave, and it can be said that they have a deep blood feud with the Japanese slave."

"Let me cooperate with them, Ye would rather raise the flag and die in battle, than steal his life."

"Thank you for the kindness of the head of the Shen case, and say goodbye!"

After that, Ye Zongliu arched his hand and prepared to leave, and even when he said it to the end, his tone was much more indifferent.

I thought that Shen Yichen was a scholar with a heroic and righteous spirit, but I never expected to give such a solution, which is even more humiliating than letting them die!

"Leader Ye, you misunderstood, the cooperation that the contemptible people are talking about is not colluding with the Japanese to burn and loot, but to do business with them!"

"The country is rich in silver, and it only needs to be earned through trade to solve the current crisis."

Ye Zongliu's dead end point is that there is a silver currency gap in the Ming Dynasty, relying on local production alone, even if the mountain is dug up, it cannot keep up with the social and economic development of the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

Since there is a shortage of local precious metal currency, then take a long-term view and look at other parts of the world, such as the Japanese country!

Compared with the lack of precious metal currency in Daming at this time, the Japanese country is rich in silver mines, and is even known as the "Silver Island". In particular, the exchange rate between silver and copper coins is much lower than that of the Ming Dynasty, and the same Ming copper coins can be exchanged for two or three times more silver in the Wa Kingdom.

It can even be understood in this way, even if there is a Ming merchant who does not sell anything at this time, he can make a lot of money just by transporting copper money to earn the exchange rate difference!

In addition, the root cause of the century-old war on the southeast coast is also the contradiction between productivity and materials, which is very similar to the invasion of Mongolia in the north of the Ming Dynasty.

The Wa State very much expected to obtain coins and materials with the Ming Dynasty in the form of tribute, trade, etc., and even fought between various forces because of the issue of tribute qualifications.

It's just that the Ming Dynasty didn't have much interest in overseas trade, so most of the trading methods were smuggling.

Once the trade gap could not be satisfied, and Japan was in the midst of constant turmoil during the "Northern and Southern Dynasties", there were many defeated samurai and bankrupt peasants, and it was easy to be coerced into thinking if they could not survive.

As a result, many people were recruited by the merchants of Kyushu and became thieves to cooperate in plundering the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty and Korea, which was the root cause of the Ming Dynasty's rebellion.

Shen Yichen hoped that Ye Zongliu and others would open up channels by cooperating with the merchants of the Japanese Kingdom to earn Japanese silver to fill the currency gap of the Ming Dynasty.

This method is not the so-called traitor, but rather a kind of financial robbery of the country of primary productivity, or dumping and currency looting in the country of primary productivity.

Of course, Shen Yichen and Ye Zongliu and others couldn't explain anything in finance, so they could only simply and rudely summarize it to let them cooperate with the Japanese slaves.

"Case Chief Shen, I'm afraid you don't know, the poor slaves can't even wear pants, what kind of business can they do with us?"

Ye Zongliu had seen the widows, short and poor, and he was in tatters and wanted nothing. In a wild place like the Wa Kingdom, does the Celestial Empire need to do business with them?

I have to say that Ye Zongliu's way of thinking is the mainstream cognition of the Ming Dynasty.

It is precisely because of this that in the early and middle Ming Dynasty, except for a very small number of coastal fishermen who could not survive and were forced to smuggle with the Wa State, other people did not have the concept of trade with the Wa State in their minds.

"It doesn't matter if they have pants or not, the most important thing is that they have silver."

Shen Yichen replied with a smile, is it critical to the state of the slaves? Later, the British Empire set up the East India Company to colonize Southeast Asia, and most of the indigenous people were probably not as good as the current Japanese pirates, and they could still exploit the primitive accumulation of capitalism from them.

As long as silver can be obtained from the Wa Kingdom, it can solve the heavy taxes on Ye Zongliu and other miners, and alleviate the shortage of currency in the Ming Dynasty.

And it opened up the trade routes of the Japanese state, and in a sense, it was also possible to grasp the dynamics of the Japanese invaders.

The ancients knew that they would win all battles, and only by understanding in detail the route and logistics base of the Japanese invaders could they be completely exterminated.

All these advantages show that the financial robbery of the Japanese State now, whether it is to save Ye Zongliu and others, or to lay the foundation for quelling the Japanese rebellion a hundred years in advance, it can be called a hundred benefits and no harm!

"Case Chief Shen, is this really possible?"

Ye Zongliu had also heard of such a thing, but he never took it to heart.

Today, through Shen Yichen's reminder, it seems that there is indeed some truth, if you can earn the silver of the Japanese Kingdom, then you can make up for the heavy taxes of the imperial court, and there is no need for your brothers and others to take risks and raise the flag to rebel.

"Whether it's feasible or not, you have to do it to know. Leader Ye, you dare to do anything to raise the flag and rebel, don't you dare to try the smuggling business? ”

Although the Ming Dynasty issued a ban on the sea during the Hongwu period, smuggling in Fujian and Zhejiang has always been endless. Shen Yichen believes that with Ye Zongliu's ability and connections, it should not be a problem to find a way to smuggle.

"Shen's words are like an initiation, the matter has come to this, why don't Ye dare to do it?"

Indeed, as Shen Yichen said, he is not even afraid of rebellion, what is smuggling?

"Then I will wish Leader Ye a victory in advance."

"Xie Shen's case is auspicious, if you can really walk out of a way of life in the future, I am willing to repay the work of dogs and horses!"

"Leader Ye is polite, maybe there will be a time to ask for help in the future."

"When the time comes, you only need the first sentence of Shen's case, and no one in Daoshan Huohaiye will not blink an eye!"

After a few polite words to each other, Ye Zongliu and the others took their fists and said goodbye and returned to their fast boat, while Shen Yichen continued to go north along the canal.

However, Shen Yichen's sentence will also ask for help in the future, it is really not a kind word, and there is a high probability that it will become a reality.

If the historical Tumubao changes cannot be changed, then the elite troops of the Ming Dynasty will be completely lost in this battle, and the Mongol tribes in the north will be on the defensive.

At the same time, the situation in the southwest and northwest borders will continue to erode, various small-scale peasant uprisings in the core areas continue, and even after the unification of the Warring States period, the overseas Japanese states are sharpening their knives and preparing for westward invasion.

Judging from the situation alone, the Ming Dynasty after the Tumubao Incident was in crisis, and it turned from offensive to defensive. If you want to change this situation, in addition to the rule of the officials, the reorganization of martial arts is also one of the necessary conditions.

After the collapse of the Northwest Frontier Defense Post system, the quality of the old Qin people in the Central Plains dropped significantly, and the historical Ming Dynasty looked to the south. What Guangxi wolf soldiers and Xiangxi native soldiers have been deployed to make up for the missing vacancies.

One thing to say, these southern Tusi soldiers are really not bad at fighting, but the biggest problem is that the military discipline is too poor, and in many cases, the ability to harm the local area is not much different from the thieves.

In the historical materials of the Ming Dynasty, it was even recorded: "When you are harassed, the chickens and dogs are restless." When the soldiers arrived, they all fled behind closed doors, and their deaths were no different from the mistakes of the Japanese invaders. ”

It's also a scourge, the good thieves don't need to pay for the army, you guys are more ruthless than the widows with money!

Therefore, to rebuild the elite troops of the Ming Dynasty, it is naturally not possible to rely on this group of Tusi soldiers, if you want to have combat effectiveness and also have a certain degree of discipline, how can there be a better source of soldiers than the predecessor of the Qi family's army?

Shen Yichen chose to follow the path of civil officials, because this was determined by the political system after the Song Dynasty, and only civil officials could hold the pinnacle of power. Even if you want to change, you must at least have the right to have the basis to change the entire system, otherwise it will be rhetoric.

But it does not mean that Shen Yichen will give up the pursuit of force. As long as conditions permit, he will personally control an elite army as much as possible as a guarantee of his own force.

Ye Zongliu's group of miners is the foreshadowing laid by Shen Yichen, if it really comes to the day when the iron cavalry of the alien race is in danger, maybe the "Qi Family Army" will come out in advance.