"What Da Situ said is very true, it is true that hundreds of thousands of taels of silver cannot solve the fundamental problem, and there are also many obstacles to the recovery of the land tax attached to the large official gentry. Since the road of throttling does not work, then it can only be open source. ”

When Shen Yichen said this, there was a surging smile on the corner of his mouth, and Jin Lian, the head of the household, had obviously entered his own rhythm.

"How to open source?"

Jin Lian's face was full of doubts, the open source routine is to collect taxes, but the problem is that now the people of the Ming Dynasty have been overwhelmed by the taxes, and then trying to find a way to levy harsh taxes may give birth to a popular uprising, and then the suppression of military spending will be more.

"Open the sea ban, build customs, and collect commercial taxes!"

Open the sea ban?

Wave after wave, wave after wave, Jin Lian, who was shocked, felt that he couldn't keep up with Shen Yichen's thinking at all, obviously discussing the issue of military spending, why did it become a ban on opening the sea again?

The policy of forbidding the sea is the ancestral law set by Emperor Taizu, and the difficulty of lifting it may be no less than that of the arrears of the clan, from the emperor to the civil and military officials, and it is difficult to get a response and approval.

"That's right, open the sea ban."

Shen Yichen nodded, and then said what he had said to Zhu Qiyu to Jin Lian again.

In fact, the ban on the Ming Sea reached the period of the Orthodox Dynasty, and it was no longer possible to restrict the smuggling of large coastal households, so that there was a later Longqing switch.

Now that it is open ahead of schedule, it can alleviate the pressure of transportation and reduce transportation costs, second, it can increase customs and collect a large amount of commercial taxes from the smuggling trade, and third, it can use high-value commodities such as porcelain and silk to obtain cheap rice and grain in Southeast Asia.

If you lower your sense of morality, or abandon Confucian etiquette, righteousness, and shame, you can even establish a bloody colonial system like the Western countries in the Age of Discovery.

The last time he talked about going to the West in the Wenhua Palace, Shen Yichen could clearly feel Zhu Qiyu's heartbeat. However, his qualifications are still shallow, and in order to stabilize his throne, he does not dare to do anything that goes against the law of his ancestors and the wishes of his ministers.

The financial crisis can help Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu make up his mind.

The mere intention of the emperor seems to be not enough at present, and it needs to turn towards the Chinese official group. With Shen Yichen's current identity and relationship, it is difficult to reach a political compromise with civil leaders such as Hu Hu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Wang Zhi, the heavenly official of the Ministry of Officials.

The head of the household is the best stepping stone!

As long as he can realize the benefits of opening the sea ban, Yu Shiyue, the secretary of the Criminal Department, is already his former subordinate, which is equivalent to the consent of two out of the six departments. On the side of Hu Hu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Shen Yichen can lobby through the relationship between the eldest son Zhu Yi's son-in-law, and Yu Qian, the secretary of the Ministry of War, will definitely put the family and the country first, and there will be no big problem after the pros and cons are clear, so that only Wang Zhi, the official of the Ministry of Officials, and Chen Gong, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, are left.

After Wang Zhi was beaten by Wang Zhen, he no longer had the ambition of being a very popular minister, not to mention competing with Hu Hu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and even Yu Qian, the junior of the Ministry of War, he was willing to succumb to him.

He will never take his attitude lightly, whether for or against. However, as long as the voice of opening the sea ban prevails, then Wang Zhi will change his position with the general trend, and the wall grass is the easiest person to deal with.

As for Chen Gong, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Shen Yichen didn't pay attention to it at all, the Ministry of Industry ranked last among the six departments, when would it be his turn to speak?

After listening to Shen Yichen's analysis of the pros and cons of opening the sea ban, Hubu Shangshu Jin Lian fell into contemplation at this moment, the amount of information was too large for him to digest for a while, and he didn't realize that the future direction of the world lies in the ocean.

You must know that after the opening of the Ming Dynasty in history, in less than a hundred years, there were more than 300 million taels of silver flowing into the Ming Dynasty from overseas, accounting for one-third of the total silver output in the entire world at that time.

Such a huge inflow of silver directly allowed the Ming Dynasty's tax revenue to gradually complete the monetary reform of the silver standard from physical goods. Such a huge wealth also laid an economic foundation for Zhang Juzheng's comprehensive reform, and continued the life of the Ming Dynasty in disguise.

The opening of the sea ban is something that Shen Yichen must achieve as soon as possible, and only in this way can there be enough silver to complete the follow-up financial reform. Otherwise, at the current level of taxation in the Ming Dynasty, the finance is a bad debt that can never be calculated, where will the national strength come from to complete the conquest of Mongolia and welcome the arrival of the Age of Discovery?

"The stakes are very high, and this official needs to consider it carefully, and I can't give Shen Zhongtang a definite answer for the time being."

After thinking about it for a long time, Jin Lian, the secretary of the household department, finally did not make a decision immediately, and when he reached the high position of the cabinet minister, the impact of any decision was related to the family and the country, not to mention changing the law of the ancestors to open the sea ban.

"Da Situ Lao Cheng seeks the country, and he should be like this."

However, the Southern Expeditionary Army was about to go out, and the war in Liaodong was resuming, so if we didn't want to continue to loot from the poor people, we had to open the sea as soon as possible and set up a banknote customs to collect commercial taxes. It takes more than half a year for clippers to go back and forth from all over the West, and it still needs to be decided as soon as possible. ”

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Shen Yichen understood Jin Lian's difficulties, but he still urged. At present, the batch of rice, grain and silver money I have obtained will probably support the war for half a year without much problem without additional expenditure.

Half a year later, the summer harvest and autumn harvest came up, and the court tightened its belt, and it couldn't shake the court situation for a year.

But the problem is that Shen Yichen doesn't want to fight a scorching and rotten battle, he needs the morale of the Southern Expeditionary Army and the officers and soldiers of the Nine Sides to be like a rainbow, with sophisticated equipment and sufficient food, to complete the conquest of Wuliang Ha Sanwei and Luchuan, the suppression of Jurchen Sanwei, and the strategic advantage of the Mongolian tribes such as Wara!

Commanding Hanako to fight has never been Shen Yichen's style, in order to motivate morale and reward soldiers at critical moments, double pay is also a wartime method, and the amount of money and rice needed will most likely exceed the original budget.

At the same time, this is why, Shen Yichen nominated Xiao Yi to go to the military affairs counselor, in order to ensure that the military salary can be more substantially distributed to every soldier, instead of going out of the household department as in the past, the road transportation is less than 20%, and the officers at all levels in the military camp will take a few percent, and there will be a little bit of fur left when they really go to the bottom soldiers.

"This official will give an answer as soon as possible, if Shen Zhongtang has nothing else important, then I will leave first."

"Da Situ walks slowly."

Shen Yichen knew that Jin Lian was a hard-working official, so he didn't stay too polite, got up and sent him out of the duty room.

With the passage of time minute by minute, the much-anticipated self-science hall came to an end in a setting sun. Shen Yichen finished the day's work at this time, came out of Wenyuan Pavilion and prepared to go out of the palace and return to the house through Donghua Gate, and happened to see the new Kegong scholars who had finished the palace examination from a distance, stepping on the sunset and leaving Fengtianmen.

Seeing this group of energetic, curious and expectant eyes, looking around from time to time, Shen Yichen seemed to see himself. Soon the turbid officialdom will usher in a group of fresh blood, whether they will change the world, or eventually join the same stream, no one knows the answer.

If he could, Shen Yichen hoped that what he would see was a group of good officials full of ideals and enthusiasm.

Before Shen Yichen could sigh and sigh, a palace guard quietly came behind him, arched his hand and whispered: "Shen Ge Lao, Zhao Yishi is waiting outside the palace, saying that he has something important to discuss with you." ”

Shen Yichen knew only one servant surnamed Zhao, and that was Zhao Hongjie, the commander of Jinyiwei. As an official of the secret intelligence agency, his priorities are far more urgent and important than ordinary news.

So Shen Yichen did not hesitate at all, and followed the guard who reported the news out of Donghua Gate and came to a no-man's road next to the palace, where Zhao Hongjie was already standing and waiting at the moment.

"Hongjie, what's going on?"

There was no polite process, after Shen Yichen saw Zhao Hongjie, he asked straight to the point.

"The emperor has moved."

Got acted?

Hearing Zhao Hongjie's answer, Shen Yichen showed a look of expectation, he knew that for Zhu Qizhen, who was once arrogant, it was impossible to accept his abdication in peace, especially on the premise that he still had the capital to turn the tables.

During this period of time, many layouts have been almost all aimed at a possible coup d'état, and now that there is definite news, there is a sense of peace of mind that the dust has settled.

"What did the Emperor do?"

"Ruan Lang, the old eunuch who served in Nangong, took a royal golden knife and went to the mansion of Wuqing Hou Shiheng, and then went to the mansion of Liupu, Marquis of Dingyuan, and Zhang Xun, the governor of the right capital, most likely to discuss the palace change."

"Wu Qing Hou Shi Heng has any changes?"

Shen Yichen asked rhetorically, Dingyuan Marquis Liupu has an in-law with the Empress Dowager Sun, and he is considered a hardcore party of the Emperor Taishang, and the palace change will inevitably participate.

The right governor Zhang Che was dissatisfied with the inheritance of the British dukedom, and the current British Duke Zhang Mao was young, and the British Duke's office was actually controlled by Zhang Che, which further fueled the desire for power in his heart, and there was a high probability that he would seek the restoration of the duke.

The only variable is still in Wuqing Hou Shi Heng, the five military battalions he commands are the most powerful force in the Beijing Division. Even if Shen Yichen takes control of the Forbidden City at that time, as long as Shi Heng is determined to make a coup, it will still be difficult to stop the soldiers and horses of the five military camps.

After all, the succession of Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu is equivalent to messing up the legal system of imperial inheritance, and Zhu Zhandong, the son of the first emperor, Zhu Zhandong, the eldest son of Ming Yingzong, and Zhu Jianji, the eldest son of Emperor Jingtai, are theoretically qualified to inherit the unification.

In addition to Zhu Qiyu and Zhu Qizhen, it is very possible to support a puppet emperor to ascend to the throne, and to strengthen the army and the horse and increase the ambition.

In history, Shi Heng was not a person who kept to himself, and after gaining power, he replaced half of the generals of the Nine Sides with his own people, and Shen Yichen did not dare to guarantee whether the other party would gamble to win this shocking power.

He took the royal golden sword, and he didn't notice any other movements.

"Who else knows about the Emperor Taishang's tandem?"

Shen Yichen continued to ask, the scope of news dissemination will determine the strength of follow-up actions.

"The commander of the Jinyi Guard must know Lu Zhong, but as for whether His Majesty knows, I don't know."

"What do you mean by this, Lu Zhong knows that Your Majesty still doesn't know?"

Shen Yichen was keenly aware of the ambiguity in Zhao Hongjie's words, it stands to reason that Jinyiwei is the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, and the commander is the emperor's eyes and ears, how can there be any saying that he does not submit information to the top.

"This is where I am puzzled, Lu Zhong did not go to the palace to ask for His Majesty after learning about it, I don't know what he is calculating."

"To the north, do you think he will also think about seeking the merit of restoration?"

Zhao Hongjie's words reminded Shen Yichen. The commander of the Jinyi Guard in the past dynasties was an absolute confidant promoted by the emperor, but Lu Zhong was an accident, there was no friendship between him and Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu, and the relationship between the two sides was very rusty.

Now that Yin Chengjing, the official and supervisor of the internal government, has restarted the East Factory, it is clear that the emperor does not trust Jinyiwei enough, and in this case, it is almost impossible for Lu Zhong to go further. Even with the stabilization of Zhu Qiyu's throne, he will soon be replaced by his absolute confidant in this key position in this intelligence agency.

In comparison, Lu Zhong has a much closer relationship with Emperor Zhu Qizhen, and the friendship of more than ten years of loyalty is not to say that it is gone.

On the one hand, it is possible to be replaced at any time, and on the other hand, it is a step forward in the restoration of the country, and it is normal for him to be shaken in his heart, after all, Lu Zhong is not a loyal person, what he pursues as an official is glory and wealth!

"Quite possibly."

After thinking about this, Shen Yichen nodded, there is a high probability that Lu Zhong has his own careful thoughts and is waiting for the price to sell.

"Hongjie, you immediately enter the palace to ask to see Your Majesty, and tell the truth about the golden knife, you must be ahead of Lu Zhong."

"To the north, what do you mean?"

After hearing this, Zhao Hongjie vaguely guessed what Shen Yichen wanted to do, but it was a taboo in officialdom to skip the ranks, and it was easy to be self-defeating.

"Loyalty is not absolute, that is absolute disloyalty, Lu Zhong seems to be unsuitable to serve as the commander of the Jinyi Guard."

Shen Yichen replied vigorously, he believed that Zhao Hongjie, who had been in the secret service for so many years, could easily understand his true intentions.

That is to take this opportunity to pull Lu Zhong down, with a more "loyal" performance to Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu, Zhao Hongjie seized the opportunity to succeed as the commander of Jinyi Guard!

In many cases, whether it is officialdom, battlefield, or shopping mall, whoever controls the intelligence advantage will become the ultimate victor. Jinyiwei is the most powerful and well-established spy intelligence agency in the Ming Dynasty, and the importance of the position of commander is extraordinary.

Shen Yichen asked Zhao Hongjie to join Jinyiwei, in a sense, he laid out early, hoping to control the advantage in the court struggle in the future.

Under normal circumstances, it is a long and arduous process to promote Zhao Hongjie to command, as long as the emperor has no problem with his IQ, he will never let such an important position go, without more than ten years of allegiance and investigation, there is no possibility of serving as one.

But the succession of Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu is an accident in itself, and now Lu Zhong's ambition has given Shen Yichen a shortcut, which does not allow Zhao Hongjie to seize the opportunity to perform, he is simply sorry for the stupidity of the other party!

"To the north, I know, let's go into the palace to meet Your Majesty."

Zhao Hongjie replied solemnly, with a different kind of light flashing in his eyes.