Chapter 114: Lifting the ban
"Huang Aiqing, I know what you said, so I want to start from the Department of Currency Administration, and in the future, I will rely on Aiqing to work together with me and forge ahead."
Huang Daozhou said: "The old minister will do everything to do a good job for the court." ”
"Okay, Li Huai."
"The minions are here."
"Huang Lao is tired of driving, you can send Huang Lao down to rest."
"Yes."
After Huang Daozhou followed Li Huai away.
Zhou Xian rubbed his sleepy temples.
At this moment, with the implementation of the new monetary policy, can Daming turn the tables against the wind?
No!
This is just a bold innovation in civil affairs and finance.
And the next resistance is bound to be unprecedented.
What really gives Daming peace of mind is the border defense.
Now Huang Taiji's side will not dare to covet the Ming Dynasty's Liaodong in three or five years.
But what if he shifted the strategic focus of attacking the Ming Dynasty from the north to the west?
For example, he focused on cultivating Mongolia, which Dolgon had just conquered.
Then launch a general attack from the side of Xuanfu in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty.
This problem has to be guarded against, and according to Huang Taiji's urine nature, he is very likely to do so.
Therefore, Zhou seemed to find a way to continue to clamp Huang Taiji in Shenyang.
How to clamp?
Of course, it is necessary to deploy heavy troops in Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty, and it is best to arrange the Ming army on Snake Island on the Korean Peninsula, which is the place where Mao Wenlong passed through ten years ago.
Then the defense line was purchased at sea.
In this way, even if Dolgon encountered a disaster, the emperor would not be able to move an army to the west.
As soon as he left, the northern part of the Qing court became a fish on the board of the Ming army.
Therefore, Zhou Xian will make a fuss about the coastal defense of the Ming Dynasty next.
Moreover, the problems exposed by the cases of Zhao Huaiqing and Zhao Yanpei this time also directly show the corruption and incompetence of the Ming Dynasty's coastal defense posts.
Therefore, Zhou Xian took the lead in rectifying Caoyun.
Zhao Huaiqing, the old concubine of the previous dynasty, smuggled goods to Huang Taiji with Tianjin Wei through Bohai Bay.
Is it essentially his high status?
No!
In essence, it was an exchange of interests between the Caoyun Yamen and the officials of the capital.
In the end, it's corruption.
In Zhou Xian's new plan, the coastal defense post of the Ming Dynasty was to be placed under the direct management of the Ministry of War.
Formerly belonged to the Tobe!
Because the transportation involves the income of transportation, most of the money is basically returned to the household department, and then the fire consumption through the household department is returned to the public and collected into the national treasury.
What now!
The military armament in coastal defense was handed over to the Ministry of War.
And all the income of Haiphong and Caoyun directly goes to the currency administration department of Zodiac Zhou.
Directly cut off the route of interest transportation between the coastal defense post and the corrupt official group.
If anyone wants to fund the enemy in the future, then please find the Department of Currency Administration and the Ministry of War.
In addition, Zhou Xian also had to build a defense chain with Bohai Bay and Tianjin Wei at night.
Now the coastal defense supervisor on Penglai's side is Lu Keyao.
He is already preparing a sailor in Bohai Bay over there.
Zhou Xian used Lu Kefu at that time to boost the prototype of the Ming Dynasty's navy.
Then, after Lu Keyi's mission to North Korea was completed, he quickly settled the prepared sailors in the territory of Mao Wenlong's strategy.
Then the problem returns to the core of the clamping down on the Jiannu army.
Among them, the water master used by Lu Ke can also let Jiannu drink a pot.
After all, warm and angry people are not used to water warfare.
But after Lu Keyao's sailor completed the formation, it became a sharp arrow hanging over Jiannu's head.
The deterrent effect is self-evident.
Mention of the Navy.
There is another person, that is Zhao Hongxue, who was sent to Guangzhou by Zhou Xian.
He was in charge of the Foreign Affairs Bureau in Guangzhou, which was actually specialized in the production of naval warships and ships.
The specific process and technical theory came from the Jingshi University Hall of the Ming Dynasty!
Early the next morning, Zhou Xian took Hou Lianhui and the two thousand households of Jinyiwei out of the palace and went straight to the Jingshi University Hall.
The trip was announced in advance to the relevant officials.
Therefore, when Zhou Xian came, many officials in charge were already waiting at the gate of the hall of Beijing Normal University.
Xu Rongbing, who was in charge of forging new coins, also sorted out all the hydrological data currently available in the Ming Dynasty's Ship Bureau, ready to answer questions and solve doubts for the horses of the current dynasty at any time.
The Bohai Bay and Tianjin Wei incidents were used as teaching materials to reprimand officials at all levels in coastal defense.
And Zhou Xian also has his own plan, that is, the coastal defense that the Ming Dynasty has banned for decades, and it is time to start it.
Woko?
Come!
Let them come!
The current Ming Dynasty is like a stunned young man who doesn't wear shoes.
At this time, Zhou Xian still had the courage to pull the emperor off the horse.
But if anyone who covets China comes, he will be buried.
This is not Zhou Xianwu's moaning without illness, blindly trying to fight against the Japanese to wash away the humiliation of the Ming Dynasty.
But now the Ming Dynasty has indeed reached the moment to open coastal defense.
Since the beginning of Emperor Jiajing, there have been several heated discussions among officials in the entire court on the issue of coastal defense.
Eventually, they simply closed Haiphong.
In fact, in the short term, the ban on coastal defense has indeed had the effect of hindering overseas outflows.
However, from a long-term perspective, the closure of the customs has directly caused the coastal defense post to be idle and led to corruption.
Then there is the serious lack of coastal defense forces in Daming at present.
How severe is the deprivation?
From the first navy in the world during the period of the Yongle Emperor, it directly took turns for the Inner Mongolia Navy to be of such a grade!!
In the Chongzhen period, the symbolic opening of Tianjin Wei.
It also drove through Guangzhou Bay.
It was because of the opening of Guangzhou's coastal defense that the Ming Dynasty broke out in a naval war with Britain in the South China Sea more than ten years ago.
It was the most glorious foreign war of the navy in the late Ming Dynasty.
The Daming Navy Division used large-tonnage dragon boats to flatten the so-called British Royal Navy.
In the end, the Geely Empire should also pay the Great Ming Dynasty an indemnity of 3,000 taels of silver.
Although the money is not much, this has made the coastal defense officers and soldiers of the Celestial Empire raise their eyebrows.
So much so that now those officials who eat in the coastal defense station are fragrant and greedy, and they are still dreaming of the hegemony of the deep blue of the Celestial Empire.
But Zhou Xian knew that the maritime superiority of the Ming Dynasty was gone.
It is even said that there is no advantage.
Because this is the twilight of the Chongzhen Dynasty.
At the same time, the rudiments of industry had already been built in Europe.
The gunpowder technology they learned from Daming has been improved in a breakthrough.
Buckshot and gunpowder made their gunboats reapers at sea.
Coupled with the rapid improvement of the Spanish and Japanese navies, all the black technologies beyond the cognition of the Ming Dynasty are exploding in a blowout.
In addition, the treasure island fleet in the southern waters of the Ming Dynasty has also developed and grown.
The Ming Dynasty's control over the treasure island has long been less than before, and even the situation on the treasure island has gotten out of control.
At such a critical moment, Zhou Xian must revitalize the coastal defense of the Ming Dynasty.
to curb the covetousness of those foreign pirates.
At the same time, it deterred the Zheng family's ambition to seek independence on the treasure island.
Therefore, the imperial court wants to employ people, and it must rely on the talents of the Jingshi University.
"Chitose, it's here." Hou Lianhui stopped the carriage and opened the curtain.
Zhou Xian walked out of the carriage.
The ministers at the gate of the university hall knelt down and saluted: "The lower officials see the horses." ”
"Get up and speak."
Zhou Xian put aside a polite sentence, looked up at the plaque of the Beijing Normal University Hall, and walked inside.