Chapter 292: Divine Decree: Open the Sea!
The Emperor raised this question on the 12th of September.
The system of Jingyan has a long history, but Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of Taizu of this dynasty, does not respect Jingyan, during the Hongwu period, there was the right Fu Gui Yanliang Chen Yanjun of the Jin Dynasty, said: Today, when the day of the great prosperity of culture and education, it is advisable to choose the old to become a famous Confucian, and on the occasion of looking at the dynasty, enter a lecture book.
The old Zhu family has a bit of a personality of the emperor, and Zhu Yuanzhang is one of the best, so Zhu Yuanzhang didn't care about this progression. The same is true for Zhu Di, but during the Taizong period, there was also a system of Yanri.
It's just that the system that really formed a serious Eight Classics was the orthodox period of Yingzong. Because Yingzong ascended the throne as a young man, Yang Shiqi and other courtiers discussed this matter with each other in order to educate him well.
By Zhu Houzhao's period, Jingyan gradually became a kind of national ceremonial activity, from the cabinet scholars to the scholars of various ministries had to participate, with a large scale and many rules. Basically, the form is greater than the content, and it gradually evolves into a political activity that tells the ministers and the common people that the emperor is going to school.
Zhu Houzhao didn't particularly like it.
It's okay to talk every day, because there are not so many etiquette, and usually he himself will gather the ministers and listen to them talk about many things. It seems that the system of Jingyan is disgusting, but learning itself is still needed.
In addition, the spring lecture is divided into spring lectures and autumn lectures, and the spring lectures start in February and end in May every year; Autumn lectures begin in August and end in October each year. But at that juncture in the second year of this year, Zhu Houzhao ignored this recital.
At the beginning of autumn, the left deputy capital Yu Shi Zhangmao marched again, saying: For three generations, the prosperity of the Han and Tang Dynasties, the Zongshe Lai'an, and the emperor's picture are eternal, and its root is committed to sacred learning. Since ancient times, the sages have not been able to govern without learning. Your Majesty has the ambition to establish a prosperous future, how can you refuse to delay it?
Thus the warp was brought up again. It is held three times a month, on the 2nd, 12th and 22nd.
That's why I asked the edict on September 12.
This is a shocking question, not that the ministers suddenly opened their mouths to such a question, but Zhu Houzhao lit a powder keg.
On September 13, the Imperial History of the Imperial Procuratorate and the Six Departments of the Imperial Procuratorate gave the emperor a dismissal.
With this question, coupled with the matter of Zhejiang and Fujian, who doesn't know what the emperor has in his heart?
But in the eyes of many, those two words are not to be mentioned.
The sea ban is an ancestral system!
Just these five words can crush a bunch of reasons!
In the afternoon dynasty, outside the Fengtian Gate, the imperial history He Shulin, Bao Xujing, Zuo Bao and others knelt on the ground, and the six departments also presented the notes one after another.
When things arrived in front of Zhu Houzhao, he didn't bother to look at them.
What's in it to think about?
「…… In the third year of Hongwu, Emperor Taizu dismissed Taicang Huangdu City; For four years, a ban was promulgated that "sheets and boards are not allowed to enter the sea"; In seven years, he withdrew from the three cities of Quanzhou in Fujian, Mingzhou in Zhejiang, and Guangzhou in Guangdong; Twenty-three years, and then the ban on foreign traffic was extended; In the twenty-seventh year, it was forbidden for the people to buy and sell incense and goods imported from overseas; In the 30th year of Hongwu, it was strictly forbidden for coastal residents to go to the sea without permission! And Emperor Taizu made it clear that the sea ban is customized, and the kings of later generations cannot be easily abolished! The ministers were stupid and did not know what it meant to say, 'The stricter the prohibition of the sea, the greater its value, and the greater the number of those who flee abroad?' ….
Zhu Houzhao is no longer the little prince he was at the beginning, and he will not say that he has no strength at all in front of the ancestral system. Even if someone shouts in court, he will not have any psychological fluctuations.
He had to do it. In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang's speech is still very effective, after all, the founding emperor, but why did he reiterate the ban on the sea again and again?
Is there a possibility that you can't help it?
No matter how powerful the emperor is, he can't let the people of a region wait to die guarding a hilly area that is not easy to cultivate.
At the same time, Yang Tinghe of the Military Aircraft Department has already taken a small step, "The people of the coastal sea depend on the sea for their livelihood, and fishing and salt sales are also their business. After the ban on the sea, the way of fishing and salt was forbidden by the imperial court, and there were thousands of ways to escape from the sea for the living, such a simple truth, how could He Yushi still ask His Majesty what it meant?!"
"Your Majesty!" Yu Shi He said that Lin Hua's white beard was trembling with shock, "During the Taizu period, there was Japan in the East China Sea, and its country was small but deceitful, and there were secret female ministers back then
Hu Weiyong, plotting to do wrongdoing, Emperor Taizu forbids the ban on the sea, but he is the one who is forbidden on the sea! Now that His Majesty has released the people to the sea, he is exposing the Ming Dynasty's thousands of miles of sea frontiers to the Japanese invaders, and when the coast guard rises everywhere, how many people will suffer?"
Then, he pointed directly at Yang Tinghe: "Such a mouse-eyed word, Er An dares to show it in front of you!"
Yang Tinghe immediately counterattacked, "Rat's eyes? He Yushi is afraid that it is more suitable for this word! The sea frontier is like the northern border, and the Central Plains Dynasty and the Northern Captives have won and lost each other, but the Han Wu defeated the Xiongnu and the Tang Zong defeated the Turks, did they rely on the Great Wall? ! Ming Jun is in the court, working hard, what's so terrible? Or is it a small country of Japan, which makes my Ming imperial history frightened to the point of discoloration!"
The word discoloration is a bit ruthless.
Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
This idiom generally doesn't describe men very much.
In other words, Yang Tinghe scolded others like a woman. In ancient times, this was insulting.
"Yang Tinghe!" He Shulin was so angry that he called him by his name, and his chest continued to rise and fall, "The major affairs of the court are not a place for you to take advantage of your tongue! The sea ban is an ancestral system, and if you induce Your Majesty to violate the ancestral law, your heart can be punished! Once this is the cause of the plague, you will be a sinner through the ages!"
Zhu Houzhao spoke at this time, "I am the emperor, and the holy decree that goes out of the Forbidden City is my meaning, if there is a crime, it is my sin, and if there is merit, it is also my merit. He Yushi, reason can be argued, words can be said, but don't intimidate. Otherwise, it's no different from scolding the street."
Many ministers dare not speak out angrily, the emperor must be partial to Yang Tinghe, after all, this is a minister who has been promoted. However, the sea ban has been a national policy of the imperial court for hundreds of years, and the stakes are very high, so it must not be changed inexplicably.
"Your Majesty, Wechen has something to say."
Zhu Houzhao took a closer look, and it turned out to be Zhang Fuhua, the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
"Mr. Zhang, please speak."
"Wechen wants to ask Your Majesty, the reopening of the market, the people of the sea, is there a way to live?"
"What do you mean by that? There is no exchange, and the country is normal. In the Yuan Dynasty, the city was extremely prosperous, and the coast was safe for a hundred years! Because of the goods used overseas, there are those who have assets for us, and the goods produced by the Ming Dynasty are needed outside the country, and there is mutual communication, so that the people can live on a business. If this is not the way to live, what is it?"
"In this case, the imperial court is mercantil, not repressive. Valuing agriculture and suppressing commerce is not only the policy of this dynasty, but also the national policy of all dynasties. The Central Plains is a territory of thousands of miles, with trillions of people, and all food is agriculture. Nine out of ten farmers live in the house, and the people have enough food and clothing, and the people have no hardship. If after the market, the people gradually become tired of agriculture and tend to business, and when the farmers are becoming fewer, they do not farm, and use machines as fields and shuttles as cattle, and then there are merchants who pursue profits and change farmland to kapok...... At that time, the world will have fewer taxes and food, and the city will be full of idle people who are doing their work in the twilight, and the place will not be in danger of falling apart?" ….
Zhu Houzhao's brows jumped, the so-called 'wandering people who are idle in the twilight, that is, those who don't farm are idle!
The Emperor slowly stood up, "Zhang Zongxian."
"The minister is here."
"You said that farming is so important, why don't you go farming?"
Zhang Fuhua's face turned pale.
On the side, the left deputy capital Yu Shi Zhangmao immediately spoke, "Your Majesty! Agriculture is the foundation, business is the end! Emphasizing the basics and suppressing the last relationship between the country and the society. His Majesty is the king of a country, and every word and deed is an internal and external vision. Please be cautious and say that agriculture and commerce must not be chaotic!"
The emperor's words just came out, and cabinet ministers like Li Dongyang and Xie Qian all heard that the taste was wrong.
Because...... Some were angry.
Even the feeling when the emperor was still the crown prince is sophistry.
'Why don't you go farming?'
You say I don't want to go? If you don't work, it means that you are greedy for power.
You say you're willing to go, well, according to this person's temper, the next thing must be to say: Then you go farming!
After many times, Li Dongyang also has experience.
The emperor's temper must be smoothed, and if you choke with him, it must be very ugly today.
"Mr. Zhang! Many of the people in the southeast coast use machines as fields and shuttles as cattle, and they are also the sons of the people
People. Furthermore, Zhejiang is seven out of ten mountains, and Fujian is even more eight out of ten mountains, and all the princes of the court said that they want the people to farm the land, where can the people have land to cultivate? Your Majesty's generation of benevolent monarchs has always worried about those landless peasants."
"The court argues and solves the problem. Your Majesty loves the people like a son, and cares about the people of Zhejiang and Fujian. If you have different opinions, you always want to talk about how to let the people of Zhejiang and Fujian who have no land live. In this way, the king's worries can be relieved!"
After Zhu Houzhao heard this, he couldn't help but roll his eyes, these words seemed like human words.
"The minister seconded the proposal." Xie Qian followed, "Farmers need eight or nine out of ten, but Zhejiang and Fujian only have two or three out of ten land, and this is the biggest problem."
"Definitely! If the imperial court opens the sea ban, the poor people of the countryside must flee to the sea in large numbers, then presumably there will be a shortage of tenants, and only goods and no food will be the real source of trouble!"
Zhu Houzhao was angry when he heard this, and looked at He Shulin, the imperial historian who had been talking just now.
"Smack!"
The emperor didn't care what it was, he took the book he had in his hand and smashed it in the face, "What do you mean that the poor people of the countryside must flee to the sea in large numbers? With no land and no food, shouldn't the people flee?! It's you, you can't escape?! If you don't give the people a way to live, and you don't let the people flee, you trap them and make them cheap tenants for you, right?"
"Since I ascended to the pole, I have trembled and trembled, and everything is based on the people of the Ming Dynasty, and I never dare to forget for a moment the importance of being a king. In this way, I beg for mercy from God and the blessing of my ancestors, and hope that my Ming Dynasty can be smooth every year. But I don't know where the morality and politics are not cultivated, and there is such a shameful thing as you!"
"What do you say about the people in the world who Lin keeps talking, but you don't have half a year's sympathy and pity for the people in your heart. Those poor people in Zhejiang and Fujian, they may be looking forward to the court princes day and night to show them a way to live, if they hear that the court of the Ming Dynasty and the officials of the Ming Dynasty would rather call them poor! What do they think?!" ….
"And you!" Zhu Houzhao pointed at these ministers, "You didn't speak, but don't you have the same idea as him in your heart?" Commoners...... What is it in your eyes that the people are?"
"Your Majesty is angry."
Zhu Houzhao turned his back and took a few deep breaths before gradually calming down his anger.
Then he spoke, "Yu Shi He Shulin."
"Wechen is here."
"Will you be a poor people?"
"The sun rises and the sun sets. It's a lot of fun."
Zhu Houzhao smiled, Tao Yuanming, who did not bend his waist for five buckets of rice, was able to see Nanshan leisurely, because his family was rich.
"Good, good." By this time, he was no longer excited, "The people of the Ming Dynasty are my people, and I can't bear to treat them like this. But I don't blame anyone today. I just want you to understand my feelings...... Zhang Fuhua and He Shulin, both of you have sons, and from today onwards, you will repatriate them to their hometowns and list them as tenant farmers of large households, and I will issue an order to issue political envoys, prefects, and prefects, and whoever dares to take care of them will be dealt with as a bully!"
"Youji!"
"The slave is here."
"You have always been honest, find some Dongchang fans to keep an eye on, and officials at all levels who do not obey the holy decree and violate the yang and yin will be beheaded!"
This person is also familiar to many ministers.
Transferred into the palace from the outside, it has always been what the emperor says.
It can be seen that the emperor really wants Zhang and He to empathize.
As for Zhang Shihua and He Shulin, they did begin to turn pale, and no emperor had ever adopted such a method since ancient times.
Especially Zhang Fuhua, he is old, and to put it mildly, sometimes his hope is in his son, but he suddenly came up with such an ending.
The main thing is that he still has his wife and old mother, if he really brings this news back, when will the house be at peace?
"Your Majesty." Zhang Shihua knelt down, "Thunder and rain and dew are all Jun's grace. His Majesty's punishment of the ministers is the fault of the ministers. It's just that there are eighty old mothers among the ministers......
Zhu Hou
Zhao interrupted him directly, "Confucius said, do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I don't know what you've read all your life. You have eighty mothers, do those people? It's easy to ask someone to be a tenant. How do you feel when you call your own son? Needless to say, go back and do what you were told."
The emperor was furious at the court. It was only in October that it reached Zhejiang, and the government and the people were shocked when they heard about it. At this time, the autumn grain was almost harvested.
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And Wang Wei also received the holy decree, the holy decree of opening the sea:
Fengtian carried the emperor's system and said: I heard that since the early years of Hongzhi, the world has been under great rule, cultural relics have gradually multiplied, and the use of resources is also extensive. And those who live near the sea in Fujian are probably not allowed to eat unless they are born in the sea. After all the forbidden, how can the people live? In the early years of the dynasty, Meng Yuan retreated to the desert, but its roots were not broken, and there were also Zhang Shicheng and other anti-people in the southeast who went to sea to plunder the place, so there was a ban on the sea. However, today, there are many people in Zhejiang and Fujian, and Emperor Taizu Gao loves the people and cherishes the people even more. It is to sue the Heaven and Earth Sect Temple with my sacrifice, and I am determined to reopen the market! Just because the official market is not open, the private market is not stopped. If it is strictly forbidden, the business will turn into theft. On the contrary, the general rule of the city is to turn into business. The two provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian must put the people first, properly handle the matter of banning the sea, and must not delay and harm the people! Admire!"
The Governor's Palace has been waiting for this decree for three months.
After today, Wang Wei will have great righteousness. Behind him was also a group of people from Kyoto, and everyone had been waiting for a long time.
Years of success or failure, in one fell swoop!
"After the order, Ningbo Prefecture in Zhejiang, Fuzhou Prefecture in Fujian Province, and Quanzhou Prefecture all set up city divisions, and since then, commerce and trade with overseas provinces have been circulated through the official market. If there is any private trader, it will be punished according to the law!"
These have been arranged before.
The political envoys temporarily helped to deal with the affairs of the city, and according to the inspection envoys, they focused on investigating and punishing smuggling merchants, and they all commanded the envoys to strictly guard the big cities and key roads.
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