"Hopefully!"

Min Xichen sighed and replied.

"Otherwise, the Son of Heaven will have the final say on the distribution of the world's benefits."

"But if that's the case, what if the Son of Heaven has no virtue in the future, and only knows how to squander the wealth of the world and reward him with good fortune?"

Then, Min Xichen told what he was worried about.

"I'm afraid of this."

Xu Jie replied, and he almost wanted to cry and said, "He Jiangling and his gang have to toss endlessly like this! Sooner or later, the Ming will die at their hands!"

Min Xichen smiled at this time: "However, the old gentleman doesn't have to be in a hurry, what you just said is still possible."

"How?"

Xu Ying asked expectantly at this time.

Min Xichen smiled and said, "First of all, the atmosphere among the people in Gangneung has been greatly damaged! There are few corporal forests in the world who don't scold him!"

[In view of the general environment,

"The anonymous exposé post about scolding him can't be torn up, and even if Jinyi Wei has a thousand eyes, he can't stop the officials and gentry of the world who are in charge of the government from hating him in their hearts."

"Therefore, good words and flattering words about Gangneung are strictly forbidden to appear, and evil words about Gangneung are openly forbidden and secretly allowed, if Your Majesty really sends Jinyi Wei to inquire about the public opinion about Gangneung, what you will hear will only be how Gangneung is lustful, how greedy for money, and how greedy for power."

"I have shipped six million taels of silver to Gangneung, and even the floor tiles are paved with gold."

"What mansion has expanded to several times larger than the palace, and hundreds of eunuchs have been used."

"Even if the "Huangming Daily" and "Di Bao", which are ordered by the celebrant to be ordered, will say good things about him, but no one will believe these good words when they leave the inner city of the capital division."

"Under the instigation of Shi Lin openly and secretly, as long as he is literate, he has instinctively felt that the serious messages of the imperial court and the government are not credible!"

"What's more, those tabloids secretly printed by the people, and those headlines published that are curious and seductive to people's desires, are easier for people to believe."

"I'm afraid that the Son of Heaven will also believe that he is so powerful in Jiangling, it is impossible not to make money for himself, and it is impossible not to exceed etiquette without showing off his wealth in luxury."

"What's more, he Jiangling is a person who is not very upright, and some of them are true, not groundless."

Speaking of this, Min Xichen asked Xu Jie: "Old man, do you say, will Your Majesty not believe it?" Wouldn't you be disappointed by the gentleman who was like a saint in front of him?"

Then, Min Xichen said: "Secondly, until now, the Son of Heaven has to go to the lecture and read the court very early every day, rain and snow are inevitable, and he is forced to be the king of Yao Shun by him in Jiangling, and he cannot rest!"

"But as long as it is a person, it is impossible not to be inert, and he will not be willing to be so restrained, especially at the age of the Son of Heaven now, I am afraid that he will already have the heart of rebellion! Just waiting for the news from the outside world to pour into the capital for the Son of Heaven to know, maybe the Son of Heaven will only have disgust for Jiangling, and even those civil and military generals who trust Jiangling will also be evil, and do something to cut off his arm."

"And once it is done, it will be difficult for the Son of Heaven to take it back, after all, what is the face of the Son of Heaven?"

After hearing this, Xu Jie nodded: "I hope." It's just that judging by the current level of implementation of this new policy, it doesn't look like what he wants to achieve in Gangneung."

……

"Your Majesty, the ministers and the old generals Yu have discussed, since the trade between Hirado and Nagasaki is now controlled by the imperial court, then the tax of this pass naturally has to be decided by the imperial court, so the ministers and others did not dare to arbitrarily decide, and only collected taxes according to the old customs of the Wa Kingdom."

After Qi Jiguang entered Beijing, he went to the palace first, met Zhu Yijun, and told Zhu Yijun about his thoughts about Haili.

Zhu Yijun smiled, and then asked, "How much does the Wa State collect taxes?"

"On average, it's five taxes and one."

Qi Jiguang replied.

Zhu Yijun was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and said, "These Japanese land chiefs are also ruthless!"

"The chieftains of the kingdom of Japan have fought against each other without measure

, so the taxes are very high."

Qi Jiguang replied.

Zhu Yijun twisted his eyebrows and asked, "Can a businessman in his country endure it?" Don't report it to me, but let me condemn it? Such a heavy exploitation! If this were our own country, it would have boiled over the sky, right?"

"What Your Majesty said is that Gaine is rampant in smuggling, and he does not want His Majesty to know, nor does he want the court to intervene."

Qi Jiguang replied.

Then, Qi Jiguang took out the secret recital: "When the existing students Yan Xinji, Yang Xie, and others met with the ministers, the content of the conversation with the ministers has been recorded in this book, and the performance is known to His Majesty, and His Majesty can understand from this that they would actually rather let the ministers and the generals in the Japanese share the benefits of the former Japanese people with them, rather than let the court benefit, and also advised the ministers to deceive Your Majesty on the grounds that Dongyi is a barren land and has no property, and its people are like savages, and the profits obtained are still difficult to maintain military expenses, so that Your Majesty does not know the abundance of Dongyi Haili."

Zhu Yijun nodded, and didn't say that he had already known that some people had seen Qi Jiguang through the fine work of Jinyiwei in the army of the Japanese army, but only waited for Qi Jiguang to enter Beijing to tell him the content of the conversation, only took Qi Jiguang's recital and looked at it, and laughed:

"Those who dare to go to sea, their courage is not ordinary, they dare to say this, and they are really a group of people who dare to sell the ropes that hang themselves for the sake of profit! Just don't take the court seriously, do you think the court really doesn't dare to touch the people behind them?"

As he spoke, Zhu Yijun instructed Zhang Whale: "Let the factory guard check a few people, follow the vine and find out the forces behind them!"

Zhang Whale said yes.

Zhu Yijun looked at Qi Jiguang: "Aiqing should have known the reality of Dongyi Haili by taking over the shops in Hirado and Nagasaki in Dongyi.

"Back to Your Majesty, Dongyi is prolific in silver, and its domestic chieftains need a lot of saltpeter, iron, etc., because of each other's attacks, so Haili is actually very rich, whether it is Xiyi merchants or domestic merchants, basically sell my Chinese goods mainly to this place, and earn silver, and then come to my China and buy goods, and sell them to that place."

"As for how this Haili is divided, it will naturally be judged by His Majesty!"

"Thunder, rain and dew, all are Jun's grace, and Your Majesty can divide it as he thinks it should be."

Qi Jiguang did not hide it from Zhu Yijun in the slightest, nor did he directly ask Zhu Yijun to give them more points for these martial arts at this time.

Zhu Yijun nodded: "That's it, the prisoner sacrifice ceremony has to be prepared for a few days, tomorrow I will announce that you will go to the government hall and tell the ruling ministers about this Japanese Haili, so that they can also be more clear, this involves the national economy and people's livelihood, and cannot be arbitrarily decided, especially if the tax rate on the import and export goods of the Japanese is reduced and increased, it needs to be carefully decided."

"Obey!"

Qi Jiguang saw that Zhu Yijun asked him to also go to the political hall to discuss the matter of Haili in the world, and he suddenly couldn't hide his excitement between his eyebrows, and hurriedly replied.

Then, Zhu Yijun suddenly asked, "I heard that you brought some dogs back to give them away?"

Qi Jiguang couldn't help but be stunned, and a trace of coolness suddenly appeared on his back.

Then, Qi Jiguang replied truthfully: "Back to Your Majesty, it is some Japanese slaves, the minister thinks that now because of the new policy, the officials and gentry have to cut their expenses and release their servants and maids, and even Your Majesty's inner court has fewer people who are willing to castrate themselves into the palace to do rough work, so they brought some back, ready to be dedicated to Your Majesty and given away, and those who are dedicated to Your Majesty are some female dogs who can plow the fields, and Your Majesty can send them to the Huangzhuang to make up for the loss of the escaped tenants."

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, they are all bought by the ministers with their own money, and these Japanese slaves are very cheap, and the price is about the same as that of buying dogs, so the ministers and the officers and soldiers in the Japanese are accustomed to calling them with dogs, in order to distinguish the slaves we bring with us."

Qi Jiguang obviously knew that the emperor and the reformist civil officials, who were also in the landlord class, had also lost some benefits because of the new policy.

After all, the Qing Zhang's acres of land and the gentry paid grain and errands in one piece, which would make the people who managed the fields under them have to increase the tenant rent to make up for the losses, so the phenomenon of escaping the tenants is also very serious, and it is necessary to replenish cheaper serfs.

Even if Zhu Yijun and some reformist bureaucrats took the initiative to reduce rents because they were sympathetic to the tenant peasants, there would still be fewer and fewer people in the country who could be slaves and servants because of the increase in the income of the common people and the decrease in the income of the gentry

Cheap slaves to compensate for the reduced quality of life after the release of many slaves and maidservants.

Therefore, Qi Jiguang has only now taken the initiative to send cheap Japanese slaves to the Son of Heaven and the ruling ministers who advocate reform, obviously knowing their needs, and also intend to use this method to let the Son of Heaven and the ruling ministers continue to support the coexistence of Wuxun and Wenchen, and make them more willing to support the reform in their own hearts.

"A dog who can plow the fields?"