"Do you know why some of Xiyi's lives were spared?"

After Wang Xijue disposed of these Xiyi in accordance with Zhu Yijun's holy edict, he asked these Guangdong officials and gentry another question when he sent Liu Xizhi and other officials and gentry who were killed by Xiyi back to their hometowns together with Chen Younian, Xu Minshi and other Guangdong gentry.

"Didn't Elder Ge want to show them my Chinese culture, and educate it so that it can be used by us?"

Chen Younian asked.

Wang Xijue smiled: "The culture of this dynasty is broad and profound, and the skills of hundreds of crafts have been accumulated for thousands of years, why do you need to take the initiative to educate one or two barbarians?" ”

"There is only a reason for them to surrender on their own initiative, and there is no reason for us to need them to surrender!"

"If you don't obey, you will be punished!"

"Now the lives of some of them are spared, but they know the ocean routes and have a lot of experience at sea!"

"This was originally what my emperor was good at, and even there should have been ready-made sea trade drawings and sea routes for future generations to continue to open up, but unfortunately what the official said was that these drawings and files had already been burned!"

"Therefore, if the imperial court wants to expand the sea trade again, it has to rely on these Xiyi."

"It's really embarrassing!"

Wang Xijue said and looked at the vast sea and sighed.

Then.

The red sun is rising on the sea, the light is sprinkled, the gulls and birds are flying with white sails, and the world is extremely quiet.

"If that's not the case, what if all these Xiyi are chopped off!"

"This dynasty lacks the people who need to be educated?"

"Isn't there much of the same color without the blood?"

After Wang Xijue looked at such a scene, he looked at the bureaucrats and landlords and gentry present and questioned them.

Chen Younian and Xu Minshi all looked solemn and did not speak.

Wang Xijue himself stroked his beard that was blowing in the wind, walked by the seaside boat in a wide robe and big sleeves, and said:

"In the future, you can't light the skills and only emphasize the way, and you can't destroy the skills summarized in the past because they are useless or even harmful for a while, and the uselessness at that time does not mean that the future is useless!"

"What Elder Ge said is that the teeth are getting more and more numerous, so they have to open the sea, and the quasi-people go to the sea to make profits, and the overseas barbarians have already had the intention of destroying our Heavenly Empire, and at this time, the sea route can no longer be broken!"

Xu Min echoed.

"That's right!"

Wang Xijue stopped, glanced back at these bureaucrats and landlords and gentry, and said:

"Although the Xiyi of Haojing was escorted to the Jingshi because he wanted to destroy my Celestial Empire, and the one who was sent as a slave was sent to the Jingshi, the trade he undertook could not be interrupted!"

"We still have to have a ship to go to Goa to bring back spices, ivory, silver and other goods to my Daming, and at the same time transport our porcelain, silk cloth, mercury, etc. to Goa, and then to their Xiyi homeland!"

"Yes! How many people rely on this route to survive, and if it is cut off all of a sudden, Guangdong will be chaotic again. ”

Yuan Yupei followed and said.

The other Cantonese gentry also chimed in, all worried.

Of course.

They didn't really care about the people who lived on trade, but they were worried that if the shipping routes were cut off, the raw silk, silk cloth, and porcelain he purchased from the interior would not be able to go to sea for profit, and they would not be able to rely on trade with Xiyi for profit in the future.

Wang Xijue also knew what they were worried about.

Otherwise, he would not have said so much here, so after listening to these people, he said:

"Then change the sea trade line originally established by these Francophiles to my Ming people, who among you is willing to take on this task for the imperial court?"

The gentry of Guangdong were all embarrassed.

"Ge Lao, the sea is dangerous, you have to dare to work hard, the officers and soldiers of the navy must dare to work hard, we children can study and take care of the family business at home, and it is really not their forte to go to sea to trade for the country."

Yuan Yupei said at this time.

It was okay to let them, the Cantonese gentry, supply them, and invest in the Haikou to let them go to sea to do business, but they were really unwilling to let them be their own officials and merchants, and risk that they might run aground at sea at any time or be plundered by pirates.

After all, they are all big landlords and big bureaucrats, and they are not ordinary people who are desperate and have to be outlaws, so there is no need to really give up their lives for the sake of profit.

"Then it is still up to the Imperial Court to take the lead in establishing official trade, you ship, and the Imperial Court is responsible for arranging official escorts and recruiting merchants to go to sea for trade."

Wang Xijue said.

At this time, Yuan Yupei thought that it would be inevitable that the officials and merchants of the imperial court would inevitably be the Haikou secretly controlled by these big clans as the officials and merchants of the imperial court city who went to sea to trade, so he also asked:

"Ge Lao, I am afraid that the merchant Jia will not go to sea because of the fear of sea risks, do you ask the imperial court to pay a lower tax on the merchant ships of this dynasty to the Guangdong Zhiyi ship, after all, they are the righteous businessmen who are loyal to the monarch and go to sea for the country!" It's not the same as the Yishang who has wolf ambitions! ”

"Your Majesty has made it clear that the people of your country are more valuable than the people, and you should be able to do so."

Wang Xijue agreed to Yuan Yupei and others to hope that the imperial court would give the country's merchants a lower tax.

And Yuan Yupei and other Guangdong gentry were naturally overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "My emperor is as benevolent as the sky, and my husband is loyal and loves the people!" Therefore, the Ming Dynasty has today's prosperous times! ”

Wang Xijue smiled: "Ashamed! But once the official trade is established, if it is found that there are any smuggling pirates colluding with a certain clan, don't blame the court for being polite! ”

"In addition, you must also start paying taxes on the goods you used to trade with Xiyi, and don't think about it as before, because the trade route is controlled by Xiyi and cannot be known by the imperial court, so you can casually conceal the price of the shipment."

"Smuggling pirates is not conducive to protecting the territory and the people, so they should be severely pursued!"

"In terms of commercial taxes, we actually didn't want to hide it from the imperial court, mainly because the corrupt officials and a few inferior gentry broke the rules, colluded with Xiyi, and deceived the imperial court together, if we don't follow this, the goods will not be able to come out and will be backlogged in the warehouse, so that the people of the whole clan and the whole township will have nothing to eat, so we have to be sorry for the imperial court."

Yuan Yupei was busy expressing his attitude that the Guangdong gentry did not support smuggling, and decisively passed the blame for the corrupt officials and corrupt officials and several gentry who were disposed of by Wang Xijue, as well as Xiyi.

"yes!"

"We are sorry for the imperial court, and we are willing to make up for everything that we have concealed before, and use the method of increasing tax regulations."

"I am also willing, although it is for the livelihood of the villagers, we have to do business and profit as a Confucian, but how can we only know the people and not the king? Isn't it contrary to our ancestral teachings of loyalty and filial piety? ”

"It's the same with my Chen family, we would rather use all the use to worship the king, to show our loyalty, and only ask the villagers to have some food; After all, as a Confucian scholar, how can we ignore righteousness and profit? ”

"That's right!"

"As a disciple of Confucius and Mencius, the contemptible people don't like the smell of copper, and even hate gold and silver like dung!"

"It's just that because the teeth in the clan are getting more and more numerous, I have to make a profit, and after all, I just want to enter the temple to the king Yu Yaoshun, and retreat to the poetry and wine pastoral alone."

"In addition to asking the court to leave some help to support the people, we are willing to dedicate all Haili to the court to raise the army!"

These Cantonese gentry all expressed their loyalty to the imperial court, and expressed their willingness to raise taxes, and even said that they were willing to give all the benefits to the imperial court.

When a whale falls, all things are born.

Wang Xijue knew that this was because he wanted to use the maritime interests controlled by Xiyi to be divided between the court and his own people on behalf of the Son of Heaven and the imperial court.

And he didn't debunk it, he just smiled and said: "The servant knows that the country has raised soldiers for two hundred years, and it is not that all the scholars and doctors will value profit and ignore righteousness, at least, the sages of Liangguang Township are still more loyal and filial piety gentlemen." ”

As he spoke, Wang Xijue also bowed his hand to these gentry.

The gentry also hurried to return the salute.

Wang Xijue said: "Then go back to Guangzhou tomorrow and negotiate an official and commercial rule!" ”

"The servant drafted a "Maritime Trade Inspection Examination" to play in the imperial court, and asked the imperial court to transfer the tariffs of the city shipping department, and even asked the city shipping department to recruit officials and merchants to continue to undertake the trade originally controlled by Xiyi, and let an official army escort the expedition, so as to achieve the purpose of making Yi Di afraid of China and willing to continue navigation!"

"When the time comes, the city will recruit officials and businessmen, and the servant will also ask the court to allow the city to recruit openly, and all the village sages can attend, so as not to say that the city department is favoritistic, and only let the servants and the relatives and friends of the father-in-law of the inner court be the officials and businessmen of the city and the court, and if the village sages testify, the servants and the inner court can also be innocent. In short, whoever can become an official and businessman of the city is completely the one with the highest price. ”

"Everyone in the world knows that the pavilion is always an honest and honest person, who dares to doubt it."

Yuan Yupei and other Guangdong gentry smiled and flattered Wang Xijue.

"Words are terrible! It's better to be public. ”