When Wang Qian was clamoring for the worsted woolen business, Wang Chonggu objected at the first time, because he felt that once the business of silk coins affected the small people and provoked public anger, their family would definitely be pulled out and beheaded for a quarter of an hour.

Therefore, after the old cornucopia was smashed, Wang Chonggu offered another cornucopia as fast as possible to continue to gather, this time a three-masted plywood ship and a five-masted cross-ocean ship.

The five-masted ship is also in the list, Zhang Juzheng has discussed it with the emperor before, at this time, the Ming merchant ships that went to sea are all armed merchant ships, and the unarmed merchant ships are all meat in other people's mouths at sea.

The last time the tax institute was expanded, the Ming court had already made concessions on the matter of arming merchant ships, and did not restrict the entry into Hong Kong without opening the bow and filling the medicine.

The T-shape of the five-masted ship was the most powerful armed merchant ship.

There are four types of five-masted ships, of which A is a prototype ship, deployed in Luzon, Songjiang, Ningbo, Fuzhou, and Guangzhou, and then discontinued, because there are many defects in the design.

Then there is the B-shaped, this kind of sea ship is mainly used for foreign trade, that is, the reduced version, plywood, collision angle, artillery, etc., all have a reduction, the pursuit of profit maximization, Antonio, Felipe II, Shahmat are all purchased this type of ship, this ship has only one characteristic, that is, it can not continue to install batteries and increase the number of gunpowder, private installation can easily lead to rolling, poor stability.

The C-shaped type is the main warship of the Ming Dynasty, with more than 25 ships deployed, it is a battleship, without any merchant ship attributes, this is the most powerful warship in the entire marine world.

The T-shaped is a civilian armed merchant ship used by the Ming Dynasty for maritime trade, which is slightly stronger than the firepower of the B-shaped type, but extremely limited, but the speed of the T-shaped is extremely fast, and the fast speed is designed to get rid of pirates and increase the efficiency and speed of maritime trade.

In the new trading house, in the transaction tickets, the D-shaped five-masted ship was divided into 1,000 shares, because the price of the five-masted ship was too expensive, and even the T-shaped five-masted ship was reduced and reduced, and the price of a single ship exceeded 180,000 silver.

"Why don't you set up a trading house in Songjiang Province? But in Jingshi? Zhu Yijun asked Wang Chonggu, it stands to reason that most of the ships pass through Songjiang Mansion, and it will be more convenient to set up a trading bank in Songjiang Mansion, the ship is in front of you, the goods are in front of you, and the dividends are in front of you, which can stimulate the trading volume of the trading bank.

Wang Chonggu said quite accurately: "Your Majesty, the trading house cannot be set up in Songjiang Mansion, it can only be set up in Beijing, and it is indeed inconvenient to set up in Beijing, but it is this kind of inconvenience. ”

"Is it inconvenient?" Wan Shihe frowned, then reacted, smiled, and said no more.

The meaning of Wang Chonggu's words could not be more obvious, the people sitting here are all dragons and phoenixes among the people of the Ming Dynasty, it is inconvenient for everyone, so the degree of convenience, there will be a difference in information, and the difference in information can be convenient for traders, and it is convenient for traders to cut leeks.

Wang Chonggu has never been a virtuous minister, he is a serious minister, anxious about His Majesty's urgency.

The price of the ship's ticket will fluctuate, for example, a ship should have returned to Daming Songjiang Port in March, but in May, the ship still did not return to Songjiang New Port, at this time, the ship's ticket will plummet, delayed for so long, still has not received the news, it can be basically determined that it will not come back, but if the ship suddenly returns to the port in June.

At this time, Jingtang will be very late when receiving the news, but His Majesty will be able to receive the news within two days through the coastal defense inspection.

This is the fundamental purpose of Wang Chonggu to set up a trading house in Beiya, and the major cities and shipping companies even strictly prohibit the appearance of trading houses.

"Awesome!" Zhu Yijun understood the meaning of these words, and had to say that Wang Chonggu deserved to be a scholar, this scholar's mind is really dirty, but if he has some bad ideas, it can affect a large number of innocent people.

No matter how powerful Qi Jiguang is, he has fought all his life, and his first merit is less than 100,000, but a civil servant like Wang Chonggu has some bad ideas, which will affect the livelihood of millions of people, which is more vicious than direct killing.

Thanks to Zhu Yijun, he is a king who combines knowledge and action, saying that people-oriented is people-oriented, not shouting empty slogans, let alone holding a banner for political activities, and always practicing his political commitments, and Wang Chonggu as a dedicated courtier, what he did was not so angry and resentful, so angry and angry, on the contrary, Wang Cifu did after Zhang Siwei's death, and what he did was great and bright.

What kind of king determines what kind of courtier, and what the king wants is the posture of offering his courtiers.

"So is it allowed for commercial banks to build their own countries overseas?" Zhu Yijun threw out the second topic of today, the advantage of Yanxinglou Trading House in Jingtang is to facilitate control, in order to facilitate the control of major commercial banks, so whether commercial banks can build their own countries overseas has become an issue that must be discussed.

Zhang Juzheng finished reading the recital, Wang Chonggu avoided talking about this issue, what is it called building a country overseas? That is, the firm has its own independent yamen, its own military, its own diplomacy, its own taxes, its own judiciary, and so on, and this issue involves a question of position, which Wang Chonggu cannot discuss, and this involves the question of the ownership of overseas colonies.

In an imperial state, this issue is obviously an issue that cannot be touched, and Wang Chonggu's original intention was to avoid talking about it and acquiesce in the established facts.

Avoiding it is also an attitude, expressing a kind of acquiescence, as long as it mixes well overseas, the Ming Dynasty will acquiesce to the existence of this self-built country.

Zhang Juzheng thought for a moment and asked, "What does Your Majesty think?" ”

"This question should be determined at the beginning of the establishment of the trading bank, whether the imperial court allows the existence of the self-built Fanguo, otherwise in the future, it will be a bunch of troubles, whether it is recognized in the future or not, it will not be beneficial to the Ming Dynasty, and it will not be beneficial to the overseas self-built Fanguo." Zhu Yijun first made clear his attitude that this issue can be discussed and must be discussed.

Since the establishment of the state of the facts, the Ming court to recognize the legitimacy of the country, must involve a question of ownership, these countries, is the Ming country, belong to the Ming Dynasty, whether the Ming Dynasty military, political, economic, cultural constraints, if it belongs, that is to pick peaches, will inevitably cause widespread dissatisfaction in the local area, if not, why should the Ming Dynasty recognize its legitimacy?

The issue of stance must be clearly confirmed so as not to lay a hidden danger for future government decrees.

Zhu Yijun looked around for a week and said: "Taixi's special envoy Li Yashi once discussed the high moral disadvantages of the Ming Dynasty with the Honglu Temple Qing Chen Society, which is the fundamental reason why Li Yashi firmly believes that the overseas colonies of the Ming Dynasty will not be able to succeed, and the disadvantages of high morality represent the unsafe exploitation, the plundering of the unsafe mind, and the inability to occupy the unsettled mind, the development of overseas colonies is a bloody and tragic thing, and high morality is a disadvantage in overseas colonization. ”

"But overseas development is also something that the Ming Dynasty urgently needs now."

"The world is trapped in annexation, the contradiction between people and land in the Ming Dynasty is very acute, and the people are narrow and narrow, which will inevitably lead to the instability of the country, and the people will rise up if they can't eat, and there are too many people in the Ming Dynasty, and they need to be dredged overseas; Since the first year of Yongle, the north has become increasingly bitter and cold, and the winter of the grassland has become earlier and earlier every year, and it has become more and more cold every year. ”

"The land of Daming is vast, and it seems that there are all kinds of treasures, but is this really the case?"

"Daming lacks high-quality iron, and there is only one open-air ginseng iron in Liaodong; Daming lacks high-quality wood, thousands of years of slash-and-burn farming, the mountains in the hinterland of Daming are bare, and there is a lack of wood for shipbuilding; The Ming Dynasty lacks copper, silver, and gold, and the copper is only 6.5 million catties a year, and now it is still produced by a town in Tongxiang Town, Manila, Luzon, and the silver is only 100,000 taels a year, and the Taixi galleon is nearly 3 million to 4 million silver a year, and the Wa Kingdom also has more than 1.5 million silver inflows a year. ”

"These fundamental contradictions, the imperial court has no way to solve them, just so much land, so much grain, only so much gold, silver, copper and iron, the demand is extremely great but there is not enough supply, which means that it must resort to overseas."

"The Ming Dynasty is like a hungry strong man, but he is limited by the disadvantage of high morality, and he looks forward to doing things."

"And businessmen, they are not bound by high moral disadvantages, they can do whatever they want."

It is the first time that Zhu Yijun has described his understanding of the issue of opening the sea in such detail, specificity and accuracy, this is a political statement, the existence of the Ming court is to regulate the contradictions of various classes, when the court can not fulfill its obligations, it will be the moment of destruction, and the contradictions listed by Zhu Yijun are all contradictions that the Ming Dynasty cannot solve in the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

And these contradictions, together constitute a major contradiction, and the world is trapped in annexation.

"Your Majesty." Zhang Juzheng bowed his head and said, he is not patting on the back, His Majesty is really Shengming, the logic of opening the sea is very complete, the decree of opening the sea is orderly, and the purpose of opening the sea is very clear, which is a great and great luck for the courtiers who do things.

The holy will is unpredictable, it is indeed a practice for the king, but this has brought too much trouble to the people who do things below, whether this thing should be done, whether it can be done, how far it can be done, and what kind of result it will make, are all questions, and you need to guess the meaning, guess what the above means, it is really boring.

The ambiguity of the order will inevitably lead to confusion among the executors and deviations in execution.

But Zhu Yijun is not such a king, he can always conduct an in-depth analysis of the phenomenon, find the problem behind the phenomenon, explore the cause of the problem, and try to find a way, even if this method is not too perfect, but the alleviating effect on the contradiction is extremely obvious.

There have been such kings in the Ming Dynasty, such as Ming Taizu, Ming Chengzu, Ming Xianzong, and Emperor Jiajing of Ming Shizong, who failed to overcome the end, worked hard for more than 20 years, and was disheartened after being assassinated.

Zhang Ju was a jinshi in the Jiajing period, he knew the temper and temperament of Emperor Jiajing, and Emperor Jiajing was disappointed and accumulated to despair, and finally chose to hide in the West Garden and insisted on burning.

"Then, since the merchants want to do things, the imperial court must give them some convenience, and at the same time give them convenience, it can also reasonably increase the military, political, economic, and cultural constraints on overseas countries, whether it is directly under the overseas territory, or directly under the colony, or the colony with loose bondage, it is all within the sphere of influence of the Ming Dynasty." Zhu Yijun said very seriously: "I think that I can recognize their overseas Fanguo, and if they are mixed up outside, I can also grant them knighthoods, or even give them national surnames, to represent the Ming Dynasty and represent my recognition of them." ”

Zhu Yijun made a clear statement on this position, allowing the merchants to establish a state overseas, allowing them to carry out colonial activities overseas, allowing them to strip and plunder overseas wealth, and giving them corresponding treatment and status.

If you want the horse to run, but you don't want to give the horse grazing, this kind of mentality is absolutely unavoidable.

"Your Majesty, overseas lords, give the surname of the country, should be cautious and cautious, if it is a person with the surname Zhengmao, it is not impossible, but if it is a wolf ambition, the knighthood is very harmful, and it should also be cautious and cautious, the title of Lord Wu is not a meritorious service of Han and Ma, and it cannot be awarded lightly." Wan Shihe expressed his attitude from the perspective of etiquette, it is okay to give a title, and it is not impossible to give a national surname, but you must be cautious and cautious, and you must not abuse the title.

"Wan Dazai's words are reasonable." Zhu Yijun thought for a moment and said very solemnly.

If it is a charlatan, obviously a pirate, burning, killing and looting, he does all kinds of evil, and even hijacks the ship of the Ming Dynasty, similar to Zheng Pingding's pirate Chen Zuyi, if Chen Zuyi is a pirate who deceives the title of the imperial court, it will be compiled into the Ming joke collection and ridiculed by people for generations.

Zhu Yijun is not afraid of being scolded, but he is absolutely unacceptable to be laughed at.

Prudence is inevitable, Yin Zhengmao, Chen Lan, Zhang Yuanxun, Deng Zilong and other overseas lords have all gone through a long time to test what they have done overseas, and finally decided to grant them, even Xu Wei and Xu Wenchang have not been able to mix up a title, which shows the preciousness of the Ming title.

"Is it difficult to be knighted with overseas meritorious service?" Zhu Yijun asked about etiquette.

"There is no difficulty, Your Majesty." Wan Shihe said with an extremely strange face: "Your Majesty, in fact, Zheng He and Liu Yongcheng, the two virtuous eunuchs, were once named marquis in the eleventh year of Yongle, but unfortunately, in the Xuande period, when the Taizong Record was revised, the two were not rewarded in the end because they were eunuchs, and they were not included in the actual record. ”

"Huh?" Zhu Yijun was stunned.

Liu Yongcheng, Zhu Yijun really knows such a number one person, this person is good at riding and shooting, during the Northern Expedition of Emperor Chengzu, he has repeatedly served as a partial general in the army, when Xuanzong, he was from the Ming Xuanzong to pacify the rebellion of the Han Dynasty, in the Ming Yingzong, he guarded Liangzhou, Gansu and other places, and made several military exploits, and also fought with the left governor Ma Liang and other handsome divisions to conquer Wuliangha, outstanding military achievements, and Zheng He was equally famous, and was one of the few geniuses with military talent in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yijun knew Zheng He and Liu Yongcheng, but he really didn't know that Emperor Cheng Zuwen even gave them the title of marquis.

Both of them were eunuchs.

"Overthrew the eunuch Zhang Yong, who was known as the emperor Liu Jin, and after pacifying the Anhua King Zhu Ningyao, he quoted Zheng He and Liu Yongcheng as the marquis, begging Ming Wuzong to be the marquis, and the cabinet was very frustrated, and even the reward for pacifying the rebellion of the Anhua King was resigned." Wan Shihe talked about an old thing.

This matter was recorded in the records of Ming Wuzong, when the cabinet's approval was still there, and the cabinet's questioning was mainly non-customized, not that Zheng He and Liu Yongcheng did not have a marquis, and Zhang Yong, who pacified the rebellion of the king of Anhua, how could he be compared with Zheng He, who repeatedly sent envoys to the West, went through various countries, and announced the edict of the Son of Heaven, because he gave him the monarch, and Zheng He, who was not satisfied with it, was deterred by force, and Liu Yongcheng, who made a lot of military achievements?

However, Zheng He and Liu Yongcheng, the two eunuchs, did exist.

Wan Shihe searched all the old files, and only found Zheng He who had been awarded the title of marquis in "The Icon of Non-Phantom Nunnery Incense", and Zheng He's successor son Zheng Yi inherited the marquis, and was later stripped away and changed to a hereditary Enyin brocade thousand households.

"The Icon of Non-Phantom Nunnery Incense" is an inscription left by Zhou Man, Zheng He's seventh deputy envoy to the West, in Bifeng Temple in Nanjing.

The lonely certificate is not proven, the time has passed too long, there is no good way to verify it, but it doesn't matter, if someone objects, then Wan Shihe will take this matter out and say, don't open the window, he Wan Shihe will lift the roof!

When he wants to lift the roof, naturally someone will come out to compromise, so it's better to open a window.

To give the eunuchs a marquis, not only the martial artists did not want to agree, but also the civil officials who had fought with the eunuchs for more than a thousand years refused to agree.

"In this case, then there will be Rawan Dazai." After Zhu Yijun heard about it, he handed over the matter to Wan Shihe, Wan Shihe was obviously prepared, and he didn't dare to say anything else, in the matter of etiquette, Wan Shihe really grabbed the snail with three fingers and pinched it in his hand.

"There is one more thing, that is the account of dividends, who will account for it?" Zhu Yijun asked a key question, who will calculate the dividend account, if it is the commercial banks, Zhu Yijun has no doubt, these ships go to sea, all of them have to lose money, sea trade is indeed profitable, but these businessmen, in order to pay less dividends, or even no dividends, will make the accounts into flat accounts, or even lose money.

Who will settle the accounts and who will issue dividends has become the biggest dilemma of Yanxinglou Trading Bank.

Wang Chonggu didn't talk about this problem too deeply, it was that he didn't think about it, not that he didn't dare to talk about it, if the imperial court came to calculate this account, then obviously the imperial court had to bear this responsibility, whether it was the sinking of the ship, the dampness of the goods and the depreciation, or even the robbery by the pirates, etc., resulting in losses, those who held the ship ticket, would definitely deduct the responsibility to the imperial court.

When the time comes, it will be another piece of chicken feathers.

But the imperial court doesn't count this account, and this dividend is meaningless, because the specific business bank will definitely make arrears and dividends? It's good not to ask you for money.

"It's better to let Songjiang Ocean Commercial Bank settle this account." Tan Lun thought for a moment and said: "Songjiang Ocean Trading Company is a guild, it is most appropriate for them to calculate this account, and the imperial court is only responsible for auditing, so that the problems that Wang Cifu is worried about will not happen, and in the same way, the imperial court also has the right to supervise." ”

"That's a good idea!" Zhang Juzheng's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he clapped his hands and agreed with Tan Lun's statement.

The imperial court doesn't want to take too much responsibility, this is inevitable, but the necessary audit and supervision must be done, so this person who is behind the blame, a half-official and half-civilian business house is the most suitable.

The problem of auditing the profits of the merchant houses, in the early years of Wanli, was relatively simple, because the profits of all the merchant ships were transparent and clear at a glance for the Ming Dynasty.

It is very appropriate and appropriate for the court to do the hard work, the blame for the blame, the business bank, the audit thing, and the accountability thing.

After repeated negotiations, the key systems and principles of the Yanxinglou Trading House, the division of responsibilities, the review of accounts, and other issues were clearly determined in the negotiations of the Quanchu Guild Hall.

When the moon was on the willow top, the Ming Emperor finally ended the briefing, the opening and closing of the meeting, in order to inject a steady stream of silver into the open sea, the Ming Emperor has exhausted all his efforts.

There are many contradictions in the Ming Dynasty, which cannot be solved by the Ming Dynasty at present, and the external bailout is the best solution at present.

In the early morning three days later, the hall of the Yanxinglou trading house opened the door again to welcome customers, and everyone wondered from the bottom of their hearts, the price of worsted wool is still seven dollars per foot, and it has become a kind of clothing fabric from silk coins.

When people walked into the trading house with curiosity, they saw the notice in front of the door, and they clearly knew that the people behind this trading house were really big people with hands and eyes, and the first batch of 50 three-masted plywood ships and five five-masted ships had already begun to subscribe.

When people were still hesitating, a group of businessmen with a typical Shanxi accent rushed into the trading house, rushing to the counter to subscribe to the five-masted ship, obviously these people were Jin merchants who received the news from Wang Chonggu, they waited in front of the door early in the morning, and rushed in as soon as they opened the door, in order to subscribe to the five-masted ship, these Jin merchants did not even use the brokerage comprador, they went into battle in person!

The five-masted ship, a legendary ship living in the miscellaneous newspapers, even the ship that Tessie's captain Antonio and the special envoy of the Mughal Kingdom, Shahmat, had to buy at a higher price, can now be purchased in Yanxinglou, which is the only opportunity to own this kind of ship, even if there is no right to use, only the right to become the owner of the ship.

At the moment when the Jin merchants rushed in to subscribe, everyone knew that these Jin businessmen, who had gotten the news in advance, were secretly making a lot of money again! At the beginning, the worsted woolen business was the first to enter the business of this group of Jin merchants, and then they withdrew at the highest price and left, making a lot of money, and now they are grabbing money again!

Damn the Jin Party, damn Wang Chonggu, leaked the news to his friends again! The Jin businessmen, who have been accustomed to the privileged economy, have formed a path dependence, and they can accurately grasp the outlet every time, and then make a lot of money.

Zhu Yijun also thought that the fifty three-masted and five five-masted would be digested in a month, after all, on the bank of the Tonghui River, dozens of people had just jumped, and the rabbit died and the fox was sadly injured.

The price of these 55 boats was as high as 3.5 million silver, which was not a small amount, and what shocked Zhu Yijun was that it only took one day for these 55 boats to be subscribed.

There was also a scramble in this, and the Jin merchants and the wealthy families of Xitucheng even staged a full martial arts and fought in the trading house for the subscription of the last five-masted ship!

Zhu Yijun still underestimated the amount of silver hidden in the pigsty by the Daming luxury households, even if the silver was not so much in the Beiya, it still made Zhu Yijun see what is called the speed of covering luxury households.

This rich ore can continue to be mined and dug continuously.

"Mr. Yuanfu, Wang Cifu and Da Sima couldn't resist pestering, and asked Guo Chaobin of the Ministry of Industry, the approximate time of the next batch of ships, Guo Shangshu is honest, this is a little confused, this first auxiliary and sub-auxiliary Sima, that Guo Shangshu can't afford to offend, on the Tao, please resign." Feng Bao put a note in front of the emperor and said with a bit of schadenfreude.

Wang Chonggu naturally doesn't need to say much, it is normal for people to call themselves traitors and leak some news to the Jin merchants, but Zhang Juzheng was entangled by this incident to the point of asking the Ministry of Industry, which shows that the luxury households highly recognize the plan of everyone to be a shipowner.

Buying a ship is much more cost-effective than buying worsted wool, according to the probability of the safe return of the Ming ship as high as eighty percent, it can be described as a profitable deal.

In particular, the imperial court used six books and one account to audit the accounts of Songjiang Ocean Commercial Bank, which is even more reassuring, Zhang Siwei is a joke, his shopkeeper and account room concealed Zhang Siwei from the sky and the sea, embezzled more than seventy percent of the profits, and only left three percent of the profits for Zhang Siwei, which has become a joke in the streets and alleys of Beijing, of course, the strong auditing ability of the Gewu Institute is also impressive.

There was an audit by the imperial court, and the Songjiang Ocean Trading Company, which was responsible for operating these merchant ships, did not dare to act recklessly.

"Guo Shangshu is doing a good job, he is in the prime of life, why is he a scholar? Sent an edict to the second assistant and Da Sima, telling them not to put pressure on the Ministry of Industry anymore, and the expansion of the Daming Shipyard did not stop for a moment. Zhu Yijun drew a big × on Guo Chaobin's recital, this is an honest man, diligent and diligent is to work hard, feel at ease and dust, the three party leaders put pressure on Guo Chaobin, Guo Chaobin naturally couldn't stand it.

"Only give the second assistant and the big Sima an oracle, what about the sir?" Feng Bao was just about to receive the order, and suddenly found that His Majesty had only notified two party leaders.

Zhu Yijun said as a matter of course: "Sir, naturally I personally told Mr. the news." ”

When you are undecided, you resort to the ocean, ask for a monthly pass, and woo!!! Woohoo woo !!

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