0493 North-South Struggle
And shipbuilding is definitely much slower than grabbing ships, and if this goes on for a long time, all the ships on the sea will probably be surnamed Liu in the future, and they don't have to spend a penny!
After figuring out this truth, they were even more mournful! Now they are faced with two choices, one is to continue to smuggle overseas at the risk! But if this goes on like this, there will be too many losses of ships and cargo, and you will lose money!
Another option is to pay Liu Haojia money to buy a green dragon tooth device, and then you have to pay taxes! As soon as they heard that they had to pay two cents, the gentry's tears were about to fall! So they and Liu Haojia have formed an indissoluble enmity!
So they set the battlefield on the court, resulting in the current court in Beijing is about to turn the sky upside down! If there is a comparison, only the battle of servants of the year can be compared, or even inferior!
The gentry in Jiangnan are keenly aware that if they want to solve this problem, they can only solve it in the court! So they didn't discuss it at all, and each notified their agents in the court to attack Liu Haojia with all their might, and wanted to destroy everything he did!
At the same time, there is also a large amount of real money and silver sent to Jingshi, just to use these people to dredge up relationships! In the eyes of these Jiangnan gentry, as long as everything set by Liu Haojia is overturned, things will be back on track, and they can continue to ship overseas leisurely, evade taxes, and make a fortune! So their attitude is unusually firm!
And Liu Haojia is not without supporters, his biggest supporters are Xungui and officials with northern household registration. For them, attacking Liu Haojia is attacking their own money bags!
Anyway, in the past, the profits of sea trade were taken away by the southerners, and they had nothing to jump here! Now although it is said that he wants to pay a sum of money to Liu Haojia and pay taxes, but the business is done, and his own family will always have profits, which is better than not seeing a penny!
And this silver is not all for Liu Haojia. They all knew that the navy was a royal navy and belonged to the emperor, and the bulk of the silver must have gone into the inner treasury! This is equivalent to marrying the emperor, so the money will be paid!
So the two sides came to me in the court, and they debated endlessly! There are also personal attacks! I don't know who started to pull out each other's old foundations when arguing with each other first! However, they soon stopped this method of killing a thousand enemies and damaging themselves a thousand! After all, everyone's butts are not clean underneath, and you can lift others too!
Normally, southerners are stronger than northerners, so officials with southern household registration have an advantage in the imperial court! And even in the debate, their words are more subtle, and their dictionaries are more accurate! So in the very beginning, the courtiers of northern origin were at a disadvantage!
But soon they have a firm ally, and that is Xungui! There are not no people who read among the nobles, and there is even no shortage of good readers! It's just that it was suppressed by both the north and the south in the past. Now that the north and the south are divided, they naturally choose to support the north according to their own position, and they are quickly accepted by the officials from the north! Many people have even been promoted in the court, which is a treatment that the sons of the nobles have never enjoyed before!
Seeing that their own sons and nephews are promising, especially when it comes to their own money bags, other nobles who can't study have also used eighteen kinds of martial arts! What nonsense, sprinkling and rolling, and other such market shrew-like tricks are all used!
When this point was pointed out by the southern officials, these nobles were complacent! In their words, how much is a pound of face? How can there be silver with white flowers! If face could be exchanged for silver, they wouldn't mind not having it at all!
Therefore, with the support of Xungui, the north and the south are actually evenly matched! And there is a great possibility that it will become a protracted war!
Seeing that the two sides were evenly matched, Emperor Wanli was happy in his heart! Because both the North and the South are desperately seeking his support, he has now become a vital weight.
Although everyone knows that he is inclined to Liu Haojia, that is, to the northerners. But as an emperor, it is absolutely impossible for him to completely refute the opinions of most of the courtiers! Once a certain force forms an overwhelming advantage, even the emperor is helpless! Look at the book
Duo Yixun and northern officials strongly expressed their support for all the policies of Emperor Wanli and Liu Haojia, hoping to establish an advantage! And the southern household registration
There are more officials, and they hope to form an advantageous situation, so as to force Emperor Wanli to take back the decision to open the sea!
And now the gentry in the south have realized that it is impossible to win on all battlefields, so they focused their attacks on Liu Haojia himself and the two things of opening the sea in the fiefdom. As for the forbidden sea, wasn't it all forbidden in previous years, and it didn't delay the shipment!
As long as the matter of opening the sea is defeated, the law of banning the sea will be self-defeating! It's a big deal to give the northerners a little leftovers, and when the time comes, the smuggling that should be smuggled and the tax evasion that should be evaded, life will return to normal!
But the wonderful thing is that Emperor Wanli has not yet completely taken power, so he deliberately made a look of "what the northern officials said is very reasonable, but what you southern officials said is also reasonable, and I am also very embarrassed", and let the two factions fight, and he mastered many officials who were uncovered through Zhang Jia!
At a time when the North and the South were fighting each other, they did not forget the importance of the Cabinet, and that it was the place where everything began and ended that was decided! But they tacitly didn't go to that trouble, because they also knew that there was already a quarrel in the cabinet now!
The fundamental reason for this is because of the difference between the north and the south! It's called the ass decides the mind! In the cabinet, Shen Shixing, Wang Xijue and Zhang Han are all southerners. Wang Xijue is a native of Taicang, Suzhou Prefecture, Shen Shixing is a native of Changzhou County, Suzhou Prefecture, and Zhang Han is a native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang!
The hometown of the three of them is the base camp of the Jiangnan gentry! Therefore, countless letters of request were sent to them, and their children and relatives kept giving them advice, which made them annoyed!
The three of them are members of the cabinet, so they naturally know what is beneficial to the court and what is unfavorable to the court. But they can sit in this position today, and they can't do without the support of their hometown parents, classmates, students and others!
As soon as they object or don't say a word, those who originally supported them will quickly abandon them and support a new group of people who are in their interest! So in desperation, even Zhang Han, who was only looking ahead, had to jump out and pretend to support the opinions of the south!