"Although there was a retreat when Emperor Yongzheng arrived, everyone also opened up trade, and the real retreat was during the Qianlong period, which will be talked about."

"Yongzheng's external thinking is basically inherited from Kangxi, but it is also a little different from Kangxi."

"Kangxi adopted a very rational attitude towards Western missionaries, on the one hand, using their advanced science and technology, on the other hand, he was disgusted with their spreading Catholicism, and especially disgusted by Pope Gradmen's attempts to interfere in the internal affairs of his country."

"At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, there were two sea bans, the first occurred in the Shunzhi Dynasty and ended in the 23rd year of Kangxi."

"After the lifting of the sea ban, Songjiang in Jiangsu, Ningbo in Zhejiang, Quanzhou in Fujian and Guangzhou in Guangdong became ports for foreign trade."

"Soon, overseas trade flourished, and merchants from their own countries interacted with Southeast Asian countries more and more frequently."

"It was a good situation, but then there were problems."

"The problem is that some people go to study in other races and don't want to go back to their hometowns, just like me as a foreign student in later generations, some people just feel that the air of other races is fresher than their own country."

"Kangxi soon discovered that there were more than 1,000 ships that went to sea every year, but only fifty or sixty percent returned, which was equivalent to a large amount of wealth and population lost overseas for the Qing government."

"In the fifty-sixth year of Kangxi, that is, in 1717, a ban on the sea was issued again, explicitly prohibiting going out of the South Sea."

"This is the second sea ban in the early Qing Dynasty."

"What makes the second sea ban different is that he does not prohibit his own ships from sailing to Japan, nor does he prohibit foreign ships from coming to our country, but he strictly prohibits his own merchants from doing business in the South Seas."

"Only in but not out, fully embodies the way of thinking of feudal rulers."

"In the third year of Yongzheng, FJ Province had a poor harvest in the autumn, and there was a famine in the spring of the second year, and there were rice grabbing incidents in many places."

"Some officials along the coast have once again proposed to open the sea ban to alleviate the famine."

"Under the turn of coastal officials, Yongzheng finally relented and agreed to Gao Qizhuo's request to allow Fujian's foreign trade, which was the fifth year of Yongzheng, that is, 1727."

"In fact, what Gao Qizhuo mentioned is not groundless, idealistic."

"His analysis was precisely the same problem faced by the coastal areas at that time, and the coastal people were deeply affected by the sea ban, so he represented a broad public opinion."

The reason why Yongzheng finally made up his mind to cancel the sea ban even if he was infamous for "unfilial piety" was correct, and it was also for his country. ”

"The fiscal deficit is serious."

"As early as when Yongzheng was still the prince of Yong in the domain, he knew that the household treasury suffered serious losses every year and could not make ends meet."

"If he wants to make a big difference after succeeding to the throne, financial support is naturally indispensable, so where does this money come from?"

"You can't let the court and bandits robber rob you around, right?"

"So in the face of a serious deficit in the treasury, how to make money is Yongzheng's first priority."

"Food scarcity is severe."

"In fact, as early as the middle and late Kangxi period, Gao Qizhuo handed over an excerpt to the imperial court."

"The report said that Fujian, which was once extremely wealthy, is now suffering from famine, and there has also been a tragedy of casualties due to scramble for food."

"The root of all this tragic situation lies in the national policy of banning the sea that was established back then, and the coastal residents cannot eat the sea by relying on the sea, and they are starving while guarding such a cornucopia."

"After the second sea ban was imposed in 1717, this situation caused unanimous dissatisfaction among the coastal people and merchants."

In the end, Guangdong, Fujian and other places appeared in the situation of "dense people and narrow land, and the countryside is not enough for farming", and the once richest place became such a miserable phenomenon, which is naturally what Yongzheng does not want to see. ”

"So what Gao Qizhuo wants coincides with it, but although he agrees to lift the sea ban, there must be certain restrictions."

Otherwise, the people in the coastal areas will not want to come back when they see that they can make a lot of money by opening up maritime trade, and they will not want to come back, and there will be no one to take care of the cultivation of the country's land. ”

"After the opening of the sea ban, Yongzheng made some special regulations, and export ships must go back and forth at the specified time."

"If you can't come back on time under special circumstances, Yongzheng has also formulated some special policies, if you don't have to pay off the account, you can return to Hong Kong in June and July next year."

"Yongzheng also made similar gambling regulations for those who stayed overseas and did not return to China, and they were not allowed to return to China."

"Originally, the Qing government's policy was to allow returnees, but over the past few years, Yongzheng has found that there are very few wanderers who come back on merchant ships."

"Yongzheng may feel that these people don't give themselves face, thinking that these people are restless people, if they are given freedom and let them come and go freely, these people will have no scruples, anyway, they can go back at any time, just stay abroad for a while!"

"Therefore, Yongzheng has set a time limit, and those who do not return within the time limit are not allowed to return to China."

"From the fifth to the sixth year of Yongzheng, there were 21 Fujian merchant ships exported from Xiamen, and 12 returned before July, bringing back more than 11,000 stones of rice, as well as bird's nest, sea cucumber, sumac, cowhide and other goods, bringing back more than 30 residents who lived in Nanyang, some of whom had lived overseas for 17 or 8 years."

"After these people came back, Yongzheng arranged for them to return to their hometowns on the one hand, and on the other hand, asked the magistrate to closely investigate to see if these people were internal thieves."

Therefore, on the one hand, Yongzheng stipulated that ships going to sea could only enter and exit the ports stipulated by the imperial court, and on the other hand, for the hidden danger of people "going out and not coming back", he specially made a provision that "they must return to China within three years, otherwise their original place of origin will be cancelled". ”

Moreover, according to the current situation of the deficit of the national treasury, Yongzheng specially ordered the customs to pay a "delivery" tax of 10 percent. ”

With the continuous increase of trade, the amount of "paid" taxes also increased by thousands, and finally the treasury of the Yongzheng period was not only replenished but also surplus. ”

"Not only has the country's income skyrocketed, but the merchant ships returning from the sea have brought back precious bird's nests, sea cucumbers and other goods, and the people in the coastal areas no longer have to live a life of starvation and cold."

Although Yongzheng was infamous for "unfilial piety" and "greedy for good goods" in the abolition of the maritime ban policy, his open maritime ban was unanimously praised by the coastal people for the rapid reversal of the coastal poverty situation brought about by his innovation. ”

"Emperor Yongzheng reigned for thirteen years, and he spent more than six hours a day dealing with court affairs, and only slept for two hours a night on average."

"And the life is frugal and not luxurious, he is very serious about people and things, that is, he carefully writes the review and folds one stroke at a time, and it is said that he writes thousands of words every day."