Wanli Youming

Chapter 61 About Kaihai

Zhang Juzheng still cared about his image in Zhu Yijun's heart.

This has something to do with Zhu Yijun being both his monarch and his student.

Of course, the bigger reason is that Zhang Juzheng has become more and more afraid to despise himself as a student, and has to consider his feelings as the emperor's student.

"One more thing."

Because of this, Zhang Juzheng also told Zhang Jingxiu: "Pass my words to Xuncheng Yushi Wang Zhuan, let him select a group of strong soldiers from the Bingma Division, and maintain order in the densely populated places outside Zhengyang Gate every day to avoid Stampede, need to report the increased salary."

Zhang Jingxiu clapped his hands and said yes.

Forbidden City.

After Zhu Yijun returned to the palace, he went to see the queen mothers of the two palaces first, and after greeting them and chatting with the queen mothers of the two palaces for a while, he returned to his Qianqing palace.

And after Zhu Yijun came back, he happened to see the Annotations of the Four Books of Song Edition sent by Li Rusong, and smiled lightly, thinking: "I want to test you, how can I let you do it so easily!"

After Zhu Yijun slandered a few words, he ordered someone to take down a bow that Li Rusong said was Li Chengliang's treasure from the partition, and held it in his hand.

Zhu Yijun tried to draw the bow, and then found that the heavy bow was really strenuous, so much so that he gritted his teeth, but couldn't draw it, and there was not even the sound of strings moving like cotton.

Zhu Yijun had no choice but to give up and continue to keep it as a decoration in the bedroom, and try again when he becomes stronger in the future.

At this moment, Zhang Jing came over and said: "Your Majesty, Zhang Jingxiu came to report that Yuanfu Mr. Zhang returned the two orchids that General Qi gave him, and said that it was an old slave, not Feng Bao. Tell the emperor you."

Zhu Yijun sneered after hearing this.

In fact, Zhu Yijun never thought that Zhang Juzheng would be a saint, especially a morally perfect saint.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun will not be like Wanli in history, because he learned that the gentleman who he always thought was honest and unselfish was also a greedy and lustful man, and even went out of his way for his son, and even collapsed when he built a luxurious mansion.

As long as Zhang Juzheng is willing to help him reform the system, Zhu Yijun is willing to train him a group of people who dare to reform in the early stage, and to pave the way for him to reform first. It's not that you don't care too much about raising a famous dog.

But Zhang Juzheng wanted to maintain an image in front of him, and he would not stop him.

In Zhu Yijun's view, this is also a good thing.

At least in the future, when the bureaucratic group counterattacks Zhang Juzheng because of his abuse of power and restructuring, he himself, the emperor, can have more confidence to protect him.

After all, Confucian society does place a high value on morality.

Especially in history, when the Donglin Party appeared in the late Ming Dynasty, the literati and bureaucrats of the Donglin faction reached the peak of morality.

And thus lead to more hypocrites.

Of course, this is related to the social conflicts that will arise in the farming society of Ming Dynasty after being impacted by the commodity economy in the future.

On the one hand, the aggravation of the money-worshiping thought has led to a decline in the world; on the other hand, because most of the people who have the ability to worship money are bureaucrats and gentry, many literati and bureaucrats hope to strengthen the moral construction of the emperor and bureaucrats. But the deep-seated changes that are taking place in the world are turned a blind eye.

There is no other reason, the latter is equivalent to cutting one's own flesh, while the former is naturally easier.

So crazy advocacy of moral construction to solve social problems is over, and more people can support it.

"Let him go."

Zhu Yijun knew that Zhang Juzheng, as a member of the Confucian scholar-officials, still had moral burdens. Even though he knew that he could no longer be a moral model, he still wanted to pretend in front of the emperor.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun didn't say much, and only asked next: "Is there anything else?"

Zhang Jing replied: "Mr. Yuanfu Zhang told Zhang Jingxiu that he had already communicated with Da Sikong, and he intends to ask the imperial court to further open the sea and abolish the artisan household system."

"This is the business!"

After hearing this, Zhu Yijun asked, "The last time Feng Bao's property was copied, how much did the Xu family give to Feng Bao in Haili's statistics?"

"Go back to the emperor, there are more than 120 million taels."

Zhang Jing replied.

Zhu Yijun said: "I remember that Liu Yaohai, governor of Fujian, reported that the tax revenue of Yuegang in Kaihai was more than [-] taels last year, right?"

"correct."

Zhang Jing replied.

Zhu Yijun fell silent after hearing this.

He didn't expect that the tax revenue brought to the country by opening the sea during the Longqing period was less than one percent of a local gentry's annual Haili.

Originally it was all my money, but in the end I could only take one percent of it.

This made Zhu Yijun feel really uncomfortable.

Thinking about the history, Zheng Zhilong could earn more than 2000 million taels of silver a year by relying on sea trade.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty was so closed and the tariffs during the Qianlong period were more than 600 million taels.

Zhu Yijun suddenly felt that Ming's taxes were pitifully low, and the policy of opening up the sea that boldly broke the constraints of the ancestral system only enriched the rich local people.

"And I still remember that when the first emperor opened Haiyue Port, the annual income was only more than 2000 taels, right?"

Zhu Yijun asked again.

Zhang Jing replied again: "Yes."

Zhu Yijun said nothing more.

But he also had to admit in his heart that opening the sea is indeed beneficial, but the civil servants and bureaucrats who are in charge of taxation set the tax very low under the banner of not taking advantage of the people, and let the country get the benefits of opening the sea. Far less than local officials.

"It seems that no matter what, opening the sea can indeed increase the country's money."

Zhu Yijun said because of this, and asked Zhang Jing: "Do you think sir, they can continue to open the sea successfully?"

Zhang Jing said at this time: "Since the emperor asked, the old slave boldly said, I am afraid it will be difficult!"

"Tell me your reasons."

Zhu Yijun couldn't learn some truths from scholar-officials, but only from domestic slaves.

This can be regarded as both listening and knowing.

"Yes!"

"My lord, in fact, apart from the fact that Fujian and Zhejiang are really due to the fact that there are many mountains and little land, if the people are not allowed to go to sea, there will be civil uprisings, and the big households in other places who rely on Haili do not want the court to open the sea."

"The reason why they were able to open Yuegang was really because the Japanese invasion scared them. In addition, Gao Xinzheng was deeply trusted by the late emperor. He dared to do things, so he was able to overcome all opinions. With the support of a group of Fujian and Zhejiang officials, he opened the Haiyuegang has just snatched tens of thousands of taels from Tianxia Haili forcibly and gives it to the imperial court as military pay."

"Further opening up the sea means that the navy must be further strengthened to ensure that the sea is safe and the common people dare to go to sea. If this is the case, the court will have to increase taxes. At the same time, more common people will go to sea;"

"And if you don't open the sea, Haili can only be monopolized by the wealthy gentry. They can cooperate with the pirates, or raise armed servants themselves, and don't have to worry about the weak navy of the court and the rampant pirates at sea. They may even do part-time jobs. Pirates, plundering land people."

"So, if we open the sea now, it means we have to snatch ten thousand or even tens of thousands of taels of silver from the big gentry from all over the world to the court every year, and let the common people have the opportunity to go directly to the sea, and take away the money from the big gentry and the big gentry. Haili also prevents the big families from colluding with pirates to plunder the wealthy people on land, so this may make the big families and gentry very dissatisfied."

"Originally giving tens of thousands of taels of silver to the imperial court in Yuegang is considered to be taking advantage of the people!"

Zhang Jing replied.

Regarding Yuegang's tens of thousands of taels of open sea tax, Zhu Yijun originally felt that he was getting less!
As a result, according to Zhang Jing's intention, in fact, people still think it's too much!
It is best not to give a penny to the court, and not to let the people earn a penny.

And the people can only work hard on the land to be lambs waiting to be slaughtered.

"A single Xu family can earn millions of Haili annually, but I can only get more than 1 taels, which was obtained by people like Gao Gong desperately, and they don't even want to give the 1 taels."

"Is this Daming still my Daming?!"

Zhu Yijun asked a question while speaking.

"The emperor calm down!"

"Fortunately, Mr. Zhang Yuanfu and Da Sikong are still ministers who are determined to innovate and are loyal to the country, so they are willing to use this method to increase the state's money without imposing burdens on ordinary people and only offending big households."

Zhang Jing hurriedly knelt down and replied.

"You're right, I'm lucky, get up."

Zhu Yijun said a word.

"Thank you, my lord!"

　The sweet potato above has been changed.I am a biology student, and I know that sweet potatoes have no amino acids and no nutrition. The reason why I only mention sweet potatoes for the time being is because I know that sweet potatoes have already begun to appear in Fujian at this time in history.But since everyone is mentioning this, I'll change it to ask people to find Fanliang.I also deleted the comment on sweet potato, after all, it has been changed.Thank you for reading. This book is written slowly. The main reason is that it is more difficult to find the information at the end. What’s more, most of the biographies of the civil servants in the historical materials are so good-looking. None of them are honest, honest and have political achievements. Yes, if this is true, it is completely illogical why a dynasty will be hard to return in the later period, getting worse and worse, and corruption getting worse and worse.Especially the official history books, presumably because of the reason that ancient history requires respect for the three taboos.On the contrary, it is Zhang Juzheng and Hai Rui who have really done a lot of black material in history to benefit the people's livelihood.It made it difficult for me to find a villain among civil servants. I could only look for clues in some unofficial histories and local chronicles, and then I knew who were hypocrites, sanctimonious people, noble morals but conservative and reactionary in politics , so the update is not fast, please forgive me.

　
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