My Daming New Empire

And Zhu Di is not difficult to persuade.Although Dongying is a country without conquest, as long as there is a fig leaf, Zhu Di will not hesitate to do it.

Because on the globe, the silver mountain that Zhu Zhanji marked made him very excited.

During their northern expedition, Jin Yiwei's spies had already found the silver mountain in the Izumo country. Although it is not sure whether the reserves are as large as "Magellan" said, it is enough to make Zhu Di's heart move.

With that mountain of silver, Daming will never be short of silver again.

In the southern part of the palace, Jin Yiwei and the inner eunuch jointly inspected. As soon as Zhu Zhanji entered the palace gate, he asked the general on duty, Wang Li: "Has the commander left the palace?"

"His Royal Highness, Commander-in-Chief is in the Hall of Martial Arts and has not yet left the palace."

Except for the personal eunuch, no one can spy on Zhu Di's whereabouts, nor can he deliberately ask.But since Ji Gang has entered the palace, if he hasn't left yet, just ask him about his whereabouts.

Dafa sent the two masters back, Zhu Zhanji took Li Liang and the others to the Hall of Martial Arts along the boulevard beside the small river in the palace, but found that there were still many ministers of civil and military affairs here.

At this time, Zhu Zhanji, as a grandson, could not go in, so he could only suppress his thoughts and return to Xingqing Palace first.

But when he left, he left Li Liang behind, and only he had the right to talk to Zhu Di.

"Jin Daban, bring out all the information about Dongying for me, I have to read it carefully."

After a while, Jin Kuo took eight young eunuchs and brought out four boxes of materials. "Your Highness, all the information about Dongying is here. One box is reported by Jin Yiwei, and the other three boxes are the information collected by the internal supervisor during the past trade with Dongying."

"Arrange a few more people to find out information about the Izumo Kingdom, the Muromachi Shogunate and Japanese pirates."

(Going into the mountain today, the update may be delayed tomorrow, please take a leave of absence from everyone first, stay in the mountain and settle down, the old demon concentrates on coding.)

Chapter 77 Questions

At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the neighbors in the east were also caught in fierce disputes.The war between the Northern and Southern Dynasties plunged the entire country into decline, and countless people were displaced. They had to become mercenaries for the pirates of the Ming Dynasty, and turned to burn, kill, and loot along the coast of Daming.

From the time of Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty was committed to strengthening coastal defense. In the later period of Hongwu, because of the collapse of the Zhang Shicheng Group who had fled to the East China Sea, and the Ashikaga Yoshimitsu of the Muromachi Shogunate finally ended the Civil War, so the pirates of the Ming Dynasty, including Japanese pirates, were almost extinct.

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu is also considered a capable and ruthless person, and is regarded as the founder of the Muromachi Shogunate.He is obsessed with Ming culture at the same time, except that the main house adopts the Ming style.At the same time, search for Ming treasures, commodities, calligraphy and paintings.

He also gathered scholars and painters with profound attainments in Sinology to provide excellent conditions for them to engage in literary research and publishing, thus forming Beishan culture with a distinct Chinese style.

In addition to the cultural aspect, in addition to the prosperity of the country's commodity economy in the economic aspect, he strives to develop tomorrow's trade.

In the third year of Jianwen, Zu'a and Feifu were sent to the Ming Dynasty. They enshrined Ming Zhengshuo in the letter of credence, proclaimed their ministers and paid tribute, and established tomorrow's trade relations.

In the first year of Yongle, Zhu Di proclaimed himself emperor.Tomorrow's trade relationship has been further expanded, forming a ten-year tribute trade, also known as tomorrow's official trade relationship of exploration and cooperation trade.

When Ming took the initiative to open the country and allowed Dongying to conduct trade with conditions, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu began to be responsible for the elimination of Japanese pirates in Dongying.

The Japanese pirates in Dongying have no place to survive. Coupled with the expansion of the Ming Navy, it has been more than ten years, and there has never been a Japanese pirate.

However, in the sixth year of Yongle, after his death, his concubine Ashikaga Yoshichi inherited the post of general.Because Ashikaga Yoshimitsu prefers his younger son, he broke up with his father, and all the people he won over were a group of people who took advantage of the Japanese pirates, and he became a leader who had prejudice against Ming Dynasty.

He took the initiative to interrupt the Kanhe trade, and stopped the initiative to attack Japanese pirates during the Ashikaga Yoshimitsu period.

Japanese pirates were no longer suppressed in Japan, and Japanese pirates looting, which was slightly restrained during the Ashikaga Yoshimitsu period, reappeared.

However, they were afraid of the power of the Ming Fleet, and they basically only regarded North Korea as the target of robbery.And this time they headed south, they probably knew that Zheng He's fleet was not there, so they wanted to see if there was a chance to take advantage of it.

According to Zhu Zhanji's idea, he must want to concentrate the naval power of Ming Dynasty and carry out a large-scale encirclement and suppression of the entire Japanese pirate power group.

At present, the Japanese pirates are only in the period of resurgence, and the power of each gang is very small.Many Japanese pirates don't even have a big ship, so they can only rob with small sampans.Cut off their development momentum during this period, and they will have no chance of development at all.

They are also much easier to eliminate than the grassland forces, because in the vast sea, the timing and location of both sides are at the same level, the key is to see who is stronger.

However, the navy consumes more rations than the army. A fleet may not be able to find the enemy for a few months, and the Japanese pirates are scattered. It is not so difficult to solve this problem in one fell swoop.

Although Zhu Zhanji knew that this kind of suppression was necessary, the ministers didn't know that if too much money and food were consumed but the enemy could not be caught, no general would dare to take this responsibility.

Therefore, this decision can only be made by Zhu Di.

Daming now has no shortage of ships, no navy, and no shortage of military expenses. With Zhu Di's temper, knowing that there are Japanese pirates who want to come to Daming to take advantage of it, it is absolutely easy to stop the war.

"His Royal Highness, the emperor is here."

Zhu Zhanji raised his head, only to see that Zhu Di had already entered the door in full swing.

Seeing that there were several civil and military ministers behind him, Zhu Zhanji didn't dare to neglect, stood up, walked out of the case, and bowed to salute. "Sun Zhanji met the emperor's grandfather."

Zhu Di was obviously in a good mood and was not affected by the Japanese pirates. "Excuse me, what is Ji'er asking to see?"

Zhu Zhanji's eyes swept around behind him, besides Ji Gang, Wang Yan and the others, there were also Fang Bin, Minister of the Ministry of War, Yao Zhenbang, the envoy of the General Administration, and others.

Li Liang nodded slightly behind them, and Zhu Zhanji understood.He had already told Zhu Di about it, and Zhu Di knew what he was thinking, so he still asked this question just to use his mouth to explain the matter.

Therefore, while Zhu Zhanji asked Zhu Di to sit down in his own seat, and arranged for others to sit, he also prepared a plan in his heart.

After Zhu Di sat down, he stood on the left side of the copywriting in front of him and said: "My grandson heard that North Korea was attacked by Japanese pirates again, and there were signs of Japanese pirates marching to the Ming sea area, so I checked the information of Japanese pirates here, hoping to get the root cause. Let’s solve the Japanese pirate problem.”

Zhu Di smiled and asked, "What is the root cause?"

"The foundation, the origin." Zhu Zhanji said with confidence: "The Japanese pirates have their roots in Japan and originated from Japan, so if we want to solve the Japanese pirate problem, we can't solve the Japanese pirate problem only by relying on the Ming Dynasty's defense. We must go back to the root. , find the root cause of the Japanese pirates, and solve the problem fundamentally.”

"What did Keil get?"

"My grandson thinks that there are three fundamental reasons for the emergence of Japanese pirates. If you want to solve the problem of Japanese pirates, you must solve these three fundamental reasons."

Zhu Di didn't speak this time, Zhu Zhanji looked at his expression, his eyes flicked around other people's faces, and continued: "First, the Japanese pirates began to appear in the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty 100 years ago, grandson pay attention At that time, Dongying implemented a sea ban policy. However, Japanese merchants were determined to search for Chinese goods, and they went to Zhejiang and Fujian in the Yuan Dynasty to do business. The Yuan Dynasty government collected taxes from Qingyuan and Quanzhou Shipping Department to receive Dongying merchants. Most of these merchants were migrants. They robbed armed merchants on the western coast of Japan. They tried to rob Tosa and Bungo oceans in small boats, hid in the wild islands, peeped at merchant ships and plundered them, and seduced Benyi to invade China. Japanese merchants were dissatisfied with what they wanted in China, and they died and robbed And go away. Therefore, in the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the envoys did not arrive, and the bandits slept by the side."

"Secondly, it originated from the chaotic social situation in Dongying for a hundred years. Over the past century, the handicraft industry in Dongying has been separated from agriculture and developed independently, but it is not yet developed. Many daily necessities in Japan such as silk, cloth, pots, needles and medicinal materials etc. are all supplied by China. When there is a shortage of goods in China, the price will rise sharply. Rusi is worth five or six taels of silver per hundred catties in Daming, while its price in Japan is ten times that in China.”

"Since Dongying entered the period when the Southern and Northern Dynasties split, the feudal princes segregated, fought each other, and fought for power. Some feudal lords, warriors, merchants, and ronin who failed in the war went to China's coastal areas for armed smuggling because of trade profits. When legitimate business was blocked , they can only rely on plunder to satisfy their selfish desires, which is the second root cause."

"Third..." Zhu Zhanji looked at Zhu Di's face again, and said bravely: "The third reason is the strict maritime ban policy of Ming Dynasty. The life in Dongying is poor and they need goods from Ming Dynasty, but Ming Dynasty strictly prohibits people from Dongying from coming to Daming Yi When legitimate channels cannot meet their needs, they can only rely on plunder to obtain goods."

The maritime embargo policy of Ming Dynasty started from the time of Zhu Yuanzhang, and after Zhu Di came to power, he still implemented this policy.However, the internal eunuch who was attached to the royal family became the agent of the royal family, controlling Ming's exploration and export trade.

In order to monopolize this huge profit, Zhu Di has actually broken Zhu Yuanzhang's maritime embargo policy to a certain extent, but the restrictions on the people are still extremely strict, and a large amount of profits have been earned into the internal treasury.

Although Zhu Zhanji also earned millions of taels of silver, he became a vested interest.But of course his vision is not limited to this.No matter how much money a family makes, it is not as good as everyone making money together after deregulation.

In today's era of imperial power, the royal family should not be a monopoly, but a manager.When everyone can make money because of this, not only will the economy be activated, but tax collection alone will far exceed the monopoly profits of today's royal family.

However, lifting the sea ban will cause a series of troubles, and management also needs to be patiently learned and guided.This is contrary to the management system of the feudal era, and also contrary to the Confucian philosophy of governing the country.

After hearing Zhu Zhanji's analysis, Zhu Di smiled, looked at several close officials and asked, "What do you think?"

If Ji Gang hasn't organized himself well, he is now considered Zhu Zhanji's person.So I know that this little master of my own doesn't like to boast and only pays attention to the conclusion. As a result, rushing to flatter will only be counterproductive.

However, Fang Bin, Minister of the Ministry of War, was the first to report back: "Your Majesty, I think what the grandson said is very true. The Japanese pirates originated from Japan. Only by solving the Japanese problem can the root of the Japanese pirates be solved."

Fang Bin, a native of Qiantang County, Zhejiang Province, has a vigilant personality and can pick up ideas, so he is quite favored by Zhu Di.