Daming: I am the most powerful emperor grandson, please abdicate the throne

Chapter 88 On the Harm of Maritime Ban
  What Zhu Xuan pays attention to is the mineral resources of Japan.

The mineral resources there were still quite rich in my childhood. There were certain reserves of coal, gold, silver, iron ore, copper ore, etc. However, they were almost completely excavated before and after World War II.

It is still the Ming Dynasty, and those mineral resources are still abundant. However, Zhu Xuan does not want to mine in Japan. He just wants to use gold and silver mines to attract Lao Zhu's attention and make him think that fighting Japan is beneficial.

The people of the Japanese country can only recognize gold, silver, copper, iron, etc. from so many minerals, but they don't know what the others are.

"Gold mine, silver mine?"

Zhu Yuanzhang opened it and caught these words first.

Today's Ming Dynasty is considered to be crazy poor. Seeing gold and silver, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately attracted attention. Even with the current tax and salt reform, Ming Dynasty is gradually getting rich, but for Zhu Yuanzhang, who is afraid of poverty, gold and silver are , naturally the more the merrier.

"Japanese country, there are still a lot of gold and silver mines?"

Yu Xin asked immediately.

As the Minister of Household Affairs, he also knew how poor the Ming Dynasty was.

He was also scared of poverty.

Every time the Ministry of Accounts wanted to allocate money, he would feel distressed for a long time, wondering when the money would be recovered.

"According to the results of Jin Yiwei's torture, there is quite a lot of gold and silver mines!"

A bright light flashed before Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, and he suddenly felt that Guaisun's proposal a few days ago was good. Maybe he could defeat the Japanese country and take the minerals as his own.

After defeating it, as long as it can be mined, the losses of the war can be made up.

Zhan Hui instantly saw Zhu Yuanzhang's thoughts and asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, do you want to launch troops against Japan?"

Zou Jin shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, I think this is not possible! If you want to attack the Japanese country, you have to go to sea and build ships. The sea situation is unpredictable. Kublai Khan couldn't conquer the Japanese country back then. If we rush to attack, I'm afraid we won't win." To the benefit.”

Zhu Yuanzhang asked calmly: "You mean, we are not as good as Kublai Khan?"

"I dare not!"

Zou Jin said in fear.

Zhu Yuanzhang understood what they meant. The current focus was actually on the enemies in Mobei. He shook his head and said: "Although the minerals of the Japanese country are good, going out to sea to attack the Japanese country will easily lead to the opening of the sea. There are many Japanese pirates on the sea. Fang Guozhen and other remnants have always wanted to To fight back, it will take a lot of manpower and material resources to build ships."

He said this to temporarily put aside the idea of ​​going to sea.

"Excuse me, Grandpa Huang, why are there Japanese pirates outside the Ming Dynasty?"

Zhu Xuan asked with curiosity on his face.

Zhu Yuanzhang was also happy to answer this question and said with a smile: "It's because we are too powerful. When the world was in chaos and rebels were everywhere, we drove the Tatars away. All the rebels wanted to fight for the world and attack each other. We led the Ming Dynasty to win. , other defeated people did not want to submit to us, so some of them fled to the sea and tried to fight back, so they became Japanese pirates."

"Grandpa Huang is so awesome!"

Zhu Xuan shouted.

"Ha ha……"

Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy to receive the praise from his grandson. He thought about how old he was now, and continued: "There are still some Japanese pirates who come from the Japanese country. They have been unable to ban them. We can only ban the sea, and no one is allowed to go into the sea. Let the people along the coast of the Ming Dynasty be protected from Japanese pirates, who only dare to plunder along the coast and do not dare to invade."

Since he didn't want to take action against the Japanese country yet, Zhu Xuan thought about it, or help the Ming Dynasty to develop the maritime industry first.

After the development is almost complete, after the enemies in Mobei are solved, we can go to sea at any time and kill the Japanese country.

"My grandson has another idea, I don't know whether I should say it or not."

"Whatever you want to say, my dear grandson, just say it, we won't be angry."

Zhu Yuanzhang said dotingly.

The three pavilion elders looked a little strange when they saw His Majesty's doting on the little emperor's grandson. They wanted to leave and didn't want to listen to their grandson's whispers, but they couldn't bring it up directly.

His Majesty did not say that he could leave, they dared not go around, and then heard Zhu Xuan's cute voice sounded: "The grandson said, the grandson thinks that those pirates may be our Ming people." "How can it be possible? !”

Zhu Yuanzhang immediately shook his head and said with a smile: "How can our people of the Ming Dynasty live on land, go to sea to become Japanese pirates, and then plunder the people of the Ming Dynasty? My dear son, you think too much!"

Zhu Xuan explained: "My grandson thinks that it is possible that before there was no sea ban, people on the coast could go out to sea to fish and do business. Now the emperor has issued an order that no one is allowed to go to the sea, which will make many people lose the basis of their livelihood. There is no choice. I can only go to sea and become a bandit."

Yu Xin thought for a while and retorted: "The little emperor is smart and can think of so many things, but he also made a mistake. Even if they don't go to sea, the people along the coast of Ming Dynasty can still farm."

"Yes!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "My dear grandson, I don't know much about the people along the coast."

Zhu Xuan explained: "This may not necessarily be the case. My grandson heard that seawater pours in from the sea east of Yingtian Mansion. The seawater is salty, so how can we farm?"

They were startled!
  They had heard about seawater intrusion.

But how serious the problem is is less clear.

Hearing Zhu Xuan's words seems to have a certain impact on farming.

Zhu Xuan added: "Also, if the people along the coast move inland, will there be enough land in the inland to be allocated to them?"

This sentence made them think deeply again.

The land problem in the Ming Dynasty can only be gradually alleviated after the recent tax reform.

Will the people who moved inland get enough land?

If life is not guaranteed, it is not impossible to go to sea and become a pirate.

For example, he, Lao Zhu, rebelled against the Yuan Dynasty because he couldn't even afford food.

Zhu Xuan's words seemed to hit the mark again about the disadvantages of the sea ban.

"What do you think?"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the three pavilion elders.

The three of them were once again shocked by the little emperor grandson.

They had not thought of these problems for the time being, but Xiao Huangsun directly hit the point, which was a bit serious.

"The little emperor's words make sense."

Zhan Hui nodded first.

Zhu Yuanzhang asked again: "What should we do? Do we really need to open the sea? Once the sea ban is abandoned, the Japanese pirates will attack. The Ming Dynasty's seaside is so long, how can we protect the people along the coast?"

The three of them were thinking hard and felt that giving up the sea ban was not feasible!
  "Grandpa Huang, my grandson has a solution."

Zhu Xuan raised his little hand and said.

Zhu Yuanzhang rubbed his little head and asked, "What can my dear grandson do?"

Zhu Xuan said: "The emperor and his grandson once told the story of Gun and Yu's flood control. Gun's method of controlling the water was to cut off the water, but he controlled the water for nine years and achieved nothing. Later, Gun's son Yu went to control the water, and his method was completely different from Gun's. Instead, it diverts and controls water, dredges waterways, and allows water to flow into the East China Sea, and the effect is remarkable.”

Zhu Yuanzhang listened.

The three pavilion elders were also listening.

They seemed to hear something in this story.

When Gun and Yu controlled floods, the former was blocked and gained nothing, while the latter was sparsed and had significant effects.

Zhu Yuanzhang's method of controlling Japanese pirates seems to be similar to blocking waterways.

(End of this chapter)