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Chapter 181 The Problem of Pirate Suppression

Another day of "work time".

Yang Reform had to get up, hurry up and get ready to go to work.

The maids and eunuchs are serving, those who wear clothes and those who wear hats.

Wang Chengen stood aside, directing non-stop.

Yang Reform had another good night's sleep, and when he woke up in the morning, he was very refreshed. In the past few days, he was vigorously discussing with the queen to create a prince, and he worked very hard.

"Big Companion, is there any reaction to my amnesty?" Yang Reform was bored with the service, so he decided to find something to talk about. He really wanted to know what his amnesty was thought among the officials and common people. He was in the palace, I don't know the situation outside, so I can only ask the people around me.Yang Reform felt that his move should be very powerful, forcing the officials to search for salt merchants.There will be rifts and estrangements between the interests of the salt merchants and the bureaucrats. If I cut down the salt merchants in the future, I think that the officials and merchants will not be fully consistent with the outside world, and my pressure and resistance can be much smaller. .

Wang Chengen lowered his head, not as calm and calm as before.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, everyone from outside praises His Majesty as a wise lord..." Wang Chengen evasively said good things to the emperor.

Seeing Wang Chengen like this, Yang Reform understood a little bit in his heart. Now, the pressure from the salt merchants is estimated to be great, and they definitely won't have any good things to say to him.Well, if you want to spread rumors or something, let these salt merchants do it, and I don't care.I only care about money. Without money, I am nothing. In order not to hang myself, I can only send you into the "juice extractor" to squeeze something out.

"Hehe, big companion, you don't need to hide anything from me, just tell me what you have."

"Reporting to Your Majesty, several cabinet ministers submitted their resignations early in the morning, begging for rest..." Wang Chengen was another transfer method.

Quit your job?But it’s not such a good deal. When you eat meat, you want to be a cabinet minister, and when you eat bones, you want to put down the burden?Hehe, Yang Reform despises it in his heart.This is the virtue of the elite?

The discussion outside about this amnesty is already a super hot topic in the streets and alleys. Some people are seven or eighty years old and have never seen such a strange amnesty. I won’t talk about the Wei case, everyone knows it well Stuff, just put a fig leaf on it.But what is the meaning of suspending the salt policy for one year? Many people are confused. Salt tea has always been a monopoly. When will the salt policy be abolished!The emperor doesn't love money anymore?The common people were bewildered.

The above name is to suspend the salt administration, but how much money can the actual purchase of salt save?hanging.

When the salt merchants heard the news, they gritted their teeth. It was hard to say, and they had to knock down their teeth and swallow it in their stomachs!In the past, when the emperor wanted to increase the salt class and force money, the salt merchants could even threaten to strike the market. This time, the emperor simply waived the salt class, so that they had nowhere to go. Could it be said that the emperor dismissed the salt class, Is it unreasonable not to collect taxes?Robbery?Should the market strike?If something like this happened, the emperor would probably have Jin Yiwei ransack the house directly.This face, the truth still has to stand.

The salt class was originally exempted, so the salt merchants should be happy. Without the salt administration, they don’t need to pay tribute to the bureaucrats, and they can earn more. Unfortunately, the exemption of the salt class has touched the salt administration and moved hundreds of thousands of dollars. In order to protect the interests of the officials, the emperor no longer asks the salt merchants for silver directly. Now, in order to keep the "legitimacy" of the salt administration, the emperor asks the salt merchants for silver. The abolition of the Salt Administration has made all the bureaucrats who benefited from this chain of interests drink the northwest wind.This has changed from the bureaucracy and the salt merchants fighting against the emperor together in the past, and now the emperor threatened to abolish the salt government and asked the bureaucrats to force the salt merchants to pay.How does this businessman fight with "officials"?So, this time, I really knocked out my teeth and swallowed it in my stomach.To put it simply, the emperor drove the tiger and devoured the wolf.

The bureaucrats looked sad at the beginning, but after thinking about it carefully, the salt merchant’s money was deposited in the household department. The expenditure of the household department has always been decided by the imperial court, and we The final say!Even if the emperor wanted to spend it, it was very difficult. Basically, he just put it from his left hand pocket into his right hand pocket and spent it in another place. What's more, if he spent it in another place, the money would rise very high. It's also a good deal to only enter and not to accompany, so I just pick up the bowl to eat meat, and put down the bowl to scold my mother.

However, these cabinet ministers who agreed to suspend the salt administration at that time were under great pressure. At that time, they were dizzy by the emperor and had no energy to think about the problem. When he played with a gun, he was fooled by the emperor and couldn't find the north, and he was ridiculed by his colleagues for a while, and he lost face to his grandma's house, and was played around by a kid. If you go down, you can only resign!
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"Your Majesty, do you want to use a chariot?" Wang Chengen asked.

"No need, walk more, it's good for your health." Yang Reform felt that the sun at eight or nine o'clock was particularly comfortable on his body.I had a big victory last night, and I was in a very happy mood.Decided to take a good look at the "Palace Museum".

"Obey, Your Majesty..."

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"By the way, companion, is there anything about pirates in the court?" Yang Reform recalled the day before yesterday when he talked to his queen, Zhou Wan'er, about his father, who hadn't arrived in Guangxi for two months, and felt that the pirates should be treated well Get it done, otherwise, the efficiency of this work will be indescribably low.

The water route is much faster than the land route, which can save a lot of time and energy. If the Queen’s father is to use the water route, it is estimated that he will be planting sugar cane in Guangxi by now. Unfortunately, there are many pirates, and his old man has no courage to go by sea. "Climb" to Guangxi with one footprint.Judging from the explanation of the nine-year compulsory education, these pirates obviously hinder the development of productivity and must be eliminated so that productivity can develop better.

Yang reformed many time-traveling novels before. I remember that Zheng Chenggong’s father, Zheng Zhilong, was recruited from pirates in the early days of Chongzhen to become the sea power of the Ming Dynasty. It is precisely because of his official skin that Zheng Zhilong is reasonable and beneficial. Only by attacking other pirates legally can one become a pirate leader in the late Ming Dynasty and become the actual customs office in the late Ming Dynasty.It is because of this that he can earn countless incomes every year and raise countless "horses", which will also make Zheng Chenggong a national hero against the Qing Dynasty in the future, almost capturing Nanjing and rewriting the history of China.

Yang Reform had wanted to get the customs for a long time, and he coveted the income of the customs, so he was more concerned about recruiting pirates, and he was even more concerned about the Zheng family, knowing that if the Zheng family was not prevented from wearing The government's skin, the Zheng family's will not be easy to control in the future. When the appetite grows, there will be nothing to feed it!
"Reporting to Your Majesty, but it is about pirates?" Wang Chengen was puzzled, why did the emperor ask about the pirates?The whole city is still talking about amnesty and salt merchants, so why is the emperor talking about pirates?
"Well, yes, is there any news about this?" Yang Reform doesn't remember when the Zheng family made trouble, when they were recruited, and "became a regular". What he can remember is that it was in the early days of Chongzhen. There is no memory of this, it seems that it should not have happened yet.

"Your Majesty, yes, there seems to be news from Fujian that there are pirates in Fujian, the Zheng family, who are very rampant. There are tens of thousands of troops and thousands of warships. They are harassing the local area. The local raids have failed many times. I implore your majesty to call for peace." Well..." Wang Chengen's memory is very good, the eunuch's work was not in vain, and he can clearly remember everything that happened here.

Cheng?That's basically Zheng Zhilong!Raid the place?The campaign is ineffective?Ten thousand people?Thousands of warships?Yang Reform was shocked. It seemed that the Zheng family had already risen, or in other words, was about to rise!Yang Reform was very worried. If Zheng Zhilong had already accepted the imperial court's offer, it would be difficult for him to do something famous.

"Have you been recruited?" Yang Reform was a little scared. If he was recruited, it would be complicated for him to colonize Taiwan and control the customs.There were not dozens of this big ship built, hundreds of them, I really didn't dare to move Zheng Zhilong.

Seeing the emperor's inexplicable nervousness, Wang Chengen thought that the emperor "extorted" the money from the salt merchants. After doing such a big thing, does he still care about this little pirate?

"Your Majesty, the Fujian side now means recruiting peace. It seems that they have talked about it. However, the Zheng family is also arrogant, and there is no peace. It is said that there is a fierce debate in the court about the matter of recruiting." Wang Chengen is an aborigine. He knows a lot more than Yang Reform, the Xiaobai who has traveled through time.

"No recruiting? That's good, that's good..." Yang Reform was very happy. There was no recruiting, that is to say, history may change, or history has not yet happened, and he can arrange it calmly.This piece of fat from the customs, you can eat it yourself, and the matter of immigrating to Taiwan seems to be no problem.It seems that when I have time, I have to go back and search for information on Zheng Zhilong's family to see what happened in history.

Hearing that Zheng Zhilong didn't recruit, Yang Reform felt relieved and in a good mood. Another piece of fat was about to fall into his mouth again.Thinking of this, the halizi in Yang Reform's mouth began to secrete uncontrollably again.

The first year of Chongzhen.

The early morning of April 29 was a bit weird.

In today's early court, the courtiers looked at the emperor very differently from before.

If it is said that bringing down Nine Thousand Years depends on the authority of the emperor, which is more beneficial to the identity of the emperor, then this time, the play of using hundreds of officials to kill the salt merchants shows that the emperor is extraordinarily shrewd, seasoned, courageous, and courageous. It is extraordinarily big, not easy to fool around, the impression of the emperor has changed drastically, from the look of looking at children at the beginning, to the thought of being a hero and veteran, and becoming trembling, for fear of being accidentally caught by the emperor.

Under the weird eyes of the officials, Yang Reform accepted the congratulations from the officials.

Yang Reform sat on the throne, listening to the voices of the ministers singing and shouting long live, it seemed extraordinarily loud!Why haven't you heard such a loud voice before?Could it be that his aura has become stronger?With the arrogance of bastards, all the ministers sincerely bow down and worship?

The court meeting started strangely for a long time, and everyone came out to play.

The early court was so embarrassingly silent in the emperor's silence, and the courtiers were afraid, and slowly passed through the silence.

Yang Reform was thinking about recruiting pirates, and thinking about how much income he could get from the customs in a year. He thought that the Zheng family was known as an incomparably rich country in history. Yes, because the annual revenue of the Ming Dynasty is several million taels, if there are no several million taels, how dare you say that you are rich and invincible?

The courtiers were still shocked by the ruthlessness and sharpness of the emperor's handling of affairs, and they were all thinking about what they were going to play, whether they should play it or not.Is the matter I have played, whether it has been considered thoroughly, whether it will make the emperor unhappy, etc., everyone comes out to talk about it.

Things are so strangely deadlocked.

Yang Reform sat on the throne and had a daydream. When he woke up, he realized that it had been a long time. It seemed that no one had come out to talk about it. This is a bit abnormal.

"What's the matter? Ladies and Gentlemen? Why is no one talking?"

The officials still kept silent and didn't mention anything. They were all overwhelmed by the emperor's strong image, and it took a while to get used to it.

Yang Reform was puzzled, and said, "What's the matter? Why have you all become dumb?"

The officials looked at each other, but they still didn't have the intention to speak.

Yang Reform thinks it's just right, you don't say it, I say it, just to talk about the pirate issue, it can be regarded as a relief for the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty, and buy a little time for his own life.

"Since all of you are unwilling to talk about it, let me talk about a topic... I heard that there is a pirate named Zheng in Fujian, who is rampant in causing troubles to the sea and the local area. Let's discuss this matter with you all." .” Yang’s reform thinking has long since left salt, and has come to pirates.

When the ministers heard that the emperor wanted to talk about pirates, they all breathed a sigh of relief, as long as the salt lesson was not mentioned, they all followed the emperor's thinking and discussed.

"Report to Your Majesty, I think it's time to caress."

Yang Reform really didn't know much about the people in this hall, so he couldn't figure out the name of the speaker.

"Oh, is that so? Tell me the reason." Yang Reform had heard Wang Chengen mention it before, and he knew that there were two voices in the court, one wanted to recruit, and the other wanted to appease.Prepare to read the rhetoric on both sides.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, it is said that this Zheng family still hopes to be pampered. Thinking about his ancestral home, his hometown is all on the ground. Even if he can rule the sea for a while, there will be a day when the fallen leaves return to their roots. If the court can appease, this Zheng family will definitely accept it. It is said that the Zheng family has tens of thousands of troops and thousands of warships. If such a force is accepted, the sea will calm down immediately, and the passing ships and pirates will worry about it. , but also suffering from lack of military pay, the navy, it must cost a lot to wipe out! Your Majesty..." The minister expressed his point of view.It's easy to understand, but there is no money, and recruiting the Zheng family is equivalent to turning the pirates into regular workers. There are no more pirates on the sea, which can be regarded as a good way to kill multiple birds with one stone.

Yang Reform nodded, pretending to be listening carefully, thinking that this person is really an idiot, if you recruit Zheng Zhilong, he will use the skin of the imperial court to do customs work, earning more than the national treasury every year, you It means losing millions of taels of silver every year!Prodigal is not your way of losing!

Before Yang Reform could speak, a minister immediately jumped out and said, "I would like to report to Your Majesty, I think it's inappropriate. I think the Zheng family already has tens of thousands of followers. If we recruit again, it will become a sea hall in a blink of an eye." Giant lord? Isn’t this raising tigers? As the saying goes, how can you allow others to snore when you lie on the bed? Besides, the maritime trade makes huge profits every year. How can it be controlled when there are tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands? Besides, how can the imperial court’s coastal defense be handed over to a pirate? Isn’t this a child’s play?”

The words of this minister who opposed recruiting touched Yang Reform. Yang Reform felt that he was very far-sighted. After a closer look, it turned out to be Bi Ziyan. This guy, whenever he speaks, he must talk about money. He is extremely sensitive to money. See Now, he has already smelled the profits of this maritime trade, and knows that he cannot give up easily.

"Hehe, Bi Aiqing, it makes sense. How can someone else snore beside this couch? He now has tens of thousands of members. If he recruits again, the number of this group will definitely double. Such a huge number, I listened, My heart is pounding!" Yang Reform felt that there was no need for any military power that he could not control.

The reason for the emperor is very strong. Any existence that threatens the throne is not allowed to appear. These tens of thousands of people, the future 10,000+ people, and money, isn’t this intentional to make the emperor sleep well?

A minister immediately came out and said: "Your Majesty, I thought that I could recruit security. After I wanted to recruit security, wouldn't the members of the Zheng family follow the distribution of the court, and they would be there where they were assigned. In this way, the Zheng family would also It’s not enough.” What the emperor was thinking about was a policy of division.

However, obviously, in this matter, there are as many people who support Zhao'an as there are those who oppose Zhao'an.

Someone immediately came out to retort: ​​"Your Majesty, I think this is impossible, and it is not a matter of a day or two for the Zheng family to make trouble for the place. The Zheng family has already said that it is possible to recruit, but it will never be scattered." Members, Mr. Zheng is willing to "cut off the barbarians and suppress the bandits" for the court, so you can know how big this person is. It is impossible for Mr. X to disintegrate after Zhao'an came here, and Zhao'an must have no future. what!"

Hey, recruit security but not disperse the troops?Want to cut off the barbarians and suppress the bandits for the Ming Dynasty?Isn't this the warlord?The Ming Dynasty scholar-bureaucrats in history really didn't take the maritime affairs seriously!This kind of navy, what the navy does, can be entrusted to a pirate. It has to be said that history is sometimes wonderful, and things are sometimes more outrageous than writing novels.Yang Reform knew that he might have to act arbitrarily in the matter of piracy this time, and relying on the brains of Ming Dynasty scholar-bureaucrats, he could only be fooled by others.

"I want to report to Your Majesty, I think that it should be suppressed. I think I am going to build several large ships. If the sea and land go hand in hand, the Zheng family can only be wiped out with a flick of a finger. What is there to be afraid of? Your Majesty, the minister agrees to destroy... ..." A minister actually talked about a large ship that hadn't even been drawn in the blueprints. Yang Reform had to admire these elites.Why did you go early?If there were big warships long ago, why this?Get beaten to the crap by pirates?How "powerful" is this thinking to recruit others if you can't beat it?
(End of this chapter)