The Reborn Wife is Farming

Qi Haoran was taking the little bear to soak in the water, and a guard who was good at swimming was teaching them hand in hand. The little bear was already able to swim back and forth for a certain distance, and Qi Haoran was still thumping in the water.

The three children of Little Lion rushed over cheering all the way, Qi Haoran almost choked on hearing their voices.

Several guards stopped the three children before they rushed into the lake. Hutou looked at his father and brother soaked in the water, stretched out his hand and pulled his clothes, and shouted, "I want to play in the water too."

Little Lion and Xiao An have quickly taken off their coats.

Qi Haoran hastily asked someone to hold them back. He dared to let the little bear into the water because the little bear was already six years old, his body had always been strong, and now he had cultivated his inner strength. These two boys were only in their early two years old, and Xiao An's body was weak. How dare he let them into the water?

Qi Haoran didn't put on his shirt, and directly lifted the three boys away from the lake, and then coaxed: "You are young now, wait until you are older before going into the water."

Hutou struggled, "I want to serve my country too."

The little lion nodded fiercely, and said seriously: "Father, you can't discriminate against our young age."

Xiao An was confused, "You can serve the country by playing in the water?"

"We are not playing with water, we are training. If you swim well, you will be able to defend your home and country in the future. This is what mother said." The little lion seriously relayed what his mother said.

The tiger head responded with "um, um."

Qi Haoran couldn't help rolling his eyes, "Stinky boy, you have such a good memory for remembering these things, why is it so difficult for you to remember the family tree? And you," Qi Haoran pointed at the tiger's head, "You Don't follow your brother Yingshi in everything, you are a brother!"

The little lion said angrily: "Obviously I am the elder brother, Daddy, you have to go back on your word again."

Qi Haoran choked for a moment, then said again: "Even if Hutou becomes a younger brother, he can't always listen to you, he has to have his own ideas."

The little bear has already swam two or three rounds, and seeing his father still reasoning with the three younger brothers, he shouted, "Father, just let the younger brothers go into the water, I think they must learn faster than you, you see, I know how to do it now." You won't float if you swim."

Qi Haoran: "..."

Qi Haoran stared at the little bear without saying a word. Is this bear kid specially here to stab him?

"Mother already said that children learn faster, Dad, you have to listen to Mother."

Qi Haoran regretted so much, if time could turn back, he would definitely not allow a few children to sleep in the same bed with them, even if they cried and shouted that the room was strange and couldn't sleep.

The words of the husband and wife have been learned by these three boys. The tiger head is fine. This kid can't remember things for more than one night, but the little lion can remember them for several nights, let alone the little bear who has fully remembered.

He doesn't know if swimming is useful to them, but Baoguo's talk is completely nonsense. He promised Mu Yangling to learn swimming. From his attitude, for him, land battles are far more important than water battles.

Because almost all of Daqi's enemies came from land, such as Xixia, Jin, and Tubo, which was gradually becoming stronger.

But Ah Ling, who has always obeyed him strategically, insisted that the sea and land are as important as if he had taken medicine.

He had to be forced to learn how to swim, and he had to write a policy statement on the importance of the sea to Daqi for Brother Huang to read.

If he had known that Ah Ling hated pirates so much, he shouldn't have told him about the pirates along the coast.

It turned out that when Mu Yangling learned that Fan Zijin was going to work in Guangdong, he sighed that they were going to part again. Qi Haoran took out Fan Zijin's meritorious service and told Mu Yangling that they would be able to meet again in two or three years. For the reunion, Fan Zijin probably won't let it out when the time comes.

Since he mentioned the maritime trade in Guangdong, he mentioned the pirates in Fujian by the way, Qi Haoran was filled with righteous indignation, and expressed his concern about the increase in the price of salt.

Mu Yangling was shocked. He didn't expect that the southeast coast was threatened by pirates at this time. According to the timeline, it should be the Southern Song Dynasty in the previous life. The sea trade was very prosperous, and the Southern Song Dynasty would not be bullied too badly at sea.

But the situation in Daqi now is obviously different from that in the Southern Song Dynasty in his previous life. Mu Yangling consulted the classics, and only then did he know that the root of the disaster lies in Dazhou.

Emperor Sejong, who came across the country, should also know the importance of the sea to a country, and the coastline of Dazhou is so long, so he strongly supported sea trade during his reign. At that time, the imperial court even had a fleet dedicated to the country. Do sea trade business in Southeast Asia.

But the good times didn’t last long. When Emperor Gaozong arrived, the emperor disapproved of his father’s way of fighting for the interests of the people. It should be said that the emperor and his father had most of their political views. However, he successively dismantled the fleet of the imperial court, the fleet under the name of Emperor Sejong, and later reduced the salaries, food, grass and armaments of the navy, because he also increased the treatment of the army, so this Although the matter was opposed, it was still carried out with the support of several army generals.

To the descendants of Emperor Gaozong, because of the threat of the Jin Kingdom and Xixia, they put all their energy on land warfare, and the navy was repeatedly reduced. In the end, it was difficult to even maintain the basic army establishment. Emperor Yu Sejong's decree could not ban the sea on the surface, but prevented them from going to sea by increasing taxes on sea merchants.

According to historical records, the heaviest tax reached 40% of the commodity value.

The cost of purchasing goods and the risk of going to sea are all borne by the sea merchants. The court can take 40% of the value of the goods by setting up checkpoints and collecting taxes. After deducting all costs, it is equivalent to taking 80% of the profits at once.

The originally thriving maritime trade has been cleared up at once, and those who can persist are only some wealthy maritime merchants, but until now, there are very few maritime merchants who can persist, and most of them have turned to guard at the port. As long as foreigners come to buy, as long as they don't go to sea, their taxation is just the same as that of ordinary businessmen, and there is no additional increase.

At the time of Emperor Jingyan, the southeast coast was plundered by pirates, and Jin Guo and Xixia were also eyeing Dazhou. In order not to be attacked by the enemy, he formally banned the sea and asked Zhu Feng brothers to guard Fuzhou. The coastal situation was better.

Up to now, only Fuzhou and Guangdong have ports where foreigners can dock. As Fan Zijin said, there are too many monks and too little porridge, and the maritime trade between the two places is very chaotic. In order to let foreigners choose their own goods, maritime merchants often engage in price wars, which instead let foreigners win. Cheap.

Being threatened by pirates and banning the sea, what Qi Haoran saw was the hardship of people's livelihood caused by the fluctuation of salt price, what Fan Zijin saw was the depression of sea trade, and what Mu Yangling saw was that Da Qi had given up the entire rights and interests of the territorial waters and the sea market.

Of course, she has this understanding not because of her foresight, but because she has more memories of her previous life, standing on the shoulders of history and looking back.