When the emperor realized that his subordinates could not fully control him, he would replace him with the "loyalty" constraints brought by the etiquette and law of the monarch and his subjects, hoping that the other party could get along with the monarch and his subjects and would not disappoint him.

Zhu Qiyu, the Emperor of Jingtai in history, adhered to the complex mentality of suspicion and trust, and endured Yu Qian's entire period of admiration for the world. It was not until he heard the ringing of Jingyang bell before he died that he released the most real thoughts in his heart, subconsciously thinking that Yu Qian had rebelled against the throne.

Now this mixed mentality of suspicion and trust has transitioned to Chen Yichen. His words are a warning and also an expectation.

Chen Yichen, don’t let me down!

"I must do my best to learn all my life, and to live up to the emperor and the people!"

Chen Yichen slowly stood up, not caring about the rules of losing etiquette in front of him. He raised his head and looked at Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu on the imperial platform, and expressed his ideas.

As long as Zhu Qiyu lives up to the world, then he will not let down the king!

After the king and his ministers looked at each other for a few seconds, Chen Yichen then moved away his gaze and apologized: "I am rude, please forgive me."

"A little bit of a matter of course."

Zhu Qiyu waved his hand, and he found that he was increasingly unable to understand Chen Yichen. He was obviously very humble and respectful, but he contained an extremely tough attitude and persistence.

"I have also paid attention to and thought about the memorials of the Duke of Qian and the Yunnan Provincial Administration during this period. The Luchuan thief head colluded with the Myanmar vassal states, and at the same time contacted the Miao people in the southwest to prepare to join forces to cause chaos."

"Last year, in order to eliminate the crisis in the capital, the southern expedition army and the weapons and grain were transported from the south, and now they are going to transport them to southern Xinjiang again. Not to mention the countless materials and coins consumed, the capacity of the Grand Canal alone will aggravate the crisis of food shortage in the north."

"Have you ever thought about the difficulties of the Southern Expedition Army in suppressing the rebellion?"

Zhu Qiyu is not a stupid and lazy king. He has read all the memorials proposed by the cabinet ticket. He has only read many things. In addition to urging his ministers to go down and solve them, he is also a good-looking king.

The Jingyuan Bo Wang Ji led the Southern Expedition Army to suppress the rebellion of Luchuan, which indeed eliminated a major hidden danger in the capital, but the question that followed was where did the equipment and military pay come from?

You should know that in the Fourth Luchuan War, Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Qizhen, almost emptyed the entire national treasury, which directly led to the peasant uprising in the southeast and indirectly led to the disastrous defeat of Tumubao and almost destroyed the country.

The Southeast Uprising was quelled by Chen Yichen, but the Tumubao Incident could not change history. Now the fifth Luchuan War is on the agenda again. What price will the Ming Dynasty pay?

"Your Majesty, I have entrusted merchants in Jiangnan to raise three million stones of rice and grain at their own expense. In addition, the military rations stored in the capital and Tongzhou before the New Year are enough to survive this capital's food crisis and crush the interest groups that raised the grain prices behind it!"

At this moment, Chen Yichen did not hide it and told all the arrangements for the food war behind it. After all, the military expenditure of Jingyuan Wang Ji still needs to be bleed from Huichang Bo and other officials, gentry and honorary officials, and the emperor will sooner or later learn about it.

Three million stones?

Hearing the numbers Chen Yichen said, Zhu Qiyu took a breath. The entire Ming Dynasty's pure grain tax was only more than 20 million stones a year, and the actual transport of the north would not exceed 10 million stones.

With his own strength, Chen Yichen raised rice and grain from the entire Ming Empire in the north for half a year, which was really amazing.

"Do Ming Shipping have such capacity?"

After a brief shock, Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu keenly realized the key point, and three million stones of rice and grain could be solved by money. With Chen Yichen's power behind Cheng Guogong and the "dowry" brought by the marriage with Chen Ying of Taining, the financial resources are still within a reasonable range.

But the problem is that transporting to the capital means that shipping has a capacity that is not inferior to the Grand Canal. As the emperor of the dynasty, I don’t know when the Ming Dynasty had such an exaggerated shipping capacity, how did Chen Yichen do it?

"Report to Your Majesty, I received the order to supervise the Fujian army, but in fact I was given the secret order of the Supreme Emperor to supervise a fleet."

"At this moment, the shipping of rice and grain from the sea, and the previous troops leading to the capital, they were all the treasure ships of the Ming Dynasty to descend on the fleet!"

The emperor's brother sent Chen Yichen to build a fleet of next generations?

It can be said that one wave has not yet subsided and another wave has started again. Zhu Qiyu never knew that there was such a story behind it.

Chen Yichen controls a fleet of sea ships, and even the existence of the Ming Dynasty treasure ships, which Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu knows. However, the focus of the capital guards is more on the Tartars, and the subsequent focus is also on how to prevent the emperor from returning to seize power. He has not really learned in detail what kind of sea ship fleet this is.

According to convention, Zhu Qiyu believed that this was the standard of ordinary navy in the coastal governor. As for the Ming Dynasty treasure ships that had been destroyed for decades, it is likely that they had a name but were known for this.

After all, this kind of claim is common in the Ming army. Even the number of troops can be exaggerated several times. What does it mean to call a larger ship a treasure ship?

The main reason for this kind of thinking is that no one would have thought that during the rebellion in Fujian, Chen Yichen really supervised a fleet of sea ships at Zheng He's voyage to the West, which was completely beyond the normal logic!

"Is sea transportation so efficient and convenient?"

Zhu Qiyu murmured to himself that the Ming Dynasty had stopped his last voyage to the West since the moment he was born, and had never seen the magnificence and glory of the treasure ship fleet.

In addition, without receiving traditional imperial education, you cannot access some classics that belong to the emperor. It is equivalent to the mind of Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu, and there is no concept of shipping.

Listening to Emperor Jingtai saying this, Chen Yichen immediately responded: "Your Majesty, the ocean is boundless and not affected by factors such as the flood, dry water, river mud and sand, etc. The size of the sea ship can be built, the amount of materials it can transport."

"There is a change today. After a year of cold in the Ming Dynasty, the land farming yield has been severely reduced, and the food shortage in the north will become a common situation. According to the classics passed down by the eunuchs of the Three Treasures, the Western region is like spring all year round, and rice can be ripened twice to three times a year."

Everyone can try it soon.】

"I suggest that when the time is right, I will start the feat of voyage to the West again, take the material resources of all countries of the vassal states, and solve the worries of the Celestial Kingdom!"

If Chen Yichen's biggest regret in his heart, it is that the built Ming Xiafan Ship fleet can only stop at the port at the port at the critical moment, and do some work to transport rice and grain at critical moments.

How to use a ox knife to kill a chicken? This kind of transportation task should not be limited to the fleet. The Ming Dynasty treasure ship was built, and the Age of Discovery should be born for the ocean, or to put it more explicitly, it is destined to be a weapon for killing and conquest.

However, under internal and external troubles, Chen Yichen knew very well that he wanted to restart his grand ceremony to voyage to the West. In the current situation, it was nothing different from a foolish dream. No one from the emperor and the civil and military officials in the court would understand and agree.

But now Zhu Qiyu took the initiative to mention the fleet. Chen Yichen didn’t seize the opportunity to recommend it, so when will he wait?

Zhu Qiyu also did not expect that this dialogue between the king and the minister could discuss the candidates from the test to the West. During the Yongle period, seven voyages to the West promoted the prestige of the Celestial Kingdom and attracted all nations to come to the court, but the economy consumed countless money and did not achieve sustainable returns.

Losing money was the fundamental factor for the Ming Dynasty to abolish the voyage to the West.

Chen Yichen now mentioned again that he would start voyage to the West. Even if the southern region can cook two to three times a year, can the income obtained offset the expenditure of maintaining the fleet?

Judging from the past royal archives and history, it is likely that they will not make ends meet.

No king does not want all nations to come to pay tribute. Emperor Jingtai is not qualified and prestige, and he hopes to create a similar prosperous scene.

However, reason tells Zhu Qiyu that playing with it will cost the people and cause money. You must be very cautious when restarting your voyage to the West!

"Chen Qing, the matter of voyage to the West is very expensive. It is not appropriate to have an empty treasury at present. I will discuss this matter later."

"As for the powerful gentry such as Huichangbo raised the price of grain, I hope you can pay attention to the influence and scale. After all, he is the biological father of his mother and should not be widely affected."

Zhu Qiyu brought his attention back to the grain prices in the capital. Chen Yichen could also relieve the food crisis and earn a sum of money to subsidize the treasury through large-scale dumping. He naturally supported it extremely.

However, this matter can only be controlled within the range of money, and Chen Yichen cannot expand the crime.

The emperor's brother secretly met with the left governor Zhang Fu and the various actions he wanted to win over Wu Qing Hou Shi Heng made Zhu Qiyu feel a great sense of crisis. If he went to meet Sun Zhong at this time, it would be easy for the empress dowager to have a strategic misjudgment and turn against each other in advance.

Now that the Southern Expedition Army has not yet withdrawn from the capital, the situation and time are still under the control of Zhu Qiyu. He only needs to slowly destroy the trump cards of the emperor one by one, and he can become the final winner of the two emperors' battle.

There is no need to mess around with the overall situation for this little thing.

"Yes, I understand."

Chen Yichen nodded. He also knew that the matter of raising the price of food was very involved. It was really equivalent to being an enemy of civil and military officials in the court.

Before he had enough power, Chen Yichen didn't want to put himself in the position of public enemy of the whole people, otherwise he would be unable to do anything to govern in the court in the future.

"These things will be settled for the time being. I will summon you to Wang Ji, the uncle of Jingyuan, personally, so you can retreat first."

Although Chen Yichen was angry and afraid this time, he gained a lot on the whole and temporarily solved several difficult problems. After the stone in his heart fell to the ground, Zhu Qiyu only felt endless fatigue, and he needed someone to sort it out again.

"Your Majesty, I have something to ask for!"

"What else is there to say?"

"The time for the treasure ship fleet to go to the West is not yet here, but the sea ban can be opened in advance. When coastal fishermen find ways to make profits from the West and Southeast Asia, everything will be natural."

Chen Yichen was still unwilling to give up on the treasure ship fleet and was left empty in the port. Since the biggest obstacle to the Ming Dynasty's voyage to the West at present was money, then the sea ban can be opened in advance to make money, which is enough persuasive to promote the voyage.

"Taizu and Emperor Taizong once explicitly stated that the ban was not allowed to go into the sea. As a descendant of future generations, how could I violate the laws of my ancestors? This precedent cannot be opened."

"Your Majesty, Emperor Taizu's original intention of implementing the maritime ban is that the coastal areas are affected by Japanese pirates. It has been fifty years since then, and the Japanese pirates' invasion in coastal areas have long been less rampant than they were before. I have supervised the navy in Fujian, which can ensure that the Ming Dynasty's vast sea border is worry-free!"

It has to be said that although Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu was a king who saved the times, he was also a king who was in charge of the success, and was born with adventurous spirit, far inferior to his emperor Zhu Qizhen.

Just as Chen Yichen had previously commented, Zhu Qizhen, the Ming Emperor Yingzong before Tumu Fort, had roughly ambitions to expand territory. No matter whether he could win or not, no matter what price he paid, at least he had never been afraid of starting a war and never compromised with foreign vassal states.

Of course, Tumu Fort later shattered Zhu Qizhen's backbone and turned him into a "lost dog".

Changing the laws of ancestors, unblocking the sea ban, and voyage to the West all require great courage to implement them. Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu just lacks the courage of such a hero.

"Your Majesty, I..."

Chen Yichen wanted to continue persuasion, but at this moment, Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu, obviously no longer had the energy to continue the discussion.

I saw him waved his hand tiredly and said, "Get back."

Seeing Zhu Qiyu's deceitful deeds, Chen Yichen knew that it would be no different to say more. It would be a delusion to change this major event that concerns national policy with just a few words.

So he could only sigh and said, "I will leave."

Then he turned around and walked out of the Wenhua Hall, preparing to go back to the mansion to meet Zhu Yi first, and discuss with him the matter of winning over the commander of the Beijing Guard.

While the capital was busy carrying out a "food war" intensively, wars were already ignited on the land of Liaodong in the northern border.

The speed of the Wastu army marched far beyond the previous predictions of Li Da and others. The vanguard cavalry had arrived in Mongolia in the southern desert at the end of February. After a brief rest, they launched an attack on the camps of the Tatar tribe on March 1.

Tutuobuhua was prepared for the attack of the Watshu army, and the entire Tatar camp was always in a state of combat readiness. However, he never expected that the combat effectiveness of the tribe showed a vertical decline compared to before attacking the Ming Dynasty capital.

After the five thousand vanguards of Tatars led by the Mongolian governor Agula, they were almost at a loss after encountering the vanguards of the Wassai army. In just half a day, five thousand people were completely lost, and Agula led dozens of cavalry guards to escape back to the camp.

Looking at Agula who fled back to the camp in a panic, Tuotuo immediately met him and asked in panic, "Why did the five thousand Tatar warriors lose so quickly? What did you do!"

Tuotuobuhua knew that there was a gap in strength between the Tatar tribe and the Wassai tribe, but he couldn't believe that the gap would be so big. Agula was a veteran with rich experience. He had basically never been at a disadvantage when he fought with the Jurchens, Urianha and even the Liaodong army.

How could he be slaughtered like a lamb when facing the Wasan tribe?

Faced with Tuotuobuhua's questioning, Agula replied in shame and anger: "Great Khan, the thief also said first that you insulted the blood of the Golden Family. He changed to the Tianyuan year name and announced his loyalty to the Khan Tong of the Tuogus Timur lineage, and regarded the Mongolian Khan from the Yesudier lineage as a presumption!"

Not only did the Han Dynasty have legal traditions, but the bloodline of the Mongolian Golden Family is also a kind of Khan tradition inheritance in a certain sense.

If he wanted to become a Khan, he would first have to get rid of the status of a monarch and minister who was not as good as Tuotuo. Otherwise, he would lead troops to conquer and even kill him in the future, all of which would fall into the category of monarchicide.

If you want to get rid of such a crime and not become a loss to the Mongolian tribes, you will first think of the simplest and most brutal method, which is to unilaterally announce the abolition of the Khan regime of Tutubuhua!

This approach was almost ineffective in ordinary times. After all, how could the dignified Mongolian Khan be established just because you said it was a false alarm?
Chapter completed!