Seeing Ye Zongliu giving him a great gift, Chen Yichen hurried over and held him up and said, "Captain Ye, Mr. Bian once helped me once, and now you have saved me once. In fact, you have already owe two favors."

"So there is no need for great gifts. This is my duty to repay my kindness. And it is not very sure in my heart that I can only say that I will give my best."

Chen Yichen dared not say that he was too full. His so-called life was just the prototype of a plan. No one knows how effective it is.

"It's okay, Mr. Ye believes in the judgment of the head of the case!"

For Ye Zongliu and others, apart from raising the flag to rebel, they were already desperate.

Chen Yichen's various prophet performances today, coupled with Bian He's emphasis on him, were enough to make Ye Zongliu like a drowning man, discovering a life-saving straw, and trying hard to seize this opportunity to survive.

"I wonder if Chief Ye knows Japan?"

"Of course I know that Fujian and Zhejiang have been invaded by Japanese slaves since the Taizu Dynasty. Last year, they also raided eastern Zhejiang and burned, killed and looted all the way to Songjiang Prefecture. It can be said that the people in both places were deeply harmed by Japanese slaves."

"The way I gave was to cooperate with Japanese slaves."

"What?"

When Ye Zongliu heard Chen Yichen say that he wanted to cooperate with the Japanese slaves, he was shocked.

Not to mention him, even the few miners who were staying on the boat immediately became extremely ugly.

You should know that Fujian and Zhejiang have been invaded by Japanese pirates for a hundred years. In order to prevent coastal traitors from colluding with Japanese pirates, the Ming Dynasty’s founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang once ordered that “there is no place to go into the sea”. This is the prototype of the Ming Dynasty’s ban on sea order.

Ye Zongliu and others are Zhejiang miners and have opened private mines in Fujian all year round. How could they not know that the Japanese slaves are cruel? Even many relatives and families of this group of miners have been robbed or even killed by Japanese pirates.

For them, the Japanese pirates can be called irreconcilable enemies. This hatred from generation to generation has been deeply engraved into the bones of the people of Fujian and Zhejiang, which is almost consistent with the attitudes of later generations towards Japan.

Isn’t it equivalent to being a “traitor” to lead the way?

Ye Zongliu and others would rather die than accept this kind of life.

"The head of the case, many of our brothers, died tragically under the sword of the Japanese slave. It can be said that they have a deep blood hatred with the Japanese slave."

"Let me cooperate with them. Ye would rather raise the flag and die in battle than live in vain."

"Thank you for your kindness in the Chen Chou, and say goodbye!"

After saying that, Ye Zongliu bowed and prepared to leave. Even when he spoke at the end of his words, his tone became much colder.

I thought Chen Yichen was a scholar with righteous spirit, but I never expected that he would give such a solution, which was even more humiliating than letting them die!

"Captain Ye, you misunderstood. What I mentioned about cooperation is not to collude with Japanese pirates to burn, kill, loot, but to do business with them!"

"Japan produces a lot of silver, and you can solve the current crisis by just earning it through trade."

The point of Ye Zongliu's death was the gap in silver currency in the Ming Dynasty. Relying on local production alone, even if the mountain was dug up, it would not keep up with the social and economic development in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

Since local precious metals are insufficient, then look at other parts of the world, such as Japan!

Compared with the Ming Dynasty at this time, the Ming Dynasty was insignificantly lacking precious metal currencies, and Japan was rich in silver mines and even called "Silver Island". In particular, the exchange rate between silver and copper coins was much lower than that of the Ming Dynasty. The same Ming Dynasty copper coins could be exchanged for two or three times more silver in Japan.

It can even be understood that even if there is a Ming merchant who doesn’t sell anything at this time, just transporting copper coins to make a fortune!

In addition, the root of the century-old Japanese turmoil on the southeast coast is the contradiction between productivity and materials, which is very similar to the invasion of Mongolia in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty.

Japan was very much looking forward to obtaining coins and materials with the Ming Dynasty through tribute, trade, etc., and even forces between various parties once fought over the qualifications for tribute.

However, the Ming Dynasty did not have much interest in overseas trade, which led to the fact that most transaction methods were mainly smuggling.

Once the trade gap cannot be met, and Japan happened to be in the "Southern and Northern Dynasties" period, there were many defeated samurai and bankrupt farmers. If they could not survive, they would easily be tempted.

As a result, many people were recruited by merchants in Jiuzhou and became bandits to cooperate to plunder the Ming Dynasty and the coastal areas of Korea. This was the root cause of the Japanese turmoil in the Ming Dynasty.

Shen Yichen hopes that Ye Zongliu and others will open up channels to earn Japanese silver to fill the Ming Dynasty's currency gap by cooperating with Japanese merchants.

This method is not what is called being a traitor, but rather a high-level productive country, financial plundering for primary productive countries, or more commonly speaking, dumping and currency robbery.

Of course, Shen Yichen, Ye Zongliu and others couldn't explain the things in finance clearly, and could not explain them, so they could only summarize them simply and roughly to let them cooperate with the Japanese slaves.

"Shen Case leader, you probably don't know that the Japanese slaves are so poor that they can't even wear pants. What business can they do with us?"

Ye Zongliu had seen Japanese pirates. He was short and poor, and was covered in rags and had nothing to do. In a wild land like Japan, does the Celestial Kingdom need to do business with them?

It has to be said that Ye Zongliu's way of thinking was the mainstream cognition of the Ming Dynasty.

It is precisely because of this that in the early and mid-term Ming Dynasty, except for a very small number of coastal fishermen who could not survive and were forced to smuggle with Japan, no one had the concept of trade with Japan in their minds.

"It doesn't matter whether they have pants or not, the most important thing is to have silver."

Shen Yichen smiled and replied, "Is the state of the Japanese slaves the key? Later, the British Empire established the East India Company to colonize Southeast Asia. Most of the natives may not even be as good as the current Japanese pirates, and they can still exploit the original accumulation of capitalism from them.

As long as you can get silver from Japan, you can solve the heavy taxes that are pressing on miners such as Ye Zongliu and alleviate the currency shortage in the Ming Dynasty.

It also opened up the trade channel in Japan, and in a sense, it could also grasp the dynamics of Japanese pirates.

The ancients said that knowing oneself and enemy, one will win every battle. Only by understanding the Japanese pirates’ routes and logistics base in detail can one achieve complete elimination.

All the advantages show that the current financial plunder of Japan, whether it is to save Ye Zongliu and others, or laying the foundation for quelling the Japanese turmoil a hundred years in advance, it can be regarded as a benefit without any harm!

"Shen Case leader, is this really feasible?"

Ye Zongliu has heard of Japanese silver, but he has never taken it to heart.

Today, through Chen Yichen's reminder, it seems that there is something to make sense. If you can earn the silver from Japan, you can fill the heavy taxes of the court, and there is no need for your brothers and others to take the risk of raising the flag to rebel.

"Is it feasible? You have to know after doing it. Leader Ye, you dare to do anything about raising the flag to rebel, but don't you dare to try smuggling transactions?"

Although the Ming Dynasty issued a ban on sea during the Hongwu period, smuggling in Fujian and Zhejiang has always been in constant force. Chen Yichen believes that with Ye Zongliu's ability and connections, it should not be a problem to find a way to smuggle.

"The words of the Chen Ke were like enlightenment. Now that things have come to this point, what else does Ye dare not do?"

It is indeed as Chen Yichen said, even if you are not afraid of rebellion, what is smuggling?

"Then I wish the leader Ye a victory in advance."

"Xie Chen's case is the only one who says he is willing to take a life journey in the future. I am willing to repay you with all your best efforts!"

"Captain Ye, you may have some time to ask for help in the future."

"At that time, only one sentence is needed to be the first to the death, and no one else will blink!"

After a few words of kindness to each other, Ye Zongliu and others bowed their fists and said goodbye to their own clutch, while Chen Yichen continued to go north along the canal.

However, Chen Yichen's words are not a polite word in the future, and there is a high probability that they will become a reality.

If the Tumu Fort change in history cannot be changed, then the elite troops of the Ming Dynasty will be lost in this battle, and from then on, they will be in the defensive face to face the Mongolian tribes in the north.

At the same time, the situation in the southwest and northwest borders will continue to decay, and various small-scale peasant uprisings in the core areas continues. Even after Japan overseas completed the unification of the Warring States Period, it was sharpening its swords and preparing for the invasion of the west.

Judging from the situation alone, the Ming Dynasty after the Tumubao Incident was full of crises and turned to attack and defense. To change this situation, in addition to the Qingming Dynasty, reorganizing martial arts is also one of the necessary conditions.

After the collapse of the Northwest Border Defense Station system, the military resources and quality of the old Qin people in the Central Plains decreased significantly. The Ming Dynasty in history turned its attention to the south. What are the wolf soldiers in Guangxi and the local soldiers in Xiangxi who were transferred to the battle to make up for the missing vacancy.

To be honest, these southern chieftain soldiers are not bad in fighting, but the biggest problem is that the military discipline is too poor, and often there is little difference between local abilities and bandits.

Historical materials of the Ming Dynasty even recorded: "Whether they were harassing, the chickens and dogs were uneasy. When they heard that the Wa family had arrived, they all escaped behind closed doors, which was almost the same as the Japanese pirates' fault."

It’s the same kind of disaster. After all, the bandits don’t need to pay military salaries. You guys are even more cruel than Japanese pirates for money!

Therefore, it is natural not to rebuild the elite troops of the Ming Dynasty. If you want to have combat effectiveness and have a certain degree of discipline, how can you have a better source of troops than the predecessor of the Qi family army?

Chen Yichen chose to follow the civil servants because this was determined by the political system after the Song Dynasty. Only civil servants can hold the peak of power. Even if you want to change, you must at least have the power to have the basis to change the entire system, otherwise it would be a boast.

But it does not mean that Chen Yichen values ​​culture and neglects military force and will give up his pursuit of force. As long as conditions allow, he will personally control an elite force as much as possible to serve as his own force.

Ye Zongliu, the group of miners, was the foreshadowing laid by Chen Yichen. If it really came to the day when the alien cavalry was in danger, the "Qi Family Army" might be released in advance.
Chapter completed!