He only heard him answer Wen Tiren and said: "His subordinates will have more Dongjiang and Korean sailors, not all of them are his old subordinates. This is one of them. In addition, I have actually said that this new navy will be organized in accordance with the establishment of the First Division of the Ming Army. Each ship has a political commissar. In addition, some factory guards will be arranged secretly and other means. I am not afraid that he will have any other intentions!"

After a pause, Emperor Chongzhen said again: "Li Kuiqi said that Zheng Zhilong defeated him and would dominate the sea in the future. This matter must be prevented. So he issued an order to Fujian and ordered Zheng Zhilong to go north, and I would also meet this person."

Wen Tiren felt aroused when he heard this and asked quickly: "Your Majesty wants to detain him first?"

There are many reasons for people like Zheng Zhilong to be detained or even killed. Moreover, the court despises such people more. Just like Wang Zhi, a pirate during the Jiajing period, was killed simply and neatly after being falsely recruited by the court, and no one would care.

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he shook his head and said, "I will not kill you if I see the situation. Otherwise, his subordinates may rebel again, and each of them will be robbed, and they will also cause trouble to the Southeast. This situation is not what I want to see. Now he has no sense of dominance, and he still has the Red Mavericks to deal with, and has not achieved real dominance. The best situation I envisioned is that I will ask him to establish a navy army alone, and to balance and restrain each other with Li Kuiqi. But what exactly is it? Let me talk about it when I have seen Zheng Zhilong."

Wen Tiren heard this, thought for a moment, then bowed and said, "Your Majesty's wise!"

Emperor Chongzhen thought for a moment and ordered Wen Tiren to say, "You can send this memorial to the residence to test the reactions of all parties. In addition, I secretly decree He Qiaoyuan. I want to grant him the left minister of the Ministry of Revenue and the left censor, and be in charge of Fujian, governors, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong, and open the sea with full-time job. He will prepare first, and when the time is right, the imperial edict will arrive!"

After thinking about it, he added: "When Liu Jinsheng communicated with He Qiaoyuan, he would report to Wen Qing and I whenever he had something to do."

Wen Tiren was secretly happy when he heard this. It seemed that Emperor Chongzhen was very determined to open the sea. In this way, if the sea tax was found, if he could really reach the number of words that the pirates said, the pressure on his chief assistant would be greatly reduced. So he obeyed and left and went to work hard according to the emperor's will.

In the original history, Emperor Chongzhen consulted the Ministry of Revenue and finally gave a reply: Since the Ministry said it was inconvenient to open foreign trade, the Ministry banned it as usual. For this reason, He Qiaoyuan later submitted a memorial "Please Open the Sea Ban Memorial", but he did not get the consent of the court and eventually passed away in depression.

After Wen Tiren left, Emperor Chongzhen recalled the incident and found that his previous impression seemed a bit wrong, at least he had a wrong impression of the sea ban in the late Ming Dynasty.

In the impression of his later souls, there was a saying that the Ming Dynasty forbidden seas was that the Southeast Sea traders instigated the court to ban seas in order to smuggle huge profits. However, in the late Ming Dynasty, the Zheng Zhilong Group was the one who was scattered on the seas. As Li Kuiqi said, in the original history, the Zheng Zhilong Group was the most profitable, not the Southeast Smuggler.

For this period, there were pirates on the sea, and Western barbarians. Smuggling merchants took great risks when going to sea, unless he was the backstage of pirates and Western barbarians. But historically, there was no obvious backstage behind Zheng Zhilong, and he himself was the biggest beneficiary.

As Qiao Yuan said, the strategy of banning the sea is actually harmful to the interests of Southeast sea merchants. If goods cannot go out to sea, not only will the cargo circulation between the provinces in the southeast coastal areas be weak and traffic will be weak, which will increase costs and reduce profits. More importantly, because there is no escort from the imperial navy, there are so many pirates, and it is good to pay protection fees, and it is more likely that even people and ships will be robbed, which will be a big loss.

This means that at least the blame for the ban on sea in the late Ming Dynasty was a bit unfair to let Southeast merchants or smuggling merchants take the blame. The reason for the ban on sea was caused by the lazy policy of "more than less for more things" by officials in ancient times. It is recommended to open the ban on sea, but after all, only one or two people who do maritime trade will succeed, and even lose their lives. If such things are attacked by political opponents, they can easily threaten the official career.

It is also true that He Qiaoyuan repeatedly emphasized in the memorial that although there are various disadvantages in opening the sea, and even gave examples of reading, its benefits were definitely beneficial to the court.

Among them, they actually hit the key point of a bureaucratic class. Indeed, opening the sea is beneficial to the court, but not to individuals. Therefore, most officials of the Ming Dynasty would not do things that are not good. Doing too many mistakes and making many mistakes is what they value most. As for whether the court is beneficial to it, what does it have to do with them?

Such things are actually everywhere in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad, but there are a lot in the late Ming Dynasty. This reason accounts for a large proportion of the demise of the Ming Dynasty, which is really regrettable!

Emperor Chongzhen thought for a while and couldn't help but sigh inwardly, and at the same time he was a little alert. He must share the benefits of opening the sea with equal benefits. His maritime tax revenue cannot be used for military expenditure in Fujian as Qiao Yuan said.

By the way, there is another point. He Qiaoyuan used the previous example to say that the sea tax revenue in the year after the opening of the sea during the Wanli period was more than 20,000 taels. Before, he was happy because of such a waste of money. But now it is not possible, which is far from what Li Kuiqi said.

Emperor Chongzhen carefully considered the reasons, but it was actually not difficult to understand. The reason must be caused by many people's tax evasion. This may be the place to focus on and strictly investigate in the future, and it is also the biggest problem after opening the sea.

Haha, although pirates charge protection fees like this, the sea trade can still make Zheng Zhilong earn tens of millions a year. This is enough to prove that the tax revenue of this merchant is too low and tax evasion is too serious!

The national policy of the Ming Dynasty taxation should still be transferred from land tax to commercial tax to reduce the pressure on farmers!

When Emperor Chongzhen thought of this, he came to his senses and couldn't help but feel a little funny. He summoned Wen Tiren to discuss the matter of the landless field. Unexpectedly, he talked about the maritime affairs as he spoke. As a result, the maritime affairs were in sight. He forgot all the matter of the landless field, haha!

So Emperor Chongzhen had no choice but to summon Wen Tiren to talk about the matter of Tiandi.

Wen Tiren smiled when he heard this. He replied to Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, this unparalleled land can also be included in the Qingzhang land nationwide."

When Chongzhen heard this, he nodded, and it had already been clear that this matter was going to be carried out before. Therefore, he asked: "Wen Qing, can the matter of clearing the land be implemented?"

"Your Majesty, I have discussed with my colleagues in the cabinet. It is better to follow the Wanli period. If you are familiar with your skills, you will get twice the result with half the effort!" Wen Tiren was obviously ready and replied immediately.
Chapter completed!