Prince of Chaos

Chapter 81 Chen Zhenlong

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Dong Qichang thought he had gotten a hint from Emperor Wanli, so he was so excited that he didn't sleep well all night.

"The opportunity to honor the ancestors has come!"

Although Dong Qichang is now well-off, there is still a thorn in his heart. His family is not the eldest son of the Dong family.It seems to be a beautiful scene now, but it is actually a rootless duckweed. Once he is implicated and attacked, the head of the Dong family will definitely give up on him without hesitation.

Therefore, the opportunity still has to be won by yourself!

Therefore, Dong Qichang began to show his social arrogance.

Xishan Huangzhuang.

After more than two years of development, Xishan Huangzhuang has become the largest Huangzhuang in the Xishan area. Through sales and rewards from Queen Mother Li, Xishan Huangzhuang is now almost including the entire Xishan.

The Xishan Coal Mine is still being mined non-stop. This coal mine is like a gold mine, bringing Zhu Changluo innumerable wealth every year.It is also because of the accumulation of these wealth that now Zhu Changluo is gradually being valued by Emperor Wanli, but compared with Zheng Guifei and Zhu Changxun, he is still much worse, but it doesn't matter.

As long as the direction is good and a good opportunity arises, all the preparations that are being done now will naturally have a natural effect when it is critical.

Who made Emperor Wanli love to enjoy, as long as he still likes money, as long as he still likes to enjoy, Zhu Changluo will have countless opportunities to reverse his disadvantages.

But today, Zhu Changluo didn't come to Xishan Huangzhuang to read the financial statements of Xishan Coal Mine, but to make a fake by the way.After all, Emperor Wanli had promised to save all the revenue of the Xishan Coal Mine in his internal funds.Therefore, some superficial work should be done, otherwise, how could it have kept the heart of Emperor Wanli?

The reason why Zhu Changluo came to Xishan Huangzhuang early today is actually to welcome the son of a merchant!
This merchant is different from ordinary merchants, he is a sea merchant.I often travel between Daming and Luzon (Philippines). In this era of closed countries and closed seas, I can be regarded as a person who has seen the real thing - strong wind and waves.

In fact, when it comes to the sea ban, we have to mention Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding king of the Ming Dynasty. His imperial decree that no piece of board should go to sea directly affected the 600-year history of China.

In the Qing Dynasty, the gang of Tartars with braids followed Zhu Yuanzhang's policy without thinking. I have to say that this magical decree can be effective in two dynasties.

In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang banned the sea at the beginning to combat the maritime invasion of Fang Guozhen and other rebels. In order to save trouble, Zhu Yuanzhang directly played a set of advanced games-"economic blockade"!
That's right.At that time, the ban on the sea was indeed for the economic blockade of those dishonest rebels on the island.As a result, it is easy to seal the sea, but difficult to open it.

Since Zhu Yuanzhang, it is as difficult as going to the sky to open the sea again.

Even if he was as powerful as Emperor Yongle, he still failed to overthrow Zhu Yuanzhang's edict to ban the sea. Although he also sent Zheng He to the West seven times, according to gossip, the reason why Emperor Yongle sent Zheng He to the West was to find the Dear nephew who disappeared in Nanjing.

However, no one can tell whether this is true or not.But Zheng He's voyage to the Western Seas was indeed an outrageous move at the time, no less than the Soviets sending people into space.

Unfortunately, such a grand event could not continue.

The biggest reason for this is the concept problem.Since ancient times, China has put more emphasis on agriculture than business, and is only interested in planing food from the ground. The attitude towards merchants is to suppress and suppress.Because in the eyes of the rulers, businessmen are profit-seeking people, and they don't do production.

Therefore, Zheng He's voyages were not to make money at all, but to spread the prestige of Ming Dynasty to the world!Every time I came back, I brought boat after boat of kings of small countries and some flashy so-called tributes.

After the kings of these small countries arrived in Ming Dynasty, they immediately received rewards from the Emperor of Ming Dynasty. These rewards were worth a hundred times more than the things they sent.

It is conceivable that such a money-losing business cannot continue.

So, after the death of Emperor Yongle and Zheng He, this matter completely stopped.

In the Zhengde period, there was a Minister of the Ministry of War who was afraid that Emperor Zhengde would go to sea if his brain got hot, so he burned all the logbooks of Zheng He's voyages to the West.

At that time, the minister of the Ministry of War was praised by the government and the public, and thought he had done a great deed!

Later, the finances of the Ming Dynasty became increasingly difficult. In order to revive the country, the reformers headed by Gao Gong thought of the hugely profitable maritime trade business.

Why do you think of maritime trade? Because in the Ming Dynasty, under the imperial decree of banning the sea, the southern clans repeatedly smuggled them. They controlled all the ocean trade in this country in disguise and gained huge wealth.But their business will never be on the table, after all, it is an act prohibited by the imperial court order.

However, they are also hardcore supporters of the ban on seas!Because as long as the imperial court does not enter the sea, as long as the imperial court still prohibits the sea, the wealth of the ocean will be theirs, so they have always strongly supported the forbidden sea.

As long as someone dares to open the sea, they will attack in groups.

Such as Gao Gong!

Is Gao Gong's resignation really just because of his bad temper, and was plotted against by Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao?
The biggest reason for Gao Gong's resignation is because his policy of opening up the sea cut off the wealth of the southern clans!

Therefore, after the death of Emperor Longqing, Gao Gong was unable to support himself, and under the conspiracy of another reformist who was eager to come to power, he fell from power.

From then on, no one in the entire Ming Dynasty talked about opening the sea again.

After the Qing Dynasty, if it weren't for the outbreak of the Opium War, the ancient land of the East would have been blocked until the end of time under the hoodwink of the vested interests of those ocean smugglers!
It can be seen from this that Mr. Ma in the West has summed up well.The supporters of these crazy forbidden seas are the monopolies of the means of production, and every drop of blood that flows from their pores is dirty.They are all based on satisfying personal self-interest and sacrificing the entire nation.

Today, the sea merchant that Zhu Changluo wants to meet is a sea merchant with a conscience. Taking advantage of the convenience of smuggling shipping in the southern region, he has extended his business to Southeast Asia. On Luzon Island, he found Europeans from the American continent Introduced sweet potatoes.

After he saw this magical plant, he was deeply attracted by it.This is simply a gift from God!He learned the planting and maintenance of this plant on the island.

He found that sweet potatoes are drought-resistant and easy to live, and the yield is huge, and they can be eaten raw or cooked.Moreover, it tastes sweet and has strong adaptability, so it can be grown almost anywhere.So he has been plotting how to bring this plant back from Luzon Island.

Because the Spanish colonists on the island explicitly prohibited the spread of sweet potatoes.At this time, by coincidence, his troubles were learned by the Shadow Dragon Guard who was in charge of looking for sweet potatoes in the south, so with the support of the Shadow Dragon Guard, he finally quietly twisted the potato vines into it with a water-absorbing rope and crossed the sea Take it back to Fuzhou.Only then did the sweet potatoes have the opportunity to reach Daming ahead of schedule.

And this legendary figure is Chen Zhenlong, a Fujian sea merchant known as the father of Chinese sweet potatoes!This time, Zhu Changluo was waiting for his son Chen Jinglun.

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