eldest son of Ming dynasty

Chapter 294 The test lies in the place
After all, Zhu Houzhao is the emperor, no matter how big the resistance is, no matter how many people oppose him, as long as he implements it with a firm attitude, at least this matter will not go out of the capital.

But that slap also surprised the honorable officials and ministers of the imperial court.

Zhu Ming's royal family has always been one with the nobles, and now that even Marquis Wu Ding has come to such a fate, let alone other people.

There is no so-called real resistance in front of the imperial power, especially in the Ming and Qing dynasties.You have made trouble like the Zhengde Emperor in history, what can the minister do?
Although the deformed political and moral environment of the Ming Dynasty made many things rigid, it actually maintained the imperial power to a certain extent, because everyone wanted to fight for the word "loyalty". , foreign relatives, vassal princes... Whenever there is a slight change in these people, those who are trying to gain fame will use you to show their presence in front of the emperor.

And Zhu Houzhao himself is the emperor with real power.It is not a big problem to stabilize the capital, although it is very noisy.

There are even deadly admonishers, Shandong Taoist censors, Henan Taoist censors... plus the Kedao officials in Beijing, they have basically evolved to the point of scolding the emperor.

As the cabinet, Li Dongyang and Xie Qian had to draw up votes, and they were scared when they saw many memorials.

But these memorials hardly caused any disturbance when they entered the Qianqing Palace.

The scholar rebelled and failed for three years.If the last memorial is really useful, the emperors of all dynasties will be wise emperors.

So the real test actually lies in the place.

Wu Dinghou felt that he saw the coffin, so he began to cry.There are still many people in the world who cannot see the coffin.The mountains are high and the emperor is far away. In fact, whether our nation says it is good or unruly, some people are also unruly.

What princes and generals have kindness, and 18 years later, he will be a hero, and the scholar can be killed but not humiliated... Anyway, there are many words that inspire people to work hard, and there is always one suitable for you from nobles to commoners.

What made things even more complicated, and which Zhu Houzhao couldn't plan in advance no matter what, was credibility.

To put it simply, opening the sea is indeed beneficial to some people, at least they don't have to eat in the soil all the time, but the court and the government have no credibility.

No matter how beautiful your words are, the vast majority of people in the society don’t believe them, and most people are illiterate. The benefit after a year is worse than treating him to a roast chicken meal now.

This is the ignorant man,

There are also some purely bad people who profit from this smuggling chain. Ordinary people will probably be afraid, are they?

Going out to sea, smuggling, this is a paradise for adventurers and desperadoes.

This is the case with the Poyang Zhan family that Mao Yuwen found in Jiangxi.The Zhan family can already be said to be a gentry, because there are officials in his family and he is also in business.If it wasn't for Kaihai, it wouldn't be a big problem just to catch the Zhan family, but the nature of the matter had changed by now, and other gentry involved in smuggling began to group together instinctively.

Jin Yiwei encountered difficulties in such an arrest.

The prefect of Raozhou Prefecture is a middle-aged man named Wang Sheng.Even though Jin Yiwei fought openly, he dared to stop him at the door, in a word.

"Bring the imperial decree!"

No matter how good Mao Yuwen is, he can't just kill the prefect like this, so it's really a headache.

Wang Sheng seemed confident enough, "Communication with foreign countries and smuggling of prohibited items is just the words of Deputy Commander Mao. I want imperial edicts, but Deputy Commander Mao doesn't have them, and I want evidence, and Deputy Commander Mao doesn't have them either. That's it, then Want to arrest hundreds of people in Poyang County?!"

Poyang has King Huai, and these people's cards are not small.

Mao Yuwen is difficult to implement, "Prefect Wang, you are a fourth-rank official of the court. But I am also the deputy envoy of Jinyiwei, and I can also see the emperor. Prefect Wang obstructed the action of Jinyiwei today. When Zhejiang and Fujian really capture the evidence of Zhan's smuggling, you It can't get away with it!"

"Deputy Envoy Mao should take care of himself first, you don't need to worry about my life!"

Mao Yuwen was anxious but helpless.

Sometimes he can't report everything and ask for imperial edicts.To be honest, the Ming Dynasty did not know how many officials wanted to ask for an imperial decree. If everyone could ask for it, the country would have been in chaos long ago.

The situation in Jiangxi is not so good.

Zhejiang is okay,
The main reason is that there is a Mei Kejia here. After the establishment of the Ningbo Shipping Department, Mei Ji first cooperated with the government. It seems that no one was killed when he handed over the materials and obtained the seal.

Furthermore, Wang Qiong is not a pure official. To be honest, his hands and feet are still a little dirty.There are two sides to the matter. In this way, some wealthy households in Hangzhou will believe what he actually said.

"Your Majesty has already said in the imperial decree that after the Ming Dynasty, private trade will be changed to official trade. That is to say, the imperial court allows everyone to do business at sea, but you have to follow the rules. You don't have to worry about being investigated by the imperial court. , the imperial court also collects some commercial taxes from it.”

"Isn't that just spending money to eliminate disasters?"

Many businessmen in the room were saved by Mei Kejia, and today is a meeting between officials and businessmen.

Wang Qiong took a sip from the teacup, "Although the words are rough, they are not rough. But shopkeeper Wang will stop talking about rough things in the future. What everyone did in the past was a foolish thing. Now that the court has changed this law, everyone is happy, isn't it?"

"Zhong Cheng. The few of us don't care about this matter." This is a younger businessman, in his 30s, with a beard on his lips. There will be more and more people, so that everyone's profit will be less and less. In this way, from the magistrate's yamen to the magistrate's yamen, and then to the clans of Chaozhongge Lao and Shangshu, each level will get less. It's the hardest of them all."

Mei Kejia drank tea calmly.

Zhejiang's biggest problem is indeed this.

The merchant's family that can be found on the surface can of course be brought to the Shibo Department, and they still have to give the governor's face.

But what about those shadowy businessmen?
The imperial court said that private trade was changed to official trade.Of course you can say that.

But how many people will really listen, he will still smuggle when the time comes, what should you do?
Grasp?Some people have similar backgrounds.

For example, the Xie family in Yuyao, Ningbo. The emperor had warned Xie Qian, but he really asked the local officials to arrest Xie Ge's family. To be honest, this is really hard to imagine.

"That's Ben Zhongcheng's business. Shopkeeper Liu doesn't have to worry about it. In short, in Hangzhou City, your family can do business in accordance with the court's regulations, or follow the example of Brother Mei. Whatever he does, you do."

"Zhongcheng." Mei Kejia said, "Sometimes business matters are not that simple. To eat this kind of food, you can contact many people and you can't offend them. The business in the hands of all the shopkeepers is also subject to various pressures." Of course, it is necessary to cooperate with the government, but if you offend the local clan too much, you may not even receive a trace in the future. If the Shibo Division is just an empty shell and there is not much trade volume, this must not be what the Holy Majesty wants to see Arrived."

Even Mei Kejia himself faced such a situation.

Wang Qiong understood that in a simple sentence, if one or two of them were not arrested, it would have no effect at all.

Some people took the words of the imperial court as fart, how to smuggle in the past, and how to smuggle in the future, and even united to exclude those who did not agree with them, just like Mei Kejia said.

Fortunately, Wang Qiong asked the Governor's Office for instructions on this point.

That being the case, let's investigate and arrest people.

On the second day,
Zhejiang began to act.

And in Fujian,

There are many contradictions in the officialdom.

According to the procurator Zhang Li, when he investigated the smuggling case in Quanzhou, he found nothing, and was even attacked by bandits on the way from Fuzhou to Quanzhou!

This made all the officials in the governor's office worried.

"Investigating smuggling and setting up a market ship are two sides of the same coin. If smuggling is not strictly prohibited, who would trade through the city ship department?" Zhang Li, the inspector, had a stone slab clamped on his arm. He himself was not in danger of his life. Some twisted.

"boom!"

Yu Zichu, the commander of the capital, also became angry, "The imperial decree has arrived. If you can't do this, if you can't make an appointment, you will die. If this is the case, why not send troops to crusade, just a bunch of bandits, are you afraid that they will fail?!"

"Commander Yu, stay safe and don't be impatient. Fujian is mountainous and the people are poor. If you say bandits, there are bandits everywhere. Now that the guards are ruined, it's okay to rely on officers and soldiers to hunt down one or two places. If you really want to search for bandits all over the mountain, When will it be found? But, Minister, this matter cannot be exposed just now. These gangsters may have something to do with smuggling businessmen, and they cooperate with each other so that the government can't find anything. If they can't find out, then Kaihai Ling just beat the gongs and drums without any movement. What was originally smuggled is still smuggled."

After a long time, everyone feels that you can't do this, so you will be even more unscrupulous.

Of course, Wang Jia understands the key point, "Zhejiang is also in the same situation. Although there are a few companies that should still follow the national policy because of Meiji, most people don't speak up and resist secretly, which is the same as the open resistance here in Fujian. It’s tricky. It’s really not easy to open the sea.”

It now appears that large-scale rebellion will not lead to high-intensity counter-insurgency wars.However, local unmoved and low-intensity unrest is likely to continue.

"Bo'an, what do you think?"

Wang Shouren has returned to the governor's office to participate in politics. When he heard the governor's question, he replied: "The mountain bandits must be suppressed. If they are not suppressed, the court's prestige will not be enough. The smuggling needs to be investigated, but just now the ministry mentioned Meiji... the officials are down." I have an idea, we need to change the investigation method. After all, the purpose of the imperial court is not to arrest them all like Jin Yiwei investigates the case, but to force them to do business through the Shibo Division."

"Go on."

"The subordinate officials think that if they harass us continuously, we can also harass them continuously. But there is only one kind of people, and we don't harass them."

Wang Jia and Feng Xi looked stunned, "Businessmen who have obtained official seals through the Shipping Department."

"That's right, we don't have to doubt His Majesty's determination. It's not about the speed of this matter, but the effect. So it doesn't matter if it takes a little longer. From today onwards, the government will accept reports and attack everywhere. If there is nothing wrong, we will go to the door every now and then to check. Who doesn't want to be safe and secure? After a long time, most people will get tired and exhausted, and they will return to the right path guided by the government. The rest of the stubborn ones should have special reasons, among which Some even require His Majesty to make a decision, and we will discuss it at that time."

After thinking about it for a while, Wang Jia felt that it was effective, and immediately ordered his left and right sides, "Send this method to Zhejiang as well, and ask them to refer to it as appropriate."

Wang Shouren got this key right.

The imperial court didn't want to put so many people to death.

Over there, Yu Zichu asked again, because he found out that this man named Wang Shouren really had a conspiracy, "Wang Canzheng just said that the mountain bandits must be suppressed, but he doesn't know how to suppress them?"

Wang Shouren began to ask Zhang Li, "According to the inspector is a third-rank official, there are not many people with higher official positions than you in Fujian. But why did you get ambushed by bandits for the first time when you went out? What does that mean?"

After all, Yu Zichu had led the army, he reacted faster than Zhang Li, a civil servant, "There are spies!"

"That's right." Wang Shouren smiled, "The suppression of bandits starts with catching spies."

In the room, Fengxi and Zhang Li all began to look at Wang Shouren with admiration. At first they thought he was someone who relied on his parents, but they didn't expect him to be quite a character.

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I recommend a friend's book, "The Great Ming Prince: The Strongest Man Behind the Scenes".

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