East Study.

Emperor Yonglong was immersed in an emotional state of inexplicable joy and anxiety.

The news that Feng Ziying brought to him was really too touching, even if he knew some information from Chai Ke before, it was far less colorful than the content obtained from talking to Feng Ziying.

Kaihai - borrowing, as well as the new word that he has never been exposed to, all make him feel extremely fresh and curious, and of course the most interested is the tangible benefits.

Perhaps this time you will be able to get millions of taels of silver at once, and you will be able to get no less than one million taels of silver every year from the new tax of the city's "sea tax".

This is Feng Ziying's rough estimate for him, and of course, Feng Ziying also made it clear to him that this may not be obtained until the scale of sea trade reaches a considerable level in a few years.

The news from all sides is quite optimistic, although there are still differences and opinions on the strategy of opening the sea in the north and south, but the focus of disagreement has begun to be more in the direction of the use of this debt income.

This is a good phenomenon, which shows that everyone has subconsciously accepted the point of opening the sea, and focusing on the attribution and distribution of the benefits of opening the sea.

Zheng Jizhi, the head of the household, apparently got the news and asked for an audience, but Emperor Yonglong did not plan to meet the other party yet.

This guy has been making trouble for Zhishi, and Emperor Yonglong has long been tired of the other party, but he is suffering from the lack of a more suitable person to take over, so he can only delay it again and again.

But now that the man got the news, he immediately became very excited, and did not mention anything about the matter, obviously "attempting" the money obtained by the debt.

Emperor Yonglong also admitted that Zheng Jizhi may not be an excellent household secretary, but he can be regarded as a barely qualified household secretary.

As Feng Ziying said, an excellent household secretary should be good at reducing expenditure, but also good at open source, of course, this may be more of a cabinet matter, but the household department should propose more open source strategies to the cabinet and the emperor, which is what an excellent household secretary does.

Zheng Jizhi did an unsatisfactory job in reducing expenditure, but he did not make any achievements in open source, and even Emperor Yonglong knew that he would adopt the method of setting up a mine supervisor and tax supervisor to seek to contribute to the increasingly depleted treasury of the Great Zhou, even if he was infamous for it, but Zheng Jizhi was helpless.

In Feng Ziying's view, the establishment of the mine supervision and tax supervision is not entirely wrong, the reason why it has attracted such a big infamy is many reasons, but the most important thing is that the establishment of this tax supervision and mine supervision is due to the establishment of the Yonglong Emperor in the way of sending internal servants under the decree, bypassing the cabinet and the household department.

This is illegal in a sense, and the poor quality of the servants directly leads to the magnification of this evil effect countless times.

In addition, there are some reasons that stem from the unscientific and arbitrary nature of the establishment of commercial tax rates since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, which has made commercial tax a dispensable and even a thing that competes with the people for profit in the eyes of many people, and the interest groups involved - businessmen and even businessmen often have inextricable links with many important ministers and officials in the DPRK and China, which will naturally magnify or become more fierce in this opposition and attitude.

Emperor Yonglong has been in such a state of excitement for a long time.

In the past few years, he has almost always maintained a state of following the rules at a glance, just to avoid being caught by others, but the current situation does not allow him to do nothing, which may disappoint many people and even abandon himself.

So he tries to find ways to avoid too much criticism, but also to inspire people, but this kind of thing is often hard to come by, and almost all of them have something to do with silver, without which you can only do anything in vain.

But this time he finally waited.

No one thought that such an opportunity was actually brought about by the rebellion in Ningxia Town, and the troublesome thing that originally made him almost lose his head overnight was actually evolved like this, and he couldn't help but pray secretly in the middle of the night.

couldn't help but look at the piece that Feng Ziying brought into the palace again.

To be precise, it is not a setback, Feng Ziying is not an official official, and she has no right to play a setback.

This should be a suggestive article on opening the sea and borrowing, if nothing else, the next issue and even the next issue of "Internal Reference" will publish this kind of related articles one after another.

Reading carefully, Emperor Yonglong carefully chewed on the essence of it, the establishment of the city division in the sea should not be limited to one or two places, this point Feng Ziying specifically explained to Emperor Yonglong, it cannot be limited to the north, such as Denglai should be included in it, and the maritime trade between Korea and Japan should be valued from the beginning.

This made Emperor Yonglong also curious.

Maritime trade is known to be prosperous in Fujian and Zhejiang, followed by Liangguang and Nanzhili, and the main trade direction is Nanyang and the Xiyi people entrenched in Nanyang.

Shandong's maritime trade is not developed, and Emperor Yonglong once thought that it was not because Feng Ziying was from Shandong, so he considered his hometown, but from the perspective of balancing the north and south to win the support of the northern scholars, it was also extremely necessary to encourage Shandong's maritime trade.

However, Feng Ziying put forward the importance of the sea trade between Japan and Korea in the article, a relatively closed market, for the Great Zhou has a huge production capacity of porcelain, paper, tea, silk and other materials can have a huge acceptance capacity, while copper and silver from Japan are the most scarce materials in the Great Zhou, this trade can greatly complement the needs of both sides and achieve balance.

Emperor Yonglong faintly sensed Feng Ziying's intention, or ambition, from trading with Korea and Japan, that is, the intention to re-incorporate Japan and Korea into vassals.

This intention may not be realized by war in the early stage, and the current Great Zhou does not have the financial resources to fight a war, but it can be used to achieve closer ties between the two sides through the complementarity of trade, and at the same time, it can also eliminate the basis for the survival of the Japanese and the Japanese.

This made Emperor Yonglong can't help but be thrilled and at the same time a little worried, this will be a rather grand plan, and it may not be effective in three or five years, but it is worth fighting for.

No king can ignore this feat of magnificence.

Of course, all this needs to be built on the basis of the fleet of naval divisions.

Emperor Yonglong also understood the meaning of Feng Ziying's heavy writing in this regard, that is, to include the plan for the establishment of a naval fleet, and his eyes could not be limited to the nine sides.

This kid's mind is not consistent with his father's thoughts, but it is somewhat consistent with the views of those southern scholars, which makes Emperor Yonglong also very interested, of course, he does not believe that Feng Ziying can betray the northern scholars and get mixed with those southern scholars, which can only show that this young man's mind has never been limited to a corner, but focuses on the imperial court.

This son is only sixteen years old!

When he was sighing with emotion, the chamberlain came to say: "Your Majesty, Lord Lu is here." ”

"Well, pass him in." Emperor Yonglong stretched his body, got up, and paced with his hands in his hands.

"Wechen has seen the emperor." Lu Song always has that calm expression.

This is very much in line with Emperor Yonglong's taste, the superiors, especially the commander of the Dragon Forbidden Lieutenant, if they don't have a little mind about the city, how can they control such a force, and how can they compete with Gu Cheng, who is retreating?

"What is the situation of the Feng family?" Emperor Yonglong didn't talk nonsense and asked directly.

"Well, what is the emperor asking about?" Lu Song was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Is it Feng Tang or Feng Keng himself, or the Feng family's ......"

"Let's talk about Feng Tang first." Emperor Yonglong hesitated for a moment before he said.

Lu Song immediately made an introduction to Feng Tang's situation, "As far as the current situation grasped by Weichen, Feng Tang's reputation in Jiubian is still good, especially in Datong and Yulin, and at the same time, because the Feng family has been serving here for a long time, he has accumulated a considerable reputation and connections, and in Yulin, it may be compared with the performance of the previous general soldier in Yulin, which makes Feng Tang quite recognized by the soldiers of Yulin Town, which is also a reason for the excellent performance of the soldiers of Yulin Town in Ningxia Rebellion,......"

"Feng Tang is a generous but quite a city government, he has a decision when it comes to major events, makes good use of people, likes to be good at fighting generals,......, Feng Tang is not a woman, there is only one wife and two concubines in the family, the wives and wives are all from the Datong Duan family, and Feng Keng is from his wife,......"

Seeing that Emperor Yonglong's expression remained unchanged, Lu Song naturally understood the meaning.

"But Feng Tang is also a good asset, and he received a lot of money and silver specialties from merchants and generals in Yulin Town, and even the horses, leather goods, gold sand and other things sent by the steppe Tatar tribes should be laughed at, according to Weichen's understanding, there are more than 30 steppe Tatar horses received alone, of which more than 10 are sent to Fengfu in Beijing,......"

"In addition, the Feng family is also good at business, and there are many livelihoods in Datong, Shandong and Beijing, and they make a lot of money every year,......"

At this time, Emperor Yonglong's face was a little more cheerful, and he also nodded slightly.

"However, Feng Tang is very scheming, the horses, leather goods, and gold sand sent by the steppe Tatars are all on the grounds of private gifts, and he also gives back tea, silk, porcelain and other things, as for the ...... value" Lu Song smiled and didn't say much, "In addition, he also reported this matter to Lord Yang Heyang, in the name of deepening the relationship with Bu Shitu, Li Rabbit and other departments, so that the contradiction between Bu Shitu and Su Nang was even worse, but he also accepted Su Nang Taiji's 100 catties of gold sand, it is rumored that Su Nang Taiji hoped that he could ease his cheeks in the court, Strive for the approval of the imperial court,......"

At this time, Emperor Yonglong finally frowned, "Then do you have any results in your investigation of this matter?" ”

Lu Song also said a little helplessly: "Lord Chai and Lord Yang all know about this matter, Feng Tang thinks that if he does not accept it, it will make Su Nang Taiji suspicious, and suggests that if the imperial court grants Bu Shitu as the king of Shunyi, he can grant Su Nang Taiji as the general of the dragon and tiger, and Mrs. Zhongshun will not grant it for the time being. ”