Last year, 120,000 stone of grain was distributed from Fujian, Zhejiang, and Huguang, and 70,000 stone of grain was transported along with Nanyang, and transported to Jimo, Shandong Province by sea in a hurricane, covering nine ships, losing 8,700 stones, and 54 dead soldiers. ”

"It is inconvenient for the Huke to give the matter, the inspection of the imperial history and the Shandong Fuzhi to write Chen Hai, so the sea transportation should be abolished and the river should be re-transported."

Zhang Juzheng said and turned his gaze to Zhang Han, the secretary of the ministry, and said with a smile on his face: "Chen Shuai of Nanyang is resolutely opposed to river transportation, believing that shipping cannot be stopped. ”

"If it is only some imperial history and officials, it does not hurt if the servants do not look at it, and their words may not be very insightful; However, Fu Houchuan of Shandong Fuzhao is also opposed to shipping, he has done Huaiyang coastal defense military preparation, from the military affairs, attrition, words sincerely believe that the dynasty can not use shipping, and especially mention Chen Shuai, Shandong Fuzhi is dissatisfied with Chen Shuai. ”

At this time, seeing Zhang Juzheng mention Chen Mu, and mentioned that Shandong Fu Xizhi was dissatisfied with him, although he didn't know why he was dissatisfied, he still said: "Mr. Houchuan has a good name, and students must have his opinions." ”

Zhang Han is fifty in his sixties this year, he has a white waist and barely slumps, age spots on his face, the official residence is still in the ministry, and the No. 1 official of the sixth department of the imperial court, just like this, Zhang Juzheng has to call himself a student.

Jun didn't see that even the minister Gao Gong was squeezed out of the cabinet, and it was still the court's grace to send Nanyang, although it was said that for Zhang Han, if he wasn't old, going to Nanyang might be more comfortable than living in Beijing, after all, Chen Nanyang was a disciple of the old man, but it also depends on whether the court sends him at that time.

People can go to the South Seas for exile, that's because people are high arches, and others can do the same?

"Ziwen doesn't have to be so careful." Zhang Juzheng said this, but his heart was very useful, this person was promoted by him, knowing the benefits of reading him, he said: "Fu Houchuan's proposal, as soon as Chen Shuai started a war under Chen Shuai, the Nanyang countries were exploited and fought against Xiyi, and the east garrisoned five islands and Kuwu, and the ministers of the court were very worried that the war would burn to the two capitals and thirteen provinces, and there was no such precedent in the past when the Ming Dynasty was at sea. ”

"Once the sea is biased, if one day the naval war is frustrated, the sea operation is impassable and the transportation is neglected, the grain transfer from the south to the north will be broken, and the imperial court will be difficult!"

"Second, I am worried that the water transportation will be neglected, the river will not be sparse, and the disaster relief will be another expenditure year after year." Zhang Juzheng turned his head, and saw that Wang Guoguang, the head of the household department, also nodded again and again, "Presumably Ruguan thinks the same way." ”

Wang Guoguang said: "There is also a little benefit of Cao Yun Fu Houchuan did not say, hundreds of thousands of people have been waiting for food up and down the Cao Canal for hundreds of years, and without Cao Yun, they will not survive." ”

Chen Shuai also talked about this, but he felt that this was not a bad thing, even if there was a hurricane in a year, the loss of 190,000 stone was not worth 10,000 stone; If 190,000 stone is transported, and the land and water are taken together, the time is longer than the sea by sea, and the loss is 25 percent heavier than the sea by sea. ”

And he believes that the sea encounter wind, because the sailors of the ship are not familiar with the wind and waves, and the early occurrence in the coming year can avoid the wind and waves, and in the long run, we will urge the country to make progress in shipbuilding and maritime affairs." Speaking of this, Zhang Juzheng said a digression with a smile and said: "Last year, my Ming Navy resisted the enemy 5,000 miles away at sea, and defeated Xiyi in Guam, and the navy is very useful!" ”

What is the concept of going to the sea for 5,000 miles, if the roads are straight, from Beijing to Guangzhou Mansion is only 4,500 miles, without the support of the imperial court, without the burden of attrition, fighting a battle with tens of thousands of belligerent troops 5,000 miles away, a fantasy thing.

Wang Guoguang is a traditional Confucian scholar, likes benevolence and persuasion of good governance, don't look at Chen Shuai's annual loss of gold and silver to the household, but this kind of practice of tying up the Ming Dynasty to dominate is not very popular with him, especially recently to help Zhang Juzheng implement a whip law, which was met with considerable resistance, so he shook his head and sighed: "Chen Shuai is ruthless, and his eyes are far beyond the reach of ordinary people!" ”

In Zhang Juzheng's words, Chen Muli did not mention what those who were counting on Cao Yun to eat would do if there was no river transportation in the future.

It's true that Caoyun is not clean up and down, but it is not only the officials who are not clean, but also the people, more people, and only a few officials can have hundreds of thousands of mouths? The left and west of the river are the best fields in the world, and the common people can have a few acres?

They don't have land, and there are tenant farmers everywhere in those places, and there is no shortage of tenant farmers in any big family, and they can't even be tenant farmers, and they can feed their families and clans by fishing in the river all year round? They all live on luck!

Which official in the entire imperial court doesn't know that Caoyun is very bad, and where is the official in the household department who doesn't know that Caoyun can only lose 10,000 yuan to Beijing with two stones?

It is good to have a lot of hard labor in the places where Caoyun passed, but in the places where you passed, you can take care of half a month's food for half a month, and you can still bring home a stone and a half stone of rations when you are done, and even if you don't give food, you can still be exempted from paying taxes.

Everyone knows that who can really be ruthless about the abolition of forced labor?

Every year, 100,000 stones are transported and 50,000 stones are lost, and the people on both sides of the strait can have a month or two to eat, and the imperial court would rather admit losses.

Governance, it's fun?

Ordinary people can't even manage ten people, but a prefect has to take into account 100,000 people, hundreds of thousands of people, old age, sickness and death, it is already difficult to live in peace and stability for a few years without killing people, what kind of growth is there - nonsense!

Wang Guoguang wouldn't think that Chen Mu, the right governor of the official residence, could get through the sea but didn't understand this truth, he thought that Chen Mu just didn't care.

That's why the heart of leading the soldiers is ruthless.

Zhang Juzheng smiled, his heart was like a mirror, he couldn't be clearer, he just didn't understand the handsome man in Nanyang.

"It's a tiger and wolf medicine, taking it alone is to kill people, but it can also be used to cure the disease."

Zhang Juzheng understood too well, how many letters Chen Mu had to write to him in a year, and the newly recruited post guard of Yulin Post could call You Qi a brother and brother like a third-grade officer in six months just by sending an urgent letter from the Nanyang Military Mansion to the Shoufu Mansion.

If the whimsical ideas in each of Chen Mu's letters are compared to a man, then Song Yu Pan An, who lacks arms and legs.

Chen Mu can't say bad ideas in his mouth, all of them are good policies for governing the country with a long-term vision, but Zhang Juzheng wants to really do what Chen Mu said, since Emperor Taizu chased the former dynasty Yuan Kou in Mobei, which lasted for two hundred and six years, and the Ming Dynasty, which is still showing a state of prosperity, can be destroyed by him in three years at most.

"Each has its own saying, the servants think that in the future, they will reduce the grain and transport grain, and they will also open the sea grain, and the grain will be supplied to the people, and the sea grain will be replenished, even if the Yellow River will break the mouth of the river one day, the grain will not work, and there will still be sea grain; Some people have suffered setbacks in naval battles, and there is also grain in the country, and the sea grain must be sent no matter what, Nanyang Chen Shuai has sent people to negotiate with Champa and Dacheng to exchange cotton cloth, sulfur, pearl shells and other things for grain, which is to be transported by sea. ”

Zhang Juzheng likes the Nanyang Military Government, because he is radical enough, and he is not in a hurry to reject any suggestion, this kind of non-urgency reflects a rare self-confidence and trust among officials, he is confident that his proposal will benefit the country and the people, and also believes that Zhang Juzheng will make the right choice at the right time, so he only explains things clearly, never says what to do or when to do it.

He just said one thing, only that maybe he could do it.

The most critical and important thing is that he is radical enough, whenever the court encounters unresolved difficulties, as long as he cleans up Chen Shuai's letter from the waste paper pile, takes it to the court for discussion, and lets Chen Shuai be scolded, Zhang Ge Lao will probably agree if he puts forward his own ideas again.

Even Zhang Ge Lao looked gentle because of Chen Shuai!

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