When Chongzhen left in a hurry, when Sun Chengzong, Liu Zongzhou, Qian Qianyi and others were thinking about what to do next, Ni Yuanlu first stood up and appealed: "Colleagues, we must not disperse here.

As long as Your Majesty does not release the colleagues who were arrested by Jinyiwei today, and punish Tian Ergeng and other eagle dogs, we will not be able to give up today. ”

"Yes, Tian Ergeng and other eagle dogs, ignoring the chaos in Gyeonggi, took the opportunity to seize power and frame the court officials, if this continues, the DPRK and the central government will be empty, so won't the Donglin story be repeated again?" Feng Yuanbiao echoed Ni Yuanlu's call in the matter.

Because he had spoken for the Shunyi gentry before, the officials who had attacked Tian Ergeng in the court turned all the worries of the past few days into resentment against Jinyiwei.

Under the appeal of Ni Yuanlu and Feng Yuanbiao, they immediately responded in groups, and Sun Chengzong, Liu Zongzhou, Qian Qianyi and others naturally couldn't get out, and finally at the suggestion of an official, it was decided that everyone would go to Zuoshunmen together.

At this time, not only Sun Chengzong and Qian Qianyi felt bad, but Zhang Ruitu and Xu Guangqi were also shocked. But Liu Zongzhou was finally moved by these colleagues, so a group of officials rushed to the imperial city with Liu Zongzhou.

Sun Chengzong, Qian Qianyi, Zhang Ruitu and Xu Guangqi tried to stop them, but they didn't succeed, so they had to follow behind the crowd.

Just when the four of them felt a headache, someone suddenly came to report on the way, saying that Feng Shikong and the others had been released.

This news immediately dispelled the anger of most people, and when everyone was hesitating, Sun Chengzong, Qian Qianyi, Zhang Ruitu, and Xu Guangqi once again persuaded the officials, believing that their current behavior was not only useless, but also very likely to cause Chongzhen's rebellious mentality.

In the end, Liu Zongzhou was persuaded by Zhang Ruitu, lost the leader, and most of the officials had little anger left in their hearts, and the crowd finally dispersed.

Outside the city, the cabinet and military department, which had been authorized by Chongzhen, finally began to mobilize the troops of Yingzhouwei, Miyun, and Changping to start quelling the rebellion.

The Wenxiang Sect, which seemed to have the potential to sweep Gyeonggi, collapsed in just 3-5 days.

was sent by Chongzhen to appease three groups of officials of the Shunyi gentry, and the first two groups of 4 people were found in Shunyi County after the defeat and flight of the mutinous army.

Men Chenxin and the other 4 people claimed that they were put under house arrest by the people as soon as they entered the city, and they did not betray the imperial court.

After the third group of 4 people left the city, they did not dare to go to Shunyi, but just wandered outside the city. After the imperial court began to quell the rebellion, he took the initiative to join the army.

The court meeting that was supposed to be held was also temporarily stopped by Chongzhen due to the Gyeonggi Rebellion. And after he stabilized the situation in the capital, he once again participated in the maritime conference held in the Jiale Palace.

When Zhu Youzhen entered the Jiale Hall again, he found that in addition to the merchants in the capital arranged by him, the maritime merchants led by Shibazhi and Xu Xinsu from the south all looked like they had blue noses and swollen faces.

"What's going on? Could it be that there are still people in the capital who dare to trouble you? Who did it? When Zhu Youzhen was furious, Lu Jiude suddenly walked up to him and said a few words softly.

Zhu Youzhen suddenly stopped speaking, he looked at the pirates of Eighteen Zhi, and then looked at the Zhangzhou maritime merchants beside Xu Xinsu, and his face became a little strange.

The people on both sides suddenly became interested in the architecture of the Jiale Palace, either studying the table in front of them, or observing the pillars on the side, and no one looked at Chongzhen.

Zhu Youzhen ousted today's provisional speaker of the parliament and took the position of speaker himself. He raised the gavel in his hand and tapped on the table, then asked.

"In the past three days, I have not been able to attend because of something. Can someone tell me what you have discussed in the past three days? ”

Seeing that Chongzhen no longer asked about the injuries on their faces, both pirates and maritime merchants breathed a sigh of relief, but Chongzhen's question also made these people speechless.

Tian Youtang, one of the imperial merchants, felt that this was a good opportunity for Chongzhen to remember himself, and it was also a good opportunity for the emperor to suppress these southern barbarians.

He suddenly stood up and said, "Your Majesty, in the past few days, everyone has not discussed anything. Except that on the day His Majesty was there, the rules of procedure were laid down, and the procedure for the daily rotation of the Speaker. The next day until yesterday, these Fujian businessmen added fists and kicks when they disagreed..."

After listening to Tian Youtang's explanation, Zhu Youzhen was not angry, he asked Zheng Zhilong: "Zheng Guerrilla, you tell me for me, why do you want to conflict with President Xu and them at the venue?" ”

Although the pirate leaders of Eighteen Zhi were all wounded, Zheng Zhilong was unscathed. He glanced at Xu Xinsu, who had a blue corner of his eyes on the opposite side, before replying to Chongzhen.

In fact, Weichen didn't intend to argue with Xu Jiang, but Weichen just made a small suggestion, and Xu Jiang had to compete with the ministers. In order to protect themselves, the ministers had to fight back..."

"Zheng Yiguan, are you talking about human words? You want 70% for Oriental trade, and 60% for Western trade. Isn't this the trade between the East and the West for you to occupy, do you let us all drink the northwest wind? A burly maritime merchant beside Xu Xinsu couldn't help but reprimand angrily.

With the rebuttal of the maritime merchant, Zheng Zhihu suddenly took the case, and the tension on both sides seemed to have forgotten where he was.

Lian Shanxiang, who had been following Chongzhen's side, suddenly escorted him to Chongzhen, and reprimanded everyone in the meeting with a knife: "What do you want to do, disturb the royal driver, but it is a serious crime." ”

With Lian Shanxiang's reprimand, a team of brocade guards suddenly rushed in from outside the hall. The eighteen Zhi and Zhangzhou maritime merchants, who were originally eager to try, suddenly settled down, and Zheng Zhilong and Xu Xinsu walked out of their seats.

"The ministers are reckless and disturb Your Majesty, please forgive Your Majesty." The two knelt between the halls and confessed to Chongzhen.

After Zhu Youzhen waved his hand to Jin Yiwei to go out, he said: "Today, I will add a rule, if someone deliberately disturbs the venue in the future, the speaker can expel him from the venue, and the expelled person will not be allowed to enter the venue again within this day, and he will automatically lose the right to vote and the right to make proposals." ”

Hearing that Chongzhen was not angry because of this, Zheng Zhilong and Xu Xinsu finally breathed a sigh of relief. Zhu Youzhen gave another order to Lian Shanxiang: "Tomorrow, arrange a team of Han generals to come to the venue, do not carry weapons, obey the instructions of the speaker, and maintain order in the venue." ”

After Lian Shanxiang accepted the order to retreat, Zhu Youzhen continued, "If I remember correctly, the most important goods in the Ming Dynasty's overseas trade should be raw silk, silk, cotton, cotton cloth, porcelain, and tea, right?" ”

Except for the imperial merchants who had just been involved in overseas trade, Zheng Zhilong, Xu Xinsu and others had no objection to Chongzhen's statement.

"And more than half of the profits from overseas trade seem to come from raw silk. Ordinary raw silk in China is 60 taels per quintal, sold in the West is between 140-160 taels, and sold in the East is as high as 5 or 600 taels.

I have checked the true color of the raw silk these days, and last year it was about 12,000 catties, and according to the 30 tax one, the annual output of the Ming raw silk should be around 360,000 catties. However, according to the bad habits of Daming taxation, if the untaxed raw silk is also estimated, the annual output of Daming raw silk should be around one million catties.

So now I want to ask, who knows what the amount of raw silk sold by the Ming Dynasty to the East and West is about every year? ”

Regarding the number of goods sold in this overseas trade, both Zheng Zhilong and Xu Xinsu have always been secretive.

But today, in front of Chongzhen, the two of them knew that they couldn't hide it, even if they didn't say it, as long as a year or two passed, Chongzhen would be able to figure it out from the circulation process of raw silk.

The two underestimated a little, but they still summed up: the raw silk sold to the East is between 8-100,000 catties a year, while the raw silk sold to the West is about 200,000 catties.

"So where does the raw silk that is sold to the West end up?" Zhu Youzhen asked again.

Zheng Zhilong knew this question best, and he immediately replied: "About half of them are shipped to the East, and the other half is transported back to the homeland of these people, which is called: Acapulco's place." ”

Zhu Youzhen was silent for a while, and said: "In other words, because of your disorderly competition, these Westerners have also made a profit from the resale trade of raw silk, right?" ”

The imperial merchant Su Yue immediately echoed: "Sure enough, it's still Your Majesty Shengming, isn't this giving money to these people for nothing?" According to the villain, the price of raw silk for Western trade should be raised. ”

Liu Peng said disapprovingly: "There are many ports on the southeast coast, and it is convenient to go to the West, even if we raise the price of raw silk, those smuggling ships secretly go to Manila, and the price of raw silk will be lowered." ”

After watching the businessmen below argue for a while, Zhu Youzhen knocked on the gavel and said: "Of course, these smugglers cannot be eliminated by patrolling and anti-smuggling at sea alone. But why don't we consider controlling the sale of raw silk from the country? One million catties of raw silk a year, even if it is raised to 80 taels and one load, that is, 800,000 taels. As long as you can export 200,000 catties of raw silk to the East, then you can return to the capital, and the rest of the raw silk is pure profit. ”

Chongzhen's statement not only made Zheng Zhilong and Xu Xinsu suddenly wake up, but even the imperial businessmen immediately pricked up their ears.

The reason why Zheng Zhilong and Xu Xinsu did not think about controlling the raw silk market was because they still put themselves in the identity of maritime merchants who were subject to the gentry from all over the world.

When Chongzhen said this suggestion, they realized that they no longer had to be afraid of those gentlemen, because behind them stood the Ming Emperor.

And the imperial merchants finally heard a business model that they were familiar with, relying on the imperial power to monopolize a certain industry, which was undoubtedly their best way of doing business. Many of these imperial merchants themselves were southerners, and the place with the largest output of raw silk was the Hangjiahu Plain, and they were more or less related.

An imperial merchant even boasted that as long as it was handed over to him, less than 600,000 taels would be able to complete His Majesty's vision and control the raw silk market in the Ming Dynasty.