Who has not died in life since ancient times, and left Dan to take care of his sweat!

These two sentences in Wen Tianxiang's "Crossing Zero Ding Yang" are of course too familiar to ministers in the late Ming Dynasty like Li Guowei, Xu Guangqi, Sun Chengzong, and Bi Ziyan. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, these two lines of poetry came out of the mouth of the young and old emperor in front of him, and they were still talking about their old ministers, of course, there was another deep touch and shock.

Since ancient times, everyone is inevitably dead, but death must be meaningful, if you can die for the country's loyalty, you can leave a name in history after death.

This is the meaning of Wen Tianxiang, and of course it is also the belief of all the literati and doctors who are loyal and filial after Wen Tianxiang.

Other people don't talk about him, characters like Xu Guangqi and Sun Chengzong, fame and fortune are just passing by, and now they are above the court, assisting the Son of Heaven, not afraid of infamy, what are they striving for?

What they are asking for is to leave a name in history and shine for thousands of years, which is the so-called "keeping Dan in mind and sweating young"!

Therefore, as soon as Emperor Chongzhen's words came out, all the old ministers were moved in their hearts, and they immediately got up and left their seats, kneeling on the ground to thank them.

At this time, how could Emperor Chongzhen accept their great gifts with great arrogance, so he signaled the attendants on duty in the palace to stop several old ministers and then order them to sit down.

Looking at these old ministers, Emperor Chongzhen continued: "Opening the sea for trade and setting up a port to collect taxes is an important source of wealth for the imperial court, and it is also a century-old plan set by the Ming Dynasty. ”

Listening to the emperor say such murderous words, several old adults were also secretly frightened, it seems that opening the sea and trade is indeed the national policy that the young emperor has planned for a long time, this is the emperor's rebellion, and it cannot be violated.

A few people thought about it, and then heard the emperor say: "But Kaihai is not like me, it's just as simple as talking about it." From the imperial court to the port, from the height of the temple to the distance of the rivers and lakes, there is a distance of 108,000 miles.

"For matters that are high in the temple, I can decide with a word and set the direction, but the affairs of the rivers and lakes need to be supervised by me."

Speaking of this, watching several important ministers listen silently, Emperor Chongzhen continued: "I intend to set up a yamen in charge of political affairs under the household departments of the north and south of Beijing. First, it is convenient for the imperial court to outline and unify powers and responsibilities. Second, it can also avoid multiple policies and confusion. ”

After Emperor Chongzhen said this, his eyes looked at several important ministers, waiting for them to speak.

These ministers first let the emperor come to encourage and motivate him with his name in history, and then he was beaten by another murderous word from the emperor.

Li Guowei said: "What Your Majesty said is right. Of course, the ministers agreed. ”

Needless to say, Xu Guangqi and Sun Chengzong said exactly what they said in their hearts, and meeting such an emperor who has a temper and appetite is definitely a blessing in life for people like them.

At this time, Xu Guangqi was sixty-seven years old, as an old minister who had gone through four dynasties and had read all the ups and downs, he was only reused when he was close to antiquity, what else could they not think of?

The same is true for Sun Chengzong, he is only a year younger than Xu Guangqi, for people like them, what Emperor Chongzhen has done since he ascended the throne is what they have been thinking about since they became an official.

And the past year and a half of deeds and achievements, but also in the past many years of diligent pursuit but difficult to achieve, although the Ming Dynasty's internal and external troubles are still serious, but the current trend of things for the better has begun to appear, over time, there will certainly be a fundamental change.

In their hearts, although the emperor is still a little impatient and careless in handling government affairs, there is nothing wrong in the general direction.

Therefore, Xu Guangqi and Sun Chengzong did not hesitate, and soon expressed their approval to the emperor.

At this time, Bi Ziyan, the head of the household department, suddenly said: "I just don't know what kind of yamen Your Majesty plans to set up?" What is the relationship between this yamen and the existing functions of the 15 Qing Officials Division of the Ministry of Households? ”

Bi Ziyan asked just right, he didn't ask but it seemed that he was not professional enough, and when he asked, it showed that he had listened to the head of the household.

Seeing that several important ministers in the cabinet had unified their thoughts and formed a consensus, Emperor Chongzhen nodded at Bi Ziyan, and then said: "I plan to set up two other political envoys in the north and south in addition to all the existing functions of the household department.

"I don't know if Qing and others know whether the former Song Dynasty Central Committee set up three divisions, I think that the reason why the former Song Dynasty was able to have a land population far less than that of my Ming Dynasty, but it was able to do enough money, raise millions of soldiers, and resist the Liao State, Western Xia, and even the later Jurchen and Mongolia for 200 years, in the final analysis, in the abundance of finance and taxation, in addition to the household department, there are still three envoys to set up.

At that time, in addition to the land endowment, the imperial court also had taxes on maritime trade and trade, and taxes on all kinds of industries and industries, so the country's annual income was often hundreds of millions, and the people were still happy and happy. At this point, why can't my Ming court do it? ”

As the saying goes, people are better than people, they have to die, and they have to throw away goods.

Compared with the Song Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has a larger territory, a larger population, more imperial power, and a few streets in the north and south of the Song Dynasty, but the country's financial revenue cannot be compared with the Song Dynasty at all, even if it is the Southern Song Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River, the annual financial income is much higher than that of the Ming Dynasty.

Why is that?

The reason for this, of course this Chongzhen Emperor knows now, but he doesn't want to say it now.

Since you say it now, you can't change it for a while, so it's better to bring it up when you have the ability to change.

However, this did not prevent him from raising this question, inspiring and spurring today's court officials to compare and think about it for themselves.

Speaking of this, Emperor Chongzhen did not wait for these people to answer, but continued: "The questions in this will be handed over to the ministers of the six cabinets to think about and ponder in the future." The secretary and others are all ministers who assist in the governance of the country, and the secretary and others have thought through these issues, which is more important than anything else. ”

After saying this, Emperor Chongzhen looked at Bi Ziyan and said, "The question asked by Bi Aiqing, I will also explain it to you in advance here, so as not to cause misunderstanding." The political envoys of the north and south are under the household department of the north and south of Beijing, and as for the political envoy of the south and the south, in order to unify the power, Su Maoxiang, the secretary of the household department in Nanjing, is concurrently served.

The functions and powers of the Nanjing Household Department are in charge of the establishment of port taxation affairs in the Nanzhi Shanghai Port, the Ningbo Port in Zhejiang, the Quanzhou Port and the Yue Port in Fujian, and the Guangzhou Port in Guangdong. Among the governors involved, the yamen can correspondingly set up a government office to specialize in the management of coastal port city shipping divisions or municipal shipping offices.

"As for the functions and powers of the envoy of the Jingshi Household Department, in addition to the port of Dengju under the jurisdiction of the governor of Denglai, he must also take back from the hands of the Imperial Court the management of the border city with the Mongols. In the future, the Imperial Court will be responsible for examining and handling the establishment of the border market, while the Beiyu Political Envoy will be responsible for the taxation of Dengzhou Port and the border market.

"The functions and powers of the two household departments in the north and south of Beijing will remain unchanged. I don't know if I can understand what I said? ”

The reason why Emperor Chongzhen set up the political envoys of the north and south, rather than the north and south cities, of course, has his deep meaning.

At present, it is only the first step to open up maritime trade on a large scale and set up ports to collect customs duties for those who come and go.

At this time, the functions of the North-South Political Envoy Division, which was to be established at this time, will be extended from maritime trade to all trade, and from import and export tariffs to all commercial and tax fields.

This is to make room for later.

In addition, the mutual market between the northern frontier and the Mongolian tribes outside the Saiwai Outer Peninsula, as well as the border trade on the land border in the future, naturally cannot be managed and taxed by such an institution as the city shipping department that has an excessively heavy taste of maritime trade.

Emperor Chongzhen finished his initial thoughts and waited for a few important ministers to speak.