Teacher, Brother Merlin, I have fulfilled your wishes!

Tang Yi, who is strict with himself, gave himself a praise in his heart, from proposing to open the sea, to persuading Jiajing, to creating momentum, the decisive battle of the Golden Palace, overpowering Li Mo and other conservative officials, and promoting the opening of the sea, how many ups and downs only Tang Yi himself knows.

However, he also knows that this step is only equivalent to having a seed, and whether it can germinate and bear fruit depends on the next competition.

Sure enough, I heard Jiajing ask: "Tang Yi, you told me that if you don't spend a penny to open the sea, does this still count?" ”

Don't spend a penny?

Joke!

The adults who had just gotten up almost flashed their waists, at least there must be a yamen, a ship, and a commodity to open the sea...... Which one doesn't need money, you Tang Da Zhuangyuan is very knowledgeable, understands the overseas situation, is familiar with the rules and regulations, can overthrow the ancestral system, and can make Li Mo speechless, we all admire it.

But don't forget, saying and doing are two different things, don't really think that you are amazing, you can call the wind and rain and scatter beans into soldiers, young people should not be too crazy!

Although everyone did not say it, they all slandered it in their hearts.

Zhao Wenhua couldn't help it, he was a scholar of the Ministry of Industry, how could there be no reason not to make a fortune for such a big project as opening the sea!

"Champion Gong, don't say anything else, to open the sea, you always have to build wharves, build sea ships, build official offices, and recruit scribes, don't you have to do all this?"

Tang Yi smiled, "Some of these things have to be done, and some can't be done for the time being, but they don't cost money, and maybe they can make a small profit." ”

Tang Yi's face was full of confidence, and Jiajing couldn't help but smile and said, "Don't sell it, say it and let me hear it." ”

"In obedience, when the minister analyzed the causes of the Japanese invaders, he mentioned the abolition of the city department. Normal trade is broken, and now the chaos in the southeast boils down to one sentence, the order is chaotic, and the rules are gone! Looking at the world, who can re-impose rules on business. Except for me, Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, who can do it! Your Majesty's gold-lettered signboard, overseas barbarians will definitely come to hear the wind, and you are not welcome to say, as long as you draw a circle on the southeast coast, it will be a city within five years. ”

"Hey, I have such a great ability!" Jiajing's face sank suddenly, "Don't coax me with big words, say it quickly." What the hell are you going to do? ”

Tang Yi didn't dare to talk about it, and hurriedly said: "Zhao Butang just said a few things, among which it is not feasible to build a ship, one is that the cost of sea ships is too high, one is more than a few thousand taels, and second, the second is that our Ming Dynasty has not built sea ships for many years, whether it is a sea warehouse ship. Sand boats, lucky boats. Although there are still some commendable points, compared to the armed merchant ships of Xiyi, they are either not effective in combat, or they are not fast enough. What's more, the sea is high and the waves are high, and the pirates are infested, and it is too risky to use our own ships. Tang Yi felt a little frustrated with his words. He added: "If a few years after the opening of the sea, the imperial court has abundant financial resources, it will not be too late to go to ship ships." ”

"Hmm!" Jiajing nodded, "If you don't build a ship, what about anything else?" ”

"Your Majesty. In the past few days, the minister asked Wang Shizhen Wang to help check and understand the operation of the former dynasty city. ”

Seeing Tang Yi spitting and spitting, Jiajing secretly scolded in his heart, what kind of garlic is the stinky boy, you dare to tamper with even the holy teachings of Taizu, what else is there to be afraid of.

"The court is a place to speak freely, just say it."

"In accordance with the order, the minister learned from the Huidian that the role of the city department is to communicate with the people, suppress the profiteers, and prohibit the law from being lost, so as to eliminate its provocations. The city department does not levy taxes, and for the barbarians who come to pay tribute, the city department pays to buy some of the goods needed by the imperial court, and the rest is sent to the designated place to communicate with the people. As for the bulk of the profits of the city, the official trade, that is, the goods of the imperial court workshops were taken out and sold, and later some wealthy merchants also obtained the imperial court's survey and joined them, but they had to sell the goods to the city ship division first, and then sell them to Xiyi in the name of the city ship division, and the profits should be distributed to the city ship division......"

After Tang Yi carefully studied the operation of the Ming Dynasty City Shipping Division, he felt a sense of great disappointment, because the gap between this thing and the customs in his impression was too big.

For the city, the first mission is to communicate with the people, what does it mean, it is to receive foreign guests and show the best temperament. Each city has a fixed target audience, Guangzhou is for Annam, Java, Siam, Fuzhou is for the Ryukyus, and Ningbo is for Japan. What is even more ironic is that Comrade Lao Zhu also formulated the policy of "thick and thin", and it has been pursued by successive dynasties, and many tribute missions have brought the local products of the two jujubes, exchanged for the precious gold, silver, silk, porcelain and so on of the Ming Dynasty, and every time they pay tribute, they have made a lot of money, and even stimulated some people to pretend to be envoys and deceive them in return.

In this case, the city is simply losing money, and can only rely on selling silk porcelain to make up for the shortfall, but fortunately, the silk porcelain is indeed valuable, and the city can maintain a fairly high profit.

However, the problem also arises, if the city ship company wants to sell the goods, it must have a supply of goods, the city ship company's own workshop is not enough, the weaving bureau is not enough, and later, even from the hands of large households.

Seeing this, Tang Yi's mind immediately sprung up with four words: compete with the people!

Many people in later generations wondered why Zheng He only went to the West seven times, and then came to an abrupt end! Some people think that China has been cut off from the sea, but this is not the case at all.

After Zheng He's fleet stopped, the seas of East Asia were still full of Ming ships, which lasted for one or two hundred years, and the only difference was that they changed from official ships to civilian ships.

Did Zheng He's trip to the West cost the people and money?

Yes and no!

For the imperial court, every trade brings huge profits, and Zhu Laosi relied on these profits to make so many earth-shattering feats!

For the big families in the southeast, it is more depressing, they want to sell the porcelain they have worked hard to fire, the silk that they have finally spun, to the imperial court at a low price, seeing Zheng He pull overseas and make huge profits, they can only watch.

The fierce Zhu Laosi was in charge, they didn't dare to say anything, and when Zhu Di died, the emperor behind him was not as brave as him, Zheng He's fleet was quickly stopped, and even the charts were burned to the ground.

Tang Yi is 10,000 contempt for the selfish behavior of the civilian official group, but he is also a member of the civilian official group, and there is no benefit in piercing the diorama. What he has to do is to learn from the experience of the failure of the previous market companies, from a direct participant in trade, to a manager, no longer sell things to make money, but to collect taxes to make money, from a rival competing with the major families and wealthy businessmen, to a mediator.

In Tang Yi's words, it is to build a service-oriented city company!

"Your Majesty, the minister's idea is this, first promulgate the will, determine the location of the sea, and then issue a trade license to the merchants in the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time apply for the license, you need to deposit a deposit of 5,000 taels into the account of the city company in the bank, this deposit is a proof of their financial resources, and of course they cannot participate in the sea trade if they are not financially sufficient. At the same time, when the Yidi merchants landed, they also had to deposit the gold and silver they carried into the bank, trade with the silver bills, and settle together when they left the Ming Dynasty. The advantage of this is that it can determine whether it is a real maritime business, and it can also understand the financial situation of the Yiren, which is convenient for supervision, so as not to take advantage of the situation and enter the ......."

Tang Yi talked eloquently, and many people nodded happily, including He Ao, the difference between him and Li Mo who opposed purely for the sake of opposition, the old man was indeed worried that he would attract widows.

But according to Tang Yi's method, normal businessmen will naturally hand over gold and silver, can the Japanese coward do it?

Even if they also changed the silver ticket, when they left, they didn't buy anything, which would definitely cause doubts, and the city department would naturally investigate.

He Ao nodded frequently, thinking that Tang Yi was the old man who sought the country, but others would not think so!

The flesh on Yan Shifan's face kept beating excitedly, one license is a deposit of five thousand taels, and one hundred is five hundred thousand taels! 500,000 taels, no wonder Tang Yi said that he didn't need to spend a penny, he dared to wait here!

Yan Shifan turned his one eye and kept thinking, who doesn't know how profitable it is to do business with Xiyi, let alone five thousand taels, even if it is fifty thousand taels, there are many people!

In the past, the privileges of trade were **** in the hands of the maritime merchants of Fujian and Zhejiang, according to Tang Yi's method, sold publicly, there would be countless people crying and shouting, holding the silver and sending it to him.

Thinking of this, Yan Shifan wanted to slap both of them.

Aren't you the best at making money!

Aren't you one of the three smartest people in the world?

Why can't you think of such a way to get money?

Yan Shifan cried and grabbed the ground, while Xu Jie was also shocked, he was more concerned about the practice of letting Yishang hand over gold and silver in exchange for silver tickets.

It seems that it is only for temporary storage, but if you think about it, you can make more money.

Suppose a merchant brings 10,000 taels of silver and lives in Daming for a month, and the 10,000 taels of silver are put into the bank, and the bank lends money with a cent, which is 100 taels of interest a month.

If there were hundreds or thousands of merchants carrying millions of taels of silver, the interest alone would be a staggering amount of money!

Xu Jie remembered that Tang Shunzhi said in the letter that he had received a genius who had not been seen in a thousand years, and with him, there would be a day when the study of mind would be popular.

Teacher Tang's praise under the excitement actually made Xu Ge Lao shudder, and his limbs were cold. How good is this kid?

Between talking and laughing, hundreds of thousands, millions of taels of silver appeared out of thin air, even if it was a little stone into gold, it was not as fast as his speed!

It's no wonder that Tang Jingchuan is such a proud and introverted person, and he is full of praise for Tang Yi, this kid is indeed extraordinary! In contrast, he also has a favorite heir, and he is far older than Tang Yi.

But in contrast, that proud disciple is probably not as far away as Tang Yi, should you pull this kid under your door and become your own heir?

Xu Jie's heart was turbulent and lasted for a long time.

The only one with the purest mind is Jiajing, he pondered for a while, and according to Tang Yi's method, he can get a lot of money to spend without collecting taxes and silver.

And he doesn't have to bear the infamy of tyrannical expropriation, thinking of this, Jiajing is overjoyed, and his narrow eyes narrowed into a slit.

"Okay, Tang Yizhen didn't misunderstand you, you are really the pillar of the country, I will crown you as the Hanlin servant, and I will do a good job of opening the sea for me, and I will ensure that you will be rich and prosperous for a lifetime." (To be continued.) )