Yan Hong should have spent a lot of energy on the affairs of his family house in the past few months, but above the court, he did not dare to slack off on the rectification of Jinyiwei and the opening of the sea and trade, and walked to Guozijian from time to time, and asked Jiang Zhou and Chen Keyuan to talk about Jiangnan affairs. However, his full-time job is in Jinyiwei, mainly to consider how to ensure that the sea is smooth from the system once the sea is opened, and not to be messed up by some scheming Jiangnan wealthy businessmen.

With the general trend caused by the marriage of the Yan and Xu families, the general direction of the court has now been determined. Although there are always remarks against the opening of the sea, or out of group interests, making a death struggle; or hold the old thinking that the law of the ancestors is immutable, and resist to the end; There is also a new imperial history, who wants to move against the general trend and win eyeballs. However, under the joint suppression of Yan Song and Xu Jie, these remarks only ended up in a burst of noise. Among them, the most ferocious ones were dragged down and beaten with a cane.

As the dust settles on the grand strategy of opening the sea, the excerpts on how to open the sea and how to control the details have also begun. Yan Song's party has a lot of Jiangnan people, such as Luo Longwen himself is engaged in smuggling business, and Hu Zongxian is now the governor in the southeast, and he has a lot of first-hand information, which is constantly sent back to the Yan Mansion, which is naturally quite insightful. However, the first credit for this matter was Xu Jie's protégé Zhang Juzheng.

Zhang Juzheng, as the prince of the country, was originally in charge of cultural and educational work. However, he has always cared about the people's livelihood, lived in the countryside for three years, and once went deep into the poverty and asked about the disease, and he had long had the idea of reforming the maladministration and making the country rich and strong. Now Yan Hong has recommended Jiang Zhou and Chen Keyuan to study in the country, both of whom are cadres of Jiangnan Kaihai, and Zhang Ju is like a treasure. In the middle of January. And he talked with the two men for 20 days. Besides. There are those officials who served as officials in the coastal areas and were later transferred to the capital to ascend the stream, as well as the clerks who followed Yan Hong to the south of the Yangtze River in the previous time, and even the eunuchs who had run errands in the south of the Yangtze River and the coast, Zhang Juzheng visited Wèn from time to time and mastered a large amount of first-hand information.

In this round of battle for opening the sea in the imperial court, Zhang Juzheng personally went into battle and did not avoid arrows. Charge ahead. First of all, it was an instant hit with the "Ten Things to Discuss the Opening of the Sea", which directly stated that the Ming Dynasty currently had no money in the treasury, the household was eating grain, and the local governments were collecting taxes in advance and raising the number of people, pointing out the huge economic benefits brought by the opening of the sea. Unlike Yan Hong, he can only talk about it, and he can get actual dry goods. Zhang Juzheng even quoted scriptures and pointed out that the sea was not forbidden in the Song Dynasty, and the people were abundant; Grandpa Tai's emphasis on agriculture was due to the war at that time, and the land was very wasted. There are not enough people, and there is a shortage of warehouses. Therefore, it is necessary to encourage farming so that the country can be fed and clothed. But now the Ming Dynasty has been peaceful for a long time, the population is very large, and the land is not barren, but not enough for cultivation. In this case, the sea should be opened to trade, and one should promote the virtue of the Ming Dynasty, so that all nations will come to the court, and promote the rites and religions of the saints; the second is to enable the people with little land to make a living in business, in exchange for food and clothing, and the virtue of living in heaven in the law; The three are that the people are beneficial, to benefit the righteousness, to teach loyalty and filial piety, to avoid the risk of taking risks; Fourth, trade and taxation are used to increase the income of Taicang, to calm the famine, and to calm the government and the opposition. This remark is advantageous and modest, and it is also brilliant, but it is a first-rate article above the court.

In addition, unlike the Yan family's choice of ports for their own interests, Zhang Juzheng proceeded from reality and proposed a five-port trade affair. The so-called five ports are Guangzhou in Guangdong, Hangzhou and Ningbo in Zhejiang, and Fuzhou and Quanzhou in Fujian. In Zhang Juzheng's recital, he made a detailed analysis of the reasons for choosing the five port cities and the superiority of their own conditions from the aspects of geography, folk customs, economic conditions, and the tradition of going to sea, which is much more powerful than the materials of the Yan family's henchmen. In addition, the entrenchment quasi-Yi people traded with our Ming Dynasty, Yizhou connected to Xiamen, and Wang Zhi was temporarily appointed, perhaps its trade overseas, but the act of trade also had to be supervised by the imperial court. As for the management method of ship citation, it is to first control the amount of zhì, each port sends 60 quotations per year, and the shipowner pays the quotation tax when he obtains the quotation, and when he enters and leaves the port, he calculates the value of his goods and collects the tax. If the ship without guidance is on the ocean, it will be destroyed. Only Yi people are allowed to come in to do business in the trench realm, and those who dare to use the trench to go to sea will be beheaded. In the land of Yizhou, the imperial court also issued ships to Wang Zhi and other maritime merchants, and opened special agencies to manage the entry and exit of the port.

Zhang Juzheng's excerpt not only has something to say, but also has a style that is very different from the common excerpts. A group of civil officials, Ping Suri likes to quote scriptures and classics at every turn, and use the sage's remarks to talk about his own articles, and prefers to detour and triple, which makes people want to die in a hurry. Zhang Juzheng's excerpts are clearly written and clear at a glance. Although Emperor Jiajing himself made a holy decree, he also liked to play word games, but he didn't like to watch others play word games. Seeing Zhang Juzheng's performance, he was very happy, praised it repeatedly, and specially ordered Zhang Juzheng to reward Zhang Juzheng with half a piece of tribute satin and twenty taels of silver as a reward. Although this thing is not worth too much money, it is rewarded by the Heavenly Family himself, and this honor is needless to say.

In Yan's mansion, Yan Song's father and son sat around with all their cronies to discuss the plan. Yan Hong is now the official of Jinyitang, and it goes without saying that he participated in the speech. Even Yan Hu was brought in by Yan Shifan, saying that this kid was twenty-one years old after all, and he had a family again, not to mention that he had always helped Yan Fu take care of the business on the grange, and he was also a good hand. This time the sea is opened, maybe there is a place for him. Therefore, the second young master was also able to attend such a conference for the first time. Yan Hong didn't have any opinion on this, and now he didn't regard his second brother as an opponent who could threaten him at all. The meritorious cause is all done by oneself, and it is not something that can be snatched with one mouth. It's just that this kid sat in the last seat, silent, but a pair of eyes glanced at Yan Hong from time to time, not knowing what the hell was going on.

This time, although Zhang Juzheng's recital said that the Son of Heaven was moved, it was quite a powerful impetus for Yan Song and his party to open the sea. When the Manchu dynasty was still fighting over the principle of opening the sea, Zhang Juzheng's very feasible performance was introduced, which basically crushed the objections of those people who were full of playing with Wenzai. Moreover, since last year, Xu Jie's party has been in a state of cooperation with Kaihai, and this spring in the court was originally a situation of Yan and Xu joining forces, Zhang Juzheng, as Xu Jie's protégé and Yan Hong's teacher in Guozijian, can be said to have no problem holding this position. It's just that Zhang Juzheng's earth-shattering words came out, but the Yan family's original plan to seize the sea head was a little frustrated. Those twists and turns concocted by Yan Men. I can't catch up with Zhang Juzheng's article.

Luo Longwen has been a Hui merchant for a long time. It was the main force of the Yan family's plan to open up the sea. Yan Song also considered whether to arrange his next trip to Jiangnan this time to jointly promote the opening of the sea. Now that this main force is compared to Zhang Juzheng, Luo Longwen also feels bored, and says: "I didn't expect this Zhang Juzheng to be so powerful." Father-in-law, on the side of Xu Ge Lao, this time the effort is not small. ”

Yan Maoqing also said: "Hey, if Zhao Yuanzhi is still there, I am afraid that he may not be robbed by Zhang Juzheng." "He has always been good friends with Zhao Wenhua. At the beginning, Zhao Wenhua offended the heavenly family and was cut off by Yan Song's father and son, and Yan Maoqing also had a little sadness for the rabbit and the fox. Yan Maoqing thought again that the original move of An Wangzhi and Xu Hai to open the sea and trade was the first planned by Zhao Wenhua and Hu Zongxian, and even Jiang Zhou and Chen Keyuan were also the first to be under Zhao Wenhua's staff. If Zhao Wenhua had lived to this day, wouldn't the Yan Party have one more general in the open sea.

Yan Hong was quite uncomfortable when he heard this, but it was not good for him to come out and interrupt, otherwise he would seem to have a ghost in his heart. Yan Shifan had already snorted coldly: "Zhao Wenhua himself was offended by the Heavenly Family. And what's wrong? Again, in my opinion. Even if he is really here, he may not be able to take advantage of Zhang Juzheng here. ”

Yan Song nodded and said, "Donglou is reasonable. Uncle Zhang's recital is a rare eloquent text in the court recently, and he talks about the opening of the sea very thoroughly, so it is no wonder that the Son of Heaven is looking down. Hong'er, your teacher, it's really not simple. If you want to go further in your career in the future, you will learn more from him, and you will definitely benefit. ”

Yan Hongxin said, grandpa, you are too wise, I think so too. Although I took advantage of the traverser's hindsight, I went to Jiangnan to do things a few times, but when it comes to the ability to write folds, even in the field I am familiar with, compared to the first-class talents of the Ming Dynasty, after all, it is too much worse. Just said that when Zhao'an Xu Hai was recruited two years ago, if it wasn't for Xu Wenchang's main writer, I am afraid that a piece of music may not be able to say that the heavens are tempted, and the edict will be pardoned. Now, Zhang Juzheng's ability to talk about things, I can't keep up. He nodded and said, "Grandpa has taught you a lesson." Children should ask Mr. Zhang for advice in the future. ”

But I heard Yan Hu interject without yin or yang: "Speaking of which, Zhang Juzheng may not be very powerful." Well, if it weren't for the eldest brother who recommended Jiang Zhou and Chen Keyuan to Guozijian and sent Zhang Juzheng this big gift, I think Zhang Juzheng might not have been able to write this concerto. ”

Yan Hong's face changed. What Yan Hu meant by this, even fools could hear it. That's right, he recommended Jiang Zhou and Chen Keyuan, two folk sea opening wizards from Jiangnan, to Guozijian, which really helped Zhang Juzheng to develop this grand theory on the open sea. But when you Yan Hu said this, did you mean to allude to my communication with Xu Jie's party? What is this Nima?

He raised his eyebrows, and he couldn't help but sneer at him, but Yan Shifan took the case first: "Bastard, let you attend the meeting here, is it to ask you to learn more from your uncles, and it's your turn to make a big fuss?" Where do you have to speak here? Get the hell out of here! ”

Yan Hong fell through his glasses, the sun came out in the west today, and my father actually scolded my second brother in order to protect me? But seeing that Yan Hu's face was colorless, he stood up, kowtowed to Yan Song and Yan Shifan, and withdrew in a huff.

Yan Shifan's anger did not subside, and when he was about to speak, Ouyang Bijin on the side laughed dryly: "I said Donglou, the old man knows that you have been a relative of Xu Ge since you climbed in, and he is happy in his heart, and he will definitely make this Yan Xu's ally." It's just that when Hu'er said this, it didn't necessarily make no sense. He is young and ignorant, you can't be so fierce to him, the words can't reach Xu Ge's ears, even if they go, it doesn't matter. ”

Yan Shifan swallowed his anger and said: "Uncle said that he laughed, although Xu Ge has many adults, his nephew has never been afraid of him. It's just that now to become a great cause of opening the sea, it is a situation where the Yan and Xu families join forces. Jiang Zhou and Chen Ke are willing to go to Guozijian, which is also to save face for Hu Zongxian. Now Hu'er is talking nonsense, which shows that he has no strategy in his heart, but only looks at a blockbuster, how can he succeed with such impetuousness? That's why I'm angry. ”

Ouyang Bijin was dumbfounded. In fact, Yan Shifan's anger is because he hates iron and does not become steel. You must know that Jiang Zhou and Chen Ke were willing to go to Guozijian to study, but it was actually Yan Song's idea to Yan Hong, the purpose of which was to help Hu Zongxian's two Kaihai people to gain a foothold in the civil official system of the national dynasty, and at the same time, it also had the meaning of strengthening the connection with Zhang Juzheng. That Yan Hu was not qualified to participate in the Yan Mansion meeting at that time, and he didn't know much about this matter, but he only heard Hu Baiqi say that the two talents he brought were recommended to Zhang Xianjiu by the care of the young master Yan, and he entered the Guozijian, so he pretended to be clever and said some nonsense to stir up the situation, but he didn't know that he had already hit this board on his grandfather's head. Yan Song is old, and he hasn't had time to react, but Yan Shifan is such a smart person, he has to blast out this unsuccessful second son. (To be continued......)