In the first year of Longqing, Qian Yuan lived happily and exhausted in this year.

It’s really good. Every day, I call on friends, either gathering to drink or playing mahjong all night. Xiaoqi doesn’t care about her husband. In addition to taking care of her son, she pulls her mother-in-law, sister-in-law and aunt every day... Although Xiaoqi’s skills are bad, she can’t stop those three people from being smelly.

He was indeed exhausted, and the crisis in the southeast gradually emerged. Even in the first month of the year, the guards arranged in Tongzhou, Hangzhou and Yangzhou would send several secret letters every day, and Qian Yuan would have to worry about it every day.

You have to make some moves, but you can't cause an uproar; you must reduce the amount of tax silver, but you can't have any signs of your own intervention.

In addition to the New Year, in addition to Yang Wen, Zhang San, Qi Jimei, he also had to raise a relationship with Hou Jigao, Zhang Yuanxun, Ge Hao and others. Especially Ge Hao, who held the most powerful navy in the southeast, Qian Yuan also specially sent someone to Yihuang and asked his uncle Tan Lun to send a letter to Ge Hao.

Xu Wei can share many things, but there are some things that Xu Wei cannot help, such as his father Qian Rui.

Wang Zhi has been stationed in Zhaobao Village, Zhenhai County for a long time and occasionally goes to Zhoushan for a walk. Qian Rui is sometimes in Zhaobao Village, sometimes in Zhenhai County, but he has always lived in simplicity. Several letters mentioned that Wang Zhi is now becoming increasingly powerful and he is quite worried.

Qian Yuan was not afraid of the growth of Wang Zhi's power. The owner of Wufeng ship was a businessman. His only son was still enjoying his fortune in Beijing, and the strength of the Southeast Navy grew faster.

But this also brings a problem. Businessmen always want to monopolize resources and maximize their interests.

At that time, Wang Zhi excluded other maritime merchants from Ligang, causing many maritime merchants to turn Japanese pirates, attacking and looting the people, which directly prompted Wang Min, who was then the governor of Zhejiang, to make up his mind to conquer Ligang.

This time is no exception. Xiamen and Quanzhou have set up cities to trade, but they are just a start-up, with a small cargo throughput, and the mature Zhenhai and Ninghai... At least most of the maritime merchants who are wandering on the sea can only purchase by relying on Wang Zhi.

On the one hand, this has caused smuggling to rise gradually, and on the other hand, it has caused the maritime forces rejected by Wang Zhi to gather together to resist.

A few months ago, the censor of Kedao impeached Hu Zongxian, and one of the charges was also called Zhang Lian, who fled to the sea.

Although the Flying Dragon Emperor was defeated several times, he is now in power at sea. He invaded the coast several times, not only Guangzhou, but also Fujian suffered. Once, he even attacked Quanzhou, and Sun Piyang was forced to fight himself. Fortunately, Qi Jiguang's Qi family army who stayed in Fujian rushed to help.

For this reason, Wu Guifang, the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Qi Jiguang, the General of Fujian, and Yu Dayou, the General of Nangan, were all impeached by the Censor of Kedao.

In the courtyard of Suiyuan, in winter, there are high walls and big trees blocking the cold wind, and the warm sunshine shines on two mahjong tables.

Xu Wei, who had lost the chips not far away, was splashing ink, which attracted Zhou Shi, Lin Feng and Lu Shude to be amazed.

Pan Yunduan, who had won the face and flushed, Xian Bomao, who lost the face and dejected face, Qian Zhancai, who was lazily scattered on the chair like a boneless body, picked up the purple clay pot and was drinking tea, and all of them showed their essence vividly.

There were two grills not far from the mahjong table, Liang Sheng was carrying two guards, and several chefs were roasting lamb... Unfortunately, I couldn't buy tender venison.

After studying for a while, Qian Yuan discovered that venison can not only be grilled, but also stewed, and the deer brisket tastes better than beef brisket.

"Young Master." Liu Hong, with one arm, strode over.

"Zhenyao, come and have a replacement." Qian Yuan called out and stood up and left, and Lin Feng took over with his eyes radiating.

Qian Yuan sighed in the five letters, and three of them were superstitious. There was no way, so he had to go back to the study... and he had to translate the book. It would be great if his father Qian Rui was a time traveler. He could use English directly, and it would be impossible to leak the secrets.

The first letter was his father Qian Rui. It was nothing big, but just a reply to the New Year greetings. He only mentioned the smuggling became more and more rampant.

The second letter was Lu Yipeng from Xiamen. Although this guy had some tricks and had scheming, he also suffered a lot. He was here to complain and expressed his envy, jealousy and hatred for the people in Suiyuan, Beijing.

In addition, Lu Yipeng also mentioned the allocation of troops. Last year, Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou went south to Guangdong and Guangxi to gather together Wu Guifang, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, to suppress the Japanese pirates and the bandit army, but the remnants were hidden in the mountains and had not yet ended.

Therefore, Qi Jiguang is still in Guangdong now, leaving only a part of the troops stationed by Wu Weizhong to guard the Quanzhou Prefecture and protect Sun Piyang Port. Although Xiamen is not far away, its troops are too small. Lu Yipeng hopes that Qian Yuan will assist in Beijing and allocate some troops to station in Xiamen.

The third letter is Qi Jimei. This guy finally got married. His wife is the daughter of the Tao family in Kuaiji, Shaoxing, and she is also the niece of Tao Dalin's clan.

The fourth letter was Ge Hao. After receiving Tan Lun's letter, Ge Hao wrote a letter, which mentioned that the new Taizhou prefect Fang went to the navy for time to mix sand.

Qian Yuan glanced at these four letters. Ge Hao was here to show his loyalty. After all, among the generals in the southeast, Ge Hao had the lowest status in name. His apparent identity is only Taizhou commander, and he does not have a serious position in the army.

This is an opportunity to show kindness... Qian Yuan felt a little regretful. He had known that when he was still in the honeymoon period with Gao Gong a few months ago, he would have a quarrel.

When Qian Yuan opened the fifth letter, he smiled and stumbled in his hand. Although it was just a piece of paper, it was not light.

After thinking for a while, Qian Yuan took a pen and wrote a letter and handed it to Liu Hong, "Send it to you... find the right time."

Liu Hong nodded and said, "Someone is staring at me, and they happen to be there today."

"Go." Qian Yuan waved his hand and asked Liu Hong to go out, paced back and forth in the yard, giving up some benefits, and it was an interest he didn't care about. This was not a difficult issue.

Fortunately, when I discussed with Zhang Siwei secretly last year, I was careful...

The government and the country regard the opening of maritime bans and trading as one, but in Qian Yuan’s mind, these are two concepts.

After the Huayin earthquake five years ago, after witnessing the powerlessness of the Ministry of Revenue, Qian Yuan had a clear understanding that opening the maritime ban is the purpose, and trading is bait, and using the tax and silver brought by trading to exchange for the comprehensive maritime ban.

If the bait is compared to a piece of cake, Qian Yuan doesn't care how much the cake can be eaten by himself, and he will not even refuse other forces to come in and get a share of the pie.

But how to divide this cake, Qian Yuan needs to hold it in his hand at least in a short period of time.

Although it has become a consensus among the government and the public that the sea ban has now become a consensus among the government and the public, Qian Yuan is not optimistic about the development after he lets go.

No time traveler was leading during the period, and the opening of the sea ban could only fall into business. Isn’t this the case in the original time and space?

After so many years of coming to this era, Qian Yuan can see clearly that he is not alone in adhering to the view of "banning the sea, turning the brigades into brigades, opening the sea, turning the brigades into business". The Longqing switch in history is likely to have the political significance of alleviating the Japanese plague.

The so-called Longqing switch is actually a hesitant reform. Maritime trade only opened a small gap. Only a small port in Yuegang allows private sea ships to go out to sea to sell goods, and has strict control over the total number of ships.

The Longqing switch did not play a practical role in the central finance of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming government completely ignored the channel that could communicate with the West.
Chapter completed!