Thanks to book friend 190331123718038 for the reward support!!

Thanks to book friend 20181013110706086 for your monthly ticket encouragement!!

After Dong Qichang thought he had received a hint from Emperor Wanli, he was so excited that he could not sleep well all night.

"The opportunity to honor our ancestors has come!"

Although Dong Qichang is now prosperous, there is still a thorn in his heart. His family is not the largest family of the Dong family. It seems to be prosperous now, but in fact it is still a rootless duckweed. Once he is implicated and attacked, the head of the Dong family will definitely not hesitate.

to give up on him.

Therefore, you still have to fight for the opportunity yourself!

As a result, Dong Qichang began to show off his social skills.

Xishan Huangzhuang.

After more than two years of development, Xishan Imperial Estate has become the largest imperial estate in the Xishan area. Through sales and rewards from Queen Mother Li, Xishan Imperial Estate has almost included the entire Xishan area.

The Xishan Coal Mine is still being mined non-stop. This coal mine is like a gold mine, bringing countless wealth to Zhu Changluo every year. It is precisely with the accumulation of this wealth that Zhu Changluo is now in Wanli

The emperor's side gradually received more attention, but compared to Concubine Zheng and Zhu Changxun, they were still far behind, but that didn't matter.

As long as the direction is good and a good opportunity arises, all the preparations made now will naturally come to fruition when the critical moment comes.

Who makes Emperor Wanli love to enjoy? As long as he still likes money, as long as he still likes to enjoy, Zhu Changluo will have countless opportunities to reverse his disadvantage.

But today, Zhu Changluo didn't come to Xishan Huangzhuang just to see the financial statements of Xishan Coal Mine, and to falsify them by the way. After all, he had promised Emperor Wanli to deposit all the revenue of Xishan Coal Mine into his internal funds. Therefore, some

Superficial work still needs to be done, otherwise how could it have kept Emperor Wanli's heart tied?

The reason why Zhu Changluo came to Xishan Huangzhuang early today was actually to greet the son of a merchant!

This businessman is different from ordinary businessmen. He is a maritime businessman. He often sails between the Ming Dynasty and Luzon (Philippines). In this era of seclusion and closed sea bans, he can be regarded as a man who has seen real - strong winds and waves.

In fact, when it comes to sea bans, we have to mention Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. His imperial edict that no one was allowed to enter the sea directly affected China's six hundred years of history.

In the Qing Dynasty, those Tatars with pigtails followed Zhu Yuanzhang's policy without any thought. I have to say that this magical edict can be effective in two dynasties.

In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang initially banned the sea in order to combat the maritime intrusion of rebels such as Fang Guozhen. In order to save trouble, Zhu Yuanzhang directly played an advanced game - "economic blockade"!

That's right. The ban on the sea at that time was indeed for the economic blockade of those rebels who were not honest on the islands. As a result, it was easy to seal the sea but difficult to open it.

Since Zhu Yuanzhang, it has been as difficult as climbing to the sky to open the sea again.

Even as powerful and powerful as Emperor Yongle, he still failed to overturn Zhu Yuanzhang's imperial decree to ban the sea. Although he also sent Zheng He to the Western Seas seven times, according to rumors, the reason why Emperor Yongle sent Zheng He to the Western Seas was to find that man.

My dear nephew who disappeared in Nanjing.

However, no one can tell whether this is true or not. But Zheng He's voyage to the West was indeed an unprecedented move at the time, no less than the Soviets sending people into space.

It is a pity that such a grand event cannot continue.

The biggest reason for this is a conceptual issue. China has always emphasized agriculture and neglected business, and was only interested in digging food in the fields. Its attitude towards businessmen is to suppress and suppress them again and again. This is because in the eyes of the rulers, businessmen are just profit-seeking people.

, they are not engaged in production.

Therefore, Zheng He's voyages to the West were not to make money at all, but to spread the fame of the Ming Dynasty to the world! Every time he came back, he brought ship after ship of kings of small countries and some flashy so-called tributes.

After the kings of these small countries arrived in the Ming Dynasty, they immediately received rewards from the Ming Emperor. These rewards were worth a hundred times more than the things they sent.

It is conceivable that such a money-losing business cannot continue.

So, after the death of Emperor Yongle and Zheng He, this matter completely stopped.

During the Zhengde period, there was also a minister of the Ministry of War who was afraid that Emperor Zhengde would go to sea if he got mad, so he burned all the logbooks of Zheng He's voyages to the West.

At that time, the Minister of War was praised by both the government and the public, and believed that he had done a great thing!

Later, the finances of the Ming Dynasty became increasingly difficult. In order to revive the country, the reformists headed by Gao Gong thought of the hugely profitable maritime trade industry.

Why do you think of sea trade? Because in the Ming Dynasty, the southern big families repeatedly smuggled under the imperial edict to ban the sea. They controlled all the country's maritime trade in disguise and gained huge wealth. But their business has never been successful.

On the surface, after all, it is an act prohibited by imperial court order.

However, they are also die-hard supporters of the sea ban! Because as long as the court does not go to the sea and as long as the court still bans the sea, the wealth of the sea belongs to them, so they have always strongly supported the sea ban.

As long as someone dares to open the sea, they will attack him in groups.

Such as high arch!

Is it true that Gao Gong stepped down just because of his bad temper and was plotted by Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao?

The biggest reason why Gao Gong stepped down was because his policy of opening up the sea cut off the wealth of the wealthy families in the south!

Therefore, after the death of Emperor Longqing, Gao Gong was unable to support himself, and under the conspiracy of another reformist who was eager to come to power, he fell.

From then on, no one in the entire Ming Dynasty spoke of opening the sea.

After the Qing Dynasty, had it not been for the outbreak of the Opium War, this ancient land in the East would have been blocked until the end of time under the deception of those with vested interests in ocean smuggling!

It can be seen from this that Teacher Ma from the West summed it up well. These crazy supporters of banning the sea are the monopolists of the means of production. Every drop of blood flowing out of their pores is dirty. They are all dirty.

It is based on satisfying personal selfish interests and sacrificing the entire nation.

Today, the merchant Zhu Changluo wanted to meet was a conscientious merchant. Taking advantage of the convenience of smuggling shipping in the south, he expanded his business to Southeast Asia and discovered on Luzon Island that Europeans had arrived from the American continent.

Introduced sweet potatoes.

After he saw this magical plant, he was deeply attracted by it. This is simply a gift from God! He learned the cultivation and maintenance of this plant on the island.

He discovered that sweet potatoes are drought-resistant and easy to grow, have a huge yield, and can be eaten both raw and cooked. They are also sweet in taste and highly adaptable, and can be grown almost anywhere. So he has been plotting how to bring this plant from Luzon.

return.

Because the Spanish colonists on the island explicitly banned the spread of sweet potatoes. At this time, by chance, his troubles were learned by the Shadow Dragon Guard who was responsible for looking for sweet potatoes in the south. So with the funding of the Shadow Dragon Guard, he

Finally, they quietly used absorbent ropes to twist the potato vines into it, and brought them back to Fuzhou across the sea. This gave them the opportunity to reach Daming in advance.
Chapter completed!