Uncle Liu took more than a dozen potatoes to cook, and it took nearly an hour to finish them all.

Zhu Yuanzhang started chatting with Dasun.

Zhu Yuanzhang had never seen anyone, and when he came over the wind and waves, he naturally understood that his grandson felt particularly familiar with the Western Regions and overseas.

While being happy, I couldn't help feeling a little sad.

How old is the eldest grandson? He is only eighteen years old this year.

At the age of eight, Zhu Yuanzhang could understand the hardships of the Western Regions and overseas.

When Zhu Yuanzhang was able to conquer the Ming Dynasty, he was determined to fight and fight. With Empress Ma, many brothers, and the help of his adopted sons.

Over the years, I have suffered a lot and often live a worried life.

You can imagine how difficult it is for Dasun to walk.

However, when Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head and looked at the big sun's smile, he felt extremely relieved.

No matter what, it has been over, and no matter how difficult it is, it has been over.

Thinking of the big grandson’s understanding of overseas just now, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn’t help asking: “Da San, do you have any good ways to manage the Japanese pirates?”

Zhu Yuanzhang hated the Japanese pirates, but he was helpless.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, in the first year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang sent envoys to various surrounding countries, and other small countries obediently surrendered. Only Japan not only refused to surrender, but also caused trouble in the southeast coastal areas while the Ming Dynasty was just established.

While Zhu Yuanzhang sent troops to maintain the security of the southeast coastal areas, he thought that the Ming Dynasty had just been established and it was not appropriate to destroy the relationship between countries, so he wrote a document indicating friendship.

Japan was in a civil war at that time and did not respond to Zhu Yuanzhang because he did not know the documents. Zhu Yuanzhang sent an envoy to Japan the next year, demanding that Japan submit to surrender and pay tribute.

However, Japan did even more this time, killing five Ming Dynasty envoys.

The so-called "When two countries fight, they will not kill them."

What a person Zhu Yuanzhang could not withstand such insults, so he wanted to raise troops to attack Japan, which would make him surrender.

However, Liu Bowen stood up at that time and dissuaded Zhu Yuanzhang.

Liu Bowen,

First, the Ming Dynasty was established at the beginning and its foundation was not yet stable. Some of the remaining Yuan Dynasty residents were still staring at the Ming Dynasty, hoping that the Ming Dynasty would cause chaos and they could take advantage of the opportunity to overthrow the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang should not focus on dealing with Japan, but instead shifted his focus to the country, eliminated the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty, stabilized the hearts of the people, and did not lose the big picture because of the small.

Secondly, Kublai Khan returned in vain in both attacks, but instead suffered losses in the army and generals. Japan is thousands of miles away and is familiar with the local typhoons, and has taken up all the advantages of the local area.

From this point of view, even if the Ming Dynasty wins, it is very likely to win miserably.

Third, now that the Yuan Dynasty has just been attacked and attacked overseas, the people have not had time to take a breath and are about to start a war again. The morale is not good, and perhaps the mainland of the Ming Dynasty will also revolt everywhere, which is harmful to the Ming Dynasty.

After listening, Zhu Yuanzhang could only resist his anger towards Japan, and changed his attack to defense and implemented a maritime ban.

Zhu Yuanzhang himself lives in the mainland and is not clear about maritime affairs. Now that he heard that Dasun is familiar with maritime affairs, he can't help but think of the Japanese pirates.

Hearing the word Japanese pirates, a hint of cruelty flashed in Zhu An's eyes.

Anyone who comes from later generations who hear about Japanese pirates all have hatred deeply in their hearts.

"The Japanese are islanders. If you want to fight against the Japanese, you must have a strong naval army, not a fisherman guide who is familiar with the maritime affairs and avoid typhoons."

"If you act recklessly, it will be extremely easy to repeat the mistakes of the Yuan Dynasty."

"The appearance of a typhoon has certain rules. As long as it is not a blind attack, it is not too difficult."

"The coastal areas include not only smuggling merchants, but also many aristocratic families also participate in maritime trade."

"It seems that His Majesty has set a ban on the sea now, but there are more and more businessmen engaged in maritime business, because the benefits are even greater."

Zhu An said slowly that Zhu An had dealt with smuggling merchants in the coastal areas, and was more like pirates than merchants.

They had enough warships and then used the island as the base to dump smuggled goods, including official salt, iron, tea, silk, and porcelain.

Earn a lot of benefits from it.

Zhu An’s snowflake salt was dumped overseas through this channel.

However, the clan power over there is too strong and extremely xenophobic. Zhu An wanted to intervene many times, but there was no way to do so. He could only lay some secrets to try to make fun of the future.

After hearing Dasun’s remarks, Zhu Yuanzhang pondered slightly, and then asked in a deep voice: “Are the coastal merchants so brave to openly disobey Your Majesty’s will?”

"Three times the profit is enough for them to take risks, let alone ten times or even dozens of times the profit. Not to mention disobeying Your Majesty's will, if local officials disobey, they dare to attack and kill directly in the name of Japanese pirates."

Zhu An said that today's coastal smuggling merchants have little contact with the mainland, and it is more like a silent development.

There were no warships in the Ming Dynasty, and the near-shore areas are almost their world.

As for the officials sent, if they do not accept their benefits, they will pretend to be Japanese pirates and kill them.

The surviving officials are now members of this huge interest group.

Some of these activities are somewhat similar to Zhu An's methods in the Western Regions.

Moreover, these two areas are far away from the political center of the Ming Dynasty, and even Zhu Yuanzhang is beyond the reach.

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, some records of the memorials suddenly flashed in his mind.

The coastal officials were killed by Japanese pirates many times. Zhu Yuanzhang did not care at that time, but just thought it was normal.

Now that he heard Dasun say this, he immediately noticed something strange.

"It seems that it is not difficult to deal with these smuggling merchants. They just hid them well before. Let's talk to His Majesty and just wipe out the army."

"But once the sea is opened, it will inevitably be attacked by Japanese pirates. The Japanese country is barren and it takes a lot of money to defeat it, but it will easily affect the foundation of our Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Yuanzhang said thinking, in his heart, his own foundation is naturally the most important, and Japan is very far away.

As an emperor, it is not impossible to fight in one breath. He just cares about it and feels that it is not worth the loss.

Zhu Yuanzhang, the smuggling merchants, didn't care too much. They could run away from monks and temples. As long as their foundation was on land, they could be killed by waves.

Now that Zhu Yuanzhang knew about this situation, he would send the Jinyiwei to investigate soon, if it was really as Dasun said.

The consequences are self-evident.

"Who said that this Japan is barren? If it is in terms of product, Japan is indeed barren, but in Japan, there are a lot of gold and silver mountains."

"The silver from snowflakes can even be picked up directly, otherwise what business those smuggling merchants do with these Japanese pirates is not for the money from Japan."

Zhu An said that Japan is a major silver producer. Now it is banned by sea. Coastal smuggling merchants control trading channels, sell banned goods at high prices, and earn a lot of silver.

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up. He didn't fight against Japan before, it felt that it would be more than worth it. If it was as Dasun said, there were mountains of gold and silver everywhere in Japan.

Then you have to fight.
Chapter completed!