"My family likes to support the backwards the most. You are the new maritime eunuch. Although you are supported by the Duke Zhang Cheng, Eunuch Zhang is not familiar with maritime affairs. The people in the palace are bewitched by the foreign court and always think that going to sea is not good. Therefore, although this job is assigned by the emperor and Eunuch Zhang is supported by you, if there is no one who knows how to help you Xiao Wei, give advice on you Xiao Wei, and then suppress the villains in the palace and spread the way for you. Xiao Wei, you really want to do things. I forgive our family for saying it bluntly. "

As soon as he sat down, Wang Yongshou pointed out the question and determined his character.

"What the Prince Wang said is that this is what I am most worried about."

Liangchen nodded with consent. He was very grateful to Wang Yongshou, especially the other party's appearance of thinking about him made him quite moved. He had to show his special mood for Wang Yongshou with his actions, so he poured tea for the other party respectfully.

"Eunuch Wang, please have tea!"

"You sit, don't stand."

Wang Yongshou smiled and took the teacup, took a sip, and felt refreshed. He also had too much wine, so he really needed to relieve the wine and wake up the spirit.

"It's rare to see you at a young age. Not only is my governor appreciated you, but our family also likes you Xiao Wei. You are so terrifying."

Putting down the teacup, Wang Yongshou looked at Liangchen's eyes more and more liked, and smiled and said, "To be honest, Xiao Wei is also a person in the palace and a family member. If it is outside, even if it is a mess, my governor will not understand the justice."

Liangchen understands the meaning of this sentence.

In essence, there is still a difference between inside and outside.

Although it is impossible for the outer court to not deal with the inner court, there are many contacts with the court officials in private. Whether it is a court struggle or a border matter, the inner court may have differences on a certain matter, but in the end they will compromise and cooperate with each other. However, the outer court will never reach an agreement with the inner court on the matter of maritime trade.

Because maritime affairs were the most glorious past of the inner court.

During the Yongle period, the inner court had once had a huge power through voyages to the West, and to a large extent even influenced the court. For a long time, the outer court only played the role of the inner court. This was definitely an extremely unwillingness to the outer court and an extremely shameful thing. It can be said that those years were the existence that the scholars and officials today were most reluctant to face and wanted to erase the most.

After all, eunuchs have been discriminated against since ancient times and are the group that scholars and officials hate the most. The objects of contempt for the literati such as royal relatives are much better than eunuchs.

But the eunuchs did things and did big things. The eunuchs led by Zheng He went to the West, not to mobilize the troops and waste the national and people's strength after the foreign court, but to actually achieve a series of harvest results such as wealth and diplomacy for the Ming Dynasty.

This is even more unbearable.

It is like a man who considers himself handsome and powerful, watching the girl he dreams of being married by a man who looks like Wu Dalang and still doesn't lift it, and is surprisingly affectionate after marriage.

You said, can this man stand it?

Is he willing to be even comparable to that kind of person?

When people leave, the tea is cold and after Yongle, everything will naturally be subverted.

The scholars and officials who have a pen in their hands and hold the power to study history have truly determined the Spring and Autumn Period and changed the Spring and Autumn Period.

They can tolerate the appearance of the eunuchs and the court can be controlled by the eunuchs for a while, but they will never allow the situation during the Yongle period to appear again.

In their opinion, no matter how cruel the power eunuch was, the outer court would be the outer court in the end, and the inner court would never be able to replace the outer court and become the center of power of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, they can accept themselves to flatter the powerful eunuchs.

There were famous officials of the Ming Dynasty, especially the cabinet chief ministers, who had close ties with the inner court. However, none of the chief ministers were willing to open up the maritime ban during his term and let the inner court go to the West again.

In their eyes, this incident was a fundamental thing that shakes the court.

The good minister believed that Wang Yongshou did not lie to him. Liu Jixiang was indeed impossible to find outsiders to do maritime trade. First, he couldn't do it, and second, outsiders were not trustworthy.

All he could believe was the eunuchs in the palace - the same as him.

This sounds like a joke, but it is actually a fact.

The maritime trade in the current Ming Dynasty was actually a major event of reform.

As the Ming Dynasty reached its peak, business had become extremely prosperous, but the class was also extremely solid. Whether it was a commoner or a poor person, no matter what kind of origin, as long as he took the imperial examination and entered the official career, he would inevitably become a member of the gentry class and would never be able to return to his original origin.

Reading is just for the sake of Yan Ruyu and the golden house.

The eunuchs are different. They cannot be recognized by the scholars and officials, so they instinctively become hostile to the scholars and officials. When they hold power, they will reform in order to break through the current situation so that the eunuchs can become a dignified member of the empire like the scholars and officials!

Because of their background, the purpose of reform was of course to weaken the power of the gentry, redistribute wealth, and tilt it towards the civilians.

The first reform was Liu Jin. His reform was very huge and involved everything in the bureaucratic system. Liu Jin compiled his reform policies into a book called "Seeing the Examples". There are 24 items involving the Ministry of Personnel, 30 items for the Ministry of Revenue, 18 items for the Ministry of War, and 13 items for the Ministry of Works. The contents are all aimed at the disadvantages of the world.

Not only that, Liu Jin also restored the criminal law that severely punished corruption in the Hongwu era. However, unlike the Hongwu era, corrupt officials are no longer punished by physical punishment, but instead punished by economic means.

In view of the situation where there are many people in the south in the imperial examination, Liu Jin restricted the admission rate of southerners and increased the admission rate of the candidates in the central and western regions. Liu Jin also ordered the widow to remarry, and the government would forcibly cremate if there are dead people in the family and those who do not bury them. Officials in wealthy southern provinces cannot be held by their own provinces, but also by neighboring provinces. Officials from the empire began to transfer major north and south, and officials serving as governors of the canal could not have any contact with the provinces along the canal.

Liu Jin sent people to clean up the fields in the world, and distributed the hidden fields to self-cultivation and farming, restricting the land from gentry and officers from occupying the fields. He also sent a large number of officials from the inner court and the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of War to investigate the military camps, military treasuries, royal villages, granaries, grains, salt administrations in the two Huaihe Rivers, and funds allocated by the state treasury.

In short, from any aspect, Liu Jin's reforms were in line with the actual national conditions of the Ming Dynasty, and many of the policies were later used by Zhang Juzheng.

Unfortunately, just because Liu Jin was a eunuch, his reforms became a joke in various historical materials.

After his second uncle Wei Zhongxian came to power, he also made changes. The content was somewhat similar to that of Liu Jin. They were also not conducive to the gentry group and worked hard to reduce the burden on farmers.

The reform is very effective, the national treasury is sufficient, and border affairs are stable.

Unfortunately, as soon as Tianqi died, his second uncle's efforts were in vain.

Like Liu Jin, the various reforms made by the second uncle were all ridiculed by the scholars and officials.

For the sake of the people and the country, the eunuchs are seeking reform, but the bureaucrats from top to bottom all oppose it. It sounds like a joke, but this is the case.

The fundamental reason is that class interests are all there.

The sea trade area was actually open during the Longqing period, but it was relaxed by the people, not the official ones. In the Ming Dynasty, there was a salary supervisor in Yuegang, Fuzhou. Unfortunately, it was just a small port, but it was Yuegang, with the money traded at hundreds of thousands of taels!

The person who presided over the switch was not the civil servant group or the eunuchs of the inner court, but Emperor Longqing himself.

Longqing is an overlooked emperor.

In the eyes of Liangchen, Longqing was a realistic emperor who reformed and opened up. It was reflected in the beginning of his ascension to the throne that he set the switch as the main strategy for governing the country, which made the Ming Dynasty's economy continue to develop and became the country with the most frequent trade in the world.

When making the decision to switch, Longqing's courage was truly unparalleled in the world. He faced not only the opposition from the civil servant group, but also the pressure of the ancestral system.

Unfortunately, there are policies from above and countermeasures from below. After the emperor was unable to stop the switch, the civil servant group tried to weaken the influence of the matter, limited it to the people, and restricted the scale of maritime trade through various cumbersome procedures. In the end, after Longqing's death, the influence of maritime trade dropped rapidly, and the results were stolen by the coastal gentry group.

As far as Liangchen knows, the active maritime merchants in the coastal areas in the south are actually spokespersons of the coastal gentry group. They smuggled for profit before turning on the switch, and stole the results of national policy after turning on the switch, and were rich one by one. However, even though they knew that maritime trade was beneficial, these people firmly obstructed the court from opening up all maritime bans.

It is not a question of whether you have short-sighted eyesight, but a question of who will be the money.

It is better to put money into your own pocket than to make money from the public. It has been thousands of years, and this is a dead knot that cannot be untied.

The biggest tragedy of the Ming Dynasty was that the capable and courageous emperors were very short-lived.

Zhengde, Longqing, Tianqi, and the three short-lived emperors were all the most courageous reformers.

Two of the three, the cause of death was to fall into the river, get sick, die.

Very fast, very fast.

Ordinary people fall into the river and come up, but I’m afraid they won’t die so easily.

Liangchen can only think about what happened.

In fact, if you look at it in detail, Wanli has really inherited everything about his father.

In the end of Wanli's life, he was first a mining tax officer, and then he was very interested in gold and silver overseas. He was preparing to send troops to Luzon to embark on an overseas journey, which may be influenced by his father.

Only in the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, good ministers had to take the path of the inner court if they wanted to promote reform and deal with the crisis ten years later. To put it bluntly, the Ming Dynasty could only be rescued by their father-in-laws.

There is no reason, and father-in-law can bypass the existing system and do things.

Of course, this requires the support of the emperor.

What Liangchen needs now is Liu Jixiang's support.

The word "support" is the two happiest words he heard tonight.

"The helmsman sailing in the sea!"

Liangchen suddenly said this.

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I was planning to have a holiday today, but I still updated one chapter. You may not be satisfied with this chapter, but it is used to point out the topic.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, my father-in-law really came to save me.
Chapter completed!