When the memorial was opened, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but lit up his eyes when he saw the title. The title turned out to be "Kaiyanghai Announcement"!

Who has such a vision and knows that the sea ban is to be lifted! Emperor Chongzhen thought about it and couldn't help but be curious. He hurriedly pulled it to the bottom to see the signature, but found that it was He Qiaoyuan who had retired and returned home.

This person, Emperor Chongzhen, was remembered by his name, Yuxiao, and was from Jinjiang, Fujian. He was born in the 37th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1558), and is now 72 years old. This age is quite old.

When he thought of this person, he immediately remembered that when He Qiaoyuan resigned at the beginning of last year, he also submitted a memorial, entitled "Small Proposals at the Sea".

It’s just a pity that Emperor Chongzhen at that time was not the current Emperor Chongzhen who was traveling through the souls of later generations. He did not pay attention to He Qiaoyuan’s memorial on "Secret Discussions on the Sea".

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen remembered, or because of the reason for the fusion of souls, and his memory was very good, and he immediately remembered the content of the memorial of "Secret Discussion on the Sea" at that time.

At that time, He Qiaoyuan mentioned in the memorial that there were sea taxes collected before the Ming Dynasty, but later, after the pirates were rampant, the court eliminated pirates because there was no money to eliminate pirates, so the number of merchants who took normal channels decreased. Seeing that the Ming Dynasty's goods trafficked in the past was decreasing, people in Luzon traded with people in Taiwan. The tax money was earned by pirates and the red barbarians.

He Qiaoyuan suggested that the court should regain sea taxes and let Zheng Zhilong clear out the pirates. This man knew where the pirate's nest was and often used to naval battles at sea. If he came forward, he would definitely be able to wipe out the pirates.

However, after Zheng Zhilong surrendered, the court had no money to pay for the bandit suppression, and Zheng Zhilong paid for the money to suppress the bandits himself. This kind of thing cannot last too long, otherwise what if one day Zheng Zhilong's money was exhausted? If he betrayed again, who will destroy the pirates? He had an order to jointly wipe out the pirates in Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong Province, but in the end, no province had any action in this matter, because it was because it had no money to send troops.

The current law, the murderer dies! But if you don’t find out why it is unfair to just judge the case by killing someone just by judging the murderer dies. He Qiaoyuan even gave an example to illustrate this argument, and then immediately talked about the pirates.

In the memorial, he said that pirates cannot be killed at once, and there are all kinds of situations. I hope the court will take it with caution. He heard that Li Kuiqi also wanted to be recruited, so he suggested that he accept the recruitment. At least after recruiting Li Kuiqi, he could control him and deal with him any time he wanted to deal with him later. If he did not agree, even if Zheng Zhilong was asked to wipe him out, he would have to spend money, food and life. This kind of thing was not worth it.

When Emperor Chongzhen recalled this, he couldn't help but sigh that He Qiaoyuan was worthy of being a Fujian native and knew much more about maritime affairs than most people in the Ming Dynasty. What he said made sense, but it was a pity that the original Emperor Chongzhen did not pay attention to it. Otherwise, if the maritime ban was put into operation, there would be no need to add Liao pay, and the Ming Dynasty would not be able to last for a few more years.

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen sighed secretly in his heart, and then he couldn't wait to read the memorial of "Kaiyanghai Proposal" in his hand.

"I think the sea is the field of Fujian people. The Fujian area is narrow and there is no river channel to connect to boats. It is used to move between Jiangsu and Zhejiang to trade, and only the sea is sold along the way is its career..."

He Qiaoyuan started with the analysis of the actual situation in Fujian and started with Emperor Taizu's ban on the sea. He first argued a point of view. That is, ban on the sea is of no use. No matter who, how severe measures were used to implement the national policy of ban on the sea, the final result led to rampant pirates and people's lives were in vain.

However, since the early years of Wanli, the court once issued foreign taxes in Haicheng County, Zhangzhou. At that time, the tax collection was more than 130,000 yuan, and the people were happy and the military pay was sufficient. At that time, the profit of selling Nanyang was very high, and there were mountains of silver overseas, which was not like the Ming Dynasty. The implication was that there were many benefits of opening a sea ban.

However, later the red barbarians made a slander and robbed goods, which led to more and more thieves following the example. At that time, local governments reported to the court that only by cutting off taxes on foreign countries could those thieves who were pirates not get anything.

So, the ban on the sea began to be reopened. However, in this way, the pirates began to rob ashore and still had no peace. In addition, there were more people smuggling, and the ban on the sea only made the court lose income, that's all.

He Qiaoyuan then introduced the so-called red barbarians in detail, saying that the red barbarians are named Kaliuba, and Luzon's own country is also the same. His understanding is only at the South China Sea level and does not know the situation in Europe. However, this understanding is already valuable for people in the Ming Dynasty.

At the beginning, these red barbarians had forced buying and selling in Luzon, which was not popular among the Ming people. Therefore, they mostly did not trade with the red barbarians. So the red barbarians began to rob. He Qiaoyuan believed that the original intention of these red barbarians was to trade to obtain benefits, and they did not really want to rob them from the beginning. Now the red barbarians have occupied Taiwan, cooperated with pirates, and collected maritime trade taxes.

Regarding Taiwan, He Qiaoyuan was afraid that no one in the court would know about it, so he also explained, and even explained how long it took to get on the boat so that people could have a concept. But it was true that at this time, the Ming Dynasty actually didn't care about islands like Taiwan at all.

He Qiaoyuan also introduced the basic situation on the sea today: According to Luzon, the two red and barbarians entered our near-land today, this is the so-called Eastern Ocean. In addition, there are Siam, Cambodia, Guangnan, Hue, and Japanese Japanese, which are the so-called Western Ocean.

He specifically introduced the specialties of these places, such as Siam's rhinoceros horns, ivory, suma, pepper, such as Siliuba, and Inter Milan and bird's nests, which he did not have. Cambodia, Guangnan, and Hue also produced suma, pepper. Although Japan also had sea bans, some people still smuggled their specialties silver. These trades are now in Taiwan, but I, the Ming Dynasty, could not receive a penny of silver. It's a pity.

After telling so much, He Qiaoyuan even gave his proposition to open foreign countries: saying that the big dealers were entrusted to Luzon, and the hawkers ordered them to be entrusted to chicken coops and tasshui; those in the red barbarians were entrusted to Taiwan to avoid the help of the traitors and the profits were brought to Quanzhou, and the ones in the sea were brought to Quanzhou to defend the Tongzhizhu. The two barbarians in the East and the big dealers in Luzon were still entrusted to Zhangzhou, and Zhangzhou to defend the Tongzhizhuzhu. The big dealers were promoted, and there were roads to live, and there were few thieves and thieves, which was a great benefit to China.

In his memorial, he said that although there are indeed risks in opening the sea, nine out of ten people who go out to sea will be defeated, and one or two of them will become a family, but people will still compete for it. For this reason, he made an example that all the people of the Ming Dynasty knew to prove that this matter is not too alarmist.

To be honest, when I found these materials, I was quite surprised. Unexpectedly, someone made these suggestions in the late Ming Dynasty. I believe many readers have never heard of them. Moreover, this matter is also very important, so in my own words, I have more information cited in this chapter. If you are interested, you can search the name of the memorial on Baidu. You can read the original text of the memorial through reading.
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