"Your Majesty, Governor He's preparations for opening the sea have been completed, but the news has not yet fully reached the provinces. Therefore, there are still very few people who have come to the Governor's Office to report bulk foreign trade transactions. Governor He believes that there are many people waiting and watching in the early stage, and it will be better next year..."

Emperor Chongzhen nodded when he heard this. The imperial edict for the sea ban was issued a little late. As for the current progress, thanks to He Qiaoyuan's intention to open the sea ban, many things were already in mind. Otherwise, the things that have been completed so far would have to be completed until next year.

"...At the beginning of the opening of the sea, Fujian Governor Sun Zhongcheng sent troops and even led his troops to wipe out many bandits and bandits. The thieves were almost extinct on the land, but pirates were still rampant. There were even rumors that when a ship goes into the sea, they would rob a ship. If you want to be safe, you have to pay them money, and the price is as much as 3,000 gold per bow. This is also the reason why many sea merchants wait and see for a while. According to local proof, this was done by Liu Xiang, a pirate from Guangdong..."

Emperor Chongzhen also knew about this, and for this reason, the Fujian Navy is now on his way back to Fujian. After he arrived, Fujian Governor Sun Chuanting would coordinate it, and go along with water and land to wipe out Liu Xiang's pirates in one fell swoop.

"...Governor He suggested that after the Fujian Navy returns, he will join forces with the Folangji people and the Red Barbarians to fight together, so that the maritime affairs can be pacified in the shortest time! However, now the Folangji and the Red Barbarians' fleet have gone to the South Ocean and cannot be contacted for the time being. And it involves foreign affairs. For details, the emperor still needs to give an order!"

After Wen Tiren reported here, he stopped talking. Looking at Emperor Chongzhen, he was obviously waiting for the emperor's opinion.

When Emperor Chongzhen saw this, he pondered for a moment and said, "This can be done, let Governor He do it. However, if these Western barbarians have set up conditions, they must be reported to me in time and I will make a decision!"

The implication is nothing more than letting Westerners be free thugs, but if you want to take the opportunity to threaten them, you have to ask him whether he agrees or not!

Wen Tiren could naturally understand the sacred intentions, and immediately agreed, and reported to the matter of opening the sea again. Then, he continued to report the next major event: "The gold, silver, jewelry and other finances of the Tang Dynasty's Mansion have been paid to the Henan branch of the Ming Construction Bank, and then he only brought the remittance form to Kunming, Yunnan. Now he is with Master Min. As for the fiefdom of King Tang, the land deeds and other items are all in the hands of the governor of Nanyang, and are also supervised by the factory guards..."

Speaking of this, he stopped, looked at the emperor's face, and continued to speak: "These land deeds are not only given by the land given by the ancestors of all dynasties, but also the offerings of local unruly people, as well as the fields that the Tang kings of all dynasties have obtained. And the number of these is even more than the number of gold book registrations!"

The land granted by emperors of all dynasties must be registered on the imperial court's gold book. However, with the accompanying and supervision of the factory guards, the number of land deeds handed over by the Tang King in the end was far more than the number of gold book registrations. Although this matter is well-known, it is now on the surface, which is considered a big deal!

This is true for the Emperor of Tang, and other vassal kings will never be clean. The number of summed up will definitely be scary. These will often use the power of the vassal kings to evade taxes. It can be said that the amount of taxes lost by the imperial court in this regard is a bit jaw-dropping.

After Wen Tiren finished speaking, he looked at Cao Huachun and looked at Emperor Chongzhen again. Seeing that he was not particularly angry, as if he was like them, he understood such things very well, and then spoke again: "Your Majesty, I think that if I want to clean up these fields directly, I am afraid that it will attract the rebound of the vassal kings and officials in similar situations in various places, and there will be great resistance. I am really not sure whether I can clean up in the end!"

If you were facing Emperor Chongzhen a year ago, Wen Tiren would never dare to say this. But in the past year's contact, Wen Tiren believed that the emperor was already a mature or experienced person, and very reasonable and wise monarch. Therefore, he dared to speak so directly.

Emperor Chongzhen naturally knew that the contribution of land owners, the encroachment of royal relatives and nobles, and civil officials and generals had already reached a very serious level of land annexation in the late Ming Dynasty. If we directly clean up these fields and want to directly curb land annexation, it would have to be a cake for many powerful people, which would definitely be a lot of difficulties. Even if we are the emperor, it would be almost impossible to achieve this goal.

However, now there is such an opportunity, which is a big gain that can just solve part of the land annexation.

When the King of Tang wanted to change his ban abroad, he naturally could not take away the fields he owned. There was a prior agreement that the court would not take them back and allowed them to auction them to encourage them to respond to overseas feudalism. Therefore, for the King of Tang, all the fields were auctioned, which was the most in line with his interests. At this time, whether it was the King of Tang or the court, they would not care about what was secretly there was, and they would be auctioned in the name of the King of Tang. In this way, these fields could be collected taxes from then on, which was actually considered to be a cleanup effect.

When the Tang king's feudal overseas affairs were successful and set an example for other vassal kings, then a large-scale feudal exile would be carried out, and the land that could re-collect taxes in the Ming Dynasty would increase countless times. This alone is something that no court had done successfully before, and it was enough to keep a record of history.

Therefore, as for the chief assistant Wen Tiren and others, they would definitely be satisfied with this matter if they were done. Therefore, he was very nervous about the emperor's reaction.

Emperor Chongzhen smiled slightly and said to Wen Tiren: "Wen Qing, don't be nervous. When I made an agreement with the King of Tang, I had already thought of this. This matter is better, but the current name of the land is still under the name of the King of Tang. At least the imperial army must capture Dongwu. Only when the King of Tang can the King of Tang be enfeoffed, these fields can be taken out for auction."

If it weren't for this, the pressure on the Tang King would be very great. After all, he was not alone, and he would be criticized by other vassal kings. Emperor Chongzhen didn't want to see these things. What he wanted was that all vassal kings were feudal overseas and kicked out all these people!

Wen Tiren couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly bowed and said, "Your Majesty is wise, I am not as good as you!"

Although Cao Huachun next to him did not speak, after hearing these conversations, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and bowed and flattered.

To him, women are useless. Now that the emperor is wise, money is of little use. What he is asking for now is also the word "name". If this happens, he has reason to believe that he will definitely leave his name in history in the future!
Chapter completed!