"I see."

Chen Yichen nodded. Now Xu Fengyuan is considered his own person, so he should consider helping him when it is time to help.

"But my husband, can you really make 30,000 taels in business?"

Although Chen Qingtong didn't care about the 30,000 taels, it was still very difficult to make a business.

What's more, Chen Yichen has been focusing on preparing for the imperial examination in the past two years. Where can he get the time and energy to do business?

"It's indeed a business, I'll tell you the details in the future."

The smuggling incident is now too risky. Chen Yichen doesn’t want Chen Qingtong to be afraid of him, so he simply doesn’t say it. When he is in a high position in the future and legalizes smuggling, he doesn’t need to hide it anymore.

"Um."

Chen Qingtong nodded, then leaned on Shen Yichen's chest. She understood that a real man was determined by all directions, and his husband would not want to explain in detail that he would have hidden secrets, so he should not ask the bottom line.

On the second day, I came to Dongge to experience training and was not as free as the day before. Chen Yichen began to officially take over government affairs.

Because they are newcomers, Chen Yichen, the group of people who come to study in Hanlin, took over simple tasks such as catching and collecting books, and regarded them as accumulated experience.

To put it bluntly, the so-called "Search and Comprehensive" book is to classify and number official documents, so that they can be collected or searched in the archives.

To be honest, this kind of work content is really a bit useless for the best students in the imperial examination like Hanlin.

After half a month, after familiarizing with the government affairs process, Chen Yichen began to officially take over the "post-revealing" work and had the right to contact the court memorials and official documents.

"Revealing and Posting" was originally a special letter for secret memorials and answering the orders. Later, it began to be abused and became an informal official document. If the local government reported the court, memorials would be used for major matters. If the relevant matters were not explained clearly, the release would be supplemented with the release.

Similar to the way in which later generations put various post-it notes on key points in books.

However, this kind of posting was revealed to the interns of the Dongge Pavilion, and it turned out to be repeated in concise words to reduce the time for the cabinet ministers to review the memorial again.

Many local officials of the Ming Dynasty submitted memorials and wrote a large number of memorials. After reading them, they could not find the key points and were confused. Even during the Hongwu period of the early Ming Dynasty, there was a minister of the Ministry of Revenue named Ru Taisu who liked to show off his literary talent and wrote such long memorials for Zhu Yuanzhang to read.

You should know that Zhu Yuanzhang started with a bowl, but he had never read many books. When he saw such thick stacks of memorials, his head was so big that he didn't even want to read it.

But Zhu Yuanzhang is a dedicated person, and it is not his style to let go. Since he doesn't want to read it, then find a Zhongshu Lang to read it.

Unexpectedly, after reading more than 7,000 words for half an hour, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't hear the central meaning of Ru Taisu's memorial. And there were probably tens of thousands of words in the second half of the memorial that had not been read.

Good guy, if you continue to do this efficiency, even if Zhu Yuanzhang doesn’t eat, drink or sleep, he will not be able to process twenty memorials a day.

So he was so angry that he beat Ru Taisu and asked the Secretariat to issue an edict specifically. The official documents and memorials should be concise and not allowed to write tens of thousands of words.

However, the good times did not last long. After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, the memorials began to grow longer. But this time the emperor and the ministers became smarter. They asked people to read them first and extract important contents and write them on paper, and then look at the key points by themselves.

So this note became the "revealing" of Hanlin interns.

Chen Yichen reviewed the memorials submitted by various places in the Ming Dynasty. Due to limited rights, most of the things he saw were trivial matters.

The problem is that some officials describe these trivial matters in a scattered way, suggesting that they have made great contributions.

In an instant, Chen Yichen understood why interns and the Secretariat need to write "posts" with the Secretariat, which would allow the emperor and the ministers to continue to watch, and there would be no need to do anything for a day.

However, after reading the memorial for a few days, Chen Yichen still found two important information in it.

One letter was issued by the Yunnan Prefecture, informing the death of Mu Ang, the left governor of the Right Army Governor of the imperial court.

Mu Ang was the younger brother of Duke of Qian, Mu Sheng. During the first battle to conquer Luchuan, Duke of Qian, Mu Sheng, fearing the enemy but not saving it, resulting in the death of the governor Fang Zheng and the defeat of the Ming army.

On the way back, Duke Mu Sheng of Qian was worried about being questioned, so he died suddenly in fear of being nervous (sometimes he committed suicide by taking poison). His son Mu Bin inherited the throne of Duke of Qian.

But Mu Bin lived in the capital and could not go back to take charge of the overall situation. So Mu Ang was ordered to receive the seal of the General of the Conquest South in a dangerous situation, becoming the de facto guardian of Yunnan, and continued to fight with the Luchuan regime.

In this way, the ninth year of Zhengtong was fought. The second Luchuan Battle ended. Wang Ji, the boss of Jingyuan, returned to the court, and the Yunnan border temporarily stabilized.

It is only less than a year since Yunnan's highest military commander Mu Ang passed away. It can be expected that the remnants of Luchuan will seize the opportunity to develop and eventually trigger the third Luchuan Battle.

It was also because of the third Luchuan Battle that elite troops from the northwest of the Ming Dynasty were drawn to trap them in the southwest, and Wang Ji, the "God of War of the Ming Dynasty", was unable to lead the army to participate in the war, which became one of the main causes of the Tumu Fort Incident.

Chen Yichen did not regard this memorial as an ordinary "obedience", so in the post, he emphasized the dangers of the resurrection of the Luchuan regime's remnants after Mu Ang's death, and hoped to be given the attention of the cabinet ministers.

In a sense, Chen Yichen's way of writing a post has become an overreach of authority, and if you look into it, you may be at risk of being guilty.

But even so, Chen Yichen decided to do this, and the best solution was to prevent Yu Weiran!

Another memorial was a secret memorial by Guo Yan, the co-magistrate of Fuzhou Prefecture, Fujian. In the memorial, he said that civil unrest occurred along the coast of Fujian, which affected the construction of sea ships. He hoped that the emperor would be able to plead for a period of time and provide resource support.

When Chen Yichen saw the word "sea ship", he did not take it seriously. After all, even though the Ming Dynasty was currently under a sea ban, there were still naval troops in the coastal areas, so it is not surprising that two sea ships were occasionally built.

As a result, he was shocked when he saw the number, as many as 120 ships! You should know that the fleet of Zheng He voyages to the West during the Ming Dynasty was just this number.

What shocked Chen Yichen even more was still behind him. He saw the words "Next" in the memorial.

The word "fan" means "fan" in the Ming Dynasty, which means foreign countries. Zheng He's voyage to the West was actually a popular saying in later generations. In the official documents of the Ming Dynasty, a more accurate description should be "Zheng He's vocational fiction".

Combining the two words "120" with the "Xiao" is undoubtedly the Ming Dynasty fleet that voyages to the West!

When he thought of this, Chen Yichen couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. His main job in his previous life was to restore cultural relics, not to study history books. It can only be said that he had a better understanding of ancient history than most ordinary people, but he was incomparable to real literary and historical experts.

Chen Yichen knew that the last time he had voyage to the West in the Ming Dynasty was Zheng He's seventh voyage to the West in the fifth year of Xuande (1430).

From then on, there was no more invincible fleet of the Ming Dynasty in this world, and even in later generations, the drawings and archives of treasure ships disappeared without a trace.

When Chen Yichen was considering ensuring the interests of overseas trade, he thought that the craftsmen and drawings who built treasure ships should still survive. After he was in a high position, he might be able to replicate the grand occasion of voyage to the West.

As a result, Chen Yichen never expected that in the tenth year of Zhengtong (1445), he could still see the news of building a treasure ship voyage to the West in the secret memorial, and it was already underway.

According to Guo Yan's description, he encountered a coastal civil war and had to shelve the shipbuilding plan. If Chen Yichen had not made any mistakes in the guess, the reason why Emperor Yingzong of Ming Dynasty had not described his experience of voyage to the West in history is probably because of this huge plan, which was destroyed by the peasant uprising on the southeast coast.

Although he came to this world and stabilized miners such as Ye Zongliu, the number of participants in the Southeast Uprising during the Zhengtong period reached hundreds of thousands of people, and the population affected as many as millions.

At present, I have only delayed the outbreak of a large-scale peasant uprising and have not fundamentally solved this problem. Moreover, with the arrival of the Little Ice Age of the Ming Dynasty, extreme weather is constantly occurring every year. Even though Chen Yichen knew that there would be heavy snow in Songjiang, and asked Ye Zongliu and others to purchase grain reserves, he still could not save so many people in several provinces.

How to solve this problem?

Chen Yichen became a little anxious. He looked down on his own as the opportunity was right in front of him, but he could not change anything.

He didn't know whether Emperor Yingzong of Ming would continue to support the construction of the "Xiafan Ship" after the memorial was handed over.

If you don't support it, this matter may become the result of future generations and disappear into the long river of history and no one knows it.

With the gradually hot weather at the end of June, fine beads of sweat appeared on Chen Yichen's forehead, and he didn't know what he could do!

At this moment, Chen Yichen's mind flashed, and he remembered what Xu Fengyuan asked him about the opinions of the waiter of the Ministry of Personnel.

He simply arranged Xu Fengyuan to be an official in the prefectures and counties where Guo Yan built a ship in Fuzhou Prefecture!

Thinking of this, Chen Yichen couldn't help but be excited. This not only could the use of the official power of the Ming Dynasty to ensure his overseas smuggling trade, but also maintain the shipbuilding craftsmen and technology.

Even if Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Qizhen, gave up the construction of the "Second Sea Ship", Chen Yichen had to sell his strength and let Xu Fengyuan raise these craftsmen and retain this fire to prepare for the Ming fleet in the future.
Chapter completed!