Pirates, maritime merchants, no matter which identity they are, no matter how rich you are, they have no social status in the Ming Dynasty, and they are not even recognized as people from the Ming Dynasty.

But these two maritime merchants who were despised by the government and even regarded as criminals were given the emperor's personal amnesty and were qualified to enter the palace to meet.

At this time, Li Dan and Yan Siqi truly felt relieved. Even though they had made analysis and judgment before, they were not completely absolute and there were certain variables.

Now that he has been summoned to the palace, there will definitely be nothing wrong.

No matter how stupid or violent the emperor is, he will not have to do so much trouble to trick people into the palace and then kill them.

Of course, Li Dan and Yan Siqi were still nervous. In addition to being excited and excited, they also had no guesses about the emperor's thoughts.

When entering the palace, the two great tycoons across the sea were also frightened by this majestic and solemn royal aura, and their behavior and expression became cautious, and even felt a little nervous.

In the Ganqing Palace, Zhu Youxiao looked at the empty ginseng box, but just smiled faintly, disregarded her attention, and continued to stroke Xiaobai's big head.

"The Emperor. The White Lady is a little weird today!" Zhang Yuer was very confused. She didn't know why the White Lady changed her temperament and became close to the Emperor.

Zhu Youxiao smiled and said, "I've become stupid, I've become stupid, I've become stupid."

Zhang Yuer blinked her big eyes and didn't quite understand what this "stupid" means.

Xiaobai shook his big head, held his tail up, and shouted at Zhu Youxiao with a "meow" meow.

Zhang Yu'er opened her eyes wide. She understood this body language, indicating that Sir White wanted to play with you and hoped to have more intimate actions.

Don't be polite at this time, just rub it hard!

But Zhu Youxiao didn't understand it very much, but he looked up at the palace servant who had reported it inside.

Zhang Yu'er had no choice but to hug Xiaobai by herself and give the generous touch to the clingy Lady Bai.

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During the Song Dynasty, the maritime trade was the most developed. The Maritime Trade Bureau issued nearly 2 million yuan in taxes every year, which promoted the development of industry and commerce, and urbanization reached an unprecedented level.

In addition to opening up the maritime ban, the Song Dynasty's investment promotion policy also played a huge role.

In the fourth year of Yongxi, Emperor Taizong of Song Dynasty, "slaughtered the eight eunuchs with imperial eunuchs and gold and silk, and divided them into four groups, and went to Hainan's foreign countries to recruit and worship, and bought incense medicine, rhinoceros teeth, pearls, and dragon brains. Each group brought empty name edicts and gave them wherever they went."

The monarch of the Song Dynasty believed that "the profits of the market are the most powerful. If the measures are done properly, the gains will be made by a million (money) plan. Wouldn't it be better to win the people? I pay attention to this so that I can lenient the people's strength."

Therefore, the Song Dynasty encouraged maritime merchants to attract foreign merchants to trade in China, "if foreign merchants are willing to come to Song State with ships, they will obey." The Song government would also grant official positions to maritime merchants who made great contributions to overseas investment.

Zhu Youxiao was condescendingly and sent envoys to North Korea and Japan, and pardoned the maritime merchants and summoned them in person, all for the same purpose as the Song Dynasty.

"No gifts and equitable." Zhu Youxiao was promoted to the seat in the main hall, looking at these two legendary figures who left a strong mark in history, and was very moved.

Li Dan was called Li Dan by the European maritime merchants at that time, or "captain china", which is the Chinese captain.

Li Dan was not only a business competitor that made Westerners feel headaches, but his subordinates often robbed European merchant ships. Especially the Spaniards, because of their painful experience in Luzon, he hated the most.

However, due to Li Dan's connections in Fujian, both the Dutch and the Portuguese often had to rely on him to provide Ming products such as raw silk.

Although Yan Siqi is not as strong as Li Dan in terms of strength, his achievements in history have given him a well-known title of "King of Kaitai".

Zhu Youxiao was silent for a while, Li Dan and Yan Si bowed and stood solemnly, lowering their heads slightly, feeling their heart beating violently, hitting their chests.

"Although the two of you are wandering overseas, they are also citizens of the Ming Dynasty." Zhu Youxiao finally spoke slowly, "Now, the imperial court has lifted the ban on maritime, and overseas Chinese businessmen have legal identities and can be naturalized and settled."

After pausing, Zhu Youxiao continued: "The Maritime Bureau has introduced new regulations, and you must have read them too. Do you have any suggestions on this?"

Li Dan and Yan Siqi exchanged their eyes and bowed together and said, "Long live the sage, Caomin and others have no objection."

Zhu Youxiao smiled, waved his hand to ask the palace servant to carry the embroidery dock with the documents, and said, "You two don't have to be afraid, nor do you have to keep the grass people talking. Let's look at my draft regulations and make a mistake."

"...After the establishment of the Chamber of Commerce, the court was only responsible for collecting taxes, supervising, checking accounts, mediating, and punishing illegal acts in accordance with the law. The remaining commercial matters will be resolved by the Chamber of Commerce through negotiations..."

Maritime merchants will form a group and develop more orderly, and will become a force to compete with the Dutch East India Company and even the UK.

At the same time, the Chamber of Commerce of the Seashore was also granted power. Any sea boat that had not "carried out with books and flags" could be arrested, and half of the goods seized will be rewarded.

In other words, the Chamber of Commerce can also prevent smuggling. It is originally both business and thieves, and anti-smuggling can make extra money for them.

In fact, Li Dan and Yan Siqi did not care too much about the laws and regulations of the Maritime Trade Commission and the charter of the Maritime Chamber of Commerce.

What is it to earn less? The most important thing is to have an open identity and return to the glory of the hometown. The rewards of the civil servants made them widen their eyes.

"Give kindness and grant titles to the people" was a policy that the Han Dynasty once implemented. In the Western Han Dynasty, it was divided into two types:

The first is to give titles, that is, if the country has a festive event or wins a great victory in the war, the people can be given titles;

The other is to sell titles, which means buying. When the government is in financial difficulties, or when it is necessary to use military force to raise military expenses at home and abroad, the people can use donations of money and grain to exchange for titles.

Those who obtain titles can obtain fiefs (high-level titles), exempt some or all taxes, corvee service, sentence reduction, and priority for official positions.

After the system was introduced, the people often used buying titles as a means to evade taxes and labor service.

So the court went back on its word, recruiting people with titles for various reasons, or putting various other burdens on it.

Since the civil servants bought by donating money and donating grain are not affordable, the people are not stupid, so no one will spend a lot of money anymore.

But everything has its advantages and disadvantages, and so are the civil servants.

Zhu Youxiao believes that giving ordinary people who have made contributions to the country a title of honor and allowing them to enjoy certain special treatments will be very effective.

Just like Li Dan and Yan Siqi, who are not short of money, what they lack is one identity and a glorious family who returns home in glory!
Chapter completed!