At this time, Li Dongyang hesitated:
"Senior brother, what you said is indeed very reasonable. However, if you really give all the craftsmen who can build treasure ships and their families to Lord Ma, Dongyang might be scolded by the people of the world. After all, it would be a gift of tens of thousands of people!"
Li Dongyang is already a little indecisive, so he can give tens of thousands of shipbuilders to Malin. However, as the chief minister, if he causes this, it is certain that he will be scolded by the people of the world. For Confucian officials, the most unbearable thing is to be criticized by thousands of people.
"Oh, Binzhi... your temperament..." Liu Daxia shook his head.
Liu Daxia and Li Dongyang are two completely different types of people. Li Dongyang is timid and indecisive. Liu Daxia was very bold. At the beginning, Emperor Chenghua wanted to carry out a big voyage, but Liu Daxia was just a chariot, equivalent to a director. Emperor Chenghua wanted to find Zheng He's navigation chart to rebuild a treasure ship sailing, and then Liu Daxia, who was just a director, took advantage of the courage of the bear heart and leopard, and directly burned the treasure ship drawings and navigation charts. What's strange is that because of this incident, Liu Daxia was not unlucky, but was valued by all officials and became a role model for Qingliu officials.
Of course, Liu Daxia did not do anything wrong. Because during the Chenghua period, the Ming Dynasty was not rich in finance, and even some bans were found. If Emperor Chenghua really spent a huge amount of money to build treasure ships and voyage to the West, the Ming Dynasty's finances would probably collapse.
It is precisely because of this that Emperor Chenghua did not investigate the matter in the end, and all officials also unanimously praised Liu Daxia's courage and integrity.
However, it is also said that Liu Daxia only hid the treasure ship drawings and navigation charts. However, since then, there was no record of the treasure ship information in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, it is no longer important whether Liu Daxia really burns the drawings, because it is gone whether it is burned or not.
(There is also a saying that the navigation charts and treasure ship drawings were burned until the Qianlong period. After Qianlong asked someone to "edit" the deleted and tampered version of the "Siku Quanshu", he burned all the historical documents of the Ming Dynasty, leaving behind difficult historical problems for future generations.)
From this we can see that Liu Daxia is a bold and radical official, and is not the same as Li Dongyang. However, Liu Daxia was angry at the fact that hesitated Li Dongyang, but he also helped to think of a solution-
"What Binzhi said is also very reasonable. If he really gave it to Lord Ma at one time, no one in the world would agree..."
"Let's do this, for the first time we gave Ma Guozhu 1,000 shipbuilders and their families, and directly emptied the craftsmen from Nanjing Longjiang Bao Shipyard."
"As for the remaining craftsmen from other shipyards other than Longjiang Treasure Shipyards that were involved in the manufacturing of treasure ships, Binzhi and Yingning, you send your disciples to various provinces in Jiangnan to serve as officials. Then, you send someone to survey the situation. All shipbuilders who inherited their father's experience in making treasure ships will be proposed and given to Ma Guozhu in batches..."
"But, what reason will you give to Lord Ma at that time?" Li Dongyang asked.
Liu Daxia thought for a while and said:
"In this way, the court will reward 1,000 shipbuilders to the Lord of Ma. However, Binzhi, you can give a way to give a command to allow the Lord of Ma to recruit shipbuilders on his own in the territory of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, this is just a cover. Those shipbuilders will not be recruited by the barbarians voluntarily. Therefore, the disciples we sent to serve as officials in Jiangnan can deceive the craftsmen, and say that the court has an order to go to Dongfan Island to assist Dongfan Xuanwei Department in building ships. Then, they will send their whole family to Ningbo or Fuzhou to load the ship for the Lord of Ma to transport it away..."
"This... isn't this bullying the superiors and concealing the subordinates?" Li Dongyang was a little dumbfounded.
"No, Binzhi, we are for the Ming Dynasty. If we reopen our voyage to the West, Binzhi, think about whether the national treasury can still have money and food left? Although the means are not very open, we are for the good of the Ming Dynasty. Although there are flaws, we are for the country and the people!" Liu Daxia said passionately.
At this time, Yang Yiqing also stood on Liu Daxia's side and persuaded Li Dongyang together. Yang Yiqing dared to take action to defeat Liu Jin, and was also a brave and cruel man. He agreed with Liu Daxia's plan, so he persuaded the indecisive Li Dongyang...
Finally, Li Dongyang sighed—
"Forget it, for the sake of the court and the people of the world, Dongyang will do evil things to deceive superiors and conceal subordinates!"
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After the three reached an agreement, they connected with the Qingliu ministers. The Qingliu ministers also agreed with Liu Daxia's suggestion, believing that this move is beneficial to the country and the people.
Then, a few days later, the ministers unanimously agreed to the resolution to reward craftsmen to Marin. Moreover, the ministers had always decided to give all the thousands of permanent shipbuilders in the Longjiang Treasure Shipyard in Nanjing (when the treasure ship was actually built, the provinces in Jiangnan would send craftsmen to support and carry out the "big battle") to Marin...
Emperor Zhengde was a little hesitant. He originally wanted to keep a group of backbones of Longjiang Bao Shipyard for future. But the ministers said that the Lord of Malinma sent such a high yield of divine grain, the Ming Dynasty is a country of etiquette and cannot be ungrateful. Therefore, only by giving the entire Longjiang Bao Shipyard craftsmen to each other can the sincerity of the Ming Dynasty...
Zhengde now has Liu Jin's quick knife, and Zhang Yong and others are useless. Therefore, Zhengde can only defeat him...
At the same time, the cabinet also ordered that Marin was allowed to recruit craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty, and the court would also provide some convenience...
Marin almost died of euthanasia after hearing this...
Why? Because this order said that "Malin was allowed to recruit craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty", rather than only restricting the recruitment of shipbuilders.
In the future, as long as Marin's methods are in place and bribery is in place, other craftsmen can also be recruited. Especially, the porcelain craftsmen in the official kiln are the real masters! If they know how to make porcelain, Marin will get a money printing machine in the future...
Moreover, Malin clearly remembers that on the west side of the Taipei Basin on the later Taiwan Island, near the junction of New Taipei City and Taoyuan, there was an area called Yingge, which was the famous ceramic production area. In other words, there was porcelain clay there.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! As long as Malincoln spends a lot of money and digs out a few great craftsmen in Jingdezhen to build a ceramic base on Taiwan. Then, it is difficult to make a fortune by launching modern ceramics such as horse bone porcelain, which even did not even have the Ming Dynasty...
After receiving the imperial decree from the court, Ma Lin, whose eyes were full of small money, was so excited that he could only say the words "I thanked the Lord for your kindness"...
Chapter completed!