Soldiers are the best

Zhengde and Yang Ling had already made careful considerations and were confident. At this time, he was like a dedicated actor. Even if someone offered to lift the sea ban and lowered his body, he would actively trade with the barbarians, which would violate the ancestral system of "tributing" and insult the big banner of Daming Tianwei, he would have thought about it in advance with Yang Ling, Jiao Fang, Yan Song and others and prepared the lines.

Yang Ling did not have Zhuge Liang's magic tricks. He could have expected that they would use this reason to obstruct the opening of the sea. However, it was not difficult to see the methods of modern politicians, so it was not difficult to induce them with some tricks.

Among the officials who followed Liu Daxia, spitted and roared loudly against the lifting of the sea ban. Four of them were ministers whose family involved in maritime smuggling and had to completely surrender to Yangling's side.

When others opposed the opening of the sea for various reasons, they kept mentioning the issues of "tributing" and "consultation". Jiao Fang, Liu Yu and others were also very involved and immediately refuted other reasons, but they avoided talking about this reason, as if they were not confident in touching the ancestral system.

How could politicians who are good at capturing the opponent's weaknesses not notice with such clever tips? Especially when the other party caught off guard by a sudden attack, most of the prestige figures left Beijing and could not organize a powerful counterattack at all, they suddenly found that in such an unbreakable fortress, how could they treat it as their last reliance without joy?

Liu Daxia said "Yes" and landed on the ground, and Zhengde couldn't help but be overjoyed: "This old guy has spoken so well for the first time, and now it's my turn to take action."

Zhengde stood up with a full face of spring breeze and said loudly: "All my dear friends have their own opinions, but they are all thinking about our Ming Dynasty. I feel no comfort.

In fact, what is the difference between the sea and the land? Cattle, sheep and crops are produced on land, and they are open to foreign countries. Fish, shrimp, croakers and crabs are produced on sea, and they are also open to the East and West Barbarians. The difference is just a boat ride on the sea and a car ride on land. My dear friends say right?"

Li Dongyang and others said with caution: "What the emperor said!"

Liu Daxia and others clearly tended to agree to open the sea when they heard Zhengde's words, so they just stood silently and waited for Zhengde to express their opinions and immediately sacrificed the ancestral system and the power of the country.

Zhengde also said: "In the past, the sea ban was inherently prohibited by the sea. Our ban on the sea was to use a strong wall to clear the sea to prevent the Japanese pirates from surviving. Now, over the past hundred years, the Japanese pirates are still rampant on the sea. It can be seen that this method is just like Dagu's control of the flood. Although the intention is good, it is not feasible. The ban on the sea makes the people trapped and barren, and it also makes the common people who long for our country's heavenly state sigh.

Furthermore, the sea area of ​​the Ming Dynasty was the land of the Ming Dynasty. The ban on the sea in the past was just a temporary solution to destroy Japanese pirates. It was not just that the great rivers and mountains were abandoned. Let’s ask the Tatars disturbed Datong, so we can abandon Datong and ignore it from now on?”

Emperor Zhengde raised his sword eyebrows and shouted with murderous intently: "Little Japanese pirates. What ability do I have to force my great Ming Dynasty to fear it like a tiger, and to put all the boundless sea areas into a pirate's house? I will erect the boundless seaside into the Great Wall, and from then on my own?"

This question suddenly exploded in the Golden Palace, causing ripples in the hearts of the ministers. The huge Golden Palace was solemn and silent for a moment.

Zhengde slowed down and said, "So, the Tatar gangsters in the north of the Mobei will be expelled by our Ming cavalry sooner or later, and the Japanese in the East China Sea cannot stop our powerful enemy of the Celestial Empire. The sea must be opened! The forbidden must be solved!"

"But..." When he saw Liu Daxia, Ma Wensheng went out and immediately changed his tone: "What Liu Aiqing said makes sense. The Ming Dynasty should not be afraid of opening the sea because of the rampant Japanese pirates, and should not be greedy for opening the sea to defile the name of the Ming Dynasty because of the attempt to make small profits. If the Japanese in the East do not see the power of the heaven with their ministers, the sea ban must not be opened!"

Liu Daxia stepped forward with the ranks of ministers and took big steps. He had just taken two steps. He suddenly heard the emperor's words, and was stunned and then happy. The steps he had taken were difficult to take back. After a moment of hesitation, he was already on the verge of worship. He shouted: "The emperor is wise, and the old minister is impressed!"

The ministers went to the palace, and Liu Daxia sent a corner of his eyes to Ma Wensheng, rushed up to Yang Shousui and whispered a few words quietly. The civil servants outside the Meridian Gate entered the sedan chair, and the military officers took the horses and left one after another. Liu Daxia and his personal soldiers deliberately slowed down. Ma Wensheng, Yang Shousui and others followed behind him.

The six ministries and three ministries are actually not far apart, and they are basically on the same street to facilitate the emperor's will to convey. The six ministries are ranked in the order of officials, households, etiquette, soldiers, punishments, and labor, and the buildings of each ministries are also arranged in this order. Several old ministers passed their yamen and failed to enter and followed Liu Daxia to the Ministry of War.

The Ministry of War held the selection and appointment of military positions, punishments, military registration, military orders, imprisonment and post stations and other matters. Since the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, the Ministry of War in the Ming Dynasty was relatively the most powerful, but the chariots and horses in front of the door were still much less neglected than other yamen.

Liu Daxia arrived in front of the door and pulled off the horse and waited quietly for a while. Ma Wensheng, Yang Shousui, Yang Fang, Wang Jiao and other old ministers arrived. Liu Daxia bowed and invited the old ministers into the yamen. After passing the central hall, he went to the courtyard where he had usually reviewed official documents and rested in the martial arts practice.

The courtyard is not big, with the same color of blue tiles and pink walls, water-milled blue bricks paved, and the brick carvings of "Fu Lu Shou" on the screen wall are exquisite and orderly. Although the courtyard is small, it is complete with all internal organs. There are three rooms in the main room, east and west wing rooms, and north halls. The roof is low and gentle, simple and simple, and the armor is bright with swords, guns, sticks and halberds on weapons under the eaves.

These are old friends of many years, some of whom are Jinshi in the same subject. Liu Daxia did not politely treat them. He just ordered the soldiers to "get tea" and then opened the curtain and entered the inner room. Ma Wensheng and others were familiar with his temper, so they looked at each other and looked for their seats to sit down.

Ma Wensheng sighed softly and said, "Today is very dangerous. Jiao Fang and others are clearly prepared. Alas! I saw the mansion report two days ago, but I was just laughing at it. I really didn't expect such a big event. They were a small head of the Ministry of Revenue, and they didn't expect that there were so many officials in the court to participate."

Zhuang Yin, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue, said: "Yang Ling visited Jiangnan. After returning, he talked to the emperor about lifting the ban and communicating business. However, he just said it casually and there was no further information. No one of us paid attention to it. He didn't expect that he was so cunning at a young age and had to endure it. It was not until now that his foundation was deeper that he used the strategy of removing firewood from the cauldron and transferred Lord Han and others out of the capital. Then he suddenly launched it. If it weren't for the fact that Mr. Yang was not eager to be wise and suppressed by the tribute ancestor system, and thus impressed the emperor, his evil plan would have succeeded."

Yang Shousui's face was gloomy. He twisted his beard and was polite. Zhan Shi Yang Fang held the tea cover while gently plucking the tea leaves on the water, and said coldly: "I said this man was a wolfish ambition. Have you seen it now? Jiao Fang's old man was originally Yang Ling's party. He regarded himself as his subordinate in front of him and always followed his leader. This is not surprising. Now his power is getting bigger and bigger. Li Dongyang is in the turtle way, Yang Tinghe pretends to be mute, and a group of fencemen in the court who only cares about his personal futures even echoes."

"In the past, there were three old masters in the court and six ministers of clay sculptures. Do you want the old story to be repeated today and let Yang Ling and a group of treacherous slander control the government?" The loud voice fell. Liu Daxia lifted the curtain and walked out.

He changed his official robe and wore a blue cotton shirt with silver-white hair tied high, and tied it into a bun behind his head. He wore a pair of cloth boots with a thousand-layer bottom. Liu Daxia walked to the table, picked up the cup and drank a sip of water. His eyebrows were raised like a lying silkworm, and his eyes said with a bright look: "I watched coldly. Yang Ling is always hard to distinguish between good and evil, and it is difficult to distinguish between good and evil. Until today's picture is revealed, he has missed his feet!"

"In the past, Zheng He went to the West seven times. He had tens of thousands of ships with sails and oars, and he was like a country at sea. The internal officials almost completely controlled the government. The eunuchs were indifferent and vicious and greedy by nature. Fortunately, Emperor Yongle was wise and powerful. Even though the internal officials were strong, they dared not do evil.

Now Yangling’s party advocates lifting the ban. The drunkard’s intention is not to drink. Who is the one who controls the Maritime Department? Who is the one who controls the shipping area? Who is the one who controls the navy?"

Liu Daxia said with a serious expression: "Sir, please think about it. By then, the army, wealth, and law are all in the hands of Yang Ling and a group of Nei Guan. If he had ambitions... what would happen?"

After hearing this, Ma Wensheng and others felt a chill in their hearts.

Wang Yang had a good impression of Yang Ling. His student Tang Bohu also praised Yang Ling in letters sent from Suzhou during the New Year. Wang Yang still believed in the skills of identifying people by the number one talented man in Jiangnan, so hesitated and said: "Mr. Liu, this person has always been humble and polite. Apart from being extravagant when he was promoted recently, he is not extravagant and arrogant. Judging from his words and deeds, he seems to be unable to see such ambition?"

Yang Shousui said slowly: "Donald Zhou was afraid of rumors, and Wang Mang had not usurped the times. Judging from his methods today, he acted very skillfully and had a very cunning attitude. How could he be a ignorant flatterer?"

Yang Fang also said: "Yang Ling is in charge of the inner factory and has a lot of money. With his current status and wealth, he has always lived in a house of a criminal minister who was granted by the emperor. He is a dignified marquis. He has not even bought a house in a villa. He has eaten more than the salary of the court. Isn't it strange that he is so frugal?"

"Also, this person is the age of a young man Mu Ai. As a marquis, general, and supervisor of the internal factory, he only has one wife and two concubines in the mansion. Those two concubines were given by the emperor, and there were no more concubines. A young and powerful minister who holds the world's wealth and military affairs. He does not like mellow wine and beauties, and does not like gold and jewelry. So where is his ambition?

To make achievements, should we leave a name in history or do we mean to be in the world and to spy on magical tools? The emperor was absurd when he was young. Not only did he not dissuade him, but he would play with you. No matter how I think, he was not like a loyal son!”

Ma Wensheng frowned and said, "These are not necessary to comment. The most urgent task is to lift the maritime ban. It is obvious that Yang Ling and Liu Jin generally want to open the maritime ban with a high sound, and are determined to use this to gain greater rights and thus control the government. Although the ancestral system has finally suppressed their arrogance today, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not accumulate strength to make a comeback. Should they immediately send a message to all the adults who leave Beijing and ask them to return to Beijing immediately to discuss countermeasures?"

Liu Daxia nodded and said, "I invite you all to come here to discuss this matter. Please immediately write a letter to inform all the adults who have been transferred out of the capital to return to Beijing quickly. Lord Ma has a great reputation in the court. He is in the Ministry of Personnel and has promoted and supported many officials. He should contact the ministers immediately to make a difficult advice. It is necessary to let the emperor completely dispel this ridiculous idea."

"As for me..." Liu Daxia smiled faintly, and said with a flash of eyes: "I am just staring at him, Yang Ling, and I want to see what tricks this young boy can play in front of me!"

Liu Daxia was afraid of Yang Ling, fearing that Yang Ling would be ambitious. Once he had a heavy army and had ambition to sweep the world, it would cause endless killing.

He has been in the Ministry of War for many years. He has many personal soldiers and subordinates brought out in the army that year. Now he is the general of the same side. The emperor wants to transfer the generals of the four towns into Beijing and hand them over to Yangling Commander. Liu Shangshu has made up his mind to install a few people in. At that time, something is not big or small. As the Minister of War, he is qualified and has the excuse to lead the generals to write a letter to the emperor and ask the emperor to take back the military power.

Even if he is a friend of many years, he is not convenient to tell him about these plans, so he naturally has to go through them vaguely.

Wang Yang also opposed the lifting of the ban. In his opinion, lifting the ban and trading can easily breed corruption among officials, which will be detrimental to the tranquility of officials. It can easily make the wealthy and wealthy families pursue strange and ingenious things in foreign lands, and thus create extravagant styles. However, the ban on the sea and resisting business will not suffer any losses to the Ming Dynasty. The country and the country of the Celestial Empire are rich and the people are rich, so why do you want to be foreign countries?

However, his attitude was not as enthusiastic as the old friends. Especially when they saw that they looked like a young boy, they were quite dissatisfied with him. They immediately discussed with the adults for a while and stood up to say goodbye.

Wang Yang went out of the Ministry of War to get on his own official sedan chair, closed his eyes and pondered, and always felt that the several ministers and the inner court forces headed by Yang Ling were so tit-for-tat. In fact, his biggest fear was that the eunuch's power would be expanded and uncontrollable.

In Wang Yang's heart, he had no good feelings for the eunuchs, but when he thought that if the two sides used the sea to break up as a weapon and argued with each other, there would inevitably be another bloody storm in the court, he couldn't help but sigh secretly.

He lifted the curtain of the sedan chair and found that he had arrived in front of the etiquette department. He couldn't help but feel moved. He quickly kicked the pedal and said, "Stop the sedan chair, stop the sedan chair!"

Wang Yang thought that Wang Hua's Secretary was also standing by Jiao Fang's side to support the lifting of the sea ban. He admired Wang Hua's character and talent very much. Wang Yang could not understand that with Li Dongyang, a veteran in the court who was respected and well-behaved, who would surrender to Yang Ling's pressure due to the situation.

He had a good personal relationship with Wang Hua, so he wanted to openly talk to Mr. Wang Hua to learn about his real thoughts.

The doorman reported that Wang Shangshu hurriedly welcomed him out and took Wang Yang into the mansion. He brought someone to tea and smiled and said, "Mr. Zhenji hasn't been here for a long time. He is here today, but for the sake of the court today, he will discuss the opening of the sea ban?"

Wang Yang smiled and said, "Sir Shangshu, I don't hide it from you. This is the reason for this. Releasing the ban and communicating business has its advantages and disadvantages. There are benefits of opening the land. If you don't open it, there are benefits of not opening it. I am not very good at it. But today's court discussion, Grand Secretary Jiao and others are clearly prepared. Shangshu Wang is obviously also an insider. You and I are friends. I hope you can give me some advice and make a clear idea."

Wang Hua was about to answer with a smile, Wen Ze'an, the Minister of the Honglu Temple of the Ministry of Rites, hurried in. When he saw Wang Hua, he immediately bowed and said, "Report to the Lord Shangshu, the official just received the news that the Special Envoy of the King of the Kingdom of Japan has arrived in Cangzhou. Keri went to Beijing to represent the King of Japan to visit the Emperor of the Heavenly Dynasty. The Special Envoy of the Japanese has not been in contact with me for many years. How etiquette should he treat each other? Please tell me!"
Chapter completed!