Chapter 62 Let’s make money together. I, Ouyang Lun, will never eat alone! (Please subscribe!)
Go to sea! ! ?
Everyone at the scene looked horrified.
The reason why they were frightened was that the Ming Dynasty had already issued an order to ban the sea. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese feudal princes separated themselves and attacked each feudal lords who failed in the war organized warriors, businessmen, and ronin, collectively known as Japanese pirates, to carry out armed smuggling, robbery and harassment in the coastal areas of the Ming this regard, during the Hongwu period, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the implementation of the maritime ban policy that had been in place since the Ming Dynasty in order to prevent the remnants of coastal warlords and pirates from nuisance.
The main object of the maritime ban was commerce, that is, the commercial ban, which prohibited Ming merchants from doing business overseas and restricted foreign merchants from conducting trade in the Ming Dynasty, except for tribute.
In the third year of Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty issued a decree to "dispose of the Shipping Department of Huangdu City, Taicang".
In the seventh year of Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty ordered the cancellation of the three shipping departments of Quanzhou in Fujian, Mingzhou in Zhejiang, and Guangzhou in Guangdong that had existed since the Tang Dynasty and were responsible for overseas trade. Ming's foreign trade was cut off.
In the 14th year of Hongwu's reign, Zhu Yuanzhang "because the Japanese pirates still did not keep their footprints, he also ordered the people near the sea to be prohibited from communicating with overseas countries."
This is where the saying "No one is allowed to enter the sea" comes from.
In order to prevent coastal people from entering the sea for trade, the Ming Law stipulates severe punishments: "If a treacherous and powerful person, including soldiers and civilians, builds an illegal large ship with three masts or more, he will take prohibited goods into the sea, go to other countries to trade, and sneak into pirates." , conspired to gather together, and acted as guides to rob good people, the offenders will be executed according to the law of their own actions, but their heads will still be displayed to the public, and their whole families will be sent to the border guards to join the army. Those who build the sea ships mentioned above and sell them to the barbarians for profit will be banned from the army. Anyone who throws a weapon into the sea violates the laws of military affairs. The leader will be beheaded, and the follower will be sent to the border to be sent to the army."The Ming Dynasty also did not let go of residents involved in buying and selling foreign goods. "Those who dare to trade privately with each other will be strictly punished. All incense and goods are not allowed to be sold, and the existing ones are limited to three months." "
It was such severe punishment that made everyone change their color when Wen Hai! Mao Xiang said hurriedly: "Master Magistrate, this is going to cost you your head!"
Governor Zhao did not expect his boss to be so bold, so he hurriedly said: "Master Governor, in accordance with the Ming Dynasty law, if you are good at building large ships with three masts or more, go to the sea to do business, behead your leader, and send your followers into the army. If you know the law and break the law, your crime will be increased by one level, and you will be exterminated three times." Clan, please think twice!"
"Your Majesty, this is absolutely impossible!" Empress Ma also quickly advised: "You really can't do something that blatantly violates the laws of the Ming Dynasty! People will die!"
When he was discussing with his daughter Princess Anqing a few days ago, she said that Ouyang Lun was a coward. Now she decided to take it back and wanted to go into business. How could this be a coward? It was clearly audacious.
He quietly glanced at Zhu Yuanzhang beside him. At this moment, Zhongba probably wanted to kill Ouyang Lun.
Jiang Wei muttered in a low voice: "Whoever does this kind of thing will die. Only fools do it! You have life to make money, but you have no life to spend."
Zhu Yuanzhang stared at Ouyang Lun and said in a deep voice, word by word: "Ouyang Lun, are you really going to violate the ban and go to sea to trade?!"
Although Zhu Yuanzhang looked as if he wanted to eat people, Ouyang Lun just thought it was because he was nervous and afraid like everyone else, and then waved his hands indifferently and said calmly: "It's not that I want to violate the ban and go to sea to trade, but Let’s! Can I do it alone?”
"When people unite, the mountains will move. Everyone knows this!"
"If you have money, let's make it together. I, Ouyang Lun, will never go it alone. You, the Ma family, are the personnel in the capital. You must have opened up sales with chili peppers last time. The princes and nobles in the capital are all your customers. Their spending power is currently the strongest in the Ming Dynasty. With a group of people, the goods coming from trade will have a market, trade channels and sales channels will be established, so we can make a lot of money!"
"If it were anyone else, I wouldn't necessarily choose to cooperate!"
When Zhu Yuanzhang, Empress Ma and others heard this, their brows were deeply Yuanzhang sprayed out two streams of hot air from his nose, his eyes were round, and if he had a knife in his hand, he would definitely strike directly at him at this moment.
Empress Ma shook her head, "Your Majesty, we will never agree to this, and we will not do anything illegal."
Ouyang Lun smiled slightly and said confidently: "If everyone is worried about violating the laws of the Ming Dynasty, there is no need to worry at this time. First of all, the sea ban order will definitely be cancelled."
Um! ?
Cancel?
How come I didn't know I would have such thoughts? Could it be that Ouyang Lun can still calculate? Or are you just here to trick everyone into boarding your pirate ship?Obviously this is the most likely.
Those who attempted to violate the maritime ban and spread false information should be killed!
Queen Ma asked curiously: "How do you know it will be cancelled? When will it be cancelled?"
Ouyang Lun: "Because the sea ban is wrong. As for when it will be lifted, it depends on when His Majesty the Emperor will wake up. Maybe he will have to wait until the emperor after the Ming Dynasty."
You are the one who made the mistake! I was right! Zhu Yuanzhang's inner anger and murderous intent were accumulating little by little.
"Why are I telling you so much!" Ouyang Lun continued: "Actually, you don't need to worry about the sea ban at all, because we are not 'really' going to do business at sea, but to combat smuggling!!"
(That is, the black eats the black!) Ouyang Lun added in his heart.
Fight against smuggling? ! Hearing this, "Curiosity" calmed everyone down.
Zhu Yuanzhang and Queen Ma looked at each other, and Queen Ma asked: "Combating smuggling?"
Ouyang Lun knew very well that the Ming Dynasty's sea ban was very strict, and Zhu Yuanzhang was very determined to ban the sea. If he wanted to get everyone to join the gang, he couldn't say it too directly.
So it has to be packaged a little bit.
Ouyang Lun brewed his emotions in his heart, then he worried about the country and the people, and said with compassion for nature: "Under the imperial court's strict maritime ban policy, private overseas trade was considered illegal and was not tolerated by the imperial court. However, overseas trade could not be completely cut off, and was forced to embark on a path of abnormal development, that is, it was forced to turn into smuggling and Armed smuggling, and some large maritime armed smuggling groups have emerged. As far as I know, Wang Zhi, currently the leader of the largest armed smuggling group, has become the recognized leader of many smuggling groups. "The barbarians on the 36 islands all obey the command" and support the crowd. Hundreds of thousands of people were first called "King of Jinghai", then "King of Hui", and even "called Gu in the south". The imperial court launched military strikes against these armed smuggling groups, and the smuggling groups united and used Japanese pirates to fight against each other, allowing the Ming Dynasty to The coastline is more chaotic.”
"Yong'an Prefecture is close to the Bohai Sea and has also suffered greatly. Smuggling is rampant. As the magistrate of the Ming Dynasty, I have the responsibility to uphold the court's laws and protect the people. Therefore, it is incumbent upon me to crack down on smuggling along the coast of Yong'an Prefecture!"
In his words, Ouyang Lun felt like "If I don't go to hell, who will?"
Ho! This change and contrast is too great! (End of this chapter)