"All the township officials entered the hall!" A loud voice of the West Hall interrupted Chen Tian's thoughts. Like other township officials, Chen Tian hurriedly got up to clean up his clothes and followed more than a hundred township officials to the main hall of the West Palace.

Chen Tian lowered his head in the main hall of the Western King's Mansion, his heart was pounding. He had never seen the Western King before. He heard from the defeated generals of the Qing Dynasty, that the Western King had a copper forehead, iron face, green face and fangs, and could tear the enemy soldiers on the battlefield. But after hearing from the veterans of the Taiping Army, the Western King was majestic, arrogant and loving soldiers like his sons. He also heard from some people in Suzhou that the Western King was kind and kind, just like his eldest nephew.

Chen Tian lowered his head and gave a big gift with the town officials. Chen Tian was still wondering why the west palace chant did not allow them to kneel down. He only heard a loud shout in a gong: "Hehe, everyone has worked hard from afar, sit down and talk."

The voice was so loud that Chen Tian was shocked and almost forgot to follow everyone to give me a thank-you seat. Fortunately, Chen Tian had been in charge of the patriarch who had hundreds of people and had seen some worldly affairs, so he hurriedly followed everyone to bow down to thank him, and then sat on the scepter beside him.

After sitting down, Chen Tian raised his head slightly and saw a vicious man in his thirties sitting there with a smile on his face, wearing a dragon and yellow robe, a dragon and phoenix hood, and a letter to the word "The King of the West". Although the King of the West was smiling, it gave people a sense of depression without anger. Chen Tian just glanced at it and then quickly turned his eyes away.

"I already know the purpose of your visit. Who is Luo Bingcheng, the township official of Xiwan Town, Yanghu County, Changzhou County?" The King of Xi said loudly with a broken voice, and the loud and majestic sound echoed in the hall.

On the third place on the left of Chen Tian, ​​an old 60-year-old stood up and responded tremblingly. Chen Tian was a little jealous of Luo Bingcheng. He could still get the first name to be named by the King of the West when he was so old.

A thin man in his thirties beside him whispered: "This Luo Bingcheng is the patriarch of the Luo family in Xiwan and has worked as a cabin operator. This time, it was mainly for the purpose of cabin transportation. The King of Xi relaxed the shipping of rivers everywhere, and their Luo family's cabin transportation was almost out of food."

Chen Tian didn't know the thin man, and he didn't expect that he would talk to him, but when he saw this man's sharp mouth and a goatee beard under his jaw, he looked like a chatterbox. Chen Tian didn't dare to talk much in this hall, but just nodded slightly.

Unexpectedly, the thin man clasped his fists and whispered: "Brother Li Dingzhao, Wangyue Township, Tenghua Town, Wuxi, is the leader of the Wangyue Li clan."

Chen Tian hated Li Dingzhao a little, but he had already introduced himself. He had to give a little gift and lower his voice, "In Chen Tian, ​​Dahe Township, Zuowang Town, Hangzhou, the head of the Chen clan."

Li Dingzhao said, and said for a long time. When he finished speaking, a Western Palace chanted sternly under the steps: "There are no whispers above the main hall!"

Chen Tian was startled and saw that everyone looked at him. He couldn't help but blush. He hurriedly sat upright, secretly hating Li Dingzhao for causing him to lose his ugly face in public.

Unexpectedly, the Western King stood up on the treasure stairs and laughed: "The township officials are used to dealing with the people in the countryside. I think that the countryside discussions are all in the ancestral hall. The people in the countryside stand or sit, and there are no rules to say anything. Today, in my main hall, everyone is so restrained. To be honest, I am very upset about this hard-working rule. My surname is Xiao. I was also from a mud-legged family. When the head of the Xiao family held a meeting, I was also a troublemaker below!"

The town officials burst into laughter when they heard this. The solemn and powerful atmosphere in the hall couldn't help but weaken a little. Chen Tian also laughed, feeling that the Western King was really as the people said, with no airs and amiable.

He followed the Western King for a few steps: "But I am the Western King now. If you want to govern the people, you must set an example for the people. These rules must be followed. And everyone is also the township officials of my Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. You must also keep the rules you should have. Everyone has to manage the population of hundreds of households. You can't sit here and don't look like a prince. If the Qing Yao finds out, we will laugh at you, even if we don't look like the prince when we wear dragon robes. What's more, everyone represents the face of a big family, so don't be rumored to be joked."

After hearing this, the township officials put away their smiles and sat upright, not wanting to be looked down upon by others, and lost their face as their surname. Chen Tian sat upright and glanced at Li Dingzhao beside him. This boy was sitting like a human being, which made Chen Tian secretly amused.

He heard the Western King nodded with satisfaction, and looked at Luo Bing and said, "Old Luo, I know that your Luo family relies on water to make a living. The ancestors have been doing the canal transportation since the Kangyong period. After my Taiping Army came, the way to the north was cut off. In the new policy, the canal transportation was changed to inland shipping. The jobs of your Luo family were all stolen, right?"

Na Luo Bingcheng bowed tremblingly, and said weakly in an old voice: "I don't dare."

The King of Western waved his hand and smiled, "This is not your fault, it is because I and the ministers of the Heavenly Kingdom have considered it well. Many of them are doing business in the canal transportation. As the saying goes, relying on the mountains to eat mountains and water to eat water. Without the canal transportation, it is indeed a problem for tens of thousands of canals in the south of the Yangtze River to make a living. Today, I will tell everyone, where is the way out!"

Speaking of this, the King of Western Palm clapped his hands, and a Taiping Army official turned into the hall. The King of Western Pentagon pointed at the man and said, "This is Tang Zhengcai, the minister of the Shipbuilding Department of the Ministry of Works of the West Palace. He also worked in ship transport in his early years. He will tell the township officials who are involved in the transportation of the watershed, where will everyone's future prospects be."

Chen Tian felt happy. Although the King of Westernization never proposed a resolution to change the new policy, he would make other arrangements after hearing his tone. Since the King of Westernization could find a way to solve the problem of the livelihood of tens of thousands of grain workers in Jiangnan, he could also solve the problem of his own division of land.

I saw Tang Zhengcai bow to the township officials, and the township officials rushed back the gift. Then Tang Zhengcai said: "My Shipping Department will open the sea ban and form a long-distance commercial fleet, go north to Japan, south to Siam, and open the Taiping Heavenly Marine Trade! Everyone who used to be a canal can be appointed as a fleet sailor. A large family with strong can also build sea ships and follow the fleet to the north and south. Family sea ships can transport goods by themselves, or undertake freight and passenger transport for merchants. Inland shipping can also be undertaken, but they must be established as an inland shipping merchant and go to the Shipping Department to handle shipping registration. Our Shipping Department collects a certain amount of taxes every year according to the number of registered ships!"

As soon as this was said, the town officials in the hall started to talk to each other like an explosive oil pan, regardless of any rules.

Because the Qing court was extremely strict in order to maintain its rule, this was reflected even more clearly in the sea ban. In the 59th year of the Kangxi reign, when the merchant ship was first built, it was reported to the customs supervision and local palaces. The local official had indeed visited the people of wealthy people, and took the heads of the Aojia tribe and the neighbors of Baoxu, and then the amount was accurate. After the day, the local officials personally checked that there was no limit on the beam head and there was no excessive rudder water. The boat was not allowed to be rented and the bandits were willing to rent the boat.

The hull will be marked with the name of the hull and then the illumination will be published. The hull will be analyzed and filled out. When the ship owner is loaded and opened, the customs supervision will verify the original hull and the rudder water will be collected and linked together. Officials and merchants must bring capital goods, and the rudder water must be inquired about the reason for the family before they are allowed to be on the ship. After the hull and the number of merchants' names and numbers of merchants, the situation and the date of departure, fill in the hull and the ship's photo.

In the ninth year of Yongzheng, in order to make "no bandits fake", it was also stipulated that "there were subsequent merchants and fishing boats to check their own guest and salaried according to their age and appearance, and all of them were recorded in the import and the names were checked at the export time. Whenever there was any disagreement, the investigation would be carried out." The reason why the Qing court strictly applied the precepts was because it was afraid that the Han people would gather overseas to fight against the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, in the 59th year of Kangxi, when Kangxi learned that "there were more than a thousand ships and trade every year. Only fifteen or six people came back, and the rest were sold overseas and returned with money," he ordered that "there were no trades in Luzon, Karaba (now Java) and other places in the South China Sea. In fact, in the overseas trade activities with capitalism at that time, it was common for maritime merchants to stay and do business in South China Sea, and there was no need to be nervous.

However, the Qing court, which originated from the Jurchens, regarded the Chinese who were doing business overseas as dissidents. Here we can give an example. In the sixth year of Qianlong, the Dutch were in Madavia (now Jakarta) on Java. The incident spread to the country and the government and the country were in full swing. Emperor Qianlong actually supported the fallacy of Qingfu, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, believing that these victims of Chinese businessmen were "people who violated the order and were willing to go back for a long time. They should have been rectified in the Celestial Empire. They were killed in foreign affairs and were self-taken by themselves."

The Qing court's policy of defending sea commerce was like a policy of sniffing business and suppressing business, and the policy of focusing on business and assisting business in European countries during the same period formed a strong contrast. For example, in the early 17th century, the Dutch killed some British merchants in Ambona, Southeast Asia. The British government immediately declared war on the Netherlands, extorted the merchants and forced the Netherlands to pay 85,000 pounds in compensation and ceded an island. However, in the face of events of the same nature, the Qing government deliberately told the massacres to "leniency", and even did not express the minimum "punishment". Under this policy of trying its best to restrict Chinese merchants from going to sea and not going to sea, the bad luck of China's navigation and trade is inevitable.

In the subsequent Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties, the sea ban reached its peak step by step. During the Jiaqing period, the Qing court used tea that was popular overseas as one of the goods prohibited from exporting, and ordered the governors of Anhui, Zhejiang and Fujian provinces to "required to be strictly ordered to make a statement. All merchants who sell tea to Guangdong still follow the usual rules, and ordered them to walk from the inland river to travel abroad forever. Those who illegally went to the sea estuary for illegally banned from privately banned from the sea estuary. Once the ban was arrested, the merchant was punished and the tea was put into the official position. If the ban was not strong, they would still be transported out of foreign countries. If the ban was not strong enough, they would still be transported out of foreign countries. If the smuggling was found, they would find out where the sea estuary was leaked. In addition to the guardian, the governor would be punished without lending."

In addition, food, iron, nitrifying, gold and silver are also prohibited from exporting. In particular, food was strictly controlled by the Qing court, and even crew members were not allowed to take too many foods. Each ship could only be based on the population and the round-trip period, and each person was rated as one liter of rice per day.

But everyone understands the huge profits of sea trade. When they heard that the Taiping government would lift the sea ban and give priority to the original Caoding households joining the sea trade, Luo Bingcheng and other township officials all cheered happily and cheered loudly. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better and faster!
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