"Tell Chen Guangnan and ask him to warn the Jinling court. If you cause trouble for us in private commercial trade, don't blame me for being ruthless."

In Cangzhou City, Zheng Zhilong sat in the state yamen where the smoke had not yet dissipated, holding a letter from the black ice platform in his hand, and spoke in a plain tone. It seemed that he was not trying to warn the Jinling court at all, but was giving Emperor Chongzhen a greeting note.

Zheng Sen has taken over the Black Ice Platform in full. I have to say that the scale of this institution surprised him. He has always known the existence of the Black Ice Platform, but he has not had a very specific understanding of it. Now he has finally seen the comprehensive view of the Black Ice Platform.

Although it still has great limitations, such as only passive intelligence bases are set up in the southwest and northwest areas in many domestic areas. The only function is to collect some hearsay information or carry out slow rebellion work, which has a very poor substantive effect.

However, in Zhili, north and south, and next to some senior officials of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the tentacles of the Black Ice Platform were approaching the core position little by little.

Look, the decision made by the senior officials of the Jinling court had already been heard from the Black Ice Platform, because the tentacles of the Black Ice Platform had reached the side of many important officials of the Ming court.

Emperor Chongzhen urgently needed money now, but he did not put his ideas on the gentry and people under his command, but instead targeted Zheng Zhilong first.

"Every time I pick up historical books, I look at Zhao Song and I feel full of emotion. How rich is Zhao Song and how poor is the Ming Ming?" Although the scholars and officials of the Song and Ming Dynasty have long criticized the heavy taxes of Zhao Song, those who are favored by all officials are afraid of their shortcomings; those who take money from all the people will not leave any remaining. But the Emperor of the Zhao family does not have to worry about having no money like the Emperor of the Zhu family, right?

"Your Majesty..." A group of ministers were shocked. Isn't the emperor going to learn from the Zhao family?

"The Song Dynasty's law is too harsh on the people, so I won't take it." Emperor Chongzhen said firmly, giving everyone a reassurance, and then put forward his own opinions - first set up a card to collect taxes, and then restored the Maritime Bureau.

The Zheng family is backed by the mainland and monopolizes the trade between the east and west, silk, porcelain, cloth, rhubarb, etc., as well as the tea that is slowly opening up its sales, and puts a lot of money into its arms. Who is not jealous of seeing it?

Emperor Chongzhen was not going to fight with the Zheng family, and he knew that he would not have any more money to ask Zheng Zhilong for money. So he thought of controlling all kinds of goods flowing into Quanzhou Prefecture, setting up checkpoints, and collecting taxes from them. Not to mention twenty or one in twenty, or one in thirty, that was a lot of money, which could solve the urgent needs of the Ming court.

But this harms the interests of the Zheng family.

Although it is not big, although Zheng Zhilong can completely ignore it. However, Zheng Zhilong knew that Emperor Chongzhen's ultimate goal was not to simply set up a card to collect taxes, but to restore the Maritime Bureau. What was restored was not the Maritime Bureau system of their old Zhu family, but the Maritime Bureau system of the Song Dynasty.

The Maritime Administration System during the Zhao Song Dynasty was summarized in a simple sentence, which is the government monopoly system. Imports and exports are all in the hands of the government. Sellers need to go through the hands of the government, and buyers need to go through the hands of the government to sell goods. The goods entering and leaving are priced by the government, and the government can first purchase some goods at its own price.

Emperor Chongzhen wanted to restore the Maritime Bureau system to raise military expenses. The so-called "the resources of the military and the country" was nothing more than this.

Zheng Zhilong could ignore the checkpoints and taxes, but he could never watch the establishment of the Maritime Bureau. Overseas trade was the source of the Zheng family's financial resources, not the source of the Zhu family. Emperor Chongzhen should honestly go and bite the scholars and officials in front of the gentry in Jiangnan.

This is just a small matter in Zheng Zhilong's eyes. The last stage of his "life" should not be wasted on such small matters.

So he directly asked Chen Guangnan to warn Chongzhen of Jinling City, and then focused all his energy on the current situation. Instead of asking Hei Bingtai to secretly contact him, win over some purer merchants, and cause division within the Ming court.

This approach is very simple. As long as Zheng Zhilong introduces several policies to improve the social and political status of merchants. Zheng, which relies heavily on trade in money and grain, is inherently inseparable from the merchant class. It is natural for Zheng to improve the social and political status of merchants to be made. This is completely irrelevant to Zheng's heavy taxes on merchants.

It is not that light taxes on merchants are the improvement of their social status.

The Ming Dynasty's commercial tax was 30 and 1, very light, right? But is the social status of merchants high? Not high. Even though they had formed a very close relationship with the gentry class in Jiangnan, the social status of merchants was still below.

The scholars, peasants, industry and commerce, even though the actual rights and interests of the merchants were second only to those of the scholars, officials and gentry, they were nominally the last of the four people.

Zheng Zhilong introduced several policies that are beneficial to enhance the social status of merchants, and once it is introduced, it will inevitably affect the hearts of merchants all over the world.

Even Jiangnan, who was shouting and beating Zheng Zhilong, would have a split in attitude.

But Zheng Zhilong did not do this, and he left this opportunity to Zheng Sen. He even asked the Dutch to find the Magna Carta of England and the French third-level meeting. How to do it depends on Zheng Sen's own choice.

After all, he still has to walk the future path himself.

Zheng Zhilong broadened his horizons, trained him early, and gave him family affection. Today, Zheng Sen is two completely different people from the Guojun in history. He believes that even if Zheng Sen cannot cheat like a time traveler, he will definitely become a king who can look at the world.

What's more, although the Ming Confucianism is also very trash, the better thing about the Ming Confucianism is that the Ming Confucianism is willing to accept foreign culture, or that it is not blindly arrogant enough to despise all foreign civilizations, unlike the Confucianism in the Qing Dynasty, the three words "literati and official" are put on them, which is an insult to a title.

This is a kind of academic style, this is a kind of social consciousness.

Nowadays, since the Chinese cultural class has such a good atmosphere, when the Zheng family swept across the world and established the country and established the tripod, China and the West can naturally have close exchanges. Whether to learn from the West or learn from the East, this is not hindered. It is not even limited to cultural and military aspects, but related to all aspects of the entire society.

Even when the Zheng family also marched into India, America, Africa and other places, it would become competitors and then a large-scale war broke out.

The outcome of a war will only make both sides pay more attention to each other.

People are not ostrichs. After defeating a war, they will know shame and become brave. They will understand why they will be defeated and will learn about war in war.

When there are close countries and civil exchanges between the East and the West, and even when fierce wars break out between each other, China's technological and military standards will definitely not be pulled down by Europe.

During the Civil War in the United States, everyone was still shooting death with guns, but after the Franco-Prussian War, the installation of rifles completely replaced the front-loading guns, right? Because the effect of the war was there. Then, the installation of guns and cannons ushered in rapid development.

Just like the Ottoman Empire. Although the Ottomans were called the sick man of Europe in history, the Ottoman army would never have equipped a large number of front-mounted smoothbore guns when the enemy popularized the rear-mounted rifles.

While fighting against Britain and France, John Bull and Gaul Chicken would never dare to send only 10,000 or 20,000 people to conquer Istanbul.

Therefore, in this time and space, even if the first industrial revolution still broke out first in Europe, China would not end as miserable as the original time and space, and a century of shame will no longer exist.

Because war is the most effective catalyst for promoting the development of science and technology. Those who are corrupt and incompetent as the Qing Dynasty have to cheer up after each defeat.

As for what happens to the scholars in the world after the Zheng family ruled the world, what would happen to the scholars in the world? Zheng Zhilong just laughed.

Who would think that scholars dare to be strong and follow the current dynasty and dare to go the same path to the dark? There is something about Confucianism changing its appearance and changing its course in history.

Emperor Zheng hated Neo-Confucianism and wanted to knock Zhu Xi into the mud pit. They would only come up and step on their feet happily, even if their faces were full of regret.

Besides, Zheng Zhilong did not want to completely exterminate Confucianism. In thousands of years, Confucianism has been completely bonded with Chinese civilization. How can you destroy it?

Your code of conduct, your three views on life, traditional virtues, and political correctness in society. Many things are tied to Confucianism. How can you break it?

The tide caused by that god man did not achieve this goal. Who would think he is better than that person?

Zheng Zhilong just wanted to turn the Confucian Neo-Confucianism into the "study of merit" and turn the conversation about the mind and nature into doing practical things. Is this also the proposition that many Confucian scholars have put forward now?

Not to mention the present, the proposition of the Yongjia School of the Southern Song Dynasty was very good in history. The so-called: when the success comes, it means virtue, and when the work comes, it means reason. The representative figure Ye Shi advocated "utilitarian learning". In his words, "If there is no utilitarianism, then morality is a useless empty word." Moreover, although people value merit and advocate "pragmatic but not empty", it is by no means "exclusively speaking for merit", but only uses "utilitarianism" to measure whether the meaning is correct. Theories must be tested through practice before they can draw conclusions. If they are not tested, then it becomes "those who are not verified in things, their words are incompatible, and those who are not examined in tools will not be transformed." In people, morality cannot exist independently without utilitarianism, that is, "if there is no utilitarianism, then morality is a useless empty word."

Zheng Zhilong really thinks it's very good.

Now, within the Zheng family, a group of people led by Chen Ding and others have begun to look for Yongjia. There is no way, the Yongjia school, which was in line with the Neo-Confucian School and the Heart School, has now only been preserved in historical books.

But Chen Ding and the others did not really want to completely restore the Yongjia School in the Southern Song Dynasty. They extracted some of the opinions of the Yongjia School, some of which were agreed upon by Zheng Zhilong, and then focused on the center or brewed. After all, they were just looking for a glamorous "ancestor" for themselves.

But as long as China can move from Neo-Confucianism to utilitarianism, Zheng Zhilong felt that China (this time and space) in the future would be worry-free with its basic foundation, its population and economic size.
Chapter completed!