Natsuhara Yoshi was in a good mood.

The so-called Far East Business is indeed quite expensive, and the price of one thousand taels per share is not affordable by anyone.

However, the future of the Far East Business is also very bright. With the participation of the royal grandson Zhu Zhanji, it is equivalent to the participation of Zhu Laosi and Zhu Gaochi, and the endorsement of the third generation of the royal family means that the business will continue to make continuous profits in the future.

In addition, completely lifting the maritime ban means that everyone has another way to make money. No matter how noble the officials are, they will not dislike their legal income.

More importantly, the Ming Dynasty lacked silver.

The first target of the Far East merchants is Japan, and Japan has Ishimi Yinshan.

Therefore, Xia Yuanji was very fast in dealing with civil servants. In addition, Xu Jingchang was able to deal with the nobles and military generals. In just a few days, civil servants reached a rare agreement and planned to jointly promote the opening of the maritime ban.

However, what Xia Yuanji and Yang Shaofeng never expected was that the matter of completely releasing the maritime ban would be stuck with Zhu Laosi's side.

Unlike the expected Chinese officials would not agree to the opening of the maritime ban, the current situation is that Zhu Laosi is unwilling to release the maritime ban - completely lifting the maritime ban is beneficial to the people and the national treasury, but it is not good for the treasury.

Because the fleet under Zheng He was not only the largest fleet in the Ming Dynasty, even if you look at the whole world, you can still deserve the title of First Fleet.

"When you come to the foreign countries, those who are disrespectful will be captured alive; those who are barbarians will be attacked, and those who are plundering will be eliminated."

In the First Opium War, the British fleet had only 4,000 people at the beginning, but later it increased to 19,000 people; in the Second Opium War, the total number of British and French coalition forces was only 17,700.

Zheng He's fleet had more than 27,000 people.

With such a powerful fleet in hand, as long as Zhu Laosi is willing, all the maritime business will be his own, and there is no need to divide even a sip of soup for others to drink without involving any tariffs or commercial taxes.

However, once the sea ban is completely lifted, it means that more people will participate in doing business at sea. In addition, the commercial taxes and tariffs mentioned by Yang Shaofeng and Zhu Zhanji, the silver that was originally all in the treasury would be paid to the treasury.

So when Zhu Zhanji and Yang Shaofeng proposed to completely lift the maritime ban, Zhu Laosi's face looked a little unfavorable.

What kind of business does Yang Shaofeng and Zhu Zhanji want to do, and want to take the nobles and civil and military ministers to go out to sea to do business, Zhu Laosi didn't mind, and even planned to allocate several more treasure ships to them.

After all, it was my grandson who loved him.

But if the maritime ban is completely opened, there is no need to talk about it.

Yang Shaofeng has a headache.

Zhu Laosi made a mistake that was not a mistake.

He is awesome and can put the nobles and civil and military officials in any position he wants, but can his descendants be so awesome?

Look at the unlucky child hanging on the coal mountain. If he had the third-part method of his fourth brother, he would not have been forced to sell the gold and silver utensils from the palace to raise military expenses.

After thinking for a while, Yang Shaofeng bowed and said, "Grandfather, consider it again?"

"No," Zhu Laosi refused Yang Shaofeng's proposal without thinking: "The sea storms are extremely strong. Once an accident occurs, the ship will be destroyed and the people will be lost, and I cannot watch the people take such a big risk just because of the national treasury.

You and Zhanji want to make trouble, and I can give you some more treasure ships, but don’t talk about this matter of opening up the sea ban.”

Xia Yuanji, who was as painful as Yang Shaofeng, bowed and said, "Your Majesty, if the sea ban is not released, the people will not be able to go out to sea to do business in the future. How much tariffs and commercial taxes can be brought by Eunuch Zheng's fleet and His Royal Highness's Far East Merchant?"

Zhu Laosi shook his sleeves and looked unhappy: "The Far East merchants have to pay taxes, why should Zheng He's fleet pay taxes? They are not caravans.

Besides, I have exempted the people of the world from taxes. There is not much surplus in the treasury now. It is all about Zheng He's fleet that can subsidize one or two. Do you still have to let me pay taxes? Why don't you say that you have to pay all the money in the treasury to your treasury?"

"Your Majesty..." He forced the word "Saint Ming" back, and Xia Yuanji decided not to provoke Zhu Laosi for the time being.

Yang Shaofeng took over the conversation and bowed and said, "Grandfather thought twice. Grandson thinks, it's better to let go of the sea ban, so that those people's eyes will be kept on this little land in the Ming Dynasty.

The most important thing is that Zheng He and the Eunuch Zheng's fleet still have to go to the Fan Kingdom, so they can't count on his fleet to do business, right? Think about it, how much money did he get to the treasury these few trips to the sea?"

Zheng He, who was innocently caught in the gun, quickly bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I am incompetent. This fleet is indeed unable to carry too much goods when it is on a foreign country, but it is more of them carrying supplies and tributes."

Xia Yuanji also bowed and said, "Eunuch Zheng said that if the sea ban is lifted and the people are allowed to go out to do business in the sea, it will not only bring a large amount of tariffs and commercial taxes, but also various overseas treasures, which can promote the development of the dock and feed more people.

The most important thing is that once the sea ban is released, the civil and military officials will benefit from it in the future, and no one will propose the sea ban."

Yang Shaofeng didn't care that Zhu Zhanji was innocently shot, so he took it on: "Grandfather, think about it, Brother Yi is pure and kind-hearted. If all the civil and military officials shouted together to ask for the ban on the sea, can Brother Yi withstand it?

At that time, they will do maritime business in private and then use different ways to destroy the fleet. Then who should protect the vast sea boundary of my Ming Dynasty? My grandfather naturally doesn't care, but..."

"Who dares!"

Zhu Laosi was immediately furious and snorted coldly: "I have stripped them down!"

Xia Yuanji bowed and said, "Your Majesty, there were free seal cases during the reign of Master Hongwu, and our court also had Linqing cases. Now the corruption trend is still the same, so you must be careful."

After Xia Yuanji said this, Zhu Laosi was suddenly discouraged. Tens of thousands of people were involved in the Linqing case, and dozens of people were killed by Lingchi alone, and thousands of officials were skinned and eaten, but now there are still people who are still greedy.

Zhu Laosi simply turned his attention to Yang Rong again: "Yang Qing, tell me?"

Yang Rong said carefully: "I think that completely opening up the maritime ban has both advantages and disadvantages. However, overall, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.

If Your Majesty does not open the sea ban, then the sea ban that was inherited by the Emperor Hongwu period will become the ancestral system, and there will be no way to let it go in later generations. There will indeed be the situation mentioned by Xia Butang and Yang Hanlin.
Chapter completed!