I am the king of the dead

Detecting corruption is a long-term job, and Lian Gang and Zuo Ding have lived up to the court's expectations.

At the fork in history, Lian Gang and Zuo Ding finally chose the imperial court.

So Zuo Ding and Lian Gang were expelled by the clan, they are all unfilial descendants, and they did not show mercy to their fellow villagers who were born in Ji'an Mansion.

Zuo Ding and Lian Gang had no way out.

Now Li Xian has two major issues that need to be resolved urgently, Baoyuan Bureau's absorption of reserves and Longjiang Shipyard's resumption of work.

It's all tricky stuff.

Baoyuan Bureau absorbs reserves, and wants to persuade landlords and rich people to take out silver coins and silver from the land and exchange them for thin silver bills.

This is not an open fire robbery, what is it?

The Longjiang Shipyard is more complicated because the Longjiang Shipyard is deserted.

The predecessor of Longjiang Shipyard was the government-run shipyard established by Song Gaozong and Zhao Gou in Shaoxing four years ago. In the Song Dynasty, its name was Longwan Shipyard.

Longwan Shipyard built and repaired 12 ships in just 3219 years from the [-]th year of Chunyou to the [-]nd year of Jingding. The smallest ship has [-] materials.

Since the Yongle period, the Longjiang Shipyard was expanded on a large scale, and the Treasure Shipyard was established. The Treasure Shipyard has a total of eight Treasure Ship Docks in the upper four and lower four.

From the sixth year of Yongle to the 18th year of Yongle, more than 12 ships were launched in 3500 years.

From the first year of Hongxi to the 14th year of Zhengtong, a total of 25 years under the strategy of emphasizing culture over military affairs, the eight docks of Bao Shipyard and Longjiang Shipyard were completely abandoned.

For nearly 300 years, all the industrial chains of shipyards gathered around Longwan Shipyard, Longjiang Shipyard and Treasure Shipyard were all destroyed.

Similar to this fate are Qingjiang Shipyard in Northern Jiangsu, Qinghe Shipyard in Shandong, Tainan Shipyard in Fujian and Jilin Shipyard in Liaodong.

In the 20th year of Yongle, Zheng He sailed to the west for the sixth time and returned to China. Because the fleet was too large, Liujiawan could not accommodate it at that time, and the Fengzhou, which was full of foreign envoys, had to stop at the inspection department of Chongming Island.

In the 21st year of Yongle in Li Xian's hands, Zheng He played to the court. Zheng He asked for an order to dredge the Yangtze River waterway, expand the commercial routes between Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Guizhou, and communicate with the East.

The purpose is naturally to balance various problems caused by uneven development.

However, with the death of Emperor Yongle on the way to the Northern Expedition, Emperor Renzong issued an edict prohibiting going south to the West.

"All the national treasure ships from the Western countries have stopped. If they have anchored in Taicang, Fujian, etc., they will all return to Nanjing, and the goods they will bring will still be handed over at the warehouse in the inner government."

"If there are tribute envoys from various countries who should go back, they can only be escorted by manned boats. The internal and external officials who were originally sent will return to the capital immediately, and the others will go to Ning's home."

Li Xian was no longer able to assess the harm of this edict.

After the Longjiang Shipyard was abandoned, the dock pond was buried as a field; all the shipwrights, blacksmiths, and rope smiths in the government-run shipyard were demobilized; the tung tree lacquer garden was destroyed; Dredging in the Yangtze River Basin has come to a complete standstill...

Ten years of gathering momentum, a hundred years of gathering energy.

Longjiang Shipyard, from Shaoxing four years when Song Gaozong Zhao Gou established Longwan Shipyard to the first year of Hongxi, nearly 300 years, the gathering momentum and popularity dissipated.

Li Xian has an unfinished blueprint in his hand, which is a kind of big ship with thousands of materials. It has no name and is simply called a ship with thousands of materials. This is the ambition of Longjiang Shipyard back then.

According to His Majesty's instructions, this ten thousand material ship is only for the benefit of the ocean. In fact, it is useless to build too many, but the ten thousand material ship, doesn't it represent Daming's exploration?

"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!" Li Xian slapped the table vigorously a few times, extremely angry.

Wei Guogong Xu Chengzong took a sip of tea, but Quan pretended not to hear.

Damn Li Xian scolding, there is no subject, who knows who is scolding, in fact, it can be interpreted too much, and Li Xian is impeached as a headless king.

"The most urgent task now is to persuade the people to leave those pits and ponds. We need to rebuild the shipyards, and the people around them can use them." Xu Chengzong is a forward-looking person, and he is unwilling to turn over old scores.

In fact, the reason is very simple. The major shipyards in Ming Dynasty only benefited from the internal warehouses and the common people. This was also the main reason why the North Korea and China formed the wind power to increase the sea ban and stop Western activities.

Things have already happened, and the original people are all dead, so it is useless to say more.

Li Xian's anger calmed down slightly, Xu Chengzong's words made some sense.

When people are alive, they must always look forward.

Xu Chengzong thought about it seriously for a long time. Longjiang Shipyard resumed work, and he had a lot of thoughts. He needed to explain the situation concisely.

As the Nanjing defense, Xu Chengzong has a lot to say.

He said very seriously: "On the former site of Shangsiwu in the Longjiang Shipyard, there is a Boai Township with seven villages and more than 5000 people. They are all abnormal households. These seven villages have adopted [-] people. What an orphan."

"These orphans are all women."

Li Xian's eyes widened suddenly, and he said dully, "They're all women?"

"Of course." Xu Chengzong nodded.

Abnormal households, that is, households that are widowed, widowed, lonely, and have no land and food to serve as errands.

When the Ming Dynasty compiled the Yellow Book of Taxation and Service, these households were placed outside the [-] Lijia households, and after the Ten Jia were attached, they were managed by the Lichang.

Before adulthood, the livelihood of these odd households is all under the responsibility of Quanli.

But the seven villages named Bo Ai Xiang are not so simple. There are [-] female households.

In fact, they are all raising Yangzhou skinny horses.

The meaning of Xu Chengzong's expression is very clear.

Xu Chengzong continued: "There are seven elders in total, all of whom are surnamed Li. Now the patriarch's name is Li Licheng, a native of Yangzhou. Since Xuande, this man has been an elder who has been to Beijing to hear edicts. He has been to Beijing for a total of seven times. Everyone is called fraternity."

"This is just a township of fraternity. As far as I know, there are about six similar townships, all of which are like this. They only raise odd women. Not only can they be exempted from taxes and labor, but they can also make a lot of money."

"Your Majesty's imperial decree to rebuild the Longjiang Shipyard has just posted the yellow list. Li Chengli mobilized all the abnormal female households in Bo'ai Village, ranging in age from five to 14 years old, to prepare to do something when the imperial court takes action. what."

For a while, the governor's office in Nanjing fell into silence.

Tricky, no matter what it is, it's very tricky.

Xu Chengzong said playfully: "Actually, it's not difficult to imagine that Li Jiancheng organized these terrified female households. He must have been playing tricks, weeping and demanding tens of thousands. If he is cruel, it is not impossible to kill a few more people." .”

"If the imperial court insists on rebuilding the Longjiang Shipyard, it's easy to handle. A few abnormal female households from similar villages will gather here, and then some group disputes will arise, tsk tsk."

"Governor Li blamed too much for a murder case, and the officials forced the people to rebel. Can the government officials spare Governor Li?"

Li Xian frowned and said: "Can't they do some personnel work?"

"Don't talk about Chao Zhongfeng's constitutional official, even His Majesty, even myself, can't spare myself."

Xu Chengzong said calmly: "Three times the profit, there will be no law."

Xu Chengzong, as a Xu family with two dukes, is naturally very good at standing in line. His Majesty is powerful now, and he won't lose easily, but he has to win beautifully.

It is impossible to build a Longjiang shipyard, so let Li Xian be exchanged.

This is not appropriate.

Xu Chengzong sat up straight and said: "Governor Li thinks, why are they, the Li family of Yangzhou, so courageous, knowing that His Majesty's will cannot be disobeyed, why do they still do it?"

"I have some ideas, so let's talk about it first." Li Xian's own family has a Liu Yuniang, who is a deformed female household, but her nationality is from the world of fireworks.

Few people discuss the cause of the fireworks world, and Xu Chengzong is also the first time.

Xu Chengzong said with emotion: "The courtiers say that your majesty is wise, and your majesty is really wise."

"It's actually very simple. The imperial court can't accommodate these female households. That's why Li Jianli and the others acted so boldly."

"You are like me, Wei Guogong Xu Chengzong, why did you survive when His Majesty went south to suppress the rebellion?"

"Isn't it because I'm still useful? Your Majesty uses me to appease the nobles in the world. As long as you don't rebel, you won't be in trouble."

"Human, I am most afraid that there will be no use value at all."

"It is precisely because the imperial court cannot accommodate these abnormal female households that they are so bold, because the imperial court wants to use them."

"What's the use of killing Li Jiancheng and breaking up a Yangzhou Li family? It's just the Wang family of Yangzhou, the Chen family of Suzhou, and the Fei family of Henglin. They are still the same people."

"To solve these problems, we must first solve the abnormal female households before we can attack them."

Li Xian looked at Wei Guogong and said curiously: "You are right, I think so too, how did you think of it?"

Xu Chengzong thought for a while and said, "Isn't that the mansion newspaper issued by His Majesty?"

"I studied it carefully before I understood these principles. That's why I said, Your Majesty is wise."

"Gentleman's Ze, beheaded in the fifth generation, if His Majesty sends out the residence report, and I don't study it carefully, then no one in the Duke of Wei's mansion will be able to inherit the title in the next generation."

Li Xian nodded, and Xu Chengzong pointed out the crux of the problem, the abnormal female household.

Chapter 481 Your Majesty Really Doesn't Trap The Poor

Xu Chengzong looked at Li Xian, but he didn't finish his sentence.

It's not just the abnormal female households, these abnormal female households are just an example Xu Chengzong gave.

In addition to Yangzhou Shouma, the same is true for other industries.

"There is also Tongyuan, and bristle brushes, and other things like that." Xu Chengzong expanded from the odd female household to Baigong.

For example, in the tung paint garden, when tung oil is brushed on wood, after being exposed to the sun, it will form a dense paint film, which is the only magic weapon to protect ships sailing in the sea.

Tung oil is widely used, such as woodware, oilcloth, umbrellas, ink making and so on.

Since tung oil was discovered to be waterproof and applied on ships during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, tung oil has been widely used in daily necessities.

During the time of Hongwu, Emperor Taizu Gao ordered to plant tung, lacquer, and brown in the sun of Zhongshan outside the Chaoyang Gate. Tongyuan has a hundred products, and there are 240 soldiers in the Second Armor Army.

Tongyuan was once a beautiful landscape in Nanjing.

By the third year of Xuande, the number of lacquer, paulownia, and palm trees planted outside Chaoyang Gate exceeded 200 million.

Lacquer, paulownia, and palm trees are extremely oily and not resistant to fire. In the 11th year of orthodoxy, a fire burned down the Tongyuan outside Chaoyangmen.

Outside Chaoyang Gate is Zhongshan, and Zhongshan is Zijin Mountain, where Zhu Yuanzhang's mausoleum is located.

The imperial court needs tung oil, but these people firmly control the upstream and downstream of tung oil in their hands. If the imperial court wants tung oil, they have to rush to buy it from them.

It will take at least a few years to plant by yourself, and there may be fire dragons raging because of His Majesty's immorality.

Another example is the brush with tung oil called bristle brush. The bristle is the bristle that grows on the neck and back of the pig.

Feed distiller's grains to the pigs, and the pores of the pigs will expand after being drunk, and the bristles will be pulled out.

It can be plucked once every one to three days, cleaned, dried, and then made into a wool shop. When in use, put the wool on a steamer and steam for an hour, and then you can make a brush.

A pig can produce four catties of bristles and more than 50 brushes in its lifetime.

Xu Chengzong hoped that Li Xian could understand that there was no retreat at all in the way he was walking, adding obstacles to the powerful and powerful, who would kill him, and directly assassinating him was just the simplest and most effective way.

They have ten thousand ways to kill Li Xian.

The imperial court dispatched one after another, no matter which step he took wrong, Li Xian would be doomed forever.

Li Xian naturally knew that Xu Chengzong had good intentions, so he said calmly: "What you said makes sense."

Digging a grave for Shi Yaohaoyou is obviously a high-risk job, and extreme care must be taken.

As long as their crimes cannot be confirmed as thoroughly as those three hundred corrupt officials, they will have the opportunity to reincarnate in the dirt.

Compared with Your Majesty, Li Xian, Li Binyan and the common people, Shi Yaohao has too many opportunities for trial and error.

That Xie Zhenqi was so stupid that he besieged Songjiang City Bosi, and there were people who rescued him.

Seeing Li Xian's expression, Xu Chengzong knew that Li Xian understood his words completely.

Everyone is a smart person, not a smart person, and they died long ago when Nanya usurped the court and caused chaos.

Xu Chengzong continued: "If it is useful to me, just say that although I haven't looked at things for a long time, I have fixed assets."

"For example, the shop can support the stall first, for example, the master can teach the apprentice."

"If you want to be simpler, you can use my pavement to replace the land they occupied. I have three shipyards. Although the scale is small, I can build three-masted ships and replace them with them."

"In this way, you can also go to work, and the Longjiang Shipyard has resumed work."

Li Xian smiled and said, "Thank you, Duke Wei."

Xu Chengzong stood up and said goodbye.

He placed Li Xian, Liu Yuniang and the child in Wei Guogong's mansion for safety.

After all, Duke Wei's mansion has [-] Iron Book Army, as well as Nanjing Jing Army and Fengyang Three Guards Army.

When Xu Chengzong caused chaos in Nanya, he clearly realized one thing. As the most powerful and powerful, he relied not on the favor of his ancestors, but on the current emperor.

Therefore, he is willing to take out his own wealth, and there are only a few shipyards, a few shops, and some labor, all of which can be earned again.

But when Wei Guogong's signboard didn't work, he couldn't even protect his concubine, so he could only watch helplessly as his concubine was torn to pieces under Fengyang City.

To safeguard His Majesty's authority is to safeguard Wei Guogong's signature.