Women's clothing in the Ming Dynasty

In the blink of an eye, three years have passed.

According to what Wang Zhi said before, the imperial court opened up the sea ban, and in just a few years, it quickly accumulated a lot of wealth.

However, some problems also emerged, that is, a large amount of silver flowed inward, which made silver cheap and copper expensive in the coastal areas, and prices were not stable.Naturally, the imperial court also took some measures. It had previously issued an order to combine land tax, corvee, and other miscellaneous taxes into one, and to collect silver taels together.However, due to the Mongolian invasion and the rebellion of the vassal king, it was delayed for a while.

Now that the two problems have been resolved, Jiajing brought up the old matter again, but this time he learned how to behave and knew how to proceed step by step.This decree starts to be implemented in the southeast region, and is advanced to the inland every two years until it is popularized throughout the country.Because the price of silver along the coast is really cheap, it didn't hurt the interests of the gentry and the common people much, so everyone acquiesced.

Of course, the sea ban cannot be smooth sailing, sporadic Japanese pirates still threaten Daming.At this time, it was the turn of Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou and other generals to show their talents. Slowly, the Japanese pirates gradually subsided.

Li Chengfeng ate and slept well in Zhejiang, had loyal subordinates and interesting friends, and also realized his ambitions, traveled across the country, and really did something for this land.If possible, he really wished he would never return to court for the rest of his life.

But things often don't go as one wishes. In this situation, the east wind often overwhelms the west wind, or the west wind overwhelms the east wind.When the sea ban was lifted, the country and imperial merchants such as Wang Zhi made money, so someone must have lost their profits.

In fact, if you observe carefully before, you can see that those who support the sea ban are often officials from the north or inland, while those who oppose it are mostly courtiers from Zhejiang and Fujian.These two places are now major provinces for imperial examinations, and there are many officials in the DPRK and China.Almost all of them participated in the coastal smuggling team and made a lot of money. Now that the government has lifted the sea ban, everyone is competing fairly, and they have to pay a lot of tax. Naturally, they are not happy.

Therefore, Li Chengfeng, who advocated the ban on opening the sea, became the number one attack target of these people, and his memorials were sent to the emperor like snowflakes.Li Chengfeng was far away in the southeast, so it was really difficult to refute. It just so happened that the time for him to take office also came, and the imperial court ordered him to go to Beijing to report on his duties.

It doesn't matter if he returns to Beijing, but if he leaves, there will be no one in charge along the coast, and the sea trade that has just been established and has not yet taken shape is likely to have problems again.So for the first time, Li Chengfeng wrote a letter to Zhu Houcong in his own name, stating his interests to him.

As a result, the private letter seemed to have disappeared, and the emperor did not respond at all.Li Chengfeng smiled wryly, guessing that the other party was still angry with him.Just when he was about to give up, suddenly there was a decree from the emperor, ordering Hu Zongxian to take over as the governor of Zhejiang. At the same time, he promoted Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou to be the governor.In this way, Li Chengfeng breathed a sigh of relief.

On the day he left, officials of all sizes along the coast came to see him off.Having been together for more than three years, Li Chengfeng, the boss, is fair and impartial, but he is also considerate of his subordinates. Some things are rarely taken seriously, and he is truly strict with himself and lenient with others. Everyone admires him.

Li Chengfeng never liked this kind of parting scene, so he directly ordered them to return to work after a while, leaving only Hu Zongxian and Qi Jiguang behind.Yu Dayou had already taken the first step because he was worried about the long journey and delay in taking office.

"I still remember that when Yuan Jing and I just arrived in the southeast, we met by chance in Xiangshan. I thought you two were reckless, but I didn't expect to work together for so long in the end." He joked with Qi Jiguang: "It's been so long that Yuan Jing's son can walk."

Qi Jiguang scratched his head in embarrassment, and looked like a silly father, "A grown-up is a man, and he is not young anymore. It's time to find someone who knows pain and heat to live with."

Li Chengfeng smiled and said nothing, but Hu Zongxian on the other hand was quite sad: "We are leaving today, I don't know when we will meet again."

"Don't worry, we will be reunited by fate," Li Chengfeng comforted, and then said solemnly: "Yuan Jing, Ru Zhen, Dong Nan, please, don't let our hard work go to waste."

"Yes!" The two took orders together and watched Li Chengfeng go away.

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Due to his eagerness to return to the imperial court, Li Chengfeng did not delay the journey, and arrived in Tongzhou in just a month. It was here that Mrs. Jiang passed through when she came to Beijing.It may also be because it is the hometown of Empress Dowager Jiang, and the emperor took care of it specially. In the past two years, Tongzhou has developed very well, and even the roads have been made of cement.

Li Chengfeng disembarked from the boat in Tongzhou Bay in his ordinary clothes. He couldn't help feeling deeply moved when he saw the completely different scene from when he left.Just as he was about to leave, he heard a commotion ahead.

Li Chengfeng passed through the crowd, and saw a young man in sackcloth lying on the ground, holding his stomach with his hands, looking pained.Two strong men were kicking and kicking him constantly, and there was a young girl standing next to her, with a ferocious smile on her face, and said loudly: "Curse! You are scolding! Auntie wants to see if you still do it!" What are you capable of! Wait for my brother to become a son-in-law! You will follow your old lady's rank and get out of our Chen family!"

Li Chengfeng didn't want to meddle in this business, but he was taken aback when he heard what the little girl said.What consort?As far as he knew, wasn't Zhu Chunyin the only princess waiting to be married at present?This woman's brother is Chunyin's son-in-law?

Li Chengfeng looked it up and down, then shook his head secretly.But after thinking about it, it's not like marrying her, maybe her brother is gentle and polite.So he called his entourage and gave two orders in his ear.

A moment later, a group of yamen servants suddenly appeared at Tongzhou Bay Wharf, and shouted loudly: "At the feet of the emperor, what are you doing! There will be high officials coming after a while, please disperse quickly!"

The girl bit her lip, scolded the young man viciously, and then left with her servants.

The young man was obviously beaten hard and couldn't get up for a long time, so Li Chengfeng ordered someone to bring him here.The young man was obviously still on guard, seeing Li Chengfeng with a fierce look in his eyes.

Too lazy to talk nonsense with him, he stuffed the prepared medicine into his hand, and Li Chengfeng asked him what was going on.

The young man took the medicine and gradually relaxed.Without him, the aura of the person across from Guan is not like the one who killed Qiandao gang.So I told everything about what happened.

The young man's name is Chen Xing. His father has sheltered hundreds of households, and his mother is the daughter of a scholarly family. He has lived a peaceful and smooth life.As a result, his mother died when he was 12 years old, and his father couldn't wait to get back a second-married woman a few months later.After that, it was the stereotypical male version of Cinderella, but Chen Xing was even worse than Cinderella.After the stepmother gave birth to two children, she began to play back and forth between him and his father.Chen's father was an incomprehensible person who believed in his stepmother so deeply that he drove the eldest son out of the house.

Let's go, anyway, Chen Xing has stayed in that house enough.He simply packed up his things and went to the pier to be an accountant to make a living.After a long time, as a grown man, he inevitably wanted to start a family and start a business, so he went home to ask for his mother's dowry, but he returned in vain, and the daughter born to his stepmother came to humiliate him from time to time.

After listening to what Chen Xing said, Li Chengfeng was not in a hurry to express his opinion. He also had a lot of experience as an official outside the country, and one-sided words were not enough to judge the truth from the fake.But there is one thing that must be clarified, "Why does the little girl call her brother a son-in-law?"

Chen Xing smiled wryly and shook his head: "My younger brother Chen Zhao can't do anything else. He is the best at flattering people. He hugged the thigh of a eunuch who was in charge of ceremonies and recognized him as his godfather. It just so happened that the princess was going to choose a son-in-law, and the eunuch chose him as his godfather." Stuffed him in. It seemed that he casually said some good things in front of the emperor, and it was said that he was close to eighty or ninety, and it was him."

Li Chengfeng's face darkened, let's not talk about Chen Zhao's character and appearance, just talking about it loudly before making a decision, it is completely unqualified, isn't this ruining Chunyin's reputation!Afterwards, he will definitely investigate and try to figure things out.

After sending Chen Xing away, Li Chengfeng tidied himself up, and then handed over a memorial to the Ministry of Military Affairs, stating that he had returned to Beijing to report on his duties.

The Ministry of Officials expressed a headache. It stands to reason that civil servants and military generals released from the court have a fixed time and procedure for returning to Beijing, but Li Chengfeng was different. He was called back to Beijing suddenly. into which category.Fortunately, Jiajing issued an order in time to let Li Chengfeng go directly to the court tomorrow, and explain the important matters in the southeast in detail in front of all the officials.The official department breathed a sigh of relief, and finally settled the living ancestor.

The next day, just after the fourth watch, Li Chengfeng got up, called a bearer, and went all the way to the Forbidden City to report on his duties.

After going through all the necessary procedures, Li Chengfeng followed the footsteps of the officials and entered the Gate of Supreme Harmony.At this time, Yang Yiqing, Fei Hong and others were old, and Yang Shoufu took his old wife back to the northwest frontier, where he was still at ease, and Li Chengfeng had always been in touch with him.The cabinet has completely changed a group of people, and now the chief assistant is Zhang Cong. No one thought that the little official of the Ministry of Rites, who was so fussy about drinking a cup of tea in the teahouse, could go so far.

Civil and military lined up one by one, and after only a moment, the emperor rushed over.Everyone saluted together, and Li Chengfeng glanced at it secretly. In recent years, the little emperor has grown up a lot.No, I can no longer be called the Little Emperor. At this time, Zhu Houcong is completely a grown man.He is tall and tall, and he couldn't tell it when he was a child. His facial features seem to have inherited Jiang's sharp facial lines, and his sword eyebrows and star eyes are very handsome.

Perhaps feeling the gaze, Zhu Houcong glanced down, meeting Li Chengfeng's eye.

Li Chengfeng quickly bowed his head, and only gave the other party a huge official hat.Zhu Houcong frowned, suppressing the irritability in his heart, and without waiting for the officials to report one by one, he directly named Li Chengfeng and asked him to make a summary of the coastal trade.

At this time, the eyes of all the people in the court fell on Li Chengfeng. If it was a few years ago, he might still be flustered, but now he is also a member of the party, equivalent to the emperor of the southeast, with a much calmer temperament.

I saw that he was not in a hurry, and calmly explained a series of problems encountered since the opening of the sea ban and the solutions he expected. Everything was explained in great detail.

But before he finished speaking, someone jumped out in front of him impatiently.

"My minister, Zhao Wenhua, has a book to play." A middle-aged man gave Li Chengfeng a hard look, and Li Chengfeng expressed his bewilderment.

After receiving the instructions from Zhunzou, Zhao Wenhua said loudly: "Li Chengfeng, the governor of Zhejiang, took advantage of the sea ban to plunder the people's fat and anointment. He lived a luxurious life, which is rare in the world. I heard that the full moon gift he gave to his subordinate Qi Jiguang's child was worth several thousand. Two silver! Dare to ask Mr. Li, you are alone, where did you get so much money, I think you are using power for personal gain!"

Li Chengfeng knew that his first wooden barn to return to Beijing was finally about to start.

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