I am the king of the dead

As for Pu, who was sitting on the main seat, although he still had a little characteristic of Tian Fangren, he could not see it at all.

Zhao Mingrui is the head of the Quanzhou Pu family of this generation. Why is the Pu family surnamed Zhao?

Because in order to avoid the regulations of the Ming Dynasty, which prohibited Pusun's two clans to be punished together and never to be an official, the Pu family began to change their surnames, from Pu to Zhao, Yang and so on.

Among them, the most people changed to Zhao.

The old Zhao family in the Southern Song Dynasty was really sorry to the people of the world, but they were not sorry to the Pu family.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, due to military pressure, the Southern Song court had to rely heavily on maritime trade, and was especially kind to Quanzhou Pu's family.

In order to invest in Yuan, the Pu family slaughtered more than [-] descendants of Zhao's clan for betraying the Zhao family, honoring the Yuan Dynasty.

In the end, Pu's family fell into the sea again because of the common fate of a traitor.

Pu's surname is now changed to Zhao, and Li Daitao is stiff.

Yuan Bin stuffed Langya Sutang into his mouth, vaguely, but said angrily, "He also deserves the surname Zhao?"

"He is not worthy!" Yue Qian said immediately.

Yuan Bin was a loyal minister, and he was even loyal to King Jili all the time. When King Jili talked about Huqin to the Wala people, married Hu Nu, and gave Hu Nu and that Chuaner the title, all Yuan Bin's values ​​collapsed.

Yue Qian was also a loyal minister, he was loyal to Daming from beginning to end.

Ji Duo was also a loyal minister. He knew what Yue Qian was going to do, but he never stopped him. Before Yue Qian wanted to do it, Ji Duo also participated in it.

But they all agreed with what Yuan Bin said, that the Pu family did not deserve the surname Zhao.

In the second year of Hongwu, Emperor Taizu Gao had named his grandfather Chen Gong as King Yang, and Chen Gong was the surviving blood of Yashan.

So this group of people gathered together not only for national hatred, but also for family hatred of the Ming Dynasty.

Yang Yongyin of the Yang family in Ganpu is the head of the Yang family of this generation, the second branch of the pirates in the Zhoushan Islands, that is, the three of Yuan Bin landed on the island with their family's letter card.

And sitting in the third place is a Japanese named Sibo Yimin, who is the tenth regent of the Shibo family. The reason why Sibo Yimin is sitting here is very simple, he was exiled.

Xia Keshang is almost an old craft of the Japanese country. Shibo's family governor, Asakura Takakage, was a powerful minister and exiled Shiba Yoshitoshi overseas.

The fourth is a Persian Semu man named Shabuding. This man's surname is Sha, which was changed to a Chinese surname.There are about 2000 mixed troops under his command.

Yuan Bin knew them all, and remembered their faces to the core. When the sky fell and the sea fell, all of them would be reward cards.

Zhao Mingduan stood up after seeing that everyone was full of wine and food, and said loudly: "We gathered here today to join in the anti-Ming event. Emperor Ming, don't let us live."

As soon as Zhao Mingduan said this, everyone echoed.

This statement is reasonable, because the entire Zhoushan Islands is another blood tank of Daming, a blood tank that continues to bleed.

Smuggling is happening here, because of China's strict coastal defense strategy, there are nearly a thousand coastal defense inspection divisions, all over large and small coastal areas.

The Zhoushan Archipelago is adjacent to the Shipping Department of Ningbo City. They bought goods from Daming and shipped them to Korea, Japan, Ryukyu, Southeast Asia and even the West, and returned to Daming in exchange for gold and silver.

Buying a Wu ship to carry Wu's daughter, the capital is drunk every day.

It is the goal and life they pursue.

Hongwu abolished 13 inspection departments in 354, and another 461 inspection departments were abolished during Zhengtong years. Now the inspection departments in Daming are far from what they used to be, giving them room for smuggling.

However, with the establishment of the Mizhou Shipping Department, the Yuegang Shipping Department and the restoration of the Ningbo Shipping Department in the Ming Dynasty, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty no longer banned the sea, and changed his career to compete with them for business!

It just doesn't make sense!

Many merchant ships prefer to go to Yuegang or Mizhou.

In particular, the continuous recovery of the Ningbo Shipping Department has made their business more difficult.

"The emperor of Ming Dynasty only took [-]% and exempted [-]% from the silver scorpion. The total tax is only [-]%. It is simply abominable!" Yuan Bin yelled and took a big bite of the prawn.

Very tasty.

Yue Qian stopped Yuan Bin who was shouting. They all spoke with a northern accent. Isn't it just for beating when they shout this voice?

However, what Yuan Bin said was reasonable, no one thought they were spies.

Because there are also a group of wealthy merchants from Shandong in the Mizhou Ships Department, the northern accent is not a problem, as long as you rebel, everyone is good friends.

The Confucian Mansion in Mizhou set up a private market just to facilitate its own maritime trade, while the private market in the Zhoushan Islands was a plundering private market.

Not to mention six cents of the tax, even one tenth of the tax can kill them.

They usually buy low and sell high, and they can earn at least [-]% of the profit. If they sell it themselves, they can earn ten times and a hundred times the interest. How can they only charge [-]% of the tax?

The purpose of Zhao Mingduan's grand feast for everyone is to form an anti-Ming alliance.

Yuan Bin's voice was indeed calling Daming hateful, but everyone in the audience thought differently.

As long as it is legal to do business in the Shibo Department of Ming Dynasty, there is only [-]% tax, but what about the pirates in the Zhoushan Islands?

The Zhoushan Islands lottery office will directly draw [-]%!

Yuan Bin's words reminded most people that the consequence of following this group of people against the Ming Dynasty is that they will continue to be drawn [-]%, and those who follow Daming will be drawn [-]%.

How should I choose?is it hard?

Zhao Mingduan immediately shook his voice and said: "I discussed with the principals that the Zhoushan Archipelago's lottery office will only draw [-]%... [-]% of the points from now on!"

Ji Duo finally drank a bowl of Japanese sake, and shouted loudly: "Master Zhao, you are a big man, you must keep your word!"

Yue Qian let out a breath, and held back Ji Duo again, why did he bring these two live treasures with him on the mission, just listen quietly.

Why did Zhao Mingduan hesitate?

In fact, what they negotiated was [-]% and [-]%, but if they were too quick to talk, [-]% was still too much.

The Emperor Ming was too lenient, he only charged six cents in tax, which made it impossible for these pirates to follow up.

Before the game even started, the emperor studded, directly breaking down their foundation of drawing points.

Zhu Qiyu wanted to charge more, but Huang Mingzu's precepts set six points.

The reduction of points from [-]% to [-] points was the result of Zhu Yuanzhang's careful consideration, because it was too heavy for the people to live, and the people could not live.

There is no basis for tiered taxation.

But is the emperor's tax really light?

No.

Because the great emperor's heavy tax is on the seigniorage, and [-]% of the fire consumes silver, which is the biggest tax.

However, due to the shortage of money in the Ming Dynasty, even if [-]% of the silver was collected, the pressed silver coins were easy to use and easy to prevent counterfeiting.

It was a little better in Beiya, one silver coin was equal to one tael and five taels of silver, in Xuanfu University the same silver coin was almost equal to three taels of silver, and overseas it could be used as five taels of silver.

The current situation is that almost everyone in the world thinks that the emperor's military campaign is too slow to print silver coins, and he owes money for 80 years, and he doesn't hurry up to pay it back!

It's not that the great emperor collected heavy taxes, and few people realized how heavy the tax on these three coins was.

Money begets money, it belongs to yes.

Zhu Qiyu used silver coins to distribute social wealth to a certain extent.

Can the Zhoushan Islands press silver coins?

It's not that Zhu Qiyu underestimated them, even Nan Ya's tyranny couldn't do it, how could they, a group of overseas abandoned people, do it?

They didn't even use the soot blowing method to refine silver ore. They even used a lot of silver materials to blow into silver ingots in Daming.

With the continuous improvement of productivity, the proficiency of craftsmanship, and the acceleration of the training of craftsmen, the [-]% of the silver for the military battle bureau will gradually be reduced to six points, or even about three points. This does not mean that the labor remuneration is reduced.

The imperial court's state money and domestic money will pile up.

Zhao Mingduan couldn't figure out why Daming could collect such a low tax, but it was indeed squeezed and they couldn't live.

"Talk what you say, [-]% of the achievement is [-]% of the score!" Zhao Mingduan gritted his teeth and said loudly.

"Master Zhao is courageous!"

"Zhao Dangzhu is really grand!"

"Master Zhao dares to give up!"

……

Everyone applauded, how can it be done without lowering taxes?

Yuan Bin got up to go to the toilet. He wandered around for a long time and returned to the dining table, breaking off the prawns in his hands. He was already a bit stuffed. He ate half a prawn on the way here, and he was a little full.

Yuan Bin said in a low voice: "The grandfather of the third prince said that thirty boats can destroy them. I think there is something wrong."

"Take today as an example, adding some poison to this sake, isn't it because of their brains?"

Yue Qian frowned and said, "Is there no one guarding the back kitchen?"

Ji Duo pursed his lips and said, "All the cooks in the back kitchen eat there."

Yue Qian thought for a long time and said, "Your Majesty won't allow us to assassinate, trick people, or bribe us with money."

"Preventing the assassination is to protect the safety of Ye Bushou and us."

What Yue Qian said was the emperor's highest instruction on intelligence work, no assassination, mainly to protect Ye Bushou's safety.

In the early days of the Ye Bu Shou activities, many Ye Bu Shou went deep into the captive camps to carry out assassinations in order to compete for credit. However, after the assassination, it was nothing more than a change of slave chieftains. On the contrary, Da Ming Ye Bu Shou suffered heavy losses.

After repeated weighing, is Ye Bu Shou Ming more expensive or the dog's head of the slave chief?Naturally, life is expensive at night.That's why there are regulations prohibiting assassination.

The beauty trick was suggested by Yu Qian, and Sun Zhong used the beauty trick to get Li Xian back. After the angel arrived, Li Xian immediately contacted the imperial court secretly, and it was the beauty sent by Sun Zhong to make contact.

Yuniang treats Li Xian very well and takes care of Li Xian's daily life. In Yuniang's heart, Li Xian is a great husband.

In this age of marrying a chicken as a chicken, and marrying a dog as a dog, beauty tricks are almost like meat buns beating dogs and never returning.

Zhu Qiyu accepted the good words and set the second standard, not to use beauty to inquire about intelligence work.

The third criterion was Jin Lian's idea. Daming's household lamps had only one wick, and if you spent money to buy news, it was hard to tell the truth from the fake, and it was not of much value.

With this money, wouldn't it be better to give Ye Bushou a raise?

Zhu Qiyu's main consideration is that people who can be bought with money have nothing to do with loyalty. Since they are not loyal, why bother to buy them?

Li Xian took advantage of Nanya to usurp the imperial court, and took away nearly 700 million taels of silver from Nanzhili, Liangzhe, and Huguang, all of which remained in the accounts without a trace, waiting for the emperor's acceptance.

Loyalty is indeed immeasurable, but it can be measured from the perspective of doing things.

Yuan Bin nodded and said, "But the third prince's grandfather doesn't have such restraints. If you can assassinate their brains, how many fewer people will die in the Ming army, it's not difficult to do."

"It's not necessary." Yue Qian still shook his head, disagreeing with Yuan Bin's approach.

Yuan Bin thought for a while and said, "It's not necessary, but it's still necessary to punish the traitor."

The direction Yuan Bin looked at was a table of high-ranking officials. These were all officials from the Shipping Department of Ningbo City. There was one nominee, two deputy nominees, and one nominee from the Salt Division. There were four officials in total. A group of eight people.

This nominee is Yang Qingbo, who is concurrently the inspector of the Zhejiang Province of the Ming Dynasty, and is a high-ranking official of the fifth grade of the Ming Dynasty, but he appeared at the rally where he participated in the anti-Ming event, which can be described as a great irony!

The emergence of such large-scale pirates on the Zhoushan Islands is entirely the result of internal and external collusion.

The Ming emperor did not allow assassinations, beauty tricks, and bribes, but he was never soft on rebellion.

These eight people are definitely going to enter Jieyuan.

Yue Qian said with a smile: "I can't run away, you Tiqi are doing business, he is finished, and their family is also finished."

There are also specific regulations for punishing rebels. Specifically, the general principle is that they can be sent to Beijing for investigation or compensation. Only in extremely urgent cases can they be directly executed.

But after the killing, he will also face Jinyiwei's internal inspection, which is very strict.

Zhao Mingduan on the stage said loudly: "The Daming Navy is just in the ascendant. They don't know sea ships, let alone naval warfare. This is our advantage! We need to find a way to stop the Daming Navy from attacking us. Then their ships, It's the weakness."

"A boat parked in the port is like a fish or shrimp that has fallen into a fishing net. You can kill it with just a pinch!"

"We will send our elites to cooperate with the civil uprising to carry out a surprise attack on Daming's Shi Ship Department and completely burn their ships!"

Yuan Bin shouted loudly: "Okay! Zhao Dangzhu spoke well!"

Yue Qian could only shake his head, Yuan Bin likes to fight like this, and he doesn't know who he learned from.

Zhao Mingduan is bad, not stupid, he just said a little bit of strategy to reassure everyone, he has a way to deal with it, but how to do it, when and how to do it, of course he will not do it in front of so many people Say.

Zhao Mingduan raised his wine glass and said loudly: "When the Ming army is defeated, we will go back to Ryukyu! I still don't believe that the Emperor of Ming can still chase Ryukyu?"

"Drink this cup together!"

Ji Duo booed and said, "Drink this cup together!"

Chapter 4 The First Naval Battle