After discussing the improvement of the Guards in military training and operations, Zhu Youxiao discussed the matter of coastal defense with the veterans who had joined the Privy Council, the civilian officials and important ministers who had been called to the Privy Council by Zhu Youxiao, and the commanders of the Dongchang and Jinyi Guards."
According to the latest secret report obtained by Dongchang, Hong Chengchou and Yang Sichang, who disappeared before, have indeed gone overseas, and together with other gentry who intend to rebel, they are preparing to train troops to rob my Ming Dynasty in the future, and even seek to seize Sheji!
In addition, it is reported that they still use the mandarin duck formation method to train their troops, but they are loosely organized, and the firearms they use are mainly arquebuses purchased from Hongmaofan; In addition, it has been reported that among them, Yang Sichang proposed a strategy of attacking from four sides, six corners, and ten sides, specifically, from Shuangyu, Ryukyu, Tofan, and Ryukyu as the main direction of attack, and Hirado, Kagoshima, Manila, Borneo, Manraka, and Annam as the secondary direction. ”Wei Zhongxian first reported the latest information obtained by Dongchang in accordance with Zhu Youxiao's request.Yang Sichang and other reactionary gentry because of their scattered organizations and did not pay too much attention to secrecy measures, so they had already infiltrated many undercover agents in Dongchang, and now even Yang Sichang's latest strategy has been mastered by Zhu Youxiao and his ministers.And Xiong Tingbi therefore said: "The firearms of the red hair, Xiong Mingyu, the governor of Liangguang, have purchased tribute, and the military department has experimented, which is not as good as our flintlock pistol, and this traitor Yang Sichang's strategy sounds quite a bit like this, but in fact, it is also a bit empty, it is nothing more than the meaning of attacking in multiple ways and taking care of each other, this surname Yang is to eat the Ming Sea is very wide, and it is not good to deploy everywhere, but who said that the imperial court sailors must only stay at the door of the house, in the opinion of the ministers, no matter how many ways they attack, we only go all the way, Just conquer its lair!
”"But there is one point, once these anti-thieves and pirates attack from the sea in the future, and raid the coast, many gentry along the coast who have accepted the new policy of the imperial court and cooperated with the reform will inevitably be affected, and many of the people of these gentry families are officials in the court, and many of them are important ministers of the imperial court.Chen Ce said at this time.As a member of the Guangzhou Prefecture, he did not choose to let his family go overseas to rebel against the imperial court because of the same interests as the emperor, but let his family cooperate with the reform of the imperial court, but now he has to worry about the troubles that his family may suffer, and hopes that the imperial court can protect the interests of these southern clans who are still loyal to the imperial court and cooperate with the imperial reform.And now, he expressed his opinion on the grounds that "officials from the southern gentry may oppose the sailors' expedition."
After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao said: "Protecting the safety of the coastal people is not contradictory to whether the family business and the sailors can go out to suppress the invaders, I have already thought of a countermeasure, and this countermeasure is the coastal defense insurance system!"
Specifically, it is the imperial court by the household department to set up an insurance bureau, and then in the states and counties to set up an insurance department, by a household department to operate, all the coastal people can be in the household in the imperial court insurance department to buy coastal defense insurance, a coastal defense insurance from five yuan silver coins to five thousand yuan silver coins range, where to buy coastal defense insurance, once the family encounters a sea disaster, whether natural disasters or man-made disasters, after verification can get ten times the original insurance principal compensation!
With the account ticket and insurance deed, go to the local state and county insurance department to get it!
”The ministers present were all pondering.Because this system proposed by the emperor made them a little unheard of, so that they did not know for a while whether it was good or bad.Soon, Bi Ziyan, the head of the household department who was ordered to attend the court meeting, understood first, he was good at making money and food, and he had left economic works in history, and he had an extraordinary ability to understand finance and economics, and he couldn't help but say first: "Your Majesty Shengming!
That's a great idea!
The coastal defense insurance paid by the southern citizens is not much for different accounts according to different shares, but it is a large amount of money when gathered, and after all, there are a few families who are broken due to the sea disaster, and there are not many families who need compensation from the imperial court, even if ten times the compensation is enough, and the remaining money can be used to make profits. ”"That's right!
This method is good, this can be used for the military salary of the sailor's expedition, and there is no need for the imperial court to pay additional military salary, so my sailor will rely on this money as a military salary, and then go overseas to make a certain expedition, borrow five or six hundred stone grain or five or six million taels of silver back, and it is more than enough to compensate the people who were broken by the pirates, and there is still a lot left to enrich the treasury. ”Chen Ce's son Chen Xin also participated in the military conference on coastal defense after being recalled to Beijing by Zhu Youxiao because he had borrowed grain from the Japanese country, and because of this, he also understood first that he had done business with Xiyang and made a lot of money before entering Yulinwei, and even took the initiative to use the silver collected by the coastal defense insurance as the military salary of the sailor, and then the sailor relied on this military salary to plunder the interests overseas.As a scholar who grew up with Confucian education, Bi Ziyan was a little embarrassed to agree with Chen Xin's proposal, but he also had to admit that Chen Xin's method was very good, so that the sailors would go on the expedition, and the imperial court would not have to pay military expenses, and he could bring back benefits that exceeded several times the military salary, so he didn't speak, only smiled and looked at Emperor Zhu Youxiao.The same is true for Fang Congzhe, who still remembers the results of the imperial court sending sailors to borrow grain from overseas.He had to admit that the feeling of bringing millions of stone of grain to the warship as soon as the cannon was fired was really good, you know, it is very difficult to get so much grain in the country, not only do you have to move the cake of many powerful gentry, but also a member of the powerful gentry has to take the initiative to spit out some grain to the imperial court, so that you can make millions more stone grain in the country.But Fang Congzhe is also a scholar who grew up with Confucian education, and he accepts the concept of good neighborliness and friendship, so he really agrees with Chen Xin's proposal directly, he still can't pull his face, after all, scholars have to pay attention to face, and don't want to leave a bad reputation for cruel neighbors, unlike a military attache like Chen Xin, who can directly put forward the idea of wanting to bring a sailor to plunder the foreign affairs for the imperial court.Fang Congzhe therefore only looked at Zhu Youxiao.After all, now everyone pays attention to the monarch as the constitution, as long as the emperor agrees, the ministers will not object, and whoever opposes it is against the purpose of Xingming Society.In fact, this is also the reason why Fang Congzhe and others are willing to take the monarch as the constitution, everyone has already tasted the sweetness of foreign plunder from the previous incident when the imperial court sent sailors to borrow grain from overseas, and they are waiting to let His Majesty the Emperor take his own people to plunder the outside world in the name of strengthening the monarch's power.However, Chen Xin saw that the civil officials and important ministers did not express their positions, and thought that these people did not understand what they meant, and their minds did not turn around, so he said: "Your Majesty, the princes, isn't it a good idea to make the next order, this can make the court get a lot of income without having to give anything, but just give a few rewards to the brothers of the water master!"
”The corners of Zhu Youxiao's mouth raised slightly, from the enthusiastic eyes of a group of old foxes and the impatient looks of Chen Xin and other generals, he could see that these people couldn't wait to act as the fangs of the Ming Empire and go overseas to seize more benefits."
That's a great strategy!"
Zhu Youxiao said.Fang Congzhe and Bi Ziyan and other civil officials smiled when Zhu Youxiao said this.Chen Ce, Chen Xin and other generals also grinned."
Your Majesty Shengming!"
These people couldn't help but flatter first.For a time, there was a lot of harmony between the monarch and the minister.