And shipbuilding is definitely much slower than stealing ships. If things continue like this, in the future, all ships on the sea will probably be named Liu, and they won't have to spend a penny!
After figuring this out, they even burst into mourning! Now they face two choices, one is to continue to take risks and smuggle overseas! But if this continues, the ship and cargo will be lost too much, and you will lose money!
Another option is to pay Liu Haojia to buy a Qinglong tooth device, and then you have to pay taxes! As soon as they heard that they had to pay two amounts of money, the gentry almost shed tears! So they and Liu Haojia had an indissoluble feud!
So they set the battlefield in the imperial court, and now the imperial court in Beijing is almost in chaos! If there is a comparison, only the Servant Ceremony War back then can be compared, or even worse!
The gentry in Jiangnan were keenly aware that if they wanted to solve this problem, they could only solve it in the court! Therefore, without any discussion at all, they each informed their agents in the court to attack Liu Haojia with all their might and destroy everything he had done!
At the same time, a large amount of real money and silver were sent to the capital, just to help these people smooth their relationships! In the eyes of these Jiangnan gentry, as long as everything Liu Haojia has decided is overturned, things will get back on track, and they can continue to leisurely ship goods overseas, evade taxes, and make a fortune! So their attitude is extremely firm!
And Liu Haojia is not without supporters. His biggest supporters are nobles and officials with northern household registration. For them, attacking Liu Haojia means attacking their own pocketbook!
Anyway, the profits from sea trade in the past were taken away by the southerners, and they have nothing to do here! Now, although Liu Haojia has to pay a sum of money and pay taxes, the business is done and he will always make a profit, which is better than not seeing a penny at all!
And not all of this money is for Liu Haojia. They all know that the navy is the Royal Navy and is under the direct jurisdiction of the emperor. The bulk of the money must have gone into the inner treasury! This is equivalent to making a good relationship with the emperor, so just pay the money!
So the two sides debated endlessly in the court, citing scriptures! There were also personal attacks mixed in! I don’t know who started to expose the other party’s old foundation when arguing with each other! But they soon stopped this method of killing a thousand enemies and losing a thousand themselves! After all, everyone’s buttocks are dirty. If you can uncover it, others can also uncover it!
Normally speaking, southerners are better at studying than northerners, so officials with southern household registration have an advantage in the court! And even when debating, their words are more subtle and their allusions are more accurate! So at the beginning, the northern courtiers were at a disadvantage!
But soon they had a staunch ally, Xun Gui! It is not that there are no scholars among the nobles, and there are even some who are good at reading! It's just that it was suppressed by the north and the south at the same time. Now that the north and the south were divided, they naturally chose to support the north according to their own positions, and were quickly accepted by northern officials! Many people even got the opportunity to be promoted in the court. This was a treatment that noble disciples had never enjoyed before!
Seeing that their nephew has a promising future, especially when it comes to his own money bag, other distinguished nobles who are unable to study also use all kinds of martial arts! All the tricks like being a shrew in the market, such as messing around, throwing tantrums and rolling around, were used!
When this point was pointed out by southern officials, these nobles felt complacent! In their words, how much does a pound of face cost? There is no such thing as free money! If face can be exchanged for money, they don't mind losing face at all!
So with your support, the North and the South were evenly matched! And it is very likely to become a protracted war!
Seeing that the two sides were evenly matched, Emperor Wanli felt happy! Because both the North and the South are desperately seeking his support, he has now become a vital weight.
Although everyone knows that he is leaning towards Liu Haojia, that is, towards the northerners. But as an emperor, it is absolutely impossible for him to completely refute the opinions of most courtiers! Once a certain force forms an overwhelming advantage, even the emperor will be helpless! Read the book
Many nobles and northern officials strongly expressed their support for all policies of Emperor Wanli and Liu Haojia, hoping to establish their advantage! And those with southern household registration
There were many officials, and they hoped to form an advantageous situation so as to force Emperor Wanli to retract his decision to open the sea!
And now the gentry in the south have realized that it is impossible to win on all battlefields, so they focus their attacks on Liu Haojia himself and the opening of the sea in the fiefdom. As for the sea ban, wasn’t it banned in previous years? It didn’t delay the shipment of goods!
As long as the opening of the sea is eliminated, the law prohibiting the sea will be self-defeating! At worst, give some leftovers to the Yankees. When the time comes, you will smuggle when you should, evade taxes when you should, and life will return to normal!
But the wonderful thing is that Emperor Wanli has not yet completely taken power, so every day when he goes to court, he deliberately acts like "What the northern officials said is very reasonable, but what you southern officials said is also reasonable, and I am also very embarrassed." It seemed that the two factions were allowed to fight, and through Zhang Jia, he got hold of many officials whose dark history was revealed!
When the north and the south were fighting each other, they did not forget the importance of the cabinet, and that is where everything begins and ends! But they had a tacit understanding and did not go looking for trouble, because they also knew that there was already a quarrel in the cabinet!
The fundamental reason is still because of the geographical differences between the north and the south! This is the so-called butt determines the mind! In the cabinet, Shen Shixing, Wang Xijue and Zhang Han were all from the south. Wang Xijue is from Taicang, Suzhou Prefecture, Shen Shixing is from Changzhou County, Suzhou Prefecture, and Zhang Han is from Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province!
The hometown of the three of them is the headquarters of the Jiangnan gentry! So countless letters of request were sent to them, and their descendants and relatives kept giving them advice, which made them extremely annoyed!
As members of the cabinet, the three of them naturally know what is beneficial to the court and what is detrimental to the court. However, they cannot be where they are today without the support of their hometown elders, classmates, classmates, students and others!
Once they express opposition or say nothing, those who originally supported them will quickly abandon them and support a new group of people in the cabinet who are in line with their interests! So in desperation, even Zhang Han, who was the only one who followed Zhang Juzheng's lead, had to jump out and pretend to support the southern opinion!
