The Legend of Rebirth of the Demon Empress

Chapter 282 Sea Forbidden
The two of them didn't care too much about the selection of concubines. What they cared more about was Bi Suinan's participation in the performance.

In just a day or two, there were more than a dozen more censors participating in the performance of Bi Suinan.

Seeing that the emperor kept suppressing the memorial and not releasing it, the censors were furious, and they insisted that Bi Suinan had an unforgivable crime of colluding with pirates.

At this point, no matter how slow Bi Suinan was to the situation, he knew that this time he had offended someone who shouldn't be offended.

The other party didn't just want him to lose his job, it was to make him not stand up.

Forced by the situation, Bi Suinan finally followed Lin Zisu's suggestion and wrote another memorial.

In this memorial, Bi Suinan lamented the disadvantages of Chen Haiban, and exposed various illegal activities such as smuggling and land enclosure by merchants in the south of the Yangtze River.

In order to prevent the contents of the memorial from leaking out, Xie Xi directly brought it to the palace without going through the General Secretary this time.

"Imperial Father immediately lost his temper when he saw Grandpa's memorial. He called Cao Shouli over, and asked Cao Lang who was in the south of the Yangtze River to quickly find out what happened."

Lin Zisu could guess the emperor's reaction.

In the following 100 years since Taizong issued the ban on the sea, many people proposed to open sea trade, but all of them were refuted by the officials.

Although the reasons for opposing the sea ban are varied, in the final analysis it is nothing more than the word "ancestral system".

Once someone mentions the opening of the sea ban, a group of civil officials will use the ancestral system as an excuse to accuse those people of treason.

Ruizong once tried to open the two ports of Jiangnan and Lingnan under various pressures. After the opening, pirates ravaged the coast of Dayan, causing the people to live in dire straits.

However, Dayan's navy has never been to the ocean for many years, and it is obviously more than enough to destroy the highly mobile pirates.

Moreover, the newly-built navy has been unable to receive military pay for a long time due to ownership issues.

Two years later, sea bandits were rampant outside the open port, and trade routes were interrupted from time to time, Ruizong had to restore the sea ban.

Under the sea ban, although it is forbidden to go to sea privately at the level of the government, it does not prevent those well-connected merchants from going to sea for trade.

When there is no sea ban, the imperial court can still receive some taxes for going to sea.

With the sea ban, the imperial court could not receive taxes on maritime trade, but several large merchants in the south of the Yangtze River did not receive any impact. The profits of the originally lucrative smuggling business were even more astonishing.

On weekdays, the emperor could pretend to turn a blind eye, but now that the national treasury is empty, and a series of major events have occurred in various places, it is time to spend money.

Originally, the emperor thought that this matter should not be rushed, and he transferred Bi Suinan to Nankang City, but he just wanted to use Bi Suinan's hand to try it out in Nankang City first to see the effect.

This group of people not only jumped out on their own initiative, but also insisted on suppressing Bi Suinan, which violated the emperor's taboo.

Those censors thought that they had grasped the emperor's temper, and they believed that their status was aloof. For the sake of his own reputation, the emperor had nothing to do with the civil servants.

But this time they were afraid that they would miscalculate. Bi Suinan was the emperor's favorite candidate, and the censors wanted to attack him in groups, so some charges could not be used high. .

And participating in such a fanfare will only make the emperor more afraid.

The reason why Lin Zisu asked Bi Suinan to insist on opening the sea ban was because of the emperor's emphasis on the opening of the sea ban and his subsequent reaction.

Judging from the emperor's reaction, this move was the right move.

Instead of asking local officials to investigate, the emperor asked Dongchang to investigate.

This has already shown that the emperor did not trust those local officials in Jiangnan.

As long as the people in Dongchang send back news about the sea ban, the emperor will naturally have his own decision.

"Fourth brother, there should be no major problems here with Grandpa. Thank you for your running around these days."

Hearing Lin Zisu's politeness, Xie Xi was a little disappointed, waved his hands and said, "You don't have to be polite with me, I'm also the son-in-law of the Lin family, your business is my business."

After Xie Xi finished speaking, he felt that his expression was a little serious, and smiled again: "I don't care about thanking you verbally. I don't ask for anything else. How about you speak a few words of kindness for me with my father-in-law? "

Lin Zisu remembered that when Xie Xi came to the door just now, his father not only stopped him in the front yard, forced him to drink a few cups of tea, but also pretended to study knowledge with Xie Xi.

Until Lin Yuanzhi brought Xie Xi to see him, there was still deep disgust on his face.

Thinking of this, Lin Zisu couldn't stop laughing "giggling".

Seeing her smiling like a flower, Xie Xi leaned forward, and was about to reach out to wrap her arms around her shoulders, but suddenly remembered Lin Yuanzhi's lightning gaze, so he had to withdraw his hand again, and said with a smile: "How can we say that we are also married by the emperor, If my father-in-law is so careful and puts all his thoughts on guarding against thieves on me, when will we get married?"

Lin Zisu remembered that the queen had mentioned to herself that the emperor planned to let Xie Xi marry him after the concubine selection was over, and immediately stopped laughing, and sighed: "You know, my father is not willing to marry me, and Bear with him for a few months, when we go to Dunzhou and want to see our father and mother again, we don’t know what year it will be.”

Xie Xi heard the reluctance in her words, and said softly: "If you can't let go of your family, that's okay. After we get married, my father and I will ask for a favor. Let's stay in the capital for a few more years." that is."

Lin Zisu's heart was moved, and she felt that Xie Xi's proposal was a good one.

The emperor has always been kind to him, no matter whether it is made by himself or Xie Xi, the emperor will definitely grant the request.

But after thinking about it, he dismissed the idea.

In the last life, Xie Xi, as the city guard king, was bound in the capital and became a mediocre feudal lord.

Not only does he not have any power in his hands, he even has to pretend to be crazy in order to protect himself.

The two of them have come to this point in this life, since they know that he has lofty aspirations, they must not hold him back because of their own children's affair.

Lin Zisu smiled sweetly and said, "Thank you for your kindness, brother four, there is nothing wrong with staying in Beijing for a long time, I am afraid that if you break the threshold of our family, father will not want to see you even more. "

The two talked and laughed, and the time passed quickly.

At dusk, Xie Xi still refused to leave, but Lin Zisu issued an order to evict the guest and said, "Fourth brother, if you stay here, I'm afraid it will be difficult for you to visit the door in the future."

This is also the reason Xie Xi thought about, and for the sake of convenience in the future, he had to endure it for the time being.

After Xie Xi left, Lin Zisu immediately went to the front yard to find Bi Suinan.

Bi Suinan was discussing the court situation with Lin Yuanzhi in the study in the front yard at the moment. When Lin Zisu saw Bi Suinan, he was not polite, and said straight to the point: "Grandfather, the emperor will send you a message in these two days. If you ask about the sea ban in front of the cabinet , I don’t know how you plan to answer correctly?”

(End of this chapter)