Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 265 The Disaster of the Forbidden Sea
At the end of March in Kuichou, I went out from Ninghai to the west gate, the clouds dispersed, the sun was bright, and the mountains and mountains were full of joy. After thirty li, I arrived at Lianghuang Mountain.

This is the opening line of the famous travel prose "Xu Xiake's Travel Notes", and Ninghai is also the place where "Xu Xiake's Travel Notes" begins.

Ninghai was able to attract the famous traveler Xu Xiake to come and write "Tiantai Mountain Tour Diary" as a souvenir. The scenery here is naturally famous for its beauty.

However, Taichang didn't come to travel, and he didn't plan to go to Tiantai Mountain either.

At the moment, he is preparing to go crazy at the Qianhusuo Wharf in Shizhen, more than [-] miles east of Ninghai.

Because Ninghai is not a place close to the coastline, if you want to enter Ninghai County to plunder, you need to enter a bay that is thirty or forty miles deep, and there are thousands of guards on both sides of the bay.

The Qianhusuo in Shizhen is the guarding Qianhusuo in the north of the bay, and there is a Jiantiao Qianhusuo in the south.

The width of this bay is less than thirty miles, and there are thousands of guards on both sides, and the pirates passed through the middle without being spotted!
What is guarded by Qianhu?
Isn't this useless!
Taichang has already roughly understood the reason why pirates always appear on the southeast coast, because a huge interest group has formed here.

Interest groups on the southeast coast are using pirates or sea merchants to sell private goods to make huge profits!

That is to say, pirates or maritime merchants are in the same group as the southeast coastal interest groups, and even many pirates or maritime merchants were cultivated by the southeastern coastal interest groups!
Here, I don't know how many people have hooked up with pirates.

He stared at Qianhu who was trembling on the ground for a long time, and then asked coldly: "The pirates just passed by under your nose, and you didn't notice it. What are you guarding here?"

He seriously doubted that the thousand households were the internal agents of the pirates, because Jiantiao Qianhu was far away from Ninghai, and there were several small islands facing the north. You can't even see it when you drive past, unless you are blind!
Unexpectedly, the thousand households explained in trembling voices: "Your Majesty, forgive me. There was a heavy fog on the sea that morning, and I couldn't see anything a mile away. The end is true. I didn't expect pirates to enter the bay in this weather. Go to Ninghai to plunder!"

Uh, fog!

This guy shouldn't dare to bully you like this, right?

Just ask casually if there was any fog that morning. If this guy made up such an excuse to deceive the king, wouldn't he be courting death?
Taichang snorted coldly, and then asked coldly: "Even if there is heavy fog in the morning, and people are looting more than twenty miles away beside you, don't you know how to lead the army to rescue?"

The thousand households explained again in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, the last general led the army to rescue him. When the magistrate of Ninghai County sent people to ask for help, the last general immediately called his men and horses to guard Ninghai County!"

Are you not right?

Taichang couldn't help scolding angrily: "Pirates are looting by the sea, what county are you going to guard?"

The thousand households trembled in fright and said, "Your Majesty, it is Ninghai County Magistrate Qiumo who guards the county seat, because at that time there were pirates looting everywhere more than ten miles southeast of the county seat, and we don't know how many pirates came. If you rush to rescue them rashly and lose the county seat, the casualties of the common people will probably be ten times higher!"

This!
When Taichang heard the words, he couldn't help but be stunned.

Is it wrong to blame this guy?
Could it be that the magistrate of Ninghai is the real internal response!
He frowned and pondered for a while, then asked coldly, "Do you have a horse?"

The thousand households quickly replied: "The last general has three horses here, but they are all old horses."

It's no problem for the old horse to run for twenty miles.

Taichang raised his hand without hesitation and said: "Okay, get up, go and bring the horse to me."

Qianhu of this stone town got up quickly and ran towards the direction of Qianhu's residence.

Seeing that this guy ran away, Yuan Keli folded his hands and cautiously persuaded: "Your Majesty, the pirates have not been suppressed yet, and this place is dangerous. Why don't I go to Ninghai County to have a look?"

Taichang shook his head slightly and said: "If I don't go to Ninghai County, I will go to the villages looted by pirates. You order Yuan Fang to lead two thousand sailors to disembark and firmly control the guards here, and then order General Shen Lead the fleet to block the entrance to the harbor, and the pirates will definitely have trouble getting through."

When Yuan Keli heard the words, he could only say "obey the order" helplessly, and then arranged for land and sea defense.

After a while, Shizhen Qianhu ran back with three old horses.

Taichang didn't bother to talk to him anymore, he directly called Ge Cheng and Cao Huachun to get on the horse, and ordered Liu Shi to order a thousand sailors, and then ordered Shizhen Qianhu to lead the way, and went straight to the village that was looted by the pirates. go.

A group of more than a thousand people ran along the path by the sea for about half an hour, and a village of about dozens of households appeared in front of them.

Taichang brought people into the village to have a look, he couldn't help but snorted, and then roared angrily: "Send someone to call the magistrate of Ninghai!"

Why is he angry?

Because the people in this village are really miserable.

It doesn't matter if there are only a few young and strong people left, and the young women have disappeared, and most of the rest are old, weak, sick and disabled.

He had expected all these.

Because it was written in the urgent newspapers everywhere that many young men were killed by pirates, and young women were almost taken away by pirates.

That's not why he's angry.

He's angry because the place is so poor
The clothes on these common people are almost all patches, and all of them are sallow and emaciated. It is obvious that they don't have enough to eat and don't wear warm clothes.

Why are the people here so poor?

If the magistrate of Ninghai is not greedy, will the common people be so poor!
And the common people are so poor, and they have been robbed of everything by pirates, how can they live?
These corrupt officials are simply forcing the common people to rebel!
Ninghai County is only more than ten miles away from here, and it takes about a quarter of an hour to run back and forth on horseback. In less than two quarters of an hour, the county magistrate of Ninghai galloped along with the master guards who had gone to summon him.

He really didn't expect that the emperor came in less than a month after the pirates plundered.

Moreover, the emperor hadn't said anything beforehand, no one knew about it, from the government officials to the prefectures and counties.

The emperor is obviously suspicious of them!

There is no way to do this, because there are indeed many people here who have problems.

He came to Taichang in fear and sincerity, bowed his head and did not even dare to lift his head.

Taichang was so angry that he pointed at the sea not far away and roared: "How did you become the county magistrate? Is there no fish in the sea? The common people on the seaside are all so hungry, what's going on?"

Ah!
The emperor is angry because of this?

The county magistrate of Ninghai was stunned for a while, and then carefully replied: "The emperor forgives the crime, and the humble minister can't do anything about it. The "Law of the Ming Dynasty" stipulates that no inch of board can go into the sea!"

Who are you fooling?

Taichang couldn't help snorting coldly: "The sea ban is to prohibit going to sea for business, not to prohibit fishing in the sea. Besides, I have already abolished the sea ban last year. What are you telling me that you can't go to sea?"

How to explain this?
The county magistrate of Ninghai thought about it carefully, and then carefully explained: "The "Law of the Ming Dynasty" does not say that fishermen are not allowed to go fishing in the sea, but fishermen can only fish in the offshore, and they have to go fishing within ten miles of the coast. Report, it is too difficult.

Moreover, the "Law of the Ming Dynasty" also stipulates that officials and people are not allowed to build large ships with two masts or more.

In other words, even if fishermen are allowed to go fishing after untold hardships, they don’t have big boats, and small fishing boats go out to sea, and nine times out of ten they won’t be able to come back.

Therefore, most of the fishermen on the seaside fish in the near sea, and few go to the far sea.

After more than 200 years of fishing in the coastal waters, the fish have basically disappeared. Many fishermen cannot catch a fish for a few days, and fishing boats have to pay taxes. Therefore, most fishermen have given up fishing. "

Hearing this, Taichang was taken aback again.

This strategy of banning the sea is simply killing people!
As the saying goes, rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, rely on the sea to eat the sea.

This is to be reported at various levels, and it is not allowed to build large ships. What about the fishermen along the coast?
When the fish in the sea are exhausted, you can only drink the northwest wind!

So what if the sea ban is abolished now, the people along the coast are so poor, can they still be expected to spend their own money to buy large ships with two masts or more?

This is impossible!
From the looks of it, the county magistrate of Ninghai is not some corrupt official, nor is he eating vegetarian food in his corpse.

The reason why the people along the coast are so poor is the fault of the sea ban!
(End of this chapter)