During these three years, Su Ce often dragged the ward to repair the houses.
The thatched hut that was originally dilapidated had now become a pile of bricks.
With the upgrade of the house, the system rewarded him with many things, but most of them were related to current politics.
This illness meant that Su Ce couldn't do any heavy work. He had a lot of time, but not much.
He spent his free time reading books to enrich himself.
He had studied a lot of official politics in the Ming Dynasty. The more he studied, the more he realized that the official politics of the Ming Dynasty were very deformed. Rather than saying that the official politics were deformed, it was better to say that the politicians were deformed.
Everyone had their own considerations.
From the beginning of Hongzhi, the emperor and the cabinet had been working hard to make the country prosperous, putting all their energy into the northern border.
More than thirty years ago, because of Emperor Yingzong, the Great Ming Dynasty, which was in a precarious situation, almost lost its land to the Mongolians.
In the Battle of Tumu Fort, the elites of Great Ming were wiped out. The Great Ming that was determined to forge ahead was no longer there. The aggressive Great Ming disappeared and was replaced by the strategic defense in the north.
In short, the politicians of the current dynasty always had their eyes on the northern border and rarely cast their eyes on the southeast.
It was not until the tenth year of Hongzhi that a wolf appeared in the southeast, known as the Japanese pirates.
They were burning, killing, and pillaging in the southeast. Every year, they would plunder a large amount of wealth and leave by sea.
In fifteen years, in five years, the Ming Dynasty had lost thirteen thousand people in the southeast, and more than three thousand six hundred soldiers of the Wei water stronghold had been killed or injured.
The threat of Japanese pirates in the southeast gradually began to grow.
Even so, the Ming court still felt that there was nothing to fear from the southeast pirates. The real opponents of the Ming Dynasty were still the Mongolians in the north.
Because of the imperial court's indulgence, the pirates in the southeast were out of control.
In the beginning, it was just the Japanese pirates causing trouble. The Ming court's forces in the southeast could still defend against the Japanese pirates. However, gradually, the southeast forces seemed to have lost their fighting strength and were always beaten up by the Japanese pirates.
Was the southeastern army weak?
No, it was because during this period of time, a group of large merchant families were nurtured. They colluded with officials and merchants, as well as merchants and pirates, to plunder the wealth that belonged to the southeast of Ming Dynasty.
It made the merchants rich, the bureaucrats rich, and the people of the Ming Dynasty dead.
Zhang Yanghao of the Yuan Dynasty once said that prosperity meant suffering for the people. The people suffered.
No matter if it was a peaceful era or a country in war, it was very difficult for ordinary people to survive.
If the southeast during the Hongzhi period had already begun to show the situation of the Japanese pirates, then during the Jiajing period, the southeast really could not resist the Japanese pirates.
Before Qi Jiguang appeared, the Jiajing period had already been flooded with pirates.
Fifty-three Japanese pirates could kill 4,000 soldiers from eastern Zhejiang and attack Nanjing City in southern Zhili!
During the Jiajing period, the whole country was fighting against the Japanese, spending hundreds of thousands of troops and tens of millions of money and food.
At that time, the Ming Dynasty's national strength, which was already adding insult to injury, would be even more overwhelmed.
Now was a good time. If they could completely solve the problem of the southeast during the Hongzhi period and nip the Japanese pirates in the bud, how could they let the Japanese pirates flood the country more than ten years later?
It was just that it was difficult to kill the Japanese pirates in the southeast now.
The interest chain in the southeast had already been formed. It was actually very simple to cut off this interest chain, but it was also very difficult.
Open the sea.
When the Great Ming Sea opened, when the government traded with overseas countries, and when the people could go out to sea, it would be even more difficult to smuggle.
Without the huge profit chain of smuggling, the Ming Dynasty could work together to attack the Japanese pirates. Although the Ming Dynasty's military strength was not as fierce as during the Hongwu and Yongle periods, it was still easy to deal with a group of Japanese slaves.
The premise was that no one would hold them back, no one would give the pirates a place to hide, and no one would tell the pirates the marching route and attack route.
It sounded very simple, but it was just opening the sea.
However, the things involved in this were very difficult. First of all, Hongwu's ancestral system of not allowing a piece of wood to enter the sea.
Secondly, there was the opposition of the civil officials who represented the interests of the southeast.
It was not practical to solve the problem of the Japanese pirates in the southeast once and for all. The matter of the southeast still had to be slowly planned, but the premise was that the ruler had this intention.
Su Ce told Zhu Houzhao a lot about the predicament of the southeast.
It was very strange.
When Zhu Houzhao was in the Eastern Palace, Emperor Hongzhi had invited the best teachers in the world for him, the Imperial Tutor of the Eastern Palace, Zuo Chunfang, and Yang Tinghe, a scholar of the Imperial Academy.
However, Zhu Houzhao was absent-minded in class every time.
But now, he could seriously listen to Su Ce's words and put them into thought.
Perhaps Su Ce was very similar to his little slug-like brother.
Other than running behind him every day, that little guy was reading. Although he was only three years old at that time, his reading ability was much better than his.
His father always said that the two brothers should switch places.
If Little Snot grew up, he would definitely be as outstanding as Little Sir. Unfortunately, he had lost his younger brother and had been very lonely for the past fifteen years…
In the past, he had never treated this empire as his home. He always thought that his father, Emperor Hongzhi, would take care of everything. But now, he suddenly felt that it was time for him to share the burden of his father.
"Young Sir, what you said is still very simple. In the end, it's fine as long as we reopen the ship company.”
"As long as my father…as long as our emperor is willing, isn't this a matter of a word?”
He was still very naive and did not know that the imperial power of the Ming Dynasty was restrained. Being an emperor was not something one could do as they pleased.
Su Ce slowly shook his head and said to Zhu Houzhao,""There will be a lot of resistance."
Zhu Houzhao smiled and said," Little mister, you don't understand. There won't be much resistance. This is just a matter of a word from the Emperor. It's simple. Tomorrow, you will hear the news that the Ming Dynasty has reopened the Ministry of Foreign Trade!”
Su Ce smiled and did not refute.
There were many things that he had to let this child come into contact with before he could understand the difficulties.
In fact, Su Ce was two years younger than Zhu Houzhao. Perhaps it was because he had profound knowledge in his stomach or because he had lived two lives, he treated Zhu Houzhao as a child who would never grow up.
He was the crown prince of the empire, the future emperor. It might not be a bad thing to let him know the difficulties of being an emperor.
This country still had many loopholes and patches, but they were not important. What was important was the Son of Heaven, the future emperor.
Nothing was more important than the future emperor. If the emperor wanted to change the country, as long as he had the intention, there was nothing that could not be changed. It was just a matter of time.
Therefore, Su Ce didn't object to Zhu Houzhao. He should have given him a hard time.
" Alright then," Su Ce said with a smile." I hope to hear the news of the imperial court opening the sea again tomorrow."”
"Your body is relatively weak."
Su Ce's words almost made Zhu Houzhao spit tea.
"You're much weaker than me! I'm very strong!"
Su Ce smiled." Yes, I can't do heavy work. You're very strong. Can you help me renovate the house?" Let me see how strong you are."
"Heh, it's a small matter…Uh, why do I feel like you did it on purpose?”
"Is there?" Su Ce blinked.”
"I plan to make Kung Pao Chicken, Steamed Bass, and Three Cup Chicken for lunch today.”
Zhu Houzhao: " How do I renovate it? Tell me quickly. I'll let you see how strong my body is!"”
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