Chapter 86                                                             �

Zhou Mengchen’s biggest problem is that he has shallow qualifications. A shallow qualifications represent his own abilities. However, his talents are out of reach. It can be said that Tang Shiying was his only choice.

Tang Shiying said: "Please rest assured, as long as you give me an order, Tang will go through fire and water without hesitation."

For Tang Shiying, he was also very excited.

Tang Shiying went from magistrate to magistrate to today step by step, and spent most of his life. For ordinary people, his achievements were already admired by others, but for himself, he was ready to spend his last political career as a governor. He was transferred from one place to another to another. Did he not make enough contributions?

No, he has already touched the ceiling.

If there is no accident in this life, it will be a governor who has reached the top.

But now I encountered this opportunity and had the opportunity to make a chance to get the Secretary of the Shang Dynasty. Although the Secretary of War in Nanjing is much worse than the Six Ministry of Beijing, it is the Secretary of the Shang Dynasty, which he never thought of.

Zhou Mengchen said: "I didn't care about the Nanjing Ministry of War before, but you have to understand what the Nanjing Ministry of War will look like in the future. In the future, there will be nearly 300,000 troops in the Zhejiang Army, Fujian Army, Jiangnan, Donghai Navy, and Nanyang Army. These are all controlled by the Secretary of War in Nanjing."

Tang Shiying said: "Please rest assured. With Qi Jiguang, General Lu, General Yu, I will definitely do this."

Zhou Mengchen felt a little hesitant. If possible, he wanted to do this thing himself, straighten out the Nanjing military system and then hand it over to Tang Shiying. But now the situation has changed, he can't say it well. He can only give Tang Shiying a vaccination first.

Immediately, Zhou Mengchen asked Wang Zongyuan again and explained some customs, Jiangnan Bank, commercial taxation and other matters, and emphasized that Hai Rui was going to be nailed to death in Shanghai. No one was allowed to be transferred.

Hai Rui is a meritorious minister. Logically speaking, he needs to be promoted. But Zhou Mengchen could not find anyone who could replace Hai Rui. So, although this is a bit sorry for Hai Rui. Zhou Mengchen has decided that Hai Rui will be nailed to Shanghai in the future.

Of course, Hai Rui will also give some care. For example, high-level magistrates are generally of the seventh rank. However, the Ming Dynasty was not without the sixth rank magistrate. Otherwise, the Songjiang Prefecture was moved to Shanghai in the future and Shanhai Prefecture appeared in advance. Hai Rui could be the prefect at that time. In the future, the governor of Jiangnan could also be moved to Shanghai, and at that time, Hai Rui could also be the governor of Jiangnan.

Anyway, Zhou Mengchen will not let Hai Rui leave Shanghai in one day.

Unless one day, he can truly become the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty and control the world. At that time, the importance of Shanghai will be reduced and Hai Rui can work elsewhere. Before that, Zhou Mengchen needed Hai Rui, a life-deserving force order, to protect all this.

Therefore, Zhou Mengchen did not see Hai Rui specifically, but wrote a letter to Hai Rui.

It clearly states the importance of Shanghai to the Ming Dynasty. Please take care of Shanghai and not let others get involved.

This is what a gentleman can deceive him. There are some things that need not be emphasized. As long as Hai Rui knows the logic behind this, he will definitely do this. For Hai Rui, his future is not important. What is important is his own philosophy.

Zhou Mengchen's approach in Shanghai was not in line with Hai Rui's concept. For example, Zhou Mengchen specially created an area for foreigners to live in. He even gave them some privileges invisibly. After all, the people of the Ming Dynasty had to bear some corvee service, and this foreigner did not exist in the so-called foreign area.

This made Hai Rui uncomfortable.

However, Hai Rui still saw most of Zhou Mengchen's actions.

After all, under Zhou Mengchen's rule, Shanghai became richer to the naked eye. Because the people could make money in Shanghai to subsidize their family income, they became rich one by one. Of course, Hai Rui had to protect all this.

On the one hand, we will not allow too much changes to this policy, and on the other hand, we will resolutely resist some high-ranking officials and nobles and take advantage of the situation. This is in line with Hai Rui's nature.

Of course, this is also because Zhou Mengchen was a little afraid of seeing Hai Rui.

When Hai Rui met Zhou Mengchen, he would definitely say something that Zhou Mengchen could not solve.

After Zhou Mengchen handled the last thing, he was waiting to set sail.

We still set off from Shanghai Port and walked with sea food.

Needless to say, a farewell. Zhou Mengchen was on the boat, and Wang Zongmu was also accompanying him all the way.

Last year, after Jiajing's ruling, the maritime transportation yamen was established, and it was responsible for the indefinite amount of grain entering Beijing every year. Although Jiajing's ruling was two million stones, grain often had floating fluctuations.

If Beijing and Beijing lack food, it will also increase some grain.

Everyone knows all kinds of conveniences of shipping. Naturally, they are unwilling to go through the canal transport. In other words, after the Jiajing ruled, the actual fixed transport of the canal transport was two million stones. The floating transport was all on the sea transport side, which is generally more than two million stones.

Zhou Mengchen also admired Wang Zongmu very much.

Now Wang Zongmu is the Censor of the Seaway, who is specifically responsible for shipping.

However, in Zhou Mengchen's opinion, shipping already has a specific charter, so Wang Zongmu is not responsible. Moreover, Wang Zongmu fully demonstrated his talent in this matter.

Of course, we have to be led by our troops and train them well.

Moreover, Wang Zongmu's qualifications and abilities are already able to ask about the position of governor. If he is transferred to the capital, he can also test the ministers of various departments. Zhou Mengchen has never had few such talents.

Zhou Mengchen said to Wang Zongmu: "Sea transportation is also considered a success, and Brother Wang is also a long-cherished wish. What are the plans for the future?"

Wang Zongmu said: "This is all the support of the adults. If there is no adult, I don't know what to do with shipping. Of course, I listen to the adults' instructions. I will do whatever the adults want me to do."

Zhou Mengchen said, "Why should you be polite between you and me? Just say anything?"

Wang Zongmu said: "Sir, I don't have any ideas. There is just one thing that I think I should report to you."

Zhou Mengchen said, "What's the matter?"

Wang Zongmu said: "The villagers went to sea to go from Ningbo to Shanghai, but they had to pay two tariffs. The burden was too heavy, and the sea was thousands of miles away. It was a canal that was not built and a road that was not built was definitely not just used for shipping millions of stones, but there were too many places that had not been made. If the adults allowed, I would like to do this."

Zhou Mengchen is actually very clear about the confusion of import and export with domestic shipping. On the one hand, it is to avoid tax evasion in sea trade. On the other hand, sea transportation is much more convenient than land. And the government and the treasury have suffered too much losses. Zhou Mengchen actually wants to impose more taxes.

However, Zhou Mengchen also felt that the court should be responsible for maritime affairs. It is not just customs taxation.

On the ground, there are government agencies that specialize in managing the ocean, namely the Governor of the South Ocean, the Governor of the Beiyang, and the provinces in Linhai have the responsibility to manage the sea. However, among the central departments, which part of the central departments says that they are specifically responsible for the sea?

There is no.

The power of the ocean is scattered in the corners of various departments. Many people who hold these powers cannot remember it. After all, before that, all the management of the ocean by the Ming Dynasty was just not managed.

Zhou Mengchen said, "Let you take care of it? What are you going to do?"

Wang Zongmu then spoke out his strategy, how to distinguish foreign ships, fishing boats, and coastal freight ships, how to restrict and manage coastal freight, how to manage fishermen, etc.

Wang Zongmu said a lot.

Zhou Mengchen felt that Wang Zongmu had ignored a lot of things. He focused on coastal routes and said almost no word to overseas and islands.

However, this is already good. At least Wang Zongmu was trying to control the range of dozens of nautical miles along the coast, which is the range of the coastal routes of most civilian ships. It is just that whether it is specific or not, and you have to think more about it. It’s just that Zhou Mengchen doesn’t have the intention to say this now.

Zhou Mengchen just kept it in his heart and immediately asked, "How is Tianjin Port today?"

Wang Zongmu said: "I don't know anything about it. Today, Tianjin is already the largest port in the north, and it is very prosperous. Everyone says that it can surpass Linqing. It is known as the Little Jiangnan."

How could Tianjin, in later generations, naturally sneer at Linqing? But now it is not like this.
Chapter completed!