Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu seemed very happy about this memorial from the general officer of the canal transport. After all, this is one of the few good news that he has faced various natural disasters and man-made disasters in the past six months of ascension.

So he waved his hand and ordered someone to write an order to praise Xu Youzhen, the Minister of Works, and also praised him for fifty taels of silver and two pieces of silk.

However, the controversy that aroused the following was once again caught in the hustle and bustle of the court meetings in the past, which was the memorial of Chen Yichen and Jin Lian, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, jointly submitted a memorial to lift the maritime ban, set up customs, and collect maritime taxes.

The reason why the opening of the sea ban occurred repeatedly in the Ming Dynasty was difficult to pass, and it was not until the reign of Emperor Muzong of the Ming Dynasty that he had to follow the trend to switch Longqing. In addition to the two principles of Japanese pirates' harassment and the unchangeable law of ancestors, the biggest resistance was the landlords in Jiangnan.

Gentle interest group.

The reason is that the sea ban can only be prohibited from the civilians who are at the bottom of the class, and at most middle-class businessmen are added. The upper-class officials and gentry have ten thousand ways to smuggle around, including Chen Yichen himself.

Once the sea ban is opened, the interests of the coastal landlords and gentry groups will be lost, not to mention that the growing interest groups of "million grain workers" will also oppose river transportation.

The only thing to be thankful is that the Tumu Fort Incident killed a large number of middle- and upper-class ministers, allowing emerging forces including Chen Xun, Yu Qian, Shi Heng and others to rise to power. They did not quickly expand their sphere of influence to smuggling or canal transportation.

In terms of interests, they are still in the stage of land annexation.

This is one of the main reasons why Chen Yichen and Jin Lian, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, were able to convince the ministers of the cabinet.

If it is not destroyed or established, only if the old official and gentry groups are destroyed will we welcome new forces in the government. Otherwise, such proposals will not even be qualified to be discussed during the "Three Yangs" period.

But even so, there is still a group of officials from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Northern Zhili areas who are still opposed by the group that is more or less smuggled and is most affected by the establishment of customs taxes.
Chapter completed!