After listening to what Zhou Linzhi said, Chen Qiao was silent for a while.

How could he not know about these things?

But the reality is that he can do nothing.

He shook his head.

"Maozhen, you must know that this matter is not something I can make the final decision. I cannot make the final decision on all foreign affairs, especially for Ming Dynasty matters. I must fully consider Ming Dynasty's opinions, otherwise I will not be able to make a decision.

Whether it is tariffs or the collection of industries controlled by the royal family and the war criminal family, these are the prices we must pay in exchange for support from Ming. Without this price, there would be no support from Ming. Without Ming, how long do you think I can do this position?"

Zhou Linzhi's face stagnated.

That's right, what Chen can say makes sense.

Under the current situation, the Ming Dynasty's support for Shen Zai's ruling is crucial.

Shen Daoye launched a coup to depose Zhao Ling and ushered in a new era.

But there is no doubt that the arrival of the new era mainly depends on the Ming Dynasty. No matter how awesome Shen should be, it must rely on the Ming Dynasty's military strength to achieve decisive victory. This fact cannot be changed.

On the premise that Zhao Sheng was deposed and the Southern Song Dynasty was nominally destroyed, the king of Jiangnan Zhao Dun obviously could not provide the legitimacy of power for Chen Ji's rule.

Therefore, the major proposition of the legitimacy of the power of Shen Yingzhuo's rule has an unprecedented crisis, and the only one who can solve this problem is the Ming Kingdom.

The entire Jiangnan Kingdom was established with the permission of the Ming Dynasty. The status of the king of Jiangnan Kingdom was also enthroned by the Ming Dynasty. In other words, the legitimacy of the existence of the Jiangnan Kingdom regime was given by the Ming Dynasty, and only because of the Ming Dynasty's agreement could the Jiangnan Kingdom exist.

As the actual ruler of Jiangnan Kingdom, Chen Gai's source of power was of course the Ming Kingdom.

The Ming State provided the legitimacy of power for Chen Ji's rule with its strong military power. The Ming State discussed anything with Shen Ji and controlled the Lin'an court to do things remotely through the Shen Ji's channel, which invisibly pushed up Chen Ji's status and real power.

It also recognizes Chen Ji's actual status.

After the coup, Chen Gai's actual status was far less high and stable than he seemed on the surface. His actual status was actually quite unstable. He even needed to arrange all the troops except the army he directly controlled from Lin'an to temporarily stabilize his position.

At that time, Mingguo wanted to take action against the war criminal family. At first, he entrusted Chen Gai to help and promised to share the benefits to him later. Chen Gai was very happy and eager to try, but he suffered a political Waterloo in his life and failed to succeed.

No one was willing to cooperate with him, and even the army under his command could not fight against those people, fearing the power of those political families.

Later, he was even chased and scolded by others in his base camp in Lin'an City, forcing him to run to the Mingguo office to relieve the crisis and prevent the situation from fermenting further.

Afterwards, he took the initiative to ask the Ming army to enter the city to solve several families of war criminals who were causing trouble, and added a three-day curfew in Lin'an City to this end, which was considered to save his face.

Since then, Chen Jiu can see his position more clearly.

He finally fully realized the fact that the legitimacy of the rule without Mingguo's support for his rule.

The so-called political authority he called was not his own political authority at all. No one was afraid of him as he was, because everyone could see it very clearly that he was a dog in the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, Zhang Shi's persuasion to him was very meaningful-

"At present, whether the officials in the Lin'an court support the husband is not the most important, and whether the Ming Dynasty supports the husband is the most important. The reason why the husband can firmly sit in Pingzhang's military and national affairs is because of the support of the Ming Dynasty, not the support of the Lin'an court!

Because of the support of Ming Dynasty, Ming Dynasty took a fancy to the cooperation between his husband and his husband, and then the future happened. Now the court recognized his husband's status because his husband and Ming Dynasty finalized a peace treaty. How could his husband lose his big position because of the small one?"

This is a saying that awakened the dreamer.

At first, Chen Gai thought about reviving Jiangnan Kingdom, and had a little unrealistic idea, thinking about establishing a powerful army to break away from the control of the Ming Kingdom and to restore Jiangnan Kingdom's independence in a limited manner.

But now he knew that he wanted to be a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, not a loyal minister of the Jiangnan Kingdom, so that he could best maintain his status.

Once he wants to be a loyal minister of Jiangnan, it is almost the time when his political life and physiological life come to an end together.

Under such a premise, is it possible to ask him to question and stop the national interests of Ming State?

It's like a bad guy who is provoking trouble instigating his five-year-old son to beat me. Can he successfully defeat his own?

Is it better to rely on him to make a living?

Zhou Linzhi was not a fool either. He knew the influence of the Ming Dynasty on Jiangnan Kingdom and the deterrent power of the garrison after the Second Ming and Song War. He knew that the Lin'an court could not get rid of the influence of the Ming Dynasty in major events.

But this time, Ming Dynasty did bite everyone into pain.

This big mouthful of eating Jiangnan’s high-quality assets is really not good-looking. This really makes everyone feel worried and uneasy. Who knows if Mingguo will take any more excessive actions in the future?

Although the Zhou Linzhi family did not involve overseas trade, he was worried that more than 100,000 acres of land in his family would become the fatty meat in the Ming Dynasty, and he was worried that the efforts of several generations of people would be wasted, and he was even more worried that the family would be exiled to some remote place for hard labor and that several generations would not be able to turn over.

What was the strategy of dealing with corrupt officials and the "high-ranking people" they mentioned? They have heard of them, so they are so scared.

So he felt he wanted to do something.

"Ming has been trying to intervene in the maritime trade between our country and foreign countries since several years ago. We have been pushed back many times. Now that we are in power, we still don't know what terrible things to do. My husband, even if the Ming country is very important to us, we should be more careful, right?"

Chen Ji narrowed his eyes and looked at Zhou Linzhi.

"Defense? How to prevent? What to use? Our 50,000 troops? Maozhen, your mind is good, but you must be more clear about what can be done and what cannot be done."

"this……"

Zhou Linzhi said it bluntly that he was just a traditional bureaucrat. He grew up reading the Four Books and Five Classics. Before he worked in the Privy Council, he was a documentary and a very traditional Confucian bureaucrat and had a very shallow understanding of the economy.

The reason why I came over to talk to Shen Ge about these things is because I felt that the Ming Dynasty destroyed the interests of his allies engaged in overseas trade, which was equivalent to destroying his interests.

The interests were touched, and he had to do something, otherwise how could those people behind him continue to serve him?

But in fact, he had no choice but to deal with the Ming Dynasty's economic invasion, he was just talking.

Chen Gai was in power for a long time, and of course he knew more about economic issues than Zhou Linzhi and had a deeper understanding of them, so Chen Gai knew more about the consequences of this matter than Zhou Linzhi.

"Maozhen, do you believe it or not? If we oppose these practices of Ming, the Ming Dynasty does not need to do anything. As long as we withdraw our troops here, we will immediately rebel everywhere and we will not be able to suppress it. At that time, the rebels will attack Lin'an, and the Ming Dynasty will take advantage of the situation to rob, and we will be done."

Chen Qiao said it very clearly.

The 50,000 troops of the Lin'an court could not suppress the thirty-six anti-kings and seventy-two smokes of smoke and dust. As long as the Ming Dynasty withdrew its troops north and expressed its intention to no longer care about the affairs of Jiangnan Kingdom, there would definitely be smoke everywhere within three months. The Lin'an court would send it as soon as it said it would send it, and it would never be dragged on.

So Chen Ji's attitude is very clear.

"I know the current situation better than you! Don't forget what is really important for a little profit. For us, what is really important is the support of the Ming Dynasty and the garrison of the Ming Dynasty! Only when the court has 100,000 elite troops can we discuss with the Ming Dynasty. Now, be sure to endure it!"

Zhou Linzhi had nothing to say.

No matter how traditional he is or how he talks, he is still honest in matters related to his life.

So he stopped talking about this issue and instead talked about a more important thing.

"Even if the matters in Ming Kingdom can be tolerated, can Sichuan and Shu continue to endure? If Sichuan and Shu do not obey the orders now, will the court lose all its face?"
Chapter completed!