I am the king of the dead

Zhu Qiyu looked at the memorabilia in his hands, and was a little puzzled. The Ministry of Household Affairs was playing with a very new household registration system. This system was used to breed people and never add taxes, but it was not very relevant.

"Your Majesty..." Xing'an asked in a low voice whether His Majesty would ride a horse or drive a chariot. According to His Majesty's usual style, he rode a horse during the day and drove a chariot at night.

But today's situation is quite special, Ran Siniang and Gao Jieyu haven't woken up yet, His Majesty got up, but his hands were shaking, but he couldn't ask clearly.

"Car driving." Zhu Qiyu put away the memorabilia, and did not push himself hard. People should have self-knowledge. If their legs are weak and their hands are shaking, if they insist on riding a horse, they will cause trouble for the Imperial Hospital.

Zhu Qiyu came to Wenhua Palace to preside over the court discussion.

"Shangshu Shen Yi, you need to explain the reason for the new household system." Zhu Qiyu sent the transcript of the memorandum to the 28 courtiers for a look.

Yu Qian and other ministers were whispering about the new household system. This memorandum was submitted to Wenyuan Pavilion after it was pushed by the Ministry of Household Affairs, and it was a unanimous decision of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

Shen Yi thought and thought, and then said loudly: "In order to protect the rights and interests of women, all human beings should be treated equally."

"Very good, Shen Shangshu, you have learned to speak nonsense with your eyes open." Zhu Qiyu looked at the memorial in his hand, no matter how he looked at it, it had nothing to do with protecting women's rights.

The new household registration system includes two aspects. The first one is to settle with the mother. This is not troublesome to explain, that is, the household registration of a newborn child falls on the woman's family, not the man's.

For example, a man from Songjiang Mansion is not married to a Suzhou lady, but a concubine. The child is from Suzhou Mansion.

If a lady from Suzhou Prefecture wants to place her child's household registration in Songjiang Prefecture, she needs to marry a man from Songjiang Prefecture. The three matchmakers and six hires have a marriage certificate, and they can go to the Songjiang Prefecture household to transfer their household registration to Songjiang Prefecture before they can place their child's household registration in Songjiang Prefecture. Inside Songjiang Mansion.

In the past, in order to have more children and more blessings, men in Songjiang Prefecture could take beautiful women from other places as concubines and register their children in Songjiang Prefecture, but now it is no longer possible.

Moreover, this rule is universal, all cities and farms in the Ming Dynasty are subject to this rule, children born out of wedlock, more precisely, children who are not legitimate sons, all follow the mother's place of origin.

The second aspect is about the settlement of slave-born sons. If the father is a free man and the mother is a slave, the child is a slave; if the father is a slave and the mother is a free man, the child is a free man.It is also a lowly nationality with the mother.

As soon as this article comes out, mothers are more expensive than their children, don't even think about it, children are not more expensive, so why are mothers more expensive?

"These gentlemen in the city keep so many concubines, how do those people in the countryside get wives?" Shen Yi began to state the reason for this household registration.

The first is naturally to prevent the country women from flowing into the city. The bachelors of Ming Dynasty are concentrated in the countryside instead of the city, because the city has a population siphon phenomenon, resulting in a male to female ratio of about 1.5:1 in the city, while in the countryside The ratio of male to female is about 3-4:1.

The matchmakers in Songjiang Mansion told the parents of the rural tenants that everyone was happy when their children entered the city.

They say they are matchmakers, but they are actually human teeth. They say they are married, but they are for sale. They say they go to the city, but they are played by the masters in the city. Send it to the brothel, anyway, it's for the masters in the city to play, why not just play?

The status of concubines is extremely low, relatives are not allowed to communicate with each other, and children are called concubines. If the main wife has no children, concubines will be taken to recognize a aunt, so that they can be regarded as having a serious status.

But the concubine, who is also from Songjiang Mansion, is always better than the countryside to survive, at least there is a city wall to stop the thieves from attacking.

With this decree, the matchmakers say that marriage or even mother is more expensive than children, this is trafficking, and the court's regulations can define this behavior as human trafficking, and then deal with it.

This is indeed protecting women's rights and cracking down on human trafficking in the Ming Dynasty.

As for whether there is a case where he wants a mother to be more expensive than a child to obtain a class transition, it is not within the scope of Shen Yi's consideration.

The second reason is to limit the population of the prefectures and counties, and to limit the population siphon of the city. The capacity of the city is limited, too few people are unpopular, and too many people are too crowded. Jingtai has 15 years of medical conditions, and the people in the city are too crowded. When there is an epidemic, that is, the city is full of dead people, and there are few survivors, and it has happened.

The third reason is the impact of the maritime trade affairs of Daming. The number of ships in Daming is increasing, and there are more people going to sea. Sailors of Daming, what is the identity of the children born to some foreign women outside?This becomes a problem, and a serious one at that.

As far as the plantations are all over the banks of the Lanma River, in these plantations, for the sake of the farmers and the overseers who whipped the whip, they will personally participate in the production and use of production tools, and a bunch of preserved eggs were born. , What is a preserved egg, the mother is a slave, and the father is a Daming.

What is the identity of this preserved egg man?cheap.

Under the new situation of the era of great voyages, the new great speculation of Ming Dynasty has quietly begun.

"Let's make a statement." Zhu Qiyu looked at Shen Yi's memorabilia, did not express his own opinion, but asked the attitudes of the courtiers, Xing'an carried a box and gave each courtier a note, on which there was only a ○ and An X, Minggong only needs to mark it, no need to name it, let alone make other marks, just fold it twice after marking.

Xing'an collected all the notes, put them in the box, shook them vigorously, and then began to count the tickets.

Twenty votes are in favor and eight votes are against. Whoever is in favor, I don’t know, and whoever is against, I don’t know. Anyway, more than two-thirds of the votes are in favor.

This box is completely transparent, which means that Da Dang, who is holding the box, wants to do something in full view, which will cause public outrage.

The Ming emperor did not participate in the voting, and had a veto power over the decree. If he did not use the seal, the decree could not be implemented.

The secret ballot is a method invented by Zhu Qiyu to express his opinion. There are only 28 courtiers in total. There were 27 before. Now there is a new seat for the Minister of Finance and Economics.

Zhu Qiyu took the treasure of Jingtai from Xing'an, covered it at the seam of the memorial, and handed it to Wang Wen, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, and said, "Let's do it like this."

The implementation of a government decree in the Ming Dynasty is definitely not a nationwide implementation of the Wenhua Palace. In Shen Yi's memorial, it was only promoted in Songjiang Mansion, Guangzhou Mansion, Yingtian Mansion, Shuntian Mansion, Chang'an Mansion, Chongqing Mansion and other cities. After that, it will be rolled out nationwide slowly.

"Second meeting, discussion on maritime matters." Xing'an shook his whisk, announcing the start of the second meeting.

Li Binyan opened the memorial in his hand and said: "In the 13th year of Yongle, Prince Don Enrique of Portugal, Duke of Viseu, led 2 people, and captured Ceuta, which is located in the southeast corner of the City of Liberty, and Portugal completely occupied the city. The Strait of Gibraltar, the impoverished Kingdom of Portugal, obtained gold, ivory, slaves and other valuables for the first time, and quickly prospered."

The name Prince Don Enrique is extremely unfamiliar. The father-in-law of Kuai Lin, governor of Liberty City, and King Afonso V of Portugal is Prince Pedro, and Prince Don Enrique is the third brother of Kuai Lin's father-in-law.

Zhu Qiyu said concisely: "That's Li Aiqing's third uncle."

"Hahaha..." The Wenhua Hall was filled with joyful atmosphere for a while.

Everyone knew that it was not Li Binyan's father-in-law, nor was it Li Binyan's third brother, but the third brother of Li Binyan's father-in-law, the governor of Liberty City Kuai Lin, but Kuai Lin was wearing Li Binyan's waistcoat.

Li Binyan regretted not stabbing Tang Xing to death with a single sword in front of the Fengtian Palace. Also put on this vest, and in a few years, all four oceans will be him.

After everyone finally stopped laughing, Li Binyan said again: "Third Uncle...not..."

"Hahaha!"

This time even Yu Qian shook his head with a smile, took a sip of tea, looked at the memorial in his hand, with a smile on his lips, who would want to suffer all day long, worry and worry, he had to worry in the past.

Li Binyan laughed himself, and he continued: "Prince Don Enrique, the founder of Portugal's overseas trade, proved to future generations with his own practice that a successful trade policy is a combination of military, plunder and coercion. "

Force what?labor.

To be exact, it is the production activities of plantations and workshops under slavery, with a high degree of personal attachment.

Li Binyan looked at the ministers and said: "Although many people like to sing about the great achievements of Prince Enrique, for example, he established a sailing school, for example, he rewarded people who improved sea ships as navigators, and gave generous rewards, but just from his In terms of behavior, Prince Enrique prefers plunder based on the background of military strength."

"In the seventh year of Xuande, Prince Enrique went to sea again in person, opened up [-] hectares of sugar cane and grape plantations in the Free Islands, captured [-] slaves from the Songhai Kingdom, and worked in the sugar cane and grape plantations."

"In the sixth year of Zhengtong, Prince Enrique bypassed Cape Brown located at 126° West Longitude 37°N and 11° North Latitude. After returning to China, he obtained the exclusive right to trade slaves in Portugal. Prince Enrique, who emigrated on a large scale, did not wait for that day because his nephew Afonso V clashed with the politically involved Prince Pedro."

"Prince Pedro did not resist too much, and Afonso V won, but Portugal's maritime trade has fallen into the quagmire of political struggle, and there is no further development."

Li Binyan also took out Tang Xing's memorials on multiple maritime trade issues, and made a summary of the lack of maritime armed forces leading to the development of Ming Dynasty's trade and the loss of commercial dominance.

This summary made the courtiers sit up straight and become serious unconsciously.

"This memorandum should be published in the residence newspaper and included in the compilation of "Jingtai Salt and Iron New Theory." Yao Kui, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, immediately put forward his opinion. The important part is one of the achievements of Daming's financial affairs speculation and should be compiled.

Zhu Qiyu nodded in approval and said, "Well, let Yao Shangshu be included."

"Then after Li Aiqing's long speech, what government orders will be implemented?" Zhu Qiyu looked at Li Binyan and asked.

Li Bin said, "Your Majesty once said that monopoly is one of the important ways for commercial organizations to obtain high profits. Commercial organizations always strengthen their monopoly power and maintain market positions through product differentiation and setting market entry thresholds." .We need to support a powerful business group, let this group develop the international trade market and plunder the tools of colonization, that is, the Maritime Merchants Alliance for Mutual Benefits.”

"In order for this alliance to develop, plunder, colonize, establish plantations, capture slaves, mine, etc., the imperial court needs to provide certain military and political powers, etc., but in order to prevent this alliance from backlashing Daming, it should be established by the Ming court, and Control is in the hands of the Ming court."

Zhu Qiyu took over Li Binyan's memorabilia and read it for a long time. The copies of the Dutch and English East India Companies were actually in Ming Dynasty. They can all be collectively referred to as red-capped merchants.

When some dirty work is tiring, and it is inconvenient for the imperial court and the governor's mansion to do it, this Maritime Mutual Benefit Alliance will be used.

Zhu Qiyu put forward his own different point of view, looked at Li Binyan and asked: "A business alliance with a pioneering, plundering, and colonial nature, the imperial court interferes too much, and it can easily become a tool for controlling foreign businessmen and caring for people from far away. In order not to be backlashed, the imperial court One or two should be controlled, but let me ask, the Daming Navy has always maintained an advantage in armed forces over the Merchant Alliance, does this Merchant Alliance dare to attack Daming?"

Li Binyan frowned and asked, "Your Majesty means not to interfere too much?"

"Yes." Zhu Qiyu said quite accurately: "The imperial court is rigid. A matter has to be reported to us layer by layer, and then after a long discussion, it is impossible to respond immediately. This kind of rigidity is In matters of people's livelihood, it is a kind of institutional prudence, which I think is beneficial, but this kind of rigidity is harmful when used in commercial behavior."

"The imperial court can appoint its merchant generals, but in terms of decision-making, the imperial court should focus on bottom-line thinking. At the beginning of the establishment, a red line should be drawn. Once the line is crossed, they will be eliminated and a new merchant alliance will be formed."

The reason why Zhu Qiyu said this is because corresponding to the East India Company, the Thirteen Banks of Guangzhou in the Qing Dynasty was also a maritime merchant group that was provided with certain military and political power by the imperial court. As a result, the maritime merchant collective in the Qing Dynasty was Constraints gradually lost their vitality, and finally evolved into a tool to control foreign businessmen and treat people far away.

The management must be managed, the appointment of the general manager of the business and the personal restriction of the important figures of the entire business alliance are not allowed to go to sea. Once the business alliance does evil, the court will destroy it with thunder, and then establish a new business alliance.

The bottom line is to put Daming's interests first.

Zhu Qiyu thought for a while, picked up the pen on the table and replied: "It is impossible for any policy to be perfect at the beginning of the design, and to change according to the time and situation, it is all in practice, and it is constantly improved. I thought that the Ministry of Household Affairs could be responsible for the establishment of Zhongfei, and Ye Zhong, the general manager of the merchants of Songjiang Prefecture, acted as the general manager of the merchants."

"Your Majesty is wise." Yu Qian expressed his support.

Zhu Qiyu took out Jingtai's treasure again, covered it with seams, and handed Li Binyan's memorabilia to Wang Wen.

Under the system design of the Ming dynasty system, the emperor had the right to bypass the court council. This was to give Li Binyan a platform. His memorial may not pass the court council, even if the emperor and the leader of the officials, Yu Qian, supported him. have to pass.

As the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Qiyu's power is unlimited, he rarely uses this power, but as long as he uses this power, it represents the mighty grace of the emperor.

The emperor's grace is mighty!Huangji Zhenshiquan!Ask for a monthly ticket, woo! ! ! ! ! ! ! !