Hongwu Daming: Why hasn't my son rebelled?

Chapter 190 Goryeo Comes to Do Something Again
Hongwu 11 years, June.

Wang Sanxi is an honest farmer who was born and grew up in Liaodong.

He spent the first half of his life with the Northern Yuan court. Not to mention his poor life, he had to be wary of bullying from local officials from time to time.

However, I have been listening to the propaganda of the Northern Yuan Dynasty that if the Ming Dynasty came here, they would not be able to protect any of their property, and their lives would be lost.

Therefore, although Wang Sanxi had a difficult life under the rule of the Northern Yuan court, he never thought that one day he would join the Ming Dynasty.

However, after the Ming Dynasty really came, Wang Sanxi discovered that the Ming Dynasty and the Northern Yuan Dynasty's propaganda were not the same at all.

Although the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were all mighty and majestic, they looked very difficult to mess with and looked fierce.

But it's not like those bastards in Beiyuan, wandering around the street when they have nothing to do, not giving money for food or food, and occasionally punching you or something.

Under normal circumstances, these Ming soldiers would not wander around the city casually, but would only station outside the city. Occasionally, some of the people who came to the city were just people who maintained law and order.

Not only that, but the administrative efficiency of the Ming Dynasty was also very fast. It didn't take long for administrative officials to be sent to Liaoyang, and a team of local officials came.

Moreover, unlike the officials in Beiyuan, the officials sent by the Ming Dynasty here are all very clean and honest.

Even if some people send money, they will not accept any money. Not only that, if some people are occupied and the good land is sued to the government, the government will also support it.

For example, Wang Sanxi recently talked about an incident in the village next door.

There was an old man in his [-]s who lost his son. Later, a wealthy household next to him wanted the old man in his [-]s to bring his farmland to his home, saying that he would provide for him in the old age, but the farmland would belong to the wealthy householder.

The fifty-year-old man was not happy. Although the family lost his son, he still had a grandson.

But the rich man tied up the old man in his [-]s without any explanation, saying that the old man in his [-]s had already agreed.

The wealthy family still has a lot of connections with the former Northern Yuan court. If it was the case before, ordinary people would definitely not dare to sue the officials.

But now that the door has been changed, and the officials of the Ming Dynasty came here, the people in the village couldn't stand it any longer. A young man clenched his fist and shouted:
"How can anyone bully people like this!"

After shouting, I went to the local government to report to the officials. Guess what?

Not long after, the rich man was arrested.

Not only that, but the property of the fifty-year-old man was returned to the fifty-year-old man, and all the money of the rich household was confiscated.

Good guy, what the common people love to see most is the unlucky people who are richer than themselves!
Naturally, Wang Sanxi was no exception. After seeing some people's misfortune, his impression of the Ming Dynasty improved a lot.

It seems that the Ming army is not as abominable as the Northern Yuan court advertised, otherwise it would not be possible to attack the rich.

Since the Ming Dynasty regained Liaodong, it began to develop the local economy wholeheartedly. Needless to say, the economy these years is naturally farming.

During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, there were a series of policies and strategies to encourage farmers to farm.

The first is to provide iron farm tools, which Zhu Yuanzhang has clearly mentioned.

Farm tools are distributed to the people according to the time limit. If the people accidentally lose the farm tools, they can be reissued after confirming that they are indeed lost.

Of course, if you deliberately hide the agricultural tools and then go to the government to ask for them, if you are found out, it will be a serious crime.

In addition to the support of agricultural tools, the Ming Dynasty also measured the land, then liquidated the excess land of those rich households, and transferred the land to poor peasants who did not have land.

These rich merchants and wealthy households originally supported Beiyuan, and the army of the Ming Dynasty did not show any mercy when they were dealing with them.

Not only that, but anyone who dares to resist will definitely be arrested and questioned.

Then this thing that makes rich people unlucky is really attractive.

In addition to these things that the common people like to hear and see, the government of the Ming Dynasty also let the common people grow cotton. If the cotton they planted could not be sold, they could be bought by the government.

As a result, the people of Liaodong, who had greatly changed their views on the Ming Dynasty, began to grow cotton on a large scale this year.

Wang Sanxi is no exception. At home, he also grows cotton in his fields. Anyway, it is the same as long as the cotton is sold to buy grain.

However, apart from growing cotton at home, Wang Sanxi also took on a very big business recently, which was to help His Royal Highness King Liao to farm.

The things planted are also very strange, things that Wang Sanxi has never seen before.

However, this was the arrangement of His Royal Highness King Liao, and the money had already been given to Wang Sanxi before it was planted.

What Wang Sanxi needs to do is to cultivate the crops according to his rich farming experience, and that's it.

And in their village, like Wang Sanxi, there are not a few farmers hired by His Royal Highness Liao Wang.

The places where they farmed were all near the Prince Liao's mansion, and they were not allowed to mess around outside.

His Royal Highness still attaches great importance to these crops. If Wang Sanxi and the others can grow them well, then His Royal Highness Liao Wang will definitely be rewarded heavily.

When Wang Sanxi heard this, he didn't say anything else, he really wished he could live in the Prince Liao's mansion and guard these fields every day!
Sitting in the field, Wang Sanxi looked at the strange plants that had just sprouted in front of him, thinking that in a few months, he would be able to get a large bounty from His Royal Highness Liao Wang.

These days are really getting better every day.

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And when Wang Sanxi and the rest of the common people were very happy for an extra income.

Zhu Qi is also very happy every day. From time to time, he goes to the field to see how the corn and potatoes are growing.

Zhu Qi had never farmed before, so he didn't know much about farming.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang would let them, who are princes, go to farm and work in the fields every year. Although it was just for show, Zhu Qi knew the general process of farming.

After the corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes germinated, it was a good start. If these seeds couldn't even germinate, it would be a real headache.

However, those plants in the original American continent were all wild at first.

It has to be artificially cultivated before it can grow into corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes like modern ones.

Zhu Qi has only heard about this matter, but he is not very clear about how to cultivate it.

But no matter what, it must be right to plant them first.

Anyway, Wang Chuanqi had already reached the American continent through the Bering Strait, and sailed safely along the American continent for a long time.

These seeds were also obtained from the local tribes in exchange for silk, cloth and other valuable items from the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Qi has heard about the indigenous tribes of the American continent. In fact, when Westerners landed on the American continent for the first time, the local tribes were very enthusiastic, and they did not have the same attitude towards outsiders as many tribes in Africa. hostility.

However, no matter how enthusiastic you are, when you meet those bandits in the West, it will be a hot face and a cold ass.

Moreover, it was ruthlessly exploited by the West, and even the land of the Indians was taken away, and it became the land of the Americans now.

The Ming Dynasty was different, although Zhu Qi's rule over the Americas was inevitable.

But it will not cruelly exploit the natives of the Americas like Western countries. After all, the greatest advantage of the Chinese nation is tolerance and assimilation.

However, it is not so easy to promote Chinese education in America.

First of all, the problem of Beiyuan must be solved first, and then the land route from Northeast Siberia to Bering Strait must be opened up.

Otherwise, if you go to the American continent by sea, you are really risking your life. The only way to go by land is the safest way.

But this was something that would take many years to come true, so Zhu Qi stopped thinking about it, and instead wrote to Wang Chuanqi, asking him to report to him in Liaoyang, Liaodong as soon as possible.

Wang Chuanqi had already resigned from the post of commander of the Daming Tianjin Wei Navy.

Now it has become a member of the customs system directly under the emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.

Originally, his position was handed over to General Ma Yun.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang obviously also knew that Zhu Qi was recently asking Wang Chuanqi to lead the naval forces to explore outside.

So when Wang Chuanqi was assigned to the Customs Force, he did not abolish the warships under his command.

The warships that went out to explore this time were also given to the customs department, which was said to be the customs department, but in fact it was Zhu Qi's private yamen.

You said that you want to put it in the emperor of another dynasty and let the prince open the yamen by himself. This is simply impossible. Someone has done it before, and that is Tang Gaozu.

Let his son Li Shimin open a mansion in Luoyang and call him General Tiance of the Eastern Capital.

Needless to say what the result is, but Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't seem to be worried about this at all.

In any case, since his father gave him this convenience in terms of rights, Zhu Qina would definitely take advantage of it.

And Wang Chuanqi's third expedition has been so successful, there is no reason why Wang Chuanqi can't take another adventure for the fourth time.

However, this fourth adventure will be matched with new ships, and Zhu Qi has asked the craftsmen to study some soft sailing ships.

And the craftsmen mentioned here are not those craftsmen that Zhu Qi has cultivated since before, but those Western craftsmen that Zhu Qi found with the Italian horse three gangs.

This soft sailing boat is the housekeeping skill of the West. Since there is a ready-made one, Zhu Qi has no reason to re-research it from scratch. It would be better if they just brought their scientific and technological achievements from the West.

During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, the sailing technology in the West was already quite advanced. In less than 100 years, the West will start the era of great navigation.

So after Zhu Qi asked those craftsmen to reproduce the Western soft sail boat, they obtained the experiment report of the soft sail boat, and the result naturally made Zhu Qi very happy.

After all, let's be honest, soft sailing boats are the most suitable for ocean sailing.

Therefore, if the route from Daming to America is to be normalized in the future, it is necessary to develop soft sailing ships.

At least this was the case before the invention of warships of modern technology such as ironclad ships.

And the sailors in Wang Chuanqi's hands, although experienced, they are all good at handling hard sailing ships,

It will definitely take a lot of time for them to practice the various tedious operations of soft sailing boats.

Zhu Qi asked Wang Chuanqi to bring his men to Liaoyang for this purpose.

After Wang Chuanqi received the letter from His Highness King Liao, without saying a word, he immediately set off with his crew and the ship in his hand and headed towards Zhu Qi.

Others may still feel in their hearts that they were originally a good man, the commander of the Tianjin Wei Navy.

Now he is suddenly dismissed and replaced by an unknown general in the customs department. This must be to suppress himself, who used to be a pirate.

But Wang Chuanqi didn't think so. Wang Chuanqi already admired His Royal Highness King Liao from the bottom of his heart.

Whether it is His Royal Highness Liao's ability to command naval battles, or the turtle ship invented by His Royal Highness Liao, and His Highness Liao's compassion for his subordinates, when he has military exploits, he will distribute them to his subordinates instead of taking it all by himself.

In Wang Chuanqi's heart, he had already decided that His Royal Highness King Liao would be his master in the future.

But he listened to all His Highness Liao Wang said, but he absolutely obeyed all Liao King's orders, but he didn't have any objection to any Liao King's decision.

Go through fire and water, do whatever you want!
It can be said that Zhu Qi is very busy now, and he has to be busy with the construction of the school ahead.

In the future, I will be busy watching the farmers grow new types of food, and then I will wait until Wang Chuanqi comes to Liaoyang to train his sailors, learn how to steer soft sailboats, and so on.

Lai Lai planned to come to Liaoyang to catch fish, but he didn't expect that Liaoyang had become a model worker. He was always busy with things from morning to night, and besides himself, no one else could do them for him.

When you talk about things like schools, I want classrooms one by one, and every student has tables, chairs and benches.

Moreover, there must be a playground where the bells are used for class and get out of class activities. These messy things, those ancient scholars, how could they understand these things?

In their impression, the school is a big classroom, everyone sits together, the teacher talks about the class, and there are no weird things like going up and down the bell playground.

So there is no way to build the school, so I can only live and stare at myself.

Not to mention the three treasures of civilization, potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes. Apart from myself, only the natives in the Americas understood, but Wang Chuanqi did not bring the natives back from the Americas.

What's more, the technology of Native Americans in planting these three treasures of civilization may not be as good as Zhu Qi.

Not to mention training sailors to steer soft sailboats, the only one in Daming who thinks highly of soft sailboats now is Zhu Qi.

The other craftsmen, although they saw His Royal Highness Liao Wang's expectations for soft sail boats.

But I still feel that those limp sails can't meet the needs of sailing at sea.

This also made Zhu Qi shake his head and sigh. It seems that the advancement of physics and other natural sciences must hurry up.

Otherwise, as a technology expert who has surpassed the times, there is really no one who has a common language with me.

However, there is no need to worry about these people's livelihood matters, just take your time.

As long as there is money, it is only a matter of time before someone effectively promotes the completion of these things.

And whenever Zhu Qi is busy with these meaningful things, the surrounding countries always seem to be restless and always have to pick something for Zhu Qi, such as Korea next to him!

Ever since the Ming army occupied Liaodong, and Wang Baobao implemented the policy of diverting disasters to the east and conferring Liaodong to the King of Koryo, the king of Koryo has been thinking about the fertile land of Liaodong all the time.

But in view of the fact that the Ming army was stationed in Liaodong, the King of Koryo also knew that it was not so easy to get Liaodong into his pocket.

After hearing that the vassal king of Liaodong was Liao King Zhu Qi, the King of Koryo was moved.

The last time Goryeo sent envoys to Daming to ask for the princess, it seemed that they had a very good relationship with Liao King Zhu Qi.

The king of Koryo thought to himself, if he could bring some gold, silver and jewelry, let the king of Liao take the initiative to distribute some land in Liaodong to the country of Koryo.

That's better than getting nothing at all.

Ordinarily, other countries would definitely not do such absurd things, but the King of Korea really did it.

He arranged for an envoy to come to Liaodong to find Zhu Qi, the king of Liao, for nothing but to discuss the land division of Liaodong.

After Zhu Qi heard this, he also thought he was a good guy.

This Goryeo country wants land, and it is going to come to my head, so can I, the king of Liao, get it for you?

Not to mention, arrange it immediately!
(End of this chapter)