Daming 1805

Chapter 12 A Little No Little Trouble
When the meeting finally ended, it was already early morning.

The delegates at the meeting were all very tired, but the old emperor's state was just the opposite. He seemed to be in good spirits recently.

The old emperor said goodbye to everyone with a smile, and left the Wenhua Hall on his own.

With some doubts, the princes and ministers left the palace one after another after saying goodbye to each other.

Zhu Jianyan and Zhu Jingyuan's father and son, after getting into their car again, instinctively looked at each other.

Zhu Jingyuan asked in a strange tone:
"I'm going to be the minister in one step now. What are your thoughts now, King Father?"

Zhu Jianyan sat upright:

"The solitary king doesn't think about anything now, don't think about it, take a good rest after you go back, and talk about the rest tomorrow.

"Don't be under pressure, the formal peace talks won't start right away, it will take at least ten days and a half months just to determine the time and place of the negotiations.

"It may take longer for each country to confirm the candidates for representatives and all the representatives to arrive at the negotiation site, so I have time to guide you on basic negotiation skills.

"Although our Daming negotiation has always been bullying, we still need to understand the basic rules."

Zhu Jingyuan also resumed his seriousness:
"Thank you father for your support."

Zhu Jianyan laughed instead, and patted Zhu Jingyuan on the shoulder:

"Work hard, we will depend on you in the future."

Zhu Jingyuan nodded silently, and did not continue to say more, because the sleepiness came up, and he couldn't hold it anymore.

As the grandson of the emperor, Zhu Jingyuan began to be enlightened at the age of four. Under the supervision of special servants, he lived in strict accordance with the schedule of the children of the royal family.

There are clear rules for when to get up, when to eat, when to study, and what to study.

The time to sleep at night is ten o'clock, and Zhu Jingyuan has never stayed up after ten o'clock.

Zhu Jingyuan's spirit was actually very tired at the Wenhua Palace until midnight with the princes and ministers.

During the discussion in the palace, I was in a state of high spirits, so I didn't feel anything.

After getting out, I got into the car, and with my father, I quickly relaxed, and I immediately felt that my eyelids were fighting.

Zhu Jianyan stopped talking and urged the driver to drive faster.

After entering the palace, he let the car drive directly into the yard where Zhu Jingyuan lived.

Zhu Jingyuan was in a hurry when he left, and neither his mother, Mrs. Liang, nor the maid by his side had time to ask what was going on.

When the two of them didn't come back at night, Mrs. Liang and the maid by her side were a little worried. (Prince concubines who have children are usually concubines).

Mrs. Liang couldn't sleep either, so she asked her maid to guard the door. Seeing that Zhu Jianyan's car finally came back, she immediately came out to the door to pick him up.

When Zhu Jianyan's car stopped, Mrs. Liang went over to help her son down, and asked Zhu Jianyan worriedly:
"My lord, Jingyuan went to the palace with you? He didn't come back until this time, did the child get into trouble?"

Before Zhu Jianyan could speak, Zhu Jingyuan himself said with a smile:
"Mother, you asked this question because you thought I was in trouble, right? I made a contribution today..."

"What can you do?"

Mrs. Liang's expression was a little dazed, and she looked at Zhu Jianyan with a questioning look, and Zhu Jianyan couldn't help but laugh:
"That's right, Jing Yuan made a great contribution today, but the matter has to be kept secret for the time being. You'll know in a few days when the reward is awarded."

Seeing that Mrs. Liang seemed to have doubts, Zhu Jianyan smiled and waved:
"Don't ask for now, let's go back to the house and let Jingyuan go to rest, he has never endured this time."

Mrs. Liang nodded in agreement, helped Zhu Jingyuan into the room, and handed it over to the maid in Zhu Jingyuan's room to take care of it. Finally, she took Zhu Jianyan to her room.

The two maids in Zhu Jianyan's room, Chunxiang and Qiuyue, helped Zhu Jingyuan to sit down on the bed and asked while helping him undress:

"Your Highness, do you want supper? Do you want to take a shower?"

Zhu Jingyuan was really sleepy, he waved his hand and said:

"Don't have a late night snack, I can't hold it anymore, go to bed first, take a bath and come back from exercise tomorrow morning..."

After Zhu Jingyuan finished undressing, he went straight into the bed.

Watching the two maids carefully turn off the lights and leave, Zhu Jingyuan suddenly thought of something.

As a result, with a burst of drowsiness, Zhu Jingyuan decided to reconsider tomorrow, and then closed his eyes and fell asleep.

The next morning at six o'clock in the morning, Zhu Jingyuan, whose biological clock was exceptionally accurate, woke up on time.

After the reform of Renwu, the imperial court officially re-divided the twelve hours of the day, and officially established the status of 24 "hours".

Later, in daily use, the last "chen" of Xiaochen was slowly omitted, and finally became the daily "hour".

In order to make it easier to call, Xiaochen no longer uses the earthly branch to call it, but uses numbers directly, saying "when".

According to the living standards of the prince and the grandson, even if he stayed up late last night, the morning exercise still could not be delayed, and he could only make up for sleep in the afternoon.

So Zhu Jingyuan immediately stretched his waist and got up, washed and changed clothes under the service of two personal maids.

Seeing the two maids again, Zhu Jingyuan also thought of what happened last night, the questions that appeared in his mind at that time.

The Ming Dynasty after the re-emergence of benevolence and martial arts clearly prohibited the Ming Dynasty from being slaves, serving envoys in violation of regulations, exiling the light, and beheading the serious.

The so-called Daming nation refers to the human ethnic groups that have lived in Daming since ancient times, such as Han, Manchu, Mongolian, Hui, Tibetan, Wei, Yi, Zhuang, Miao and Yao.

According to the new system of benevolence and martial arts, all Ming nationalities, except for relegation due to crimes, have no distinction between men and women.

So now the servants of the rich and famous are either long-term employees in the form of contracts or slaves imported from abroad.

The average elite family has only a small number of hired workers, and only the relatively wealthy families of the upper middle and upper classes can afford real exclusive servants.

Zhu Jingyuan is the grandson of the emperor, and his father is a prince. As the top nobleman, his family has both highly educated hired housekeepers and real slaves imported from abroad.

The employees themselves are still "people", and they are the people who have the right of abode status and above in the eighth-level civil class stipulated by the empire.

In layman's terms, citizens are their own people, nationals are their own people with low status or restrictions, those with abode are outsiders who are regarded as people, and servants are not regarded as people.

If a person with the right of abode is killed, the official yamen will handle it as a homicide case, and if he is beaten or scolded by the owner for no reason, he can report to the official and resign.

But if the servant is killed, it will only be dealt with as property damage, and the beating is only compensation for the loss.

Since slaves are property and can be traded relatively freely, they are naturally divided into many grades among the people according to their popularity.

First-class Korea, the Silla maid in the Tang Dynasty, and the Korean maid in the Daming Dynasty, have been very popular servants since ancient times, and they are close to traditional culture.

Second-class Japan, mainly Japanese women, emerged after the Ming Dynasty conquered Japan, and belonged to a new culture. The Korean servants and Japanese women were important economic sources of the two vassal states.

The third-class Burmese, including Siamese and Annan people, are mostly not as popular as the first two in terms of image, but they are relatively cheap and easy to use, and they are the most common middle-class servants.

Fourth-class Tatars, Central Asia, Tianzhu, Persia, Turks, Dashi, etc. are all Tatars, and there are ethnic subdivisions inside, but the price is similar, depending on personal preference, female slaves are called orchids.

The fifth-class Yin people, the Yinzhou people, are called Indians in the West, and their popularity is actually similar to that of Tatars and Burmese, but the origin is far away, there are fewer sales, and the price is slightly more expensive.

The sixth-class Nanyang is the brown people on the islands of Luzon, Java, Jiugang, etc., that is, the Kunlun slaves in the Tang Dynasty, and they are the most common low-level slaves.

The seventh-class white slaves were mainly white Europeans, including the pale-skinned Dashi and Tianzhu. The cost of capturing them was relatively high. Most of the local white slaves were prisoners of war who could not pay the ransom.

The eighth-class black slaves were mainly black Africans, including Australian aborigines. The overall number was relatively large, and they were the lowest-level coolie slaves.

According to the rules set by Emperor Shizu, the males of white slaves and black slaves must be castrated when they enter the country, and the females of black slaves must also be castrated, but the operation is cumbersome, so there are basically no female black slaves.

Tartars and white slaves, Nanyang and black slaves, sometimes the difference is not very obvious, mainly depends on whether the body has a bad smell.

Tasteless female white slaves are actually more popular, but their natural number is very small, and it is difficult to obtain. The key is that they cannot be sold at the price of women.

Therefore, there are no slave traders who specifically look for the tasteless white slaves, so that the Orchid market has been monopolized by Central Asia and Tianzhu for a long time.

The question Zhu Jingyuan is now considering is what to do with these servants and related industries after North Korea, Japan, Burma, Siam and other places withdraw their feudal vassals.

After the Korean maid, Henv, and Dian servants became a nation, theoretically they could no longer be servants, and the servants would be punished.

But it can't be released directly regardless, most of the slaves do not have the ability to live independently.

If it is not handled well, it may lead to slave change...

(End of this chapter)