Daming 1805

Chapter 280 The Mozhou Situation Is Actually Good
"Xia He, Dongmei, Fuquan, Fuwang, you are all here..."

Zhu Jingyuan looked at the four people in front of him and felt that his head was a little big.

Xia He and Dongmei are maidservants in her mother's room, while Fuquan and Fuwang are male servants in her family:
"Could it be that my father and mother are going to set an example and confiscate their servants and send them to emigrate?"

Fuquan and Fuwang didn't dare to talk nonsense. Liang Yunying's two maidservants knew Zhu Jingyuan very well. Dongmei smiled and nodded:
"His Majesty, that's what His Majesty and Your Majesty meant. My Majesty also said that anyway, the two of us brought our maidservants here, and we are serving as His Majesty's servants. It's not a loss at all."

Zhu Jingyuan was very speechless in his heart, his parents felt that it was not a loss, and the maids like Dongmei must also feel that it was not a loss.

As a young maid in the wife's room, the best result is not to serve the mistress for a lifetime.

Instead, she became a concubine when the master took over the house, or gave it to the son of the family as a maid in the house, and finally became the son's concubine...

If the relationship between the master and the young master is not very good, or if the young master is not very favored, it must be better to follow the master.

But Zhu Jingyuan is the heart of his parents, so it must be better to follow this younger son.

What's more, Zhu Jingyuan's status as a son is so special, he is now the richest vassal prince and prince in Ming Dynasty.

If he can be like Chunxiang and Qiuyue, and be confiscated by His Highness in the future, then he will have accumulated virtue in his previous life.

Immediately, she will become the richest talented person in the Dashi Kingdom, a worldly woman like Jieyu, and she will have a chance to become a talented person in Ming Dynasty in the future.

Chunxiang and Qiuyue in Zhu Jingyuan's room originally entered the mansion together with Xia He and Dongmei.

After the four were educated and trained, Xia He and Dong Mei stayed by Liang Yunying's side.

Chunxiang and Qiuyue went directly to Zhu Jingyuan's room.

Xia He and Dong Mei have always been quite regretful, but they just didn't dare to show it.

Now inexplicably, they were suddenly given to Zhu Jingyuan together. For the two maidservants, it was a joy from heaven.

The two brothers Fuwang and Fuquan had slightly different emotions from Xia He, but they were also very fortunate.

As male servants, after Zhu Jianyan moved into the palace, there was no way for the two of them to follow up in the "Imperial Palace".

The final result is basically given to the adult prince, or to the emperor to take care of the palace before he ascended the throne.

Although the treatment and conditions should be good, relatively speaking, following Zhu Jingyuan is obviously the best result.

The reason is simple, Zhu Jingyuan is the most favored, the richest, and the most powerful.

"You go to rest first, Xia He, Dongmei, you follow Chunxiang, Fuquan and you two brothers to go to Guanzhen Mansion, and I will talk to you in detail tomorrow."

Zhu Jingyuan ordered people to take the two servants who reported to go to rest, and he opened the letter from his parents that they had brought.

Then Zhu Jingyuan's head got even bigger.

Didn't my parents send two maids, Xia He and Dongmei, and two male servants, Fuquan and Fuwang?

Instead, it sent a large group of similar people.

Zhu Jingyuan knew that his father sent most of the family's servants.

Fuquan and Fuwang are in charge of delivering letters, Xia He and Dongmei are familiar with themselves, and they must help their mother to pass on the message.

Others are not qualified to come to see themselves directly.

Only my brothers were put in, and the very few who were serving my brothers were confiscated as concubines.

The other male and female servants were basically sent over.

And they're still not all of them.

They were only sent by their own parents, and there were others sent by others.

Most of the slave immigrants on the first ship were officials who took the initiative to set an example, and the princes and nobles were forced by the emperor to set an example, and the servants confiscated from their respective homes.

The situation was the same as in my own home. Except for a very small number of women who were urgently confiscated, others were sent in batches.

In order for them to cooperate, my father also instructed the Ministry of Households to specifically remove the regulations.

As an example, those who voluntarily turned over their servants and replaced them with hired workers will have additional concubines for their children.

The more you pay, the more places you can take concubines.

Of course, this quota can be chosen by one's own servants first.

But it can only be Korean maidservant, Henu, Nanyue, Siam, and Burmese.

If you don’t have servants from these five clans, but you have paid a large number of slaves from other clans, you can apply to the court to assign females from other clans to be concubines.

Children born to women of the five ethnic groups can directly obtain the status of Daming people, but are not eligible to inherit the title of the family.

This is obviously a huge exception.

For many people who are not qualified to take concubines, exchanging slaves for concubines is a huge attraction.

It is also obvious that a batch of newborns with Daming identities will be directly added.

From Zhu Jingyuan's point of view, this is completely treating these servants as objects, and they can be fucking replaced.

This is a matter of course in the eyes of the indigenous dignitaries.

What my father did... In Zhu Jingyuan's opinion, it was just an evaluation, too simple and rude.

But the effect is also obvious.

As long as his policy can be truly and thoroughly implemented, it will be more secure than the abolition of slavery he supports.

The fundamental purpose of supporting the abolition of slavery, of course, is not to give freedom because of pity for slaves.

I just took pictures of America's ethnic group problem in my previous life, and tried every means to eliminate the soil of this problem in advance.

All the land in the cultural circle of the Ming Dynasty will be completely included in Daming as the core of the country.

Zhu Jingyuan has the experience of later generations. He knows that with the continuous advancement of industrialization, the level of civilization of ordinary people in society will continue to rise, and their moral standards will continue to rise.

Coupled with the fact that industrial development requires workers, stakeholders may take advantage of or even take the initiative to promote this trend, and then force the imperial court to abolish slavery from the bottom up, turning the native slaves of the Ming Dynasty into free people.

But by that time, the liberated slaves of various ethnic groups may have formed their own ethnic group cognition, and at the same time, they also carried the common memory of their ethnic group as slaves, and even their ancestors were trafficked into the mainland of Daming as slaves.

Coupled with the moral level of ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty, after entering a civilized society, they may feel pity or even guilt for the former slaves, and then accommodate the descendants of the liberated slaves in society and policy.

In this way, these servants and their descendants will always retain their own self-cognition of the ethnic group, continue to seek benefits and refuse to fully integrate into the Ming Dynasty, and will become an unstable factor and a burden for the development of the Ming Dynasty.

The life of a Korean maidservant is also a life, and the life of a woman is also a life...

These are all the results that Zhu Jingyuan's previous life in the United States has shown. Of course, we must find ways to prevent them.

Zhu Jingyuan's plan is to abolish slaves before the moral level of ordinary people enters a civilized society, before the slaves' self-ethnic identity is established and formed into memory, and the entire ethnic group is completely absorbed into the scope of the Ming people, thereby avoiding this result.

And my father's choice was to drive these people out and move to Mozhou and Yinzhou.

According to other news, his father is pushing for a complete vacating of the surrounding areas of Daming.

Completely remove all the aborigines born by the He tribe, Koreans, South Vietnamese, Siamese, and Burmese.

At the same time, they have to melt them in Mozhou and Yinzhou to become another mixed Ming cultural group.

This is the civilized version of what the Angsa gang did in Northern Yinzhou, and what they are going to do.

The final result should be more thorough, and there is a high probability that it will not leave too much trouble.

It's just that the project volume and difficulty are relatively high.

After Zhu Jingyuan read the letter and considered the differences between his father's plan and his own, he began to worry about the placement of these people.

Many of these servants used to have extremely high living standards, and their original status was not comparable to that of ordinary people.

In particular, some are servants of the close royal family and even the royal family.

It was impossible for Zhu Jingyuan to accept everyone as his servants, most of them would definitely be sent to factories as workers.

Can these people work honestly?
It's time for me to go to Yinzhou after the new year, so I'll do this for myself now.

"Wait, uh... The situation in Yinzhou may be more complicated. Some Yinzhous on Mozhou's side may have..."

After worrying for a while, Zhu Jingyuan suddenly realized:
"Even if I go to Mozhou, I have to deal with similar things. Because of their reputation for abolishing slaves, these people dare not bring their servants to Mozhou, so they can only go to Yinzhou to use them."

Zhu Jingyuan also knew that there are actually many kinds of servants.

Dongmei and Fuquan belonged to the family servants who served others.

There are also slave laborers working in factories and serfs working on farms.

There are also servants for the entertainment of the rich and powerful.

At the same time, among all kinds of slaves, there may be people engaged in slave reproduction.

South Carolina and North Carolina in Yinzhou were originally a colony.

However, the internal composition of the north and the south is completely different. The north is a slave farm that is used for business.

In the south, it was a slave manor used by British nobles for entertainment and vacation, and the slaves here were for entertainment.

Entertainment on every level.

The current king of England, the third son of George III, and later William IV, specially set up a slave manor in Yinzhou.

In the eyes of the North Carolina people, the South Carolina nobles are completely wasting the means of production.

The two sides couldn't get along at all, so they separated later.

Americans in Yinzhou are doing this kind of thing, and businessmen in Ming Dynasty are also doing it.

At the same time, the suppression of bandits in Nanyinzhou continued, and the Napoleonic War reached a critical point.

Exploration in Panama also continues, as does large-scale official migration construction.

The situation on Mozhou's side is relatively simple, and Yinzhou's is the real group of demons dancing wildly.

Compared with the complicated situation in Yinzhou, the Ming and Western countries in Mozhou are in charge of each other, and the process of exploring and conquering the natives and building colonies from the east and west sides to the interior can even be called harmony.

Even though I am in Mozhou now, the colonies of the Thai and Western countries are actually separated by the entire continent, and it is basically impossible to have direct contact.

Between Yinzhou and the colonies of Western and Western countries in the west of Mozhou, there is only a not-so-wide Atlantic Ocean.

There are mature traditional air routes between the two sides, and the trade and exchanges between the two sides have never been cut off, and they are quite close.

So when I arrived in Yinzhou, I had to deal with the colonies of the Western countries in Mozhou instead.

Zhu Jingyuan put down the letter from his parents, and after thinking about it for a long time, he had two staff members called Lin Zexu and Niu Jian.

Zhu Jingyuan briefly talked about the situation of this ship of immigrants, and then continued to explain his thoughts:

"We're going to leave here after the next year, we can't leave a mess here, so we have to come up with an arrangement plan.

"My current idea is to deal with them in different categories.

"Divide the resettlement plans we can provide into several relatively clear categories.

"Workers, peasants, soldiers, wives, actors.

"It was allowed to choose by itself, and then dispersed to various factory areas.

"I haven't considered many details yet. The two gentlemen can discuss it together."

After hearing this, Lin Zexu said with some uncertainty:

"His Royal Highness, you mean to give him all freedom?"

Zhu Jingyuan nodded directly:
"Yes."

Lin Zexu immediately asked:

"Among these people, there are many who come from high-ranking families, and most of them will not be satisfied with the five identities.

"If he harbors resentment, he may intentionally disobey discipline and even disrupt production, so we have to guard against it."

Zhu Jingyuan said directly:

"Those who refuse to obey the discipline can be dealt with according to the regulations.

"But you can do one thing and two can't do three things. If you refuse to obey discipline three times, you will be fined and confiscated as a slave.

"Whoever destroys production tools and materials will be directly confiscated as a slave.

"The men were converted into forced slave labor, most of the women were also converted into forced slave labor, and a small part was transferred to the Jiaofang Secretary.

"Forced slave labor is under the direct jurisdiction of the palace, and those who disobey and sabotage can be punished by military corporal punishment, and those who are serious can be executed."

Lin Zexu began to think, and Niu Jian said hesitantly:

"Your Highness, according to your own statement, isn't your proposal a bit...simple and rude?"

Zhu Jingyuan nodded lightly and said:

"Yes, it's a bit simple and rude, but in this case, it has to be simple and rude.

"I think most of the slaves should be willing to live a normal life here after they are freed.

"Our living conditions here are actually very good, and the future is also very promising.

"Under such circumstances, there should be only a very small number of those who still harbor resentment and dissatisfaction.

"Moreover, some of these people may be more stubborn, and may choose to endure destruction.

"Our officials, scribes, shopkeepers, and managers should not waste too much time on them.

"If they really want to die, then let them go back to be the lowest-level servants and use them to death.

"It's better to deal with this kind of thing a few times before we leave, so as to set a precedent for the successor."

Niu Jian and Lin Zexu felt that Zhu Jingyuan was more thoughtful, and they both agreed with Zhu Jingyuan's plan.

So the three continued to discuss the details, and Zhu Jingyuan explained his idea as clearly as possible.

Then let the two people sort out and form the norms, and at the same time arrange people to implement them as soon as possible.

(End of this chapter)