Daming Jingtai: I am the eternal benevolent king

Chapter 339 The Gate of Hell and the Road to Heaven

After hearing the good news, the important officials entered the Yangxin Hall one after another.

When he saw the emperor muttering under his breath while looking at the map, he knew something was going to happen.

"Your Majesty, Duke Xing has received good news?" Hu Xi asked cautiously.

"The southeastern coalition was defeated. Yu Qian swallowed most of Siam in one breath. Li Zhen and Ou Xin also captured the capital of Bago and annihilated it. Guo Deng occupied the big city. The king of Siam fled north, and the coalition collapsed."

Zhu Qiyu stared at the map to the west. There were constant wars in the south, but the big battle should be over.

"Your Majesty, war is easy, but governance is difficult!"

Hu Hui immediately understood the emperor’s greed: “Boni and Luzon have been built as three provinces, Laos has just been acquired, Xinyizhou is still under construction, Cochin cannot be self-sufficient, and now it has annexed the territory of two provinces of Siam, as well as Bago. "

"This is the territory of six or seven provinces. Your Majesty, if you want to completely turn it into Han territory, it will take only twenty years to achieve it."

"No more war!"

Hu Xi said: "Your Majesty, you can't just look at the victory of the war, but also the difficulty of governance."

"In this war, we have invested about 800,000 troops in the southern navy and land forces, and spent more than 10 million on military expenditures."

"It took two years to defeat the coalition forces."

"It seems easy, but it is actually a victory achieved by spending money."

"However, if it were to be built, the investment would probably be more than 10 million, and troops would need to be recruited from within the country to build it."

"This is the territory of the Sixth and Seventh Provinces, which is as big as the south of the Ming Dynasty!"

"You also have to consider another issue: the people's minds."

"The people from the south of the Yangtze River who immigrated had a difficult life in this land of mutual contact. They originally immigrated and complained a lot. After the war, no one wanted to fight anymore."

"The central government should give localities a period of acceptance and a buffering period to let people loosen the string."

"For at least ten years, there will be no more wars in the South!"

"The Ming Dynasty's energy must also shift from exploration to construction. It should no longer annex new territories, but should build slowly and thoroughly digest new territories."

The courtiers all knelt on the ground: "Your Majesty, the old master Fu Zhiyan has grown old to seek the country. The Ming Dynasty can no longer launch wars!"

Everyone could see that the emperor wanted to annex the Eastern Chagatai Khanate.

Zhu Qiyu, the main character, refused to admit it: "When did I say we were going to fight?"

"I want to be like the old lady, I don't want war, I want peace."

"Ten years is a bit too long. There is Yu Qian in the Land of Baiyue, and Wang Yue in Borneo. They are both handsome. Give them three or four years and it will be enough."

When Zhu Qiyu saw the courtiers, he tried to persuade him again: "Ten years is ten years, I can afford to wait."

The courtier breathed a sigh of relief.

The emperor was indeed radical, but he was obedient and knew what it meant to act within his capabilities.

"Isn't there a way to expand while digesting new lands?" Zhu Qiyu was too greedy for the Eastern Chagatai Khanate.

If we capture this area, we can march into Samarkand. If we capture the Fergana Basin, we can seal off the western frontier of the Ming Dynasty. In this way, the Ming Dynasty will be completely self-contained. No strong enemy can enter the Ming Dynasty again, and we can completely Stably constructed.

"Unless your Majesty has unlimited money and food." Wang Fu said with a smile.

It would be nice if there was a system.

Zhu Qiyu sighed: "I really want to bulldoze Burma and push the national border to India."

"Your Majesty, Bago has been conquered. Ava and Luchuan have also been frightened out of their courage. As long as we occupy a few important cities, the two countries will not dare to make any changes."

Yao Kui said: "The annexation of San Burma is only a matter of time. Your Majesty should not be too hasty."

"However, the territory of the Ming Dynasty is too vast, and governance is extremely difficult."

So Zhu Qiyu was anxious about the birth of the train.

With the train, we can enter the fast lane of industrialization. The Ming Dynasty has a vast territory and can be managed.

In later generations, the entire eleven Southeast Asian countries only had a total area of ​​450 million square kilometers. However large it was, the land was scattered.

The most important thing is that Ming Dynasty is a single nation state.

As long as the Ming Dynasty does not collapse, the territory can be maintained.

Then hurry up and enter modern society. Even if you establish a constitutional monarchy, you must defend your territory.

"I want to establish a multi-capital system, and Dacheng is good. I will change the name of Dacheng to Bianjing and establish one capital."

"The central government can send officials to Bianjing to take charge of trivial matters within the system."

Zhu Qiyu said: "Major matters still need to be approved by the central government."

Yao Kui was not talking about this, but that the emperor wanted to entrust the princes with external vassals. He wanted the princes to entrust these places to establish external vassals to protect the Ming Dynasty.

Judging from the emperor's intention, it seems that he wants to manage these territories as inland and become the inland territory of the Ming Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, the Ming Dynasty is too vast, I'm afraid it can't be controlled." Hu Hui also felt that it was too big and beyond the scope of the feudal dynasty's management.

Especially Borneo, a lonely overseas place like Luzon.

The imperial edict can be sent back and forth once, and it will take at least a month. In the rainy season, typhoons, or special weather, it will take who knows how many days to arrive.

There are also Jilin and Heilongjiang, which are too far away and the management costs are too high.

Fortunately, the Academy of Agricultural Sciences has developed cold-tolerant rice seeds, which have been sown in Jilin. Let’s wait and see the harvested yield per mu.

"How can I not control it?"

Zhu Qiyu was dissatisfied: "Every minister has seen the map of the world. The Ming Dynasty only occupies a corner of the world. Why can't it control it?"

"Can the civil servants sent out still rebel?"

As soon as these words came out, all the officials knelt on the ground: "Your Majesty, civil servants must never rebel, and they have no ability to rebel."

"That's it!"

"They can't rebel. There are some rebellions in the country. Even if they are put down, can they still shake the rule of the Ming Dynasty?"

"We haven't even started to rule yet, and we've started to pessimize it. If our ancestors had thought like you, would there still be a Ming Dynasty today?"

"If Zulong had thought about becoming the king of Qin back then, would the Qin Dynasty have died in his second generation?"

"To pioneer and pioneer, you must have an enterprising spirit! Don't be afraid of making mistakes. If you make mistakes, correct them. The Han people have a history of 5,000 years thanks to their perseverance!"

"You all know how to badmouth me, so what use do I have from you!"

"There is no need to discuss this matter again. I know my territory well. When the Ming Dynasty cannot swallow it, I will naturally stop it!"

Zhu Qiyu was angry.

If you haven’t done it yet, you just think you can’t do it.

This kind of thinking is unacceptable. If Qin Shihuang thought like this, he would be a Han. If everyone thought like the Southern Song Dynasty, the Han people would have been divided into two countries.

The most important thing is that if the son is allowed to go out to inherit the vassal, he must be raised well before he is given out. Otherwise, if a piece of raw land is given to the son, what if the son fails and is killed?

There is obviously a lack of talent in the Ming army. It means that Qian is dead and there are no handsome men left. If there is a national war again, who will take the lead?

"The war will be temporarily suspended when there is good news from the conquest of Ulyanha."

"Recuperate for a few years before starting the war."

"Let's all go."

Zhu Qiyu waved his hand.

When the courtiers exited the Yangxin Hall, they looked at each other and felt helpless.

"Your Majesty is too greedy."

Li Xian put it bluntly: "The territory of the Ming Dynasty increased three or four times, and the difficulty of governance increased a hundred times."

"Beijing is far in the north, thousands of miles away from Borneo and thousands of miles away from Bago. If there is a rebellion in these territories, once the news reaches the central government and troops are sent to quell the rebellion, the territory will probably be lost."

"It's better to enfeoff it and let the prince manage the outer vassal and pay tribute every year."

Many courtiers felt that Li Xian was right.

"not necessarily."

Li Bing whispered: "Did your Majesty see another possibility in his dream?"

The courtier was slightly startled.

Li Xian asked: "What do you mean?"

"His Majesty seems to be waiting for something. He is trying his best to develop machinery, as if machinery can change the Ming Dynasty."

Li Bingdao: "You didn't see that His Majesty did not categorically veto it. Although he was angry, his tone was slightly relaxed. It seemed that he was waiting for something to change the world to appear. If he couldn't wait any longer, he would entrust it to others."

"I do feel this way. Although His Majesty is irritable, he always keeps a clear mind. He rarely scolds us and drives us out like today, and does not listen to advice."

Ma Wensheng touched his nose and felt that the emperor was weird.

In the past, the emperor was angry, but he would still discuss it, but this time he stopped discussing it, which is indeed abnormal.

"It's definitely a possibility."

Hu Xi said: "His Majesty once said that in the dream he saw, there was a fast car that could travel from Beijing to Nanjing in a few hours."

Geng Jiuchou was slightly stunned. His Majesty did say that.

But that was a few years ago, and in recent years, the emperor has been very secretive.

But all the ministers knew that the emperor was doing it instead of talking about it.

"Old Master, you are well-informed. Do you really have that kind of car?" Li Xian didn't believe it.

"It's in Journey to the West, and I don't even know about it in the future." Hu Hu joked.

The courtiers laughed loudly and entered the government office.

By the Oran River.

Dai Qin killed Boyan and annexed the Chahar tribe, and Wu Liangha became stronger again.

Unwilling to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, he sent people to trade grain with the Ming Dynasty and begged the Ming Dynasty to open a way for them to return to the Mongolian grassland.

Dai Qin did not dare to cross the Xing'an Mountains. On the one hand, there was no food to eat. On the other hand, the savages in the north of the Xing'an Mountains were too fierce. They were not soft persimmons like Hu Erha.

The imperial decree for Yang Xin and others' promotion has arrived.

We are currently discussing how to deal with the Ulliangha tribe.

It's really a head-to-head encounter, with 140,000 Wu Liangha elites, if they are exchanged for one, the Ming cavalry will collapse, and the best result is to conquer.

But Wu Liangha was rebellious and refused to surrender to the Ming Dynasty.

They were only willing to negotiate terms and then go to the Mongolian Plateau to graze their cattle. As for the Ming Dynasty who refused to use the road, they fought all the way back.

Yang Xin and others hesitated, but in a real fight, the Ming Dynasty and Wuliangha suffered casualties of 50% to 50%, and the Wuliangha people were scattered, and the Ming Dynasty cavalry collapsed in one battle.

If they are released, the central government will definitely not be able to explain it to them. If they are allowed to fight and destroy all the way, the Ming Dynasty cannot afford to lose.

Finally, Yu Shan made the decision and sent them to Japan.

Yu Shan is bad.

Isn't the Japanese army strong? Let's see who is stronger when we meet Wu Liangha. The Jurchens have become stronger in the Japanese country, and they are also kings and hegemons in the Japanese country.

Dai Qin was not stupid, and immediately objected, saying that the Japanese country could not support the Wuliangha cavalry and refused to go to the Japanese country.

But they are willing to fight for Ming Dynasty.

Dai Qin is also a thief. The Ming Dynasty basically has no opponents in the northeast. If he wants to fight, he has to send them to the west to fight. But he borrowed the road and talked to the Ming Dynasty about benevolence, justice, etiquette, wisdom and trust. Bye bye.

Yu Shan then thought about it and asked Dai Qin to help clean up the indigenous people.

The Ming Dynasty provided Dai Qin with a sum of grain and asked the Uliangha people to fight with the natives. Then the Ming Dynasty would come back to take advantage.

Dai Qin was rebelled by the Hurkha people, which cast a shadow on the rebellion.

He didn't dare to recruit the savages for his own use, but he still agreed.

Help the Ming Dynasty capture 100,000 savages as slaves, and then let Wu Lianghaxi return.

Wu Liangha must be more profitable. They can get money and soldiers by clearing out the natives. They can also rob the women of the savage tribe and give birth to children for them.

Yu Shan also knows it, but what he covets is the entire Ulyanha tribe. Don't forget, the current Ulyanha tribe is a union of four tribes. As long as he eats the Chahar tribe and the Khalkha tribe, he will be satisfied.

It's also quite interesting. Wu Liangha fought with the Ming Dynasty, and while they were fighting, he actually worked for the Ming Dynasty.

The military report was sent to the cabinet.

"Yu Shan understands politics."

Li Xian was very satisfied with Yu Shan's approach: "In war, there are no absolute enemies and no absolute friends."

"A great general is one who assesses the situation and makes good use of everything around him."

"Dai Qin is strong and swallows up the Chahar tribe. Sooner or later, he will die from the Chahar tribe. Maybe he will die while robbing savages."

But this is all a trivial matter. After the Ming Dynasty has finished this battle, it will not use troops for the time being.

Jilin predicts that it will be initially completed by the end of the 18th year of Jingtai and fully completed. I am afraid it will have to wait until the 23rd year of Jingtai.

Heilongjiang could not be developed until eighteen years after arriving in Jingtai.

There is an uncertain factor here, which is the yield per mu of the cold-tolerant hybrid rice produced by the Academy of Agricultural Sciences. If the yield per mu is low, it will be meaningless to build Heilongjiang. If the yield per mu is high, the construction of Heilongjiang will be put on the agenda immediately.

In the blink of an eye, it’s the end of Jingtai’s fifteenth year.

In the past two years, Daming has achieved remarkable results.

Except for the southwestern provinces, every province has built an asphalt trunk road, forming an expressway extending from Beijing to all parts of the country.

The road from Shaanxi to Sichuan is already under construction, but it is too difficult to dig and will have to wait another year.

From Sichuan to Chongqing, an asphalt road was built.

From Shenyang, you can take a horse-drawn carriage and walk along the asphalt road all the way to Guangzhou.

It is expected that in the 18th year of Jingtai, all inland provinces will have an asphalt road, and the whole country will be connected.

The asphalt road is different from the Chi Road. It is an additional road built in addition to the Chi Road.

As the salt policy cleanup was completed, the price of edible salt plummeted.

Pickled cabbage, bacon, and salted duck eggs entered the homes of ordinary people.

In the palace, condiments such as oil consumption, monosodium glutamate, and thirteen spices were reported. Various cuisines merged, created, and collided in innovation, and then moved towards fusion.

With the large-scale planting and cultivation of palm trees and olive trees, palm oil and olive oil have become important oils among the people.

Especially palm trees. The origin of palm trees is China. Palm oil has been available since the pre-Qin period.

However, in the Ming Dynasty, there were many people but little land, so palm trees were not cultivated and planted on a large scale.

Nowadays, in this intersection, a large amount of tropical rainforest has been cut down and replaced by olive trees, palm trees, tea trees, etc.

With the large-scale reclamation in Jilin, in the 14th year of Jingtai, soybeans were harvested in Jilin for the first year. Soybean oil was eaten, and bean dregs were fed to livestock, and the livestock also thrived.

The price of oil has also dropped accordingly, and people can often have oil at home.

This year, the drought in the north has been effectively curbed, and the locust plague has been suppressed by ducks in the fields. It is considered a good year for a bumper harvest.

And the cattle and sheep on the grassland have a good harvest.

The fifteenth year of Jingtai was the best year for people in the world.

There are three reasons: first, conscription reduced the burden on families in the interior, and these people were sent to the north and south to colonize new lands; second, the court effectively predicted the disaster and took precautions in advance; third, the large-scale introduction of slaves.

In the fifteenth year of Jingtai, the Ming Dynasty introduced nearly ten million slaves.

These slaves entered iron plants, oil plants, coal fields, mines, and salt fields, and played a huge role in water control, road construction, and reclamation. Some were even sold into ordinary people's homes.

Life will definitely be better if there is a live animal at home.

For example, the Water Control Department has managed the Yellow River to Shanxi. Shanxi is a place of great beauty and it is extremely difficult to build projects. As many as 120 million slaves died on it.

All over the country, water control, irrigation projects, and dams were built with cement and iron bars. The total number of slaves who died on them reached two million.

For example, in the Three Gorges, more than 500,000 people died during the construction of the dams.

Countless people died while building asphalt roads in Jiangxi and Fujian.

The people working on the construction site didn't want wages, they just wanted to take a slave home to the local owner.

You can give it, but the question is how to get it back.

The slave ran away, which was a big deal.

The central government posted a notice stating that those who were willing to immigrate to border provinces would be assigned a room and place, and two additional slaves.

There are responders, but not many.

The golden nest and silver nest are not as good as your own doghouse. You can have a full meal at home, and you don’t want to leave your hometown.

The construction of the Ming Dynasty was in full swing, and the Flood Control Department spent nine million in only the fifteenth year of Jingtai, which was more than double the five million promised before.

At that time, we were talking about silver, but now we are talking about silver coins, and there is still a price difference in between.

But the emperor wanted speed and was willing to spend more money.

In Siam, the long rainy season is over.

The 500,000 coalition troops reduced the land west of the Basai River to ruins. There were also ambitious people who wanted to fight eastward, but they were all beaten back by Yu Qian.

Three great warlords were born, fighting each other, and the war reached Ava.

The south of Dacheng, including Mancajia, was all within the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

After Guo Deng returned to Beijing and got married in Changde, the city was handed over to Li Zhen and was renamed Bianjing. To the west of Bianjing, it was connected to Bago. The Ming Dynasty's expansion of territory had to come to an end.

Now is the construction period.

Yu Qian was happy to lead the people to build new places in New Yangzhou and New Jingzhou. While building, he founded sects and explained strategies and tactics to the students. He was enjoying himself.

He had been worried that the emperor would continue to expand, and wrote several memorials to the emperor. Fortunately, the courtiers caught the wild horse-like emperor and pressed the pause button.

Ming Dynasty must quickly digest the existing territory.

It is also necessary to make the people who have moved here feel like their hometown, so that they can have children and raise children in these places, so that they have a home and roots.

After turning the newly occupied land into the core area of ​​the Ming Dynasty, we can continue to develop. Anyway, the territory is here and cannot be escaped.

Last month, Spain and Portugal formed a coalition and dispatched twenty warships to attack the Ming Dynasty.

In Malacca, they were surrounded by 3,000 warships of the Ming Dynasty, and the entire army was annihilated. The Ming Dynasty did not talk about martial arts, and bullied the few with more.

Liang Yun took full command and captured four battleships, more than a hundred Spanish and Portuguese soldiers, and a dozen missionaries.

Liang Yue was also careless. After being released by the emperor, he occupied the ocean east of Sri Lanka. All merchant ships must fly the Ming Dynasty dragon flag and must pay taxes to the Ming Dynasty.

It also set high tariffs in the Strait of Malacca.

Especially merchant ships heading to Xiyi were all levied high commercial taxes. After the Spanish-Portuguese coalition was defeated, the tariffs were further increased.

It caused so many merchants from Spain, Portugal, Italy, Persia, and food that they lost their pants.

Liang Yue didn't care about that and made money wantonly.

On the other hand, Yu Qian was optimistic about Liang Yun. He would definitely not be able to escape the throne, and the money collected from the raid would definitely be sent to the palace. Would the emperor have little use for such an obedient general?

The Ming Dynasty is really not inferior to the trade volume of the Western Yi. On the contrary, they cannot survive without the Ming Dynasty.

During the Ming Dynasty, porcelain, silk, tea, iron pots, and spices were all hard currencies, and now firearms, ships and other military products were also added.

Ming Dynasty refused to sell it, and it was the people of Europa who were worried.

Just wait for Spain and Portugal to surrender.

Liang Yue will definitely kill them.

Liang Yue's disgusting things were not limited to this. He got the charts of the Southeast Asian countries and began to collect taxes from each country. Each country set a tax amount and sent troops to attack those who did not pay.

The fifty countries in Southeast Asia hated Liang Yue with deep hatred and fear.

The silver and grain ships sent to the Ming Dynasty were all due to Liang Yue.

Yu Qian was happy to watch the show. He found that Siam was indeed hot, but the weather was good in winter and the climate was pleasant and very nurturing.

Some of his old illnesses were cured in Siam.

The emperor gave him a secret order, asking him to stay here for three years and then be transferred back to Beijing.

This made Yu Qian a little frustrated. His little idea was exposed by the emperor again. He wanted to escape the political whirlpool, but the emperor asked him to leave.

However, he also knew that when he returned to the capital, it would be the time for him to be crowned king, but he didn't know if the emperor would have the courage to let him out of the capital as a commander.

Xinyizhou also followed the example of Jiaozhi, cutting down the rainforest and planting oil trees and a kind of rubber tree.

The rubber tree was discovered in the Portuguese Malacca fortifications. The emperor said it was of great use and asked Xinyizhou to cultivate it and later plant it on a large scale.

The local officials did not worry about the planting.

The people of the Ming Dynasty were dissatisfied with the heat, so they just drove slaves to plant. Anyway, the most indispensable thing in Xinyizhou was slaves.

After sweeping through eastern Siam, one million slaves were obtained, and the 700,000 coalition troops brought in were all slaves.

Yu Qian just drank tea and gave lectures, and the days passed.

His tea was a new tea grown in Jiaozhi. It was supposed to be presented to the palace, but the emperor directly gave it to Yu Qian for him to taste.

He kind of likes this place.

In Xin Yanzhou.

Wang Yue has controlled the entire Balni Kingdom, and millions of Ming people have immigrated to occupy the entire Balni Kingdom.

New Yanzhou lacks everything, but the most lacking thing is women. However, they asked matchmakers to go to the mainland for blind dates, but the women were unwilling to travel so far to get married, so very few came.

Wang Yue really had no choice, so he asked Liang Yue to buy 220,000 fair-skinned women, 140,000 Indian women, and introduce 100,000 women from Siam, plus local indigenous women, which was barely enough.

When you have a woman, you have a home, and when you have a son, you have roots. Immigrants will settle down, and they will work harder to cultivate.

The land is divided into large blocks, and the more forested the area, the more the land is divided into.

There are also wealthy businessmen from the south of the Yangtze River who took the initiative to immigrate here, develop plantations in the forest, and plant olive trees. The key point is that they are willing to move here and obtain a slave trading license.

Ming Dynasty expanded its territory little by little to the south in an orderly manner.

Wang Yue also took two white girls as concubines. After looking at them for more than a year, he still found them distasteful. Their looks were really unbearable.

But the local natives are too black. Not only he but also the common people look down on them.

They are darker and lazy than the Siamese.

The people of Ming Dynasty actually paid less attention to appearance, but more to whether a woman could bear hardships and stand hard work. As a result, indigenous women could cook for two hours, but they were lazy when working in the fields. Who would want that?

Women in the Ming Dynasty were unwilling to marry far away, and there were also couples who immigrated here. As a result, the husband hid his daughter-in-law so deeply that tens of thousands of men stared at his daughter-in-law. Who could bear it?

We can only introduce some fair-skinned women, but fair-skinned women do not conform to the aesthetics of Ming people. They call Persian women ghost women.

On the other hand, the women imported from Japan were the most popular. Apart from being short, they had nothing wrong with them.

A large number of Japanese men and women boarded the ships entering the Ming Dynasty.

The Japanese girl was robbed as soon as she got off the boat.

Some people also wrote letters home, asking their parents to help arrange marriage arrangements, but when they heard that they were thousands of miles away, the women were unwilling.

Life in China is getting better and better, so naturally I can't bear to sell my daughter off with a hammer. I can still chew it by my side. Voldemort smells so good.

In this way, Ming women are first-class women and Japanese women are second-class women.

White women were third-class women, Siamese women and Bago women became fourth-class women, and indigenous women became fifth-class women.

Wang Yue still introduced white women on a large scale, because white women were helpless and could work in the fields with men, so they were barely able to bear hardships and stand hard work.

However, white women often behave in a cowardly manner, and many of them end up in pig cages all year round.

Siamese girls and Pegu girls are also better, but the locals also need them, so there are really few sold.

The local indigenous people are ignored.

This gave the traffickers room to develop. They packed the indigenous women on ships and transported them back to the Ming Dynasty. They asked them to pretend to be Siamese women, Annan women, Champa women and other subjugated women, and fabricate a miserable life experience to deceive the fools of the Ming Dynasty.

Those that really can't be sold are sold to brothels. The very popular ones are so popular that Akito can't tell which country they are from. As long as the story is told well, they can be sold at a high price. The Spring Festival passed in the blink of an eye, and we entered the 16th year of Jingtai.

The wars in various parts of the Ming Dynasty are almost over, and the Ming Dynasty will enter a long period of development.

The center proposed a three-year construction plan.

The Water Control Department has promised to complete the treatment of the Yellow River within three years, and the entire water system in the interior should be completed within five years.

The frontier provinces, the northern provinces, must be completed.

The southern provinces have initially completed governance, provincial governance has been established, a framework has been established, and localities have sufficient immigration to achieve self-sufficiency.

Asphalt roads connect all provinces of Ming Dynasty.

Wait a dozen or so.

Three years passed in the blink of an eye.

In the early 19th year of Jingtai.

Hong Kong.

The giant transport ship docked at the shore, and the slaves lined up and disembarked in an orderly manner.

Someone was wielding a whip, and anyone who dared to break the rules would be whipped, very hard and mercilessly.

After disembarking from the boat, they were led by a designated person to a beach, where they were driven into the sea to wash themselves and soaked in the water for a full hour before they were allowed to go ashore.

Then all the slaves were naked, and after making sure they were clean, they lined up to have their heads shaved into dog tails, and then came back to receive new clothes.

It is not allowed to dilute it, no one cares whether the skin will burst, as long as they do not enter the Ming Dynasty with infectious diseases.

There are 172 such cleaning areas in total.

50 of them are female slave washing areas. There is a dilution area over the female slaves. After washing, you can enter the dilution area to clean the salt stains.

The ones in charge of them are also women, and men are not allowed to enter the entire female bathing area.

The 122 men's washing area is simple and crude. After washing, they are inspected, shaved, and put on clothes.

It will be loaded onto the ship one after another and taken to the next stop.

These slaves come from all over the world.

The main source is India, as well as Persia, Dashi, Holy Rome, Europa countries, and Da Lao Hei from Africa.

The standards for classifying male and female slaves are different, but the darker they are, the less valuable they are.

Of course, the possibility of rebellion cannot be ruled out, so the flushing area is located on the ocean. If you want to rebel, you will have to swim into the sea, which will ensure that your death will be even worse.

Once ashore, they were guarded by Ming troops armed with live ammunition.

Once you get on the river boat, you will be sealed in the bottom warehouse and not allowed to come out. The bottom warehouse will not be opened until you reach your destination.

In the eyes of slaves, their first stop when arriving in Ming Dynasty is the gate of hell.

None of the slaves who entered the Ming Dynasty returned home. Those who were lucky were bought by good people and used as live animals. Those who were unlucky all died during the construction of the Ming Dynasty.

The best result is to bury it in the soil and act as fertilizer.

Male slaves and female slaves were treated very differently.

Male slaves only see one side of hell.

Female slaves will see heaven.

After passing through the Hell Zone, there is a long fence in the middle. If you go far away, you will see an extremely prosperous giant city. It is a paradise for rich people with feasting and feasting.

Everything in the world can be found in Hong Kong.

Feasting on lights and feasting is the main theme here.

It is said that all the dignitaries and dignitaries in the world have a house in Hong Kong and are willing to come to Hong Kong to enjoy life in their spare time.

Female slaves will be selected and purchased by erotic venues with priority.

The romantic places of the Ming Dynasty gathered women from all ethnic groups in the world. If you can call the place by name, you will definitely find people from their country, and they are all beauties.

They all speak fluent Chinese and have received special training to open the door to receive customers.

This is a man's paradise.

They also have a set of standards when choosing slaves. They have to go through layers of beauty pageants before they can enter the erotic place.

This kind of romantic place is not just a brothel, but more like an entertainment circle.

Across the street from these romantic places, there are guild halls. These guild halls are not open to the public because only women come here.

The club is actually a large shopping mall with everything but no men.

Women walking hand in hand are shopping and shopping, with smiles on their faces. They wear all kinds of clothes and makeup, some are Hanfu, some are Tang suits, some are Mingfu, and some are wearing high heels, tight cheongsam, and long wavy hair. , captivating.

They went shopping here, then took a carriage, walked through asphalt roads, and entered high-gate courtyards.

Those who can choose and buy in these clubs are women from wealthy families, and Hong Kong is full of wealthy families.

Across the way is hell, here is heaven.

However, this paradise is not just one place. The female slaves who are purchased for the first time will be sent to the other side, Macau.

Macau was the first to discover business opportunities. When Hong Kong became a transportation center for slaves, Macau began to build casinos and vocal music venues.

Because the sailors who boarded the ship would numb themselves with alcohol and women, and their lavish spending naturally gave birth to the gambling industry.

The gambling city came into being.

And Guangzhou is the frontier of foreign trade. Ming products still have to be traded in Guangzhou, not in Malacca, which was occupied by Ming Dynasty.

Rich businessmen from all over the world gather here, and they come in all shapes and sizes, and the casino is their favorite place.

On the ocean between the two sides, there is a boat floating on the ocean, just like a painting boat in the Qinhuai River, waiting for distinguished guests to come.

Guaranteed to drain everyone's wallet.

When Hong Kong saw this business opportunity, they naturally refused to let it go.

Therefore, a piece of flesh was cut off from Macau, prompting Macau to completely transform into a gambling city, while Hong Kong became a dual city of hell and paradise.

What casinos need are beautiful dealers, but beauty comes second. They need to choose those who are capable and have a strict mouth.

After the second selection is completed.

These female slaves will be loaded onto ships again, passing through Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Dongguan, Guangzhou and other cities, all the way north.

Hong Kong and Macao are super large entertainment cities.

The adjacent Shenzhen and Zhuhai are normal development cities. They rely on the large entertainment cities to drink some soup and develop industries.

The third stop is Wuhan.

After arriving in Wuhan, the purchasing power of Fengyue places dropped.

The Erdao traders began to look for suitable concubines. These foreign women were very popular in the country. After all, everyone has their own preferences for radishes and vegetables. Some people like black ones, and some like white ones. They all understand.

If there are still a large number of people left on the ship, they will continue to go north to the capital. If there are only a few crooked melons and cracked dates left, they will sail back to Changsha and sell everything at a low price.

Erdao traders used Wuhan as a transit point, and Wuhan had a huge slave market.

Three-way dealers from the southwest and northwest would select people in the slave market. After selecting the people, they would buy them in packages at a good price, and then take them back to their own provinces to sell them.

There is also a business of male slaves, but it is not sophisticated. The taller the body, the more expensive it is. The shorter the body, the less wanted. Good health is more expensive. Basically, there is a business of male slaves everywhere. The business is easy and the profit is not much.

It was the female slaves who made the real money.

These female slaves are all made of money. When the rich landlords see such foreign women, they don't know how to walk around. They pay whatever price is offered to buy them. The more closed the place, the more expensive they are.

Especially in the southwest, most people buy female slaves.

However, Ming Dynasty did not only have one slave line.

There are two slave lines in Ming Dynasty.

The other one is in Shanghai.

There are a total of 247 washing areas in Shanghai, and there are as many as 74 washing areas for female slaves.

Because Jiangnan is so rich, many female slaves can eat it. The most important thing is that the end of this line is Beijing.

With these two major capitals in hand, Shanghai's reconstruction speed was astonishingly fast as it passed through wealthy areas.

In less than ten years, Shanghai's economic aggregate has surpassed Suzhou's, approaching Hangzhou and Nanjing, firmly occupying the third place in the south of the Yangtze River.

Male slaves were also valuable. Those who had served as soldiers, especially those who had served as cavalry, were the most popular.

The gentry and wealthy households in the south of the Yangtze River need to look after their homes and homes. It is too expensive to hire Ming people because the central government is constantly recruiting troops.

Moreover, Ming people are employed, and slaves can just buy them directly, so they will naturally sell well.

The only problem is that these foreigners can't understand the language, which gives them a headache.

The central government has issued an order that those who can speak Chinese will be assimilated into Han people and will be issued household registration.

Nine years have passed since the slave manumission order was promulgated, and only a few hundred slaves have been granted household registration, which shows the evil intentions of the wealthy landlords.

The male slaves set off from Shanghai and divided their troops into three groups, going south to Zhejiang, all the way north to Jiangsu, and all the way west to Anhui.

When they arrive at the slave market, they see some people with their new heads.

He followed his master, nodding and hunching like a pug.

After the male slave is washed, his head will be shaved, a dog tail will be left, and he will wear a flag uniform. No matter how hot the weather is, he must wear it like this.

Everyone will say: "Cha!"

So in the Ming Dynasty, it was easy to distinguish between people and slaves.

The slaves would only be in the market for about three days. If they could not be sold, they would be transported away. They would be transported from station to station because slaves would come in later.

But the Ming Dynasty was short of slaves, so they didn’t stop at one stop. Basically, slave traders knew where they sold well and where they sold poorly.

The Ming Dynasty issued licenses to immigrants. Those without licenses were not allowed to sell.

This is a private slave trade.

Official slaves will only be washed in two places and then transported directly to the designated location.

According to the caretaker who managed the slaves, he handled millions of people alone. The Ming Dynasty was like a sponge, absorbing so many people that it has not yet reached the end.

The Ming Dynasty belongs to the zodiac of Pixiu, and it can be eaten dry without vomiting.

The Central Committee issued a strict decree that male slaves were not allowed to marry, were not allowed to free slaves, and were not allowed to enslave Han Chinese as slaves, etc.

If you are worried that the male slave will go crazy, you can castrate him.

Therefore, handicrafts emerged among the people.

For example, some narrow-minded men feel disgusted that their wives are being watched by slaves, so they simply perform surgery on the slaves.

But this kind of castration is not about eunuchs. There are no eunuchs at all. They just leave a piece.

We have to keep them working, because if they are gone, we can’t do the work.

There are still few such small-minded people, but it’s not that they don’t exist.

The Yellow River was completed in November of the 18th year of Jingtai. It is said that there are huge slave pits one after another beside the Yellow River.

If you are brave enough to dig out the bones, you will never be able to finish them.

And the roads underneath were all paved with human lives. No one knows how many slaves the Ming Dynasty consumed.

I just know that the construction speed of Ming Dynasty is very fast, incredibly fast.

There were only two slave lines in the Ming Dynasty, and slaves were not allowed to enter from other places.

If the North wants to use slaves, there are only two ways. One is to wait for the South to buy them before it is your turn, and the other is to voluntarily immigrate to the border and issue two slaves.

This resulted in a shortage of slaves in the north and high slave prices.

The slaves were sold, but they couldn't afford to buy them because of the high price.

Many people are thinking about immigrating to Jilin and Heilongjiang.

The further to the border, the more benefits are given.

There are also people who are smart and crooked.

There are only two entry points for slaves in the mainland, but this is not the case in the new southern provinces. Their slaves can be bought and sold freely. You can take a boat to buy them and then transport them back. You only need to pay the entry tax in Hong Kong or Shanghai.

The Ming Dynasty has long opened a route to Xinjiang Province. People can buy a ticket to go there. It is the territory of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, Ming people can come and go freely.

But people who have such thoughts always come back crying.

The price of slaves there is higher than in the mainland.

Some people are even tempted, thinking how great it would be to immigrate here, mainly because the benefits are good enough and life here is more comfortable.

The Ming Dynasty established three provinces in Siam, Mansika, and Bago, and three provinces in Borneo and Luzon.

The six new provinces in the south are under continuous reclamation, and there is a shortage of people everywhere.

The slaves purchased by the imperial court had to share the profits in these places, especially female slaves, who were given priority as wives for people from Xinjiang Province, followed by people from Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces.

In recent years, some Chinese women have married into new lands.

Because the central government issued an imperial edict, Han women who married into the past would not only be allocated land, they would be allocated twice as much land as men, and they could also get an additional slave.

This makes some mainland women want to live a good life in New Province.

The world has been at peace for three years, and the people have forgotten what war is like, and they have even forgotten that the Ming Dynasty conquered Xinjiang.

Who asked the Ming Dynasty to teach? In the Ming Dynasty's notices, the people of the world were repeatedly told that the new province was the homeland of the Ming Dynasty, and the territory of the Han and Tang Dynasties had just been recovered.

The main thing is shameless, it’s all mine, if you don’t believe me, check the history.

The people believe it.

In recent years, the imperial court has collected less and less agricultural taxes, and the prices of daily necessities such as oil, salt, sugar, vinegar, and soy sauce have continued to fall.

Many things that the common people never dared to think about before are now available to the common people, and they can be afforded and used by the common people.

It's all thanks to the emperor.

The emperor is the Great Mingjun, which is the consensus of the people in the world.

Could what Daming Lord said be a lie?

The strange thing is that no one refuted, because those who refuted were demoted to slaves. At this point, the emperor did not allow anyone to destroy the unity of the Ming Dynasty.

No matter how good a pot of soup is, it still needs a few mouse droppings. Just let them eat the droppings.

After the central government took measures, more and more Chinese women were married to the frontiers.

You can go there just by buying a ticket, so why not buy a ticket and go see it?

In order to communicate between Xindi and the mainland, the central government paid for subsidized ferry tickets, as long as they were willing to go.

Traveling these days is a very dangerous thing, and those who go there are brave people.

Most of those who married into Xinliu Province were from poor families and went out to try to make a living. Their husbands would come back. After they got married, they would receive the decoctions distributed from the medical bureau and embark on a journey to their new home.

After all, few get married.

Yu Qian and Wang Yue purchased slave women on a large scale to provide wives for immigrants.

If you go to the fields in Xinliu Province at this time, you will find many fair-skinned women working among the people.

Occasionally, a dark-skinned indigenous woman would appear, waiting on her husband to inspect the fields.

Then he left his wife and concubines to work while he Shi Shiran went back to sleep.

The child still has a concubine to look after him, so he doesn't care.

On the other hand, those who marry a Han woman can only live alone. Not only do they have to work in the fields, but they also have to take care of their children when they go home.

As long as he dares to say no, there will be 10,000 men waiting to take over the Han Dynasty.

Rare things are more expensive.

Married women are divided into three, six or nine grades, and those who can speak Chinese are the first. If the women who live together get together to make housework after dinner, you can't even talk, who will talk to you? Play?

This is Han land, we have the final say.

Besides, if they don't understand their husband's orders when they get home, their life will definitely not be easy, and they won't even be allowed to look after their children. How can a man who talks like birds look after his children?

Therefore, under the threat of a big stick, three years later, they can already speak fluent Chinese.

Except for their different looks, they are no different from Han women.

And their own looks also make them feel inferior. After all, they are second-class women.

But in Xinliu Province, female slaves were lucky.

Everyone would find a man to marry. As long as they got married, no matter whether they were wives or concubines, they would be protected by Ming law.

It only says that if a man commits domestic violence, they can file a police report.

They are the same as Han women before the law. When registering their household registration, they can also get a small piece of land.

It is less than half that of their own men, and four times that of Han women.

But having a piece of land already makes them grateful.

In the eighteenth year of Jingtai in the Ming Dynasty, the Marriage Law was promulgated to strictly protect women in marriage, regardless of whether they were wives or concubines.

It is marked in detail above that the concubine can immigrate to the new province and get a larger land than the mainland. If the concubine does not marry well in the Han Dynasty, the concubine can marry to the new province.

The strictest protection laws were imposed on concubines, no beating, scolding, bullying, etc. were allowed.

The emperor was heartbroken.

But in Xinliu Province, there is a special rule for slave women, that is, if they dare to cheat during marriage, especially male slaves who cheat, they will be executed together with their children.

There was no such law before. When they were working in the fields, the male and female slaves had a spark. One of them took advantage of others and kept a bastard for more than a year.

This law was introduced and strictly controlled the meeting between the female master and the male slave.

And in the palace.

Zhu Qiyu is forty years old this year and is still in good health. He has exercised unremittingly for eleven years, controlled his diet, controlled his desires, and lived a life like an ascetic monk. He also kept nourishing himself and guarded against arrogance and impetuosity. In exchange for this, It is good health.

Although he is forty years old, his appearance has not changed much from ten years ago.

"Old Master, why is the population of Jiaozhi declining instead of increasing?" Zhu Qiyu asked.

Hu Hui, who was sitting opposite him, was really old at the moment, as if he was in his twilight years.

The key is that this old man was like this seven years ago!

Seven years have passed, and it’s still like this, and it’s not dead!

He was still working hard in the staff department, handling things very smoothly, and his brain was not slow at all.

He is ninety years old this year!

All his teeth were gone, but his eyes were still clear. He said slowly: "Your Majesty, if you don't implement a strict household registration system, encourage business, and give people slave trading licenses, people will naturally return. In recent years, the population of the two lakes has increased. Swift and fierce, they should be Cochin people.”

"These bastards!"

Zhu Qiyu also guessed that he must have run back to the country.

I went to Lianghu now to deceive others, and I will flee back to my hometown in a few years.

"It doesn't matter if you leave, Cochin has too many people. Ten years from now, there will still be large-scale immigration."

"It will not be as easy as the last time Immigration from Jiangnan."

Nine years have passed since Jingtai’s ten-year immigration program.

Zhu Qiyu nodded slightly and fell into memories: "I was in Nanjing at that time, so the immigration went smoothly."

"The most important thing is that we had excuses back then, but now it is no longer possible to force immigrants to migrate."

"There is no time."

In the eighteenth year of Jingtai's reign, Jilin had a great harvest.

Wang came to Shangshu and asked for more immigration from Jilin. However, people all over the world were living a good life, and they were reluctant to leave their homeland.

We cannot force immigration. Now that the world is at peace, there is no excuse for large-scale immigration.

The last immigration was in the 16th year of Jingtai. During the inspection of officialdom, more than one million people were removed from the families of officials all over the world, filling Jilin and Heilongjiang.

In recent years, there is really no excuse for large-scale immigration.

The people have also learned to be wise, and they all follow the emperor's wishes. If you ask me to go east, I will go east, and if you ask me to go west, I will go west. If I don't make a mistake, you can't move me away.

"There are too many people in Jiaozhi, and there are too few Han people in the six new provinces."

"The mainland has too many people, and the six northeastern provinces have too few people."

Hu Xi said: "Even Jiangnan has become prosperous again. The population has exceeded 20 million. Counting slaves, it exceeds 30 million. It is the same as before immigration."

"The population of the two lakes has surged, reaching 15 million."

"The population of Shu and Chongqing has also increased dramatically."

"It's just that they are not willing to enrich the frontier. They are crowded into this small place. The territory is as big as the frontier, but the population is so small."

"I have a headache."

Jilin has a population of more than three million, while Heilongjiang has a population of only one million.

The key is that the food in these two places cannot be eaten.

Hu Xi smiled and said: "Fortunately, there are women in the mainland who are willing to marry outside the customs. As long as they are allowed to have children, there will be a population of tens of millions in a hundred years."

But he understood that the emperor was impatient.

Otherwise, I wouldn’t have kept buying female slaves and sending them to the Northeast.

The emperor had endured three years without moving an army, and his restraint had reached the extreme. He could not bear to wait ten years.

"Your Majesty, there is no need to rush."

Zhu Qiyu rolled his eyes: "It has been 19 years since Du Jingtai, when can I go to Kunlun Mountain to become a Buddhist monk?"

"In the 19th year of Emperor Taizong's reign, he was already the overlord of the world!"

"My Ming Empire still lives in a corner."

"Not to mention compared with Zulong, shouldn't I, the remaining warrior of the fifth generation, march out of Han Valley and destroy the six kingdoms?"

"How long should I wait?"

Zhu Qiyu pointed to his hair: "Old Master, I already have gray hair!"

Hu Xi rolled his eyes wildly, you have gray hair for a long time, your face has not changed much in the past few years, and your health is getting better day by day.

"Your Majesty, I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry."

Hu Bi could only advise: "I've been waiting for three years. If I wait another three years, I might be able to send troops to wipe out the six countries by then."

One possibility, I don’t know what year it was received.

"I can't wait any longer. It's a waste to put Yu Qian in the south. The King of Siam has been destroyed long ago, and all the heads have been sent up. Siam is now in chaos among warlords."

"Bago is gone, and the territory is occupied by Ava. However, Ava and the Ming Dynasty fought, and they were both at a disadvantage."

"Luchuan has shrunk now."

"None of the other southeastern barbarian countries dared to show their teeth to the Ming Dynasty."

"Liang Yue goes to collect taxes every year, who dares not to pay?"

"The South released two handsome talents. It is really a waste of talents."

"I plan to transfer them all back."

Hu Hui's eyes flashed. If he was transferred back, would he be idle, or should he continue to fight?

Zhu Qiyu also bluntly said: "Fight!"

"No!" Hu Hui disagreed.

"Old Master, I don't want to wait any longer. Look at the Ming Dynasty's construction over the years. Every achievement is not gratifying..."

Zhu Qiyu counted on his fingers.

(End of this chapter)