Daming Jingtai: I am the eternal benevolent king

Chapter 425: Mekong Province, Lam Eup Province, Cochin Province, Bangladesh Province: Tourism, Wealth, Faith, Land Bubble
Coming east from Vientiane Province is Mekong Province.

Mekong Province, formerly known as Sinyi and Jiannan Province, was later renamed Mekong Province, referred to as Mekong or Cambodia, and the neighboring Cochin Province, with the Mekong River as the boundary.

So Mekong Province is not the whole of Cambodia.

Cambodia was originally very poor, but after it was occupied by the Ming Dynasty, Mekong Province had a population of 1.7 million and a permanent population of 2 million.

In the hands of the Ming Dynasty, Mekong Province provided more than 2 million in taxes to the court every year. It was a developed coastal province integrating planting, trade, and finance.

Most of the local people are immigrants from the south of the Yangtze River, so gardens can be seen everywhere in Mekong Province. People from the south of the Yangtze River are good at doing business. After the opening of the sea, Mekong Province was the first border province to become rich.

The imperial court wants to build this place into the second Jiangnan, and the current development trend is excellent.

Therefore, housing prices are also very expensive. Housing prices in several major cities in Mekong Province are almost the same as those in the capital.

When tourism boomed a few years ago, Mekong Province benefited from another wave of dividends. Local business travelers were mainly engaged in maritime trade. They were the first to move foreign cultural relics into the country and engage in foreign antique business. Naturally, they brought back some European-style buildings.

Integrating European architectural style into the garden, European gardens and European villas were born.

After the rise of tourism, local travel companies were the first to use exotic foreign buildings to attract people's attention. After tourism became popular, the first and most ruthless place to rip off customers was Mekong Province.

Even in the 62nd year of Jingtai, the imperial court issued the most stringent imperial edict prohibiting irregularities such as robbing tourists in tourist attractions, but Mekong Province still went its own way.

There are four pillar industries in Mekong Province: shipbuilding, transportation, maritime trade, and tourism.

As the imperial court issued a strict decree, neighboring cities such as Jiaozhi, Vientiane, and Thonmu no longer dared to rip off customers, and tourism revenue dropped sharply. However, Mekong Province did not implement the decree. In the past two years, tourism revenue ranked first, and the central government turned a blind eye. One glance.

In fact, tourist cities attract tourists with low prices and then rip them off with high prices.

Otherwise, it is really impossible to make money in a tourist city. Since it is a tourist city, the cost of everything is very expensive, plus labor, store costs, etc., are all very expensive. It is normal for the price to be high.

Another point is that tourists will not come back for a second time. What they earn is not the money from repeat customers, but the one-time transaction, so they must be ripped off.

The reason why we don’t dare to rip off customers anymore and our income has dropped sharply is because we don’t rip off customers anymore. After the price is clearly marked, tourists will feel that the price is too high and will not go. After all, there are many ordinary people in the country who have saved their money for a long time. If you just come here, you must choose the cheapest one.

Moreover, provinces such as Vientiane, Lancang, Thon Vo, and Mekong have almost the same landscapes, and they are all replaceable. If tourism prices in other provinces increase, they will definitely flock to Mekong.

After all, there are very few sane people.

However, in the 65th year of Jingtai, the first thing Zhu Jianji did when he entered Beijing was to execute the officials in charge of tourism in Mekong Province for the crime of resisting the imperial decree. He also executed more than a hundred officials, which shocked the world's official circles.

In the sixty-sixth year of Jingtai, the imperial court executed nearly a hundred top officials such as the chief envoy, patrol envoy, guard eunuch, and guard nobles on the pretext of conspiracy to rebel by many officials in Mekong Province, and also dealt with the joint and several ties. Thousands of people.

In October, the new cabinet minister Peng Shao from the DPRK was appointed as the governor of Mekong Province and the governor of military affairs.

After Peng Shao took office, he continued to deal with the officials involved and almost wiped out all the officials in Mekong Province. It can be said that it is the most severely punished province among all the provinces in the world.

It also shows that Zhu Jianji was extremely dissatisfied with the local disobedience to the central government.

No matter which province, whether rich or poor, is allowed to resist the imperial edict of the central government, once it is resisted, it will be punished with death for treason.

This demonstrates the imperial power and the court's control over the local area.

Even if the replaced governor was Peng Shao, a wall-riding faction, Peng Shao would not tolerate those who disobeyed the imperial edict.

In the 62nd year of Jingtai, Mekong Province took a bad lead.

In the past two years, local governments have dared to bargain with the imperial edict because Mekong Province took the lead in resisting the edict. Afterwards, Mekong Province was not punished by the central government. The local government believed that the central government had relaxed its control over local areas, so they prevaricated.

After Zhu Jianji succeeded to the throne as crown prince, he demonstrated imperial power to the people of the world and demonstrated the central government's control over the local area.

Officials who disobey the decree will be executed.

Regardless of the reason, they will all be executed.

The heads were circulated throughout the country, shocking the world.

The loss of imperial power was definitely directly related to Zhu Jianqi's neglect of greater justice for the sake of small gains. For the sake of a few small benefits, he allowed the local governments to deceive the central government, which led to the relaxation of the central government's control over the local governments. This was pure stupidity.

Among all the rich provinces in the world, Mekong Province suffered the most serious rectification. From officials to businessmen, tens of thousands of nepotistic people were exiled and exiled, and the economy suffered a huge impact.

During the Jingtai Dynasty, there was still the crime of exile, but during the war, exile meant emigration, that is, moving to the vassal state. However, sixty years later in Jingtai, exile was really a crime, and those who went to the battlefield to serve as cannon fodder were directly incorporated into the army. Prison camp.

Therefore, those who were exiled to the army were guilty of serious crimes. Almost no criminals who were exiled to the army in the past six years came back alive.

Exile is no longer a crime. They are all exiled to Lena and Yenisey provinces, all to the north of the fishing sea. Those areas are full of frozen soil, making it almost impossible to survive. The workers who excavate the frozen soil are exiled Criminals from the past.

Zhu Houyong originally thought he would see a scene of prosperity, but he did not expect that Mekong Province would be in a state of despair and the economy would be hit hard.

It's more dangerous locally.

He just sent people out for a tour to understand the people's conditions, while he stayed in Phnom Penh, the administrative office, and wrote travel notes. He used a pen.

His calligraphy with calligraphy is ugly, but his handwriting with fountain pen is very beautiful.

Nowadays, young children like to use fountain pens, and writing brushes are only used by the elderly.

The debate over pens and brushes is still ongoing. Elderly people still believe that pens destroy the beauty of writing and oppose simplified Chinese characters.

The imperial court was indeed promoting the simplified characters, but the official still used the original characters because the resistance was too great. Almost the entire literati class was opposed to simplifying the characters. First, it lost its pictographic meaning. Second, it lost its beauty. Third, it weakened the inheritance of Chinese culture, etc. .

Therefore, although the court supports simplification, there is almost no simplification in the official text, which makes it really difficult to write like this.

The imperial court has collected simplified characters for more than 50 years, and ordinary people can submit their contributions. As long as the simplified characters retain their form without distorting their meaning, and achieve the purpose of simplification, they will be adopted. After adoption, they will be rewarded with royalties. .

Folk wisdom is endless. Thousands of characters have been successfully simplified over the years, but they have not been officially promoted.

It is worth mentioning that from the 12th year of Jingtai to the 55th year of Jingtai, within 43 years, the imperial court created more than 10,000 characters.

Some of these characters were analyzed from oracle bone inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, and seal scripts, and some were created out of thin air. The main reason was that the old emperor was always worried that there were not enough characters and some vocabulary words did not convey the meaning, so he created new characters and new vocabulary.

Almost every five years a new dictionary is published and some new words are added.

The reason why we came to Jingtai in the 55th year was because the Character Making Bureau believed that the characters created were sufficient and there was no need to recreate them.

However, most of the newly created characters were rare characters that were not of normal use. The old emperor insisted on having his own way.

There is a strong enthusiasm among the people for making characters. In the past ten years, they have stopped making characters, and they still receive letters, which shows the enthusiasm of the people for making characters.

anyway.

Zhu Hooyong spent ten days in Phnom Penh, the seat of the Mekong Province, writing his travel notes. The guards around him dispersed and went to the people to investigate people's sentiments. Because the whole province was in a state of strife, almost nothing could be found.

However, he heard people talk about the prosperity of Phnom Penh in recent years, which made him a little excited, and he would come again in the future.

Next stop, Cochin.

Cochin Province is really too big.

From the south of the Red River to the east of the Mekong River, including a small half of Cambodia, most of Laos, and the entire Vietnam, it is Jiaozhi Province.

In the 65th year of Jingtai's reign, when the old emperor wanted to add fifty-seven stars to the national flag, someone proposed splitting Cochin into two provinces. Cochin was too big, and the fifty-seven stars became fifty-eight. star.

Ancient Jiaozhi, as far as Hue.

To the south of Hue, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was Xiang Linyi, where Ma Yuan cast the pillars. During the Three Kingdoms period, it separated from the Han Dynasty and became the Linyi Kingdom. During the Sui Dynasty, it briefly ruled here and established Linyi County.

Before Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, this was still the territory of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, but it was no longer the case after that. It became a vassal state in the Central Plains until the Jingtai Dynasty.

The imperial court wanted to separate the south of Hue into Lam Yi Province, and the north was Jiaochin.

This is consistent with the division of ancient Jiaozhi.

Moreover, Jiaozhi is too big and has a long and narrow terrain. Even if there is a train, the cost of governance is too high.

The entire Jiaozhi Province must have four chief envoys, two in the north and two in the south. Basically, there are two teams. The area is indeed too large.

Zhu Houying took a look around Huanzhou and Jiaozhou and believed that it was inevitable for Jiaozhi to be split into two provinces.

Jiaozhi Province has a total population of 3.1 million, ranking among the top provinces in the country, with a permanent population of 3.5 million.

The large population also means the wealth of Jiaozhi.

Jiaozhi Province is the richest province in the Ming Dynasty, with the largest economic aggregate in the country!

A Jiaozhi Province is equal to the total economic size of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Precisely because Jiaozhi is so big, it has rubber, palm, coconut, sugar cane, olive, tea and other plantations, as well as shipbuilding, transportation, machinery manufacturing, and heavy industry. , textile industry, etc., the entire Cochin Province has a complete industrial chain of all industries.

This province is larger than other countries, and its economic aggregate exceeds that of most vassal states.

So there is a reason why it is not split.

The taxation of Ming Dynasty was very important. After Jiangnan was split, its competitiveness was obviously reduced, and the tax contribution was less than before, so the court was unwilling to split Jiaozhi.

Because Jiaozhi did not have the element of rebellion, unlike Jiangnan, which was monopolized by the gentry. At that time, the entire north needed food supplies from the south, and the court could not do without water transportation for a day. Jiangnan was too important to the Ming Dynasty.

but.

Jiaozhi is different. There is a small military factory in Jiaozhi, and the garrison power is divided into the hands of different people. Moreover, this is the heart of the Ming Dynasty. The north and south are Ming Dynasty territories. How can Jiaozhi escape from the palm of the Ming Dynasty?

In addition to the food issue, the Ming Dynasty’s railways and electricity were all in the mainland. Cochin rebelled with nothing.

So, not splitting makes sense.

But the central government has already formulated a split policy. Jiaozhi Province will be split into Jiaozhi Province and Linyi Province. Linyi Province will be referred to as Zhan or Lin.

The provincial capital must be Saigon today, which is Ho Chi Minh City.

Saigon is located on the Mekong Delta, but not close to the sea. Similar to Guangzhou and Bangkok, it has always been the third largest city in Cochin Province.

The largest city in Cochin is Huanzhou (Hue), the second largest city is Jiaozhou (Hanoi), and the third largest city is Saigon.

The name Saigon was given by Zheng He when he passed by this city during his voyages to the West and took the meaning of tribute from the West.

This city was also built during the Jingtai Dynasty.

To be honest, the Ming Dynasty did not like the capital of Champa State, so it spent its own money to build a new city in Saigon and developed it bit by bit.

Sinhalapura, the capital of Champa, had too strong a religious atmosphere and was not suitable for building a capital.

If the capital is established here, sooner or later it will be assimilated.

Therefore, Sanghapura was simplified into Sangha, just a small city. The court was unwilling to invest in this city. In recent years, it has gradually degenerated into a tourist city, and that's it.

As for the abbreviation of Linyi as Zhan, the old emperor was not at ease.

More citizens of the Champa State were incorporated into the Ming Dynasty. It seemed that the cleanup was very thorough, but in fact it was not necessarily the case. It was too far away from the capital of the Ming Dynasty. It was impossible for the court to take care of everything. Naturally, multiple factors had to be considered when building the city.

The courtiers were also worried that the citizens of the Champa state considered themselves survivors and conspired to rebel.

The problem is that these remnants have all melted into the Ming Dynasty and cannot be singled out.

Then just use Lin or Xiang for short, but Vientiane Province has already used Xiang, so use Lin.

The fifty-eighth province will appear in the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, the economic center of Cochin Province is mainly Saigon. In terms of population, Lam Yi Province has a larger population and Cochin Province has a smaller population.

The people of Linyi Province support the split. They always think that the north sucks their blood. The taxes of Jiaozhi Province are basically contributed by the south. Why should they support the waste of the north.

Civil separation is also the reason for the split.

People in the north and south of Jiaozhi Province are dissatisfied with each other. People in the north believe that the imperial court focused its investment on the south, which made the south glorious. If it invests in the north, the north is not bad. It is the court's favoritism. Besides, the people in the south are coy and not generous enough, so they are not as good as the north. Bold.

Anyway, there are many problems.

Splitting into two provinces is inevitable.

What Zhu Houyong felt in the whole of Jiaozhi was wealth, much richer than that in Beizhili.

After the rise of the electrical revolution, this was the area with the largest number of telephone installations. By the 66th year of Jingtai, many wealthy households already had telephones.

This is something Zhu Houyong has not seen in other places. Even wealthy Bianjing, wealthy Kuala Lumpur and Xinjing cannot see so many telephones.

The introduction of telephones to South Cochin was closely related to the location of the electrical machinery factory in South Cochin.

There are two largest motor factories in Ming Dynasty, one in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, and the other in Saigon, Linyi Province.

Therefore, telephones are everywhere in South Cochin, because telephone installation costs are low, and because local people can see and understand telephones.

It also shows that local people are rich. Now it costs more than 100,000 yuan to install a telephone and buy a big house.

Zhu Houyong also discovered a problem. Although it is adjacent to Vientiane Province and the climate is not very different, the height of Jiaozhi people is obviously higher than that of Vientiane Province. The main immigrants are from the south of the Ming Dynasty.

But there is indeed a difference in height.

People living in Vientiane and Cochin provinces can almost tell at a glance that the people in the two places look different. They obviously have common ancestors, and some are even relatives, but their looks are different. This is Soil and water issues.

Moreover, the people of Jiaozhi are obviously fair, because the first people who regarded whiteness as beauty were the gentry from the south of the Yangtze River. They immigrated to Jiaozhi and will definitely continue their hobbies.

The sun in Cochin is too harsh, so if you want to maintain white skin, you have to work hard on cosmetics, so they developed cosmetics such as sunscreen.

The sunscreen produced in Cochin is the most effective and best-selling around the world.

The cosmetics industry is also one of the pillar industries of Jiaozhi. There is also one more powerful item in Jiaozhi, which is anti-mosquito drugs. There are manufacturers of this drug in Baiyue. The efficacy is basically the same, but the one that sells the best and is the best at marketing is It's Cochin Province.

At the same time, the Cochin people like to marry white people and give birth to mixed-race children, because they do not particularly like the looks of mixed-race children because they have white skin.

The Yangzhou thin horse custom has also been brought to Jiaozhi.

A few years ago, female slaves were not worth much, but the price of skinny horses was extremely high because foreign women could not speak Chinese.

Prices have dropped in recent years because everyone can speak Chinese. Although there are few female slaves, there are many gold diggers. There is no need to arrest people for training. They can come and spend money to train themselves.

Moreover, the locals are extremely wealthy, which has resulted in a large number of mixed-race children.

The local people's aesthetics also went astray, and they gradually accepted mixed-race people. After three generations of mixed-race people, their appearance became more like that of Ming people.

Don’t think that all white people are good-looking. People often see beautiful and handsome men, so they subconsciously think that they are good-looking. There are many ugly people everywhere.

Beauty and money are always scarce resources.

Moreover, most people can't stand the smell of Bai Nu. It stinks everywhere and has to be covered up with a lot of perfume.

Zhu Houzhi stayed in Jiaozhi for 22 days before taking a boat to Bengal Province to celebrate the New Year in Bengal.

Bengal Province is the last province in the Land of Baiyue.

Take a sea ship from Cochin, pass through the Strait of Malacca, and pass through the Sea of ​​Myanmar before entering Bangladesh Province.

Bengal, this name is the ancient name of the local area. The Ming Dynasty translated it as Bangge La, which is a transliteration. In Mandarin, it is Bengal.

Bangladesh is also one of the farthest vassal states in the western frontier of the Ming Dynasty, referred to as Bangladesh.

After being merged into the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court also used Bengal as the name of the new province, and the provincial government was also in Dhaka. There were basically no changes.

Moreover, Bengal Province is the only country among the fifty-eight provinces of the Ming Dynasty that has the largest number of Islamic believers.

Although the indigenous people of Bengal were eliminated, their beliefs remained.

Bangladesh is a populous province, with a peak population of more than 1.8 million. However, after West Bengal was assigned to the Valley State, the population dropped below million, but there are still million people.

The Ming Dynasty originally had Calcutta in India, but they were all assigned to the Gu Kingdom.

In recent years, the imperial court has really regretted it. It was such a loss to give the rich farming land to the Gu Kingdom.

Bengal Province has the lower reaches of the Ganges River. This large river converges with the Ganges River and the Brahmaputra River and eventually flows into the sea. The land is extremely fertile. It was an important grain planting area in the Ming Dynasty and a Western trade center.

The Ming Dynasty wanted to establish a capital city called Hengjing at the mouth of the Ganges River.

Even though Bengal Province is not very large, it is the most fertile area in the Ming Dynasty. It is also one of the most important granaries of the Ming Dynasty and one of the areas that the court attaches most importance to.

Therefore, the imperial court wanted to build a capital.

The imperial court built three capitals in the entire Baiyue land, and another capital in Borneo, for a total of four capitals, which shows the importance the imperial court attaches to it.

This Hengjing construction has not yet decided on an address.

Some courtiers suggested that Dhaka could be directly elevated to the capital, or Chittagong, the largest trading port in Bengal Province, could be used.

But after cabinet deliberations, they still felt that a new city should be built.

Both Dhaka and Chittagong are the most important cities in the province of Bangladesh. The purpose of establishing Xinjing is not to suck the blood of the entire province of Bangladesh.

Since this Hengjing is a new city, it has a lot of room for free development. The imperial court wants to imitate the architectural style of the Han Dynasty and build an inner city, then integrate it with Indian style, build an outer city, and then integrate the styles of Western countries to build an outer city. City of All Nations.

After Hengjing is completed in the future, the urban style will be that of a tourist attraction.

The court expected to invest 2 billion and complete the project within 30 years.

There are also Islamic believers who proposed to build a holy city, which was approved by the central government, but the money needs to be raised by believers, and the court can only provide a small part.

There are many people who are willing to lose everything for their faith.

The money was quickly collected. The Holy City, modeled after Jerusalem, was also the first to be built.

When Zhu Houyong arrived, the Holy City was under construction. Originally, the Holy City was supposed to be the inner city, but believers felt that the bustling city would affect the Qing Dynasty, so they chose to build the outer city in the outer city.

As a loyal believer of the Six Religions, Zhu Houyong generously donated one month's salary.

Apart from coastal cities, Bangladesh is basically a large agricultural province. Apart from straight highways and railways, it is almost a large village.

However, the people who farm here are not farming their own land, but the company's land.

The new land contracting system was adopted in the 40th year of Jingtai, allowing companies to contract land and engage in large-scale planting.

The court had been arguing for more than ten years about whether land contracting was allowed, and they were worried that land annexation would leave farmers without land and lead to rebellion.

Don’t forget, Ming Dynasty had already entered industrialization. The purpose of land contracting was to improve production efficiency, allow farmers to make more money, and improve the living standards of workers and peasants.

Farmers contract out their land and collect rent, while the labor force goes to work in coastal cities. Wouldn't it be nice to earn two jobs?

The court did not say anything about taking back the land.

It’s just that contracting was not allowed before. Farmers are farmers and workers are workers. There is a clear distinction between farmers and farmers. Even farmers who work in cities are severely discriminated against and the court does not support it.

Because industrialization was not complete at that time and there was no shortage of a large number of laborers, tying the labor force to the land was more conducive to the development of urban industrialization, and the countryside could provide sufficient food supply to the cities, which was the best of both worlds.

However, as industrialization develops in full swing, machinery is manufactured in batches, and production efficiency improves, naturally there is no need for so much labor on the land, and factories are short of labor. At this time, farmers must be untied and encouraged to work in cities. .

This is a policy reason.

Therefore, in the 40th year of Jingtai, the imperial court issued an imperial edict directly against all opinions, allowing land contracting, and encouraged people to work in cities after contracting land.

Forty years after Jingtai, the gross national product is soaring, and so is the progress of industrialization.

The reason is to untie the rural labor force.

It would have been a big mistake to encourage farmers to move to cities before. At that time, factories in cities could not provide too many job opportunities. If farmers moved to cities, they would squeeze the living space of workers, eventually leaving both people without a job.

If there is too much idle labor, what will be the consequences?

Law and order disorder, increasing poverty, laziness and other ills.

Therefore, the imperial court was very cautious about farmers entering the city. It was not until the 40th year of Jingtai that the steam engine was born and industrialization entered another stage.

Factory innovation, the steam revolution began with great vigor.

Naturally, a large number of people are scarce.

The imperial court took advantage of the situation and encouraged farmers to move into cities.

But the land must not be left deserted, as the law does not allow it.

Someone needs to take over.

The imperial court introduced a land contracting policy to encourage farmers to go to the city to work and contract out rural land. It did not specify to whom the land could be contracted. The land could be contracted to relatives, large households, or companies. It was voluntary for the farmers.

As for farmers who don’t want to work in the city, a family of ten used to farm five hectares of land, making them rich and hungry. Now that relatives and friends have come to work in the city, they can rent the land and let my family farm it.

In this case, the pockets of migrant workers in cities will be enriched, and the pockets of farmers working at home will also be enriched, creating a win-win situation for both.

As for big companies like that, it is not easy to lease land in rural areas.

Even in the 40th year of Jingtai, the power of rural clans was extremely strong. Without going through the rural clans, outsiders would not be able to allocate land for farming in a village, not to mention capital, not even the imperial court.

Therefore, before Jingtai fifty-five years ago, reclamation companies did not develop.

On the contrary, they are all big households in the village, purchasing land in bulk, and then hiring local farmers to plant it, because everyone is related and trust each other. When hiring people, the fertilizer and water do not go to other people's fields. They are all from their own family. Every village has It's such a small world.

It was not until 55 years after Jingtai that large companies began to acquire land from large households, breaking the village's land monopoly ecology.

When capital enters the market, the people cannot stop it.

However, the imperial court was very wary of capital entering the land. It was worried that after capital owned the land and controlled the food, it would have the capital to rebel.

Therefore, the imperial court continued to introduce policies to restrict capital's control of land.

It can be said that while using capital to make money, we are preventing capital from controlling land.

But sixty years after Jingtai, capital suddenly went beyond the policy and extended its tentacles to the private sector, acquiring land on a large scale and engaging in corporate planting.

By the 60th year of Jingtai, % of private land was in the hands of capital, which exceeded the warning line.

In the 66th year of Jingtai, this year, the imperial court suddenly took control of a lot of agricultural capital, killed more than a dozen of them, regained control of the land and dispersed it all, restoring the land contracting ecology of the 55th year of Jingtai.

At the same time, the imperial court issued a policy that explicitly prohibited capital from entering the land market for thirty years.

Ming Dynasty is different from other countries.

Ming people love land more than anyone else in the world, so Ming people like to buy houses and stock up on houses.

The imperial court knew the nature of Ming people, so it had to control the land.

The current Ming Dynasty controls land, food, water, minerals, electricity, and railways. These are the core of the Ming Dynasty and no one is allowed to touch them.

On this point, cabinet officials supported Zhu Jianji.

Just like Bangladesh, companies were contracting land in the past few years.

This year it has returned to its original form, and a large household in the village has taken over the contract, and capital is prohibited from entering.

The farmers were applauded.

Because what is the virtue of capital? In the early stage, the market was monopolized by low prices. In the mid-term, the market was set at random to squeeze out the wool. In the later stage, it was completely ruined and an industry was destroyed.

The same goes for contracted land. In the past few years, farmers were given good policies and made a lot of money. This was more suitable than contracting to large households, so they contracted the land to capital.

But in recent years, capital has continued to squeeze land rents, and arrears have occurred.

The benefits farmers enjoyed in the early stage will be repaid sooner or later with profits.

This is the virtue of capital.

Zhu Jianji took action to restore land contracting to its original ecology. Can the farmers who have suffered so much not applaud and applaud?

The big ones are miserable too.

In the past, I was unscrupulous and subcontracted the land to capital. I reaped the benefits at the beginning. In the past two years, I couldn't even afford to eat.

Because capital bypasses the big players and negotiates directly with farmers, kicking them out.

In the past few years, I could still make money, but in the past two years, I have been eating nothing, and some of them have been delivering food.

This time the imperial court took action, and the big players also applauded.

As for whether he was happy about his high capital, Zhu Jianjian didn't care about that, because everyone was dead. If he wasn't happy, he could just complain to the Lord of Hell.

After Zhu Jianji succeeded to the throne, restrictions on capital were everywhere.

Moreover, no matter how many capitalists have been killed this year, from big capitalists to small capitalists, and even to the wealthy people who are unkind to their wealth, none of them can escape Zhu Jianji's butcher knife.

anyway.

When the Ming Dynasty occupied Bengal, the court officials suggested enfeoffing it, and the old emperor also wanted to enfeoff it.

However, after discovering that the land in Bengal was too suitable for planting, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty unanimously agreed to retain it.

Facts have proved that this land supported the Ming Dynasty’s population of 200-300 million people.

With the development of science and technology, it is possible to support a larger population in the future.

This is also the confidence of the Ming Dynasty's four billion population.

In the future, after the successful construction of Hengjing, Bangladesh Province will become a super-rich province like Cochin, and is likely to surpass Lancang Province and Mekong Province.

Because of the establishment of the capital, the imperial court would have to invest massive resources. Continuous investment would create an economic boom in Bengal Province.

Zhu Houting celebrated the New Year in Bangladesh Province.

During the New Year here, the Islamic flavor is very strong. As a devout Islamic believer, this is the first time for Zhu Houying to celebrate the Islamic New Year.

His biggest feeling is that without pork, beef and mutton are so pure and delicious.

There are many halal meat shops across the country, mostly owned by Muslims. This kind of meat is very popular in the local area because it is definitely not adulterated with pork, so everyone can eat it with confidence.

As the third largest religion in the Ming Dynasty, it has approximately 7.2 million followers, including 2 million in Bengal Province.

The Islamic religion was brought to the Central Plains by Mongolia. The Islamic religion in the Western Regions and Central Asia was also brought by the Mongols. The Islamic religion spread on a large scale for the first time and was closely related to Mongolia.

Eight years before Jingtai, Ming Yi believers were mainly concentrated among the Hui people, and there were not many people who believed in it.

At that time, the emperor still didn't believe it.

However, as the Ming Dynasty conquered more and more areas, the number of Islamic believers increased sharply, and the emperor also became a devout believer.

The entire royal family also believed it.

The imperial court did not interfere with religious beliefs, and even supported them to a certain extent, believing that faith would encourage people to be good.

The court usually doesn't care about anything, the only thing that interferes is the scriptures!
The revision and issuance of scriptures must go through the Zonglu Department. Without the seal of the Zonglu Department, printing and distribution are strictly prohibited. Once discovered, the writer will be punished with death, the publisher will be punished with death, and the disseminator will be exiled.

The title page of the Six Teachings scriptures must have a map of the Ming Dynasty, and the first sentence is to defend the territorial integrity of the motherland.

Before belief, there must be enlightenment, a country, a king, and ancestors, and then belief.

In fact, this is contrary to the original creeds of both Islam and Christianity. The foundation of the two religions is faith, and then there are other things.

But it is not allowed in Ming Dynasty.

First of all, we are secular people, and then we are the guests in the world of mortals.

In addition, the Ming Dynasty had no restrictions. Even the emperor was a loyal believer in the Six Religions. He was so loyal that the Zhongzheng Hall in the palace was changed to the Six Temples.

A few years ago, the old emperor often invited the great masters of the Six Religions to the palace to give lectures.

In recent years, the old emperor's health has become increasingly poor, and the great masters of the six religions have taken turns coming to the palace to be on duty, giving lectures and praying to the old emperor.

Both the deposed prince and the current prince are devout believers of the Six Religions.

Therefore, the people of Bengal Province did not feel that there was anything wrong with them at all. The old emperor believed it. Isn’t it right for us to believe it?
People in the Ming Dynasty didn't feel anything was wrong. If they wanted to eat pure beef and mutton, everyone went to halal to buy meat. They were used to Islamists and didn't feel anything was different.

As for the revised scriptures, none of the sects found anything unusual. After all, no one had seen the original scriptures, and those who had seen them were all dead. It was now the sixty-sixth year of Jingtai's reign.

In the blink of an eye, it was the sixty-seventh year of Jingtai.

In the sixty-seventh year of Jingtai, Zhu Houzhen was one year older, and the old emperor was another year older.

The first month, which is supposed to be the most lively, is particularly deserted this year because grassroots officials are still being purged and arrested during the first month.

This kind of arrest makes the people feel deserted.

Especially big hotels and restaurants will not make any money this year.

Because those who usually come to consume are not ordinary people. Every year those who come to consume are arrested and tortured. Who can come out to eat?

They complain about the imperial court when they open a large restaurant, but they don't know that they are about to enter.

The economy is like a domino. When something goes wrong at the top, large restaurants will fail, and mid-level restaurants will also be affected. Then the entire industry chain will fail in a series, and they will all encounter a cold winter.

It stands to reason that small restaurants will have little impact, right?
No, it will have a big impact.

This is a chain. The upstream affects the midstream, and the midstream affects the downstream. If the upstream collapses, the downstream will also encounter coldness, and collapse as soon as it gets cold.

And this is the bubble.

Think about it, whose money are officials greedy for?
The court's money, where did the court's money come from? Taxes paid by the common people.

Then corrupt officials spend money among the private sector, allowing large restaurants to make money. The practitioners in large restaurants go to mid-level restaurants to spend money, and the practitioners in mid-level restaurants go to small restaurants to spend money.

This is true in other industries as well.

But in the final analysis, it is left-handed and right-handed, and no actual value is created.

On the contrary, if the court loses money, who will pay for this loss?
The common people pay the bill.

The common people have lost taxes and have to pay the loss, which is equivalent to spending two cents of money, but it is more than just this.

Think again, where did the money go?
What about corrupt officials? Will they only consume domestically? No, I will go abroad to spend money. The money will be squandered and go into other people's pockets, and the people will have to pay the bill.

It seems that the people did not pay directly, but the money in their hands is worthless.

So, this is the bubble.

A virtuous economy is when large restaurants support Chinese restaurants, and Chinese restaurants support small restaurants. The money in this chain is clean money, and a virtuous cycle will be formed.

There will also be a deep logic here.

The imperial court allocates funds to local areas for construction. This money has been embezzled. But to do the accounting, you need to borrow the money from the bank and roll it around in the market before you can do the accounting.

This involves bank money, which comes out and goes back again, creating a bubble.

This money rolled around the market again, creating another bubble.

Finally, I returned to the bank, and the bank did the accounting again, creating another bubble.

Corrupt officials' money needs to enter the market. If it cannot go through formal channels, it must go through illegal channels. No matter what channel it is, it must enter the market and be laundered. This process creates another bubble.

Then the money from the corrupt officials flowed into the market again, creating another bubble.

As for the money invested by the court, does it need to be paid back?

Corrupt officials will take advantage of this time difference to repay their capital, and then borrow from the court or banks. They will definitely not spend their own money. This process will also cause the corresponding money to circulate ineffectively in the market. I don’t know how many bubbles it will take to inflate. .

When these bubbles add up, the damage to the market is huge.

Because of the bubble, who will ultimately pay the bill?

Whoever pays the taxes pays the bill.

Whoever has the deposit pays the bill.

Because the economy is developing well, the court has to print money. Once the money is printed, water comes out twice. Because the economy is good, it is an illusion, so water comes out once, and water comes out the second time when money is printed.

This water has invisibly caused the currency to depreciate, and in the end it is the people who pay the bill.

It seems to have created a temporary economic boom.

In fact, it has devastated the entire industry chain. This kind of false prosperity will only kill an industry and empty the wallets of ordinary people.

It is impossible for money to flow like this without a winner, because money exists objectively.

Who is the winner?

Large catering and bank practitioners.

Who can do great catering? They are definitely not ordinary people. They already have money. If they run a large catering business, they will definitely make money without losing money. If they have money, they will be richer.

Why do banks make money?
Because no matter how money circulates, banks are important players.

But the bank does not represent the imperial court. Even if the bank is publicly owned, the imperial court cannot even receive any money.

Because bank practitioners will find ways to take advantage of loopholes.

It is tantamount to say that such false prosperity has created a number of corruptions in other industries.

The court and the people both suffered losses.

In fact, the imperial court is supposed to be able to make profits in the industrial chain. However, we have to look at who is operating this industrial chain. Will such operators turn into taxes and pay them to the imperial court? Are there such fools in the world?
In the final analysis, no matter what you do, you will enrich the rich and powerful.

Therefore, false prosperity is beneficial to the powerful. After they find it profitable, they will continue to blow up the bubbles, making the bubbles bigger and bigger, and making more and more money.

In the end, I found that it was too slow to bring in money by building a physical entity. Only by blowing capital will it grow bigger and bigger.

Because they eat both sides.

Regardless of whether the industry collapses or not, once they have the money, they can change careers or continue to promote the next industry.

Who will clean up the mess? The common people endured it, and the court slowly cleaned it up. In the end, it got worse and worse, so they simply cut off the industry and started all over again.

So what about the losses to the common people?
What does it have to do with the court? Just grab a few people and that's it.

This is the logic of bubbles.

(End of this chapter)