People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 376 Ming completed the transformation of his body! Go in a new direction! !
Ming dynasty.

The current daimyo is like a being who is slowly changing bodies.

No longer dragging a heavy body forward silently on the original track as before.

over the past thousand years.

No matter who becomes the emperor, there is a problem that cannot be avoided.

That's how this country should be developed.

Whether it was Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty or Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, they all thought about how to make the life cycle of the Central Plains Dynasty go further.

The two of them were thinking from the perspective of an overlord.

It seems to be the same route but different.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's route to expel the Xiongnu was more like a one-size-fits-all approach.

So the Khitans established the Liao Kingdom, and the Northern Song Dynasty was unable to raise its head.

Because of the so-called cultural invasion, many people are still saying, oh, these are all old almanacs, we can’t just remember these.

So Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was successful.

Japanese pirates have appeared since the Yuan Dynasty.

The long unhurried line is an insurmountable gap that stretches across the great empire.

But we won the battle, and so the nation of Han came into being, with Chinese characters, Hanzi, and Han people.

There were also two hundred years of continuous war with the Ming Dynasty.

So even though the big man is so powerful, he still hasn't completely solved this problem.

They sent a large number of overseas students to learn a lot from the great Eastern country of the Tang Dynasty, including architecture, iron smelting, political systems, etc.

Subsequent changes also made it impossible for ethnic groups accustomed to farming to live on the Gobi grassland for a long time.

This is a period of extremely glorious history, because at that time the Han Dynasty was also facing the powerful Huns.

Whether it is the Jurchens in Liaodong, the Khitans, or the former Dangxiang people, they all think so.

Doesn't this mean that it is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish?

Only by destroying you can we gain this title politically and morally.

The Dangxiang people established Xixia, and the small Xixia united with the Liao Kingdom, and the Northern Song Dynasty was unable to raise its head.

So this problem still existed in the later dynasties. As long as there was no way to deal with the nomadic people in the north, the farming people in the south would always face the problem of defending the north.

It also brought advanced technology from the past.

So it began to appear in the Tang Dynasty, and the customs of Central Plains culture were taught to the nomadic people in the north on a large scale.

The Jurchens also learned the advanced system of farming civilization from the nomadic fishing and hunting people. First, they beat the Liao Kingdom to the brink of death, and then brought the humiliation of Jingkang to the Northern Song Dynasty, and burned the Han people's bodies with a scar that will never disappear.

But soon the nomads from the north came back.

In this dark forest-like world of the jungle, big fists are always the best way to stand out.

As for the country of Japan, it is even more powerful.

Like all the nations that received the excellent technology of the Tang Dynasty, they became strong and then began to invade the Central Plains nations.

Foreigners will fear you only when they are hurt and frightened.

Not only did it bring with it the improved Buddhist teachings that finally came to the Central Plains after hundreds of thousands of years.

If you can win, fight; if you can't, run away.

In particular, Monk Jianzhen was very sincere, and he finally succeeded in crossing eastward six times.

Because they always have a grand goal.

Not even just the nomads in the north, but also Japan in the east.

The whole country gathered their strength to create an extremely sharp sword. With a heavy blow, the Huns were beaten to the point of losing their armor.

Maybe this would solve the problem of nomads.

We are the best inheritors of Chinese culture.

So it was possible that in order to solve this problem, he suddenly thought about whether if the nomads could master the technology and cultural system of the farming people, they would be able to solve the problem of eating by themselves.

From then on, this nation began to take off.

Four legs will always run faster than two legs.

By the way, those who receive it will be sent away to be destroyed.

Under such pull, the nomadic peoples gradually figured out how to confront the farming peoples in the south.

We have no control over that land.

Even during the Wanli period, there was a real contest with Ming Dynasty.

When it came to the Tang Dynasty, I don’t know if Li Shimin saw Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. He did not solve the problem of nomads. Maybe it was because nomads always faced survival problems and had to go south to compete with farming people for food.

This Yamato nation is very good at learning.

Chen Han couldn't blame the ancients for bringing advanced technology to the enemy, and then people suffered accordingly.

But precisely because of these experiences in history, Chen Han understood that in order to prevent the people of his own nation from being harmed, he would destroy those ethnic groups that had caused serious harm to the Han nation in history at all costs.

The Ming Dynasty will not make the mistakes that those previous dynasties made.

There will be no bottlenecks encountered by those dynasties.

Such as food and logistics issues.

Now Chen Han is solving food and logistics problems.

For example, building roads.

For example, developing technology.

Therefore, the lives of today's daimyo people are very different.

For example, today's people will wake up from inside cement and red brick houses.

After they woke up, they first picked up the glass from the table and took a sip of water.

Then he lifted off the high-quality and cheap quilt, put on clothes made of thin cotton woven by Hongwu spinning machines and flying shuttle looms, came to the window, and opened the transparent glass window.

Then I looked down from the third floor and saw that since the curfew was no longer in place, many merchants began to do business all night.

So even though it's not Chenshi yet, many shops are already open.

Those people working the night shift on the street ate a hot bowl of live mutton that had been transported to the capital from Shahukou, Shanxi just the day before yesterday.

A carriage with rubber wheels drove up from the end of the cement road.

There are still very few wealthy people coming out so early.

The carriage arrived in front of a mutton restaurant. Two women got out of the carriage and went into the mutton restaurant to eat hot mutton soup.

This was not allowed before.

After all, if a woman is virtuous, she must sit in her boudoir every day without leaving the door.

But it is different now.

Since Duke Qian defeated the Kong family, the representative of Confucianism, the Confucian method of suppressing the people was forced to be eliminated.

Even looking at the direction those women were heading, it was clear that they were students going to the Women's College of the Engineering College.

Now that they can all go to school, eating mutton soup on the street is not so abrupt.

Looking far away, you can still see the brick-burning factory in the capital, with its tall chimneys emitting white smoke. It is said that in order to prevent the environment of the capital from being polluted, this brick factory, which has only been open for less than three years, will be moved to another place.

The young man at the window was still thinking that the reason why his family could live in this small three-story building was because his father saw that selling red bricks was a good business and actively participated in this vigorous business. In business, I have made a lot of money in just two years.

If the red brick factory were to be moved now, the freight charges for my father's business would increase a lot.

Fortunately, the business courses of Daming Engineering College are now open. As a veteran in the business field for so many years, my father was hired as a part-time lecturer. He can receive an income of fifteen taels of silver from Daming Engineering College every month. .

This money is completely enough for expenses.

However, my father was very thief during this period. Every time he received his salary, he would exchange his silver for precious coins.

The current comparison between treasure notes and copper coins is that treasure notes can be exchanged for 950 copper coins.

It's going to appreciate in value soon.

Nowadays, who in the market still uses silver for consumption? They all use treasure banknotes.

Baoqian is so useful.

It's just a thin piece of paper that you carry with you, and you can carry hundreds of guan of treasure money at a time.

Try carrying a few hundred taels of silver with you. Twenty or thirty kilograms of silver won't tire you out.

The most important thing is not to show off. With so much silver clanging on your body, you will easily be targeted by robbers and bandits.

Therefore, it is most appropriate to bring treasure banknotes.

Thinking of his father's chicken thief, the young man smiled.

Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty recognizes businessmen more and more. Although the commercial tax is dozens of times higher than before, the profit from doing business is now hundreds of times higher than before. This commercial tax is nothing.

Nowadays, due to the implementation of the New Deal, land has no longer the ability to maintain value. After the land is divided into acres, the poll tax has been cancelled, and more and more illegal households hidden in the private sector have come out, and they have joined the army of cultivating farmland.

As the labor force increased, food production also increased.

Moreover, food prices are very stable even in disaster years.

Because there is a very important measure in Duke Qian's reform, which is to recycle the grain in good years into the grain depot.

It will be released in disaster years or when food prices are unstable, so that the people will not be without food that they cannot afford.

People who do business under this method understand very well that there is not much profit to be made from the grain trade, so it is better to do real big business.

For example, doing trade with foreigners.

His father was like that.

In addition to selling cement and red bricks, they also sell spices from Quanzhou and Zhangzhou in Fujian, Ningbo and Hangzhou in Zhejiang, and Guangzhou in Guangdong to the capital. =
Nowadays, cement roads are being laid everywhere on official roads.

My father purchased a large number of tires from Daminghao, which was under the jurisdiction of the Daming Commercial Department under the Ministry of Commerce.

The durability and speed of the carriage after hitting the tire have improved a lot. It used to take several months to get from the capital to Guangzhou, but now it can be reached in just half a month.

This is not only because of the role of tires, but also because the inns along the way began to be open to businessmen.

Merchants only need to pay money to live there, which greatly facilitates people doing business along the way.

It was the ambergris that my father imported from Guangzhou last time.

The price is very expensive, it is said that it costs nearly one thousand taels of silver per pound.

When his father's old friend got the news, he immediately rushed to buy it at a price of 600 taels per catty and made a profit of 400 taels of silver when he resold it.

Of course, such good business is not available all the time, but there is a lot of business in pepper.

Ningbo, Zhangzhou, Guangzhou and other places have merchants from Southeast Asia who specialize in selling pepper.

The effect of pepper is great. When placed in meat dishes, it is simply an artifact to remove the fishy smell.

He looked at the bustling mutton restaurant below and thought, if pepper hadn't been used to remove the smell, would your business still be so booming?
Just as I was thinking about it, I saw a carriage heading towards the back door of the mutton restaurant.

The driver was obviously dressed in Nanyang style.

The car had no cover and contained two or three sacks.

No need to think that it must be Nanyang merchants who sent them pepper.

Young people have seen too many scenes like this.

This mutton restaurant consumes a huge amount of pepper. After a stable demand, several Nanyang merchants competed for more than half a year. Finally, this Nanyang merchant won the battle. Every now and then, they would get up early to deliver to the mutton restaurant. black pepper.

As soon as he saw the caravan of Nanyang people delivering pepper, the young man saw three people from the Western Regions following them into the mutton restaurant.

The faces of those people from the Western Regions are very different from those of the Central Plains people.

Their noses are very pointed and high, and their eye sockets are deep-set.

The young man touched his nose and thought: Are their noses so high to smell farther away?
Can't figure it out.

While I was thinking about it, I saw a group of patrols holding flintlock guns in their hands walking past.

Riding on the tall horse is their captain.

It didn’t take long for me to see more and more vendors starting to do business on the streets.

They all have fixed stalls and place their own goods.

This is stipulated by Duke Qian, and random placement is not allowed.

He felt that Duke Qian was right to consider this.

In the past, the streets were so messy that it was difficult to choose what to buy.

Moreover, the traffic flow of stalls on the street is different, and many small vendors have to compete for a stall.

There are often fights over a stall.

Now each stall is fixed, and the closer the stall is to the center, the higher the monthly management fee is.

These are all clearly priced, and through your own efforts, you can strive for better stalls and make fairness more transparent.

Tuk tuk…

There was a knock on the door.

He hurried over and opened the door. His father was outside.

"Hurry up, wash up, pack up and take you to Daming Engineering College to take the entrance examination immediately. If you fail the exam this time, see if I don't clean up!" said the father.

The young man showed a disapproving look: "Dad, the reason why you attach so much importance to my entrance examination today is because you were hired as a part-time lecturer at the Business School of Daming Institute of Technology. If your son can't even pass the entrance examination, you will be disgraced. That’s all.”

After all, my father had said before that if he couldn't pass the entrance examination of Daming Engineering College, he would go to Hongwen Hall.

But today, he was suddenly asked to enter the engineering college for a reason.

Hongwenkan is a study of the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism.

In the past, Hongwenkan was a library-like institution.

Now it has become a school.

Many Hanlin bachelors in Hongwen Hall are also working hard and must compete with Daming Engineering College.

Now it seems that Daming Engineering College has won.

Because there are so many people in Daming Engineering College.

Snapped……

The father's purpose was exposed by his son, and he slapped him on the back of the head: "You are the only one who can say it! Your sister has passed the examination of this year's women's college. If you still fail, where can I put my old face! Come downstairs quickly. Eat breakfast!"

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(End of this chapter)