Chapter Ninety-Seven: Changing the Heavens and the Earth
So Yao Guangxiao planned to select some people to stay, on the one hand, to take care of Zheng He, and on the other hand, to wait for the follow-up troops sent by the Ming Dynasty.
I thought that there were very few people who were willing to stay, but I didn't expect that to everyone's expectations, nearly half of the people took the initiative to ask to stay, at first everyone didn't understand, and when the soldiers who volunteered to stay appeared around a local woman, they finally understood, the feelings are planning to start a family here, especially when everyone also noticed that some of the women's lower abdomen has been slightly raised, and they can't bear to beat the mandarin duck.
In the end, Yao Guangxiao took over the handsome seal of the fleet and led the fleet to move forward.
Those who stayed behind did not know that many of them would never see the people of their homeland again.
Zheng He stayed in Mingzhou, recuperating from illness on the one hand, and acting as a military advisor to the Hudson tribe on the other, guiding Hudson in his feudal reforms.
After the reform of the Ming system, it was moved over, and various official positions were set up, each performing its own duties; the tribal law was changed into a written law and engraved on the stone tablet to show transparency, and the surrendered tribes were treated equally, so as to show justice; the city was established and the core force was developed; the Chinese language was used as the script to expand education; the Ming craftsmen were the core to develop various handicraft industries; caravans were organized to communicate with distant tribes and promote virtue......
A series of reforms, so that the Hudson tribe to complete the leap from the tribal alliance to the feudal dynasty, and then Zheng He began to crisscross and close, thousands of years of power and wisdom, military strategy is comparable to the local indigenous tribes, 20 years Mingzhou Xuanwei Division completed the unification of the east coast of Mingzhou, more than 10,000 Ming troops left in the local area also completed the integration with the local, a distance from the Ming Dynasty tens of thousands of miles, but maintained the Ming culture of the subject country was born.
More than 20 years later, the Ming army arrived here again, and the Ming fleet arrived again, and was surprised to see a new port city on the coast, it was called Zhengcheng, and they were greeted by a group of young people with the same skin color as them, speaking a deformed Ming official language, but erecting the Ming military flag.
Chen Zuyi followed Su Yu's instructions, and only opened the bag after the fleet set sail, and found that it was a nautical chart drawn on white silk, which was the best route map drawn by Yang and Su from the east coast of North America to East Asia based on their memory.
With this nautical chart, under the guidance of Chen Zuyi, the fleet crossed the strait between South America and Antarctica after more than half a year, and in Yang Pingfan's base time and space, it was called the Drake Strait, but in this time and space, people in later generations called it Chen Zuyi Strait.
The fleet re-entered the Pacific Ocean and began to go all the way north, across the vast South Pacific, to the North Island of New Zealand, where it had a small conflict with the cannibalistic Maori.
The fleet passed through the east coast of Australia, crossed the islands of the South Pacific, and finally rereached the South Seas, returning to the old port of the Seiji Division.
According to Su Yu's instructions, Chen Zuyi did not follow the main force to return to Daming, but stayed in the old port.
The circumnavigation of the fleet brought a huge shock to all fields up and down the Ming Dynasty, the sky is round and the place is wrong, and the heaven and earth are round, which produced a huge impact on the Ming ideological circles, and the young Confucian students have doubted the knowledge they have learned, and the absolute dominance of Confucianism in the intellectual world has been shaken unprecedentedly.
The returned fleet was less than one-third of the time of departure, but the profit brought back was more than a hundred times, in addition to the treasures dedicated to His Majesty the Emperor, even the most ordinary lower-class sailors, the benefits obtained by the overseas party were enough for him to buy hundreds of acres of watered land in his hometown, build a house, and marry a daughter-in-law.
Such a profitable business soon attracted the attention of the large landowners on the southeast coast, whose grandparents had supported Zhang Shicheng back then, causing Zhu Yuanzhang to impose heavy taxes on them, even in the Yongle period, there was no intention of changing.
Now they suddenly realized how stupid it was to stubbornly guard their hundreds of thousands of acres of land and collect tens of thousands of loads of grain a year, so some active minds began to form their own fleets and expand overseas.
The first crab eaters were soon rewarded handsomely, and the demonstration effect was that a large number of landlords began to convert into merchants, which in turn led the commoners to take boats out to sea in search of an opportunity to turn over overnight.
A large number of peasants went to the sea to get rich, resulting in a large amount of land abandonment, some people in the court realized this, and was about to write a song to enforce the ban on the sea, an incident completely changed the view of the Ming court, the rice transported back from Champong, Siam and other places, the cost of a bucket was less than a penny, just a grain ship, the grain transported back was enough to offset the grain of the entire Jiangnan for a year, and the food problem of the feudal dynasty's life was solved, so all opposition voices disappeared.
The father and daughter of the Shi family in the old port Xuanwei, because of the big cake painted by Su Yu to tear the soil and seal the king, on the one hand, they constantly seduced the people of the Ming Continent to the old port to pioneer, and on the other hand, they took the action of killing the local natives and encroached on their land.
Under the heavy pressure there must be resistance, the unbearable Nanyang natives and the pioneer Ming people contradiction reached its peak, and finally broke out a big war, the Shi family father and daughter can not resist, ask for help from the Ming Dynasty, the Ming fleet arrived quickly pacified the war, find out the reason, some people in the court have long been dissatisfied with the Shi family's father and daughter to seduce the Ming people to flee, at this time take the opportunity to impeach, the Shi family's father and daughter bamboo basket is empty, not to mention the vassal king, even the position of the consolation envoy is not guaranteed.
The Shi family was deposed, the seat of the consolation envoy was vacated, how to choose the consolation envoy became a headache for the imperial court, Yao Guangxiao took the opportunity to write to the Yongle Emperor, a large number of people of the Celestial Empire emigrated overseas, have become settled, can not move back, it is better to directly set up a state capital overseas, included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, under the control of the Son of Heaven.
At this time, the Confucian scholars of the Ming Dynasty and the opposition, as Su Yu said, were the new generation who had been baptized by the Song and Yuan Dynasty's overseas trade thoughts, and their thoughts were not rigid, and they saw that they were profitable, so they reconsidered, so they abolished the old Hong Kong Propaganda Division, changed the old Hong Kong Province, and the imperial court appointed officials to rule, and the first overseas territory of the Ming Dynasty was born.
Because of the demand for overseas expansion, the shipbuilding industry rose rapidly, which in turn led to the development of other handicraft industries, and a series of chain reactions led to the collapse of the natural economic structure of the Ming Dynasty.
With an abundant supply of food, large handicraft farms began to rise, from the coast to the inland, farmers became industrial workers, and the Ming Dynasty began to move towards industrialization.
Because Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister system and changed it to the cabinet system, in the following time, the officials from Neo-Confucianism gradually turned the cabinet into a real power institution, and the emperor was gradually hollowed out, and gradually reached the situation of ruling the world with scholars and doctors like the Song Dynasty.