Chapter 381: Parade

Marrying concubines and reproducing more offspring for the royal family has a very realistic significance in this era, Li Mingyuan is not a roundabout and conservative person, in the face of the youthful atmosphere of the girls around him and selected from all over the country to enter the palace, the reason why he has not taken substantive action is not because he is a saint, but because the country is in the stage of development and development, military industry, heavy industry, light industry, agriculture, education and other aspects need to be developed urgently, and the local people from himself to ordinary people and soldiers still need to work hard. In order to maintain the hard-won good situation, if he had just been declared emperor and reformed, he would have wantonly searched for beauties and treasures, wantonly indulged, and the officials and officers below would have followed suit, and the country would not have been in chaos soon!

It is very difficult to establish a new political power, but if it does not want to make progress and indulge in pleasures, the entire ruling class will be able to degenerate to the point of depleting the national vitality accumulated in the founding of the company to the point of exhausting it in a short period of more than 10 or 20 years.

Li Mingyuan abolished the prostitution system, demanded that officers, soldiers, and officials on active duty pay attention to the image of the government and the army, and were not allowed to engage in indiscriminate relations between men and women, and at the same time gave wives and concubines equal status in the law, and restricted the number of wives and concubines that officers and government officials could marry.

It will take time for the concept of the Chinese people to be reversed step by step, and Li Mingyuan has also learned from his experience and lessons in the course of his many years in power, and has given officials and officers appropriate opportunities to relax in certain irrelevant aspects, allowing them to bring their families and children to have a moderate amount of entertainment, instead of blindly interfering and prohibiting them.

After dealing with several government affairs resolutions sent by telegram to the left-behind officials in Chang'an City, the next morning, the entourage packed up their belongings, carriages and horses, and prepared to go to the next location for inspection.

"Your Majesty, when the people in the surrounding areas heard that Luan was staying in Jinjiang Town, they all ran over to watch and pick up the car, and gave the two mothers a lot of strange little animals as gifts.

The queen and the concubine didn't know what to do with those little animals, so they sent slaves and maids over to ask His Majesty for instructions. ”

"Forget about gold and silver treasures, but if they are small animals like parrots, camels, ponies, cuckoos, etc., let them take them."

After leaving Chang'an City, along the way, the people and merchants continued to meet cattle and sheep, livestock, grain and even rare and exotic beasts unique to the local area as gifts, cattle and sheep, grain and other agricultural products are cheap in the local area, and the ordinary people who immigrated over have not accumulated much family resources, although the value of cattle, sheep, livestock, grain and other items is not high, but as a piece of the people's heart to the emperor to give gifts, Li Mingyuan ordered the soldiers to accept a small part, and some small landlords and businessmen who have been working hard in the local area for a long time to offer relatively precious gifts, then it was not received.

Li Mingyuan was unwilling to waste the state's financial funds in vain, and the number of soldiers and officials accompanying the parade and escort was compressed into a relatively small range, and except for the necessary emperor's support, carriages and a small amount of daily necessities, the whole team only carried two weeks' food and material supplies, and the general daily necessities were directly purchased from the people along the way, and did not occupy the financial expenses of the local government.

"The queen, the concubine, as well as Ying'er and Xiaolan, if there are small animals they like, let them find someone to send back to the palace, Jinjiang Town is not far from Chang'an City, and it is convenient to bring them back now."

Li Mingyuan was worried that it would be inconvenient to travel with some small animals, and added.

"Yes, Your Majesty." The maid saluted, stooped and walked away. …………

Li Mingyuan's tour of the mainland has just begun, and the Far Eastern continent on the other side of the mainland, the superior natural environment of the Han Kingdom in South America, and the fertile and vast plains are like a magnet, which has a great attraction to the poor people at the bottom of the mainland.

With the rapid increase in the number of immigrants year after year, the type of migrant transportation operations undertaken by the Far East and South America has gradually changed, the original South American official ocean shipping companies are the main force to undertake the migration transportation operations, and later, with the construction of civil docks in the three major shipyards of Xinjing Shipyard, Xinghe Shipyard and Royal Shipyard, taking into account the construction of private transport ships, local private shipping companies began to get involved in the ocean migration transportation business, they or small ordinary businessmen with insufficient personal funds, using the funds raised by partnerships, After years of development, the market share of migrant transportation undertaken by local private shipping companies has gradually increased to 60% of the market share of government-run ocean-going shipping companies.

Local official and private shipping companies account for about 70% of the long-distance migrant transportation tasks between South China and South America, and the other 30% of the market share is occupied by Western shipping companies such as Germany, the Netherlands, and France, as well as mainland merchant gangs jointly established by merchants on the southeast coast.

Ocean migration transport action is profitable, although the market share occupied by Western shipping companies in the Chinese immigration transport business is decreasing year by year, but thanks to the expansion of immigration action, the number of Chinese immigrants carried by Western shipping companies does not decrease but increases, July, August and September every year is the busy period of ocean shipping affairs, Western shipping companies either accept the entrustment of the local government, or directly sign an agreement with the Chinese immigrants from the mainland, and the Western shipping companies will transport the Chinese to South America. The Chinese will then reimburse the total cost of the transportation process.

The most obvious change is the rapid reduction of the mortality rate of immigrants, and at the same time, because of the intervention and guarantee of the Han government, even penniless young and strong Chinese can use credit to get basic materials and medical security on the transport ships of Western shipping companies.

The foreigners had the privilege of being able to transport ships full of Chinese immigrants without being subject to customs inspection by the Qing court.

The Southeast Merchants Gang got involved in the transportation business of Chinese immigrants a little later than Western shipping companies, but as the head snake in the coastal area, they have the advantage that foreigners do not have, that is, they have intricate connections in the local government and gangs, and they are also Chinese, and it is easier to gain the trust of Chinese immigrants.

Out of fear and psychological conservatism of the Manchu government, more than 90 percent of the mainland merchants chose to engage in short-distance transportation business from the coast of the mainland to the Nanyang line, and after transporting the immigrants to the Nanyang Songkhla, Natuna Islands, and Lanfang Great Rule, they received the immigration fees of the Han State stationed in the Nanyang institutions, and then purchased a batch of fabrics, matches, cameras, cement, and other industrial processed products produced in the Han Dynasty from the Nanyang, or purchased some cheap rice and other food materials from the Nanyang islands. Then he loaded the same shipload of goods, carried the income in his pocket, and set off back to his hometown on the mainland.

Although they paid an additional short-distance immigration fee to the Southeast Shang Gang, because they did not have to personally bring the ship to the coastal area, the risk of the migrant ship being detained by the Qing court was eliminated, and in general, this method was more beneficial to the local Han government.