In any case, the route from Haojing to Goa, India, has finally been controlled by the Ming Dynasty since then.

India's pepper, sumac, ivory, sandalwood and other goods can be transported to Daming through the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty, and then through currency exchange, the raw silk, silk, glass, soap, high-carbon steel and other goods of the Ming Dynasty can be obtained, and then transported to Japan by the Ming merchant ships for silver.

The entire route from Japan to India was controlled by the Ming merchants, and the profits from the transportation and the difference in the price of the transaction flowed into the hands of the Ming merchants.

In this way, it can effectively promote the commercial prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming government can also obtain a large amount of income by collecting taxes.

Of course, this is only a long-term benefit.

In a short period of time, the most obvious advantage is that the Ming Dynasty can directly grab the capital that Portugal has plundered in India for many years.

After the Ming expeditionary fleet captured the Portuguese colony of Goa City, the first batch of plundered capital brought back alone was worth as much as eight million taels of silver!

In the early years of Zhengde, the annual income of Taicang in the Ming Dynasty was only about two million taels.

And this batch of capital allowed Daming to obtain an annual income equivalent to 400 at that time.

Although the way to obtain this capital is a little cruel, it does allow Daming to gain more wealth in a short period of time.

Because of this batch of silver, the Imperial Sea Trade Corporation also made the price of public bonds rise sharply again!

Seeing this, Zhu Houzhao simply asked the Daming Stock Exchange to change the public bonds raised for the establishment of the Imperial Sea Trade Corporation into stocks, and allowed all kinds of government and private commercial banks in Daming to be listed on the Daming Stock Exchange after accumulating a certain amount of capital.

Thereupon.

Many large commercial banks, such as Shanxi Commercial Bank, Huizhou Commercial Bank, Yangzhou Commercial Bank, Jiao's Commercial Bank, etc., have applied for listing, hoping to obtain a large amount of funds by selling shares on the stock exchange.

After a rigorous review, many commercial banks have also been approved for listing.

Because of the opening of new routes in Daming, these commercial banks have also increased their profits, and the stocks of the Daming Stock Exchange have almost continued to rise, reflecting the good economic situation of Daming.

The middle and upper class gentry of the people actively invested their money in stocks, and the government of Guangzhou, Guangzhou, and Guangzhou, therefore, used more private capital into infrastructure construction, so the Guangdong political secretary decided to build a cement road between Haojing and Guangzhou, plus the construction of Guangzhou Port, so that the water and land transportation from Guangzhou to Haojing can become very developed.

Zhu Houzhao also used his recently earned assets to build a royal sea-view small villa in Haojing, and now he is lying on a rattan chair on the beach and doing shameless things with several of his concubines.

But just after he enjoyed the life of the emperor, Zhou Key, the head of the household department in Nanjing, who returned to his hometown and province, also rushed from Guangzhou to ask for a meeting because he knew that Zhu Houzhao was in Haojing.

Since the news of the Ming Emperor Zhu Houzhao's appearance in Guangzhou Mansion spread, many officials and gentry have come to see Zhu Houzhao, and Zhu Houzhao did not refuse to meet, he knew that in this era of Confucian etiquette and law that the people's wisdom was not opened, these gentry had a strong ability to organize and control the people in the local area.

After all, historical experience shows that in the last days of the dynasty, in the peasant uprising, the success was due to the unity of the gentry, and the failure was due to the failure to unite the gentry.

And Zhu Houzhao is now almost in civilian clothes to patrol Guangzhou, unlike the last time he went to Jiangnan with the guards, so he can have a saber rattling with the Jiangnan gentry, and now he can no longer be tough with the Guangdong gentry when he goes to Guangdong.

Of course, he didn't have to fight with the gentry of Guangdong, after all, Guangdong was still a remote place in this era, and it was no better than Jiangnan and had always been the heavy place of money and grain taxes in the Ming Dynasty.

Of course.

Zhu Houzhao believed that with the development of maritime trade, Guangdong, especially Guangzhou, would inevitably become a major tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty in the future, so he also felt that it was necessary for him, the emperor, to understand the thoughts of these Guangdong gentry.

"The minister took the liberty to meet His Majesty, not for anything else, just because he heard that Wang Hong, the governor of Liangguang, was plundering and slaughtering the people of Goa in Goa, and the minister thought that ruling the world should be an inner king and an outer saint, and Goa was a wild land, and my country of China should not be taken for himself, otherwise, it would make the natives of Goa frequently cause trouble, and the dynasty would frequently add troops to the point of wasting money and food, such as the matter of Jiaozhi;

Therefore, the minister believes that His Majesty should imitate the good governance of Xuanzong, and the land of Goa should abandon it, allow its native people to establish their own vassal state, pay tribute to our Ming Dynasty, and at the same time should punish Wang Hong's crime of lax management of the army! ”

After Zhou Jian finished speaking, Zhu Houzhao's face darkened, he didn't expect that Zhou Key came to see him to impeach Wang Hong and persuade him to give up the Goa City he had just occupied.

"Give up Goa City, Goa City will be reoccupied by Franc Ji, then, the route from Haojing to Goa City established by my Ming Dynasty will be interrupted, and the Imperial Maritime Trade Corporation will no longer have millions of silver dollars in profits every year, not only the Imperial Maritime Trade Corporation, but also other major commercial firms, and then the stocks in the hands of the people will become a piece of waste paper, Zhou Shangshu, have you ever thought about what the consequences will be?"

As soon as Zhu Houzhao asked this, Zhou Jian didn't know how to answer for a while, he was a big landlord and a more traditional scholar, and he was most worried that the imperial court would frequently use troops because of the occupation of Goa, which would lead to the poverty of the country and the lack of people, but he didn't expect that the trade income and colonial income from Goa City to Haojing were now related to the interests of the entire Liangguang people.

Zhou Jian himself is a big landowner, not in business, and he is not so active in the beginning of the rise of buying public bonds and stocks for profit, but this does not mean that he does not understand, therefore, after Zhu Houzhao said this, he found that his majesty the emperor had bundled the interests of the entire people with the interests of the Ming colonization and trade.

"But, but Your Majesty, the inner king and the outer saint are the good government of the world, and now the Ming Dynasty has taken the liberty of raising swords, seizing the territory of other countries and enriching himself, only for fear that he will lose the justice of the world, and become enemies of all countries, and add troops in vain, so that the treasury will be empty and the world will wither!"

Zhou Jian still voiced his worries, even though he now knew that it seemed that it was no longer realistic to give up Goa City.

"What an inner king and an outer saint, who strictly controls his own people, and is merciful to the outsider, is this what Qing means?" Zhu Houzhao asked coldly.

Zhou Jian noticed that Zhu Houzhao's tone was not good, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, minister, minister is for the sake of my Ming Dynasty!" ”

"Water can carry a boat or overturn a boat, since you can realize the threat of rebellion if you are bullied by my Ming Dynasty, you should also understand that if the people of my Ming Dynasty are dissatisfied with me and the entire court and even despair, we will only recognize its independence, and if my people of the Ming Dynasty make trouble or even make trouble, it will really lead to the destruction of Jiangshan Sheji!"

Zhu Houzhao's tone became louder and louder as he spoke, while Zhou Jian said in a panic:

"Your Majesty's words, so that the minister suddenly woke up, the minister's knowledge is too shallow, but Your Majesty, since I have to take the land of the outside from the interests of all the people, then why not treat these people of the outside world, since the land of accepting them is the land of China, why not accept their people as the people of China, so that all the people are equal, united and fraternal, or can also let these people of the outside world not rebel because of injustice, and even treat them more leniently, so that even if the Han people temporarily live in the land of the outside world, it is advisable to follow the customs of the country, and not to use the Chinese customs, The law of forgiveness also opens its net to it, and it may make them feel grateful for the grace of China, and not rebel because of it! ”

Zhou Jian said.

"According to what you mean, do you want me to be inferior to the Ming Han people than his naturalized outsiders? I admit that my Emperor Tomorrow Dynasty is a big country, not only the country of the Han people, but also the Hu people and the Miao people, and it is an empire of many races, but as long as they are loyal to my Ming Dynasty, and those who have contributed taxes or meritorious contributions to my Ming Dynasty, they can all become the people of the Ming Dynasty, but the Han people are also the people of the Ming Dynasty, and they are the clan of you and me, if you are a Hu person, I can understand this, and you are also a Han person, but you also have such a statement, I am very chilled! ”

Zhu Houzhao said and said: "You are the secretary of the household department in Nanjing, not a cabinet minister, you have no qualifications to discuss politics, but now not only is there a suspicion of arrogance in talking about political affairs, but you also make a lot of nonsense, you really don't understand the rules!" ”

"Minister, minister, please forgive your majesty, the minister just doesn't want to see me do this robber thing that goes against the words of the saint! At least not because of the indiscriminate killing of innocents! Today, even if Your Majesty executes the minister, the minister will also say that my country of China has always been admired by the world with the gift of a saint, and Your Majesty wants to be its master, and naturally because of the etiquette of the saint, the etiquette is reasonable, and it should be advocated and passed on to it, not the butcher's knife to each other! Your Majesty! ”

Zhou Jian said.

"Enough! Since you want to advocate and spread the scriptures to the outside world so much, I will fulfill you, pass on the decree, discuss the government in vain, disrupt the court, and degrade it to the teachings of Ceuta! After three days, set off immediately, no stay! ”

After Zhu Houzhao said, Zhou Jian couldn't help but feel cold in his heart, he knew where Ceuta was, knew that the distance between Ceuta and Daming was much farther than the distance between Goa and Daming, and going there was equivalent to not being able to return to Daming in this life, he couldn't help but burst into tears for a while: "Your Majesty, minister, minister is old and frail, I'm afraid it's incompetent!" ”

"You can not go, but when the time comes, I will say that I ordered the military generals to brutalize the natives, not because I am brutal, but because the Wenchen such as Zhou Key, he refused to declare benevolence to the outside world, so in order to avoid chaos in the outside world, he acted in a domineering manner!"

When Zhu Houzhao said this, Zhou Jian realized that Emperor Zhu Houzhao wanted to let a civil servant like him take the blame for the fact that he wanted to slaughter the foreign fan, so he had to agree for a while: "The minister obeys the order!" ”

Zhou Jian walked back with a disgraced face, and now he only thought of a poem by Han Yu: "A dynasty plays nine heavens, and the sunset degrades Chaozhou Road eight thousand!" ”

"Your Majesty's relegation of the ministers of science to colonial lands is not a bad way to educate the natives, but what the ministers are worried about is that these ministers of science go to such places as officials for fear of blind appeasement, and they are afraid of the natives for the Han people, and the Han officials only dare to bully the Han people, and these ministers of science are naturally even more so;

Therefore, the minister believes that when the law is established in the colony, and the purpose of the law is to protect the interests of the people of the Ming Dynasty, not the interests of the natives, once the ruling officials violate the law and act on their own, they will be punished for the crime of intending to establish themselves! ”

Xia Yan came over at this time and said, although he advocated that governing the country should be based on science and holy science, but he was also a civil 0 ethnilist, and he also knew some of the pedantry of the Confucian ministers of science, so at this time, he had the worry that the ministers of science would ignore the Han people in the colony and value the natives.

Zhu Houzhao nodded: "What you said is very true, the thoughts of the inner king and the outer saint are like this in the bones of these Confucian ministers, who are lenient to the outside and strict to the inside, and would rather harm the interests of the people of their own country than have the notoriety of bullying the people of the outside world, I also think that when I am allowed to establish a law in the land colonized by the Ming Dynasty, the fundamental purpose of the law is to safeguard the interests of my Ming people and try to get more benefits from the local people!" ”

"At present, the Ming Dynasty has several colonies, and there will be more in the future, and the official system in these places must also be established, so I decided to set up a system of liuguan, imitating the government of the inland provinces, setting up a governor or governor to lead the military government, and indebting the central court, and the command department, the judicial department, and the political department are respectively responsible for the military, judicial and criminal investigation, and the power to maintain law and order and administration! The patrol is responsible for supervising the imperial history! ”

Zhu Houzhao said and said: "In addition, it is the matter of establishing laws, and the laws of these colonies naturally cannot be the same as those of the provinces of the central empire of the Ming Dynasty, but the governors and governors of the colonies must follow my instructions to establish colonial laws and regulations, and must put the interests of our Ming people first." ”

"Yes!" Xia Yan responded, and said: "However, Your Majesty, these colonial natives can't help but be completely protected, and the minister thinks that they still need to do things that are beneficial to my Ming Dynasty in the future, after all, they are also considered laborers, just like Yuan Shi's later decision not to kill my Han people because he was worried that no one would pay taxes and work for them after killing the Han people, and now if I kill these Tutu people, it will be the same." ”

"The value of these natives is equivalent to a cow in my Ming people's house, a cow that can work, in this case, in order to avoid indiscriminate killing of the natives, then pass on the decree, if the Ming people are suspected of deliberately killing the natives, then at most only need to accompany a cow, and if the natives kill the Ming people, the natives will be cut in half! Otherwise, the governor or governor will be dismissed outright! ”

As soon as Zhu Houzhao said this, Xia Yan hurriedly arched his hand and said, "Your Majesty is wise!" "And I can't help but think to myself, I can be regarded as fighting for some rights and interests for the natives in the colony, and in the future, I think these natives will also be grateful to me Xia Yan like some Han people are grateful to Yelu Chucai, after all, at least my Xia Yan makes their value equal to a cow, rather than being killed by the people of the Ming Dynasty at will, like grass mustard.

Zhu Houzhao also knows that now is not the time to talk about equality for everyone, after all, he now finds that even if he engages in equality among the Ming people, he has not been recognized and responded to by the majority of the people, and if he forcibly makes the Ming people equal to the natives, it will only make the Ming people dissatisfied, and it will also make the natives arrogant and vainly trying to be independent.

What's more, there is exploitation in society, if you want to achieve the prosperity of the people of the Ming Dynasty, you must exploit the local people to let the people of the Ming Dynasty get more wealth, not to mention, the emperor and the powerful bureaucrats who support him as the meat eaters of this era, if you do not exploit the interests of the people, you can only exploit the interests of the people of the Ming Dynasty, in that way, it will be more difficult for the people of the Ming Dynasty to obtain the right to freedom and equality.

Because people have to instinctively pursue equality, it is because they are rich enough and have the ability to compete with those in power before they can obtain equal rights, otherwise it is impossible for those in power to give you equal rights, and the interests that can exploit you seventy percent will not only exploit you sixty percent.

If Zhu Houzhao wants the people of Daming to open up the wisdom of the people, have the consciousness of pursuing their own rights, and have the consciousness of being a citizen of the country and the master of the country, he must first make the people of Daming rich, so rich that they can receive more education and better ideas and have more wealth without worrying about survival.

And this must be at the expense of the interests of the local people, otherwise how can the people of the Ming Dynasty quickly obtain wealth.

……

"With the opening of social studies in Goa, the children of the natives can be given priority in admission and can live in better dormitories!"

However, in Goa, Hangul took the lead in Goa City in order to encourage more Turks to accept Sinicization, and the strategy of giving priority to the education rights of the three Turks was initiated.