"Your Majesty, the Governor of Liangguang, Wang Hongqi, Han Wen runs a social school in Goa, and the reason is that the natives should give priority to education to avoid their trouble, and the people who settled in Goa in the Ming Dynasty are domestic slaves, and they are already obedient people of the Celestial Empire, so they don't need to rush to teach and teach!

But the people of Goa who settled in Goa in the Ming Dynasty complained about this, saying that the children of the native people can give priority to reading and literacy, why can't the people of the Celestial Empire give priority to reading and literacy! The ministers are worried that the people's anger may arise because of this, so they ask Your Majesty for instructions! ”

Zhu Houzhao slapped the table angrily on the spot when he saw Wang Hong's recital: "This Hangul!" I originally thought that these ministers of science could straighten their waists in front of me, the king, and be upright and not afraid of death, and they would be better able to make decisions for my Ming people outside, but instead they became the backers who helped the natives to oppress my Ming people!

I worked hard with the ministers of the Ming Dynasty to reduce the rent and burden, to benefit the people, and to let the soldiers go on an expedition of thousands of miles, not to liberate the natives and let the people of other races be the masters of my Ming people! Superior to my people! ”

"If it weren't for the fact that I would be rich and strong in the Ming Dynasty and realize Datong as soon as possible, but just to ensure my power to be the master of the Ming people, why would I work so hard, directly close the country, lock the hearts of the world's scholars with the imperial examination, rely on the world's scholars to fool the hearts of the people in the world, and then be a king who does nothing and only care about his own pleasure, wouldn't it be better!"

Zhu Houzhao was really a little angry, he really didn't expect that some rulers of this era would be aware of this kind of situation without any nation! Or it can be said that they are pedantic to the point of only caring about educating the natives, and forget whose interests they should take care of first.

Xia Yan didn't expect Emperor Zhu Houzhao to be so angry, and hurriedly persuaded: "Your Majesty, please calm your anger, Han Wen may just think that the natives need to be more educated and need to read and hyphenate, and Goa is now a Confucian scholar, so he can only open a social school, and he didn't expect that the people of the Ming Dynasty and the natives of Goa need more students than the largest number of people in social studies, so he let the natives receive education first, maybe he didn't mean to despise the people of the Ming Dynasty!" Your Majesty, you should also know that a minister of science like Han Wen should be selfless! ”

But at least, he didn't consider the feelings of the Ming people when establishing such a rule! As an official, he has the power to control public resources, but when he dominates not suffering from a small number and suffering from unevenness, he will only cause the phenomenon that the local people are higher than the Ming people, and will cause the local people to be self-righteous and, my Ming people will no longer miss my Ming! ”

As soon as Zhu Houzhao said this, Xia Yan also nodded and agreed: "Your Majesty Shengming!" However, Han Wen and others actually only really regard the natives as the people of the Ming Dynasty, and they have the meaning of making the natives equal to the people of the Ming Dynasty. ”

"If his native people can have enough strength to fight against my Daming, I can give him equal rights, but I won't give him equal rights, and I can't even think about it! Even the people of my Ming Dynasty still do not have the ability and consciousness to pursue equality, what qualifications do they have! Equal rights are earned by one's own ability, and it is impossible to rely on others to give alms, which will only make such natives think that we are afraid of them! ”

Zhu Houzhao said and said: "I don't want to see the natives riding on the heads of my Ming people because of the wishful thinking of these science ministers, in order not to let the Ming people be disappointed in the Ming court, I would rather not educate these natives, but use the butcher's knife to destroy their flesh!" Go and pass on the brocade guard Guo Ronglai! I gave him Han Wen one last chance, and if he didn't correct his position, I ordered all the ministers of science who had been demoted abroad to serve in Mobei, and the natives would all be slaughtered! ”

Xia Yan couldn't help but be shocked after hearing this, he knew that his Majesty was determined because of his extreme disappointment with the ministers of science, he supported the use of science for the use of science and holy learning, therefore, he was actually very supportive of spreading science in his heart to educate those natives, but now because the ministers of science blindly only care about educating the natives and neglect to take care of the interests of the local people of the Ming Dynasty, this is contrary to His Majesty's will, although His Majesty loves the people like a son, but he is extremely disgusted that others do not have the difference between Huayi and ignore the rights and interests of the people of their own country.

Therefore, Xia Yan hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, as the minister of Nanyang, has an unshirkable responsibility to deal with this matter, therefore, please ask Your Majesty to let the minister personally go to Goa to deal with this matter, for the time being, you don't need to move the Jinyi Guard first, the minister will definitely give Your Majesty a satisfactory answer!" ”

"Then let Jinyiwei go with you, if you can't handle it well, I will let Jinyiwei take him back directly in Hangul!"

Zhu Houzhao said, he doesn't have any deep hatred for the Turen, he doesn't understand the thoughts of these righteous ministers, he himself is not an extreme person who wants to slaughter the Turen, he is also very willing to see everyone equal, but he can't accept the imaginary image of equality for all at the expense of the interests of the Ming people and let the Ming people suffer injustice and grievances!

……

The people of the Ming Dynasty living in Goa were dissatisfied with the people of Asan who had bullied themselves together with the Franc people, and finally waited until the Ming fleet captured Goa, and after getting the support of the governor Wang Hong, the people of Goa came to a "Goa three days" for these Franc machines and the Assan people to raise their chests, and also made the Assan people in awe of the Ming people.

However, the Hanwen Social Studies Institute implemented a provision that Asan Turen should be given priority to receive education, which naturally made the people of the Ming Dynasty dissatisfied.

And because of this, it caused a conflict between the people of the Ming Dynasty and the people of Asan Tu.

However, Han Wen reprimanded the governor Wang Hong for controlling the people unfavorably, and in order to protect the safety of the Asan people in social studies, he set up a rule that "Han people are not allowed to enter".

When Xia Yan came here and saw this rule, his face darkened: "Come on, gather all the people of my Ming Dynasty here, and then go and call Hanwen!" By the way, the sign that Han people are not allowed to enter was demolished by the official! ”

Half an hour later.

All the people of the Ming Dynasty gathered in the open space in front of the Goan Sociology.

At this time, Han Wen also rushed over, and when he saw Xia Yan, he only arched his hand and said: "I don't know what Xia Butang has to say!" ”

Xia Yan pointed to all the Ming people opposite him and asked, "Mr. Han, this official asks you, are you a disciple of Confucius and Mencius?" ”

"Naturally! What does Xia Butang mean by this? Han Wen stroked his beard and asked Xia Yan directly, he was the secretary of the household department before he was demoted to a commoner by Zhu Houzhao, and his qualifications were older than Xia Yan, so he naturally had the confidence not to be afraid of Xia Yan.

"In this case, the monarch is light, the people are important, and the community is secondary! Do you agree? Xia Yan asked.

"Of course I agree, these are the words of a saint!" Han replied.

"In this case, you need to make a great gift and apologize for the sin after insulting the dignity of the monarch's father, then what crime should you be guilty of humiliating my Ming people and placing them under the native people! You kneel down for this officer! Kneel down to you and despise me, the people of the Ming Dynasty! ”

Xia Yan shouted as he spoke.

"What! Xia Butang, you asked the old man to kneel down for these untouchables?! You, you're so deceitful! ”

Han Wen was furious, his beard trembled angrily, and he pointed at Xia Yan and shouted.

"You run a social school, but you give priority to the natives, and now you don't allow the Han people to enter, so it can be seen that you are not my minister of the Ming Dynasty and a member of the Han family; It's a traitor, a thief! You didn't take into account the interests of my Ming people, and even humiliated my Ming people, you want to put my Ming people under the local people! If you don't kneel down and apologize, do you want the people of the Ming Dynasty to admit that what you did is right? ! ”

Xia Yan asked.

"The old man didn't! The old man didn't mean to despise my Ming people! Han Wen didn't expect Xia Yan to look at him like this, so he hurriedly replied loudly.

"Then didn't you just say that my Ming people are untouchables!" Xia Yan roared loudly.

"Old man, old man is just a momentary gaffe, old man, old man", Han Wen wanted to quibble, but found that he could no longer explain, and he didn't expect that he would suddenly and naturally say that the people of Daming were pariahs, and he couldn't help blushing for a while.

"Mr. Han, do you know that you have already been degraded by His Majesty as a commoner, if they are untouchables, then you are the same as them, you are also a pariah, but although they are untouchables, at least they do not flatter these natives, and you are a pariah, but you still have to flatter these natives, so if the people of the Ming Dynasty are untouchables in your eyes, then you are cheaper than them!"

Xia Yan said.

"You talk nonsense! You're humiliating the old man! Although the old man is already a commoner, he is also a scholar! Han Wenqi's lips turned purple, he didn't expect that he would be scolded as a pariah who was repaid by a pariah.

"Forget it, this official doesn't want to say much to you, you are the same as these Ming people in front of you, you are my Ming people, you have no distinction between high and low, and even the value they bring me to Ming is greater, they pay taxes and produce, and you can only teach people to recognize a few words, Daming loses them and loses the hearts of the people in the world, and if you lose it, you can change another scholar!"

"Therefore, this official is only here today to convey His Majesty's instructions, if you don't kneel down today and kowtow to apologize to the people of the Ming Dynasty that you have humiliated before, then Your Majesty will change your strategy and send you, the ministers of science, who committed crimes, to serve in Mobei! Moreover, His Majesty will abandon the teaching of science and educate the natives, and use the butcher's knife to destroy these natives instead! ”

Xia Yan waved his hand as he spoke, and the guards under his command immediately raised their muskets and aimed at the Ah San Tu people behind Han Wen.

"If I don't kneel today, will Your Majesty abandon science? Switch to a butcher's knife to eliminate? ”

Han Wen didn't expect that what he did would make His Majesty the Emperor have such thoughts, but in any case, just to maintain the status of science, he had no choice but to bend his knees at this time and kneel in front of the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Han Wen never imagined that he would one day kneel in front of a group of commoners, even though he is also a commoner now.

But now, Han Wen also knew that he could only do this, and he began to apologize: "Fellow villagers, the old man is at fault, he shouldn't ignore your dignity, he shouldn't only care about the local people and not you, please forgive the old man!" The old man will abolish all previous regulations and allow Han Chinese to attend school. ”

"Wrong! You are now receiving the silver of the Ming Governor's Mansion in Goa City, and you now have the obligation to educate the children of the Han people, not that you allow it, in addition, the people of the Ming Dynasty should have priority in enrollment, and should have higher classrooms and dormitories, these natives are untouchables, and they are not worthy of being in the same column as my Ming people, understand? Also, the ideas of Mencius and Xunzi don't have to be taught to the natives, the natives are not the people of the Ming Dynasty, and they are not worthy of learning! ”

Xia Yan said.

At this time, the people of Daming were still in shock, they didn't expect that Mr. Han, who had been a scholar, would kneel down and apologize to his people, and their grievances were comforted at once, and they began to feel proud of being the people of Daming again.

And Han Wen just stood up with a lonely face, and walked to the social studies school, what Xia Yan forced him to do today touched him a lot, and he didn't know how to describe today's events.

Even, now he doesn't know whether he should be angry or lucky, especially when he sees the people of the Ming Dynasty smiling because of him kneeling, he suddenly finds that he seems to be very unpopular, and he is not loved by the people.

The people of Ah San also didn't understand, and they didn't understand why Mr. Han, who taught the words, would kneel down to the ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty.

Among them, there are Brahmins, Kshatriyas and other noble Indian castes, in their opinion, Mr. Han is in charge of the teaching profession, is a noble race above Kshatriya, and now he kneels down to apologize to the ordinary Ming people, what does this mean, it shows that these Ming people are more noble than this Mr. Han? And this Mr. Han is not a member of the noble caste of the Ming Dynasty?

I don't know what kind of brain circuit this Asan Tu people are, because with such an idea, a Brahmin caste Ah San Tu may be dissatisfied with the teaching of Confucianism in Hangul, so he suddenly wants to pick up a brick to smash the old Hangeul, wanting to smash to death this Virgin Physicist who is bent on treating them as equal and even preferential treatment as the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Syllable!

But at this time, Xia Yan hit the shoulder of the Brahmin caste Asan Tu, causing the brick in the hand of the Ahsan Tu who attempted to murder Han Wen to fall to the ground due to the pain in his shoulder.

And at this time, Guo Rong, the governor of Jinyi Wei, personally walked over, pulled out the embroidered spring knife, and cut the Asan native in half in an instant, and dropped a few silver coins: "This is the money that can buy a ploughing ox!" ”

"Fellow villagers, this official has received His Majesty's decree from Xia Butang, in Goa, my Ming people are the masters of this land, and it is the right granted to us by His Majesty, Your Majesty only allows us to have the right to farm, do business, do learning, and even be officials and manage the army on this land!"

"And this official will make the decree of the city of Goa in accordance with His Majesty's decree, the purpose of the decree is to take care of your interests, and to better rule the natives here, but according to my understanding of the natives of Goa, they have a difference in caste, therefore, we also respect their caste difference, and now this officer and you are the real nobles here, the nobles of the first class, and we have the power to spread culture and participate in the management of military and political affairs;

And their Brahmins have the right to pass on their religion, as our monks do, for the Dirs, etc., and are no longer nobles, but only literate among the untouchables; Kshatriya is the third class, Vaishyas are the fourth class, and so on, the house slaves assigned to you will be uniformly mentioned by the Governor's Office as Kshatriya, and in the future you can only use the Kshatriya caste as slaves, and the Kshatriyas below are not worthy of being the slaves of my Ming Han people! The people of my Ming Dynasty came to the city of Goa and directly became nobles! ”

"And if I, the people of the Ming Dynasty, kill the Brahmins of the three people, I only need to pay a cow, if I kill the Kshatriyas, I only need to pay a chicken, if I kill the Vaishyas, it is his honor, if it is a Zhidra, he should reflect on where he has angered my noble people!"

Wang Hong, who was also the governor of Goa at the same time, said.

The people of the Ming Dynasty present didn't seem to understand when they heard it, and they didn't know that they had become nobles all of a sudden, but some of them understood, knowing that this meant that they could casually bully the natives here in the future and let them make money for themselves.

Although the Ah San Turen didn't understand Wang Hong's words, Guo Rong's casual killing of a Brahmin caste also made them realize that these Orientals in front of them were above their own status.

Han Wen only came back to his senses now, but the first thing he didn't expect was that this Asan Turen would want to kill him, and what he didn't expect was that His Majesty the Emperor would want to enslave the natives like this, and Wang Hong, the governor of Liangguang, would actually admit the existence of this caste system so hard, you must know that even China has no difference between the family and the Hanmen, if the caste system is continued to be recognized here, then these Asan Turen will never think of the phenomenon of "Chao is Tian Shelang, and Dusk is Tianzitang" for the rest of their lives!

In fact, other officials, such as Lu Shen, the deputy envoy of the Imperial Inspectorate, also had such questions, and after sending Xia Yan away, he couldn't help asking: "Dare to ask the minister, Your Majesty has always advocated people-oriented, why does he continue to recognize and strengthen such a strict caste hierarchy in Goa, and even let the people of the Ming Dynasty be people in Goa?" ”

"Because in the final analysis, Your Majesty is still the emperor of my Han people, not the emperor of their natives!

If the interests of the Han people are affected because of the equal treatment of the natives, His Majesty will prefer to treat the natives as slaves, because most of my Ming people at the moment want not to be equal to themselves, but slaves who can work for themselves, otherwise you will not classify these Asan natives as untouchables, and allow them to buy and sell, and recognize their caste system is naturally to allow me to rule here better, once people have the opportunity to enslave others, even if they let him be the second-class master, they are willing, In the future, these brahmins and Kshatriyas will help us to suppress the majority of the natives who try to resist! ”

Xia Yan turned around and got on the battleship as he spoke.

And according to the deputy envoy Lu Shen saw the bow bow, he didn't know how to describe what he was doing for the Ming Dynasty now, but he knew that on the way to seek benefits for the people of the Ming Dynasty, he was destined to be stained with more blood of the natives, but he also knew that if the people of the Ming Dynasty exchanged with the natives, these natives would also treat themselves like this.

In fact.

As Xia Yan expected, the Brahmins and Kshatriyas did not rebel because they were subservient to the Ming people, after all, they still had people of the lower castes to exploit and enslave.

……

"Lu Yuanwai, I heard that you have bought dozens of acres of land to plant mulberry and make raw silk, do you still need manpower, we sell two-legged labor here, there are Kunlun slaves, Goa slaves, and white pi slaves, all of whom are in the prime of life!"

In the Ming Dynasty, with the rise of capitalism, the demand for labor increased dramatically, which also stimulated the emergence of human trafficking as an industry.

"Kunlunu is too lazy, Goanu is very clumsy, and Baipinu smells big, I want to buy it but don't want to buy it," Lu Yuanwai said.

"Look at what you said, lazy, you are stupid, and if you hit a few more times, there will be no problem, the smell is big, don't let it leave Zhuangtian, I'll give you a cheaper, it's always good!"

"Okay, then you tell me the price!"

……

Zhu Houzhao also knew that this phenomenon of human trafficking existed, but he did not stop it, and in the early days of imperial colonization, it was inevitable that some non-native people would be sacrificed.

Zhu Houzhao knew that it was time for him to go home, and the construction of the cement road from Fucheng in Guangzhou to Haojing officially began.

……

At this time.

In a ruin on the cement road from Guangzhou Fucheng to Haojing City, a pair of government officials came over and drew a large circle on the wall of a house, and then wrote the word "demolition" in the circle!

Then, when the people here saw that their homes were going to be demolished, they were overjoyed and ran to tell each other, knowing that their families would be changed and become rich and powerful.

"My house is going to be demolished, but now I am rich, and my children can marry a daughter-in-law!"

"My house is going to be demolished! Now you can live in a house like Xie Yuanfang! ”

……

When Zhu Houzhao passed by here in a light car, all he heard was what these people were about the demolition.

Zhu Houzhao had to admit that from ancient times to the present, if you want the people who have relocated to settle down to take the initiative to migrate and actively cooperate with the government, it is not possible to rely on coercion, and sometimes you still have to rely on the lure of interests.

"Isn't that the emperor, I saw the emperor at that royal fair when I entered Beijing many years ago, isn't that the emperor!"

An older civilian in the market town walked towards Zhu Houzhao as he spoke.

And.

"That's the emperor, it's the emperor!"

The civilian said excitedly as he walked.

At this time, the guards around Zhu Houzhao were all busy raising their guns, but Zhu Houzhao still stopped them and ordered: "Wait a while, see what the people want to do?" ”

Not long after Zhu Houzhao said this, these people suddenly walked towards Zhu Houzhao, and they all knelt down, shouting long live our emperor one by one! Countless people knelt down under the pressure of black pressure.

And Zhu Houzhao was also quite surprised, he hurriedly asked people to bring a villager to inquire.

And the villager replied: "We don't know how many lifetimes of cultivation is a blessing, now we have to meet such a good emperor as you, not only reduced taxes but also exempted from forced labor, now even if we let us demolish, we will lose a lot of money, so that we can live a better life than before, so now I want to kowtow to you when I see you!" ”

As he spoke, the villager kowtowed to Zhu Houzhao again.

And there are also people in the crowd outside who can't help but kowtow.

Zhu Houzhao is both moved and helpless now, he is moved that these people of the Ming Dynasty are so simple, and the helpless thing is that the people of the Ming Dynasty basically only attribute their ability to have such a life to that they are a good emperor and do not realize that it is because of their own hard work that they have everything they have today.

After all, Zhu Houzhao made the people live a better life by compensating the money for the demolition and relocation of the people, but in essence, he spent part of the money earned by the people themselves on the people themselves.

But Zhu Houzhao couldn't blame them now, he only said: "Let them all be even, my people of the Ming Dynasty can't bow down casually!" ”