Zhu Houzhao was about to escape from Hu Zongxian and Zhang Juzheng's questioning, when he saw many people running outside the Yongding Gate, shouting that the steam locomotive was starting to run outside the Yongding Gate.

Zhu Houzhao didn't expect the appearance of the steam locomotive to make these people so excited, so he couldn't help but smile and walked over, he knew that the steam locomotive was a new thing for Daming at the moment.

After all, before that, steam locomotives appeared only in the press.

When Zhu Houzhao arrived, he saw that the cement main road outside Yongding Gate was crowded with people on both sides, and there were even some officials and gentlemen with Eguanbo, and between the Han family scenery wall composed of silk clothes and long hair, there was a black steam locomotive spitting white mist, the locomotive was very large, like a locomotive, but it was obviously more simple than the locomotive.

The soft morning light sprinkled down on the roof of the Yongding Gate Tower, shining on the word "Daming" on the top of the locomotive, the metallic luster appeared more dazzling on the steam locomotive, and the smiles on the faces of the Han family people on both sides of the road were as bright as that.

Bang dang!

The huge steam power was transmitted from the cylinder, directly driving the rotating shaft, causing the locomotive tires to change their static state suddenly, and suddenly like a tall black horse galloping, suddenly moving forward.

At this time, the people of the Han family were already shouting excitedly: "Move!" It's moving! ”

The men grinned happily and called out to their friends to see that some schoolchildren were using their rudimentary mechanical knowledge to explain the principles to their families.

At this time, the officials of the Ministry of Industry who were still standing on the locomotive were obviously a little unconscious, and when the steam locomotive started, he suddenly leaned back and realized that the steam locomotive had moved, and he couldn't help but get excited for a while, and he couldn't help but straighten the black gauze hat that was shaken on his head, and grinned regardless of his identity: "It's moving!" It's moving! ”

In this era, in the Ming Dynasty at this time, there was no closed and conservative national policy, there was no invasion of foreign races, and the imperial people who got rid of the shackles of Confucianism no longer worried about food and clothing.

The science and technology of the empire were not slowed down by the short-sightedness of the alien race, the solitary superiority of Confucianism, and the conservatism of the small peasant economy, and now the new steam industry began to enter the field of transportation.

The leaves of the trees beside the road, in the breeze, swept the hard shell of the steam locomotive.

The four tires made of natural rubber are also very huge, moving on the road that has just been wet after the rain in early summer, and the rotating linkage rod is also undulating, and the hearts of the Han family and the people are also starting, after all, the visual impact of the metal monster in front of them is too great!

Even Tang Jingyi, an old Confucian who was about to leave Beijing, couldn't help but widen his eyes, looking at the appearance of four rubber iron wheels carrying heavy locomotives on the ground, and couldn't help but sigh: "Incredible! Incredible! The car does not need a horse, and it can still carry more than ten people. ”

"Sure enough, rotten Confucianism can not save the country, only strange skills and ingenuity can prosper the country, with this locomotive, the world no longer needs to raise horses, and the people in Gyeonggi and Shandong can be relieved of their difficulties by raising horses and silver!"

Zhang Juzheng said at this time, although he was only fifteen years old, he had already begun to care about the people of Limin.

Tang Jingyi turned her head and glared at Zhang Juzheng, wanting to say something, but she couldn't say anything.

Zhu Houzhao saw Tang Jingyi, an old Confucian, who was so angry by Zhang Juzheng's words, that he felt even more happy, for the people, the appearance of steam locomotives may just make them feel fresh, but for the Ming Dynasty, it will indeed change the social ecology of the empire.

Before the advent of mechanical power, horses have always been the most important means of transportation, who has mastered the resources of horses who have the most advantageous military power and transportation force, horses have always been an important strategic resource, and in fact, horses have always been the main product of nomads, because of this, the Ming Dynasty is also limited by horse resources in many times.

Of course, Daming also has its own horse farm, but the price of this horse farm is at the expense of the interests of farmers, after all, it is a waste to use the cultivated land in the Guannai as pasture, and it is difficult to breed high-quality horses.

Now that steam locomotives have begun to appear, it means that the status of horses as a strategic resource will gradually decline, mechanical power will become the main source of power for transportation, and transportation will no longer rely on animal power, which will undoubtedly make the advantages of nomads begin to decline.

More importantly, as Zhang Juzheng said, once the steam locomotive replaced the horses, the people could no longer bear the heavy burden of supplying horses to the imperial court.

Of course, this is only a vision at the moment, after all, the speed of steam locomotives is obviously not as fast as the speed of horses, and the cost of manufacturing is in fact higher than the cost of buying horses, but the loading capacity is clearly far exceeding the loading capacity of horses.

Zhu Houzhao did not stay outside the Yongding Gate for a long time, and after seeing the successful operation of the steam locomotive, he quietly returned to the Royal West Garden, but as soon as he returned to the Royal West Garden, Zhu Houzhao received the news that the Southern Front Corps had occupied Thanh Hoa City in Jiaozhi.

"Once Thanh Hoa City is occupied, it means that our Southern Front Corps has a landing site in Jiaozhi, and the cabinet immediately began to prepare for the internal affairs plan of ruling and developing Cochin, and introduced policies to encourage the people of the Ming Dynasty to move to Cochin, and according to the pre-strategic plan, Jiaozhi implemented the Tuntian plan, and appointed Yan Song as the governor of Cochin and the left servant of the Grain Industry Bureau, first stationed in Thanh Hoa, and immediately started this matter."

Although Cochin has not been completely recovered, and the Southern Front Corps has not completely destroyed the Nguyen clan and only occupied a Thanh Hoa city, Zhu Houzhao can't wait to get enough food resources from Cochin immediately, so he directly asked Yan Song to go to Thanh Hoa immediately to take up the post of governor of Cochin.

Zhu Houzhao had to admit that there were many disasters and difficulties in Daming Pass, drought and flooding were always continuous, coupled with the increasingly obvious climate phenomenon of the Xiaoice River, the arable area in the north was gradually shrinking, and the demand for agricultural products increased sharply after industrial development, so now Daming must speed up the development of Jiaozhi and get sufficient supply of agricultural products.

Yan Song went to Cochin, and as soon as he came to Thanh Hoa, Yan Song got a group of prisoners of war, the so-called monkeys, local natives.

At this time, these natives had already been frightened by the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, and at this time, they were also afraid in front of the Ming officials Yan Song and others, and they all sat in the temporary cement-walled cells as prisoners.

These natives had already been numbered by the Guards when they became captives, so at this time, none of these captives had names, and when they were placed in front of Yan Song's copywriter, they were just named, and only simple gender statistics and physical statistics were made, as well as the distinction between old age, prime of life, and juveniles.

According to the arrangement of the Ming Dynasty, these natives were all arranged as farmers, whether they were former officials or Confucian scholars in Jiaozhi, they had to work in the fields.

Of course, much of the arable land in the Thanh Hoa area is still cultivated by local indigenous farmers, and even landlords.

However, the Ming Dynasty did not want to take away the opportunity for these indigenous farmers to cultivate the land, but only to take away the agricultural products on these lands.

But there are ways and means in this.

In accordance with Zhu Houzhao's instructions, Yan Song's initial strategy was to launch land reform, and it was to forcibly distribute the land of the Jiaozhi landlord class to its tenants, and to re-establish the land register, and also to re-establish the land endowment.

As for the increase in the population caused by the marriage and childbirth of these peasant households in the future, the shortage of land supply and the increase in the number of landless people caused by land annexation, it is natural that we cannot deal with it at present.

The only thing that can be done is to develop industry and commerce in the future to absorb the landless population.

The peasants in Jiaozhi are naturally the happiest, after all, they can get a share of the land, and what is handed over to the Ming government is equivalent to being handed over to the former landlord class, and even much less.

The landlord class in Jiaozhi was naturally very reluctant to accept the appearance of the Ming Dynasty, and they also rose up to resist, but in the face of the powerful military power of the empire, they were all disposed of.

The surplus grain of these cochin landlord class families will naturally be taken away, leaving only the rations to satisfy the hunger of the main family members, and the so-called maid slaves will naturally be all taken away, plus these masters of the landlord class will be divided into land, become real farmers, and contribute to the Ming Dynasty.

A team of Ming police officers was standing on the edge of a ridge, pointing guns at these natives who were reclaiming the wilderness.

These natives were either captured monkey soldiers, or slaves of the landlord class in Jiaozhi, and both men and women were uniformly renumbered and arranged to cultivate land in Thanh Hoa.

These landlord classes, which were not peasants or lived by sucking the means of production of the peasants, naturally did not want to work and farm, so they needed to be managed by force by the police force.

Yan Song listed the amount of cultivated land and the amount of grain harvested as the key assessment indicators, so these officials and police officers who were sent to Jiaozhi were very careful to supervise the work of these middle- and upper-class indigenous people of Jiaozhi who usually worked as a prestige.

A native of Jiaozhi who was once a landlord was obviously reluctant to work, and after a few hours of work, he often got up and fled in anger.

Syllable!

At this time, the police officer fired a direct shot, killing the native who had not yet run into the woods.

Seeing this, the other Jiaozhi natives also had a lot of rules, so they had to continue to work honestly.

Of course, there are still many Jiaozhi natives who are unwilling to become serfs of the Ming Dynasty and want to escape, and some escape.

Yan Song even promulgated the fugitive law for this reason, as the governor of Jiaozhi, he has legislative power, but according to the regulations, it can only be effective for non-Ming people during his term of office, so this decree is naturally only for these Jiaozhi natives.

Yan Song demanded that every county in Thanh Hoa regularly organize the execution of fugitive slaves every three months, and directly execute all these fugitive slaves who tried to escape in front of all the Jiaozhi natives, directly shoot them with the Ming version of the Gatling machine gun, and burn them to become fertilizer after sweeping them to increase soil fertility.

Basically, all the landlord class, the landlord class dependents, and the soldiers who were not engaged in agricultural production were turned into serfs and could only engage in agricultural production every day.

Under the influence of the fugitive law, most of these new serfs of the Jiaozhi natives began to get used to their new identity and began to become serfs with peace of mind, engaged in land cultivation.

As for the original homesteaders and tenant farmers among the indigenous people of Cochin, they are still as usual, and they still cultivate their own land, but they have to pay summer tax and autumn grain every year.

Generally speaking, in the area of Cochin Thanh Hoa, which had been occupied by the Ming Dynasty, the original landlord class was all wiped out, and basically became a simpler small peasant economic society, except for some necessary towns, most of them were natural villages, there were old villages and new villages, but each village had a certain number of police officers, and the chief of each village was a Han person.

Because of this, even in the early days of the war, after the Ming Dynasty only occupied the area around Qinghua City, nearly one million stone of grain had been transported back to the Ming Dynasty one after another.

Most of this grain was the grain of the original landlord class in Jiaozhi, and there was also the summer tax that had just passed.

In any case, this allowed Daming to obtain more raw materials, and naturally he didn't have to care whether the acquisition of these raw materials was rough or more civilized.

Of course.

Although the land in Cochin was forcibly confiscated and turned into public ownership, and the serfs in Cochin only had the right to use, even if they had the right to use, they would inevitably have private property, and with private property there would be transactions, and if there was trade, there would be commerce, and if there was commerce, there would be a private economy, and the existence of a private economy meant that there was exploitation, and there was a landlord class or bourgeoisie that exploited laborers.

Yan Song is basically suppressing the emergence of this phenomenon.

Therefore, the Jiaozhi magistrates he recommended when he asked the officials were basically Confucian ministers, who believed in the idea of valuing agriculture and suppressing commerce, and advocated the Confucian concept of governing the country.

This basically limited the commercial development of Cochin, after all, as serfs had basically no demand for agricultural products except for the need for money, because they could produce them themselves.

And once these serfs inevitably produced too many agricultural products and had to engage in commercial trade, they would be taxed so that the surplus means of agricultural production would be taken away by the government.

In short, Yan Song tried his best to stifle the possibility of the development of the commodity economy in Jiaozhi.

The Confucian ministers who were transferred to Jiaozhi also worked hard to carry out these measures, so that the serfs in Jiaozhi could basically only maintain a state of not starving to death.

However, it is still difficult to avoid the emergence of the landlord class, after all, the landlord class is the inevitable product of the small peasant class.

First of all.

The Ming officials and police officers who came to Jiaozhi became the first batch of landlord class.

Because they are now in power in Jiaozhi, they are the easiest to have more wealth, and they are the first-class people of the Ming Dynasty, and they are allowed to have land ownership, so they can buy their own land or reclaim their own land through the Ming government in Jiaozhi.

In addition, the Ming Dynasty also encouraged the first-class people in the hinterland, that is, the Han family scholars, to move to Jiaozhi, since it is an encouragement, there are naturally preferential policies, such as going to Jiaozhi not only can have the right to use the land, and even have the right to keep the second class of slaves, but also will be exempted from taxation within three years, and even have legal privileges.

For example, Yan Song immediately promulgated the customary law of the Han people, which conformed to the outline of the imperial constitution, and the core idea of its content was basically to give the Han people legal protection above the status of the local natives.

To tell the truth, under the influence of capitalist development over the years, coupled with the fact that Zhu Houzhao, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was a master who pursued equality within the nation, and protected the personal rights and interests of the Han people as much as possible in the system, so that the vested interests in the country lived very unfreely.

Nowadays, migrating to Jiaozhi can have land use rights and be exempted from taxation for three years, the focus is that you can keep slaves and maids, you can be a master, at least you will not bear criminal responsibility for killing a person, and you can also enjoy the more enjoyable feeling of being a power and blessing after the improvement of wealth and status.

Therefore, the landlord class and the bourgeoisie began to migrate to Jiaozhi.

The gentry, in particular, began to flee from the Ming Dynasty, who could not even behave as a vassal king, and they loved Cochin as much as they loved Goa.

After all, going to these places, nobles are like nobles.

Only the poor families who came from the bottom of the empire really like the internal environment of the Ming Dynasty, and only the common people within the empire really like the current Ming Dynasty in their hearts, so that the number of members of the Zhongjun Society is rapidly expanding among the major schools and the grassroots, which also makes Zhu Houzhao's prestige among the people higher and higher.

But the funny thing is that once these people at the bottom became above the middle class through education or other means, they began to get tired and disgusted with the policies within the empire, began to feel that they were being brainwashed by official education, and began to hope that they could have more special treatment, so that once these people from the bottom became rich, they also began to migrate to places such as Cochin and Goa.

However, in order to make the Ming Empire prosperous for a long time, the emperor and the top of the empire can only continue to take care of the interests of the bottom, continue to maintain balance, and continue to emphasize the citizenship rights of the first-class people of the Ming Dynasty, because with the development of industry and the popularization of education, a large number of Han workers and peasants need these.

The current Cochin has undoubtedly become the second place where the vested interests of the Ming Dynasty, namely the gentry group, migrate after Goa.

The first thing the gentry did when they came to Cochin was to buy people and land, and the rhythm of the life of the landlord class was repeated on this land.

The land in Jiaozhi is already limited, and even if it is reclaimed, it is impossible to reclaim enough land in a short period of time for these aborigines who have become serfs to plant, and naturally many natives will still be used for buying and selling.

And these Confucian scholars will also buy a large number of these serfs as their slaves and maids after coming to Cochin.

Ren Han, a famous Confucian who had been a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, also migrated to Jiaozhi, and he was born in a bureaucratic family, and he really could not accept the concept of citizenship brought about by the idea of equality in the interior of the Ming Dynasty, so that he could no longer be a gentry who could arbitrarily kill slaves and maids and arbitrarily execute clansmen with clan lynching.

It made him feel depressed.

Moreover, when Ren Han thought that he happened to be bumped into by himself because he saw a long-term worker of his own family picking up dung and entering the front yard and it was dirty, he scolded him for insulting Sven and ordered the hired long-term and short-term workers to only enter and exit through the back door in the future, and he actually attracted many literati to criticize him, saying that he was discriminating against ordinary people, Ren Han felt even more depressed and uncomfortable.

But he couldn't stand the students' behavior of not taking care of his face, a famous Confucian teacher, and he couldn't accept the concept that the low-level people who only knew how to go to the kiln and talk about meat and work hard were equal to him in status.

However, he also knew that he could not refute it, because the sages did not say that as Confucian scholars, he should treat the common people as grass mustard.

Because of this, Ren Han also migrated to Jiaozhi, where he could establish a hierarchical clan covenant, raise slaves and maids, and be a patriarch and head of family who could control his clan and family, even if he killed his own son, it was not illegal, and he felt that Jiaozhi was obviously much freer than the Ming Dynasty.

Even Yan Song himself is a little happy, now he can enjoy the back and leg pinching of the female slave he bought, but he has no lust and no guts, and he is afraid to take a step beyond Lei Chi because of the obscenity of his wife Ouyang, but his son Yan Shifan is now indulgent and ruthless, and there are no less than three or four female slaves every day.

The idea of equality for all is most beneficial and most needed by the common class, but it is clearly unacceptable to the ruling class, even if it is ostensibly acceptable.

And now, it is precisely because of this that this phenomenon has emerged.

The rich and powerful began to migrate to Cochin, while the commoners remained in the country, but as soon as they accumulated wealth, they began to migrate to Cochin.

Zhu Houzhao actually longed for the life of his own people in the colony in his heart.

Because now he finds that he has also dug a hole for himself, his investment in the emancipation of the mind and the opening of trade and education makes it difficult for him, the emperor, to execute a person at will as before, and sometimes, Zhu Houzhao also wants to raise a few female slaves to try and do something exciting.

But Zhu Houzhao finally restrained the animalistic side of his heart, but he could also think that maybe in the future, even if the social economy is highly developed, only partial equality can be achieved, and maybe those who enjoy equality and freedom will not think that they are actually exploiters, but not through their own hands, so they will feel how noble they are.

For example, the civilians in the interior of the Ming Dynasty will not realize that they can have high welfare benefits now, because the imperial court has continuously distributed the benefits from the exploitation of colonies and other peoples, so that they can grow up happily without worrying about the survival crisis.

"Bai doesn't understand, why the imperial court has to divide two levels, since the people of the Ming Dynasty can be given citizenship, why can't they give the citizenship of the indigenous people of Jiaozhi, since everyone is equal, why can't we respect these natives! Why are they so brutal! Respect their culture, respect their beliefs! ”

Bai Ruoyi said this in the press, and even aroused enthusiastic responses from some so-called emerging intellectuals.

Zhu Houzhao was both happy and frightened when he saw it, and he was glad that the emergence of these theories of the Holy Mother must be because the Ming Dynasty was indeed rich, and the people were indeed rich, otherwise they would not be noble enough to love all human beings.

The fear is that this conception of the Virgin will increase with the number of wealthy people, and more and more people will ignore the essence of the law of nature as the law of the jungle.

"The story of the farmer and the snake cannot be forgotten! Today, the people who have no worries about food and clothing want to love the people of other races, but they do not know that they can be without food and clothing because of the sacrifices of other people, and they want the people of other races to be equal and rich, then they must be willing to be slaves! ”

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but sigh.

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