Chapter 216 Culture and Economy

"The island is a land of many mountains, but there are also large plains in the west, enough to feed millions of people. It's a shame to be so deserted. ”

Chen Wu, a staff officer from the Third Fleet, nodded and replied: "Since the twentieth year of Hongwu, Emperor Taizu has moved to Quanzhou Mansion and Zhangzhou Mansion, where there have been countless civil disputes over the years. If His Highness allows the people to move back, it can be regarded as a great deed. It's just that this is the will of Emperor Taizu, and even the emperor can't disobey it. ”

Because Zhu Di snatched back the emperor's throne from Zhu Yunwen's hands, in order to flaunt his orthodoxy, he followed all the laws and regulations determined by Zhu Yuanzhang at the beginning.

Although the sea ban is now a virtual reality, the imperial court has never said that it will be lifted.

It is not an easy thing to ask him to overturn Zhu Zhanji's regulations and immigrate to Dongfan.

However, there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom. Zhu Zhanji had already considered this, and said to Chen Wu: "Taizu's rules naturally cannot be broken. However, such a large island, with thousands of hectares of fertile land and camphor trees all over the mountains, naturally cannot be abandoned. Since the navy wants to build a water village here, I grant you permission to recruit troops in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou. Anyone whose family has joined the navy can bring their whole family to immigrate to Dongfan to grow food for Shuizhai. ”

Chen Wu was originally a native of Tong'an, Quanzhou, that is, a native of Xiamen in later generations, and was in Quanzhou as a soldier, so he knew the local situation very well.

Hearing Zhu Zhanji's method, which was not a solution, his eyes lit up, and he said softly: "Your Highness, will Your Majesty agree?" What's more, the construction of the water village and the recruitment of new recruits require a lot of money......"

Zhu Zhanji turned his head and glanced at Zhu Zhen, and said with a smile: "You don't have to worry about this matter, General Zhu will arrange it." ”

Chen Wu also looked at his boss, and when he saw him smiling and nodding, he knew that the upper echelons had already negotiated, and he would just do it here.

Being able to help the people of his hometown solve practical difficulties, he thought it was his duty to do so, and immediately bowed down and hugged his fists and said: "The minister must go all out!" ”

Zhu Zhen answered at this time: "General Chen Shen is responsible for raising 12,000 people in Quanzhou, and General Xu is responsible for raising 12,000 people in Zhangzhou, and each person will be given ten taels of silver to settle in, and the navy will provide ships to be responsible for transporting family members to Dongfan, is it difficult?" ”

Xu Shaoguang's staff member clasped his fists and asked, "Lord Commander, is there a limit for this family?" ”

Zhu Zhanji shook his head and said: "As long as there are no more than ten people, you can also remember that you must not affect the dissatisfaction of the local parents and officials in Quanzhou and Zhangzhou." ”

Today's government, in addition to collecting taxes according to land, also collects taxes according to capitation. With a larger population, more taxes will naturally increase, and this is all a political achievement.

If hundreds of thousands of people were dragged away because of conscription, the local parents and officials would naturally not be able to agree.

Therefore, Zhu Zhanji's prediction, with the help of family reasons, to relocate 100,000 people from each of the two places is enough for the time being.

With a navy of 25,000 men, it will be able to ensure the safety of the eastward route, and 200,000 will arrange 100,000 people in the south of the island and 100,000 in the north of the island, so as to do a good job in land reclamation first.

When it slowly develops here, it will naturally attract more businessmen and more immigrants in the future.

Chen Wu was overjoyed, and couldn't help but kneel down and bow: "The minister is from Quanzhou, so he naturally knows the contradiction between immigrants and locals. Now that 100,000 people have been relocated, there will naturally be much fewer civil conflicts. Your Highness's move is a benevolent government! ”

Everyone couldn't help laughing, this Chen Wu was just a military attache who was coarse and literate, and now he was learning from Wenchen to pat himself on the back, so he was naturally a little blunt.

But it is precisely because of this bluntness that his attitude seems very sincere, but it is not annoying.

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "Okay, set off to Penghu, even if the water division wants to set up two water divisions in Dongfan, but the Penghu Inspection Division cannot be abandoned, this is the throat of my southeast Ming Dynasty." ”

Two water divisions, one is set in today's Tamsui, and it is also the estuary of the Taipei Tamsui River in the future.

After the typhoon, coming out of Jilong Bay, Zhu Zhanji decided to set up the Sailor Dazhai here.

Although it is a little far from the plains, there is a freshwater river, which is convenient for the transfer of supplies on the island.

As for the other water division Dazhai, in Zhu Zhanji's plan, it was set in Anping in the south, which was later Tainan City.

It is now home to the largest city on the island and is where the Han Chinese and the island's ethnic minorities are most closely integrated.

The vast plains from Taichung to Kaohsiung can also open up a large amount of fertile land. When the Xiaoice period arrived, food would be the most important foundation of this vast empire.

Not only in Dongfan, but also in Siam, Chenla, Champong, Cochin, and the major islands in the South Seas, will become the grain base of the Ming Dynasty.

As long as Da Ming has inexhaustible food in his hands, a fleet that will not be revoked, and a huge transport fleet. In the future peasant uprising, Zhu Zhanji would not be too worried.

It's just this point, Zhu Zhanji can't find a bosom friend at all.

Many people also believe that there is a lot of wasteland in the Ming Dynasty today, and there is no need to go abroad to open up wasteland, nor does it need so much grain, including Zhu Di.

Zhu Zhanji had no choice but to use winemaking to deal with Zhu Di.

Although the Ming Dynasty is now self-sufficient in food, it is not abundant. In the event of natural and man-made disasters, there are many people who can't eat.

Zhu Zhanji reminded Zhu Di of the importance of grain reserves, and on the other hand, he attracted Zhu Di with the windfall profits of winemaking, which reluctantly made him agree to Zhu Zhanji's eastern development plan.

Moreover, in addition to camphor and grain, there is also a major specialty in the development of Dongfan, that is, sugarcane.

China's cane sugar refining technology has been developed for more than a thousand years, from the crude cane sugar in the Han Dynasty, to the Tang Dynasty, China brought back a large number of cane sugar workers from Magadha, India, and since then, the cane sugar technology has led the world.

But in the Song Dynasty, the Arabs learned to refine white sugar, and they bought back the cane sugar from the Song Dynasty, processed it, refined it into white sugar, and then sold it to Europe, making a lot of money.

Because there is no sugar cane in Europe, they can only extract sugar from sugar beets, which is still brown sugar, which is not very sweet. Not only is the quantity small, the quality is poor, but the price is also very expensive.

Kublai Khan's conquest of Central Asia brought the technology of refining white sugar back to the Yuan Dynasty. Then the workers of the Yuan Dynasty used the methods of the Arabs, combined with their own technology, to invent the yellow mud water lin decolorization method.

Since then, China's sugar manufacturing has begun to lead the world and began to export abroad.

Today's Ming Dynasty, in foreign trade, although the proportion of this trip is not large, it has been very stable, and it is in short supply.

And Dongfan is very suitable for growing sugarcane, which can also bring huge benefits to Daming.

You must know that people in the Western Regions, in addition to tea, have the greatest demand for sugar.

Although the Arabs are the originators of white sugar refining, they also do not have sugarcane, and there is no competitiveness in the export of white sugar.

As long as the Ming Dynasty curbs the import of their raw materials in the future, they can only obediently buy sugar from the Ming Dynasty.

Because of the typhoon's delay of a few days, Zhu Zhanji was able to stay in Dongfan for a few days, and he had to return to Beijing before 15 August.

Therefore, the location of the construction of the naval division was determined in Anping, and on the ninth day of August, the army began to return.

The summer of the fourteenth year of Yongle had passed, and under the push of the south wind, the fleet returned much faster, and it took only two days for the fleet to arrive at Ningbo Mansion.

The army of the Second Fleet was separated again, and only the First Fleet and the 30,000 Shenji Battalion were left, returning to Beijing.

On the evening of 13 August, the fleet finally arrived at the base of the First Fleet at the mouth of Xinjiangkou, and the imperial court had already been notified to prepare a grand welcoming ceremony at the Yuejianglou wharf.

This time, in addition to Liu Jiang, the governor of the navy, and Lu Zhen, the Zuo Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, the people who came to greet him in Xinjiangkou were also the chief officials of the Hanlin Academy and the James Mansion.

And Zhu Zhanji also got the news on this day, the grandson concubine Sun Xian gave birth to her eldest son, in addition, she had three more children at once, and four were about to give birth.

The royal family got the eldest son of the fourth generation, who was born to the princess, and there was no title dispute, and the entire Ming Dynasty cheered.

It's just that Zhu Di named this child Zhu Qizhen according to the genealogy set up by Zhu Yuanzhang, which made Zhu Zhanji's heart a little uncomfortable.

Is it difficult to raise another loser emperor who led to the change of Tumubao.

He had already decided to keep an eye on the inner eunuch, and if he met a eunuch named Wang Zhen, regardless of whether he had committed a crime, he would kill him first.

He tried his best to transform the Ming Dynasty, but he didn't want to experience another change in the civil fort.

Although Mobei is now almost under the control of the Ming Dynasty, and the Tatar warriors have almost become the miners of the Ming Dynasty to develop Beiming Mountain, who knows how powerful the error correction ability of history is!

However, giving yourself another ten years to turn Mobei into the mainland should not be a big problem.

Although the Mongols are barbaric, after more than 80 years of rule, the Mongols have actually been almost assimilated by the Han people.

There is no cultural barrier, as long as they are subdued again, it is only a matter of time before they are assimilated.

The most powerful thing of the Chinese nation is never force, but culture. Whether it is the current Mengyuan or the later Manchu Qing, their rule has certainly broken the backbone of the Han people. But culturally, they were all assimilated by the Han Chinese in the end.

To give a simple example, the Jurchens originally did not have writing, and in order to distinguish the Han Chinese, they created the Manchu script, but by the time the Qing Dynasty fell, the vast majority of Manchus could only speak a few words of Manchu and could not even write.

From Cangjie to the Heluo book, to the Spring and Autumn Period. When the Chinese culture matured, it began to expand all the time, never stopping.

Whether it is a change of dynasty or an invasion of foreign races, China has not only not shrunk, but has been expanding.

This is because Chinese culture has never been a nation distinguished by blood.

During the period of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, Huaxia was only a small tribe in the Central Plains. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Huaxia was only the territory of the original Zhou Dynasty. However, after expansion and division, China has become a super-country with many ethnic groups and different bloodlines.

The main reason for this is the cultural influence of China.

From this point of view, it also indirectly explains why there are so many traitor literati in history. Because they don't care who rules the country and the land, they just know that whoever it is, will be influenced by the culture and eventually become their own people.

If it weren't for the development of science and technology, the escalation of wars, and finally the Western countries artificially replacing the nation with the state and dividing the boundaries with land, China would have just fallen into the lowest stage in history, and the influence of Chinese culture would be far more than it appeared.

Just like Zhu Zhanji has seen with his own eyes which Koreans, Dongying people, they wear national costumes and worship in the Confucian Mansion religiously.

It's not a country, it's not a nation, why do they have such devout beliefs? That's the power of culture.

For example, in those countries in Africa, Western countries have artificially drawn boundaries, dividing one tribe into two countries, and dividing different tribes into one country.

This has led to the fact that those tribes in Africa, because of their different beliefs, have been fighting for years and killing massacres one after another.

However, although Zhu Zhanji understood this, he could not accept his own nation and his own country to be slaughtered by foreign races.

Every time you slaughter more dogs, most of them are readers.

He has not been a scholar for several lifetimes, but a dog butcher who is happy to take revenge. So he just wants to slaughter others, and he doesn't want to be slaughtered by others.

Even if the end result is different.

Zhu Zhanyong and the others still came with the ministers to greet him this time, and he was already twelve years old, and he became a little more sensible, seeing the fleet of a city on the sea, he was envious one by one, pestering Zhu Zhanji to play on the ship.

I have been practicing with Xuan Zhen for half a year, and under Xuan Zhen's conditioning, all of them are in good health, and Zhu Zhanji also let them wander around, just to let people stare at them and not fall into the water.

The ministers were invited into their conference room, and everyone paid their respects, and Zhu Zhanji was not modest and accepted their great gifts.

At this time, he was not a grandson, but a marshal who returned triumphantly and could afford their great gifts.

However, when he heard that Zhu Di would personally greet him at the dock tomorrow, he couldn't sit still anymore. "How can this make you not persuade Your Majesty?"

Lu Zhen smiled bitterly and said: "How can you not persuade it, if it weren't for the opposition of the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, Your Majesty would have come to the Xinjiang Estuary Naval Division to greet you." ”

Zhu Zhanji's heart was agitated, but his face was calmer, and he sighed and said: "In this ancient past, how can there be a reason for grandpa to welcome his grandson!" ”

Lu Zhen laughed and said: "When the news came that the army burned down the palace of the Wa King and captured the Wa King and his family, His Majesty couldn't help but be overjoyed. This country has not been invaded by foreign races since ancient times, and the two expeditions of Meng Yuan have been in vain, and His Royal Highness has made such a great contribution this time, of course His Majesty can't bear his interest. ”

met Zhu Di, an emperor who didn't like to be restrained, and now these ministers are also used to it, and it is almost impossible to restrain him with etiquette.

After discussing tomorrow's reception procedures, Zhu Zhanji asked them to arrange them to rest in the water village, and asked Yang Zhangde to come over.

He has now joined the Jinyi Guard as a commander, although he is not very qualified. But because Zhu Zhanji personally promoted him, Zhu Di did not object, so the current right commander Saihazhi is very supportive of his work.

Now that he is still in the stage of familiarizing himself with the work, Zhu Zhanji does not expect him to understand the whole picture. But at present, he doesn't know anything about the situation in Jingshi, so he must ask him.

Before Yang Zhangde arrived, Zhu Zhanji first met with Jin Kuo, the chief eunuch of his Xingqing Palace, and Xue Shanggong, a female official.

Today's situation in the palace is relatively simple, after the death of Queen Xu, the harem is dominated by two Zhangs.

One of them is Zhu Di's concubine, Zhang Fu's sister, and Zhu Zhanji's ally. The other is the crown princess Zhang, Zhu Zhanji's mother.

The two daughters are not arrogant and domineering people, and they are closely related to Zhu Zhanji's interest, so they help Zhu Zhanji stabilize the harem.

If his children are born one by one, it may also cause some palace fights.

But these girls have just entered the palace, and their influence in the palace is very small.

They are all only in their teens, and the eldest Hu Liangdi is only the same age as Zhu Zhanji, just turning eighteen years old, and she is not yet the age of being a mother.

In addition, Zhu Zhanji gave birth to four children at once, and four were in his mother's womb. added so many children at once, so that the concubines didn't even know which one they were jealous of.

Therefore, Zhu Zhanji's harem is relatively peaceful.

It's just that the prince was sick again in the summer, but when he was sick and spent summer, Zhu Gaochi suffered more than 20 catties at once, but his body seemed to be much better.

In addition, there is another great joy, that is, the Han king Zhu Gaoxu was imprisoned again.

After he took up the Qingzhou, he privately collected 3,000 warriors and plundered the surrounding states and counties, making the people's livelihood resentful.

Xu Yedonkey, the commander of the soldiers and horses, was ordered to go to Qingzhou to ask Zhu Di for the crime, and sent troops to surround the Han Wangfu and capture the 3,000 warriors.

But Zhu Gaoxu actually held an iron melon and killed Xu Yedonkey.

Zhu Di was furious when he heard the news, and investigated dozens of his illegal acts in the imperial history, took away his crown clothes, and imprisoned him in the palace of the Han Dynasty.

Subsequently, after the news of Zhu Zhanji's victory came back, Zhu Dige cut his left and right two guards, transferred all the sergeants he recruited to the north of Juyong Guan, and set up two guards on the left and right guards.

Just before Zhu Zhanji's class returned to the dynasty, Zhu Gaoxu, the king of the Han Dynasty, was enthroned in Le'an Prefecture (later Huimin County, Shandong), and deprived of his title and reduced to a commoner.

However, Zhu Di still took pity on his grandsons, and the low-ranking titles of his grandsons were not deprived, so that his family could still enjoy a rich life.

But even so, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't bear it, and it is said that he had committed suicide once, but was rescued.

And Zhu Di's next punishment has not yet come out, which is also one of the major events that Ying Tianfu is more concerned about now.

Another major event is the recent lawsuit between the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Internal Supervisor over the right to manage the bank.

Before the bank was opened, it had already attracted the attention of the people of the Ming Dynasty.

So for Zhu Zhanji, this is another good thing.

In addition, today's Daming merchants are increasing the wages of workers and working overtime to produce various goods.

The exploration trade was changed to free trade, and many people wanted to go directly to Dongying to do business.

However, the internal supervisor insisted on refusing to delegate power, and now he is also fighting lawsuits with all walks of life.

Hearing these things, Zhu Zhanji felt sincerely happy, because there is not much difference between capitalist society and feudal society politically, but there is a world of difference in system.

The biggest difference between the superiority of capitalist society and feudal society is the application of resources and the utilization of productive forces. This is something that the feudal society of the small peasant economy cannot compare with in any way.

As long as this continues to develop, there are no restrictions. It won't take many years for the Ming people to control the whole world just by using the economy.

Of course, there are still limits that should be in place.

Capital is profit-seeking, which affects the ideology of the entire country.

Second, as the head of a centralized society, Zhu Zhanji must of course limit the power of capital and not let capital lose control.

However, these are all problems that need to be developed to a certain stage, and the current Daming is still very early from this step!

Although Zhu Zhanji looked forward to the opening up of trade and the development of industry, which would lead to economic development. However, energy, economy, military industry, and tariffs will never be let go, and these must be controlled in their own hands, and they cannot be opened at all.

After Yang Zhangde arrived, Zhu Zhanji inquired in detail about the current situation in the capital in all aspects, especially his Jiajiang Industrial Zone and Research Institute, and the protection work in these places should be increased.

These things were arranged, and it was getting late.

The imperial chef sent by Zhu Di and the crown princess Zhang prepared a sumptuous dinner for Zhu Zhanji and them.

It is indeed sumptuous, because there are nearly 100 kinds of dishes alone, which makes Zhu Zhanji, who has been a clear soup for a long time, and they are satisfied with eating one by one.

After dinner, Zhu Zhanji first sent blue cigarettes to the cabin, she and Liu Chenghui enjoyed Zhu Zhanji's four-month grace, and she was also pregnant with Zhu Zhanji's child.

However, Liu Chenghui has never been pregnant, and Zhu Zhanji guessed that she might still want to go to the West with her, so she deliberately did not get pregnant.

But this woman is physically strong, and she understands medical skills, so taking her with her when she goes out saves Zhu Zhanji a lot of trouble. So even if he went to the West, Zhu Zhanji didn't mind taking her with him.

After appeasing Lan Yan, Zhu Zhanji came to the room of the four Dongying girls.

The two princesses are not very old, one is more than a year older than the fifteen-year-old Chengguang, and has just turned sixteen this year, and the other is two years younger than Chengguang and has just menstruated.

However, they are destined to have children in this life, this is not because Zhu Zhanji is ruthless, but because the blood of the royal family cannot be mixed, so that in the future, foreign races will use this to stir up the wind and rain.

It's like if he gives birth to a child with the princess of Dongying, and when he grows up in the future, will the people of Dongying use this relationship to beg him to do things?

Even when it comes to such a major event as seizing the heir, I am afraid that the Dongying people will spare no effort to become their backing.

So for this reason, they can only be sacrificed.

The two of them are not very old, and the other two noble daughters of the General's Mansion are not very old, they are generally over sixteen years old, and they are almost married, and they can be sent to Zhu Zhanji, so they are naturally not at this age.

Zhu Zhanji is tall, more than 1.85 meters, and they are all about 1.5 meters tall, and there is a huge difference in figure.

This difference makes Zhu Zhanji always have a feeling of playing with young girls, although there are some side stages, but it makes Zhu Zhanji very energetic.

They can't serve Zhu Zhanji alone, even if the four of them add up, they can be on par with Zhu Zhanji.

And although they are young, they are not bad at all in the openness of the bed, and they are very comfortable to serve people.

Along the way, I enjoyed their intimate service, and Zhu Zhanji really liked them.

However, it is limited to this way, back to the capital, there are still so many women to be wet with rain and dew. Being infatuated with them all the time will only hurt them.

(It hasn't been adjusted yet, and the writing is not satisfactory, please forgive me)

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