Chapter 397: The World Values Commerce

The slave rebellion of tens of thousands of people was quietly suppressed, and the resolute Liu Shisan was greatly honored in front of Jiang Feng and other high-level leaders when he came back for the first time.

It can be regarded as suppressing those voices who are dissatisfied with the reappointment of Liu Shisan, and after this battle, the guards and regimental training outside the Guanxi are all spreading the name of Liu Shisan's martial arts, and everyone originally thought that he should be the leader of the garrison outside the Guanwai.

This was also a reward for his contribution to quelling the rebellion, but Zhang Liang was immediately appointed commander of the garrison outside the Guan, as well as the commander of the guards. The guards were regarded as soldiers in the Jiang family's army, not the kind of reserve or reserve army that was trained in the regiment, and for this Liu 12 and Liu 13, it was impossible for a person with a rebellion experience to be granted such a large military power.

On the contrary, the force of the group training outside the gate is already very huge, and those who control it must also be guarded against.

Those slaves who surrendered did not receive any forgiveness, whether it was Jiang Feng, who was born as a martial artist, or Liu Shunhua, who was born as a civil servant. They all felt that it was necessary to punish these slaves harshly, and it was not necessary to kill them all. The day after the garrison intercepted the slaves, the letterhead from Huazhou arrived.

Five draws of one, one of the five people to be killed, by the slaves themselves, and then these people are sent back to the original manor, after this five draws and one killing, the only bit of unity and blood of the slaves has been completely destroyed. can only be an honest cow and a horse.

However, after this incident, the attitude of the guards towards the slaves became even harsher, and the guards and regimental trainers of Zhenhe Manor who only cared about making money in business were removed from the preferential conditions, and they were disposed of as civil guards, and there were a lot of taxes and forced labor, such negative examples were placed in front of these people, and naturally they were trained with heart for their own regimental training, after this rebellion, the Han people went through this rebellion.

The last trace of sympathy for those slaves also disappeared, and they finally understood the truth that those who are not of our race must have different hearts, and that the Han people had an advantage in numbers over the slaves, and since the increased vigilance and vigilance of the slaves, there would be no room or opportunity for the slaves to rebel.

In the past, the Han people had such a plan, that is, when they made more money, they would also buy a few slaves to raise and cultivate, and after such a thing, there would be such an idea there. Slaves are increasingly concentrated on the lands of the Guardians, and no one wants to add new slaves.

In the months that followed, there were even slave ships from the South Seas anchored in the ports of Liaodong and Korea, often buying slaves not from the slave market, but from the farms that had been sold.

Jingshi, Beizhili, Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, these provinces lost a large number of labor and population during the disaster, and the population is still being recruited outside the customs through various channels, and there are many vacant land, and there is even a rather funny situation, that is, many rich people spent money to buy a lot of land during the disaster year, but when the year turned good, they found that there was no one to cultivate.

In the past, the Ming Dynasty has always been after the peace of the world, the population increased, the population increased more and more, the land gradually became scarce, coupled with the annexation of the landlords, the landless peasants will increase greatly, the landlords can hire tenants and long-term workers at a very low price, the wages are low, naturally they earn more, and then buy more land, gradually annex, and then there are more and more landless peasants, and the wages are getting lower and lower.

Until the peasants could not bear this oppression, rebellion, chaos, a large number of dead people, and then the land was emptied, and the cycle began again.

The Jiajing Dynasty in history happened to be at this inflection point, and large-scale land annexation began slowly, but history has changed, and the land outside the customs was developed a long time earlier, and all kinds of unexpected chaos broke out. The reclamation of Chinese merchants in the South Seas was all depletion and absorbed a large number of people.

China has many people since ancient times, and the only thing that is not lacking is labor, but the emergence of the Jiang Jiajun overseas force, as well as the amplification and stimulation of the activities of the Chinese in Nanyang by the emergence of this force, and the promotion of maritime trade by maritime naval hegemony have attracted a large number of peasants who worked on the land in the Guannai, and the landless peasants in the south of the Yangtze River have left their own land one after another to go to the handicraft workshops in the prefecture and county.

Or take a boat south, go to Nanyang, go to Yizhou to get a bigger piece of land and better treatment. The peasants in the north died in the turmoil, or could not bear it in the year of famine, so they could only escape, and the land outside the customs was vast, and Jiangfeng needed a large number of free Han people to cultivate.

There were a large number of cattle and sheep in the pastures waiting for labor to graze, and for Jiang Feng, the existence of slaves was at most to produce more grain and cut down more wood. However, the existence of the free Han people can add one more soldier, one more sailor, one more tax-bearing Dingkou for his inheritance, and one more will be stronger.

Under such a form and environment, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, there is really a situation where there is land and no one to plant, and the landlords are not willing to consume some spare money in their hands day by day, and after Jiajing seized the power of the government and the world, the most important policy is the taxation of shops.

And it doesn't matter what the background of the shops and handicraft workshops is, what the background is, whether you are an official eunuch or a nobleman's background, because the officials of the Southern School are concentrated in the maritime trade and the reclamation of the South Seas, except for Guangdong and Nanjing, most of the commercial handicrafts in the rest of the places are controlled by the people of the Jingshi merchant group, and the taxes are collected, anyway, there is almost no damage to themselves.

Collecting taxes on these shops that originally had an official background, the government of the Ming Dynasty became full of government treasury, tax supervisors, and tax officials urged harshly, and it was not uncommon for shops to go bankrupt, and more shops solved this problem in the form of bribes and dry shares.

The imperial court collected taxes from the shops, in fact, it opened up many things that were originally official to the people in disguise, and recognized his existence.

Although the inland of the Ming Dynasty is prosperous and can be called the first in the world, such a huge production and sales are obviously not only to meet domestic demand, but also to gradually expand the maritime trade to buy a large number of Ming Dynasty specialties and goods, and sell them to the whole of Asia, and even the wealth of Europe and the Americas is constantly absorbed into this central empire, and all kinds of industrial and commercial industries are like snowballing bigger and bigger.

At this time, the sea ban has not been lifted, but everyone knows that these goods are produced there, the production efficiency at this time is low, the world market is so vast, saturation and other things are still fantastic, as long as you produce as much as you produce, how much will be sold.

No one farmed, and there was some surplus money in their hands of the landlords, especially those who were more active, began to enter the county and county pools, rich sole proprietorship, not much money everyone got together, opened shops and handicraft workshops, after all, it is a person to farm the land and a person to work to create the value is not the same, there are also some idlers in the city can be hired, these people make money, began to attract more people into the city to work.

Now in the whole of Asia, except for the places occupied by the Ming and Jiang Feng, the commerce and handicraft industries of the rest of the countries or colonies are all extremely decayed by the Ming Dynasty's money and shops and fleets, and the goods of good quality and cheap are sometimes more effective and powerful than cannons and swords.

In Goa, India, where there is a small colony run by the Portuguese, surrounded by princely states in India, there is a lot of pressure, not to mention that it does not make any profits, and it often needs to lose money to strengthen its defenses and recruit soldiers, the existence of the colonies is to make profits and provide ports for their own country's fleet, money cannot be earned, and they hope to go west into Asia, but now Jiangfeng's sea power is unshakable. Portugal's main focus is on the Americas and Africa, and there are already motions to abandon Goa at home.

However, fifteen years after Jiajing, that is, the forces of the Jiang Jiajun really determined the superiority on the sea, and the pirates at sea were forced by Jiang Feng's cannon giant ships to become maritime merchants, and a large number of merchants bought merchant ships produced in Huazhou. The Portuguese suddenly found themselves living much better in India, and the large ships loaded with oriental goods were the favorite of the princes, nobles, and rich people of the princely states of India.

The Indians were almost equal to idiots at sea, so the Portuguese merchants who occupied the ports and advanced navigation technology quickly turned from the original thorn in the side to the pistachios. In the past, the attitude of deep vigilance was gone, but it was to give all kinds of convenience, and the Portuguese people were also smiling, and the various goods produced by the Ming Dynasty brought them huge profits, and the price difference made them make a lot of money.

Many of the so-called scholars of the Ming Dynasty, that is, scholars, felt that the teachings of the sages they had learned, and the Confucian values gradually failed to explain what was happening. Why is it that now there are fewer and fewer people cultivating the land, but the so-called fundamental 'agriculture' of the country has not collapsed, the price of grain is lower, the quantity is higher, and the merchants engaged in the business of small things are earning more and more, but they have not disturbed any order, but only watched the market prosper day by day.

Of course, more scholars don't think about it, they directly participate in making money in it, saying that the Confucian family and the Meng family of Zoucheng, the descendants of the saints in Qufu, Shandong, and the industries of the largest shops and handicraft workshops in Shandong are their industries, and they are happy to make money, which is the example of the world's corporals, the descendants of the saints.

It has already been said that this is the time of 'the prosperity of a thousand years!' ’