Chapter 613 is not without foresight

There is an essential difference between the colonizers of European countries and the "colonizer" of Chen Xie, the former is for immediate interests, and the latter is for future interests. You can't say that the European colonizers were short-sighted because of this, there are things that they may not be able to see, but they can't solve. The reason is simple, the country is too small and the population is too small, which is almost a common problem in European countries.

Take the later Britain as an example, the world hegemon, very bullish. But Britain can only solve the problems at sea, and if it goes a little deeper into the mainland, Britain will have to catch blind. The American Revolutionary War on the other side of the Atlantic had already exposed this weakness of Britain. This is the sorrow of a small country, the world's number one power, because of the defects of its own roots, will be turned into a-stirring stick by reality, and hollow out its mind to exchange the greatest victory for the smallest price. You can't say that he's wrong in this way of thinking, in fact, this line of thinking is a wise choice at all times.

Chen Xie also achieved the minimum price in exchange for the greatest benefit, but the purpose of his coming to Nanyang was different, others came to live temporarily, and he brought people to settle down permanently, so he had no intention of leaving again. In this way, some contradictions become irreconcilable. Relying on the population advantage of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Xie was able to occupy this land permanently, which was something that Europeans could not do. The Dutch were not even able to do anything about the Republic of Lanfang for a time. In the final analysis, it is still the sorrow of a small country, and a large country with a large population does not have this trouble. After a series of famines and civil wars, the population of the Ming Dynasty plummeted, and even then, there were more than 100 million people.

More people are trouble, and fewer people are more troublesome. The current Ming Cabinet is facing the trouble of sparse population in the northwestern provinces. From the second to the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, the whole fourteen years of war, from the initial small group of thieves to the scale of hundreds of thousands or even millions that later swept the Central Plains, caused the population north of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty to drop sharply.

How to solve this problem. In the face of the report of the governors of the provinces, the cabinet had no choice but to tell the emperor, and then everyone met together to study it.

Is there a solution? Yes! At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the population was much smaller than it is now. After the Jingjing disaster, there was also a large population shortage in the northern provinces. How did Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di solve it? Quite simply, immigration.

The same is immigration. The current immigrants are different from the previous immigrants, whether it is Zhu Yuanzhang or Zhu Di, first of all, they have a set of efficient ruling teams, secondly, they have the right to concentrate financial resources to do things, and finally they have a relatively clean environment for officials.

Zhu Youzhen doesn't have these three things. He would like to have it, but unfortunately the Ming political arena has experienced more than 100 years of relaxation and slackness, and it is not an overnight thing to reinvigorate. There is also the issue of corruption, which used to be very active in the impeachment of various imperial histories. Not anymore, you basically don't see Goshi impeaching local officials. What's really going on in the place? In fact, everyone here knows very well in their hearts, let's take the relief of the victims as an example, if the silver does not leave the capital, it will be less than 30%. Jingshi is still like this, let alone the following? In the end, 10% of the money allocated can enter the mouths of the victims, that is, they are more serious. There can be three percent. Even if the local people meet Hai Jui, they will be reborn. This is also the reason why the Dengzhou battalion was in Henan and Jiangbei in the past, and was frequently impeached by the imperial history. If you don't leave, how can we be greedy?

Now this problem has to be solved in the end, Zhu Youzhen can only sigh silently in his heart, this is a rhythm that costs a lot of money but may not be able to do things properly. In that case, it is better to simply do it. Thinking about it, his face sank and said: "You can follow the old skills of Taizu and Chengzu, from Jiangxi, Huguang and other places, immigrate to the north, the household department prepares the money, and the cabinet plans to make a statement." Jinyiwei and Dongchang are responsible for supervision, but there are officials who can't do things honestly, so they take it down directly and distribute it to the army. "This is very face-saving for everyone, it used to be all killing! Don't even mention any corruption, just say that you will get things done for me.

The emperor made some concessions, which was not enough, Yang Tinglin stood up and said: "Your Majesty, there is no silver to be dialed in the household department." "What do you mean? The household department has no money, is there really no money? There really is no money. In the past few years, there has been a war, and the money is spent like flowing water. Even if there is an input of customs and commercial taxes, it costs silver for relief and silver for war, and it should not be spent too quickly.

If you really want to squeeze it, grit your teeth, and the household can also take out a little silver. But the outer court can't abuse itself, but let the emperor live a nourishing thing. Therefore, even if there is silver in the outer court, the emperor will have to give some blood, not to mention that there is no silver now, and every silver has a place to go. Whoever is missing has to compete with the household.

Zhu Youzhen's mood immediately became extremely bad, is it easy to save some silver? When even put his face on his face and said: "My new army is in ruins, and the horsemen of the Gongwei Jingshi are also the expenses allocated by my inner library." I am already very considerate of the household, why can't the household be considerate of me? ”

Yang Tinglin must speak for the interests of the officials in the world at this time, and he must face up to the angry Zhu Youzhen who is about to answer: "Your Majesty, the so-called ministers are not a family matter. The world is the world of His Majesty. This is absolutely correct, the whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister. This is a well-known truth in the world, and it is no problem to take it out at this time. Besides, there are so many officials in the world, who are willing to pay for the affairs of the imperial court, they can only embarrass the emperor.

Zhu Youzhen knew that he had to pay for this silver, but he was very unhappy in his heart, and as soon as he gritted his teeth, he decided not to give them face today, stood up and brushed his sleeves and said: "Then let the governors of the provinces take care of their own ideas, and I can't change the silver." Holding back his anger, Zhu Youzhen left, and this time the court broke up unhappily.

Back in the harem, Zhu Youzhen saw Queen Zhou coming to greet him, and his face was even more ugly. There is nothing good in the outer court, and the harem does not stop. The old father-in-law, Zhou Kui, has recently been determined to do business on the sea, and he can't invest in the royal fleet, so he will make a fuss elsewhere. He wanted to buy a ship and build his own fleet, but he went too late, and several shipyards that could build seagoing ships had orders lined up for two years.

Zhou Kui had no choice, so he had to come to beg his daughter and ask Empress Zhou to come forward to beg the emperor. It's better to get a boat from the royal fleet to run for him, otherwise watching others earn a lot of money, his heart is like a knife! Especially the families of those cabinet ministers, who are obviously slower than him, can get to the front, and the shipyard even temporarily opens a dock to build ships for them.

Zhou Kui's people came back from Shandong and Huating, and after reporting the matter, the old guy had a crooked idea and sent his nephew Zhou Duo into the palace. This matter can't be hidden from Zhu Youzhen, it is said that he didn't come in if he wanted to, but his banner was to send some hometown souvenirs to the queen, so you have a fart reason to stop him. The queen is the master of the harem, and not everyone dares to stop her.

Queen Zhou doesn't have any good ideas, my father, no matter how not, there's no reason not to help. Besides, there are very few women who don't go to their parents' families. But if you want to ask Queen Zhou to send news to Chen Xie, that's a big taboo. What do you want to do with the ministers in the harem? I had to tell the emperor, not to mention that she was not happy, and the family would continue to make trouble.

"The concubine has seen His Majesty!" Queen Zhou Wanfu spoke, Zhu Youzhen was in a bad mood, his face was calm, and a bad breath instantly burst out: "The outer court doesn't let me get better, don't you let me get better when you return to the harem?" You sue Zhou Kui, and then use his bad things to disturb the peace of the harem, I can't clean him up, and I can't clean up his relatives? Zhu Youzhen was almost roaring, and at that time, he said that Queen Zhou's face was wrong, and her tears fell uncontrollably.

"The concubine is guilty, Your Majesty is angry!" It can only be like this, Queen Zhou hurriedly knelt down and spoke. In fact, it's not a big deal, the key is that the timing is wrong, when Zhu Youzhen was angry.

"Humph!" With a heavy snort, Zhu Youzhen didn't stop and went to Tian Guifei. Queen Zhou knelt on the spot and waited until Zhu Youzhen's back disappeared before getting up, feeling sad and bitter in her heart. Think about it, call a eunuch next to him and say: "You go, send a message to Governor Zhou Kui, even if the palace can't manage his affairs, send someone to me again, don't say that I don't mean to be merciful when I go out." ”

As a result, Queen Zhou was also anxious, what is this called.

Speaking of which, Queen Zhou's father is really an indescribable character. Don't mention the foresight, staring at the family's one-third of an acre of land, and the small farmer next door who has a brick to move home. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the queen's background was not too high, and the reason for this was that she was worried about the harem interfering in politics. In fact, this phenomenon was very strict in the Wanli Dynasty, and it was not avoided at all.

Speaking of which, it's really a matter of the system.

The matter of immigration, just dragged on. Zhu Youzhen either has no money, or he is unwilling to simply spend this money, and if he takes out this money, there is a chance that he will be embezzled. But what about this matter, you can only count on the people below to do it. At this time, he remembered Chen Xie's benefits, he was also an official, how could the officials under Chen Xie not be greedy? Or rather, they don't dare to embezzle. So, are there any officials in the world who are not greedy? There may be, but there are absolutely few.

The next morning, Yang Tinglin came out again to say this matter, not to say no. I want everyone to see it, I'm in charge of this matter. Zhu Youzhen had already been mentally prepared and pretended to be deaf and dumb on the dragon chair, anyway, this matter is still very far away, there is a shortage of population in various places, and it has little to do with Jingshi. As for the officials below, there is no need to die with the emperor for this matter.

Since things are not easy to do, let's drag it out. Anyway, Zhu Youzhen made up his mind, this money must not be given so simply, once this opening is opened, everything in the future will be remembered for the little money in his inner library. In the past few years, relying on Chen Xie, Zhu Youzhen has saved more than 3 million taels of silver, and the life in the harem is much better, Tian Guifei wants to buy some jewelry or something, and she can also get the silver. I also saw new clothes on my body. Well, this dress is made by Zhu Yujiao. Empress Zhou and the others want to do it, but Zhu Youzhen still doesn't agree. How expensive silk is! (To be continued......)