"You can't forget your roots." The man in his forties dug up a bowl of soil, carefully packed it in a cloth bag, and then kowtowed respectfully three times in the direction of his hometown, got up, and dragged his wife and children to board the boat without looking back.

The same scene appeared all the time at the dock of Tianjin Wei, the entire land was cut off a layer, and they chose to leave their homeland and choose to go overseas to gamble their fate!

More than ninety percent of them are hidden households, if they can live, let their wives and children live, they will not choose to leave their hometown, but there is no way, if they lose the land, they will lose the foundation of survival, they can only be slaves and maids for the gentry landlords, and if they meet a good master, it will be forgotten, but if they meet meaner, beating and scolding, and abuse are commonplace.

It's okay to be tired and tired, but what about the child?

There is no hope, even if the Holy Son of Heaven abolishes forced labor and allows the people to work and earn money to support their families, but these have nothing to do with their hidden households, because they signed a deed of sale, that is, death is the ghost of the main family!

Now the Son of Heaven decrees that no gentry shall interfere with the freedom of their own hermits to choose to go to sea, otherwise once discovered, they will be punished severely and punished at worst!

This edict gave these hermits who would have never had a chance to get out of their lives a glimmer of hope, so that they could break free from the cage and then go north to Tianjin Wei!

Now the sailors of the Ming Dynasty already have one hundred and fifty warships, which are still built by the shipyard craftsmen who have worked hard day and night in the past year, but even if all these warships are transported to the people who want to go to sea, it is far from enough.

Originally, Zhu Houwei planned to restrict the flow of people, but later gave up this plan, after all, there are many people who want to go to sea, but they can work to divide the flow of people.

For example, a large amount of timber needs to be transported in the shipyard, and a lot of manpower is needed to build a ship to do small work, and the families of those men will not be idle, because Tianjin Wei has the largest garment factory in the Ming Dynasty at this time!

Now that there are more than 1.5 million people gathered in Tianjin, it is unrealistic to want to transport overseas at one time, so a lottery system was adopted, 300,000 people and a huge number of officials and their families, plus clans, nobles and scholars!

The ships are limited, even the clans and nobles cannot own a ship alone, it is impossible, and there are almost four or five thousand people from the hundreds of clans dominated by the Qin Wangzhi who occupy the three steel giant ships.

As for the nobles and scholars, their families and even the clans, they occupied a full ten large wooden sailing ships!

As a special class, it is naturally impossible for them to be coerced with ordinary people, and they can't afford to lose that person or fall to that share!

"This walk may be the eternal secret." Wei Guogong let out a long sigh.

Cheng Guogong also sighed when he looked at the people who were boarding the ship one after another, and said with a wry smile: "Emperor Jiajing is determined to reform the evils, in Zhu's opinion, sooner or later one day will do something to Xungui, you and I leave the Ming Dynasty, it may not be a bad thing."

"I hope so." Wei Guogong said helplessly: "It's just that the foundation passed on to Xu by the ancestors is in Nanjing, but he has to start from scratch when he goes overseas, whether it is a blessing or a curse, it is difficult to predict."

"Emperor Zhengde is straightforward, I don't know how many times more lenient than Emperor Jiajing's ruthlessness, it won't be too bad under his rule, and you and I should be a little lucky."

Wei Guogong was puzzled: "Why did Cheng Guogong say this?"

"Emperor Jiajing's colonization plan, doesn't Wei Guogong know about it?"

"That's a little bit of a hearing."

Cheng Guogong said with a smile: "Emperor Jiajing wants to complete the ambition of the expansion of the Quartet in the Jiajing Dynasty, this time it is to give Xizhou to Zhengde, but there are also the Americas and Australia, it is said that these two places are completely barren land, the land is endless and vast, but there are only wild people who drink blood on it, these places Jiajing Emperor obviously intends to let his sons occupy, and will definitely continue to let the clan and Xungui go to Zhenfeng at that time."

There are countless countries in Xizhou where Wei Guogong and Zhu went, and there are also civilized barbarians above, which are hundreds of times stronger than places like the Americas and Australia. ”

Wei Guogong thought so.

"But the Son of Heaven is really a big deal, and he plans to immigrate overseas in seven or eight years.

"It's just a recluse." Cheng Guogong said disdainfully: "Emperor Jiajing sent Jinyi Wei to investigate the purpose of the hidden households in the world, I don't know, the reason why I didn't do it now is that it involves the immigration policy, you see if he will do it to the hidden households after he robs Australia and the Americas."

Xu Pengju had just attacked the Duke of Wei, and his experience in the political career was still shallow after all, and now he was curious when he heard this: "If the emperor wants to make a move against the hermit, isn't he afraid of arousing the resistance of the gentry in the world?"

"Rebellion? Joke. Cheng Guogong said disdainfully: "What do you want to resist?" Now that the army of the Ming Dynasty has been completely washed by Emperor Jiajing, whether it is the border army or the soldiers of various military regions, they are loyal to Jiajing and resist? It is estimated that Jiajing is still worried that there is no excuse to wash his house in blood. ”

Xu Pengju was a little helpless, because he knew that what Cheng Guogong said was the truth, in the Jiajing Dynasty, whether it was a noble or a gentry, he was powerless to fight back in the face of Emperor Jiajing, even the Wei State Mansion, the first honor of the Ming Dynasty, there was no exception......

To resist is to seek death!

"The most ruthless thing about today's emperor is that as soon as he ascended to the throne, he controlled the financial power, and then controlled the army, and used the power of the army to suppress the nobles and gentry officials all over the world.

In the face of the powerful emperor, those ministers who originally dared to fight with the emperor could only be quails one by one, but they didn't know that everything they insisted on would be eaten by the emperor little by little.

Emperor Jiajing is determined to get rid of the bad government in the world, but what is the biggest bad government in the world? It's land!

The gentry and the magnates annexed too much land, and the scholars of merit occupied too much land in excess of their own tax exemptions, so that the Ming Dynasty had tens of thousands of hidden households.

With such a big malpractice, Emperor Jiajing will not see it? He could see for sure, but he knew that once he did the land policy, it would be tantamount to declaring war on the tax-free class of the whole world!

Emperor Jiajing has the confidence and strength to declare war on the world, but he has no determination to reshuffle the world for the time being, because he knows that he will move his whole body!

Unless he has the courage to shed rivers of blood and corpses all over the field!

So he chose another strategy, which is differentiation!

Driving out the clans, nobles and scholars who have a lot of land from the Ming Dynasty step by step, no matter how much they toss overseas, it is impossible to hurt the Ming Dynasty in the slightest.

Then when the time came, Zhu believed that that that time would be the time for Emperor Jiajing to make a move on the entire world's tax-free land, so it was not a bad thing for us to leave. ”

Xu Pengju took a few breaths of cool air, because he smelled a strong smell of conspiracy from Cheng Guogong's words!

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