Chapter 475: Lucky General
In May of the sixth year of Jiajing, the Ming expeditionary sailors returned to Western Europe, and that day in Tianjin Wei, all the people were stunned!
Hundreds of thousands of people have been staying in Tianjin Wei when Gu Hou went to Western Europe last time, but there are too many people who want to emigrate, so they can only draw lots, and those who are not selected are left!
There is a very interesting phenomenon in Tianjin Wei now, that is, countless people who have difficulty surviving have left their hometowns and come to Tianjin Wei, waiting to go to sea to seek a way to live, and as time goes by, more and more people are waiting for immigrants......
The last time Gu Hou went to sea and took away 300,000 people, but the number of people stranded in Tianjin Wei at that time had exceeded one million!
Now Gu Hou has been back and forth for more than half a year, and the people gathered in Tianjin Wei have reached nearly two million!
What is the concept of two million people gathered in Tianjin? This is not a matter in the later generations, you must know that in the later generations, the resident population of Tianjin can be as much as 15 million!
But how can we compare with future generations, the more people gathered here, the greater the possibility of disputes, and these people are landless, and even if they do, they have already been sold, so the first thing they gather in Tianjin Wei is to live!
Zhu Houwei has to think about how to let the huge people live!
Otherwise, millions of unemployed vagrants will be gathered together, and it will be strange that there will be no big mess after a long time!
Soon, various factories in Tianjin Wei sprung up, and all the large and small workshops that originally gathered in Tongzhou opened their production bases to Tianjin Wei.
For Zhu Houwei, if the Ming Dynasty wants to become a maritime hegemon and wants to immigrate a large number of people, then a large number of sea ships are needed, so Tianjin Wei Second Shipyard and the Third Shipyard have risen from the ground, and now even the fourth shipyard has begun to be built, and it can be completed in half a year at most!
Today, Tianjin Wei has been the place where agriculture has been transferred to the most complete industry, and millions of people have been resettled, living in patches of simple houses built by the imperial court, merchants who come and go for food and clothing, and shops that have sprung up in market towns and residential areas.
The flow of people and purchasing power are always the direction that businessmen flock to, and the population of Tianjin Wei is large enough, even more than that of Liangjing, and most importantly, the people here are really not so poor in money!
Men work in factories, women work in factories where women can stay, and a family has a harvest of at least three taels of silver a month, which is more than enough for daily expenses!
Therefore, the most shops in Tianjin are rice stores, grain and oil shops, garment stores, cloth shops and other stores that are closely related to daily life.
That is to say, today's Tianjin Wei has formed a complete ecosystem, and the people living in this ecosystem are stable and peaceful, rich and happy!
So the problem is, the people of China like to be at peace with their encounters the most, and now they live so well in Tianjin Wei, they naturally don't want to go to sea......
However, Tianjin Wei is not a place where you can come and leave if you want to, and the government has issued a notice that all the people who come to Tianjin Wei from other places will be regarded as intending to emigrate, but the huge population is here, and two million cannot be moved at one time, so you have to make a trade-off.
How to choose?
Skilled craftsmen can stay, and the rest will be drawn!
That is to say, the last time the people hoped that they would be taken away, but now it is the other way around, and they all hope that they are not taken away......
Gu Hou came back, and when he went there were one hundred and fifty or sixty sea ships, and when he came back, there were already four hundred!
Half a million captives brought back from Western Europe!
The people were dumbfounded......
There are more than 2 million immigrants, according to the scale of the last migration, it is only 300,000, and even if you add the sea ships that have been built in the past half a year, in the eyes of the people, there will be 400,000 immigrants at most.
Now the number of people coming to Tianjin Wei is still increasing day by day, even if they don't know how to settle accounts, they know that the probability of being selected is only one in five.
Well, now that Gu Hou didn't know where to get so many sea ships, wouldn't it be that he would have to have 500 sea ships to go to Western Europe next time he went to sea!
According to the calculation that a sea ship can carry 3,000 people, this is 1.5 million!
The immigrants of Tianjin Wei were depressed, but they did not complain about the emperor, because they were basically hermits in the past, and if it weren't for the emperor's immigration policy, then they would still be living a miserable life of being slaves and servants.
Now that you have a better life in Tianjin, you don't want to leave?
Where in the world is there such a thing? The most important thing is how you let the great government of the Holy Monarch be carried out!
To be a human being, you have to have a conscience, and those who have no conscience are beasts, and even beasts are inferior, so although these immigrants are a little unwilling, they can only pray to the gods and Buddhas to bless themselves from being drawn......
"Five hundred thousand! There are more than 250 more ships that can sail away? Zhu Houwei was stunned for a moment, and then laughed and said: "Okay! Good! Good! Gu Hou is worthy of being my blessed general, and with these 500,000 foreign laborers, there will be no shortage of people for my engineering plans. ”
"Your Majesty, more than 100,000 of these 500,000 alien races are women......" Yang Yiqing poured cold water on the emperor without hesitation.
"Can't a woman work?" Zhu Houwei sneered: "Yang Aiqing, I told you that you Confucian scholars learned the way of Confucius and Mencius and took the road of sages, but you were led astray by Cheng Zhu Lixue.
I don't like science, because science imprisons the minds of scholars, and what is even more hateful is that the women of China are burdened with heavy shackles, preserving heavenly principles and destroying human desires, it is really a good one to destroy human desires, if people don't even have desires, why do they still want to live, they are all monks to become monks.
Zhu Xi's annotation of the Four Books and the Five Classics is based on the words of his family, why must it be right? What kind of era should have the vision of what era, as a minister, we must learn to use dialectics and skeptical eyes to examine problems, instead of following the clouds! ”
"Teachable!"
"Spread my will, move Zhu Xi out of the Confucian Temple, and set up the Zhuzi Temple in Huizhou to worship."
"Obey the order!"
Yang Yiqing was speechless, he can be regarded as completely aware now, the decline of science in the Ming Dynasty is already a certain trend, and it is difficult to have a chance to come back to life.
It's just that what he doesn't understand is that they are all surnamed Zhu, why did Emperor Jiajing treat Zhu Sheng so harshly!
However, when Confucianism encounters such an emperor, it should also change with the times.
As for removing the sages from the Confucian Temple, Emperor Hongwu did the matter of removing Mencius from the Confucian Temple, that is, because Mencius said that 'the people are precious, the community is secondary, and the monarch is light', which made Taizu very unhappy.
Think about it, Emperor Taizu started with a bowl, and finally owned the Ming Dynasty, you actually said that he was light?
Who gave you the confidence!
However, Mencius was removed from the Confucian Temple and released back ten months later, which shows that Emperor Taizu still attaches great importance to scholars and knows the importance of scholars.
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