Liang Yunying, who had moved to the Forbidden City, received a telegram from Zhu Jingyuan from her maidservant.

Looking at the rather brief content above, Liang Yunying's first reaction was surprise:

"I actually accepted the suggestion of taking a concubine, which means that it can be arranged directly, don't wait for him to find something pleasing to the eye......"

Then I was stunned again when I looked at the details, and some subtle doubts appeared in my heart:

"Want a girl in your twenties? Does my son like older ones?

"And you want a tall leg? Not too tall for 1.7 meters?

"It's understandable to have a good birth, but this requirement is like what I mentioned......"

Liang Yunying, with a somewhat strange mood, asked the maid to go to the Qianqing Palace to inform Zhu Jianyan first, and then followed her.

After seeing Zhu Jianyan, Liang Yunying saluted quite casually, and then handed over the telegram:

"Your Majesty, our son has enlightened and is going to introduce him to a concubine, hurry up and let the Zongren Mansion arrange it!

"Pick two as soon as possible, and I'll take them directly with me after the year."

Zhu Jianyan looked at the telegram and was also taken aback:

"This ...... This is a good thing, I will give an order to the Zongren Mansion immediately, by the way, I have to let someone inform my father and the emperor......"

The old emperor Zhu Zhongliang has moved to the palace outside the city, and the environment and living conditions of the palace outside the city are actually much better than those in the Forbidden City, and they are much more comfortable to live in. Because the construction of the Forbidden City is more about etiquette norms, while the palace is more about living comfort.

Before and early in the Great War, the old emperor originally lived outside the city.

Zhu Zhongliang was also quite excited after receiving the news, and went directly to the Zongren Mansion to personally arrange and supervise this work.

The officials of the Zongren Mansion didn't complain at all, they were supposed to take turns off for the New Year.

Because the Chinese New Year has always been a time to arrange marriages for princes and grandchildren.

The reaction of the three old emperor Zhu Zhongliang, the new emperor Zhu Jianyan, and Liang Yunying, who was about to be canonized as the imperial concubine, was actually the mentality of the elders who felt that their son (grandson) had opened up and decided to have children.

Relax and have fun.

The old emperor's father and son and Liang Yunying were busy arranging for Zhu Jingyuan's wife and concubine and childbirth.

Zhu Jingyuan himself and the officials of the Great Food Country are also busy with the wives and concubines and childbirth problems of the workers in China.

The next morning, when Zhu Jingyuan looked at the files sorted out at the end of the year, the palace book trotted in front of Zhu Jingyuan:

"Your Majesty, the orchid slaves transported from North Mozhou have arrived, and a total of three ships have come, and the reported data is 1,256 people."

Originally, the book was used to write a book for the vassal king, but now that there are not enough officials in the Great Food Country, the book has begun to take care of ordinary affairs.

In addition to robbery, the three Barbary pirate states of Algiers, Tunisia and Tripoli in North Mexico, the main business was the slave trade.

Zhu Jingyuan asked them to leave the house, but at that time they were just considering ordinary property, and they did not think about the slaves.

However, the officers under Yang Yuchun who supervised their evacuation naturally demanded that all slaves be left behind.

In the eyes of ordinary people in this world, slaves are not their family members, but assets.

Your Highness has asked to leave the house, how can you allow you to take the slaves?

Moreover, according to the records at the time, according to the pleas issued by those pirate leaders to Zhu Jingyuan, they took the initiative to dedicate all their slaves and wealth to Zhu Jingyuan.

So later, Yang Yuchun asked Zhu Jingyuan what to do with these slaves.

After Zhu Jingyuan discussed with Changshi and his staff, he asked Yang Yuchun to leave all the male ** subordinates in the local area.

The pirates' own maids were assigned to the Workshop Division, but remained in the local service industry.

The female slaves captured or cultivated by the pirates and were ready to be sold were transported to the Great Food Country to be used as wives and concubines for single workers.

Today the first slave girls arrived.

Zhu Jingyuan stood up directly after hearing the news:

"More than 1,200 people in total? Can you come back a year ago? ”

The book immediately said:

"Yes, according to the plan, there will be a batch of ships coming over before the New Year, and it is estimated that a total of more than 2,500 orchid slaves can be transported."

Zhu Jingyuan pinched his forehead:

"More than two thousand five hundred is not enough, but ...... Counting the slave traders from Tianzhu...... It should be almost......"

The book immediately nodded and said:

"Yes, it is estimated that it is almost over, and all single workers will be able to match a woman a year ago, the king really loves the people like a son......"

The immigrants of the Great Food Country, or most of the overseas immigrants of the Ming Dynasty, are actually divided into three types.

The first is family immigration, with families of at least two generations.

Families with half-grown children, or even with elders who are not too old, and two or even three generations of immigrants together.

This kind of family migration is more popular in the land ceding, and it is also the most stable group.

Half-grown children can do some chores, elders in their forties can barely work as normal workers, and older people can help take care of the family and children, so that both the middle-aged couple can go out to work.

Then there are couples who immigrate, young couples who have just gotten married, or couples who have not yet had children after getting married, and small families who have immigrated overseas together.

Among them, there are normal young couples, those who have decided to go overseas together, and there are also couples who have just formed a marriage in order to go to sea.

Men know that it is not easy to find a Ming wife overseas, and Ming women rarely have the courage to go overseas alone.

Therefore, there is a special "immigrant marriage", where the man first finds a wife, and the woman finds a husband first, and then gets up and walks together after the pairing.

This type of immigration is the most popular, with young able-bodied laborers, wives and families, and no children and old people to drag them down.

Finally, there are single immigrants, immigrants who go overseas alone, single immigrants are basically only men, and there are basically no single women who immigrate alone.

The vast majority of single adults who want to work overseas are men, and the number of women who participate in immigrant marriage matching is in the minority.

So there are still a large number of single men who go directly overseas, and this part of the population is either really poor or not very lucky.

This type of immigration is also more popular, but at the same time it is a destabilizing factor.

Daming has slightly different destinations for immigrants in different situations.

If there are local residents, especially a large number of Ming people, and a large number of places where indigenous people live together, such as Japan, Korea, Tianzhu, and Xintianfu, they will arrange for single men to go as much as possible.

There is no one in the local area, such as Crete, North Mexico, etc., which are being taken over, and families and couples will be arranged to immigrate as much as possible.

The capital of the Great Food Country is a bit special, originally there were Ming people and native residents, but the number was very small.

Among the immigrants arranged by the Ministry of Household for Da Shiguo, there are now 3,000 single men.

Single adult males were a factor of instability, and in order to keep the status of the colony stable, the problem of bachelor marriage had to be resolved.

Even if you can't find a formal match, at least you have to arrange enough services and facilities to meet their needs.

As a matter of course, the Great Food Country transported back the female slaves that the Barbary pirates were going to sell and gave them to these single immigrants.

Zhu Jingyuan walked around the lobby and instructed the bookkeeper:

"Guards and officials were arranged to keep an eye on them, carefully checking and registering the status of all the slave girls.

"When handed over to the workers, the identities of these slave girls were directly registered as the concubines of the corresponding workers.

"All Ming immigrants, regardless of age, are eligible to take a concubine after coming to our Great Food Country.

"Whether you can find a Ming woman as a wife depends on the worker's own creation in the future."

The book listened and smiled and nodded:

"Your Highness has thought it through, there is a concubine of Orchid who will use it first, and then look for the wife of the Ming people depending on the situation......

"However, if the female slaves are directly turned into concubines, what about their slave status?"

Zhu Jingyuan has already planned:

"If you are a slave and have no taste, you can directly give the national status, and you can give the right of abode to the smelly oily ears.

"Most of them are originally natives within the Great Food Country, so it makes sense to give them the right of abode and the right of citizenship.

"It will also let them know the difference between us and the Barbary pirates, who came here and were liberated."

Speaking of this, Zhu Jingyuan suddenly smiled:

"These women are an important national treasure of our big food country, and if they were directly handed over to the workers as slaves, they would be wasted and destroyed.

"There may even be workers who get slave girls and go to prostitution to make money.

"At the very least, we need to give them residency so that workers can't dispose of and sell them as goods, so that they can play the greatest role."

After hearing this, he suddenly suddenly admired the thoughtfulness of his own king, and then immediately thought of a question:

"Your Highness, then give them the right of nationality and the right of abode, and ask the workers for money when they hand them over?"

Zhu Jingyuan said as a matter of course:

"Of course, you have to ask for money, and the workers first pay the money to accept the female slaves, and then dismiss the slaves on the spot.

"But remember, we don't collect money to make money, we do it to maintain order.

"Slaves are also important assets, and no family wants to let go of the opportunity to serve as a concubine.

"Even those who have families, even couples, will not refuse.

"It's not just the man himself who wants to have a concubine, and the wife doesn't refuse to find a concubine for her husband.

"For ordinary families, concubines not only allow men to reproduce more offspring, but also serve as domestic labor.

"With a young female worker in the family, the family can earn money faster, or someone else can share the work in the family.

"We give concubines to single men for nothing, and those who have couples and families must have opinions, and may even make trouble collectively.

"Therefore, the concubines must collect money, and it can't be particularly low, if it's too low, it's no different from giving it away for nothing.

"Make a 10% discount on the market price, and then allow the workers to pay in installments."

The book reacted again, and once again couldn't help but admire:

"The king is really thoughtful......

The two surrounding staff members and Guan Tianpei were also stunned for a moment when they listened to Zhu Jingyuan's analysis.

Once again, I feel that Zhu Jingyuan, the young king, thinks about things from a really different angle.

In fact, Zhu Jingyuan's reasoning is very simple, the key issue is that those slaves themselves are also valuable.

If you give a slave girl to a single worker for free, it is equivalent to giving a big gift for free.

The so-called inequality is something that other workers will definitely want.

If you need to spend money on it, those men who already have a wife and a family will not be able to come forward even if they have an idea.

The eldest wife of a rich and noble family in literary and artistic works often makes trouble because of her husband's concubine.

Because it costs money to take a concubine, and it is likely that the cost is not small, they think more about the cost than the family status.

If you give a concubine for free, the eldest woman will basically not refuse, and she can take it back for long-term work.

At the same time, under the impetus of Zhu Jingyuan, the Ming Dynasty had banned the sale of ink slaves outside of Mozhou.

In addition to Mo Nu, even the lowest-grade flavorful Tianzhu orchid is priced in the range of one hundred and fifty to two hundred and fifty silver bills.

The image is particularly outstanding, and it can be sold for three or four hundred.

The tasteless Tianzhu orchid, the overall price will be increased by another fifty to two hundred silver bills.

The wages of ordinary workers in the Great Food Country have been raised to the level of fifteen to twenty silver bills and twenty to twenty-five silver bills for skilled workers.

Craftsmen with grades will be higher.

The first migrant workers to come over, the wages they have praised in the past six months, can already afford the lowest-grade orchids.

But they can't be allowed to spend all the money they have saved on orchids.

So Zhu Jingyuan thought of installment payment.