Daming is really changing, and the atmosphere is beginning to change from conservative to open.

The commodity economy began to derive from Jiangnan to Jiangbei, and even now to Jiangbei.

Especially after the promulgation of the duty-free quota order to encourage customs clearance, coupled with the fact that the military households in Liaodong were paid more than before, the Ming Dynasty did not reduce the battalion soldiers, and the consumer demand outside the customs surged, and a large number of small traders began to carry cheap goods out of the customs.

Many towns and markets began to appear in the Liaodong area outside the Guanxi.

"Phew!"

"The imperial court is so good now, and the emperor still exempts small merchants and hawkers from customs, why do you want to change to a foreign Yi to be the monarch?"

Shanhaiguan sent Hu Huaide, the general manager, to his family to bring some coarse silk from Huzhou that Jiangnan people hated out of the customs to sell, and thus made a lot of profits.

And when he was arranged to study in the school palace, after seeing the kneeling statues of Tongyi traitors, he couldn't help but spit on these kneeling statues.

And after taking a sip of these kneeling statues, Hu Huaide proudly glanced at the military medals on his body, and then he continued to listen to the chief of the praise and painting arranged by the patrol to tell these people the details of these Tongyi.

Then.

He also understands better why so many people hate Zhang Juzheng, so much so that the imperial court would rather help Waiyi grow stronger if they don't liquidate Zhang Juzheng.

After hearing this, Hu Huaide couldn't help but clench his fists tighter, knowing which civil officials in the civil official group are worthy of respect.

Li Juexian, the general manager of Qian, who was stationed in Dongying Omura City, and other middle- and lower-level civil and military officials stationed in Dongying, also studied the articles written by the Hanlin Yuan Zhuhanlin on the orders of the Hanlin Academy, criticizing the erroneous ideas that would help the foreign Yi grow and damage the future of the country.

And Li Juexian also knew that those who dared to oppose the imperial court's opening up of territory had already opposed it to such an extent, and they did not hesitate to collude with foreigners!

Because the Wa Kingdom is now in the era of war, and Oda Nobunaga was about to unify the Wa Kingdom, and the end of the war happened, but the Honnoji Incident occurred, so the Wa Kingdom became even more chaotic.

Therefore, today's Japanese archipelago, only the Dongying, which has been occupied by the Ming Dynasty, that is, the Songpu Peninsula of Kyushu in the former Japanese Kingdom, is calm and orderly, and even affected by the more frequent trade exchanges after the Ming Dynasty possessed the Dongying, it is still more prosperous than before!

A large number of Japanese people from other places fled to Dongying, and even many Japanese nobles, namely some daimyos, also chose to come to Dongying to temporarily avoid the limelight after losing the battle for hegemony, and also to actively seek to use the power of the Ming Dynasty to help him rise again and come to live in Dongzhou.

Even.

There are also many Japanese nobles who also take the initiative to sell the Japanese people here in order to seek profits, especially the Japanese women.

Because many Ming officers and soldiers were stationed in Dongying, and a large number of Ming merchants gathered, there was a strong demand for slaves, especially for maidservants.

The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were very resistant to being stationed in the Wa State at the beginning, and they all thought that Dongying was a wild land, and many of them also thought that the Wa people were also as fierce and good at war as many literati in the south of the Yangtze River propagated, so they were very resistant to coming to the Wa State to station.

For this.

Zhu Yijun had to issue an order to pay all the officers and soldiers stationed in Dongying, so that the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty did not mutini because they were stationed in Dongying.

But after the Ming officers and soldiers came to Dongying, they found out that this place was really fragrant!

Not to mention that the upper-level officials feel that this place is very fragrant, that is, the grass-roots officials and ordinary Ming soldiers feel really fragrant because there are a large number of cheap Japanese slaves in Dongying, and they can raise a number of outer rooms and Japanese slaves to live the life of a human being.

Li Juexian exchanged a cotton cloth for three young and beautiful widows to go home to serve him.

He even learned from other officers and soldiers when they were sent to the Wa Kingdom for the second time, and brought a large number of cheap goods to the Wa State in advance in exchange for cheap labor from the Wa people.

Arguably.

Since the trade with Japan monopolized by the Jiangnan clan and the daimyo of the Kyushu Wa Kingdom was seized by the Ming court in the form of military warfare and opened up to all military and civilian trade facilitation, ordinary officers and soldiers and Han people also began to rely on the productivity gap between the two places to increase their income and live a better life.

Therefore, Li Juexian now does not want the imperial court to return to the previous conservative state of focusing on defense, not to mention that he cannot enjoy the life of a master, and the key salary is sometimes insufficient.

He was originally from a military household in Zhejiang, and he especially remembered the scene of a duel with the invading Japanese invaders hungry.

As soon as he thought of this, Li Juexian said to Zhang Guozhong, who was also the commander of the cavalry in the Wa Kingdom, the next day: "Now you know why our Qi Shuai wants to worship under the Taishimen, right?" ”

Zhang Guozhong nodded, glanced at the tall statue of Qi Jiguang standing at Hirado Port, knelt down and kowtowed, and then said:

"Wenchen is Zhang Taishi, and the military general is Qi Shuai, who has started the new policy of this dynasty, so that our military households will have a better life!"

"I've got to kowtow to him!"

"If one day, Qi Shuai wants to raise troops to defend the new policy, my brother told me, although I am not his old department, but I am also willing to fight for the new policy, this dynasty should be like the Han and Tang dynasties, let the soldiers die on the battlefield of opening up the territory, instead of being like a beggar in the side wall, even if you want to be bloody, you can only fight with the Tartars after the civil official is kind and rewarding!"

"Shen Hanlin is right in the "Military Daily", the key is that His Majesty is willing to be the lord of Unai!"

"We have to make the Son of Heaven willing to be the Son of Heaven like the Han and Tang Dynasties!"

Li Jue said first.

Zhang Guozhong said: "Very much! ”

"Since the statues of Qi Shuai and Yu Shuai were erected in various ports, there have been a lot fewer evil dragons on the sea, so many places have begun to set up their statues and shrines, even the Hao Mirror and the chicken coop have begun to stand, if Your Majesty decrees to set up more statues of generals in Zhenhai, you will be even more afraid of the demon wind and dragons on the sea, I am afraid that it will be easier to open up the sea frontier, and those traitors and thieves who don't want us to live a good life will have a hard time!"

"Do you think we'll have a chance to be here?"

Li Jue said first, then suddenly looked at Qi Jiguang's statue and asked, and also kowtowed.

Zhang Guozhong didn't say anything after hearing this, but there was more fascination for his deeds in his eyes.

Song Yingchang, the governor of Dongying of the Ming Dynasty, and Fu Zuozhou, who was a scholar of Dongying, were under the service of the Japanese slaves, while enjoying a massage in the room, and at the same time looking at the statue of Qi Jiguang on the side of the busy Nagasaki port with great fascination, and talking.

"I have requested that the Han people be allowed to have separate regulations from the nobles and lows of Dongyi, and that the Han people need to be given special preferential treatment and legal protection in Dongxuan, so that more Han people are willing to settle here, and it will be conducive to our long-term education of this land, after all, our foundation here, including security, depends on the Han people who are also here! The more Han people in this dynasty here, the better we can control the Japanese! ”

At this time, Song Yingchang told Fu Zuozhou about the establishment of Han protection regulations in Dongxuan.

"Right! I am also going to ask the imperial court to allow me to own land and shops in Dongxuan only, so that the imperial court will not be able to abandon this place in the future! ”

Fu Zuozhou agreed.

He didn't want the property he had purchased when he was an official here to one day have to be abandoned due to the strategic contraction of the imperial court, so he wanted to tie up the interests of more Han nobles and wealthy families here.

After the Ming ruling level began to expand externally, it did drive the local bureaucrats and Haoyou to also begin to expand their interests abroad.

In particular, bureaucrats who went to work outside the country began to find that being an official in the indoctrination area was freer, more profitable, and easier to make meritorious service than at home.

……

"Shall we open a few more branches and go directly to Liaodong and Pusan, and even Dongxuan?"

"Now the demand for cotton cloth outside the customs is too great!"

"Especially now that the Green Camp is established, it is estimated that the number of Jurchens and Mongols outside the Guanxi who live on military salaries will increase a lot, and the number of people who buy cotton cloth will definitely increase greatly!"

"In addition, on the North Korean side, their weaving skills, I sent someone to inquire, and they can't be compared with us at all!"

"They can only accommodate three spinning threads, but in this dynasty, not to mention that we can spin dozens of spindles at the same time in one machine, even ordinary weavers can also accommodate five yarns at the same time, and their churning car needs two people, and our ordinary people in Jiangnan only need one person to stir the yarn, so our cotton cloth is definitely cheaper than their own cotton cloth, and earn their silver."

"Then there is Dongying, according to my second uncle, several of his colleagues in the Sixth Branch, instructed by Yuanfu, headed by Li Yutian (Li Hualong) of the Huke Branch, planned to jointly ask Dongying to open a mine in order to facilitate education, and recruit Han people to mine, by our Han master skills and supervisors, and the Japanese people contribute, so that there will definitely be many Han people who are there to keep slaves, since they are slaves, they must buy cotton clothes for their slaves and maids."

Rao is a domestic person, and he has also begun to have an enterprising mind.

So on this day, Wang Changgeng proposed to Liu Quxian to expand the industry to the outside.

After hearing this, Liu Quxian glanced at him: "Then open!" As long as there are many cloth buyers, we are not worried that our multi-spindle yarn machine will affect ordinary villagers, and as for the foreign weavers, they are naturally too lazy to consider them. ”

But.

Accustomed to the big landlords who monopolized trade by colluding with foreign Yi to empty the imperial court, and made the Han people in China only dependent on themselves as slaves, it is still difficult to fully transform.

When Wang Xijue arrived in Guangzhou, the city of Guangzhou was very quiet, and there were not many gentry to greet him.

It was only after entering the city that Wang Xijue, who had not had time to inspect Haiphong, was invited to the Lin family's private garden by Lin Bin, the governor of Guangdong, and Zhang Huisheng, the great squire of Guangdong, who had served as the secretary of the ministry.

"The public doesn't know, the sea trade is just the business of the coastal people's lake, and there is not much profit!"

Lin Bin said first.

Zhang Huisheng also said: "That's right, but since the public is here, why don't we local villagers take the public to appreciate the Lingnan monuments?" ”

Wang Xijue smiled after hearing this: "That's okay, let's go to Huizhou tomorrow morning to appreciate Mr. Dongpo's relics and compose poems and nostalgia!" Let the children of every family come, and let the servants know each other. ”

All the officials and gentry thought that Wang Xijue was taking advantage of this to accept bribes, and according to the amount of bribes, they arranged for their children to be officials, so they really took their children to follow Wang Xijue to Huizhou.

But as soon as they arrived in the Huizhou Mansion, as soon as these officials and gentry gathered together and sat down, Wang Xijue asked: "If the servants insist on inspecting the maritime trade, I wonder if you are willing to cooperate?" ”

"Then don't you look at where this is?"

Zhang Huisheng suddenly asked with a cold laugh.

Wang Xijue also smiled, and suddenly changed color, and shouted: "Take down all these people who obstruct the great cause of the imperial court reform!" ”