Zhu Yijun knew that allowing the emergence of national ideas and elevating the status of the Han people in his country was already the biggest change made by the enlightened reformers among the bureaucrats and doctors.

Moreover, this is still a situation that can only occur when the emperor himself is not conservative.

Even, even in this case, it has only emerged after a lot of brutal bloody struggles.

Therefore, he knew that at this time, he could not treat people of other civilizations as human beings.

After all, the capitalism of the Ming Dynasty has only just been born, and it has not yet reached the point where it is necessary to radically increase the freedom of all human beings in the world.

But if the productive forces of the Ming Dynasty develop to a certain extent, that is, they really do not need to rely on land at all, and can earn profits from the world to maintain their own prosperity, perhaps they also need to give all human beings in the world some degrees of freedom.

However, by that time, maybe the people of the world have already been almost sinicized.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun agreed with the view that the etiquette mentioned by Xu Xuemo, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, is not less than barbarian: "That's fine, but the people of this dynasty have the obligation to declare the salute to the world!" It is still necessary to encourage the scholars to go out and preach the royal rites. ”

Shen Shixing, the head of the cabinet, said yes at this time.

Because Zhu Yijun and his ruling ministers established a new etiquette to give greater courtesy to the common people, and let the Han people who were in the lower moral status of the common people also have a certain right to freedom, and officially established that the Han people had a higher status than Fanyi in etiquette and law.

Therefore, the Criminal Department really amended the law in accordance with this theme.

The content of the revision is mainly to impose legal constraints on the clans and parents who excessively restrict the freedom of the Han people, and also clearly stipulates that the Han killing and killing will only be punished in the name of harming the benevolence of the Han people, that is, only fines; Only when the Han people are unwilling to pay the fine will they be allowed to impose a penalty of less than imprisonment, and the killing of the Han will be sentenced to the same offense, and the person who lives with his parents, brothers, descendants, and cohabitants will be beheaded!

In a word.

Because the Ming Dynasty itself is not short of labor, it led to the Ming rulers in order to practice the newly established etiquette law only for the purpose of strengthening the country and benefiting the people, and did not take Fanyi too seriously, and even deliberately hoped to reduce the number of Fanyi through this serious favoritism to the Han people, and promote the sinicization of overseas Fandi, so as to achieve the purpose of the country to always strengthen the country and benefit the people.

The reason why the Han people who killed Fanyi were still fined was because in a short period of time in the Ming Dynasty, before a large number of Han people appeared in some places overseas, the local Fanyi still needed to assume the function of consuming various commodities of the Ming Dynasty, so the Han people could not be allowed to kill Fanyi wantonly.

After the Ming Dynasty occupied the Songpu Peninsula and other Kyushu regions, the Shimazu family, the daimyo of the Japanese kingdom of Kyushu, also realized the strength of the Ming Dynasty, so they asked Zhu Yijun for permission to restore their tribute through the officials sent by the Ming Dynasty to Dongying.

Zhu Yijun granted a tribute for the restoration of the Shimazu family.

Although the tributary system was a very disadvantageous system for the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yijun intended to only improve him, not abolish it entirely.

Because in Zhu Yijun's view, the original tributary system can be used as a diplomatic channel equivalent to contact with foreign officials.

It's just that he can't do the same before, in order to save face and show that he is rich all over the world, so he doesn't need any strange things to pay tribute from foreign countries, and in order to show his strength and reap the loyalty of the barbarians, he has to give more gifts in return than tribute.

Before Zhu Yijun officially issued an edict to the barbarians, the Shimazu Department hurriedly sent tribute envoys to China because he learned that the Ming Dynasty had granted them tribute.

Shimazu is so active, not only because he wants to know more about the Ming Dynasty, but also because the foreign countries who have always come to pay tribute before the tributary system can get a return gift that is several times more valuable than the tribute from the Ming court and make a lot of money, and by the way, he can also purchase a batch of goods on the way to the tribute and return to China to earn huge profits.

The Shimazu nobleman who led the team to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty this time was Shimazu Iehisa, the younger brother of Shimazu Yoshihisa, the lord of Shimazu.

After Shimazu Iehisa arrived at the Daming Jingshi, he began to send people around to order the commercial goods of the Daming.

And Shimazu Iehisa himself took a few samurai to the Jiaofang Division, preparing to go here to solve their physiological needs, and by the way, to explore more secrets of the Ming Dynasty.

However, Xu Xuemo, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, had long asked for the decree that the Ministry of Education was not allowed to entertain Fanyi on the basis that the Han Yi was different from the noble and the low.

So, when the Shimazu family came to the Jiaofang Division for a long time, they were first stopped by Shen Siwen, a Hanmin in Zhejiang, who came here, and said, "You Japanese slaves can't go in, go back." ”

Shimazu Iyoshi understood the Han people in Zhejiang, because the people in the Ningbo area of Zhejiang often went to trade with the Japanese people.

So, at this time, Shimazu Iehisa asked, "Why can't we enter?" ”

Shen Siwen smiled: "Do you still want us Han people to serve you Japanese slaves?" Even if the bitches of the sect are cheap, they are more noble than you slaves! Like you, like dogs, you can't enter this place! ”

Poof!

Shimazu Iehisa directly pulled out a knife and pierced Shen Sixiao's abdomen.

Shimazu Toyohisa, his son Shimazu Toyohisa, who came to Daming with Shimazu Iehisa, was shocked when he saw this, and hurriedly asked, "Father, who are you?" ”

"It's okay! The Ming Kingdom has always been respectful, and its monarch will not punish me for killing a small number of his people! Even if you punish a crime, you can't just spend a little money. ”

Shimazu Jiajiu pulled out his knife as he spoke, and looked at Shen Siwen who fell to the ground: "What's more, this person insults me Yamato too much, how can I not kill him?" If not, how can they let the Han people know that my Yamato people are not easy to mess with?! You can also make up for a few cuts. ”

"Yes!"

So, Shimazu Toyohisa and others also pulled out their knives and poked at Shen Siwen's body for a while.

Shen Siwen was poked for a while.

The people of the Teaching Department were already frightened when they saw this.

However, Lai Erliang, who borrowed money from Yunnan to buy goods in Beijing and prepared to go out of the customs to do business, was quite calm when he passed by here and saw this scene, and hurriedly went to the Shuntian Mansion to beat the drum and report the case.

Because the land ruled by the Shuntian Mansion is at the feet of the Son of Heaven, the government does not dare to despise any report, so as not to provoke the anger of the superiors because of the delay, and the examination law has not been abolished since Zhang Juzheng was founded, so Li Zhen, the Shuntian Mansion Cheng Li Zhen, who was studying the new etiquette law through the Ming edict contained in the "Di Bao", was busy taking over the case.

Li Zhen learned that there were Japanese people who had killed people, and realized that this was an opportunity to prove to the emperor that he was very supportive of the new ritual law, so he decisively ordered to send soldiers to the Jiaofang Division.

After the people from the Shimazu family came to the Shuntian Mansion, they did not dare to resist directly, but directly identified themselves and said that they were tribute envoys.

The people of Shuntianfu hurriedly informed Li Zhen of this situation.

"Dong Weng, the matter involves tribute envoys, not to mention that they have already entered the Sect Division, we really still have to go and get people?"

Li Zhen's aide Jin Heqing asked Li Zhen about it.

"What about the tribute envoys, according to the new rites, Fanyi is as cheap as six animals!"

"The more I enter the Teaching Division, the more I have to take it, and the more I show my determination to keep the new rites! Can't just because the Jiaofang Division is an official run, I don't dare to take people from Shuntianfu! ”

Li Zhen smiled, and then said: "Still arrest these murderers and put them on death row, search for their comrades, and file a case for the bitter master!" Over there, just send someone to pass it through! ”

Shimazu Iehisa and Shimazu Toyohisa were thus imprisoned in Shuntianfu.

Shimazu Toyohisa was very puzzled by this, and couldn't help but ask Shimazu Iehisa: "Father, they don't seem to mean to treat us politely?" ”

(End of chapter)