After Zhu Yijun heard Wang Xijue's gift, he looked at Qi Jiguang and other ruling ministers: "What do you think?" ”

Although this matter was brought up by Wang Xijue, Qi Jiguang stood up first and said:

"Your Majesty, if you don't put an end to the sale of your own women, you can't put an end to the trafficking and abduction of women and children of your own tribe, and you can't put an end to forcing your own women to become prostitutes.

"It is reasonable, I also hold this opinion, but I must also let the division strictly prevent the confused generation from looking for a short-term view because of this."

"Let the divisions do a good job of redemption and compensation, as long as Qinglou and the girl of the Han family who sold themselves cooperate with the court, the court will not let them suffer."

Zhu Yijun also followed, and then looked at Shen Yijun:

"In addition, your Ministry of Rites should also guide and preach more, so that all the women of your own nationality who want to profit from their voices and lust know that the court is doing this not only for the sake of the prosperity of the whole country and nation, but also for their personal health and happiness, don't be foolish because of vanity and wanting to take the shortcut to wealth!"

Shen has always said yes.

And after Shen Yiyi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, left the palace, Zhou Can came to see Shen Cheng in the middle of the matter and asked: "Uncle Zongzong, how is it, does Your Majesty have the intention of withdrawing the holy decree?" ”

Shen Yi shook his head and said: "This is simply impossible, now the imperial court can't wait for every fertile woman among the Han people to be pregnant, and every marriageable man to marry a wife and take a concubine to increase the number of teeth, and benefit the future, so that the land where the sun and the moon shine is the blood of the Han family!" ”

"For this reason, the Ministry of Criminal Justice has begun to prepare punishments such as fines or prison sentences for those who do not marry and have children at a certain age."

"So do you think that a few women who died for love can stop the will of the court?"

After hearing this, Zhou Can stood in place in a daze, and after a long while, he said goodbye to Shen Yiyi.

And Zhou Can came to a Qinglou after leaving Shen Yiyi, and told a Qinglou woman named Yuai about it: "Marry someone, the court has no intention of changing its mind." ”

Yu Ai couldn't help but cry after hearing this, and then nodded.

Zhou Can also sighed, and couldn't help but grit his teeth and said, "This is all Zhang Taiyue's fault!" He made today's son become a scholar and reform the etiquette law, so that the dynasty has always been keen on external expansion and internal benefits, so that now the people are too much, so that you can no longer entertain people with sex, and I have to have a lot less fun. ”

"Since the court would rather spend our own money to make us good, why didn't the lord accept the slave family as a concubine?"

Yu Aimeng raised her head and asked Zhou Candao.

Zhou Can hurriedly said: "This is impossible, not to mention that my Zhou family's family rules require that even if I take a concubine, I can only accept a serious woman, even if I don't ask for it, I don't dare to raise an outer room as a courtier, Rao is here, I can only come secretly." ”

"Am I not a serious woman?"

Yu Ai asked with tears in her eyes.

Zhou Can didn't answer, but only suggested: "Why don't you go and learn Japanese language, and then say that you are a Japanese girl in the future, so that you can stay here?" ”

Yuai shook her head: "No! If it's a widow, I'll be beaten to death by the old men who love and abuse people, and now I'm also a broken flower and a willow, but I have a Han household registration, and if I am killed, someone will have to pay for my life, otherwise I will really be bullied by those bad people like a cat and a dog! ”

"Okay."

Although Yu Ai was reluctant to pretend to be a widow, because the imperial court insisted on prohibiting the Han family girls from selling their bodies, it still forced many Fengyue places to have to only keep orchids and widows to pick up guests, which made many places where the white women with blue eyes and blonde hair were swinging their waists, or all kinds of Japanese voices appeared in Liang Jianxuan.

At the same time, there are many more folk firecrackers and suona, and the sound of firecrackers is one after another.

The reason for this is naturally that due to the influence of this decree, there are many more weddings.

Zhu Yijun, who visited Jingshi City privately, was quite happy after discovering this phenomenon.

As the emperor, the supreme ruler of the Ming Empire.

He wished that the more Han people he would marry, the better, and the more Han people would be born in this way, so that more Han people would be able to open up territory for him, and his global rule would be more stable in the future.

For this.

After returning to the palace, Zhu Yijun also issued an edict that marriage is a great joy in the world, in order not to let the great joy of the world be blocked, the honor guards below the prince must first avoid the wedding team, and the wedding team does not have to stop music because of the honor guard of powerful officials, so as to make the marriage smoother.

Zhu Yijun's doing this is the same as Zhu Yuanzhang's permission for folk women to wear phoenix crowns and graces when they marry, and men to wear champion clothes when they marry, all to encourage childbearing and make people more active about marrying.

After all, when you meet the official lord's honor guard, you have to make way for the official lord and give the official lord face, but at this time, you can not give the official lord face, and you can be more noble than him, how can this not make people yearn for this kind of activity more yearning?

Of course.

In order to encourage Han people to have children, Zhu Yijun is not only changing the law to increase the marriage rate, but also improving the medical level of gynecology and obstetrics, increasing the medical capacity in this area, and various social security.

Reproduction is the natural desire of human beings, and if ordinary Han people are unwilling to reproduce, it must be that social security is not enough, and it becomes difficult for them to survive.

Therefore, once the imperial court strengthens the guarantee, it will not worry about losing life, and will only want to have a few more children in order to have a full house.

Among the orphans of martyrs taken in by Xingming Academy, the girls were basically either trained to serve as female officials in the palace, or became the holy hands of gynecology and obstetrics, and served as female medical officers in the medical department, and were responsible for giving birth to women in major government-run hospitals or treating gynecological diseases, so as to reduce female mortality.

However, Zhu Yijun has only been in power for more than 20 years, and he has not invested a lot of financial support in improving the level of gynecology and obstetric medical care, and has not trained enough talents, so the government-run medical centers, especially those specializing in maternal and child health care, are still only in the Gyeonggi area and various health centers.

Zhu Yijun also wants to see if there are any spontaneous improvements in this regard after the people are getting richer and richer.

So, after Zhu Yijun officially decided to order the southern tour, he also arranged the queen and Concubine Yang and several other concubines and palace maids into the list of the southern tour.

Now that the luxury tax has been levied, the steam engine has also begun to be popularized, and the external expansion is also in full swing in the form of the Tokugawa clan, which has transferred a lot of domestic surplus population, so that now Zhu Yijun has not only increased a large amount of state and domestic funds due to the luxury tax, but also transferred a large number of domestic contradictions due to expansion.

Therefore, it is time for Zhu Yijun to set off on his southern tour.

But unlike Zhu Yijun, who originally planned to tour the south just to play and reward himself for the reform that he had worked hard for the country and the nation for so many years, now he has more political plans based on the current situation.

As for what the plans are, I won't go into details for the time being.

It's just that for Zhu Yijun, he can no longer be completely isolated from political life, including his family, and it is impossible to completely isolate from political life.

Therefore, as soon as Zhu Yijun's southern tour was issued, some officials admonished him.

"Your Majesty is driven by ten thousand gold, once you leave Beijing, it is inevitable that something will happen, and in order to avoid another assassination of the Western Tour, this is one of them;"

"Your Majesty's southern tour, it is inevitable that you will encounter one or two traitors, and you will be angry and angry, I am afraid that there will be more killings, and even because of the loss of prudence, you will increase the grievances, and this is the second thing."

……

Zhu Yijun first heard the eunuch Huang Xun read the advice on Zhang Zhenguan's advice in the matter, and sighed: "What a loyal minister!" I thought a lot about it. ”

Although Zhu Yijun said that Zhang Yuanqi was a loyal minister, he didn't plan to listen to Zhang Zhenguan.

Because Zhu Yijun couldn't listen at all.

Not to mention that he really wants to see his southern country, but only that he now wants to seize global wealth, and it also makes him want to go to the south to see how he can mobilize more people to work hard for his ambition to seize global wealth.

Therefore, after Zhu Yijun said such a sentence, he instructed Wang Xuan, the secretary of the ministry: "Draft a decree to promote him to Sakhalin Island as a deputy envoy for learning." ”

Sakhalin Island is now part of the newly established Beishan Governor under the Ming Andong Metropolitan Protectorate.

It's just that there are not even a few native Jurchens in Sakhalin, and there are not many people who have been exiled, so there are no scholars and politicians to admiral.

But if Zhu Yijun wants to do this, Wang Xun can only follow the order.

After receiving the holy decree, Zhang Yuanqi was just stunned, and then he didn't pretend to be sick, but really packed his luggage, got on the road in the dust, and headed for Sakhalin.

There is no way, the emperor praised him as a loyal minister, how could he ruin his reputation.

What's more, he usually takes Su Dongpo as an example, so he really accepted the order honestly, and brought some books of the Four Books and Five Classics and Confucian enlightenment books to Sakhalin.

He didn't bring the new textbooks of the Ming Dynasty because in his opinion, it was enough for the barbarians to learn Confucianism, so as not to be ignorant all the time.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival in the 22nd year of Wanli, Zhu Yijun and the ministers of Yigan Suihu officially set off for the southern tour.

On the day of the southern tour of Beijing, the entire Jingshi had already made preparations for martial law in advance, so curtains were set up in the places where the imperial road passed, and many streets were also closed, and the usually lively places became deserted.

But the unsealed streets were crowded with more people, for no other reason, they all wanted to see the grand occasion of the emperor's inspection in Beijing.

Although the emperor has already been out of Beijing.

But the enthusiasm of the people has not diminished, after all, in this prosperous world, no one wants to see the emperor a few more times.

Who let the emperor of the dynasty exempt them from many taxes and from servitude?

Although the emperor restrained them in terms of competing for luxury, this did not affect their reverence for Zhu Yijun.

Because of the influence of thousands of years of Chinese culture, it is difficult for any Han person to say that it is wrong to ban luxury.

"Long live the emperor!"

"Long live the emperor!"

"Long live the emperor!"

……

I don't know who shouted like this first, and I don't know if it was intentional or unintentional, anyway, many people shouted after Zhu Yijun left Beijing, like a tsunami.

When Zhu Yijun heard this shout from near and far, he only smiled faintly and said to Queen Du: "They don't dislike me for disturbing them. ”

"Yes! After all, now that the people are rich, they have one less day to open a store, one less day to work, and the loss is not big, so it is regarded as a holiday. ”

Du Shi said with a smile.

(End of chapter)