Chapter 278: The Great Ming After the Slave Trade
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is half a month.
Ying Tianfu, in the upper study.
Zhu Yuanzhang is dealing with government affairs with Liu Bowen and others, and with the opening of the sea, Daming's financial revenue can be said to be increasing day by day.
Especially after the opening of the city in Shanghu County, the taxes collected can only be described as astronomical.
The trade tax collected for one day of going to sea alone now has more than 10,000 taels of silver, which is more than 3 million taels of silver a year, which is faster than the treasury revenue of the Ming Dynasty in the past.
These days, after Zhu Yuanzhang learned about the income of the city's shipping department, he couldn't close his mouth every day.
In addition, there is also the slave trade plan of the people on the island, even the Korean Chinese officials have a lot of opposition, especially Liu Bowen, who feels that this is really hurtful and wants to persuade Zhu Yuanzhang to cancel this slave trade.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang had long understood the profits of the entire slave trade plan from Li Imports, and the population of Wadao was just used to fill the population vacancy of the Ming Dynasty.
After all, although the Ming Dynasty has been established, it is still a scarce population, and the perennial war cannot be restored overnight.
But if you can make the men of the Ming Dynasty, each man can marry three or four Japanese girls, and let these women give birth to the Ming men, then the Ming Dynasty must not take twenty years to restore the prosperity of the past.
Coupled with the support of Xu Da, Lanyu, Zhu Di and other military generals, the slave trade not only did not cancel, but became popular in the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty.
Especially for the caravans starting from Shanghu County, basically each caravan will bring one or two slave hunting teams, as long as there are merchants who have the courage to go to sea, which one is a fool?
The slave trade is such a lucrative job, and a fool doesn't do it?
You must know that the armed forces on the island have long been wiped out by the army of the Ming Dynasty, and the remaining local armed forces are not worth mentioning at all.
This to capture the Japanese slaves is simply a business without a white wolf with empty gloves, and there is basically no risk.
On the Wa Island, the people of the Ming Dynasty were first-class citizens, and the Japanese were second-class, third-class and even the lowest class slaves, how could they pose any threat to the Ming Dynasty?
Therefore, in the days when Li Jin governed Hepu County, batch after batch of slave fishing boats traveled between Daming and Wa Island, and thousands of Japanese slaves were sold to Daming.
These slaves, just as Li Jin and Zhu Yuanzhang envisioned.
Men were all reduced to laudin, responsible for building docks, ports, highways, dredging canals, reclaiming wasteland, growing food, and these slaves could be found wherever labor was needed.
As for the women, they were purchased by the men of the Ming Dynasty and acted as a fertility machine, contributing to the population growth of the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, there are also people who dare to rebel, but tens of thousands of navies were placed in Wadao by Zhu Yuanzhang, with the bonus of firearms and giant ships, the Ming Navy can rush to every corner of Wadao in one day, which also completely puts an end to the hope of Wajima rebellion.
As more and more immigrants poured into Wajima, and the Wa people on Wa Dao were captured, sooner or later, only the Han people would be left in the bloodline on Wa Dao.
As for the Japanese people, they will inevitably disappear in the long river of history.
Just as the Western invaded the American continent, as more and more European immigrants migrated to the North American continent, the indigenous Indians went from tens of millions of people to tens of thousands of people in the end.
The number of Indians was reduced by 99 percent, and if it were not for the ban on the killing of Indians in North America, I am afraid that those 1 percent of Indians would also be wiped out.
How similar is the situation on the island today to the Indians?
It's just that under the impetus of Li Jin, the Ming Dynasty will not leave one percent of the Japanese people, and this despicable nation has no need to survive at all.
Under the influence of the slave trade, the manpower of the Ming Dynasty also became cheaper, and at the same time, the price of food also fell.
After all, under these slaves working day and night, Daming's grain will definitely skyrocket next year, and these slaves eat less and work more, which is even more animal than animals.
As long as it is a grain merchant, it can be seen that for a long time in the future, the price of grain in Daming will become extremely cheap.
This can make the people of the Ming Dynasty happy, although the price of grain has fallen, and it is not friendly to the people of the Ming Dynasty, which is mainly agriculture, but with the progress of opening the sea, the handicraft industry of the Ming Dynasty is also quietly developing.
In particular, various technologies from Shanghu County were vigorously promoted by Zhu Yuanzhang, which also drove more and more people to start working in factories and get higher remuneration.
The price of grain has decreased, their income has become higher, and the people of the Ming Dynasty naturally have surplus food.
As the saying goes, full of warmth and lust.
When the people are rich, they naturally want to marry their mothers-in-law and have children.
It is foreseeable that the children of the Ming Dynasty will usher in a wave of small climaxes in the seventh or even eighth year of Hongwu.
However, this process is extremely long, after all, the spread of technology in Shanghai County also takes a lot of time.
However, after the opening of the sea, Daming became visibly full of vitality.
This scene is seen in the eyes of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, naturally it is extremely joyful, if they can create a prosperous era in their hands, then they can also be together with the prosperous era, eternal prosperity.
It's just that in the eyes of people with a heart, Shanghu County has become a fragrant bait.
As long as you can calm down and observe, you can find that the origin of this change in the Ming Dynasty actually came from Shanghu County.
Zhu Yuanzhang even listed Shanghu County as a special economic zone and personally administered it for this reason.
This level is even one level higher than Ying Tianfu, which shows that Zhu Yuanzhang attaches great importance to Shanghu County.
What's even more amazing is that people who have been to Shanghu County know that Shanghu County is full of novelties, and the prosperity there is now even more than Yingtianfu.
Among them, there are also people who want to use some crooked brains against Shanghu County, such as forcibly occupying the shops or real estate of merchants in Shanghu County, but the next day, these people were invited to the edict prison by Jinyiwei to drink tea.
However, no matter how hard this person's background is, even if there is a prince standing behind him, these people all died in the edict without exception, and they will implicate the prince behind him.
After continuous temptation, everyone understands one thing, Shanghu County is the lifeblood of Zhu Yuanzhang, and it is also his taboo, whoever moves, who dies!!
Therefore, although Shanghu County is full of flowers, but no one dares to have a non-dividing thought, but hollows out to learn all walks of life in Shanghu County, and then introduces it to other parts of Daming, so as to drive the development of other places in Daming.
Suddenly, Daming was full of vitality.
Liu Bowen and other civil officials, after seeing Zhu Yuanzhang's attitude towards the slave trade and the slave trade, all kinds of changes in the Ming Dynasty also died down one after another, acquiescing to the existence of the slave trade.
Just when everyone was busy with their feet every day and dealing with the government affairs of the Ming Dynasty, Jinyiwei suddenly appeared in front of Zhu Yuanzhang.