Zhu Gaochi returned to the Wenhua Palace, the soldiers and horses of the whole country were mobilized one after another, Zhu Di was also ready to leave the capital, the power of the country and the power of supervising the country were handed over to the prince, and the civil and military forces of the court were not touched.

People have become accustomed to a phenomenon that only exists in the Yongle Dynasty.

The emperor is not in Beijing all the year round, and the country's government affairs are governed by the crown prince, which is a very special phenomenon.

It is also the confidence of Zhu Gaochi to unswervingly promote the social resource distribution model over the years.

At least when Zhu Di was alive, he gave Zhu Gaochi the courage to dare to do many things, and he didn't worry about his own safety and whether it would bring instability to the Ming Dynasty.

"Since ancient times, merchants have been an unstable group, suppressed by successive dynasties all year round, with the level of social and economic production at that time, and the limitations of history, there is a certain role, but there are also some shortcomings."

In the conference room of the side hall, the ministers of the six ministries, the cabinet, the ministers of various ministries, and dozens of people sat on the Luo step chairs.

This is a new modification plan for the Mandarin Palace.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince not only advocated the former Song Dynasty's rule with scholars and doctors, but also proposed to govern with the people of the world.

However, in the local countryside, the clan is still the mainstay, but because of the expansion of the inspection yamen, the law has more support in the countryside, and the clan is no longer left to take care of itself.

Square table, square.

The inner square is round, and the outer circle is round.

Zhu Gaochi sat behind the table on the north side of the inner quadrangle, the cabinet ministers and the six Shangshu sat on the other three sides, and the rest of the civil and military officers sat behind the outer round table, as well as a few clerks in the corner.

In the middle of the open space, there are colorful bonsai, carpeted under the bonsai, chandeliers above, glass windows and red floor-to-ceiling curtains, and rows of kerosene lamps.

Paper, hard pen, teacup.

"Rustle."

The sound of writing filled the silent hall.

"No farming, no stability, no work, no wealth, no business, no life; Without agriculture, society is unstable; Without industry, the country is not rich; Without commerce, the economic life of the common people would not be active. ”

"Daming Industrial Bureau, various organizations and upstream and downstream systems, although it has effectively guaranteed the distribution of social resources and stabilized the living standards of the people, but the circulation of social resources is too complex, so supporting the development of private commercial banks is not only a supplement to the Daming Industrial Bureau system, but also the flexible operation of social resources, both are indispensable, and we must walk on two legs."

Zhu Gaochi read the manuscript.

The manuscript was not written by Zhu Gaochi, but was written by the clerical office after listening to his request.

The development of industrialization to this day, as well as the improvement and development of the school education system, have cultivated many talents, and they have been able to write a manuscript that satisfies Zhu Gaochi.

The civil and military officials were both old and middle-aged, and there were historical names that Zhu Gaochi had heard, such as Jian Yi, Song Li, Lu Zhen, and the deceased Zheng Ci and Yu Xin.

There are still many names that have not appeared in history, especially now, because of the changes in the Ming Dynasty, more and more people are affected, and many people have departed from the trajectory of history and have a new path in life.

Even Jin Zhong had passed away last year, as well as the generals of the Beiping Department that year, and many of his exploits had also passed away, so Zhu Gaochi was a little worried about Zhu Di, who was fifty-eight years old.

Zhu Di in history died of illness on the way to the expedition, is it still like this?

Zhu Gaochi was a little unbearable.

What makes Zhu Gaochi a little worried is his body, although it is okay at present, but the life span of the original owner is very short, and Zhu Di also followed a year after his death, in order to avoid accidents, Zhu Gaochi can only take advantage of his life to lay the foundation for Daming.

Any system and ideas are not something that Zhu Gaochi can do for eternity.

This is what history has proven, just like the gate of a university, it was originally opened and should be opened, but it is difficult to open it again after it is closed, so it is still up to the people themselves.

Just like Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ming Dynasty gave so many things to the common people, and even they could arrest officials who violated the law and officials who protected each other, and if the local authorities still covered up, they could also go to Jinling, but these quickly disappeared.

The modern social customs of the West are the result of the struggle of the common people themselves.

Zhu Gaochi read many Western books in his last life, some of them were very recognized, some were not very recognized, and there was a sentence that he liked very much, about the history of British patent rights, the struggle between nobles and craftsmen.

Western scholars have given the evaluation that those craftsmen who are unwilling to fight for their rights and interests, giving up their rights, do not deserve sympathy.

This is very different from the public opinion in the East, because the public opinion environment in the East is basically a criticism of the aristocracy and sympathy for the craftsmen, which may indeed contribute to some directions.

Of course.

Zhu Gaochi also believes that the Qing Dynasty is one of the main reasons for reversing this phenomenon and making people lose the mentality of resistance.

As Marco Polo commented, those who lost their country were very pitiful and sensitive, and hated the Khan's soldiers, so didn't the people of the Qing Dynasty have such a mentality, and they might have exceeded it.

Half believed, half apprehensive.

Zhu Gaochi didn't know if the precious legacy he left for the Ming Dynasty could be inherited by the people of the Ming Dynasty and carried forward, because society was never fixed or indomitable.

Like the long river of history, it is a normal phenomenon that if you do not advance, you will retreat.

Zhu Gaochi can only lay a solid foundation.

Now it is his new proposal, for the reform of the Ming Law, more detailed legal formulation.

"However, I believe that all of you here, through the social phenomena of Goryeo, have clearly judged that suppressing the development of commerce is not conducive to society, and if you do not suppress it, it will bring damage to the common people, and it is the same nature as land annexation in agriculture."

"Then if we can't guide business to bring the right effect to the society and the people, this will be the root cause of the destruction of the country and even the world."

"The world is very big, the Ming Dynasty has not explored to the end, commerce cannot be banned, because business is banned, there will be commerce in other regions, if you don't advance, you will retreat, and you will be backward."

"And the Ming merchants overseas have indeed promoted domestic productivity, brought the resources needed domestically, and expanded the sphere of influence for the Ming Dynasty, which has played a lot of effects, which is undeniable."

People listened to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's speech and wrote it down.

Over the years, people have summed up some experience, and the quotations of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince are sometimes incomprehensible, but the facts of the future have proved the foresight of His Royal Highness the Prince.

"In ancient times, all the local magnates were his property, including the population, so before the Tang Dynasty, the famous were cool officials, and the corrupt officials were less recorded in historical records, but since the Song Dynasty, the proportion of corrupt officials has increased, which is caused by the popularization and decentralization of power, and from another point of view, it is also a kind of civilization progress."

Zhu Gaochi said calmly.

"Sss

Some people couldn't help but be surprised, His Royal Highness the Prince's words can often make people think deeply.

Zhu Gaochi really thinks so.

What is a Saga valve.

They need not be greedy, for the land is theirs.

Like a horse.

Give him a big official to do, even if he can increase his assets by one percent, he can even do without money, and take out part of the funds to paste it to the yamen.

But after the Song Dynasty, the officials were no longer good, they could only transfer part of the wealth in the operation of social materials to themselves, and return to their hometowns to pave bridges and build roads and education, so that the squires could be proud for a lifetime.

Then before the Tang Dynasty, the population and wealth of the land were themselves the valves of the family, and the production relations between the two were fundamentally different.

"Therefore, during the Song Dynasty, the laws enacted had universal and clear provisions on property protection, and it was the first dynasty in the history of the world to officially introduce the protection of private property."

"The former Yuan Dynasty destroyed the civilization developed by the Song Dynasty, so that it regressed in all aspects, and the Ming Dynasty inherited the Song system, but in many aspects, because it did not reach the economic level and social customs of the Song Dynasty at that time, there were many deficiencies."

"The current Da Ming law should learn from the property protection system of the Song Dynasty, which has distinctive characteristics of the times."

"Various legal provisions continue to be improved and more enlightened, such as the development of the commodity economy during the Song Dynasty, combined with the needs of the society at that time, the legislator protected the interests of relevant rights subjects from all aspects."

"Nowadays, with the economic development of the Ming society, the wealth of the people has grown, and the demand for this kind is becoming more and more vigorous, and the Ming court must catch up with the pace of the society and meet the needs of the people."

"From the legal inheritance, subrogation, household property inheritance, protection contract system, etc., learn from the legal framework of property protection in the Song Dynasty to create a perfect law that meets the needs of the industrialized society of the Ming Dynasty, is recognized by the people, and is recognized by the public moral order."

The legal deliberations on the protection of property caused a stir in society.

During the Yuan Dynasty, the slave society, people lost their freedom and wealth, although Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty issued an edict to cancel the slaves, and retained some of the nobles to use slaves, although it was progressive, but the law was not as perfect as the Song Dynasty's protection of private property.

With the annexation of land in the Ming Dynasty and the bankruptcy of the local economy, the needs of the people dropped to the pursuit of food and clothing, so in the end of the Ming Dynasty, it did not reach the height of civilization in the Song Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty was the pinnacle of ancient Chinese civilization in ancient China, and it is not something that historians casually say.

For more than 100 years, people have become accustomed to it, but the sudden appearance of the law has indeed met the new needs brought about by the development of society, and people are excitedly discussing and strongly supporting it.

The merchants, in particular, urgently needed such a law from the imperial court.

"This is actually His Royal Highness the Crown Prince trying to woo us."

Zhang Bo of Heji Commercial House interprets in public at a gathering of merchants.

Unlike many commercial firms, the Heji Commercial Bank did not expand Goryeo on a large scale, but followed in the footsteps of the Daming Industrial Bureau and laid out in advance in areas such as Bonidusi, so although Zhang Bo is often ashamed, he has been living well.

Because Daming needs such a thin Zhang.

Zhang Bo, who is in line with Daming's overall interests, allows Daming to endure his weird personality, and he can brag if he likes to brag.

Hearing Zhang Bo's statement, many businessmen suddenly realized.

"Over the years, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has issued one regulation after another, and it has suppressed us businessmen very much." Zhang Bo said with a smile, and the faces of the businessmen around him were complicated.

It's not that no one wants to learn from Zhang Bo, it's strange to say, only Zhang Bo is so presumptuous but still alive and well, and most of the rest of the people who dare to do this have been punished, so no one dares to underestimate Zhang Bo.

"But as long as this law is introduced, I believe that no matter how much you complain on weekdays, you can go to seven or eight today, and you don't have to worry about your wealth anymore."

The merchants smiled.

But some people thought of a large inheritance tax, and it would be nice if the inheritance tax could be abolished.

The death of many big businessmen, and the death of the owner of each big trading house, will trigger a big move by the tax department, and there will be a lot of conflicts, and even some big trading houses will disappear because of this.

But no matter how huge the scale is, it can't make the tax department budge.

Because of each huge inheritance tax, the court was reluctant to let go, so the slogan of competing with the people for profit became the impression of the merchants on the court, and they often attacked the court with it, and many people heard the businessmen's statements and felt that the businessmen's words were reasonable.

The annual inheritance tax, paid to the Ming Industrial Bureau, schools, and various organizations through the imperial court, promotes the development of society through social mobility, and provides partial support for the Ministry of Workers' and People's Union to ensure the working treatment of each worker.

It also put an end to a businessman, who accumulated through hereditary inheritance and occupied an absolute large share of social resources. Unless the firm is sold, the estate tax will be levied at one time, which will keep the firm competitive.

Everywhere there are constraints, and everywhere there are business opportunities.

Contradictory society.

Yuan Rong rode on the train, and the train traveled on the Yangtze River Railway Bridge, and you could see the river under the bridge.

A thousand sails on the river.

Cargo ships, passenger ships, fishing boats, grain ships, sand ships. Waterway inspection vessels.

Yuan Rong, who is in his forties, still feels amazing even if he is used to seeing such a scene, he still remembers that when he was twenty years old, he married eighteen-year-old Zhu Yuying, which was not the case in the capital at that time.

The same is true for Beiping, who went to Peking when he was a teenager.

Time flies.

Yuan Rong couldn't help but sigh that society was changing too fast.

A small change in five years, a big change in ten years, as if in a different world, I still remember when I was a teenager, Zhu Gaochi held a children's trip in Beiping, and the teenagers and girls traveled in a railway carriage for the first time.

When he came to Shanghai County, he boarded a ship to Goryeo with his entourage and arrived in Seoul first.

The king of Seoul received Yuan Rong.

Daming's concubine.

"The imperial court did not support the king's recovery of southern Goryeo." Yuan Rong rejected the request of the king of Goryeo and explained seriously: "In the southern region of Goryeo, there are deep local contradictions. ”

Li Fangguo frowned.

To be able to live is to be able to live.

The younger brother was no longer capable, but when he died, he died and failed.

Yi Fangguo wanted to reclaim the southern part of Goryeo.

The whole country is scolding Li Fangyuan, thinking that it is Li Fangyuan who has led to the situation of Goryeo today, and the loser must be held responsible, Li Fangguo does not want this, as the king of Goryeo, at least he can recover the southern part of Goryeo before his death.

Otherwise, when he died, it would be difficult for Goryeo to reclaim the southern part of Goryeo.

Yuan Rong said with a smile: "Although the rebels in southern Goryeo have been punished and expelled from Goryeo, the displaced people do not mean that they will not continue to make rebellion, if the contradictions continue to deepen, new rebels will be born, and the scale may be larger." ”

"Li Fangyuan's ability is still good, he can't suppress it, now that he is gone, when chaos breaks out in the Goryeo region again, I believe that there is no one in Goryeo to peace."

Li Fangguo listened to Yuan Rong quietly.

Speaking of which, it is nothing more than that the kingdom is unwilling to unify Goryeo, and Li Fangguo knows that it is useless to talk more, so he is unwilling to offend Yuan Rong and see how the kingdom is going to arrange southern Goryeo.

Yuan Rong knows Li Fangguo's personality and is a person who knows how to advance and retreat.

It's good to know how to advance and retreat.

What Da Ming is afraid of is not reasonable, but those unreasonable barbarians.

As long as he can be reasonable, Da Ming can get the maximum benefit at the minimum cost, while those barbarians who can't communicate can only rely on their fists to speak, but the cost is very high.

At that time, Li Fangguo was able to be reasonable, so over the years, the Ming Dynasty not only recovered the Anpyeong Metropolitan Division and the Hamgyong Metropolitan Division, but also co-managed the Huanghae Province with Goryeo, and through the layout in the northern part of Goryeo, a large number of displaced people were led to the southern part of Goryeo.

In the end, through contradictions, the southern region of Goryeo was detonated, and the "unreasonable" southern king of Goryeo was completely defeated, and finally returned to the situation of reasoning with the Ming Dynasty, allowing the Ming to take advantage of the benefits.

As for the hardship and displacement of the Goryeo people, it was not pursued by the Ming court, but an inevitable phenomenon of economic development.

Could it be that Goryeo itself can't develop, and the small court of Goryeo makes its people not have enough food and clothing, but it wants to put the blame on the Ming Dynasty? Where in the world is there such a truth?

Therefore, Yuan Rong said confidently: "In order to maintain the stability and tranquility of the southern region of Goryeo, the Ming Dynasty, as the suzerain, has the responsibility and obligation to think about the people of Goryeo. ”

"Therefore, several rules have been formulated, the first is that property is protected, and no one's assets and wealth in Goryeo can be suppressed and controlled, which is uncivilized."

"The second is commerce, commerce and trade can increase economic development for the people, so Goryeo can not prohibit trade, but also encourage trade, Ming allowed Goryeo businessmen to trade in Daming, Goryeo should also support Ming merchants to do business in Goryeo, mutual benefit, and open up together."

"In the end, whether it is the Ming Dynasty or Goryeo, the people's right to life must be protected, and the instability of Goryeo should be considered, so Goryeo should recognize the factory protection team established by the Ming merchants in Goryeo, and it cannot be banned and suppressed."

After listening to Yuan Rong's request, Li Fangguo was reluctant to talk anymore.

Are the merchants of Goryeo capable of doing business in Daming? Does Goryeo still have its own merchants? The small workshops in Goryeo were basically bankrupt, and the factories in Goryeo were all run by the Ming people.

They earned a huge amount of wealth from Goryeo, and transported a huge amount of wealth back to the Ming Dynasty, leaving no trace of Goryeo, leaving only a messy social environment and the people's misery.

The combined strength of the factory team is greater than the local strength, and they also agreed to advance and retreat together, so that the government needs to take care of the eyes of the factory team, whose world is it.

Li Fangguo couldn't do anything.

The army was controlled by the Ming Dynasty, the economy was also controlled by the Ming Dynasty, the nobles also took refuge in the Ming Dynasty, and even the displaced people were guided by the merchants of the Ming Dynasty for a bite to eat.

Li Fangguo is just a king, a king who has nothing.

Li Fangguo, who knows how to advance and retreat, only thinks about protecting his family's wealth and life safety, as well as glory and wealth.

Li Fangyuan, who doesn't know how to advance and retreat, is dead.

Southern Goryeo, which maintained a traditional agricultural society and resisted the footsteps of the Ming merchants, was completely opened because of the Goryeo civil unrest the year before last, and Li Fangyuan, who had persisted for more than ten years, not only died, but his achievements over the years were also completely dissipated.

After Yuan Rong left Seoul, he went all the way south.

is like a spring, how resolutely it resisted back then, how fast it collapses now.

The pace of land annexation in southern Goryeo is staggering.

The exiles destroyed a lot, and with the new decree, they left the nobles of the land, which belonged to the ownerless, and the Ming merchants obtained it from the rebel army, which belonged to the spoils of war.

These spoils of war were repaid to the Ming merchants.

Coupled with the collapse of the economy and the shortage of materials, the Ming merchants purchased a huge scale of land at the lowest price and controlled more than 30% of the acres of land in southern Goryeo.

For example, in the jute-growing area, the southern part of Goryeo is more suitable than the northern part.

Daming has a population of hundreds of millions.

With the development of commodity and material transportation, the demand for hemp rope sacks seems to be endless, and the production will be lacking in some quantities, and the output of the factory is increasing every year, but the demand of the society is also growing.

As a result, jute was cultivated from northern Goryeo to southern Goryeo.

Goryeo's agricultural fields are decreasing, grain production is decreasing, and it is more difficult for the people to buy food, and they have no money to buy food.

With the annexation of agriculture, people had no land to cultivate, only a way to join the industry, but Goryeo did not have a Ministry of Workers' and People's Union, no social resource distribution model, a surplus of manpower, and the exploitation of capital, and they could only get a very small amount of food for working in factories.

In the nineteenth century, the average life expectancy of a worker in London was twenty-two years. Workers in Liverpool, Preston and other towns in Manchester are lucky if they live to be nineteen.

In the factories and coal mines of Britain, not only old people and women, but also children of several years old, as long as they can work, they will become cheap labor.

Contrast that with gentlemen.

The English squires lived in extreme luxury, and in the nineteen-twenties, most of the gentlemen's homes had lavatories, some with hot and cold running water.

In rapidly growing industrial cities, such as St. Giles' Parish in London, where slum terraced houses fill yards with spilled feces from toilets nearly six inches deep, bricks have been placed in the yards so that residents can walk through the yards without getting their shoes wet.

This is the capitalist society.

Why is it that since the nineteenth century, the people of the West have set off one movement after another, because they have lived too miserably, so in the end advanced theories were born.

Yuan Rong observes the southern region of Goryeo all the way.

Patches of unclothed homeless people huddled under the city walls, and the gatekeepers at the gates did not allow them to enter the city to beg. There is no robust labor force, and there are no young and beautiful women, and such people have long been picked out.

It's the opposite.

When Yuan Rong entered Jeolla Doraju City, the main road in the city, the residential area of the Ming merchants, not only built straight roads, imitated the domestic stone brick paving, and the roads were lined with brand-new small buildings.

In front of the gate of each building, a kerosene street lamp was erected.

Planted trees and gardens make this residential area feel like a paradise.

In the garden in front of the door, the manservant was carrying furniture, and the maid was sweeping the yard, cleaning spotlessly clean, and the soles of her boots were not stained.

As in China, the Ming merchants set up a film workshop, introduced a film director who managed the film factory, maintained the governance of the residential area, and even set up an inspection department to ensure the security of the residential area and prevent people from outside from coming in.

The people living here, in addition to the proprietors of Daming Commercial Bank, there are also middle and senior management from China.

Their children frolic in the garden.

There is a square next to the garden, in the center of the square there is a statue of Confucius and a fountain, not far from the school, there is a Buddhist hall and Taoist temple, and the residents of the area pay for it together, and the scavengers are hired to keep it tidy.

Yuan Rong, who had just entered the city from outside the city, was a little uncomfortable surrounded by people, and the gap was too big.

This gap is like the difference between heaven and earth. (End of chapter)