Chapter 720: King Toyama and Oeijima
When Zhu Gaosui returned to Beijing, he should have brought his nephew, but Zhu Zhanyong liked war and hated the dull life in the capital very much, so Zhu Gaosui left his nephew and told him to be careful and not to be careless.
There are seven prefectures in the central part of Oeijima, of which Toyama Prefecture is the domain of Zhu Gaoxu.
The first emperor Zhu Di changed the title of Zhu Gaochu as the king of Dongying, there were many ministers who opposed this title, before Zhu Di died, Zhu Gaochu took the initiative to ask for another title, although Zhu Di regretted it, but did not change his mind because of face.
When Zhu Di died, among the ministers, especially Xia Yuanji, reacted the most strongly and wanted to cancel Zhu Gaoxu's title of King of Dongying, and Zhu Gaochu also took the initiative to alienate the new emperor again, that is, his eldest brother.
When he wrote for the third time, Zhu Gaochi finally agreed, canceled the title of King of Dongying, and changed his title to King Fushan in the name of his fief.
After getting the will, Zhu Gaoxu himself was relieved, the name of the king of Dongying was too big, and it could even summarize the entire Daying Island, if the eldest brother did not change his mind, Zhu Gaoxu was worried about causing trouble.
Historically, Zhu Gaochu opposed his eldest brother, because the gap between the two was not large, and even because of the high prestige of the army, Zhu Gaochu thought that he was better than his eldest brother.
Now history has changed, the gap between brothers is too big, but the relationship between brothers is harmonious, the eldest brother takes care of the younger brothers, and the younger brothers regard the eldest brother as a father, and love each other very much.
Zhu Gaoxu returned to Beijing to report on his work, wanting to see his eldest brother.
Zhu Gaochi agreed, and according to the agreed date, Zhu Gaochu and his family and guards arrived at the dock in Shanghai by boat, and the local officials received the King of Toyama with a grand reception.
On his fiftieth birthday, Zhu Gaochi did not handle it.
But the second brother and the third brother spontaneously came back to celebrate the eldest brother's birthday, and the civil and military officials of the imperial court also congratulated them, including all bureaus and departments, Zhu Gaochi accepted them one by one, but refused to let the following want to do it in a big way.
The family is reunited in the palace, but the second child is not there.
"Yong'er likes to be straightforward, but she has the same temperament as her second brother." Zhu Gaosui said with a smile.
Zhu Gaochi also asked curiously how Zhu Gaoxu's life was in Daying.
"The rest of Oeijima has generally returned to calm, but the Tohoku Prefecture and the Hokkaido Seinko Division are not calm, and the two sides often have conflicts, plundering and killing each other." Zhu Gaoxu replied calmly.
Zhu Gaochi nodded understandingly.
The Hokkaido East Ezo people, West Ezo people, Tojima Ezo people, Watarikaku Ezo people, and Ainu people were banished to the islands of Hokkaido for a long time by the Wakoku shogunate, and now they have finally returned to Oshima, and of course they are not willing to quit easily.
Zhu Gaochi deduced the current situation very early, so after discussing with the imperial court, he moved the forces of the original Dog Slave State and part of the power of the Wa Kingdom to the Northeast Capital Division, so that they could fight among themselves.
These local forces have become a life-and-death contradiction between you and me, so the management of the Ming Dynasty will be much easier, and the influence of the Ming Dynasty in the local area will become stronger and stronger.
Therefore, the current situation introduced by Zhu Gaochu did not surprise Zhu Gaochi.
"You have a great responsibility in Toyama, not only to control the intensity of their war, but also to prevent some of them from sitting on the throne, guarding the gateway to the rear of Oeijima, ensuring the development of productive forces and economic impetus in the rest of the region, and providing stable conditions for them."
"Big brother, please rest assured, there is a younger brother in Toyama, and the situation between the two places will definitely not affect the mainland of Daying Island." Zhu Gaoxu said.
Zhu Gaosui laughed and said: "With the central dispatch of the eldest brother, the second brother sitting in the front, and the strength of the imperial court and the country, in less than twenty years, the entire Daying Island will become what the imperial court needs." ”
"That's very good."
Zhu Gaochi did not deceive.
Seeing that the topic was over, Zhu Zhanji took the opportunity to raise his wine glass and toast to the two uncles, Zhu Gaochu and Zhu Gaosui did not dare to snub the prince, and hurriedly got up to return the salute, and Zhu Gaochi persuaded him.
Father and mother are gone, after all.
Although the relationship between the brothers is deep, the royal majesty, even the second brother Zhu Gaoxu is no longer as straightforward as before, and his actions are a little restrained.
Zhu Gaochi sighed inwardly for a moment.
On the second day, the cabinet led hundreds of officials to congratulate the emperor on his 50th birthday, and Zhu Gaochi in the palace responded with a smile, and then the rest of the bureaus, such as the head of the Daming Industry Bureau, came to visit the emperor.
After a busy day, on the third day, Zhu Gaochi led his younger brothers to visit the garden square of the Wenhua Palace, and in the afternoon, the brothers also went to the school field and visited the drills in Beijing.
On the fourth day, Zhu Gaochi began to work normally, and the two brothers, Zhu Gaosui and Zhu Gaochu, drank and talked happily.
On the fifth day, Zhu Gaoxu resigned to his eldest brother.
On this day, Zhu Gaoxu cried, the eldest brother is old, and he is also old, and he can return to the capital no more than one slap in the future, and there will be one less time when the brothers meet each other.
"Big brother take care of your body, although national affairs are important, but it is the blessing of the country and the people that the eldest brother takes good care of his body." Zhu Gaoxu said with tears in his eyes.
Zhu Gaochi held his brother's hand.
Zhu Gaosui also wiped his tears on the side.
At this time.
The people of East Ezo, such as Kiyoshi Yamamoto and Haru Ikeda, suddenly attacked West Ezo, plundered a large number of people, and began to annex with other tribes.
According to Kiyoshi Yamamoto, he was to unify the whole of Hokkaido and then concentrate his efforts on eliminating Tohoku Toji.
Zhu Gaoxu returned to Toyama and made the decision to teach Yamamoto Kiyoshi a lesson.
If there is no prince in the local area, but a general soldier, he is not qualified and prestigious to make such a decision, and can only play to the court in the rear and wait for the approval of the court.
In this way, time is wasted, and the opportunity is missed.
Historically, Yunnan is precisely because of the Mu Wangfu in the local town, the early stage played a huge effect, although the middle and late Mu Wangfu children began to be extravagant and corrupt, but but also the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
Compared with the civil officials, the civil officials of flowing water are really not as responsible as the iron-clad Mu Wangfu to Yunnan Province, even if the Mu Wangfu has amassed countless wealth in the local area for hundreds of years.
Therefore, before Yamamoto Kiyoshi could digest the fruits of victory, he was attacked by the Ming army.
Overseas development of shipyards is not allowed.
Therefore, Daying Island does not have its own shipyard, only a navy stationed by the imperial court, stationed in two continent provinces, with a naval commander, although it is not subordinate to Zhu Gaoxu, but it will also cooperate.
In this war, Zhu Gaoxu notified the general soldiers of the rest of the places according to the usual practice, and did not wait for the reaction of various places, directly sent 6,000 people of his vassal army to the island to fight, and easily arrived in Hokkaido with the help of the strength of the two continent navies.
The Wa Kingdom and the Dog Slave Kingdom have become the dust of history, and a large number of people have died in the war for many years, although there are many women who entered the Ming Dynasty very early and became the maids of the Ming Dynasty, including millions of eunuchs, under the introduction and consumption of decades, there are now less than 200,000 left.
In short, the people on the island only had a population of more than a million people, and all of them were relocated to the Northeast Capital, and the elite of them were selected by Zhu Gaoxu and absorbed into his army.
With the training and food of the Ming army, as well as sophisticated equipment, although Zhu Gaoxu only had 6,000 troops, his combat effectiveness was very strong.
In the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, the entire Wa Kingdom, including Hokkaido, had a population of about 14 million, and under the chaos of decades, not only the pirates captured the young and strong population, but also the local division led to a long war, just like the Three Kingdoms period in Chinese history, the population fell into a great regression.
In the third year of Hongxi, after the relocation project of the Ming army, which consumed countless manpower and material resources, the population was only more than 100 counted, including the population of Hokkaido, and there were not many people in Hokkaido.
The Three Kingdoms in history, from the end of the Han Dynasty to the end of the Three Kingdoms, because of the perennial war, it was only 60 years, that is, a Jiazi, and the population dropped from about 60 million in the Han Dynasty to about 8 million when the Jin Dynasty was established.
The Jin Dynasty was indeed a relatively incorrect dynasty, inheriting all the shortcomings of the previous dynasties at the end of the period, and even so, it was more than a hundred times stronger than the chaotic Three Kingdoms, and the population recovered to more than 16 million, more than twice the total population of the Three Kingdoms.
Therefore, the stability proposed by Western economists in later generations is greater than everything else, and the premise of economic development is stability, no matter which way of stability, etc., most domestic scholars agree with it.
The population of the Han Dynasty fell eightfold, and the Wa Kingdom had just ended the civil war between the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and had not yet had time to recover, and because of Zhu Gaochi's intervention, as well as pirate human trade and other factors, there was also a chaotic war that lasted for nearly forty years, and there was also the intervention of powerful external forces.
With so many factors, it was even more complicated and difficult than during the Three Kingdoms period, and as a result, the population of the Wa Kingdom was still more than one million, which also only dropped by eight times.
No matter how amazing the reality is, the warriors of the Wa Kingdom who were lucky enough to join the army of the Zhu Gaochu domain were very loyal, and cherished everything they had now, for themselves and their families, these people fought as if they were at home, and did not give the military order to retreat, even if there was a cliff in front of them.
Such an army is not something that Kiyoshi Yamamoto and others can fight against.
In just three days, Yamamoto Kiyoshi was killed, Ikeda Haru, led the remaining tribal population to hide in the mountains, and the army of 6,000 feudal lords could not surround the mountains for encirclement and suppression, Zhu Gaoxu sent people to contact Ikeda Haru, as long as they were willing to promise to maintain the original pattern, the Ming army could let them go.
The rest of the tribe found Ikeda Haru, told the Ming army about the request, and Ikeda Haruu nodded with a wry smile, where did he have the right to refuse now.
Because of Zhu Gaoxu's strong intervention, the Hokkaido Propaganda Division and the Tohoku Prefecture stopped hostility, as if the pause button had been pressed, and a brief peace was restored, which relieved the local people.
Although the sowing season has passed, you can grab as many seeds as you can, and you can eat more in the coming year.
However, the contradiction will not disappear, seeing that the Ming army has retreated and there is no sign of returning, the Ainu were the first to invade the Tohoku Capital, and they are bound to take back their ancestors' territory.
The smoke of war soon filled the area again, and the common people continued to live in hiding in Tibet.
Toyama is located in the middle of the Chubu region, along the coast.
The Fukushima area of the Tohoku Prefecture was stationed in the Ming Army, and the highest-ranking general in this army was the commander-in-chief, and it can be seen from the rank of the position that this army played a defensive function.
It's like an invisible thread.
In the north, there is chaos and war, and the people are in dire straits, but in the south, there is peace and tranquility, and the people live and work in peace and contentment.
According to the policy of that year, at the end of the 19th year of Yongle, it was proposed that the long-term immigration of the Daming Industry Bureau should be mainly based on Daying Island, and the goal of immigrating 5 million within 10 years exceeded 400,000 in the 22nd year of Yongle.
With the return of the army led by King Toyama to the domain, and even the war between Hokkaido and the Tohoku Metropolitan Division, it was already June of the fourth year of Hongxi.
In the third year of Hongxi, the population of Daming Island has grown to more than 3.4 million, and there are still three years left from the original plan, but the faster the population is migrated, because with the increase of population, the development of productive forces, and the restoration of social order, the scale of the local population has doubled, and it is more and more convenient for immigrants.
Because the immigrants are mainly young and middle-aged students, the number of people per household is much smaller than that in the mainland, although it has a population of more than 3.4 million, but the number of households is as high as more than 850,000.
Each household is given 100 acres of land.
Because of the shortage of labor, as in Beiping back then, each household absorbed many local women to become long-term workers in the family, which is the main reason why there are still more than 1 million people in the former Japanese country.
Most of the adult women, especially the strong ones, were easily absorbed by the farm, and the farm's owners farmed the land, and because the Ming did not recognize slavery, they signed a contract of employment for up to thirty years.
These women could not be registered with the Ministry of Workers' Cooperation, so they could not be protected by the Ministry of Workers' Cooperation, so this completely unequal employment contract had the effect of law.
But compared to the precarious life, having a stable bed to sleep in is the most satisfying thing.
As is the case among Russian writers, oppression is often initiated by the oppressed, exchanging their bodies for the bread in the hands of the stewards, because it is difficult to survive without being oppressed.
In the farms of the Ming people, you can live in a warm house, you can eat, and you can also get some leftover fabrics from the owner of the farm, which is already the best life for the current female workers of the Ming Dynasty, even if they envy the Ming people more.
Overseas development is not a new thing.
Cement factory, timber factory, sand quarry, quarry, etc., cotton factory, spinning mill, textile factory, dye factory, garment factory, etc., sugar factory, paste factory, dried fruit factory, salt factory and so on.
Eating, drinking, living and traveling, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea.
Farm owners have the ability to consume, 850,000 households represent a huge consumer market, the Daming Bureau of Industry monopolizes Daying Island, and the workers of the Daming Bureau have entered a happy industrial age over the years.
This is the premise of the industrial revolution and the essence of market demand.
After hundreds of years of sending poor people and criminals to the New World, these poor people and criminals survived tenaciously, because the local indigenous civilization was too backward to even defeat these folk forces.
The so-called Inca Empire was directly destroyed by an adventuring team, which is the backwardness of the natives.
The New World is indeed a blessing from God to the countries of Western Europe.
It not only creates a huge population with consumption power for Western European countries, but also supplements the demand for agricultural output that is premised on industrial development for Western Europe, and those high-yield crops are the "big tonic" for Western Europe.
It is precisely because of the consumer market created by the large consumer population that accommodates the rest of the new industries that in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, there was an industry of merchants transporting ice and trade.
The same thing goes.
With the development of the Goryeo Wa Kingdom, as well as the Boni Metropolitan Division, Luzon Metropolitan Division and other regions, the huge consumer market has promoted the development of industry, especially the shipbuilding industry has developed by leaps and bounds.
Bigger ships, bigger power, under the urgent needs of the market, craftsmen and scholars have tried to break through again and again.
There are larger ships on the sea than ever before, and the engine rooms that power the ships require more space, and even more complex braking systems designed to facilitate operation.
The Nanyang Railway became the hub of the transportation line.
Domestic goods, overseas ships, and the exchange of goods through the Nanyang railway, with the prosperity of the trade route, the economy of the Nanyang region has also begun to develop greatly, and it has been virtually integrated into a huge production and trade cycle system.
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