I am the king of the dead

Yu Qian leaned on the soft rattan chair and drank tea slowly. When he met such a king, he only needed to take care of the farm and cultivate his character every day, and just watched Daming get better little by little.

This feeling is very comfortable.

Yu Qian has never lived so easily in all these years.

The only thing that worries Yu Qian is how to persuade the way of benevolence and forgiveness.

The negative progress made Yu Qian feel a little desperate, which was harder than repelling the Oirats.

Yu Qian stood up and headed towards the Xingang Wharf. His Majesty promised a craftsman that he would send a daughter-in-law. After Yu Qian accepted this matter, he naturally had to do it.

When it comes to giving daughters-in-law to the soldiers and civilians of Ming Dynasty, Yu Qian has 1 approvals, and he is indeed doing it.

The first class is naturally Gao Liji, North Korea and Ming Dynasty are the closest, but the price is the most expensive, and the Ming Dynasty cannot afford this money.

The second class is naturally the Japanese maid. Although the Japanese maid is a little short, but the Japanese maid is not noisy, and because the guardians of the Japanese country are opening films, the price of the Japanese maid has been reduced a lot.

The third class is the maidservants of Wanli Haitang. These women are slightly dark because of the lower dimension. This is not their own skin color, but the sun is more poisonous and tanned.

The fourth class is the Turks, Turkmens, and Tianzhus from the Guli Kingdom and Hulumos. The prices of this type are the lowest, but the quantity is not very large.

As for the Kunlun slaves brought by Man Basa, Daming is not sensitive, neither men nor women are wanted, a drop of blood will cause all generations to be black, Yu Qian will not be this eternal sinner.

In fact, this business has always been done by someone, but from now on the recipient has become the imperial court.

Yu Qian came to Xingang and saw Tomiko Hino. This woman is 25 years old, and she is at the best age in her life. Unfortunately, she is afraid that she will hang herself on the tree of His Majesty.

Yu Qian was surprised to see Katsumoto Hosokawa. Katsumoto Hosokawa had met him as a Japanese envoy, but Katsumoto Yu Qian knew Katsumoto Hosokawa.

Katsumoto Hosokawa circled around Tomiko Hino like a fighting dog holding a Frisbee.

Hino Tomiko ignored Katsumoto Hosokawa, and Katsumoto Hosokawa was not a fighting dog, but a defeated dog, and a married defeated dog.

"There are more than [-] Japanese maidservants in Hong Kong this time." After saluting respectfully, Tomiko Hino pointed to Katsumoto Hosokawa and said, "This is Katsumoto Hosokawa, a Japanese merchant."

"I already know about Sakai Port." Yu Qian glanced at Katsumoto Hosokawa, but ignored him. Katsumoto Hosokawa was a Japanese envoy at that time, but now he is just a merchant... who brought a woman from the Japanese country to Daming.

Each of the Japanese maidservants had five silver coins, a total of 540 silver coins.

Goryeo is too expensive. A Goryeo is worth at least [-] silver coins. This Japanese maid is only five silver coins, which is very cheap. Moreover, she has been screened in the Japanese country. She is short, ugly, and sick. , are not allowed to board the ship.

"Your Majesty hasn't come yet?" Tomiko Hino asked hesitantly.

Yu Qian said with a frosty face: "The Japanese envoy respects himself."

Hino Tomiko refused to go back to Japan to marry Ashikaga Yoshimasa, the general of the Muromachi shogunate, and wanted to climb the dragon bed wholeheartedly, but His Majesty sternly refused, and there was no possibility of turning around.

Hino Tomiko refused to go back to the country of Wa, fearing that only the ancient Buddha of Qingdeng was left.

Yu Qian said that he wanted to supervise this matter and pour some dirty water on himself, so he naturally did it himself.

Then ships from Zhancheng, Jiaozhi, Luzon, Sanfoqi, Boni and other places arrived in the port one after another. After finishing the accounts, Yu Qian led these women out of Wanguo City and went straight to the Weaving Bureau of Songjiang Prefecture.

To let these girls learn Chinese, and also to let these girls learn to weave, these are the responsibility of the weavers in Songjiang Prefecture.

During the training period of the Weaving Bureau, Yu Qian will start arranging blind dates, "marry" these women out, and receive a gift money.

It is impossible to buy and sell, this is a matchmaker talking about a match!

Even if the Heavenly King Laozi is here, this is not a business!

In His Majesty's words, it is to introduce women to optimize the population structure of Ming Dynasty and solve the increasingly serious bachelor problem in Ming Dynasty.

Yu Qian did a little total calculation, excluding purchase costs, training costs, and matchmaking costs. During this trip today, a total of more than 7000 women were married, and they actually earned tens of thousands of silver coins.

Ten thousand silver coins can support him in Qian Jiuzhong Hall for ten years!

This means that Yu Qian is a serious scholar and doesn't know how to do business.

Fei Yiying watched from the sidelines and was anxious. Yu Shaobao turned such a lucrative industry into a 'small profit but quick turnover'.

You should be too familiar with doing business!

"Would you like me to come?" Fei Yiying asked eagerly.

Yu Qian continued to deal with the accounts and said: "This business is not for making money, even if you post money, you have to do it, the only thing is that it should not be expensive, Fei Yiying, you are now a bachelor of Ming Dynasty, not a fee merchant."

"Thanks to Yu Shaobao for teaching." Fei Yiying's back burst into a cold sweat, and Yu Qian's lesson enlightened him.

Seeing Fei Yiying, Yu Qian finally came back to his senses and said, "For this matter, Scholar Fei should do it."

There is a specialization in surgery, and Yu Qian is really not good at it.

After Fei Yiying got started, the abacus sounded, and after a crackling calculation, another three thousand silver coins came out.

The betrothal gifts have not increased, they are all betrothal gifts of six silver coins, but Fei Yiying deducted three thousand silver coins from the cost, and it is still "guaranteed in quality and quantity".

Fei Yiying finished his calculations, and said quite seriously: "Yu Shaobao, these three thousand silver coins will be used as a dowry at the standard of five silver coins for each bride, and distributed to these brides as dowry."

"This business is also done by someone, but it is difficult not to continue."

"These brides were either humiliated to commit suicide, or they ran away. If there is a dowry or no dowry, it will be completely different if they marry. Even if the dowry is bought with five cents, the bride will be decent, and the groom will also be decent."

Yu Qian clenched his fist with his left hand and hammered it on his right hand, and said, "Scholar Fei's words are justified!"

How the brides survive in Daming is a big problem.

The answer given by Yu Qian is that labor makes people free and work gives personality, but this only solves part of the problem.

You must know that the folk customs in the countryside are all about comparison. This bride was conservative and bullied in the village, and her husband's family did not maintain it. It all ended in dismal.

Fei Yiying's meaning was very clear, to give some face to the brides married by the imperial court.

"You can use another part to hold a group wedding." Yu Qian did not increase the dowry, but chose another way to make this matter more dignified.

Yu Qian remonstrated, His Majesty Zhu criticized, but the business color of this matter is still strong, and scholars probably have a good face, so naturally they still have to whitewash it.

As a scholar, Yu Qian naturally has to whitewash it, which is very reasonable.

There is a matchmaker, a bride price, a dowry, and a wedding banquet. In the countryside, it is considered that the matchmaker is married, and the marriage is witnessed by the court!

Fei Yiying kept nodding his head and discussing with Yu Qian to complete the plan.

Yu Qian took his achievements and went to report to His Majesty, but he did not see His Majesty in the imperial study.

Xiao Huangmen said with a complex expression: "Your Majesty is watching the chef butcher the pig."

"What are you doing, Your Majesty?" Yu Qian asked again with a complex expression. He completely thought he had heard it wrong.

Xiao Huangmen repeated again dumbfoundingly: "Your Majesty is watching the cook butcher the pig."

The corner of Yu Qian's mouth twitched and came to the backyard, and he really saw His Majesty.

Your Majesty is really watching the cook butcher the pig.

Four or five riders stood in formation, ready to place the pigs from the cages on the table.

Lu Zhong took three Tiqi, and held the big stick in his hand nervously, holding it in front of His Majesty, staring straight at the direction of the chef.

Zhu Qiyu looked at the pig in the cage and said, "Before Yu Shaobao came, he just killed the first sheep."

"It's a well-known saying, pig grass buns, sheep are good men, and cows' tears are rolling in their eyes."

"As long as a strong man steps on the sheep's front hooves, grabs the sheep's head with one hand, cuts a knife on the throat, and puts the blood basin under the neck, then it's done."

"Sheep are good men, except for trembling, they will be killed if they don't move."

Yu Qian came to his senses this time, there was something in His Majesty's words.

Zhu Qiyu continued: "It's very particular about killing pigs, pig grass bag, it is said that pigs are more afraid of death."

"When killing, the pig screams vigorously! It struggles vigorously! At least seven or eight people must come together to survive."

"Before slaughtering a pig, you have to starve the pig for a day, otherwise the pig will struggle and it will kill you."

"You need four knives just to kill a pig, otherwise the pig will not be easy to kill."

"The chef said that if the pig is not cleaned with a knife, the pig can run for more than a mile while spraying blood!"

"If someone who doesn't have eyes is bumped into by this pig, it will lie down for several days if it is lighter, and it will kill you if it is heavy."

Before Zhu Qiyu finished speaking, the slaughtering of pigs began.

The chef is an experienced cook, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a master of cooking, but His Majesty is watching from the side, he can't help feeling a little nervous.

The pig with fat head and big ears has its limbs tied up on the table. The chef knelt on the pig with one leg, held the pig's chin with one hand, and straightened it back with force, highlighting the throat. He stabbed straight into the pig's heart!

"Aww! Woo!"

The pig felt the pain, let out a howl, and began to struggle hard. The ropes of the case were all broken by the struggle, and then a mantis chrysalis began to run around in the yard.

The chef was a little nervous, so he couldn't clean it up with a single knife, which didn't kill the pig.

The pig squirted blood and made a fuss in the backyard. A Tiqi was also broken after struggling with a pole. The human-pig battle lasted for nearly two quarters of an hour before it was over.

The ground was in a mess, pig blood was everywhere, and several Tiqi were exhausted in order to prevent the pig from rushing towards His Majesty.

Zhu Qiyu finally finished watching the slaughter of pigs, and said with satisfaction: "Yu Shaobao, you saw that there are more than 5 pigs, and you can't catch them all in three days and three nights. The strength of the pigs is too great."

"What does Your Majesty want the minister to see?" Yu Qian asked in a daze as he looked at the chef who was about to brag.

Zhu Qiyu said quite seriously: "Yu Shaobao, a herdsman in Jinshen Antu, what he wants to herd are sheep, and when sheep are killed, they won't struggle."

"But the people of our Daming are pigs. When they want to kill them, they will struggle. Seven or eight people can't surrender."

"The pig butchers, if they are a little careless, they will be knocked out of their stomachs."

"One is fine, how about ten or eight? Ten thousand, one hundred thousand, one million, those million hyena pigs, the pigs are advancing so fast that the sage can't stop."

Yu Qian showed such an expression, His Majesty has a lot of things to do every day, and he has nothing to do. Watching the slaughter of pigs in this backyard?

The people of Daming are indeed the best pigs to raise, but they are not easy for him to kill.

"Ouch!" Zhu Qiyu raised his eyebrows and yelled.

The pig on the table came back to light, and jerked violently, and the table made a real noise when it was smashed, scaring the cook back a few steps.

Zhu Qiyu looked at the dead pig and continued: "We Ming meat eaters always want to domesticate this pig into a sheep, but this pig and sheep are completely different species, how can we domesticate a pig into a sheep?" Woolen cloth?"

"Yu Shaobao, tell me, is this the reason?"

After listening to His Majesty's sheep and pig theory, Yu Qian looked at the pig on the case and said, "I heard that a wounded wild boar is fiercer than a tiger."

Yu Qian is a scholar, he can understand, and naturally he can catch up with the conversation.

Chapter 7 and Eight

Emperor Ming's theory of sheep and pigs is indeed novel and eye-catching.

"Your Majesty, how can there be sheep-like people in this world? The knife is drawn to the neck, and they dare not move, only shaking?" Yu Qian shook his head and said.

In the theory of sheep and pigs, the sheep-like people should be an illusion, compared to the pig-like people.

Zhu Qiyu was stunned and said: "Yu Shaobao doesn't know Tianzhu people, is he notoriously docile?"

Yu Qian was stunned, how could he have imagined that there are really sheep-like people in this world?

He shook his head and said, "I've never heard of it, because I've learned so little about it."

Yu Qian does not doubt that His Majesty is lying. Since His Majesty said that Tianzhu people are sheep-like, there is a basis for it.

Yu Qian explained in detail how he gave wives to the bachelors of Ming Dynasty.

"You still have to buy a dowry and hold a group wedding?" Zhu Qiyu was a little shocked after hearing this.

This is really too humane!

"Does your majesty feel that you earn less?" Yu Qian asked suspiciously.

It is well known that His Majesty loves money. There is only one wick in the lamp of the household department, and the Tai'an Palace is no different.

Zhu Qiyu shook his head and said: "No, I just felt emotional for a moment, what Nikolaoz said is right, we Daming really have a high moral disadvantage."

High morality has become a disadvantage. This is obviously a false proposition, but it can be implemented every time.

It has to be said that Daming deserves the praise of a country of civilization and a country of etiquette.

Only then did Yu Qian understand what His Majesty was surprised at, and said with a smile: "I think the imported brides are really helpless. This move is aimed at optimizing the population structure of our Ming Dynasty. If these imported brides cannot stay safely, they will be killed." Created new problems."

"Right now, the cost is a bit higher, but the troubles in the future will be much less."

Zhu Qiyu agreed very much and said, "Of course."

High morality naturally has some disadvantages. For example, this business can make a lot of money. Human trading, an industry that has existed since ancient times, is of course very profitable. The great voyage is accompanied by triangular trade. In essence, isn’t it selling human beings?

For example, these imported brides can also be reused. The brides run away as soon as they get married, recycle and reuse them, catch the escaped imported brides, and then send them from Songjiang Mansion to Xuzhou Mansion. labor surplus.