I am the king of the dead

But the concubine, who is also from Songjiang Mansion, is always better than the countryside to survive, at least there is a city wall to stop the thieves from attacking.

With this decree, the matchmakers say that marriage or even mother is more expensive than children, this is trafficking, and the court's regulations can define this behavior as human trafficking, and then deal with it.

This is indeed protecting women's rights and cracking down on human trafficking in the Ming Dynasty.

As for whether there is a case where he wants a mother to be more expensive than a child to obtain a class transition, it is not within the scope of Shen Yi's consideration.

The second reason is to limit the population of the prefectures and counties, and to limit the population siphon of the city. The capacity of the city is limited, too few people are unpopular, and too many people are too crowded. Jingtai has 15 years of medical conditions, and the people in the city are too crowded. When there is an epidemic, that is, the city is full of dead people, and there are few survivors, and it has happened.

The third reason is the impact of the maritime trade affairs of Daming. The number of ships in Daming is increasing, and there are more people going to sea. Sailors of Daming, what is the identity of the children born to some foreign women outside?This becomes a problem, and a serious one at that.

As far as the plantations are all over the banks of the Lanma River, in these plantations, for the sake of the farmers and the overseers who whipped the whip, they will personally participate in the production and use of production tools, and a bunch of preserved eggs were born. , What is a preserved egg, the mother is a slave, and the father is a Daming.

What is the identity of this preserved egg man?cheap.

Under the new situation of the era of great voyages, the new great speculation of Ming Dynasty has quietly begun.

"Let's make a statement." Zhu Qiyu looked at Shen Yi's memorabilia, did not express his own opinion, but asked the attitudes of the courtiers, Xing'an carried a box and gave each courtier a note, on which there was only a ○ and An X, Minggong only needs to mark it, no need to name it, let alone make other marks, just fold it twice after marking.

Xing'an collected all the notes, put them in the box, shook them vigorously, and then began to count the tickets.

Twenty votes are in favor and eight votes are against. Whoever is in favor, I don’t know, and whoever is against, I don’t know. Anyway, more than two-thirds of the votes are in favor.

This box is completely transparent, which means that Da Dang, who is holding the box, wants to do something in full view, which will cause public outrage.

The Ming emperor did not participate in the voting, and had a veto power over the decree. If he did not use the seal, the decree could not be implemented.

The secret ballot is a method invented by Zhu Qiyu to express his opinion. There are only 28 courtiers in total. There were 27 before. Now there is a new seat for the Minister of Finance and Economics.

Zhu Qiyu took the treasure of Jingtai from Xing'an, covered it at the seam of the memorial, and handed it to Wang Wen, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, and said, "Let's do it like this."

The implementation of a government decree in the Ming Dynasty is definitely not a nationwide implementation of the Wenhua Palace. In Shen Yi's memorial, it was only promoted in Songjiang Mansion, Guangzhou Mansion, Yingtian Mansion, Shuntian Mansion, Chang'an Mansion, Chongqing Mansion and other cities. After that, it will be rolled out nationwide slowly.

"Second meeting, discussion on maritime matters." Xing'an shook his whisk, announcing the start of the second meeting.

Li Binyan opened the memorial in his hand and said: "In the 13th year of Yongle, Prince Don Enrique of Portugal, Duke of Viseu, led 2 people, and captured Ceuta, which is located in the southeast corner of the City of Liberty, and Portugal completely occupied the city. The Strait of Gibraltar, the impoverished Kingdom of Portugal, obtained gold, ivory, slaves and other valuables for the first time, and quickly prospered."

The name Prince Don Enrique is extremely unfamiliar. The father-in-law of Kuai Lin, governor of Liberty City, and King Afonso V of Portugal is Prince Pedro, and Prince Don Enrique is the third brother of Kuai Lin's father-in-law.

Zhu Qiyu said concisely: "That's Li Aiqing's third uncle."

"Hahaha..." The Wenhua Hall was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

Everyone knew that it was not Li Binyan's father-in-law, nor was it Li Binyan's third brother, but the third brother of Li Binyan's father-in-law, the governor of Liberty City Kuai Lin, but Kuai Lin was wearing Li Binyan's waistcoat.

Li Binyan regretted not stabbing Tang Xing to death with a single sword in front of the Fengtian Palace. Also put on this vest, and in a few years, all four oceans will be him.

After everyone finally stopped laughing, Li Binyan said again: "Third Uncle...not..."

"Hahaha!"

This time even Yu Qian shook his head with a smile, took a sip of tea, looked at the memorial in his hand, with a smile on his lips, who would want to suffer all day long, worry and worry, he had to worry in the past.

Li Binyan laughed himself, and he continued: "Prince Don Enrique, the founder of Portugal's overseas trade, proved to future generations with his own practice that a successful trade policy is a combination of military, plunder and coercion. "

Force what?labor.

To be exact, it is the production activities of plantations and workshops under slavery, with a high degree of personal attachment.

Li Binyan looked at the ministers and said: "Although many people like to sing about the great achievements of Prince Enrique, for example, he established a sailing school, for example, he rewarded people who improved sea ships as navigators, and gave generous rewards, but just from his In terms of behavior, Prince Enrique prefers plunder based on the background of military strength."

"In the seventh year of Xuande, Prince Enrique went to sea again in person, opened up [-] hectares of sugar cane and grape plantations in the Free Islands, captured [-] slaves from the Songhai Kingdom, and worked in the sugar cane and grape plantations."

"In the sixth year of Zhengtong, Prince Enrique bypassed Cape Brown located at 126° West Longitude 37°N and 11° North Latitude. After returning to China, he obtained the exclusive right to trade slaves in Portugal. Prince Enrique, who emigrated on a large scale, did not wait for that day because his nephew Afonso V clashed with the politically involved Prince Pedro."

"Prince Pedro did not resist too much, and Afonso V won, but Portugal's maritime trade has fallen into the quagmire of political struggle, and there is no further development."

Li Binyan also took out Tang Xing's memorials on multiple maritime trade issues, and made a summary of the lack of maritime armed forces leading to the development of Ming Dynasty's trade and the loss of commercial dominance.

This summary made the courtiers sit up straight and become serious unconsciously.

"This memorandum should be published in the residence newspaper and included in the compilation of "Jingtai Salt and Iron New Theory." Yao Kui, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, immediately put forward his opinion. The important part is one of the achievements of Daming's financial affairs speculation and should be compiled.

Zhu Qiyu nodded in approval and said, "Well, let Yao Shangshu be included."

"Then after Li Aiqing's long speech, what government orders will be implemented?" Zhu Qiyu looked at Li Binyan and asked.

Li Bin said, "Your Majesty once said that monopoly is one of the important ways for commercial organizations to obtain high profits. Commercial organizations always strengthen their monopoly power and maintain market positions through product differentiation and setting market entry thresholds." .We need to support a powerful business group, let this group develop the international trade market and plunder the tools of colonization, that is, the Maritime Merchants Alliance for Mutual Benefits.”

"In order for this alliance to develop, plunder, colonize, establish plantations, capture slaves, mine, etc., the imperial court needs to provide certain military and political powers, etc., but in order to prevent this alliance from backlashing Daming, it should be established by the Ming court, and Control is in the hands of the Ming court."

Zhu Qiyu took over Li Binyan's memorabilia and read it for a long time. The copies of the Dutch and English East India Companies were actually in Ming Dynasty. They can all be collectively referred to as red-capped merchants.

When some dirty work is tiring, and it is inconvenient for the imperial court and the governor's mansion to do it, this Maritime Mutual Benefit Alliance will be used.

Zhu Qiyu put forward his own different point of view, looked at Li Binyan and asked: "A business alliance with a pioneering, plundering, and colonial nature, the imperial court interferes too much, and it can easily become a tool for controlling foreign businessmen and caring for people from far away. In order not to be backlashed, the imperial court One or two should be controlled, but let me ask, the Daming Navy has always maintained an advantage in armed forces over the Merchant Alliance, does this Merchant Alliance dare to attack Daming?"

Li Binyan frowned and asked, "Your Majesty means not to interfere too much?"

"Yes." Zhu Qiyu said quite accurately: "The imperial court is rigid. A matter has to be reported to us layer by layer, and then after a long discussion, it is impossible to respond immediately. This kind of rigidity is In matters of people's livelihood, it is a kind of institutional prudence, which I think is beneficial, but this kind of rigidity is harmful when used in commercial behavior."

"The imperial court can appoint its merchant generals, but in terms of decision-making, the imperial court should focus on bottom-line thinking. At the beginning of the establishment, a red line should be drawn. Once the line is crossed, they will be eliminated and a new merchant alliance will be formed."

The reason why Zhu Qiyu said this is because corresponding to the East India Company, the Thirteen Banks of Guangzhou in the Qing Dynasty was also a maritime merchant group that was provided with certain military and political power by the imperial court. As a result, the maritime merchant collective in the Qing Dynasty was Constraints gradually lost their vitality, and finally evolved into a tool to control foreign businessmen and treat people far away.

The management must be managed, the appointment of the general manager of the business and the personal restriction of the important figures of the entire business alliance are not allowed to go to sea. Once the business alliance does evil, the court will destroy it with thunder, and then establish a new business alliance.

The bottom line is to put Daming's interests first.

Zhu Qiyu thought for a while, picked up the pen on the table and replied: "It is impossible for any policy to be perfect at the beginning of the design, and to change according to the time and situation, it is all in practice, and it is constantly improved. I thought that the Ministry of Household Affairs could be responsible for the establishment of Zhongfei, and Ye Zhong, the general manager of the merchants of Songjiang Prefecture, acted as the general manager of the merchants."

"Your Majesty is wise." Yu Qian expressed his support.

Zhu Qiyu took out Jingtai's treasure again, covered it with seams, and handed Li Binyan's memorabilia to Wang Wen.

Under the system design of the Ming dynasty system, the emperor had the right to bypass the court council. This was to give Li Binyan a platform. His memorial may not pass the court council, even if the emperor and the leader of the officials, Yu Qian, supported him. have to pass.

As the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Qiyu's power is unlimited, he rarely uses this power, but as long as he uses this power, it represents the mighty grace of the emperor.

9 Chapter Ninety

The court meeting on August 15, [-]th year of Jingtai ended in the voice of support. Just when Zhu Qiyu was about to get up, a small yellow gate ran into the Wenhua Hall and put a Tang newspaper on the table.

The great-grandson of Xu Da, King of Zhongshan, and Xu Chengzong, Duke of the Wei State of the Ming Dynasty, died of serious illness.

"Li Xian, the governor of Yingtian, presided over the presidency. There was a burial in the camp. The Ministry of Rites gave him a posthumous title and ordered his son Xu Yu to succeed him as the Duke of Wei." Zhu Qiyu finished reading the Tang newspaper. Regarding Xu Chengzong, Zhu Qiyu's impression was still that Xu Chengzong ran from Fengyang to Xu. Zhou kowtowed, and therefore in the pacification of Nan Ya's arrogance and chaos, Wei Guogong's mansion was retained.

Xu Chengzong played an active role in suppressing the rebellion of the Nanya Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Qiyu was not surprised by Xu Chengzong's death. Li Xian had already reported the news of Xu Chengzong's serious illness three months ago, and the imperial hospital organized an imperial doctor to go to Nanya for diagnosis and treatment.

The death of Xu Chengzong will not have much impact on the situation in Nanya. After the drastic reform, the whole Nanya is divided into three. The current situation of Yingtian Mansion is a bit embarrassing. It is neither a cultural, political center nor a military center. ,economic center.

Even Nanjing, where prostitutes are most active, has gradually moved to Songjiang Mansion, and the brothels on the Qinhuai River have all moved to the banks of the Huangpu River.

Even so, Zhu Qiyu still handed over the eulogy he had written long ago to Xing'an, and asked Xing'an to send it to Yingtian.

Zhu Qiyu returned to the imperial study room of the lecture hall, preparing the notes for the Yantie meeting, and Xing'an marked Xu Chengzong's name as passed away on the memorandum.

"Let's go." Zhu Qiyu took Xing'an to the Yantie meeting hall to start the monthly Yantie meeting.

Li Binyan, as the third envoy, reported the operation of the official store. The official store has covered all the counties in Daming, while the coverage rate of the farm is only one-fifth. This is a long grassroots construction process. It is estimated that in Jingtai about 35 years, the official The coverage of the farm can reach more than [-]%.

And Daming's Yinzhuang covered all the government offices of Daming. As for the county government, except for a very few large counties, it could no longer advance downward.

Finance has always been a hunting ground for carnivores. The coverage of Daming Yinzhuang, in the extremely conservative Daming Dynasty Hall, already has such a coverage rate, which is completely sufficient.

The Ministry of Industry made a summary of the situation of the official factories. What is more noteworthy is that Yang Hanying, the commander-in-chief of Helinwala, requested the establishment of iron and coal mine official factories. Whether to establish Helin Factory has become the focus of debate.

The Daming Anti-Corruption Department is now throwing its anti-corruption fist at government factories and shops. Since Li Binyan returned to Beijing and completed the integration of the entire province, the previously unprofitable government factories and shops have suddenly started to make profits, which is extremely unexpected. Behind the turnaround of losses and profits is that after Daming's strict supervision of financial affairs, some silverfish began to be discovered by economic investigations.

From the perspective of system design, how to prevent corruption as much as possible has become an important agenda of the Salt and Iron Conference.

Absolute corruption is absolute inefficiency, and absolute incorruptibility is also absolute inefficiency. On this point, Wang Ao, as the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, is very clear. He has never been a person who lives in a dreamland, and neither is the Emperor Ming. It is absolutely impossible to establish an officialdom of the Ming Dynasty that is absolutely incorruptible and devoid of human sophistication.

At this time, the Daming Jingying, which has been out for more than a year, has arrived in Samarkand. This pearl has been completely dusted, and Kang has been out of order for more than a year. Kangding, the capital of Kangguo - Samarkand.

Without any fighting, Wang Yue, the forward of the Ming army, accepted the surrender of Boyan Timur, Gegan Taiji and others on behalf of the Ming Dynasty.

There are many Oirats who are unwilling to surrender. When the news of the Ming Army’s westward expedition came, the Oirats who refused to surrender to the Ming Dynasty had already started their plan to continue westward. Some of them rushed to the eastern province of the Ottoman Kingdom, causing chaos The eastern provinces of the country added a lot of chaos, and some of them took refuge in the Golden Horde, which brought a lot of trouble to Ivan III.

Separation and conflict are the main theme after the disorder in the land of Kang Guo.

More than [-] members of the Ming Army went to Samarkand and started appeasement work, most likely to suppress bandits.

The victory of the Ming army is as natural as drinking water. Formation-advancement-artillery bombardment-infantry line up and shoot-the enemy's formation collapse-cavalry pursuit-assistant army began to clean the battlefield. Boring fighting style, simple and crude but effective.

The Uzi people are used to sweeping the battlefield behind, and they don't even dare to falsify about the matter of beheading their military exploits.

After attacking everywhere for more than half a year, Kang Guo paid an extremely painful price in exchange for stability.

Kang Guogong Wang Fu of the Ming Dynasty also returned to Samarkand from Herat in the spring of the 16th year of Jingtai. The imperial court issued Kang Guogong's canonization edict and world certificate, but Wang Fu chose to refuse. He had to leave this land in order to guarantee the Ming Dynasty Long-arm jurisdiction over Kang.

Kangguo is different from Yunnan and Jiaozhi. Kangguo is a land of heaven and earth, not a land of four directions. What is needed here is a king, not a duke. If Wang Fu accepts the canonization, he will definitely become a king in the near future. The king of Kang.

If he becomes the king of Kang, can Wang Fu return to Daming?Obviously impossible.

After such drastic changes, if Wang Fu continues to sit in this position, he will really become the king of Kang. This has never been Wang Fu's vision.

Wang Fu’s memoir returned to the capital. The last memorandum of Kang Guogong Wang Fu’s was to request the Emperor of Ming Dynasty to canonize the fifth prince, Zhu Jianyang, as King Kang, and to be in charge of all affairs of the country. When the fifth prince becomes an adult, he will return to Beijing to serve.

Zhu Qiyu finally approved the memorandum, and Zhu Jianyang was canonized as Kang Wang, and he went to Kang Guo to become a vassal.

Elena, the fifth prince's mother, was crying with great grief, but Nikolaoz still headed west as the governor of Prince Kang's mansion with nine-year-old Zhu Jianyang.

Zhu Jianyang, shouldering the mission of the return of Roman Lightning.

When Princess Elena was allowed to enter the palace, Zhu Qiyu did not intend to truly realize the return of the Roman Lightning, which was a little unrealistic, but Nikolaoz still waited until this day.

Wang Fu and Ashinayi's eldest son, Wang Yongzhen, also went with him, and went to Kang Kingdom as the son of Huoxunhou to accompany the fifth prince to grow up.

"Wang Fu, you'd better not regret it in the future. Before the Fifth Prince arrives, you have a chance to regret it. In fact, His Majesty never thought of letting Rome return like lightning, it was just for a claim." Yang Jun sat upright, persuading Wang Fu.

Yang Jun is very close to the emperor, he knows that His Majesty is a very realistic person, Princess Elena is not favored in the palace, there is only one fifth prince.

In this whole round of personnel appointments and dismissals, Wang Fu replaced the Duke of Kang with a world certificate with the Marquis of Huoxun who had a world certificate, but one was in Kang Guo, the land of Liuhe, and the other was in the land of Ming Dynasty.

"I'm a distant marquis, and I can't stay." Wang Fu turned around with the teacup in his hand, thought for a moment, and answered the question.

"Let's go." Wang Fu drank a cup of tea, stood up, walked out of the Ming army camp, drove to Kang Palace, stood in front of the pillar in front of Kang Palace, took off the nameplate of Kang Palace, There used to be two crooked words posted here, prison cell.

Wang Yue followed Wang Fu all the time, helping Wang Fu pack his things, but after packing for a long time, Wang Fu only had those things that were bestowed by the emperor in Kang, and nothing else.

Wang Fu walked into the domed auditorium. He stayed here for the last time. Now the domed auditorium is in a mess. The riots have destroyed the place. The quarrels in the past still seem to be quietly echoing in the auditorium.

He wiped the dust on the square table he had before, and when he was about to leave, he suddenly stopped and smiled knowingly. At the entrance of the auditorium, there was a pothole smashed by the corrector's hook and sickle gun. He remembered, and Many people remember it, but after a few decades, future generations will probably wonder why these potholes came here.

Wang Fu's car slowly drove out of the Kang Palace. Before he left, he went to the Lan Palace to take a look. In the past, there were big men standing under the corridor. Every time he passed by, these big men would straighten their backs and walk. Attention ceremony.

Until now, he still thinks that those cowardly guards will pay attention first when they see them. He doesn't know that those guards are usually very lazy and pass by first, but they just stand upright.

Wang Fu was somewhat responsible for the riots in Kang. He took the initiative to kill him first, assumed the title of king, and vigorously promoted the Second Council of Consultants. Kang would not cause such a big disturbance.

Wang Fu came to Ashitaiji's bedroom, there were bloodstains everywhere, during the riot, Ashitaiji's body was divided into countless parts, and the Ming army didn't bother to clean up here, so there were still bloodstains all over the place.

Wang Fu shook his head with some regrets. Back then, he really worked hard to teach the bastard Ah Shi Taiji, but this bastard was too bad, even a virtuous Kang Guogong couldn't save him.

Standing in the bedroom with black graffiti everywhere, Wang Fu was a little bit disappointed. His initial goal was to teach Yexian's eldest son Bo Luo to have a good impression of Daming, to ensure the stability of Daming, and to allow Daming to reopen the Western Regions. National policy can be carried out smoothly.

Man's calculation is not as good as the sky's calculation, Bo Luo died in the chaos, and Wang Fu's plan was in vain.

After walking out of the Orchid Palace, Wang Fu stood in front of the gate of the Orchid Palace, watching the flow of people on the broad road. Although this broad street called Tianjie is not as prosperous as it used to be, it has regained some vitality after all.

Wang Fu no longer felt emotional, got on the carriage, and headed for the east gate. When he walked out of the city gate, Wang Fu opened the curtain of the car, saw the writing on the city wall, and read with a smile: "Kangding, Tai'an Gate .”

The name Samarkand will eventually become history with his departure, and Kangding is the new name of this city. The east gate of Kangding was renamed Tai'an Gate. Obviously, it was written by the Ming Army, and it was first created by Zhongguogong Shi Heng. .

In Suiye City, Wang Fu met the sacrificial wine at the University Hall of Suiye City. After staying for a day, the car finally entered Zhenxi Pass, and Ashinayi was waiting on the other side of the gate. When Wang Fu got off the car, Just ran over, just like before.

"Finally back." Wang Fu looked at the three characters of Zhenxiguan, full of emotion.

"Hey, I'm almost 50 years old. If you jump on me like this, if you dodge your waist, you will have to wait on me." Wang Fu hugged Ashinayi, a 30-year-old, still so hairy Frizzy.

Ashinayi didn't care about other people's eyes. She was a barbarian. She hugged her for a long time before she said, "I heard many people say that you gave up Kang Guogong's seat?"

"That's right, because I'm the Marquis of Duntai Yuan." Wang Fu said as a matter of course, before entering Zhenxi Pass, he still had some regrets, but after entering Zhenxi Pass, Wang Fu had no regrets at all.

Ashinayi thought for a while, shook his head and said, "What is a marquis of the pier?"

Wang Fu looked at Ashinayi's puzzled expression, and then said: "What is the meaning of being far away from the pier and not closing the watch at night? It's actually simple, life is a man of Ming Dynasty, and death is a ghost of Daming."

Ke Qian, who was patrolling the Zhenxi Pass, had received the news a long time ago. He came on horseback, got off his horse, and said as he walked, "The king of Huoxun will receive the order again."

It was too late for the eunuch to arrive at Zhenxiguan, and the imperial edict was delivered by Gelu.

"Fengtian carries the emperor, the edict said..."