Chapter 277 Anyone who kills a native can pay a cow (two-in-one)
In any case, the route from Haojing to Goa, India, was finally controlled by the Ming Dynasty from now on.
India's pepper, hematoxylin, ivory, sandalwood and other goods can be continuously transported to the Ming Dynasty through the Ming Dynasty's merchant ships, and then through currency exchange, the Ming Dynasty's raw silk, silk, glass, soap, high-carbon steel and other goods can be obtained. Then it was transported to Japan by Ming merchant ships and exchanged for silver.
The entire route from Japan to India was controlled by Ming merchant ships, and the profits from transportation and the price difference during transactions flowed into the hands of Ming merchants.
In this way, the commercial prosperity of the Ming Dynasty can be effectively promoted, and the Ming government can also obtain a large amount of revenue from tax collection.
Of course, this is only a long-term benefit.
In a short period of time, the most obvious benefit is that Ming can directly seize the capital that Portugal has plundered in India for many years into its own hands.
After the Ming Dynasty's expeditionary fleet captured the Portuguese colony of Goa, the first batch of plundered capital brought back was worth as much as eight million taels of silver!
In the early years of Zhengde, the annual income of Taicang in the Ming Dynasty was only about two million taels.
This batch of capital allowed Daming to obtain an annual income equivalent to four times that of the time.
Although the way to obtain this kind of capital is a bit cruel, it does allow Ming to gain more wealth in a short period of time.
Because the Imperial Sea Trading Corporation obtained this batch of silver, the price of public bonds rose sharply again!
Seeing this, Zhu Houzhao simply asked the Ming Stock Exchange to convert the public bonds originally raised to establish the Imperial Sea Trade Corporation into stocks, and allowed various government-owned and private commercial banks in the Ming Dynasty to accumulate a certain amount of capital and pass the assessment of the Ming Stock Exchange. Listed on the Daming Stock Exchange.
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Many large commercial banks, such as Shanxi Commercial Bank, Huizhou Commercial Bank, Yangzhou Commercial Bank, Jiao's Commercial Bank, etc., have applied for listing, hoping to obtain large amounts of funds by selling stocks on the stock exchange.
After a rigorous review, many commercial banks' requests for listing were approved.
Due to the opening of new routes to Ming Dynasty, the profits of these commercial banks have also increased, and the stocks on the Ming Dynasty Stock Exchange have almost continued to rise, reflecting the good economic situation of Ming Dynasty.
The middle and upper-class private gentry actively invested their money in stocks, and the governments of Guangdong and Guangxi also used more private capital in infrastructure construction. Therefore, the Chief Secretary of Guangdong decided to build a cement road between Haojing and Guangzhou. The highway, coupled with the construction of Guangzhou Port, will make land and water transportation from Guangzhou to Haojing very developed.
Zhu Houzhao also used his recently earned assets to build a small royal sea-view villa in Haojing. Now he is lying on a wicker chair on the beach doing shameless things with several of his concubines. .
But just after he enjoyed the life of an emperor, Zhou Yao, the Minister of Household Affairs in Nanjing, who returned to his hometown to visit relatives, also rushed from Guangzhou to see Zhu Houzhao because he knew that Zhu Houzhao was in Haojing.
Since the news of Ming Emperor Zhu Houzhao's appearance in Guangzhou spread like wildfire, many officials and gentry have come to see Zhu Houzhao. Zhu Houzhao did not refuse to meet him. He knew that in this era of Confucian etiquette rule where the people were not enlightened, these gentry were in the local area. It has strong public organization and control capabilities.
After all, historical experience shows that at the end of the dynasty, peasant uprisings were successful because they united the gentry, but failed because they failed to unite the gentry.
Zhu Houzhao is now patrolling Guangdong and Guangdong in almost casual clothes. Unlike the last time he went to Jiangnan, where he led the Guards and was able to get into a tense situation with the Jiangnan gentry, now that he is in Guangdong, naturally he can no longer fight with the Guangdong gentry.
Of course, there was no need for him to be tough with the gentry in Guangdong. After all, Guangdong was still a remote place in this era, and it was not as important as Jiangnan, which had always been the center of Ming Dynasty's money, grain, and taxation.
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Zhu Houzhao believed that with the expansion of sea trade, Guangdong, especially Guangzhou, would become a major source of tax revenue for the Ming Dynasty in the future. Therefore, he also felt that it was necessary for him, the emperor, to understand the thoughts of these Guangdong gentry.
"I have the temerity to see Your Majesty without doing anything else, just because I heard that Wang Hong, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, launched an army to plunder and massacre the people of Goa. I think that the rule of the world should be ruled by internal kings and external saints. Goa is a barbaric land, and I, the king of China, The country does not need to be taken as its own. Otherwise, the natives of Goa may frequently cause rebellions, and the dynasty will increase its military force and waste money and food, such as the Cochin incident;
Therefore, I believe that your majesty should imitate the good governance of Xuanzong, abandon the land of Goa, allow its natives to establish their own vassal state, pay tribute to our Ming Dynasty, and at the same time punish Wang Hong for his lax military management! ”
After Zhou Yao finished speaking, Zhu Houzhao's face darkened. He did not expect that Zhou Yao came to see him to impeach Wang Hong and to persuade him to give up the city of Goa he had just occupied.
"If Goa City is abandoned, Goa City will be re-captured by Folangji. Then, the route from Haojing to Goa City established by our Ming Dynasty will be interrupted. Then the Imperial Sea Trade Corporation will not If there are profits of more than millions of silver dollars, not only the Imperial Sea Trade Corporation, but also other major trading houses will be damaged. By then, the stocks in the hands of the people will become a piece of waste paper. Zhou Shangshu, has he ever thought about that? What are the consequences? ”
When Zhu Houzhao asked, Zhou Yao didn't know how to answer for a while. He was a big landowner and a relatively traditional scholar-bureaucrat. What he was most worried about was that the court would frequently use troops because of the occupation of Goa, which would lead to the country being impoverished and the people depleted. However, He did not expect that the trade income and colonial income from Goa City to Haojing would now be related to the interests of the entire people of Guangdong and Guangxi.
Zhou Yao himself is a big landowner and is not engaged in business. He is not that active in pursuing profits by buying public bonds and stocks, which has just begun to rise. However, this does not mean that he does not understand. Therefore, after Zhu Houzhao said this, he realized that he His Majesty the Emperor has tied the interests of the entire scholar-people with the Ming Dynasty's colonial interests and trade interests.
"Yes, but Your Majesty, the inner king and the outer sage are the good governance of the world. Now that the Ming Dynasty has rashly raised its weapons and seized other countries' territories to enrich itself, I am afraid that it will lose the justice of the world, become enemies of all countries, add more troops, and empty the national treasury. , the world is in ruins!”
Zhou Yao still expressed his worries, although he now knew that it was unrealistic to give up the city of Goa.
"What a good internal king and external sage, who strictly controls his own people and is kind to the foreign barbarians. Is this what you mean?" Zhu Houzhao asked coldly.
Zhou Yao noticed that Zhu Houzhao's tone was not good, and said hurriedly: "Your Majesty, I, I am thinking about the country of our Ming Dynasty!" "Water can carry a boat or capsize it. Since you can realize that if foreigners are bullied by our Ming Dynasty, they will be killed." The threats arising from resistance should also be understood as follows: If the people of the Ming Dynasty are dissatisfied with me and the entire court, or even become desperate, and if outsiders cause trouble, we will only recognize their independence. However, if the people of the Ming Dynasty cause trouble or even commit crimes, it will truly lead to the destruction of the country! ”
Zhu Houzhao's tone became louder and louder as he spoke, while Zhou Yao panicked and bowed his hands:
"Your Majesty's words, the envoy suddenly realized that I have too little knowledge. But Your Majesty, since our Ming Dynasty has to seize the foreign lands for the benefit of all the people, why not treat these foreign people well? Since we accept them The land is our land of China, why not accept their people as the people of China. In this way, all peoples will be equal, united and friendly. , maybe it can also prevent these foreign people from rebelling because of injustice, and even make them more lenient, so that even if the Han people temporarily live in foreign lands, they should follow the local customs, and not use Han customs and forgive the laws. We should also open up a little more to them, so that they can appreciate the kindness of China and not rebel because of it!”
Zhou Yao said.
"According to your opinion, do you want me, the Han people of the Ming Dynasty, to be inferior to other naturalized people? I admit that my emperor, the Ming Dynasty, is a great country. It is no longer just a country of Han people, but also includes barbarians and Miao people. An empire with many tribes, but as long as they are loyal to our Ming Dynasty and work for our Ming Dynasty Anyone who has paid taxes or made meritorious contributions can become a citizen of the Ming Dynasty. However, the Han people are also the subjects of the Ming Dynasty, and they are the race of you and me. If you are a barbarian, I can understand you saying this, but you are also a Han, but you are also like this. I am so heartbroken by what you said!”
Zhu Houzhao continued: "You are the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs in Nanjing, not a cabinet minister. You have no qualifications to discuss political affairs. Now you are not only suspected of overstepping the mark by talking about political affairs, but you are also talking nonsense. You really don't understand the rules!"
"My lord, my lord, I ask your majesty to forgive me. I just don't want to see me, Ming Dynasty, doing this robber thing that goes against the words of the saint! At least I won't kill innocent people indiscriminately! Even if your majesty executes me today, I still have to say, we are the country of China. The world has always admired the saints for their etiquette. Since your majesty wants to be his master, he will naturally educate him because of his etiquette. Etiquette is the principle, and he should teach him the truth instead of using the butcher's knife to attack him! "
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Zhou Yao said.
"That's enough! Since you want to promote the teaching of scriptures to foreign barbarians so much, I will help you and pass on the decree. Zhou Yao will arbitrarily discuss the government affairs, disrupt the government's agenda, and be demoted to Ceuta's edict! After three days, set off immediately, and you are not allowed to stay. ! ”
After Zhu Houzhao said that, Zhou Yao couldn't help but feel cold. He knew where Ceuta was and that the distance between Ceuta and the Ming Dynasty was much further than the distance between Goa and the Ming Dynasty. Going there meant that he would never be able to return to the Ming Dynasty in this life. He For a moment, I couldn't help but burst into tears: "Your Majesty, I am old and frail. I may not be able to do this job!"
"You don't have to go, but I will say when the time comes that I ordered the generals to brutally torture the natives, not because I was cruel, but because civil servants like Zhou Yao were unwilling to preach benevolence to the outside world. Therefore, in order to avoid chaos in the outside world, Act with dominance!”
What Zhu Houzhao said made Zhou Yao realize that Emperor Zhu Houzhao wanted a civil servant like him to take the blame for his plan to massacre the foreigners, so he had no choice but to agree: "I obey the order!"
Zhou Yao walked back in disgrace. Now he only thought of a poem by Han Yu: "A letter will be sent to the Nine Heavens in the morning, and eight thousand people will be demoted to Chaozhou Road in the evening!"
"Your Majesty demoted the Neo-Confucian officials to colonial lands, which is a good way to educate the natives. However, I am worried that if these Neo-Confucian officials go to such places as officials, they will blindly appease, underestimate the Han people and fear the natives. Han officials have always only dared to bully the Han people, and these Neo-Confucian officials are naturally even more so;
Therefore, I believe that laws should be established in the colonies, and the purpose of the laws is to protect the interests of our Ming people, not the interests of the natives. Once the ruling officials violate the laws and commit suicide without authorization, they will be charged with the crime of intending to separate the country and establish themselves. And ask for it! ”
Xia Yan came over at this time and said that although he advocated that the country should be governed by Neo-Confucianism as the body and Shengxue as the application, he was also a nationalist and knew some of the pedantry of Confucian officials in Neo-Confucianism. Therefore, at this time He was worried that Neo-Confucian officials would underestimate the Han people and value the natives in the colonies.
Zhu Houzhao nodded: "You are right. The idea of a king within and a sage outside is true in the bones of these Confucian officials. They are lenient to the outside world and strict to the inside. They would rather harm the interests of the people of the country than have the reputation of bullying the people of foreign countries. , I also believe that the land colonized by the Ming Dynasty should establish laws. The fundamental purpose of the law is to safeguard the interests of the people of the Ming Dynasty and obtain as much benefit from the natives as possible!"
"At present, the Ming Dynasty has several colonies, and there will be more in the future. The official system in these places must also be established. I decided to establish a floating official system, imitating the government of the inland provinces, with governors or governors to lead the military and administration, and be responsible to the central court. The Command Department, the Inspectorate Department, and the Chief Secretary are respectively responsible for military, judicial and criminal investigation, as well as maintaining public security and administrative powers! The Inspector is responsible for supervision! ”
Zhu Houzhao continued: "In addition, it is a matter of establishing laws. Naturally, the laws of these colonies cannot be the same as those of the provinces of our Ming Central Empire. However, the governors and governors of each colony must follow my instructions to establish colonial laws. We must The interests of the people of Ming Dynasty come first.”
"According to the order!" Xia Yan responded, and then said: "However, Your Majesty, these colonial natives cannot but be fully protected. I believe that they will still be needed to do things that benefit our Ming Dynasty in the future. After all, they are also regarded as labor force. Just as the Yuan Dynasty later decided not to kill the Han people because they were worried that no one would pay taxes and work for them after killing the Han people, so now I will do the same if I kill the Tutu people in the Ming Dynasty. "
"The value of these natives is equivalent to a cow in the people of Ming Dynasty, a cow that can work. In this case, in order to avoid killing the native barbarians indiscriminately, let us pass on the decree. If the people of Ming Dynasty are suspected of deliberately killing the natives, At most, you only need to accompany a cow, and if the natives kill the people of Ming Dynasty, they will be cut in half! Otherwise, the governor or governor will be dismissed directly!"
When Zhu Houzhao said this, Xia Yan hurriedly raised his hands and said, "Your Majesty is wise!" He couldn't help but think to himself that he had fought for some rights and interests for the natives in the colony. In the future, these natives would surely be as grateful as some Han people were to Yelu Chucai. I, Xia Yan, after all, at least I, Xia Yan, have made their value equal to that of a cow, instead of being killed by the people of the Ming Dynasty at will, like a piece of grass.
Zhu Houzhao also knew that it was not the time to talk about equality for all. After all, he now found that even if he promoted equality among the people of the Ming Dynasty, it would not be recognized and responded by the majority of the people. If he forced the people of the Ming Dynasty to be equal to the native people, he would only It will make the Ming people dissatisfied, and it will also make the native people arrogant and want to be independent.
What's more, society is inherently exploitative. If you want to make the people of the Ming Dynasty rich, you must exploit the natives so that the people of the Ming Dynasty can gain more wealth. What's more, as an emperor, you have the powerful bureaucrats who support you. If the carnivores of the era do not exploit the interests of the natives, they can only exploit the interests of the people of the Ming Dynasty. In that case, it will be even more difficult for the people of the Ming Dynasty to obtain freedom and equal rights.
Because people instinctively pursue equality because they are rich enough and have the ability to compete with those in power before they can obtain equal rights. Otherwise, it is impossible for those in power to grant you equal rights and exploit 70% of your benefits. We will never exploit you only 60%.
If Zhu Houzhao wants the people of the Ming Dynasty to open up their wisdom, have the awareness to pursue their own rights, and have the awareness of national citizens and masters of the country, he must first make the people of the Ming Dynasty rich, rich enough to receive more education, better ideas, and have better A lot of wealth without having to worry about survival.
And this must be at the expense of the interests of the natives, otherwise how could the people of the Ming Dynasty gain wealth quickly.
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"Goa's social schools have started, and native children can be given priority to enroll in school and live in better dormitories!"
However, in Goa, Hanwen took the lead in launching a strategy of giving priority to the education rights of Asan natives in Goa with the purpose of encouraging more natives to accept Chinese culture. On the first day after he opened the social school, he directly asked Priority was given to imparting knowledge to the children of the natives, hence the social school rules.
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