The main reason why Zhu Youxiao appointed Zhang Yunxiu as the magistrate of Qufu was because Zhu Youxiao could not let Qufu be filled with eunuchs.
He hoped that Zhang Yunxiu could supervise and check and balance these eunuchs.
Moreover, Zhang Yunxiu is now considered a new nobleman and has a certain academic foundation. Zhu Youxiao also needs to let the nobleman start participating in the government affairs of the court, so as to check and balance the civil servant group in the future.
Therefore, he thought of Zhang Yunxiu after asking Zhang Tongchang to come to Qufu, and asked Zhang Yunxiu to be the magistrate of Qufu, directly under the control of him, the emperor.
The foreign ministers only thought that Qufu was directly adopted by the emperor as an imperial village, and thought that the emperor Zhu Youxiao wanted to collect more land tax into his own pocket.
But in fact, after Qufu became Zhu Youxiao's imperial estate, Zhu Youxiao had been giving money to Qufu.
Because the rent collected by Zhu Youxiao in Qufu was not enough to fund his pilot program of civilian education in Qufu.
This is also the reason why Zhu Youxiao directly converted other confiscated fields into state-owned farms after confiscating Yan Shenggong's mansion instead of converting them into imperial villages.
As the emperor, his income is now limited, so he cannot provide civilian education in too many imperial villages. He can only classify other confiscated fields as state-owned and distribute the fields to the people first. Later, when the court's income increases, and the imperial village education output After there are enough talents and the emperor is stronger, education will be popularized in these state-owned farms.
"Long live the Emperor, long live the Emperor!"
"Long live the Emperor, long live the Emperor!"
"Long live the Emperor, long live the Emperor!"
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When Zhu Youxiao arrived in Qufu, all the Qufu people who had gathered outside Qufu City knelt down like a tide and shouted loudly.
The people of Qufu now particularly admire Zhu Youxiao.
Because Zhang Tongchang began to preach to these people from the time he divided the fields in Qufu. They came to rescue them according to the emperor's decree.
In addition, the guards officers and soldiers led by Zhang Tongchang did a lot of things to help the people here in order to practice how to make the people identify with Master Wang, instead of letting the people regard the officers and soldiers as bandits as before, so that The people here began to know that the emperor was not only a god-like and aloof existence that they needed to fear, but also a true Bodhisattva who could save them and bring them happiness.
What's more, these people in Qufu are all the first-generation tenants of Huangzhuang who were exploited by the Confucius family, and they still have painful memories of big landowners like the Confucius family.
Therefore, these people worshiped the emperor even more, thinking that the emperor was here to save them, instead of having sympathy for big landowners like the Kong family. They felt that big landowners like the Kong family had excellent family genes and upbringing, even if they are now being suppressed. If defeated, his descendants will still be better than ordinary people in the future.
Worshiping the Bodhisattva may not necessarily bring you good luck.
But worshiping the emperor can really feel that there is more food at home.
Therefore, the emperor Zhu Youxiao is really more worthy of worship than the Bodhisattva in the eyes of the people of Qufu.
The people in Qufu all wanted to see the emperor's true face.
Even the children want to see the emperor's true face, because they see the emperor's portrait in the school every day with the words "Benevolence, Righteousness, Properity, Wisdom and Trust, Heaven and Earth, Lord, Prince, Teacher", so they really want to know the emperor's portrait and the emperor's true face. Is there any difference?
However, Zhu Youxiao has been sitting in the royal chariot.
Because of the obstruction of the sedan curtain, no one could see his true face clearly. They could only see his back and side.
Of course, there is a big difference between the portrait of the emperor in the school and Zhu Youxiao himself. In order to deliberately make Zhu Youxiao, who was not yet a weakling, appear more majestic, the former had to paint Zhu Youxiao to look older and darker. .
The real Zhu Youxiao himself is still a jade-faced boy.
Su Qianqian, who was hiding in the house with a group of female relatives to peek at the emperor, saw Zhu Youxiao's angular profile and discovered that the emperor turned out to be much younger and more heroic than in the painting.
Su Qianqian saw it, and it seemed that Zhu Youxiao's profile was engraved in her mind all of a sudden.
Zhu Youxiao also glanced at the Qufu people who respected him as if they were a Bodhisattva, and only smiled slightly.
His mood is very complicated now. He feels that he just collected less rent than the Kong family and gave them a chance to study wisely. He is not worthy of being looked at with such a burning gaze. Even, his His original intention was really not for these people, but for his own self-saving in this world.
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One month later, Zhu Youxiao, who had traveled slowly along the way, arrived at Tianjin New City, which he had ordered to build in the first year of Tianqi.
However, Zhu Youxiao had given an order in advance to Hua Yuncheng, the governor of Tianjin, so that he did not have to go out of the city to meet him with large numbers of troops, but only came to see him in the suburbs in casual clothes. Zhu Youxiao himself also entered Tianjin in plain clothes.
Zhu Youxiao said he was incognito, but he didn't really enter Tianjin City on foot with a few followers, but he pretended to be a caravan. After all, there were too many people following him.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao entered Tianjin City in what looked like an ordinary carriage but actually had various protective measures inside.
The Yulin Guards and Jinyi Guards, who disguised themselves as caravan servants, still surrounded Zhu Youxiao's carriage on three levels inside and three levels outside, with open and hidden sentries scattered around.
And now Tianjin City has become the manufacturing center of the Ming Dynasty.
All kinds of manufacturing workshops serving royal franchises and government-run manufacturing institutions such as the Internal Works Supervision and Ministry of Works and the Shipping Bureau are all concentrated here.
A large number of looms and spinning machines used by the developed government-run textile industry in Jiangnan, as well as some parts and components needed by the General Administration of Ordnance Manufacturing, and some components needed by the Shipbuilding Bureau, were all produced here.
In addition, Zhu Youxiao abolished the craftsman household system and exempted the craftsmen from the labor force, allowing the craftsmen to have more freedom, and all the craftsmen came here.
In addition, a large number of landless refugees have entered the technical schools run by the government in this area to learn skills after re-registering their households here.
Therefore, there are many craftsmen here, and many new craftsmen are born. This can also be said to be the manufacturing base of the Ming Dynasty and the birthplace of new craftsmen.
For this reason, when Zhu Youxiao arrived in Tianjin City in a carriage, he saw that the city was crowded with people like smoke, the shops were as dense as clouds, and the sound of blacksmithing and sawing wood continued from outside the city into the city.
"Recruiting: two skilled carpenters, with a monthly salary of one to two and five yuan; five apprentices, with a monthly salary of seven yuan."
At this time, Zhu Youxiao also saw a recruitment notice posted on the notice board on the city wall.
Moreover, Zhu Youxiao found that there were many recruitment notices like this on the notice board, and they were densely packed into the entire notice board.
Zhu Youxiao couldn't help laughing because of this. He couldn't help but feel the enthusiasm of the manufacturing industry in this area more strongly, and he felt a sense of accomplishment.
"This area is originally a large amount of saline-alkali land, and the refugees who gather here can only make a living by drawing fiber. It is difficult to develop good agriculture, but now that I have used this place as a manufacturing base, it has really made the place prosperous! "
Zhu Youxiao thought to himself.
It was Zhu Youxiao's long-awaited idea to make Tianjin the manufacturing base of the Ming Dynasty and even the industrial base in the future, and to make Jiangnan a trade and commercial base.
Here, the reason why Tianjin was chosen by Zhu Youxiao as the future industrial base of the Ming Dynasty is because it has convenient transportation, not only water transportation, but also sea transportation in the future, and there are many refugees brought by water transportation in this area, and more importantly, in the north.
Zhu Youxiao didn't want the economic gap between the north and the south to be too wide. Jiangnan had naturally become the world's commercial center and trade center. He naturally had to place the industrial base in the north so that there would be a large population in the north, especially in the Gyeonggi area.
Looking at the spinning machines and looms loaded with more than ten ships, as well as many large warships parked in the dock, as well as the wooden lathes, new waterwheels, wheel hubs, etc. that are being pulled to the capital by many carriages, Zhu Youxiao could imagine that if the Ming Dynasty entered a new era of steel and steam in the future, these industrial products such as colored glaze and dougong would turn into metal machines, and then flow like iron flows to the south of the Yangtze River and the south of the Yangtze River. It flowed to the capital and became popular overseas, becoming a new color after the industrial progress of the Ming Dynasty.
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