Zhu Yijun knew that allowing the emergence of national ideas and improving the status of the Han people in the country was already the biggest change made by the enlightened reformers among the bureaucrats and scholar-bureaucrats.
Moreover, this was only possible when the emperor himself was not conservative either.
Even this situation only emerged after a lot of brutal and bloody struggles.
Therefore, he knew that at this time, he could not treat people from other civilizations as human beings.
After all, Ming capitalism has just sprouted, and it has not yet reached the point where it is necessary to completely increase the freedom of all human beings around the world.
But if the productivity of Ming Dynasty develops to a certain level, that is, if it really does not need to rely on land at all and can earn profits from all over the world to maintain its country's prosperity, it may also need to give some freedom to all humans around the world.
However, by that time, people in the world may have been almost Chineseized.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun agreed with the opinion of Xu Xuemo, the Minister of Rites, that the etiquette should not be inferior to the barbarians: "That's fine, but the scholars of this dynasty have the obligation to proclaim the etiquette to the world! We still need to encourage more scholars to go out and preach the king's etiquette. .”
The chief minister of the cabinet, Shen Shixing, then raised his hand and said yes.
Because Zhu Yijun and his ruling ministers established new etiquette that would provide greater courtesy to the common people, allow the Han people with a lower ethical status among the common people to also have certain freedoms, and formally establish that the Han people had a higher status than the Fanyi in terms of etiquette and law. .
Therefore, the Ministry of Punishment really revised the regulations in accordance with this purpose.
The content of the revision is mainly to impose legal restrictions on clans and parents who excessively restrict the freedom of Han people. It also clearly stipulates that Han killings of barbarians are only punishable by non-criminal punishment in the name of harming the benevolence of Han people, that is, only fines; Penalties of less than or equal to imprisonment were only allowed when the Han people were unwilling to pay the fines. However, if the barbarians killed Han people, they would be sentenced to the same or lower penalties. The person, his parents, brothers, descendants, and anyone living with him would all be beheaded!
Anyway.
Because the Ming Dynasty itself had no shortage of labor, the rulers of the Ming Dynasty, in order to practice the purpose of making the newly established etiquette only serve to strengthen the country and benefit the people, did not take the Panyi too seriously, and even deliberately hoped to use this kind of etiquette to strengthen the country and benefit the people. The method of seriously favoring the Han people was used to reduce the number of Fanyi and promote the Sinicization of overseas Fan areas, so as to achieve the goal of making the country strong and benefiting the people.
The reason why Han people who killed Fanyi were still punished with fines was because the Ming Dynasty still needed the local Fanyi to take on the function of consuming various Ming products until a large number of Han people appeared in some overseas places in a short period of time. Therefore, the Han people cannot be allowed to kill the Fanyi wantonly.
After the Ming Dynasty occupied Kyushu areas such as the Matsuura Peninsula, the Shimazu family, the daimyo of Kyushu in Japan, also realized the strength of the Ming Dynasty, and asked Zhu Yijun to restore their tribute through Shangshu, the official stationed in Japan by the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yijun approved the restoration of the Shimazu family's tribute.
Although the tribute system was a very disadvantageous system for the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yijun planned to only improve it rather than abolish it completely.
Because in Zhu Yijun's view, the original tribute system could be used as a diplomatic channel equivalent to official contact with foreign barbarians.
It’s just that we can no longer do what we did before, in order to save face and show that we are rich all over the world, so we don’t need foreigners to pay tribute to anything rare. Moreover, in order to show our strength and gain the loyalty of the barbarians, we have to give more gifts in return than the tribute.
Before Zhu Yijun officially issued an edict not to pay tribute to the barbarians, the Shimazu tribe hurriedly sent a tribute envoy to China because they learned that the Ming Dynasty allowed them to pay tribute.
Shimazubu was so active not only because he wanted to know more about the Ming Dynasty, but also because foreign countries who had always paid tribute before the tribute system could get a return gift from the Ming Dynasty court that was several times more valuable than the tribute and made a lot of money. Purchase a batch of goods on the way to pay tribute and return home to earn huge profits.
The Shimazu noble who led the delegation to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty this time was Shimazu Iehisa, the younger brother of Shimazu leader Shimazu Yoshihisa.
After the Shimazu family arrived in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, they began to send people to order Ming Dynasty goods everywhere.
Shimazu Iehisa himself took several samurai to the Jiabo Division, intending to go here to satisfy his physiological needs and to find out more secrets of the Ming Dynasty.
However, Xu Xuemo, the Minister of Rites, had already issued an order not to allow the Jiaofang Secretary to entertain Fan Yi because of the distinction between Han and Yi.
Therefore, when the Shimazu family came to Jiaofangsi for a long time, they were stopped by Shen Wen, a Han citizen from Zhejiang who had just come here, and said: "You Japanese slaves can't go in, go back."
The Shimazu family could understand the Chinese people in Zhejiang for a long time, because the people in Ningbo, Zhejiang often went to Japan to trade.
Therefore, Shimazu Iehisa asked at this moment: "Why can't we enter?"
Shen Shenwen chuckled: "You still want us Han people to serve you Japanese slaves? Even if the priest is a bitch, he is still nobler than you Japanese slaves! People like you are just like dogs and cannot enter this place. !”
Phew!
Shimazu Iehisa directly pulled out the knife and stabbed Shen Shenxiao in the abdomen.
His son Shimazu Toyohisa, who came to the Ming Dynasty with Shimazu Iehisa, was shocked when he saw this and asked hurriedly: "Father, what are you doing?"
"It's okay! The Ming Dynasty has always been very polite, and its monarch will not punish me for killing one of his civilians! Even if I punish him, it won't cost me any money."
As he spoke, Shimazu Iejiu pulled out his sword and looked at Shen Shenwen who was lying on the ground: "Besides, this person has insulted my Yamato too much. How can we not kill him? Otherwise, how can we let the Han people know that I, the Yamato, will not be killed?" Is it easy to mess with?! You can also make up for it with a few more cuts."
"yes!"
So Shimazu Toyohisa and others also pulled out their knives and stabbed Shen Siwen randomly.
Shen Shenwen was riddled with holes for a while.
The people in the Jiaofang Division were already frightened when they saw this.
However, Lai Erliang, who borrowed money from Yunnan and came to the capital to purchase goods and prepare to go out for business, was quite calm when he passed by and saw this scene. He hurriedly ran to the Shuntian government office to beat the drum and report the case.
Because the land governed by the Shuntian Prefecture was at the feet of the emperor, the government officials did not dare to ignore any report, lest they would make their superiors angry due to delay. In addition, the examination law had not been abolished since Zhang Juzheng established it, so the " Li Zhen, the prime minister of Shuntian Prefecture, who was ordered to learn new etiquette and laws according to the "Di Bao", hurriedly took over the case.
As a result, Li Zhen learned that Japanese people were killing people, and further realized that this was an opportunity to prove to the emperor that he supported the new etiquette, so he decisively ordered soldiers to be sent to Jiaofangsi.
The Shimazu family did not dare to resist directly after the people from Shuntianfu Yamen came for a long time. Instead, they directly identified themselves as tribute envoys.
The people in Shuntian Prefecture quickly informed Li Zhen of the situation.
"Dong Weng, the matter involves tribute envoys, not to mention they have already entered the Jiaofang Division, do we really want to go and get them?"
Jin Heqing, Li Zhen's staff, asked about Li Zhen.
"So what about the tribute envoys? According to the new etiquette, all the Fan and Yi are as low as animals!"
"The more I enter the Jiaofang Division, the more I have to take it. This shows my determination to keep the new etiquette! Just because the Jiaofang Division is government-run, I, the Shuntian Mansion, cannot dare to take someone!"
Li Zhen chuckled, and then said: "We will still arrest these murderers and put them on death row, search for their accomplices, and file a case against the perpetrators! Just send someone to the joint office to report them!"
As a result, Shimazu Iehisa and Shimazu Toyohisa were sent to Shuntianfu Prison.
Shimazu Toyohisa was very puzzled by this and couldn't help but ask Shimazu Iehisa: "Father, they don't seem to want to treat us with courtesy?"
(End of chapter)
