It is indeed difficult for Han people to be bought as slaves today. Because the imperial court has begun to treat the people as real people in terms of etiquette and law.
Therefore, the imperial court began to take the initiative to solve the problems of rebuilding the families and property of the disaster victims and the problem of too many people and too little land, instead of relying on the gentry to solve the problem. That is, relying on the gentry to absorb the victims and alleviate the contradictions caused by too many people and too little land by buying slaves and maids.
The first batch of victims who had moved out of the disaster-stricken areas had already boarded a ship bound for Japan in Dinghai. By now, in the 14th year of Wanli, the original Japanese Kyushu Songpu Peninsula has become the Ming Dynasty's Japanese education zone for five years.
As a result, the trade routes from Nagasaki and Hirado to Dinghai have become busier. Basically, the Ming Dynasty Navy is already very familiar with the meteorological conditions and geographical conditions of this route, and going to Japan from here is naturally no longer an adventure.
It can even be said that this section of the sea is already the inland sea of the Ming Dynasty, and going from here to Japan can be regarded as a domestic trade route.
But for Gao Zijia, who was going to sea for the first time, spending seven days on a rickety ship was still very scary.
He was still a little worried that he would accidentally capsize the whole ship into the sea, and he was even more worried that the place he was going to was not that good.
However, what reassured Gao Zijia was that the officials on the ship would give them a sum of silver coins and food made with vegetables, animal offal, rice and other main ingredients every day to those people who were willing to immigrate to Japan.
The silver coins issued are the settlement money of these common people. However, in order to allow the people who moved to Japan to look forward to the distribution of silver coins every day, and thus reduce their anxiety about moving to Japan, the imperial court distributed the Anjia silver in wholesale, only giving out a little every day, until they arrived in Japan seven days later. It was sent out all at once.
In addition, vegetables and offal are mainly used to avoid sepsis and night blindness. Although the Ming court did this just to allow more people to immigrate to Japan, increase the number of local Han people, accelerate Chineseization, and increase tax revenue, it gave these people who moved to Japan by boat such good treatment, but for Gao Zijia and others who moved to Japan For the common people, this indeed made them feel the warmth of the imperial court, and they did not make much trouble. Even if some people vomited violently due to seasickness, they did not complain.
What's more. Most of the people who migrated to Japan were disaster-stricken refugees who had no land or food. The next step was to either starve to death or join wealthy households as slaves or sell their children and daughters.
Therefore, with the court treating them so kindly, the pain of seasickness and being far away from home is nothing to them.
The only thing Gao Zijia couldn't stand was the imperial court's excessive hygiene rules and requirements. First of all, the officials on the ship representing the imperial court would ask them not to drink raw water, but to drink boiled water on the ship, and they must take a bath and wash their hair every two days. They also said that it was required by the emperor's decree to maximize their safety. It may prevent bacteria from being carried to new places and causing large-scale epidemics.
Ever since Zhu Yijun asked Li Shizhen to see microorganisms through the microscope he had the imperial court build, the concept of bacteria had begun to appear in the Ming Dynasty's medical community.
in addition. After the Ming Dynasty began garrisoning troops in Japan and supporting private trade with Japan, more and more Han people began to go deep into the hinterland of Japan to do business. As expected, the Han people brought epidemics to some hinterlands of Japan, resulting in a large number of Japanese attrition. This confirmed This explains the emperor's view that if the people of the heavenly kingdom go to the barbarian and uncivilized lands to implement royalization, the local barbarians will be unable to bear this blessing and their life span will be shortened.
Of course, Zhu Yijun made up this view to prevent more Japanese people from rejecting Han people because of their fear of foreign germs.
The actual reason is that the civilization of the Central Plains where the Han people live is more developed, they come into contact with more people, they are exposed to more environments, and they are naturally exposed to more germs.
Therefore, no one knows how many genes have been fused and improved over thousands of years, and it has long been immune to many germs.
Unlike many Japanese people in the hinterland of the Japanese country, because their ancestors may have lived on a closed island for generations, the types of germs are single and the gene pool is not rich, so the ability to fight against new germs is weak, which often causes the Han people to go to the Japanese country to surrender. New large-scale infectious diseases appeared among the Japanese, but when the Japanese came to Han, they would not cause large-scale infectious diseases to the Han people.
The reason is that the Han people have a more advanced civilization, richer genes, and can adapt to more types of germs.
This is similar to the fact that in history, after Western colonists went to the Americas, the number of Indians decreased significantly, and the Western colonists brought a large number of germs that had been immune to the people on the Eurasian continent. As a result, a large number of Indians suffered from a large number of diseases. The cause of death is the same.
It stands to reason. Zhu Yijun did not need to consider the impact of germs on the Japanese. But sometimes no one knows whether the germs that have been weakened in China will find a new breeding ground to cultivate themselves after arriving in a new environment, and begin to evolve into very powerful new germs on a large scale and then bite back the Han people.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun will still strictly require Han people to do a good job in health and epidemic prevention management. Seven days after leaving Dinghai, Gao Zijia and the Han people who traveled with him finally arrived in Nagasaki, Japan, under the organization of the Ming court.
And Gao Zijia pulled on his cotton-padded clothes that had been boiled in boiling water, took the Yanling knife that the navy had just given him for self-defense, took a breath of the cool breeze from the Japanese land, and looked at the shacks on the land. The crowd behind him couldn't help but laugh.
After wandering at sea for seven days, he finally saw land and new human beings. Gao Zijia was very happy about this.
Nowadays, going from Dinghai to Nagasaki in Japan is no longer considered leaving the Ming Dynasty. For the Ming Navy and sailors who often travel between these two places, arriving here is not a novelty. Therefore, the officers and soldiers of the Navy are very depressed. Ding, unlike ordinary people like Gao Zijia, who were all excited when they saw land.
When Gao Zijia was led by the officers and soldiers to Nagasaki City, many unkempt Japanese beggars came towards them. They knelt on the roadside one by one, holding broken bowls, kowtow and begged to these Ming officers and soldiers and the people.
Gao Zijia couldn't help but touch his purse, wanting to give some alms, because when he saw these Japanese people, he thought of the days when he went from Fengxiang Prefecture to Yan'an Prefecture to beg for food last year.
However, Gao Zijia no longer has any money. Mainly because the officials on the ship who transported them not only paid them money, but also made money from them!
These officials would sell all kinds of delicious food on the boat, ask people to tell stories on it, and even hire Japanese women to sell themselves on it.
Although ordinary people like Gao Zijia don't receive much Anjia silver, there are so many people who can't bear to receive Anjia silver. These shipboard officials can make a lot of money by making small profits but quick turnover, especially because Japanese women are cheap, so even if they charge these immigrants You can still make money at a very low price.
In short, I don’t know who pioneered doing business on a boat. Anyway, many people could not control their desires and spent all the Anjia Yin before they even received it.
It's not that Gao Zijia ran out of money taking care of the Japanese girl's business. He was so greedy that he couldn't resist the various delicacies from Nandu sold on the boat. As a result, he didn't have much money left in his wallet, so he wanted to do good deeds. Can't even take it out.
"Go away!" The naval attaché who led them drove these Japanese away directly without showing any kindness, and said to Gao Zijia and other common people: "Ignore them, they are all uncivilized Japanese slaves!"
"You are citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven, you are different from them!"
"And they are all lazy Japanese slaves who are too lazy to work in the mines, so there is no need to do good deeds on them. If they rob, just chop them up with the knife you were given when you got off the ship!"
"According to the regulations of the education district, if you kill uncivilized Japanese slaves, you will not be punished, but you cannot kill them cruelly, because if you kill them cruelly, you will be fined a heavy sum!"
