After Zhu Yijun heard Wang Xijue's report, he looked at Qi Jiguang and other officials in power: "What do you think?"
Although Wang Xijue brought up this matter, Qi Jiguang stood up first and said:
"Your Majesty, if we don't stop our own women from selling their bodies, we can't stop the trafficking of our own women and children, and we can't stop the forcing of our own women into prostitution. Therefore, it's a great kindness to stop our own women from selling their bodies. It's just for a few ignorant women to commit suicide." The brothel has become a place where the etiquette of Huayi and Huayi can be disturbed, which is Xiaoren. At this time, we can only give up Xiaoren and take Dazhen."
"It makes sense. I also hold this view, but I must ask you to strictly guard against foolish people seeking short-sightedness because of this."
"Ask each department to make redemption and compensation. As long as the brothels and prostituted Han women cooperate with the court, the court will not let them suffer any loss."
Zhu Yijun also started talking, and then looked at Shen Yiguan:
"In addition, your Ministry of Rites should also provide more guidance and education to let all the women of the tribe who want to make money from sex know that the court is doing this not only for the prosperity of the entire country and nation, but also for their personal health and happiness. Don't do it because of vanity and fantasy. I took the shortcut to wealth and became a fool!"
Shen always said yes.
After Shen Yiguan, the Minister of Rites, came out of the palace, Zhou Can came to see Shen Guan during the matter of Rites and asked: "Uncle Zong, how are you? Does your Majesty have any intention to withdraw the imperial edict?"
Shen Yigui shook his head and said: "This is simply impossible. Now the imperial court wishes that every child-bearing woman among the Han people would be pregnant, and every marriageable man would marry a wife and take concubines in order to increase the number of teeth and benefit the future. The land illuminated by the moon is of Han family blood!"
"For this reason, the Ministry of Punishment has begun to plan penalties such as fines or prison sentences for those who are unmarried and infertile after reaching a certain age."
"So do you think a few prostitutes who died for love can stop the imperial court's wishes?"
After hearing this, Zhou Can stood there blankly, and after a while, he handed Shen Guanyi away and said goodbye.
After Zhou Can left Shen Yiguan's place, he came to a brothel and told a brothel woman named Yu Ai about the matter: "Marry yourself, the court has no intention of changing its mind."
After hearing this, Yu Ai couldn't help crying, and then nodded.
Zhou Can also sighed and couldn't help but gnashed his teeth and said: "This is all Zhang Taiyue's fault! He made today's people respect practical learning and reform etiquette, which made the country always keen on external expansion and internal benefits, making Nowadays, you have benefited the people so much that you can no longer entertain people with sex, and I also want to have less fun."
"Since the imperial court would rather spend its own money to make us good, then why don't you take me as my concubine?"
Yu Ai suddenly raised her head and asked Zhou Candao.
Zhou Can said hurriedly: "This is impossible, not to mention that my Zhou family's family rules require that even if I take concubines, I can only take upright women. Even if I don't ask for it, I, a servant of Feng Xianguan, don't dare to raise a concubine. How come? Here, you can only come here secretly."
"Am I not a serious woman?"
Jade Ai asked with tears in her eyes.
Zhou Can did not answer, but only suggested: "How about you go learn Japanese and say that you are a Japanese girl from now on, so that you can stay here?"
Yu Ai shook her head: "No! If I were a Japanese girl, I would be beaten to death by the abusive men. Although I am also a ruined woman now, I still have a Han household registration. If I am beaten to death, someone will have to pay for it with my life." Otherwise, I will really be bullied by those bad guys like a cat or a dog!"
"All right."
Although Yu Ai was unwilling to pretend to be a Japanese girl, the imperial court insisted on prohibiting Han women from selling their bodies, which forced many romantic places to only have orchids and Japanese girls to pick up customers. This made many hook-up places not for women with blue eyes and blond hair. Bai Nu was posing her waist, and various Japanese sounds were heard in Liang Jianxuan.
At the same time, there were many more folk firecrackers and suona sounds, and the sound of firecrackers came and went one after another.
The reason is naturally that due to the influence of this decree, there are many more wedding celebrations.
Zhu Yijun, who visited the capital city privately incognito, was very happy after discovering this phenomenon.
As the emperor, the supreme ruler of the Ming Empire.
He hopes that the more Han people he can marry, the better, so that more and more Han people will be born, and more Han people will be able to open up new territories for him, and his global rule will be more stable in the future.
to this end.
After Zhu Yijun returned to the palace, he also issued an edict that marriage was a great joy for the world. In order to prevent the great joy for the world, all the ceremonial guards from the prince on down and the wedding procession should give way first. The wedding procession did not have to encounter powerful officials. The ceremony and music are stopped to make the marriage smoother.
Zhu Yijun did this just like Zhu Yuanzhang allowed folk women to wear phoenix crowns and harems when they got married, and men to wear the No. 1 scholar's uniform when they got married. They were all to encourage fertility and make people more positive about marriage.
After all, when you meet an official, you usually have to give way to the official and give him face. But at this time, you don't have to give the official face, and you can be nobler than him. Why doesn't this make people yearn for activities like marriage even more? ?
certainly.
In order to encourage Han people to have children, Zhu Yijun not only tried to increase the marriage rate in various ways, but also improved the medical level of gynecology and obstetrics, increased medical capabilities in this area, and various social security.
Reproduction is the natural desire of human beings. If ordinary Han people are unwilling to reproduce, it must be because social security is insufficient and it becomes difficult for them to survive.
Therefore, once the imperial court strengthens its security, it will not worry about losing life, but will only wish to have more children in order to have a happy family.
Among the orphans of martyrs taken in by Xingming Academy, the girls were basically either trained and served as female officials in the palace, or they became masters of gynecology and obstetrics. They served as female medical officers in the medical department and were responsible for various government-run hospitals. Assist women in childbirth or treat gynecological diseases to reduce female mortality.
However, Zhu Yijun has only been in office for more than 20 years. He has not yet invested a lot of financial support in improving the medical level of gynecology and obstetrics, and has not trained enough talents. Therefore, government-run hospitals, especially those specialized in maternal and child health care It's only in the Gyeonggi area and various health centers.
Zhu Yijun would also like to see if there are any spontaneous improvements in this aspect as the people become more and more affluent.
Therefore, after Zhu Yijun officially decided to order a southern tour, he also arranged several concubines and maids such as the Queen and Yang Fei to be included in the list of the southern tour.
Now that the luxury tax has been levied, steam engines have also begun to be promoted and used, and external expansion is in full swing in the form of conquering the Tokugawa clan, which has transferred a lot of redundant domestic people out. Now Zhu Yijun has increased a large amount of national funds due to the luxury tax. and internal funds, and also diverted a large number of domestic conflicts due to expansion.
Therefore, it is time for Zhu Yijun to set off on a southern tour.
But unlike Zhu Yijun's original plan to visit the south just for fun and to reward himself for the reforms he had devoted so much to this country and nation for so many years, now he has more political plans based on the current situation.
As for what the plans are, I won’t go into details for now.
It's just that for Zhu Yijun, he can no longer completely isolate himself from political life, including his family, nor can he completely isolate himself from political life.
Therefore, as soon as Zhu Yijun made the decision to tour the south, officials came to dissuade him.
"Your Majesty is driven by millions of dollars. Once he leaves the capital, he will inevitably encounter something unexpected. In order to avoid another assassination incident during the Western Patrol, this is one of the reasons;"
"When Your Majesty is on tour in the south, it is inevitable that he will encounter one or two crimes, and if you get angry and hurt your liver, you may increase the number of killings, or even increase the injustice due to lack of caution. This is the second reason."
…
Zhu Yijun first heard the eunuch Huang Xun's remonstrance to Zhang Zhenguan that day, and he sighed: "What a loyal minister! He has thought a lot about me."
Although Zhu Yijun said that Zhang Yuanqi was a loyal minister, he had no intention of listening to Zhang Zhenguan.
Because it was impossible for Zhu Yijun to listen.
Not to mention that he really wants to see his southern country, but his current ambition to seize global wealth also makes him want to go to the south to see how he can mobilize more citizens to seize global wealth for him. Work hard for your ambition.
Therefore, after Zhu Yijun said this, he told Wang Lin, the Minister of Civil Affairs: "Draw up a decree and promote him to Sakhalin Island as a deputy envoy for education."
Sakhalin now belongs to the newly established Beishan Chief Secretary under the Andong Protectorate of the Ming Dynasty.
It's just that there are not even many native-born Jurchens in Sakhalin Island, and there are not many people who have been exiled. There are no academic and political admirals to supervise.
But if Zhu Yijun wanted to do this, Wang Lin could only obey the order.
After receiving the imperial edict, Zhang Yuanqi was just stunned for a moment, and then she didn't pretend to be sick. Instead, she really packed her luggage and hit the road to Sakhalin Island, covered with dust.
There was no way, the emperor praised him as a loyal minister, how could he ruin his reputation.
What's more, he usually followed Su Dongpo as an example, so he really accepted the order honestly and went to Sakhalin Island with some Four Books, Five Classics and Confucian enlightenment books.
He did not bring the new textbooks from the Ming Dynasty because in his opinion, barbarians could just learn Confucianism to avoid being ignorant of human ethics.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival in the 22nd year of Wanli, Zhu Yijun and his retinue officially set out for a southern tour.
On the day of the tour to the south of the capital, the entire capital had already made preparations for martial law in advance, so curtains were set up wherever the royal road passed, and many streets were blocked. As a result, the usually lively places became deserted.
But in the unsealed streets, more people were crowded, for no other reason than they wanted to see the grand occasion of the emperor's inspection tour of Beijing.
Although the emperor has already left Beijing.
But the enthusiasm of the people has not diminished. After all, in this prosperous era of Wanli, no one wants to see the emperor several times.
Who asked the current emperor to exempt them from many taxes and corvees?
Although the emperor restrained them from competing in luxury, this did not affect their respect for Zhu Yijun.
Because of the influence of thousands of years of Chinese culture, it is difficult for any Han Chinese to say that banning luxury goods is wrong.
"Long live the Emperor!"
"Long live the Emperor!"
"Long live the Emperor!"
…
I don’t know who shouted this first, and I don’t know if it was intentional or unintentional. Anyway, many people started shouting after Zhu Yijun left the capital, like a mountain roaring and a tsunami.
When Zhu Yijun heard the shouts coming from near and far, he just smiled slightly and said to Queen Du, "They don't mind me disturbing them."
"Yes! After all, people are now rich. If you have one less day to open a store and one less day to do work, the loss will not be big. It can be regarded as a holiday."
Du Shi laughed and said.
(End of chapter)
