After Zhang Yunsheng said this, the prince couldn't help but be startled, and then he laughed dumbly and said: "Mr. Zhang is right."
then.
The prince added: "It seems that when I take up the post of Shandong Inspector, this county should lower its benevolence, so as not to fail in the future and arouse everyone's resentment."
Zhang Yunsheng smiled slightly and flattered the prince: "In this prosperous dynasty, with an upright and upright official like Dong Weng, I don't have to worry about not being able to serve as a minister."
And next.
Because both Dai Yiqing and the prince had been promoted, the investigation of mine thieves was still being carried out seriously by bureaucrats at all levels in the world.
At the same time, there are still honest officials who are trying their best to expose and prevent some bureaucrats from over-implementing the purpose of hunting down ore thieves.
In this way, the investigation of the mine thieves was thoroughly implemented without over-implementation backfiring and causing major turmoil.
certainly.
It is precisely because the investigation of the mine thieves has been thoroughly implemented, and even, to a certain extent, it has been over-implemented.
Therefore, many rural officials were exiled overseas and moved overseas.
There is an endless stream of vehicles and ships transporting these exiles every day.
These people cried all the way to bid farewell to some distant relatives and friends.
When leaving, many people paid homage to their ancestral graves, family ancestral halls, and even representative things in their hometown, such as big locust trees, big willow trees, big banyan trees, and even rivers and lakes, as if they were paying homage to their hometown. Everything is reluctant to leave, even a handful of dirt.
"My grandson, if you have the opportunity to come back in the future, remember that you have returned home when you reach the col behind this big mulberry tree."
"When the time comes, you must remember to come back with your eldest father's ashes and bury me near this big mulberry tree. Don't bury me in a foreign country."
When the prince who was going to take office in Shandong passed through She County, he heard an old man holding his grandson under a big mulberry tree and giving some instructions about his death. As a result, he looked at the entire official road that stretched for dozens of years. A few glances at the distant migration team.
The prince said nothing more about this.
Because he has begun to reduce his sympathy for the people, and is trying not to look at these phenomena completely according to the knowledge in the book and universal values and to sit back and watch these common people with the hard-hearted attitude that a ruler should have. Under the urging of officers and soldiers, he left his hometown in tears.
Since many scholars and civilians were exiled, a large number of Han people suddenly poured into the Hitachi Prefecture in Honshu, where King Wei was a feudal lord.
For this reason, Governor Xing Jie began to issue an order that "all the unclaimed and abandoned fields of Hitachi counties, as well as the fields of the former Japanese nobles, daimyo, samurai, etc., should be distributed to the people of the Western Kingdoms and Dynasties." They began to encircle the land, and also selected young unmarried Japanese women to be wives with the widowers of the people from the Western Kingdoms.
besides.
Xing Jie also encouraged the relocated Han people to mine. He, the governor-general, even ordered the establishment of Hitachi Bank in advance based on the cheap power granted by the imperial decree, and asked Hitachi Bank to provide interest-free loans to the Han people for mining. It said that businessmen who operate mines well and bring in a lot of mining taxes will be given status.
Anyway.
These Han people's mining in the Central Plains was a major crime that would implicate the three tribes, but now that they have gone to Changlu, their mining has become a great achievement for the three tribes.
Therefore, for a time, many Japanese fields in Changlu were occupied and gradually distributed to Han people, and many Japanese tenants had to rely on Han people as slaves.
Many mines began to be contracted for mining by the moved Han people, and many Japanese who were plundered by the Ming army also became mining slaves.
When the Ming Dynasty expanded abroad, it would naturally give priority to the interests of its own ethnic groups, so it was inevitable that the Han people would benefit first.
However, with the immigration of a large number of Han people, the economic revitalization of Changli Kingdom has indeed been a qualitative improvement.
After all, this is an expansion of replacing backward civilization with advanced civilization, rather than replacing advanced civilization with backward civilization. It has to be melted first before progress can begin.
In addition, because many of the Han people who moved here are educated scholars, the local cultural undertakings have also been revitalized very quickly.
Stele calligraphy and stone calligraphy as well as Han sculptures began to appear in large numbers.
Because there were too many exiled literati, the government began to actively fund and organize them to write various books that were conducive to the promotion of Wanghua, such as articles recording the Ming Dynasty's conquest of Changlu and other martial arts.
Only one year.
The food production of Hitachi Kingdom has been greatly improved, and the gold and silver production has also been greatly improved.
In addition, the shops and temples that were originally mainly Japanese-style and Japanese-style seemed to have disappeared overnight, and quickly turned into shop-temples mainly based on Chinese-style and Han-style. Taoist temples that were not commonly seen in the Japanese country also began to be affected by the immigration of a large number of Han people. And appear in large numbers.
Hitachi's rapid prosperity also allowed King Wei, who became a vassal here, to gain a large amount of wealth.
"Your Majesty! King Wei presented thirty thousand taels of gold and five hundred thousand taels of silver as congratulations."
On the Wanshou Festival in the 29th year of Wanli, he returned to China in advance. Yao Shangwen, the chief official of the King of Wei, paid tribute to him on behalf of the King of Wei. He specially presented a congratulatory gift to Zhu Yijun.
When Yao Shangwen reported the specifications of the congratulatory gifts at the court meeting, a group of vassal princes and clan members who stayed in the southern capital and came to the northern capital to congratulate him were surprised.
They didn't expect that King Wei would be willing to give so many gifts.
It should be noted that although gold and silver are currently flowing into the Ming Dynasty in large quantities, taking out 30,000 taels of gold and 500,000 taels of silver at one time is still considered a huge sum of money for the powerful bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty. After all, one acre of land is only about ten acres. Two silver dollars.
The clan members of the vassal king naturally also knew that Yao Shangwen might not only bring gifts to celebrate the emperor's birthday when he came to Beijing, but also secretly brought gifts to the queen mother, empress, and prince. These gifts would certainly not be much less than those of the emperor.
Therefore, based on this, they had to believe that Yao Shangwen, the chief minister of the Wei Dynasty, must have brought a lot of gold and silver treasures to Beijing.
"How come this King Wei is so wealthy when he is a vassal queen?"
After the disbandment of the dynasty, Dong'an King Zhu Yingsui mentioned this matter to Yi King Zhu Yijiao.
Yi Wang Zhu Yiji also looked curious and incredulous and said: "Who knows! Not to mention now, even when our Yi Wang Mansion was still a vassal in Jiangxi, with Wangzhuang and a large number of smuggling industries, we were reluctant to spend so much gold and silver to make it. Congratulations."
"Could it be that in order to lure the sects of the world to go overseas, His Majesty deliberately lent the money from his own funds to King Wei and asked him to send the chief minister back to reveal his wealth, so that we could be fooled?"
Zhu Yingsui couldn't help but ask at this time.
Zhu Yijie shook his head and said: "Even if your Majesty had this intention, he would not come up with so much gold and silver. After all, this is not a small amount. Just transporting this gold and silver back and forth will cost a lot of gold and silver."
"So, he, King Wei, is probably making a lot of money outside?"
Zhu Yingsui couldn't help but ask, feeling jealous in his heart.
Zhu Yijie nodded: "Maybe the Changlu Kingdom is a good place, and His Majesty wanted to take advantage of King Wei's willingness to be the first to go overseas to become a vassal state to show us how to show it, so he gave him the best place overseas to become a vassal state. .”
"Damn it!"
"I should have been the first to stand up if I had known."
Zhu Yingsui said regretfully.
Zhu Yijuan said: "What I'm talking about is just a guess. What is the specific situation in Changlu Kingdom? We might as well have a banquet for Yao Changshi and his accompanying vassal officials on the pretext of asking about the situation of King Wei. By the way, we can also ask if there are any people around Changlu Kingdom. It’s a good place, as long as it’s no worse than places like Jingzhou, Datong, and Nanyang, it’s worth the risk for us to go overseas to defend our country’s borders.”
"That makes sense. Why don't we hold a banquet for him, Yao Changshi, in the name of expressing condolences to King Wei and asking him to say hello to King Wei on our behalf and bring some gifts to King Wei for us?"
Zhu Yingsui agreed with this and hurriedly proposed.
"Very true!"
"We should also send people to find out what Yao Changshi did when he went to Beijing. If he sent people to purchase large quantities of things needed by the common people, it means that the place is really rich, and it will be more worthy of our visit."
The other sects and vassals also agreed and put forward other opinions, but they were obviously full of curiosity about King Wei's overseas appointment as a vassal.
then.
Not long after, a group of sects in Beijing led by King Yi Zhu Yijia actually sent people to invite Yao Shangwen and others to a banquet at King Yi's Mansion.
Naturally, Yao Shangwen did not dare to refuse, but he actually brought several of the followers from Prince Wei's Palace to Prince Yi's Palace in the capital.
"Are you telling the truth?"
"King Wei really has 70,000 hectares of fertile land now?"
At the banquet, when King Yi Zhu Yijuan and others asked Yao Changshi about the situation of King Wei's joining the vassal, they learned that King Wei had 70,000 hectares of fertile land.
Yao Shangwen said: "I don't dare to hide it from you nobles. There are indeed so many. In addition to the ones given by the emperor, there are also a lot of unowned and abandoned fields that can be bought in the Changlu area, so I bought a lot of them. And most of these fertile fields have an yield of two shi per mu." Five buckets, or at worst one and a half stones!"
"Because of this, a lot of grain is produced every year, so please rest assured, nobles, and help our highnesses purchase some goods to sell back to the Kingdom of Constantinople. After all, the nobles are staying in China, and there must be many shops and purchases. It is more convenient than buying many commercial goods directly ourselves, and the price is easy to talk about."
As he spoke, Yao Shangwen cupped his hands with a smile and said, "I would like to express my gratitude to all the nobles here."
"What merchandise has your Highness asked you to purchase?"
Yi Wang Zhu Yijiu asked at this time.
Yao Shangwen replied: "Of course it's cotton, silk, ceramics, paper and pens, tea, chiming bells, medicinal materials and other things that the people need."
Then, Yao Shangwen said with a smile: "We have prepared one million taels of silver dollar coupons to order these goods. I wonder if you nobles would be willing to help us with this?"
"One million taels?"
Dong'an King Zhu Yingsui stood up directly at this time, with a look of astonishment on his face.
Yi Wang Zhu Yijie was silent for a long time and said nothing.
The Ming Dynasty has begun to implement a currency system in which banknotes and silver dollars run parallel to silver dollar coupons.
Bulk cargo transactions, especially those involving overseas trade, are basically dominated by silver dollar coupons.
After all, this facilitates transactions, and those who can do large transactions are all court officials and businessmen or people who are either rich or noble and are not afraid of being repudiated, which makes silver dollar coupons become the new Ming Dynasty paper currency.
"It's obvious that King Wei is really going out when he goes to sea!"
Zhu Yingsui and other sects did not directly agree to Yao Shangwen, but said they would consider it. However, after the banquet, Zhu Yingsui couldn't wait to talk to other sects. (End of chapter)
