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Zhu Cixiang didn't care what his allies thought.
In this world, when you are strong, you will gain a group of allies.
When you are weak, your allies will turn into a pack of hungry wolves that pounce on you and bite you!
Especially the group on the west side...
In the eighty-sixth year of Haojing (1729), ceremonies were held throughout the Ming Empire to celebrate Emperor Haojing's 100th birthday. This was the most important event in the world.
Zhu Cixiang's birthday is at the end of February in the Western calendar, but at this time in the north, for example, the capital has not warmed up yet, so it can only be postponed by two months, to May 1st.
For his first 100th birthday, Zhu Cixiang's request was very simple, that is, everything should be kept simple and only the capitals of each province should be allowed to hold celebration ceremonies.
There will be a national holiday for one week, which will not affect weddings and funerals. Important positions can take turns to take vacations, and the daily wages of those on duty during the holiday will be doubled.
In addition, under the strong advice from the whole country and the repeated urging of the beautiful mother, Zhu Cixiang was forced to agree to screen another 66 beauties to enter the rear residence.
The previous three batches recruited a total of 165 beauties, 32 of them were eliminated one after another, and another 21 were executed, leaving 112 people left.
No matter the officials, the people, or the mother of a certain emperor, they all believed that this number was far from enough for one emperor throughout the ages, so they had to take advantage of this auspicious day to receive another batch.
After Zhu Cixiang agreed, young ladies from all over the country who were already ready to take action immediately happily participated in the audition. This was a God-given opportunity for themselves and their families to reach the top in one step.
Even after reading the news about Emperor Haojing's execution of his concubines published in the newspapers, it could not stop the young ladies from having a strong desire to enter the palace to serve the emperor...
As long as you are honest and don't have bad thoughts, wouldn't you be able to enjoy a life of fine clothes and fine food, and at the same time taste the elixir of eternal youth?
The elixir is the driving force behind the ladies’ efforts to squeeze into the back room!
After this thing was directly linked to immortality, everyone yearned for it.
Those handsome young men who are still somewhat handsome only wish that the emperor did not like them, otherwise they would have got what they wanted...
In view of the emperor's hobby, drugs on the market that can make him plump, especially models that have been proven to be extremely effective, have been in hot demand.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t have money, just eat more papaya and drink more soy milk. If something goes wrong, wouldn’t you have a chance to participate in the audition?
If any family has a naturally beautiful daughter, it is a great blessing.
Even if the emperor did not hold an audition during his youth, he could still be married by local dignitaries.
Generally speaking, such women can get married after they are forty years old.
Before that, you have to prepare for the audition at all times.
A woman who is lucky enough to become an emperor is the most glorious thing in the world.
With food, housing, clothes, and jewelry included, you can still have tens of thousands of silver coins in pocket money every year, not to mention you can taste a tube of elixir worth tens of millions of silver coins.
This is completely worth waiting for the emperor for twenty or thirty years. Staying young forever is the lifelong dream of most women.
Using your own time to gain the opportunity to stay young forever is not worth it.
For Zhu Cixiang, he received sixty-six beauties at a time.
This means that from now on, he will have to spend at least 660,000 silver coins every year, and this will only increase in the future.
This is only the beauties' pocket money for a year. Daily wear is another expense, and every festival, they have to be given a bunch of gifts.
If it only accepts sixty-six beauties every hundred years, it is still affordable. If the number is larger, a certain emperor will be unable to bear it.
But Minjian means that the emperor should hold an audition at least once every ten years, otherwise wouldn't it chill the hearts of many graceful beauties?
Throughout the ages, in all dynasties, which wise ruler has not had a group of concubines?
As an emperor throughout the ages, how could he lag behind other emperors in this regard?
Even if we recruit a group of beauties every ten years, there will only be less than a thousand people in a hundred years.
To the people of the world, only by acting in this way can the emperor's ministers feel the greatness of the emperor's grace~!
Reports from factory guards say that beauties everywhere are impatient...
After reading the relevant content, Zhu Cixi felt that it was really unreasonable!
Doesn't this mean that these young ladies and young aunts are coming to the back mansion to slay the emperor and treat themselves as wild monsters?
Now with more than a hundred wives and concubines around me, I am too busy to keep busy.
Even if there are four people sleeping in a day, it will take almost a month to do it again.
However, the mother's fate cannot be violated, so she can only live like this. She reluctantly spends money to marry a daughter-in-law. Even an emperor through the ages has to compromise.
The newcomers could not shake the status of the concubines who had already entered, especially the Queen Xue Wanqing and the Imperial Concubine Liu Xier.
No matter how many women the emperor marries, the status of these two and six other concubines including Kou Baimen will not be affected in the slightest.
Zhu Cixiang announced on the spot at his 100th birthday banquet that his eldest son Zhu Xiangtang had worked hard and made great achievements during his previous administration of Australia in the south, making the desolate place vibrant and changing with each passing day, so he designated the place as his eldest son and his sons. of fiefdom.
Similarly, when the second son Zhu Xiangzhen was in charge of the East Territory, he suppressed the bandits well and suppressed the East Territory well. The East Territory was about to become the latest royal paradise of the Ming Empire. The land was granted to the second son and all his sons.
These two groups of sons have returned to Beidu in advance to celebrate their biological father's birthday.
Zhu Cixiang did not deliberately conceal his fiefdom decision from them.
The only thing is that after the land is sealed, the prince and his heirs are not allowed to occupy the land on a large scale.
We must not follow in the footsteps of the local feudal lords. The land is reserved for the common people.
Members of the royal family and relatives can do business, serve as officials, and join the army, but they cannot be big landowners.
It’s okay to have a small estate, and it’s okay to develop real estate.
But he controls tens of thousands of hectares of land, whether he holds it directly or entrusts others to occupy it.
Once reported and verified, the prince and his family can end their previous lives and return to their homeland to be banned.
It's not impossible to cause trouble, but it depends on what the eldest or second brother wants!
Although the eldest son Zhu Xiangtang and the second son Zhu Xiangzhen have very different personalities, one is introverted and gentle, the other is extroverted and fierce, but neither of them will offend their own father for the sake of some idiot brother.
In the past, the rule of the Ming royal family was that they could not compete with the people for profit, but now they cannot compete with the people for land.
Both the Southland and the Eastland are vast, and most of the cultivated land or pastures must be reserved for the people.
This is Zhu Cixi's bottom line, and there is no room for change or compromise.
Even if he is his own son, if he dares to take his words as fart and goes too far, he will be punished!
The maximum area of land held by the prince, his heirs and relatives is clearly specified, and violations will result in penalties.
After the fiefdom, Zhu Cixi also made it clear in public that if any prince becomes self-righteous and violates the law, he will take back his rights!
Your rights are given by me, and at special moments, I can take them back!
Anyone who refuses can go to Antarctica!
Zhu Cixiang absolutely doesn't care about that place, and the disobedient prince can do whatever he wants there!
The eldest son Zhu Xiangtang immediately expressed his position in public that he would abide by his father's imperial edict and would definitely continue to work conscientiously with his younger brothers in the future without daring to slack off in the slightest.
Not only did they just talk, but they also announced that the prince, his heirs and relatives working in Australia can only conduct business activities and daily life within their designated areas.
In other words, in most parts of Australia, these royal relatives are
You are not allowed to get involved, that is, you are just playing within the scope allowed by Zhu Xiangtang.
Zhu Xiangtang announced this rule on this occasion because he wanted to use a certain father as his backing. If someone really violated the rules in the future, he would be targeted.
The second son, Zhu Xiangzhen, was not a fool. He didn't expect his elder brother to have such a skill. He had to secretly admire the cleverness of this move, so he immediately followed up and announced similar regulations.
The situation in Eastland is slightly different from that in Southland. In the former, the west coast is overcrowded, while the east coast is relatively deserted.
If the brothers want land, Zhu Xiangzhen plans to send all these things to the east coast.
Especially in the Northeast, the average population is smaller than in the interior.
Anyone who wants a large piece of land can go there.
If you don’t want to leave the West Coast, but also want to occupy a large area of land, then sorry, you can only choose one of the two, it is impossible for you to have two boats!
The two groups returned to their homeland mainly to celebrate their father's birthday, and also to start a new round of relocation plans.
At least in the next twenty years, we will receive 50 to 1 million yuan per year.
Although it is possible to obtain new population through the immigrants who have already moved there, the whole process of giving birth to children and growing them up takes fifteen years.
However, Xinyimin can be directly pulled over by boat, and it can take up to half a year to settle down. This can be said to save time, effort, money, and is extremely efficient.
Zhu Cixiang is naturally very supportive of the continued large-scale transfer of coins overseas.
At least 60 million people have been relocated before, but this is not enough.
By 1800, the number of people living outside the mainland would reach 200 million, nearly half of the total population of the Ming Empire.
This means that about two million people will be relocated every year for the next seventy years.
Since both the railway and fleet are in place, there is not much of a problem with transportation capacity.
As long as Zhu Cihong nods, he can continuously send people to settle overseas.
At present, Northland has become the largest place to receive immigrants due to the railway connection with the mainland and the short distance.
Today, approximately 70 million immigrants and their locally born descendants live in the Northland, with most of the population living along the southern coast of the Northland.
The Dnieper, Don, and Volga river basins west of the Ural Mountains, as well as the Minsk region near southern Sweden, are the favorite destinations for new immigrants.
These places are rich in water resources, so there is no need to worry about drought. The land is relatively fertile, and the climate is close to that of the northern Ming Dynasty, so they are very popular among new immigrants.
The middle and lower reaches of the Dnieper River, the northern shore of the Black Sea and the coastal areas of the Sea of Azov are the first choice places for military families.
The local garrison naturally knows where the land is best, and will naturally leave these lands to their own families.
This farming model also made it easier for the Ming Empire to quickly digest this fertile black land and permanently control it in its own hands.
In Zhu Cixiang's view, security near the border is the most important, and reclamation is the best way to deal with it. It is economical and affordable, and can also solve the employment problem of military families.
In the next seventy years, we will not only continue large-scale migration to the north, but also increase the scale of migration every year.
The area of the Northland is so large that even if all the people who migrated there live south of the 60th parallel north, that is, the area south of Fort Polo, including the area in Central Asia, it will be enough to house and feed more than 500 million people. common people.
As for Dongdi and Nandi, Zhu Cixiang certainly agreed to the request of his two sons. Even if they were unwilling to accept Yimin, the rights previously given to them might be revoked immediately.
As long as the shipping capacity allows, it is completely feasible to move one million yuan to these two places every year.
Each ship carries one thousand mimin, and two thousand ocean-going merchant ships can complete this task.
On the return trip, it can also be filled with local products from both places, which will not cause the fleet to lose money at all.
Yimin, who is heading to South America, cannot relax either.
We must persevere, and the speed and scale of relocation should be the same as those in other places.
Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Chenggong and his son don't have to worry, most of the local people in Fujian will be moved to the West.
People who are willing to go to other provinces in the West can also go there. As long as they are willing to go overseas, Emperor Haojing will support it.
The poorer the local people, the more they have to be moved overseas to settle.
For example, the people of Sichuan, which has many mountains and little arable land, and still lives in the earthquake zone, why do they stay there?
People in the hilly areas of the south suffer from frequent floods in summer and autumn.
Living in another place is equivalent to directly getting rid of poverty and becoming rich.
Statistics from the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development show that people who have moved overseas rarely remain poor.
As long as you obtain enough land and have a working-age workforce at home, at least you will have enough food to eat and you will not go hungry.
If you don't suffer from earthquakes or other natural disasters, you probably won't lose your family's labor force.
Emperor Haojing will try his best to let his Zimin live in a place with a relatively better environment and safer environment.
In a place like Sichuan, as long as there is an earthquake with a magnitude exceeding five, the court will definitely spend tens of millions of silver coins for disaster relief.
A magnitude 5 earthquake may seem insignificant, but that is for future generations. The houses of ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty cannot withstand an earthquake of this magnitude.
If an eight-magnitude earthquake occurs and the number of people affected reaches more than one million, it will be a devastating blow to the Ming Dynasty's treasury...
Therefore, Zhu Cihong advocated large-scale relocation of mines overseas. This may seem like a waste of money, but in fact it is to save money!
The more you move, the more you save.
People in the Jiangbei area of Nanzhili, who originally thought their hometown was fine, couldn't help but panic after being told that they lived in an earthquake zone.
Everyone didn't believe it at first, and many descendants of Donglin even thought it was the nonsense of a certain Baojun.
As a result, I checked the history books and found that earthquakes did occur in this area from time to time.
The magnitude of the earthquake is generally small, but the possibility of a major earthquake cannot be ruled out.
After all the well-connected wealthy gentry learned the inside information, they either moved further south to Cheung Chau and Qiantang, or went directly to Beidu, or even took refuge overseas.
As long as it is not a reinforced concrete building, it is possible for an earthquake to wipe out a whole family.
With the lessons learned from the past, the wealthy gentry who cares about his life will certainly not stay where he is and wait for death... Pop-ups have been very powerful recently. You can click to download to avoid pop-ups.
