"City?"
"Your Majesty, what do you mean by this deal in Dengzhou City?"
"But Dengzhou City has been robbed by Qingyao. This business is not safe!"
Zhu Heji glanced at Da Bo Ling, who said "not safe", and said to himself: First you followed the pirate Su Dadu, then you became a mountain bandit, and finally you became a rebel... It's all Ling Chi's fault, what risk are you afraid of? ?
After being glared at by Zhu Heji, Da Bo Ling immediately changed her words and said: "With the Holy Spirit here, we are not afraid of being robbed... But we can't take care of this business for you!"
"You don't need to worry about it," Zhu Heji said with a smile, "This is the children's property... Grandpa Taizu made a lot of vassal kings, and they were all used as pigs in the pen.
In the final analysis, the territories guarded by these feudal kings were not conquered by themselves or managed from scratch. Otherwise, Jianwen wouldn't be able to kill them, and Chengmiao wouldn't be able to keep them in captivity. "
"Emperor Taizu was a little more serious about guarding it." Qiu Shuzhen nodded, "It's a pity that he didn't guard it!"
"The lesson is profound!" Zhu Heji said, "We have to plan carefully for our descendants...Compared with perfumes, textiles, and glass, cities located at the crossroads of East-West trade are the real businesses that can be passed down for a long time!
And this is the easiest business for our family to succeed. "
This is the main reason why Zhu Heji must protect the "emperor's privacy".
Without the "emperor's private interests", the emperor would not have the ability or motivation to run these overseas colonies.
In fact, these overseas colonies cannot be established by relying on the "public authority" of the imperial court.
"Your Majesty," Da Bo Ling remembered Zhu Heji's earlier words about sealing his sons as kings, so he asked, "Is the city business you mentioned the same as going overseas to make kings? You are We want to build our city on other people’s land!”
Qiu Shuzhen was stunned, "Can others agree?"
"Yes!" Zhu Heji said in an understatement, "If you don't agree, destroy it!"
Daboling nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, that's it!"
Qiu Shuzhen also understood that she still had to fight! But who is going to fight?
Zhu Heji looked at Qiu Shuzhen at this time and said, "Shuzhen, our family will definitely be full of descendants in the future. If we all stay in this three-acre land of the Ming Dynasty and become kings, we will have to follow the old path of the Ming Dynasty. So. I thought about spreading the branches outside... This is also the tradition of us Chaozhou people!"
Of course Qiu Shuzhen knew what her husband's words meant. .
She is the eldest wife, and most likely her son will succeed the throne in the future. Therefore, she may not support Zhu Heji's "city deal".
"This is a good thing!" Qiu Shuzhen immediately changed her smile and looked at Da Bo Ling and said, "How about we build more vassal states and cities so that the children can have a share of the family business to pass on?"
Da Bo Ling responded with a smile: "This is great...it's just that we still have to work hard to make money, otherwise we won't be able to keep all the children out!"
Zhu Heji smiled with satisfaction when he saw that Qiu Shuzhen and Da Boling could still reach an agreement... Other emperors started fighting in the palace when they had too many wives. It is so inspiring that this place is still so harmonious, and that the wife and the wife can work together. It is indeed the home of a saint!
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Zhu Heji and his wives discussed how to be a good emperor and a good ancestor who could distinguish between public and private matters.
His "twenty-five filial piety" father, Zhu Tianwang, was in the magnificent Tianwang Mansion with the nine thousand year old Pang Eunuch and the old man Yu Zhongxian, while drinking a small drink and studying Zhu Heqi's work. "The Ming Dynasty Treaty".
"King of Heaven, this covenant..." Eunuch Pang, wearing a pair of reading glasses ground from crystal glass, read "The Ming Dynasty Covenant" word by word, and finally shook his head and said, "Everything is fine, just two. The first is the issue of royal property. This is to compete with the people for profit! I'm afraid those scholars will oppose it!"
"Don't be afraid of this," King Zhu Tian said with a smile, "Just fight...the people in the council can't compete with my bad boy. My bad boy has always been made by everyone when we have money!"
Although he still called Zhu Heji "bad boy", his "Guan Gong face" was full of pride.
Obviously, Zhu Heji was the pride of his life.
"That's true," Eunuch Pang nodded, "The Holy One does not live alone, and the refugees (us) have made a lot of money by following him... People from the Yanping Palace also made a lot of money from the Nanyang trade. We all support him together, there should be no problem with this one."
Those who made money with Zhu Heji were all the first generation nobles!
He paused and then said: "But is it really necessary to write in the land equalization system?"
"Of course it is necessary!" King Zhu Tian nodded and said with a smile, "The equalization of land is the foundation of the country... Without the equalization of land, all the rich and powerful people in the world would buy land and collect rent. Who would go to Lushun and Dengzhou? Running in a city like this?"
It turns out that King Zhu Tian had long discussed with Zhu Heji the benefits of adhering to the equal land system. One of them is to avoid the situation of "getting rich with business and keeping with land".
Although this kind of thinking of buying land and passing it on to descendants does not necessarily limit the development of Chinese capitalism.
But Zhu Heji was in a hurry to industrialize!
Therefore, the "germination" of capitalism can be accelerated as soon as possible. All obstacles that may hinder industrialization measures must be removed as much as possible.
King Zhu Tianwang gained a lot of votes in Dengzhou City and established a "trade name", so he tasted the benefits and wanted to replicate the success of Dengzhou City in Lushun.
He planned to discuss with Zhu Heji after a while and withdraw the territory of two counties and one state in Dengzhou, leaving Dengzhou alone. At the same time, another piece of land was acquired in Lushunkou to establish a new "Tianwang City".
When the time comes, he will be guarding both sides of the entrance to the Bohai Bay, so he is not afraid of not making money.
Yu Zhongxian interjected at this time: "But this method of equalizing land among clans and villages also has loopholes. There may not be equality within a clan, otherwise there would be no such thing as righteousness."
The so-called "righteous family" is the kind where hundreds or even thousands of people of the same clan live together, regardless of family, and work together to achieve equality within the clan.
The most typical one is Jiangzhou Yimen Chen.
But since this kind of behavior will win the clan the title of Righteous Gate, it can be seen that it is not common. If there is a large loss of population and big problems arise in the continued survival of the clan, such as in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the Yimen phenomenon is more common. After all, the land is worthless when the people are gone.
But once the world becomes peaceful, the population grows, and the contradiction between man and land eases, the situation will immediately change.
"Then it has nothing to do with the imperial court!" King Zhu Tian said with a smile, "The ancestors cannot drink a bowl of water evenly. When we divide the family, we give more to the big house and less to the other houses... Can you blame the court?"
This is unfilial to the ancestors, don’t blame the court for being unfair! If your ancestors are not found well, can you blame the imperial court?
Yu Zhongxian nodded: "You really can't blame the court!"
King Zhu Tian added: "Besides, we divide the land among clans and villages... This land can only be registered in the name of the clan and village, and cannot be converted into private land."
King Zhu Tian went on to say: "Furthermore, the land that a clan or a village can occupy is not very much, some are more than ten thousand acres, and some are only two or three thousand acres.
When we carried out land equalization, we had already divided the land, so the merger in the future would not be as big as usual. "
It is almost impossible for land use rights registered in villages and clans to fall completely into private hands. Moreover, if people of one clan or village start to make trouble, the cost of suppressing them will be very high.
For the rich and powerful, the cost of land issuance is too high and the risk is too high.
Maybe they saw the difficulties and seemed unable to do anything, so they simply stopped annexing the land.
And if they don't engage in mergers, then their capital can only be invested in industry and commerce or overseas businesses.
After listening to King Zhu Tianwang's analysis, Yu Zhongxian and Mrs. Pang knew what was going on.
Mr. Yu nodded and said with a smile: "It seems that the Holy One has already made a plan. Jiu Qiansui and I have been worrying too much."
Eunuch Pang also said: "Nan also understands... the matter of the Ten Thousand People's Group in early May is all on Nan!"
