Leaving home and moving thousands of miles.
For Emperor Zhu, who lived in the picturesque Jiangbei Palace, this was just a matter of words.
But for the officials and immigrants below, it can be fatal if they are not careful.
Emperor Zhu didn't care if someone died on the road.
Anyway, the ones who died were probably not members of his family. As for fighting after arriving at the place - it didn't matter, Ming Dynasty had guns and cannons.
Isn't it just a bit indigenous?
Guns and cannons killed them casually.
But for those who have experienced this mass migration firsthand.
Moving thousands of miles is indeed not a particularly pleasant experience. For most people, it is often painful.
Jinshan Governor's Mansion is about one hundred miles inland from the mouth of Jinshan River.
This place is already a wilderness.
The heavy rain came down like a knife.
Lightning and thunder rolled among the dark clouds.
Not far away, you can also see the electric light falling from the sky.
Under such circumstances, large groups of immigrants were walking forward one step at a time.
Li Zhongyi was among the crowd. The muddy road had already covered his official boots with yellow mud, and his red robe official uniform was soaked with mud and water.
He was holding a wooden stick in his hand, a musket on his shoulder, and a bayonet on his waist.
Just in this weather.
This musket is basically useless.
At the same time.
A company of garrison troops from the Jinshan Governor's Palace was responsible for escorting this group of immigrants to their destination.
On both sides of the road, soldiers of the Ming Army were holding spears and sabers, staring fiercely at the surroundings, as if they were ready to charge at any time.
This is the edge of Jinshan River Estuary.
This group of immigrants was new and numbered more than 500 people.
This large group of immigrants will be stationed in a valley and plain, some distance from Jinshan City.
The reason why a collective farm was arranged in that place was that iron ore and coal mines were discovered there!
The iron ore and coal mines next to the river mouth have unproven reserves.
But if the steel industry is started here in the Jinshan Governor's Mansion.
That would undoubtedly be of sufficient benefit to the Jinshan Governor's Office to gain a foothold here.
therefore.
This collective farm is more like a military guardhouse than a farm.
Now the Jinshan Governor's Office is preparing to invite bids in Shanghai and Guangzhou.
Recruit steel companies to settle in.
And before that.
This area must be tightly controlled.
As a garrison officer, Li Zhongyi had the hard job of leading people to build a stronghold there.
That place is really not peaceful.
North American natives are very fierce.
If you are not careful, you may lose your life there.
But there was nothing Li Zhongyi could do.
He originally thought he could go back after just one visit, but now he was seconded to serve as an official in the Jinshan Governor's Mansion.
I don’t know how many unlucky people will be like him in the future.
"Hurry up and get out of here before it gets dark!"
Li Zhongyi said loudly.
It's just that not many people heard his voice clearly under the pouring rain.
It was pouring rain at Jinshan Governor's Palace.
The Jiangbei Palace in Zhongdu was also shrouded in heavy rain.
Today, Emperor Zhu did not go to the Qinzheng Hall to handle government affairs. Instead, he enjoyed the autumn rain with several concubines at the pavilion of Riyue Lake.
"Zhao and Jin are two big families in North Korea. On the surface, they dare not oppose the emperor's will to apportion the land, but deep down they are definitely not happy. They must have second thoughts. If they find an opportunity, I'm afraid."
Queen Luo Fangmei frowned and said with a solemn tone.
Compared to Emperor Zhu.
Queen Luo is really a queen with a "traditional virtuous queen" style.
He kept the harem in order and fulfilled his responsibilities to the princes and princesses.
Now she is concerned about North Korea's affairs because the fourteenth prince will be the king of North Korea in the future, so as the fourteenth prince's nominal aunt, she should be concerned about it.
Zhu Daohua didn't have this worry.
He said with a smile: "After my reforms, the wealthy households in both classes of North Korea will decline. If you remain an honest minister, you can still preserve your wealth. If you have any objections, then you are looking for death!"
Of course Zhu Daohua is also concerned about his son's future.
North Korea's land reform is to take back power from North Korea's Yangban.
The feudal forces in the Ming Dynasty must be cleaned up, and the untimely feudal forces in North Korea must also be purged.
Unlike China, the essence of North Korea's feudal system was the dictatorship of the gentry.
The so-called imperial examination was just a fig leaf used to cover up the rule of the gentry.
The imperial examinations in North Korea are divided into three categories: liberal arts examinations, martial arts examinations and miscellaneous subjects.
Among them, only two classes of households can participate in the civil and military examinations, and civilians can only participate in miscellaneous subjects. Even if they pass the examination, they have little future.
The civil and military examinations were based on the civil and military examinations, and the names were also copied from China, including students, candidates, Jinshi and so on.
And it is easier to take the imperial examination than the Chinese imperial examination, because the number of people admitted to the imperial examination in North Korea is far more than that in China.
However, winning the Jinshi does not mean that you have a good future. The key is to reincarnate. If you invest in a wealthy family such as the Andong Jin family and the Pongyang Zhao family, you will basically win three consecutive exams. After passing the exam, you are guaranteed to become a high official. .
The tricky part is naturally self-evident...
Therefore, the "bourgeois revolution" line designed by Emperor Zhu for North Korea was to completely wipe out the power of the two powerful families.
Take away their privileges!
Divide their land!
Deprive them of their power to rule over the people!
However, while suppressing the two wealthy families in North Korea, North Korea's imperial examination system must still be retained.
Moreover, reforms must be carried out with reference to the current rules of the Ming Dynasty imperial examination.
The three-section system will no longer be implemented, and officials will be appointed as officials - the future Korean Kingdom will also need a large number of local grassroots officials to directly manage the people, rather than a disguised lordship system that leaves the people and land to the gentry for management.
"In addition, select a few officials from the yangban who have surrendered to the North Korean government and let Jian'er adopt their daughters as concubines. In the future, they will be Jian'er's right-hand men in North Korea."
The politics of this era.
Marriage is of course also an important part of it.
Most of North Korea's literati came from Yangban, but not all Yangban were wealthy families.
There are also many Mo settled down.
So these people are relatively easy to control.
"My lord, Li Shangdian, long live my emperor, long live, long live, long live."
on the second day.
Zhu Daohua met with a North Korean official.
His name is Li Shangdian, and he is said to be a talented Korean poet.
Now speaking very fluent Nanjing Mandarin, he is admonishing the emperor.
Li Shangdian was also born in the Yangban Dynasty of Korea. He came from the Li family of Lixing. His ancestors were envoys sent to Korea by the Song Dynasty and settled in Korea more than 400 years ago.
In fact, many high-ranking officials in North Korea have relatively close relations with China.
Even if they are not closely related, they will still find ways to have some relationship with Handi.
In addition, in North Korea, Chinese characters are used in both official documents and imperial examinations.
Therefore, North Korean civil servants actually have a very high level of Chinese.
Li Shangdian was the foreman who paid tribute to Zhu Daohua from King Li Zou of North Korea.
In fact, in today's terms, he is a director responsible for directing song and dance programs.
In fact, Emperor Zhu was not very interested in Korean singing and dancing.
But occasionally I would accompany the concubines to watch the dances choreographed by the Korean people who were good at singing and dancing.
Li Shangdian didn't even know how lucky he was to be able to receive Emperor Zhu alone.
"That's your daughter?"
Emperor Zhu pointed at the little girl in Concubine Li's arms.
"what is her name?"
"Back to the emperor, my daughter's name is Li Yuzhen."
Emperor Zhu nodded and looked at Queen Luo sitting on the other side.
After all, it was for the prince to get married, so of course the queen had to come and take a look.
Queen Luo was not too satisfied.
She looked at Li Yuzhen for a while and realized that her appearance was not just a little bit worse than that of Emperor Zhu's daughters.
But this is not surprising.
This Li Shangdian is also plain-looking, and he is not from a wealthy family, so he probably won't be able to marry a good-looking wife.
If this can bring about a beauty disaster, I'm afraid it's not a genetic mutation.
"Be a concubine for Jian'er." Empress Luo seemed to be unwilling to let an unattractive woman become the concubine of the fourteenth prince of the Ming Dynasty.
Emperor Zhu nodded, looked at Li Shangdian who understood a little and said: "King Li Zou of Joseon has no descendants, and the other branches of the Korean royal family have no virtue. I plan to let my fourteenth prince Zhu Yijian, who is also the grandson of King Li Zou of Joseon, take charge of the throne. The King of North Korea also wants your daughter to be the concubine of the Fourteenth Prince, are you willing?"
"Yes, I can only wish for you."
Li Shangdian looked happy and kowtowed hurriedly.
He also knew that the fourteenth prince wanted to be the king of Korea.
Her daughter became the concubine of the King of Joseon, so the Lee family was a relative.
"Then let her stay in the palace to educate her, Li Shangdian. You are now my in-law. What do you think about the North Korean affairs?"
Li Shangdian probably didn't expect Emperor Zhu to ask him these things, so he had to think for a long time before he said cautiously: "Your Majesty, I think that if the fourteenth prince becomes the king of Korea, the Dongxue Party may support him." The branch of the Li Dynasty is king."
"Really? Li Chao has been ruling North Korea for more than four hundred years, but still has charisma?"
"It doesn't have much appeal. After all, it's not an eternal lineage." Li Shangdian said, "And North Korea has always been a minister of China, and His Majesty is the king of China. The appointment of King of North Korea has a righteous name."
Zhu Daohua nodded.
There is certainly some truth to this statement.
At least.
Start from the Confucian principle of righteousness and fame.
Their king of the Li Dynasty was originally canonized by Zhu Yuanzhang. He was a vassal king of the Ming Dynasty, not a king of an independent country. Emperor Zhu's abolition of the King of the Li Dynasty was equivalent to the reduction of the vassal state, and he did not abolish the King of Joseon, but only replaced the Li Dynasty with the Zhu Dynasty. The emperor's replacement of the king of the vassal state was of course in line with his title. The scholars and officials of North Korea had nothing to say.
"As far as I know, the Donghak Party's goal is to abolish the privileges of the two wealthy families, punish corrupt officials, and equally divide the land of North Korea..."
"So they are targeting two groups of wealthy households?"
Li Shangdian smiled bitterly and said that he himself was also a member of the Yangban, although he was an unemployed person - of course, this was before Emperor Zhu announced that his daughter would be a North Korean concubine.
"There are very many yangban households in North Korea, accounting for more than 60% of the entire population of North Korea. Most of them are frustrated yangban households with no power and little land property."
"So, the reforms I enacted will also be supported by the frustrated two classes?"
"Exactly!"
Li Shangdian said.
"If the emperor announces the equal division of land in all parts of Korea, cancels the privileges of the two classes, and then sets a time for the imperial examination, most of the Donghak Party will disperse on their own, and the remaining bandits will be wiped out in one fell swoop."
"It doesn't matter whether they disperse or not, I will defeat them easily." Emperor Zhu waved his hand and said.
"Come to think of it, this equal division of land must be quite popular in North Korea. The Donghak Party can gather millions of people with this slogan."
Hearing this question, Li Shangdian's face became tangled.
"Your Majesty, North Korea is a small country and its people are weak. It seems that they all regard China as their father and imitate China in everything. However, the land is divided equally."
"China has its own national conditions, and the policy of equal division of North Korea's land does not apply to China."
Li Shangdian thought to himself: What is applicable and not applicable? You are dividing other people's land and don't feel bad about it. You can divide your own family's land.
Seeing Li Shangdian, he remained silent.
Emperor Zhu smiled and said: "The population of the Celestial Dynasty is unevenly distributed. Most of it is concentrated in the Han Dynasty. The rest is in the Northeast, Mongolia, the Western Regions, Eastern Siberia, and the Nanyang Islands. They are all vast and sparsely populated. The total land that can be cultivated is more than There is still a lot of land in the Han Dynasty, so the Celestial Empire has land to distribute to the poor. The average cultivated land in the Han Dynasty is about three acres. If the land is equalized and the farmers who get the land, who will be willing to go outside the customs and go to Nanyang?"
There was also a lot of land in the Ming Dynasty.
According to Department of Agriculture estimates.
South of Waixing'an Mountains.
Including the vast plains of the Heilongjiang River Basin and the Songhua River Basin, about 650 million acres of land can be reclaimed. There is also a plain with a large river flowing outside the Waixing'an Mountains.
Although the climate is colder.
But it's just that the winter is cold, and the summer and autumn are similar to those in Heilongjiang. It is also a rare black soil and can grow a lot of wheat.
Also in Nanyang.
The island of Java will be able to support hundreds of millions of people in future generations!
There is abundant rainfall and a large amount of fertile volcanic mud.
The rice yield is staggeringly high, and at least three crops of rice can be grown a year.
Nearly 100 million acres of fertile land can be cultivated in the Western Regions, southern Mongolia and northern Mongolia!
Not counting the New World.
The Ming Dynasty expanded the surrounding fields.
The amount of land reclaimed is more than the entire Han Dynasty combined!
This does not include Australia and the New World.
Large-scale immigration has greatly alleviated the pressure of domestic population increase and also reduced the demand for food.
Thus.
A problem has arisen that the original Chinese people could not imagine - there is too much food, what should we do?
There is really a lot of food.
The output of 2.4 billion acres of arable land must be greater than 1.2 billion acres. In addition to the 2.4 billion acres of arable land, there are no less than that number of pastures producing beef and mutton. Therefore, the food supply is likely to turn from insufficient to serious surplus.
So now in Han Dynasty, unless you are like Li Zhongren, you set up intensive farms.
The previous farming model of small households no longer has much room for survival.
The price of grain is too low and you will lose money growing it!
The expansion of the Ming Empire brought a large number of collectively operated capitalist farms. The food produced by these farms seriously impacted the Han market, causing a large number of small farmers to go bankrupt and move to cities, or to move to new lands far away.
This also allowed Han Dynasty’s agriculture to begin to adopt a land-intensive capitalist production model.
Therefore, it was impossible for the Ming Empire to divide the land equally, nor to suppress land annexation.
Emperor Zhu was even encouraging and promoting this process.
Free a large number of people from precision agricultural production and let them become workers and colonists.
But North Korea is dependent on Ming Dynasty.
Of course, it can be developed slowly by dividing the land equally.
It doesn't matter if we embark on the road of industrialization later. Anyway, no imperialists dare to take advantage of North Korea.
After the Ming Dynasty's industrialization process was basically completed, capital would inevitably flow into North Korea.
In the future, North Korea will also become a region under the Ming Empire system to undertake industrial division of labor, thereby completing industrialization transformation.
However, the path taken by North Korea is bound to be different from that of the Ming Dynasty.
(End of chapter)
