Time flies, half a month passes in the blink of an eye.
Ying Tianfu, go to the study room.
Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Bowen and others were handling government affairs. With the opening of the sea, Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue can be said to be increasing sharply.
Especially after the Shibo Division was established in Shanghu County, the tax revenue collected can only be described as astronomical figures.
The trade tax collected from just one day's voyage to the sea is now more than 10,000 taels of silver, which is more than 3 million taels of silver a year. This value is almost more than the previous Ming Dynasty's annual treasury revenue.
These days, after Zhu Yuanzhang learned about Shibo's income, he couldn't close his mouth with joy every day.
In addition, there is also the Japanese slave trade plan on the Japanese island. Even the civil servants of the DPRK and China have a lot of opposition, especially Liu Bowen. He feels that this is really harmful to the peace of the world and wants to persuade Zhu Yuanzhang to cancel the slave trade.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang had long understood the profits of the entire slave trade plan from Li Guiguo, and the population of the Japanese island was just used to fill the population vacancy of the Ming Dynasty.
After all, although the Ming Dynasty has been established, the population is still scarce and the years of war cannot be restored overnight.
But if the men of the Ming Dynasty could be allowed to marry three or four Japanese women and let these women give birth to children of the men of the Ming Dynasty, then the Ming Dynasty would be able to return to its former glory in less than twenty years. scene.
Coupled with the support of Xu Dalan Yu, Zhu Di and other generals, the slave trade not only was not abolished, but became popular in the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty.
Especially the caravans starting from Shanghu County. Basically every caravan will bring one or two slave-catching teams. As long as there are merchants who have the courage to go to sea, who is a fool?
Only a fool would refuse to engage in such a hugely profitable business as the slave trade?
You must know that the armed forces on the Japanese island have long been wiped out by the Ming Dynasty army, and the remaining local armed forces are not worth mentioning at all.
Going to capture Japanese slaves here is basically a no-cost business with nothing but a white wolf, and there is basically no risk.
On the Japanese islands, the people of the Ming Dynasty were first-class citizens, while the Japanese were second-class, third-class or even the lowest-class slaves. How could they pose any threat to the Ming Dynasty?
Therefore, during the days when Li Jin was governing Hepu County, batches of slave ships traveled between Daming and Japanese islands, and thousands of Japanese slaves were sold to Daming.
These slaves are just as Li Jin and Zhu Yuanzhang imagined.
All men were reduced to labor, responsible for building docks, ports, highways, dredging canals, reclaiming wasteland, and growing food. Anyway, wherever labor is needed, these slaves can appear.
As for women, they were purchased by the men of the Ming Dynasty and used as reproductive machines to contribute to the population growth of the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, some people on the Japanese island also dared to raise troops to resist, but Zhu Yuanzhang placed tens of thousands of navy on the Japanese island. With the bonus of firearms and giant ships, the Ming navy could rush to every corner of the Japanese island within a day. It also completely eliminated the hope of rebellion on the Japanese island.
As more and more immigrants flock to the islands, and the Japanese on the islands are captured in large numbers, sooner or later, only the Han race will be left on the islands.
As for the Japanese nation, they will inevitably disappear in the long river of history.
Just like when Westerners invaded the American continent, as more and more European immigrants migrated to the North American continent, the indigenous Indians went from tens of millions at the most prosperous to only tens of thousands left in the end.
The number of people has decreased by a full 99%. If North America had not banned the killing of Indians later, I am afraid that the one percent of Indians would have perished.
How similar is the situation on the Japanese islands today to that of the Indians?
It's just that under the promotion of Li Jin, the Ming Dynasty will not leave one percent of the Japanese people behind. There is no need for such a despicable nation to survive.
Under the influence of the slave trade, manpower in the Ming Dynasty also became cheaper. At the same time, food prices also dropped.
After all, with these slaves working day and night to open up wasteland, the Ming Dynasty's food supply will definitely increase sharply next year. Moreover, these slaves eat less and work more. They are simply worse than animals.
Anyone who is a grain merchant can see that the price of grain in Ming Dynasty will become extremely cheap for a long time to come.
This made the people of the Ming Dynasty extremely happy. Although the price of food fell, which was not friendly to the people of the Ming Dynasty who were mainly farmers, with the opening of the sea, the handicraft industry of the Ming Dynasty was also quietly developing.
In particular, the various technologies that came out of Shanghu County were vigorously promoted by Zhu Yuanzhang, which also led more and more people to start working in factories and obtain higher rewards.
The price of food has dropped, and their income has increased. The people of Ming Dynasty naturally have a surplus of food.
As the saying goes, when you are full and warm, you think about lust.
When people have money, they naturally want to marry a wife and have children.
It is foreseeable that the children of Ming Dynasty will usher in a small climax in the seventh year of Hongwu or even the eighth year of Hongwu.
However, this process is extremely long. After all, the dissemination of Shanghai County’s technology also takes a lot of time.
However, after the sea opened, Ming Dynasty became visibly full of vitality.
Seeing this scene in the eyes of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, they were naturally extremely happy. If a prosperous age could be created in their hands, then they could also follow the prosperous age and become famous throughout the ages.
But in the eyes of caring people, Shanghu County has become a piece of cake.
As long as you can calm down and observe, you will find that the revolution in the Ming Dynasty actually originated from Shanghu County.
The sea was opened in Shanghu County. For this reason, Zhu Yuanzhang even listed Shanghu County as a special economic zone and administered it personally.
This level is even one level higher than Yingtian Mansion. It can be seen that Zhu Yuanzhang attaches great importance to Shanghu County.
What's even more amazing is that everyone who has been to Shanghu County knows that Shanghu County is full of novel things. The prosperity there is now even more than that of Yingtian Mansion. All these incredible things have shown that Shanghu County is extraordinary.
There were also some people who wanted to use some crooked ideas against Shanghu County, such as seizing the shops or real estate of merchants in Shanghu County. However, the next day, these people were invited by Jin Yiwei to drink tea in the prison.
However, how tough this person's background is. Even if there is a prince standing behind him, these people will all die in prison without exception, and the prince behind him will be implicated.
After constant testing, everyone understood one thing. Shanghu County was Zhu Yuanzhang’s lifeblood and his taboo. Whoever touched it would die! !
Therefore, although Shanghu County is full of flowers, no one dares to have any wrong ideas. Instead, they spend their time learning all walks of life in Shanghu County and then introduce it to other places in the Ming Dynasty, thus driving the development of other places in the Ming Dynasty.
Suddenly, Ming Dynasty was full of vitality.
Liu Bowen and other civil officials, after seeing Zhu Yuanzhang's attitude towards the slave trade and the various changes in the Ming Dynasty after the slave trade, all stopped and acquiesced to the existence of the slave trade.
Just when everyone was busy dealing with government affairs of the Ming Dynasty, Jin Yiwei suddenly appeared in front of Zhu Yuanzhang.
