'The remnants of the rebels fled to the outer islands, and the unwilling people came ashore to burn their houses and destroy their fields. The Japanese pirates were hard to find when they came and went. If the sea was not blocked, foreign countries would be easy to access, and the coast would become more chaotic.
The Northern Army expanded its army and Timur crossed the desert plains. The Ming Dynasty was established at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. The naval army could not continue. There were no strong enemies outside. There were disadvantages in the internal affairs. There was plenty of money and food. Why should we act? '
Congratulations to the prince. Don't forget the key things. Write a letter to explain why the sea is banned.
The Jianshui army has too much money, and there are no enemies outside. You can't just spend a lot of money to raise one to fight Japanese pirates, right?
This is the situation and this is the problem. If you want to open the sea, you have to tell me what to do.
The headman brought Hanhan into the house to show him, Zhu Wentian blinked: "Wrong, wrong, forbidden, uh... when did I say the sea was opened? Misunderstanding, I wanted the Ming Dynasty officials to take the initiative to go outside to buy and sell things.
The barbarians come to buy and sell goods, and they make a lot of difference in price. We go out on our own, and the money is all ours, so why open the sea?
Monopoly is the most profitable. Let the public participate. They have many thoughts. If they run away, they may not be able to cheat their own people! "
Zhu Wentian told the head of the village what he thought. It was okay to ban the sea, but the key was to ban others, not even the imperial court!
"Where's the boat? How long does it take to train a naval force? How long does it take to build a boat? Where does the good wood come from?" The commander also made a judgment.
"Wood? There is wood in Xiuzhong, eh!" Zhu Wentian looked at the inside, and then the two of them said together: "Hehehehehe!"
“Building a ship is actually quite fast. If you build it, you will have it. If you don’t build it, you will never have it.
The bamboo fungus I planted will be harvested for the first time this summer, and then I will plant it on a large scale.
If I thought two years was too long last year, where can I harvest the seeds this year?
The number of livestock in the village, especially the large ones, can double in several years.
The imperial court can be built for many years, and the imperial mausoleum can be built for many years, but the navy can't? "
Zhu Wentian felt that Zhongdu should not be repaired because it would waste people and money, so he finally stopped and killed many people.
I’ll fix it later when I have more money! Only when the Ming Dynasty navy comes out can they freely go out and make a lot of money.
Li Chang sighed: "It's all about money, how can I reply to the letter?"
"I'll think about it carefully and we'll talk about it tomorrow." Zhu Wentian frowned with a trace of sadness.
Officials who were out touring the new houses, five of which were built for them, had no worries.
In the future, when they work in the village, their subordinates can live in other rooms and wait for greetings at any time.
The villagers are installing glass on the windows after lunch. The windows have square grids. The large windows have six grids and the small windows have four grids. This is affected by the quality of the glass.
A complete piece of glass will break if the vibration is large, but a small one is stronger. Use small nails to fix it on one side, and there will be a little more glass frame on the other side, which can be stuck.
After nailing, apply glass putty and use the putty knife to level it little by little. When it dries, it will be strong.
The villagers were very excited. The glass windows were so bright that they could see outside without opening them.
The officials were very jealous, and those who wanted to replace the windows of the yamen with glass did not dare, so they had to plan to continue to smooth the roads to make it easier to travel.
So we had dinner in the big dining hall, with glass lanterns installed inside and outside, and the chief of staff drank with us, including Hanhan.
Instead of eating pig offal tonight, we will eat pork, chicken, and fish. The children each grab a big bone and chew it. They don’t need to chew it too clean. The leftovers are given to the dogs.
The dogs in Xiaqiu Village are stronger than those in other villages. They always get bones to eat and leftover vegetable soup mixed with rice bran.
As for the rotten rice, it is cooked as pig food, and occasionally the leftovers are given to the dogs. Sometimes there are only leftovers in the village, which could not be left before.
"Yichang, I haven't seen the same village twice in the Ming Dynasty!"
Magistrate Song took a sip of wine and glanced at the lantern hanging outside the window.
"I think it will happen in the future, man! As long as you... study hard, you can change. Just like other villages around."
The village chief said that if you want to please people's hearts, if you collect the big animals that other villages rented last year this year, you can still build a smaller building with the money saved in a few years.
Hanhan once said that it would be just as good to live in the house without exchanging iron wire for bamboo. It is estimated that there will be no glass windows in ten years.
The imperial court has a monopoly, so Xiaqiu Village can use it for its own use. If it is sold for takeout, the price is too low to beat the imperial government's business. If the price is too high, ordinary people still can't afford it.
The magistrate served the magistrate with wine: "Xiaqiu Village should think of good ideas so that others can learn from them. I see that there are many poultry in the village, but chickens are not easy to raise. Ducks and geese like water. Which village doesn't have a river next to it?"
"The magistrate is right. Ducks and geese are good. Feed them rice bran in winter and leave them outside to find food for themselves in summer."
The director agreed, if you raise too many chickens, they won’t grow if you don’t feed them, unless the enclosure is large enough for the chickens to eat bugs.
Otherwise, if you raise free-range chickens outside, the chickens won’t know to come back at night if you don’t feed them.
For a while, everyone started talking about raising poultry and livestock, and the village chief plenary meeting.
After finishing the meal, Zhu Wentian went to rest in the sacrificial hall. The house in the sacrificial hall was large and had three entrances. Villagers had come to worship before.
Most people really don't dare to sleep here. It's spacious and quiet, with the smell of incense and the memorial tablets of ancestors.
Zhu Wentian didn't care, he didn't do anything wrong, he led the villagers to live a good life.
"Hanhan, don't you want to go back to your house?" The resident brought a lantern and looked for him. Hanhan had a separate house.
"No, young man, it's cold. Hehe!" Zhu Wentian shook his head.
"Yes, yes, there are many people in the sacrificial hall and it is lively. I asked people to stay in the room next to them."
The village chief agreed with Hanhan's statement, and he arranged for more people to protect Hanhan. Now that the village was rich, he was afraid that outsiders would cause trouble.
Zhu Wentian did not refuse. He was also worried that outsiders would see what he thought of when he got up to write something at night.
A fool writes with a brush under the lamp, and thinks others are fools?
Of course, the dog also needs to be let out. Make a kennel, put a straw mat in it, put the straw in it, leave it untied, and teach the dog to go to the toilet in a specific place.
Then use bamboo to build a dog food bowl, fix it on the ground, and throw a bone in it. The dog will huddle in the nest with peace of mind, and at the same time be wary of the outside, always afraid that something will steal the bone.
It is also possible that it carries the bones into its nest and guards them. This is not easy to teach.
It was still cold in the second month of the lunar calendar, especially at night. Zhu Wentian wiped himself with cold water, huddled in bed, and stared in the dim moonlight.
He was thinking about how to persuade Zhu Yuanzhang and tell him that there was gold, silver, and good crop seeds overseas, but it was useless.
Doesn’t Zhu Yuanzhang know that there are good things out there? Shibosi has already made money, all from outside jewelry, medicinal materials, gold and silver, animals...
But it was still conservative and banned the sea. In history, the three current municipal shipping departments were even withdrawn.
"Since simple inducements won't work, we can only use another method. The Ming Dynasty Navy must be built, the sooner the better. There is no way to close the country."
Zhu Wentian thought for a while and decided to give it a try and fool him! If that doesn't work, think of other options.
