Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 752, awakening the wolf

Liu Jin returned to the inn where he was staying, picked up a pen and began to give Emperor Hongzhi some memorials.

The colonial era and the nautical age brought not only untold wealth, but also many problems and challenges that followed.

Slaves are very cool to use, but slowly they may become dependent on slaves, and in the end it is very likely that they will become like many Europeans in later generations. Slaves gradually have the meaning of doves occupying magpies' nests.

The introduction of foreign cultures, races, and religions will inevitably have an impact on the existing cultures, races, and religions. There may not be any harm in a short period of time, but over time, it will inevitably have a profound impact.

The Mongols almost conquered the world back then, but did the Mongols conquer the world in the end?
Or were the Mongols conquered by the ideas, cultures and religions of other powerful civilizations?
This is a question worth pondering, and it is also a question that needs to be paid close attention to and prepared in advance.

"Your Majesty Liu Jin Qizuo, the land of Nanyang is located at the intersection of the East and the West. With the prosperity of our Ming Dynasty and sweeping all directions, more and more people from other tribes gathered in Nanyang."

"With the arrival of foreigners, not only their commodities and wealth, but also the culture, ideas and religion they brought~"

"The rise of the slave trade will inevitably bring more people from more distant places. Various cultures and ideas will continue to collide in our Ming Dynasty, which will have a profound impact."

"I believe that Ming Dynasty should attach great importance to this, learn from the lessons of history, and resolutely promote the culture and thought of Confucianism in China. For foreign culture and thought, we should take the essence and discard the dross..."

"First, they are not the vassal state of our Ming Dynasty. They should be strictly prohibited from settling in our Ming Dynasty, buying land and real estate, building temples, spreading religion, etc. They are only allowed to do business in specific trade ports, and limit the scope and time of their stay. .”

"Second, establish a sound household registration system to check the population of our Ming Dynasty. I suggest that the population tax be exempted, so that we can better check the population of our Ming Dynasty."

"While establishing the household registration system, our Ming Dynasty should distinguish and divide the people under the Ming Dynasty into several grades. The highest grade is naturally our descendants of the Yellow Emperor, and the lowest grade is the lowest slaves."

"About slaves, I believe that the entry of slaves should be strictly prohibited in the mainland of Ming Dynasty to protect the sanctity of our vast land of China."

"Slaves are only allowed to be promoted and used in provinces other than the mainland of the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, strict measures should also be taken against slaves. Male slaves are castrated to end them, and female slaves can be properly given to me. people, encourage them to marry my Ming people so as to increase the population of my Ming Dynasty."

"Third, vigorously promote our Chinese civilization, Confucianism and theories, especially in overseas places, all the foreign peoples who are newly incorporated into our Ming Dynasty should be vigorously promoted."

"Changing Chinese surnames, learning Chinese characters, wearing Chinese clothes, and speaking the official language should be properly rewarded when they are vigorously promoted, so that their ranks can be appropriately raised."

"Fourth, the number of overseas provinces and commercial ports should not be too large, so as to facilitate the centralized management and control of foreign merchants and slaves."

"..."

Liu Jin picked up the pen and began to write memorials to Emperor Hongzhi eloquently. He wrote a lot of content, mainly to formulate policies aimed at the many influences brought about by slaves and outsiders on thought, culture and religion.

This is a series of policies that Liu Jin came up with for the future generations of Ming Dynasty.

Daming is different from Europe. The whole of Europe is about the same size as Daming. But in terms of population, the official statistics of Daming’s population is [-] million. If you count the hidden population and so on, Daming’s population may exceed [-]. Ten thousand.

However, the combined population of Europe during this period is estimated to be less than half that of Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, in the following colonial era and sailing era, Ming's dependence on slaves can be much lower, unlike Europeans who are very dependent on slaves.

In many colonies, these Europeans would have had no way of operating without slaves.

Similarly, because these European countries are too small and have a small population, even though they have plundered huge wealth from colonies around the world, they can still be said to be weak.

In terms of the rule of global colonies, they can only rely on colonial strongholds to plunder wealth. Only with the rise of the industrial revolution did they gradually turn into plundering of raw materials and dumping of commodities.

But Daming is different.

He himself has a huge land and population, and has strong national power.

In the colonial era and the nautical era, Da Ming not only needed to plunder the wealth of the colonies, but more, Da Ming could also swallow the bones of the colonies.

With enough population, enough population can be migrated.

This means that the rule of the colonies can be more solid, and there will be no such thing as later generations of Europeans. With the spread of the idea of ​​​​global national liberation, colonies around the world have become independent and disintegrated their colonial rule for hundreds of years.

This is the fundamental difference between Ming Dynasty and European countries.

Realizing this, naturally one cannot learn from the Europeans in terms of colonial policy, and more should be formulated in light of Ming's own situation.

For example, in terms of slaves, Daming itself has a sufficient population and sufficient labor force, so there is no need for so many slaves. It is only necessary to free the minds that bind the Ming people and make them willing to emigrate overseas.

Naturally, this slave is not so precious, so indispensable, and these slaves can be castrated completely, so that the embarrassing situation of Europeans in later generations will not appear, and the situation of doves occupying magpie's nest will not appear.

Encourage childbearing, and encourage Ming people to take foreign women as concubines. Naturally, the population of Daming can grow explosively. With a sufficient population, there will be enough driving force to develop the colony.

Moreover, Liu Jin is a time traveler, so naturally he will not let the industrial revolution come slowly. Liu Jin has already asked people to study steam engines. I believe that this kind of thing without too much technical content will be researched soon.

Perhaps in another ten or twenty years, the industrial revolution will come, and by then there will be no need for so many slaves.

What Daming needs is land and a wider living space. As for the population and labor force, these are not what Daming urgently needs.

After writing the memorial, Liu Jin looked at it carefully again, and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

What he saw today also touched Liu Jin a lot.

Hundreds of Persians and Middle Easterners dared to come to the Nanyang Province government office to make troubles and make demands on Wu Yang. In terms of aspects, the Ming people were inferior to these people.

Ming people have always paid attention to resignation and lack of rebellious spirit, and this is also true in later generations.

Even though it is a global power, its citizens are always bullied internationally. They may not dare to bully Bangzi, but they definitely dare to bully you?
What is the reason for such a phenomenon?
Daming like an elephant?
This does not seem to be nonsense.

Think about it carefully, it is indeed so.

Daming is big and powerful, but like an elephant, everyone is not afraid of it, and even bullies it from time to time.

Only when you really provoke it, when the elephant is really angry, you will know how terrible it is.

There is a lack of wolfishness.

"Western United Trading Company captured Ceylon Island. This may be a good thing. It can arouse the wolf nature of the nation. Wolves travel thousands of miles to eat meat. I am afraid that more and more companies and people will follow the example of Western United Trading Company and set off private parties all over the world. Colonial era."

Soon, Liu Jin thought of Western United Trading Company and Ceylon Island again.

The Western United Commercial Bank boldly used troops against Ceylon Island and was very successful in obtaining huge benefits at an extremely small cost. The news must have almost spread back to the capital.

At that time, more people will inevitably be stimulated to go overseas to establish more colonies, and the wolf nature will gradually return.

"Perhaps more encouragement should be given. This island of Ceylon should be regarded as the private land of Western United Commercial Bank in the future."

"Only in this way can more people be encouraged to go overseas and lay more colonies."

Liu Jin stroked his chin and thought about it, and picked up a pen to write letters to Liu Jian and Li Dongyang in the court.

This matter will soon be reported back to Daming, and there will inevitably be a heated debate between the ruling and opposition parties on how to deal with Ceylon Island.

Liu Jin's attitude is to support the private ownership of Ceylon Island, which is nominally the land of Ming Dynasty, but it belongs to the Western United Commercial Bank, and encourages everyone to colonize overseas.

"I'm afraid that when the time comes, the princes and lords of the Ming Dynasty will not be able to sit still. Private ownership and certain armed forces are allowed. They will definitely want to go overseas to occupy a piece of land and establish their own country China. "

"Perhaps at that time, we can also sweep out these princes of the old Zhu's family, so as not to cling to Da Ming's body like blood-sucking insects and suck his blood."

Thinking of this, Liu Jin couldn't help laughing, and his writing speed became even faster.

　Are we similar to elephants?
　　
　
(End of this chapter)