Prince of Chaos

Chapter 731 Voting With Your Feet
Just when Zhu Changluo decided to praise Feng Menglong, a literati who likes to criticize social reality and has ugly human nature, Zhu Changluo didn't idle about other things.

Suzhou is the holy place of literary circles in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is also the place with the most open atmosphere in the entire Jiangnan area.

If you see some people here who like to wear fancy clothes and engage in performance art, don't think that these people must be locals in Suzhou or scholars from all over the south of the Yangtze River attracted by Suzhou's free atmosphere.

These people have a common hobby, that is how to play out of style, it is the ultimate liberation of human nature!
It can be said that Suzhou would have been the birthplace of the oriental renaissance if it hadn't been for the corrupt moments of the Little Ice Age and the financial crisis of the Ming Dynasty.

Unfortunately, this assumption does not exist.

There are considerable underlying differences in the social logic of the East and the West.

Although the underlying logic of the West has theocracy, it is more of a capitalist social form based on commerce and trade.

Although this kind of social form is ruthless and selfish, it can guarantee the independence of individuals to the maximum extent, so that the Taixi people will not be too constrained under the kingship and theocracy. As long as the interests are large enough, even Jesus dares to sell!
And Judas has proved this!

The East has gradually moved towards a centralized social structure since the first emperor. Although this social structure can stabilize the social status quo for a long time, its shortcomings are also obvious.

This form of social form pays attention to strict order, and order is the cornerstone of all stability.

But order is also an excellent tool for exploitation!

It is precisely because of this order that the lords of the past dynasties can create the wonders of civilization that other civilizations sigh for!
And the basis for creating these wonders of civilization is because of this top-down order, which maximizes the development of the so-called people's power, financial resources, and material resources.

Suzhou's current prosperity is based on these so-called dividends.

Suzhou is located in the south of the Yangtze River. Although there are many mountains and rivers, the land that can be used for farming is not as good as Huguang and other places.

But such a place that does not produce much food has become a land of fish and rice for Daming, so the problems can be imagined.

Suzhou is a city that vigorously develops the handicraft industry. In addition to doing some small businesses, the common people in this city often do weavers for the big families in Suzhou.

And the remuneration these weavers can get is only enough to maintain food and clothing, and the real benefits are still taken away by these big households in a monopoly position.

Now that Zhu Changluo is here, Zhu Changluo also sees this problem.

Although this problem is very difficult and complicated, Zhu Changluo already has measures to deal with it.

Since these big households are unwilling to give more rewards to these ordinary people, then Zhu Changluo, who is the master of the people in the world, naturally cannot stand by and watch his people being exploited in a daze.

But directly hard steel them, this is not Zhu Changluo's home field, once the game goes wrong, the consequences will be very serious.

Therefore, Zhu Changluo set his mind on the newly established Zhili Shanghai Mansion.

In order to assist the construction of Zhili Shanghai Mansion, Zhu Changluo ordered through an edict to summon some industries of Xishan Huangzhuang to invest and build factories here in Zhili Shanghai Mansion. At the same time, a social security foundation similar to Xishan Huangzhuang was also established in Zhili Shanghai Mansion. , used to manage worker welfare in Zhili Shanghai Prefecture.

Of course, only these are not enough. In order to make the Zhili Shanghai government stand up as soon as possible, Zhu Changluo specially set up the Shanghai Shipping Department. All overseas ships that trade through the Shanghai Shipping Department can enjoy 5000 taels a year here. Tax refund for silver.

The tax rebate of 5000 taels may not sound like much at first glance, but for a newly built Zhili Prefecture, it is definitely a great benefit.

It can definitely attract many sea merchants from Thailand, West and Southeast Asia to Zhili Shanghai Prefecture, and their arrival will bring countless demands.

These demands will be converted into production orders one after another in Zhili Shanghai Prefecture, and huge human resources will be required to complete these orders.

In this way, skilled workers from traditional workshops in Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou and other places can be directly siphoned to Shanghai.

Although, in the process of implementation, the tyrants in Suzhou and other places will definitely try their best to prevent the loss of labor force and population, but as long as they are not willing to let go of part of the benefits to these hard-working people at the bottom, the more arrogant they are, the more they will suffer. The backlash is more serious.

When they have completely aroused the local people's grievances, Zhu Changluo can descend from the sky again to make decisions for him, and clean up some disobedient, ignorant, and powerful landlords who have no overall view, so that they can also feel what it means to not be bullied by the people!
In the past, after these people did bad things, the common people's grievances were all thrown at the court and the government, thinking that it was the collusion between the government and the business that made them so miserable.

Now, Zhu Changluo directly sets a benchmark next to them, allowing them to have an intuitive look at the real situation of the court, so as to compare their own situation, let them weigh in their hearts, and see if the court treats them well, or those so-called Gentlemen are great benevolent people!
And this way, Zhu Changluo called it voting with your feet!

As long as the weavers in Suzhou and other places can calculate their own interests, they can make their own choices and vote with their feet to see which place they prefer?

"Suzhou Water Town is good, but it just doesn't work."

After staying in Suzhou for six or seven days, Emperor Wanli began to feel tired.

After all, gardens are what Suzhou can offer. Although other entertainments are okay, as an emperor, Emperor Wanli still needs face and majesty, so many fun things cannot be deeply involved.

This made Emperor Wanli feel a little bit on pins and needles in Suzhou. He wanted to go to Jinling early to see if Jinling, which he had been dreaming about for 20 years, was really like the one described in the Dream of Red Mansions.

Zhu Changluo heard Emperor Wanli's complaints, and knew that he had been in Suzhou for a long time.

Therefore, Zhu Changluo directly ordered Dong Qichang to sit in Suzhou temporarily to supervise all affairs in Suzhou and Zhili Shanghai Mansion until Xu Guangqi took office as the Zhili Shanghai Mansion Chancellor.

Due to Xu Guangqi's qualifications and the establishment of Zhili's Shanghai prefecture, Zhu Changluo did not directly appoint a full-time prefect of the Shanghai prefecture, but only temporarily set up a prefect, and Dong Qichang concurrently served as prefect.

Both Dong Qichang and Xu Guangqi are from Shanghai. Let these two locals build their own hometown. Zhu Changluo believes that even if these two people have selfish intentions, they will definitely lay the foundation of Zhili Shanghai Prefecture meticulously.

After all, they also want the name and reputation of the village, and neither of them wants to be pointed at their noses and scolded for nothing after thousands of years.

Therefore, in principle, Zhu Changluo broke the measure that local people should not serve as local officials in certain procedures in the appointment of chief officials in Zhili Shanghai.

(End of this chapter)