Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Nanjing.

Forbidden City, Hall of Martial Arts.

Aunt Zhu convened a joint meeting of the Military Aircraft Department and the cabinet to discuss a series of affairs brought about by the signing of the "Edo Treaty".

"How should Tsushima take over?"

"The name of the Tsushima Domain is Zongshi, which is said to have originated from the Heian period in Japan. Because almost no food was produced on the island, the people lived on fishing, and the feudal lord made money from sea trade, so he was extremely dependent on the Japanese hub.

We have to take over Tsushima Island, or drive out the Zong family and the local people.If you want to keep the native people, it is best to keep the Zong family and assist in governance. "

"Keep the Zong family and the local people? Isn't that causing trouble for us? According to the information obtained by Jin Yiwei, there are only more than 1 soldiers and civilians on this island. Why don't they all be deported to Japan?"

"In this way, wouldn't we only get an empty sea island? You should know that there is a shortage of people everywhere in my Ming Dynasty.

New lands such as Qinghai and Luzon need people to open up wasteland for reclamation, not to mention that even some places in the country also need manpower.

I heard that private sea merchants have transferred natives from Nanyang and hired them to domestic landlords for farming.Now tens of thousands of Japanese natives can get it by rubbing their hands, so why send it back to Japan? "

Hao Guangming heard the discussion of these military ministers and cabinet ministers through the camera Zhu Yu fixed on his chest and the radio equipment installed in the hall, and he couldn't help smiling.

From the content of their conversations, it can be seen that the insight, perception of the world, and perspective of things of these important ministers of the Ming Dynasty are very different from before.

Become very materialistic.

In addition, their conversations also reflected some changes in the folk of Ming Dynasty.

Such as the lack of manpower.

An empire as big as Ming Dynasty now has a population of more than 1 million people, so not all places lack manpower.

First, the newly opened land and the newly recovered frontiers, such as Qinghai, Luzon, Liaoxi, Liaodong and other places, need to be reclaimed by human hands.

The second is places where labor costs are high, such as Nanzhili, Chongqing, and fast-growing coastal cities such as Hangzhou and Guangzhou. Landlords and workshop owners need cheap labor.

This situation directly stimulated the rise of the civil "labor industry" in Ming Dynasty.

In fact, since Auntie Zhu issued a decree to implement the "Prostitution Prohibition Order" a few years ago, prohibiting women in Ming Dynasty from being prostitutes and even selling jokes in brothels, the labor service industry in Ming Dynasty has appeared.

Because the Ming Dynasty had banned human trafficking very early on, in order to survive, some brothels cooperated with maritime merchants to "hire" foreign women from overseas to come to Daming as prostitutes.

Daming now has laws and government orders similar to the "Labor Law", but it only protects the people of Ming Dynasty, and foreigners are not within the scope of protection.

As a result, some maritime merchants "hired" women from overseas at extremely low prices, and then transferred them to brothels in Daming at higher prices.

Some of the employment contracts signed during this period are very unfavorable to the employed, but in fact they are not much different from prostitution.

In the past, the target of "hiring" was limited to foreign women, but now some people find that some places need cheap labor, so they include natives from Southeast Asia, India and other places in the scope of "hiring".

Although these phenomena are not obvious because of the short period of time, they do exist.

Some ministers noticed this kind of phenomenon, and even involved related interests, so they naturally plotted against Japan's population.

The population of Japan in the seventeenth century was quite large, with more than 500 million registered.If the hidden population is counted, it is probably more than 2000 million.

In Europe at the same time, only a handful of countries such as Spain had a population of more than 1000 million.

Therefore, as long as the labor service merchants of Ming Dynasty have brains, sooner or later they will focus on the Japanese population.

This time, the Toyo Navy defeated more than 3 shogunate troops in the First World War in Edo and forced the Tokugawa shogunate to sign the "Edo Treaty", which was tantamount to clearing the way for labor merchants.

It can be predicted that in the next decade or even decades, Ming labor service merchants will inevitably regard Japan as the main source of labor.

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When Hao Guangming's thoughts were flying wildly, and the words of the ministers were associated with some changes in Ming Dynasty, the discussion on the matter of Tsushima Island here quickly came to a result.

After Aimee Zhu made a decision, it was decided to move the Zong family to China.

As for the tens of thousands of natives on Tsushima Island, if they are willing to sign a contract with the Ming court officials to reclaim wasteland in Qinghai, Liaoxi, Liaodong and other places, Daming will be responsible for relocating their entire family to Daming Shibian.

If you are unwilling, the Japanese side will be responsible for accepting and relocating them.

After that, Daming recruited [-] to [-] households of Ming people to immigrate to Tsushima Island with a high enough salary.

Another thousand garrison troops will be stationed, and naval camps will be built, which will be used as naval transit places and important military bases.

As for moving the Zong family to Daming, it was a proposal made by Ye Tinggui, the assistant of the Military Affairs Council.

First, the Zong family has been the feudal lord of Tsushima Island for hundreds of years, deeply rooted in the local area, and has connections in Japan.If he is allowed to move into Japan, he will most likely become the vanguard of Japan's anti-Ming in the future, because only when Japan defeats Ming can the Zong family regain their vassal land.

The second is to refer to the practice of moving the nobles of the six countries to Xianyang in the Qin Dynasty and the wealthy people in Chang'an in the Han Dynasty.

No matter what, the Zong family had been the lord of the Tsushima domain for hundreds of years, and must have accumulated a lot of money.

Moving him into the country and giving the head of the family a false job will not only make him give up the idea of ​​​​redoing the lord of the Tsushima vassal, but also make Japan lose one anti-Ming nobleman, and allow him to invest or spend his accumulated money in Daming.

It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

Finally, if the Zong family's children are up to the challenge, they can still get along well in Daming after Sinicization, which is also a good example for other Japanese feudal lords.

When Daming wants to bite Japan again in the future, the resistance he encounters may be much smaller...
The relevant meeting on Japan lasted for three and a half days before it was considered over.

This afternoon, after taking a lunch break at the old house in Zhulin, Aimee Zhu came to the Forbidden City and did not correct the memorials. Instead, she went for a walk on horseback at the horse farm in the imperial city.

On Hao Guangming's side, after all, she was confined within a radius of five feet, and there were very few exercises she could do. Occasionally, she would find a place to exercise on Daming's side, which was considered a kind of leisure.

"drive."

Aimee Zhu was riding a white horse and trotting around the racecourse.

Several female knights followed cautiously - although Aimee Zhu ran very slowly, they were still afraid of accidents.

Among them, the closest female knight to Aimee Zhu was wearing a single bun, with blond hair and blue eyes, but she was Sophia, a Ukrainian girl who had been in the palace for more than three years.

After Sophia entered the palace, she first spent a long time learning Chinese, Chinese characters, and court etiquette of the Ming Dynasty. After studying for more than a year, she was barely qualified and officially became a court maid.

Afterwards, although she was summoned by Aunt Zhu several times because of her appearance, she was not reused.

It wasn't until she was lucky enough to come to the racecourse with Auntie Zhu that she found a chance to display her talents. She was born in a small nobleman in Ukraine. She learned to ride a horse when she was a child, and her riding skills are very good.

Although there are many female knights around Aimi Zhu, she is still very interested in Sophia who can ride a horse. After that, every time she comes to the racecourse, she invites her to accompany her.

After riding for almost half an hour, Auntie Zhu saw Liu Shuying entering the racecourse, so she reined in her horse and stopped.

Sophia quickly got off her horse and held onto the white horse that Aimee Zhu was riding.

Aimee Zhu didn't let people bow down and get off the horse, she turned over beautifully and got off the horse - her current physical fitness is no worse than those of the female riders around her.

Liu Shuying came, and after saluting, she said, "Your Majesty, there is a telegram from Gansu that the mission of the Yarkand Khanate has requested to enter."

After the war in the west, after Ming took over Qinghai and destroyed the Wara and Shuote tribes, the Yaerqiang Khanate sent envoys to Gansu to submit their credentials, hoping to have official friendly exchanges with Ming.

After that, Daming asked Honglu Temple to give a written reply.

Considering the time required for letters to and fro, and the time required for the internal decision-making of the Yarkand Khanate, it is normal to send envoys again after two years.

"Do you know the purpose of the Yarkand mission?"

"They said they came to pay tribute."

Tribute?

Auntie Zhu narrowed her phoenix eyes when she heard this.

As far as the Ming Dynasty was concerned, not only vassal states could come to pay tribute, but other surrounding countries could also.Sometimes the tribute has a certain political significance, but sometimes it is purely a state trade behavior.

According to her understanding, after the establishment of the Yarkand Khanate, there was friction with Ming Dynasty in the Western Regions, and even tried to invade Gansu, but failed.

As for commercial trade, it has always existed, but it is basically a non-governmental behavior.

So, did the Yarkand mission come to pay tribute this time purely for business, or for some political purpose?
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Good night~