Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 603
"Show the immigration iron plate! Be careful of your family and children, and each person should carry no more than [-] catties."

"Don't be crowded, line up according to the red line on the bottom of your feet!"

"Beep--"

At the Longjiang Port in Nanjing City, when the whistle of the yamen servants and soldiers and horses sounded, the wharf of the Longjiang Port at this moment was crowded with people preparing to emigrate.

Some people are going to Sichuan, some are going to Qi, and some are going to Nanyang.

Here, ships keep coming in and out, and there are many cruise ships cruising on the Yangtze River.

"Father, the water level of the Yangtze River has dropped a lot this year."

On a cruise ship, when a young man in a white round-neck robe spoke to the people in the boat, footsteps also came from inside the boat.

The door was opened, and Zheng Zhilong, who was slightly fat, walked out, and behind him, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy who came out was Zheng Zhilong's second son, Zheng Zongming.

As for the one who spoke to the two of them, it was Zheng Zhilong's eldest son, Zheng Fusong (Zheng Chenggong).

Zheng Fusong and Zheng Zongming were studying at Yingtianfu School in Nanjing, and Zheng Zhilong was mainly returning to Daming to report on his work this time, and he was planning to speculate on his allegiance to Zhu Youxiao who was in Nanjing.

As a well-known speculator in history, Zheng Zhilong hardly made any mistakes in his speculation.

Regardless of whether he surrendered to the Ming Dynasty or surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the choice Zheng Zhilong made was correct in terms of the general trend.

The only thing that Zheng Zhilong didn't expect was that the Qing Dynasty would confiscate his family property and execute him 13 years after he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

Zheng Zhilong's character was like this in history, and naturally it will not change now.

After he realized that it was impossible for King Qi to wear a yellow robe, he decisively chose to be loyal to Zhu Youxiao.

Therefore, the place where he returned to Beijing to report on his work this time was not the Dudu Mansion of the Five Armies in Beijing, but the Du Du Fu of the Five Armies in Nanjing.

Early this morning, under the guidance of Zheng Fusong and the other two, he went to report on his duties at the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and then let people spread the news that he wanted to pay homage to the emperor.

However, the emperor did not meet him, but only said some words of encouragement.

The meaning is nothing more than that the emperor thinks he can do it, but right now he can't squeeze into the core position of the royalist party.

Zheng Zhilong also knew that he was just a general soldier, and after King Qi restructured, the general soldier had only three battalions, and he had to obtain the approval of the governor's mansion if he wanted to be transferred.

Therefore, his weight in the court is not too great, and naturally he has no value worthy of the emperor's reception.

However, the matter is finally finished, all I have to do now is to slowly wait for the Qi Royal Party to withdraw from Daming.

Thinking of this, Zheng Zhilong was a little high-spirited, and Zheng Zongming next to him also said at a critical moment:

"It's really lowered a lot, it should be a foot?"

Zheng Zhilong was pulled back to reality by Zheng Zongming's exclamation, and saw that the piers of the Yangtze River Bridge in the distance were much higher, and the piers covered with dry moss also showed how severe the drought in Daming was this year.

It's only March now, and spring hasn't passed yet, but the water level of the Yangtze River has already dropped by a foot. If it comes to summer, some places in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River may dry up.

"There are a lot of immigrants here..."

Zheng Zhilong turned his attention to the immigrant queue at the pier. The place was crowded with people, perhaps tens of thousands.

"Well, there is a severe drought this year, and many people have heard that King Qi is leaving, so there are many immigrants."

"Fortunately, the imperial court has relaxed the restrictions on government immigration until the end of the year, otherwise many people would have no money to migrate."

Zheng Fusong said with a sigh, as if he felt very sorry for what happened to the people.

However, Zheng Zhilong, who was familiar with all the ways of the court, didn't care about it.

The so-called immigration restrictions are actually a means by the imperial court to promote immigration.

Unless there are really not too many immigrants, the court will only continue to postpone, and it is impossible to directly stop the immigration.

"You haven't been to Nanyang for a long time. Now the old port and Nanzhou are much more prosperous."

"Has anything changed?"

Zheng Zhilong and his two sons talked about the Old Port and Nanyang, and Zheng Fusong also curiously asked about his father.

Seeing this, Zheng Zhilong also talked about the changes in Old Port and Nanyang with his two sons in detail.

The drought in the three provinces in the south of the Yangtze River did not actually benefit the Qi State, but the three provinces of Jiugang, Jiaozhi, and Nanzhou, followed by Qi State, Sichuan, and Luchuan, and finally the northern provinces outside the Guan.

Since the 16th year of the Apocalypse, Nanzhili was the first to experience drought, and the current drought in Jiangnan has lasted for five years.

In the past six years, many people have immigrated.

From 59 at the beginning, to 10,000+ later, 100 million, and then to more than 200 million last year, Jiangnan has relocated at least 500 million people in a short period of time.

Of these populations, less than 70 people flocked to Qi, that is, nearly [-]% of the Han immigrants in Qi were Han Chinese from the three provinces in the south of the Yangtze River.

Except for the 70 people in Qi, the remaining 400 million people basically chose to move to Jiaozhi first, then Nanzhou, and finally Jiugang.

In the past six years, these three provinces have received more than 290 million immigrants, of which Jiugang and Nanzhou are the top three provinces of Daming immigrants with 86 and 80 respectively.

Ten years ago, the number of Han Chinese in Ming Dynasty was less than 30 in Nanzhou, and that in Jiugang was less than 300 million.

But before Zheng Zhilong went north, the population of Han people in Nanzhou had exceeded 150 million, the number of Han people in Jiugang had exceeded 400 million, and that of Jiaozhi had reached 500 million.

This is only the Han Chinese. If the natives are counted, the population of Jiugang and Jiaozhi has exceeded 1000 million.

A province with a population of 1000 million, even among the two capitals and thirteen provinces in the Central Plains, there are only three provinces in the south of the Yangtze River. Therefore, after the population increased, the local economy naturally developed rapidly.

Among them, Nanhai Mansion is the most rapidly developing.

Nanhai Mansion was established on the island of Java. The local terrain is not flat, but the volcanoes in it have brought hope of life to the island.

During the eruption, the volcano will melt the ore in the ground, bring the trace elements contained in it to the surface, and deposit it to form minerals with nutritional value for plants.

Therefore, the small island of Java has reclaimed more than 15 million mu of arable land in the past [-] years.

Therefore, Nanhai Mansion was also a newly wealthy place in the Ming Dynasty, and it was the first choice for gentry to immigrate.

Speaking of this, Zheng Zhilong also said to the two brothers: "I bought a mansion in Nanhai City in Nanhai Mansion, and when I am old, I will go here to retire."

"Hmm..." Zheng Fusong responded, and then looked at the people on the shore, puzzled, "Why didn't father go to Qi?"

"Qi State?" Zheng Zhilong was taken aback, he didn't expect his son to ask such a question.

Facing this question, he did not answer directly, but paused before saying:
"The law of the Qi State is very different from that of the Ming Dynasty. I'm afraid you and I won't be used to it if we live here for a long time."

The answer given by Zheng Zhilong was obviously covering up the facts. For the 16-year-old Zheng Fusong, he knew why his family could not go to Qi.

My father managed to get the Zheng family to establish a foothold in Fujian by being a pirate and an official.

Now that he is suddenly asked to go to Qi, he is naturally 1 unwilling.

Not only that, perhaps in the eyes of my father, although Qi State is good, it is always inferior to Daming, even though he has not been to Qi State yet.

"However, many students in the government school said that they would go to Qi State after graduation."

"Ok?"

Zheng Zongming who spoke suddenly made Zheng Fusong and Zheng Zhilong turn around subconsciously. Zheng Fusong didn't think it was strange, but Zheng Zhilong felt that the status of King Qi in the hearts of the students was too high.

However, he also felt that it was normal for King Qi to have a high status in the hearts of the students. After all, the textbooks the students studied were compiled and compiled by him.

It can be said that as long as every student takes out his books every day, what he sees are the words "Zhu Youjian's".

Compared with the emperor who is so high above and has only one portrait in the school, it is hard for people not to get close to these four words that can be seen from childhood to adulthood.

What's more, compared with the universal values ​​of Daming that were deeply poisoned by Cheng Zhu Neo Confucianism, the universal values ​​in Zhu Youjian's book are closer to the views of Confucianism and Mohism in the pre-Qin period.

In the textbooks compiled by Zhu Youjian, whether it is Chinese, or the dialogues when doing math and physics problems, the dialogues are all teaching a kind of value that all people are born equal and there is no distinction between high and low.

In contrast, since the Song and Ming dynasties, the theory of "monarch and minister, father and son" is hard not to be attacked by students who are in the period of rebellion.

This is the reason why the old school has not been able to cultivate its own people, because the promotion of official education has caused the value of "monarch, minister, minister, father, son" to collapse.

Instead, there are "national" values ​​popularized by Zhu Youjian.

Being patriotic does not necessarily mean loving the imperial court, and loving one's family does not necessarily mean adhering to the rules.

What should change will change, never rest on your laurels, only when you make continuous progress, can Daming make continuous progress.

Under this kind of education, the students who graduate after five years of primary school may not feel anything, because they are too young.

But for students who have graduated from middle school for five years, the society of Ming Dynasty is almost completely different from the education they received.

There are only a few people who can stay and change Daming, and more people prefer to go to Qi State where they feel comfortable.

Moreover, according to the replies from some seniors, it can be said that after the graduates go to Qi, they feel like a fish in water.

There are three nos in the officialdom of Qi State, namely "no chatting", "different banquets", and "no procrastination".

Not chatting means that officials basically don't talk about things other than official business. Even if they are very close, they often chat after returning home from work.

Different banquets do not eat in places other than the big chefs, officials are not allowed to initiate banquets, except for weddings, funerals and other major events, they can only eat together in the big chefs of the yamen on weekdays.

Not procrastinating means that everything must be dealt with before the curfew at Chenshi, and officials can go home to rest until the curfew starts and the people cannot go out.

These "three nos" do not mention the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, but all of them are officialdoms of the Ming Dynasty.

This is only the first point of difference between the officialdom of Qi State and the officialdom of Ming Dynasty. The more important point is that the officialdom of Qi State is younger and more creative.

These items are all in the mind of young and rebellious students from prefectural schools who are eager to realize their own personal value.

Zheng Fusong had seen all these things, and it was for this reason that Zheng Fusong asked his father.

It's just a pity that my father's answer disappointed me...

"You also want to go to Qi?"

Zheng Zhilong was not dull, seeing that his two sons couldn't leave Qi State every word, he immediately felt cold.

"baby……"

"Woooo-"

Just as Zheng Fusong was about to speak, he was interrupted by the whistle of a nearby ship.

When the ship passed by, even if Zheng Fusong didn't say anything, Zheng Zhilong understood what he was thinking.

He didn't ask Zheng Fusong any more, and Zheng Fusong didn't continue talking any more when he saw his somewhat unsightly expression.

The father and son took the cruise ship and gradually moved away from the crowded port.

It's just that when they left, on a high tower near the port, there were people like them who were melancholy.

Longjiang Tower, as the tallest tower in Nanjing designed by Zhu Youxiao himself, is 33 feet high, and can almost have a panoramic view of half of Nanjing City.

The whole tower covers an area of ​​one mu, surrounded by a forest garden covering an area of ​​five mu. It took only half a year to build and cost 6 taels of silver. It was built by Zhu Youxiao with internal funds and given to Nanjing people for free.

Since it was repaired half a year ago, it has become the favorite place of Jiangnan literati and poets.

However, they climbed up to the 29th floor at most. As for the highest [-]th floor, it has never been opened to the public.

The reason why it is not open is also very simple, because this floor is specially reserved for the emperor Zhu Youxiao to enjoy the scenery...

"Among them... how many are going to Qi?"

Standing behind the fence of the 30-story tower, Zhu Youxiao was not afraid of the height of more than [-] feet, but looked at the group of people in the port with a calm expression.

Standing on a high place, he can see more things.

Compared with the tens of thousands of people in the port, the 10,000+ crowded population outside the port was like a loud slap in the face of Zhu Youxiao.

"Officials in Southern Zhili this year estimate that there are about...about 27 people who want to immigrate to Qi."

Wang Tiqian stood behind Zhu Youxiao, carefully answering his question, but Zhu Youxiao still asked calmly after hearing the words: "What about other places?"

"Others..." Wang Tiqian paused, hesitating whether to speak, and finally lowered his head and replied, "About 60."

As if he was afraid that the emperor would be unhappy after he finished speaking, Wang Tiqian said quickly:

"Actually, the people didn't really want to go to Qi, but because of the drought in various places, they went out to make a living."

Although what he said sounds like an explanation, to Zhu Youxiao, it is not a kind of irony to him.

The so-called prosperity of the apocalypse means that millions of people flee abroad every year.

In such a situation, how dare you call it a prosperous age...

"How about the recent relocation of officials from Prince Qi's Mansion?"

Zhu Youxiao turned around and walked back to the tower, and there were many expensive furniture on the [-]th floor of the tower, all of which were obviously made by Zhu Youxiao.

"His Royal Highness King Qi is persuading the officials to relocate one by one. Some officials have heard the news and have taken the initiative to ask the Ministry of Households to transfer their citizenship to Qi."

Wang Tigan first responded, and then explained:

"In June of last year, the "Law of the Great Ming Dynasty" was changed again by His Royal Highness King Qi, and the "Fan King Chapter" was established."

"The whole story mainly tells that officials of the Ming Dynasty can put forward their ideas of taking office to the vassal states according to their wishes."

"If the vassal state agrees, the officials can go to the vassal state to govern, but they need to be approved by the cabinet, the six ministries, and the supervisor of rituals."

"In addition, a few days ago, it was added that vassal kings can serve in their vassal kingdoms, but only earls."

"The other thing is that the graduates of the feudal government school need a unified examination. If the students who pass the examination want to participate in the Enke to be an official, they need to come to the two capitals of Ming Dynasty to participate in the Enke."

"Officials after Enke's election can choose to return to the vassal state to take office, or they can choose to take office in Daming."

"Beside this there is……"

Wang Tigan talked a lot about Zhu Youjian's law formulation and reforms since last year, some of which are beneficial to the vassal state, and some are beneficial to Daming.

In short, the entire law is mainly established around the system of Ming Dynasty as the clan and countries as vassals.

Such a system also shows that Zhu Youjian himself still prefers to maintain the Daming suzerainty system, and does not want to divide the territory.

This is a good thing for Daming and Zhu Youxiao, but Zhu Youxiao is not happy.

The more Zhu Youjian perfected the Ming vassal system, the more he wanted to leave.

On the matter of his leaving Jiufan, Zhu Youxiao was always vacillating.

He didn't want Zhu Youjian to leave, but he knew that Zhu Youjian could not leave.

If he doesn't leave, he won't be able to sit securely.

He left, feeling a little dazed, not knowing what to do next.

Zhu Youxiao, who is used to his younger brother making decisions, always has some thoughts of escaping when faced with a future where he needs to make decisions by himself.

But if Zhu Youjian showed that he didn't want to leave, Zhu Youxiao was always anxious, for fear that his younger brother would be dressed in a yellow robe by the people below, and his head would be separated.

He sat on a pear wood chair in the pagoda, looked at the blue sky and river view in the distance, and didn't know what to think.

"How is the princess?"

Zhu Youxiao couldn't think of a reason, so he could only put the matter about Zhu Youjian out of his mind and mentioned his daughter-in-law.

"Well, there are still five months before the delivery..."

Wang Tiqian responded in a regular manner, and Zhu Youxiao didn't say anything more when he heard the words, but stood up and prepared to go down the tower, and at the same time said to Wang Tigan:

"The matter of Qi's relocation is up to the crown prince, and the approval will be approved."

"Your maidservant takes orders..." Wang Tigan's heart tightened, knowing that the emperor still couldn't bear it, so he quickly nodded in response.

After answering, he also took someone to serve Zhu Youxiao down the high tower and set foot on the way back to the Nanjing Imperial Palace.

When they were on their way home, the Southern Kunlun Supervisory Commissioner, which benefited from the drought in the three southern provinces, also ushered in a small period of prosperity.

"Let's go! Let's go! Be careful with the car!"

"Immigrants come here, don't stand on the road!"

"Show your immigration iron plate, watch your luggage and children."

At the port of Kunlun County, when three immigrant boats arrived here, the local officials in charge of reception also began to resettle the immigrants intensively.

At sea, the port where countless cruise ships are moored is full of tourists. One cruise ship after another sails out of the port, carrying goods to enjoy the beautiful scenery on the way back.

At the port, there are bustling vehicles, crowds of people, and boats of livestock brought in from Europe...

These scenes all stimulated the new immigrants, making them a little unbelievable about the prosperity of Kunlun County.

In fact, Kunlun County is not prosperous, but because the people who migrated here are too poor, they feel that this place is prosperous.

As the westernmost major city in the territory directly under the Ming Dynasty, after several years of development, Kunlun County is not comparable to cities like Xi'an, Luoyang, Hanyang, and Changsha, but it can already be compared with ordinary prefectures.

However, there are not many Han people behind this kind of prosperity. This is also a problem that Wu Aheng, Yan Yingyuan, and Yan Yinshao are worried about.

"This is the ninth batch of immigrants at the end of this year. Calculated, there should be more than 40 immigrants in South Kunlun, right?"

In a tea shed at the pier surrounded by soldiers and soldiers, when Wu Aheng spoke, Yan Yingyuan, who was sitting opposite him, couldn't help but nodded:
"Returning to the supervisor, it is indeed the case. At present, there are more than 43 people in the two prefectures of Nankunlun."

"Among them, there are already 19 Han immigrants, and it should exceed 25 by the end of the year."

Yan Yingyuan's words expressed the helplessness of the Southern Kunlun Supervisory Commissioner.

There are 43 immigrants, but only 19 Han immigrants. The rest are male immigrants from Yingzhou and female immigrants from India.

For the Nankunlun Supervision Commission, which covers an area of ​​more than 300 million square kilometers and has more than 300 million reformed-through-labor workers, there are only 19 Han people in its jurisdiction, which undoubtedly makes it the worst "provincial" administrative unit in Ming Dynasty.

Even the Xiaoxiyang Supervisory Commission, which has only one prefecture, has 100 million Han immigrants, and the South Kunlun Supervisory Commission is only one-fifth of it.

"There are too few immigrants. I heard that the number of immigrants accepted by each province is [-]."

Wu Aheng sighed a little, and Yan Yingyuan was also very helpless: "We have already issued an immigration policy of [-] acres of cultivated land and five cattle for each person, but the immigration situation is still not optimistic."

"It seems that I have to write a letter to His Highness..." Wu Aheng could only shake his head and sigh after hearing this.

Each person has 25 mu of land and [-] cattle. This means that as long as a family moves here, they can get at least [-] mu of land and [-] cattle.

But even so, they still can't attract too many people.

It can't be blamed on them, after all, the vassal kings of Levia are all offering the same price, and everyone has joined the battle of grabbing people.

Compared with the Qi State, which has a natural attraction, the vassal states in various places can only use policies to attract them, and at the same time, they also need to face the malicious price hikes of "peers".

For example, the current policy of "one hundred acres per person and five oxen" of the Levitical feudal clans was the result of the policy of "[-] mu of cultivated land per person and two ploughing oxen" by the small Western clans.

Except for Qi, the other vassals are taking advantage of the disaster in the three provinces in the south of the Yangtze River to "rob" the population.

The more Han Chinese there are, the more stable their local rule will be, which is the reason for the vassal kings to rob people.

But the more people they robbed, the fewer people the Southern Kunlun Supervisors robbed.

Therefore, Wu Aheng, who could not accept the malicious price hike, could only move out King Qi to sanction the feudal vassals.

An hour after he sighed, more than a dozen homing pigeons were released from Kunlun County and flew towards Daming in the east...

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