Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 524
Although it was already May, Miaotun at the northernmost tip of the Ming Dynasty was still covered with ice and snow. Even the emperor Zhu Youxiao had to take a sled when he came here.

And the island at the northern end of Fusang, which is now Hokkaido, has not yet completely melted the ice, so the plan to build another resort on the island has to be shelved.

Because of this, Zhu Youxiao did not go to Ezo Island again, but directly entered Miaotun.

Miaotun is located at the estuary of the Heilongjiang River. It was the seat of Nuer Gandusi in the past. Today, it is part of the Liaodong Chief Commissioner North Road together with Sakhalin Island. The development of the mining and transportation industries has made this place more than ten times more prosperous than before.

In Miaotun, there are public constructions almost all the time. A large number of formerly captured Cossacks are very good slaves. They work very hard under the supervision of the supervisors. Although many of them died of exhaustion or were beaten to death, But it also made the entire Miaotun city expand significantly.

These Cossacks, who were originally the most proud and beautiful, have now become the most humble people in Liaodong, and their lives are not protected by the Ming law. A little girl can yell at any Cossack.

Although they have fists, everything is futile in front of the black hole-like muzzle.

In the north of Miaotun, there are still two brigades of the Ming Army stationed in Duhanhewei, Yiwenshanwei, Duoerbihewei, and Nangharwei and Wunihewei on Sakhalin Island across the sea. Yemuhewei is also building the fifth fleet of the Ming Dynasty. Its purpose is to control the northernmost sea area, and it has not prepared to occupy the Bering Strait and enter the Americas in the future.

The northernmost part of the sea is no longer called the Sea of ​​Japan, but was named the Yongle Sea by His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty to commemorate the maritime feats of the Ming Dynasty during the Yongle period.

In this way, the Lee Dynasty of North Korea became a dynasty within the Ming Dynasty, and was almost surrounded by the Ming Dynasty. However, the Lee Dynasty did not know the current situation. After the Manchu Dynasty was destroyed, he also breathed a sigh of relief. But it's not that the painstaking efforts are made, but that the singing and dancing are still peaceful.

After Zhu Youxiao ordered Wen Tiren to force the Li Shi Dynasty to sign a compensation treaty for betraying the suzerain state and surrendering to the enemy Manchu without authorization, he did not directly attack the Li Dynasty. After all, North Korea has experienced war, and the trauma is not small. Pigs also have to be raised for several years to grow fat.

The content of the compensation is to lease several natural ports that can be garrisoned to Daming for 100 years at the price of one silver dollar for 200 years, so that Daming can help it resist foreign aggression and no longer be looted by the Manchu Qing. Sponsor 30 silver dollars for the prosperity and construction of Greater East Asia.

As a matter of fact, the Li Dynasty is now surrounded by Daming on all sides. Apart from Daming, it is impossible to encounter foreign aggression. An unequal treaty for self-cedement and compensation.

In short, the entire East Asia has become the private domain of Ming Dynasty, and no one dares to challenge the authority of Zhu Youxiao, His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty.

Although these Cossacks who are engaged in the lowest construction work in Miaotun Mansion are not protected by the law and will not be allowed to intermarry with people from Ming Dynasty, they are only allowed to learn the language and culture of Ming Dynasty, but Zhu Youxiao allows them to establish a family internally and Those who get paid enough to meet their basic needs through labor, so they can also endure this kind of life that is inferior to Han people.

At this moment, Ming Dynasty, as a trust empire, needs to sacrifice the blood and sweat of some people to achieve the purpose of primitive accumulation of capital. Since these sacrifices cannot be used on the people of the country, they can only make these foreigners become victims.

Seeing those Cossacks who were exhausted and carried out of the city due to long hours of overtime work, Zhu Youxiao couldn't bear it, but he couldn't change anything. After all, he was the emperor of the Han people, but he still sent an order to Liaodong's chief envoy. , these Cossacks can have tombs after death, and their descendants are allowed to pay homage, but they must use Chinese etiquette and writing.

It is not only the Cossacks who made sacrifices for the further capital prosperity of Ming Dynasty, but also the Kunlun slaves who were trafficked by the West and the local aborigines who were plundered from all over the world.

Of course, there are also the low-level employees of Europa. Many people don’t know that among the labor value they earned for a piece of black bread, apart from being exploited by the factory owners in their own country, some of them have entered the capitalist class of Ming Dynasty. pocket, and was spent on a woman's belly.

But now these are not enough, Zhu Youxiao needs more people to provide fresh blood for Daming, not just by exploiting the bottom people in the world, because no one knows whether these bottom people will be unbearable after being exploited for a long time Under the circumstances, overthrow the local government that is a puppet of Ming Dynasty or seek independence, so that the next powerful country that can challenge Ming Dynasty will emerge.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao wants the rich and noble people in various regions of the world, that is, the rulers, to also donate their savings over the years to Daming.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao wanted to develop the state-run opium trade.

But before that, he has to launch a wave of anti-smoking campaigns.

In the Ming Dynasty, there should be no such thing as opium trading anyway. This kind of thing will only destroy the fighting spirit of the people and affect their own rule, and it will also make some selfish businessmen with ulterior motives and chasing fame and fortune grow too strong and threaten their own. rule, and it will also cause great social problems.

Outside of Ming Dynasty, there can be endless exploitation and plunder, but inside of Ming Dynasty, the progress of civilization must be further promoted, and relative equality and stability should be maintained as much as possible.

Therefore, smoking must be banned in the country!

Zhu Youxiao issued another decree to let Liu Ruoyu rush to Hetuala from Shenyang, and Zhu Youxiao also formally met the admiral of the East Factory in Hetuala.

"You are called to use the power of Dongchang to carry out an anti-smoking campaign. I will issue a decree that after half a year, merchants must prohibit the trade of opium and other drugs in the country. After three months, if anyone conducts opium trade again, Once discovered, no matter whether he is a high-ranking prince or a trafficker, he will be shot to death!"

When Zhu Youxiao said this, Liu Ruoyu couldn't help but give a twitch in his heart, and raised his head to look at Li Mingrui, and Li Mingrui's face was ashen ashes at this time.

Zhu Youxiao also knew that they might have some relationship with these trades, but he still pretended not to know it. After all, he didn’t want to thoroughly prohibit foreign barbarians from selling opium, but he forgot that domestic businessmen would also operate this business. At the beginning, he didn't directly use thunder methods, but after this order, if these domestic businessmen don't stop, don't blame him for being rude!
In order to worry that these merchants would sell a large amount of tobacco and soil to the people through low-priced sales within half a year and poison the common people, Zhu Youxiao also added a strict order that all the tobacco and soil in the hands of traders must be released from their households except those that have already left the country. If it is purchased in a unified manner by the Ministry, if it is privately traded in the private sector, it will also be ransacked and questioned.

(End of this chapter)