My Daming New Empire

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Today it was Zhu Zhanji's turn to spend the night in Lan Liangdi's palace, and seeing Xue Shanggong hugging Zhu Qizhen, he asked curiously, "Why did you bring Qizhen here?"

"It's all slaves. Today I told the young prince the story of His Highness's childhood. Hearing His Highness practice martial arts, he also wants to practice martial arts. The noise makes people unable to calm down."

"Daddy, Daddy, I want to practice martial arts." Zhu Qizhen was a little afraid of Zhu Zhanji, lying on Xue Shanggong's shoulder, showing a small face, and said timidly.

Zhu Zhanji smiled and said: "Your bones are still weak now, when you enter school, Daddy will find you a master, okay?"

Zhu Qizhen nodded, not daring to look at Zhu Zhanji, and calmed down, Xue Shanggong handed him over to the nanny and asked her to carry him down.

Xue Shanggong stood still behind Zhu Zhanji, pinched his shoulders for him, and said softly: "The imperial concubine just talked to the servant girl and said that she would like to thank Your Highness."

Zhu Zhanji knew that this was because he said that Concubine Zhang would stay in the palace to preside over the overall situation, and Zhu Di should have told Concubine Zhang.

Going to sea with an old man who seldom touches her to suffer, naturally, she is not as comfortable as staying in the palace as the queen mother.

"Understood." Zhu Zhanji pressed her hand, turned back and said: "You are already familiar with the East Palace, I will not take care of the Harem, and you should pay more attention to the West Palace in the future."

"Your servant knows that these days I have been familiarizing myself with the situation of the West Hall and the imperial chef."

The central axis of the palace is the three halls of Fengtian Temple.On the south side of the East Palace are the Wenhua Hall, Wenyuan Pavilion, and the library of scriptures.In the middle are Yongfu Palace, Yongshou Palace, and Xingqing Palace.

On the south side of the West Palace is the Martial Arts Field, the Hall of Martial Arts where Zhu Di handled government affairs, then the Imperial Kitchen, and then the West Palace, which is symmetrical to Xingqing Palace.

Except for a few old concubines from the Zhu Yuanzhang period, there are almost no people in the West Palace now, but there is also a big imperial chef in the West Palace, which has always been a channel for everyone in the palace to learn about the outside world.

Dragons and snakes are mixed there, and eunuchs and court ladies are all passers-by with no future, and it is difficult to manage.

Zhu Zhanji couldn't intervene before, but now, he must intervene in a legitimate way.

Today's West Palace is empty, so Zhu Di likes to handle government affairs in the Wuying Hall.Zhu Zhanji can do it now, but if Zhu Di dies in the future, Zhang Guifei and the others will move from the harem to the West Palace.

At that time, in order to avoid suspicion, it was not easy for Zhu Zhanji to handle government affairs in the Wuying Hall.But if the Hall of Martial Arts is not used, it will be a waste.

At the same time, in order to control the information channels inside and outside the palace, Zhu Zhanji's first fire in the palace was to separate the front and back of the West Palace.

But this matter is not in a hurry, and it will not be too late to build the separation wall after Zhu Di leaves.

(I found out that you are all too dirty, all of you are small steam trains... I lost my mind and turned somersaults on the bed, but fell down. When I fell down, my ribs hit the corner of the end of the bed.... Checked , the impact is not very big, just can’t take a deep breath, can’t exercise vigorously. Thank you for your concern.)

Chapter 49 Changes

Izumo Country, Iwami Port.

Ever since His Royal Highness Taisun conquered Dongying and moved the entire imperial family to Yingtian Mansion, the joint trade between Daming and Dongying has become a long-term trade.

A large number of Ming merchants entered the major ports of Dongpu, bringing in countless commodities from the Ming Dynasty.

Today's Dongying has no industry, only some handicrafts, but compared with Ming Dynasty, it is far from it.

Therefore, the major ports have developed rapidly, forming trade centers one after another.

The shogunate didn't have much to do in this process. They didn't dare to control the merchants of Ming Dynasty, they could only watch the cheap goods of Ming Dynasty occupy the Japanese market.

The vast majority of Dongying people rejoice, because they can also have cheap clothes to wear, have rice bowls, and some self-employed farmers who are willing to work can even afford iron pots.

However, being nice to ordinary people does not mean that the Japanese shogunate and the major daimyos like it, because they used to be able to take life and death from ordinary people, but now, more and more people are disobedient.

These people were influenced by the merchants of the Ming Dynasty and learned of external information. They were uneasy and tried every means to go to the affluent Daming.

What's even worse are those merchants of Ming Dynasty. They used Dongying to have no management rights over them, and they also had huge merchant ships to transport a large number of young men and women from Dongying to Ming Dynasty.

The only thing the shogunate can control now is the taxation power permitted by Ming Dynasty.

By collecting taxes, they quickly collected a huge amount of wealth, but this wealth flowed to Daming through trade.

The life of the shogunate was relatively easy. Ming Dynasty assisted them in establishing a tax system. There were tens of thousands of tax collectors in the whole of Japan. These tax collectors could collect much more gold and silver from the shogunate every year than before.

But for the daimyos, times are getting tougher these days.

When the hearts of the people are scattered, it is difficult to manage. If they are suppressed by cruel methods, the people will only flee to other big names, or even go to Daming.

But to treat the people in a gentle way, they don't have this condition at all now.Without the resources looted from the common people, they simply cannot maintain the increasingly tense social situation.

In later generations, Dongying's craftsman spirit is the most advocated by the people, and it is believed that Dongying's spirit of excellence has shaped the quality of Dongying.

Many families of craftsmen have been doing one kind of thing for several generations or dozens of generations, so they can create a quality that others can't match.

But in fact, this is not an active behavior, but a passive behavior.

Because the social structure of Dongying is rigid, the royal family will always be the royal family, the nobles will always be the nobles, the daimyo will always be the daimyo, and the common people will always be the common people.

If you make tofu, your family has been making tofu for generations, and you will never be allowed to study to change your destiny.

Your family is making umbrellas, so your family will make umbrellas honestly from generation to generation!

Because of being forced, there are many families in Japan who have only done that kind of thing for hundreds of years, which has created their superb quality.

However, Daming has now moved the entire royal family to Daming, and a large number of Daming businessmen have poured in, so the current social structure of Dongying has undergone tremendous changes.

This change made the aristocrats and ruling class in Japan a little at a loss.

Izumo Country, because of the partition of the central mountain system, has never belonged to the central area of ​​Japan.

But when Iwami Yinshan was discovered, it became more and more prosperous here.

In the beginning, it was just some free people who came to work here.Ji Gang is rich and bought a large amount of grain from Nanyang. In Dongying, grain is hard currency.

In the mines owned by the Dongying people, laborers work hard for a day, and the wages they earn can only support two people at most.

But at the Iwami Silver Mine, Ji Gang greatly increased his salary. As long as he didn't slack off, the food he exchanged could feed five people.

This kind of treatment is very attractive to Dongying people, attracting a large number of stonemasons and workers.

In addition to the free workers, there are thousands of slaves in the silver mines. These slaves were not captured by Ji Gang and the others, but were captured by the daimyos in Japan during their mutual wars.

These people have no human rights. After being bought by Ji Gang, they only need to be fed every day, and they will work honestly in the mine.

Sufficient manpower allowed the development of the silver mine to quickly enter a prosperous period. Although it was only the third year, the silver mine now produces more than 50 taels of silver every year.

Ji Gang can keep 50% of the [-] taels of silver, which is a huge fortune.

Of course, it's not easy for him to get the [-]%. In Dongpu, he has to face countless assassinations and attacks, and has to support a large number of subordinates.

Although the navy has a water village here, apart from guarding the mine, it will not promote Ji Gang's development in Japan.

But Ji Gang wants to do food trade and population trade, but he cannot lack a reliable force.

In order to strengthen his strength, he recruited soldiers and horses, and bought various weapons from Daming at high prices to protect his own interests.