[North Korea - the negative teaching material of Daming]
In Ming Dynasty's control of Yinzhou, there was a civilian governor to supervise the generals, and eunuchs were set up to supervise the civilian officials.
Regardless of whether they are civil servants or military generals, they all have prospects for promotion, so they are relatively restrained.
The eunuchs sent to Yinzhou were far away from the center of power, and their promotion paths were very narrow. Therefore, each one was more greedy and cruel than the last. This situation was particularly obvious during the Chongxing period (Zhu Changdan).
In the seventh year of Chongxing, there was a riot in Shengzhou, expelling civil servants and killing eunuchs.
After the riot broke out, Chen Li's grandson, Chen Anchang, carried several indigenous heads and went to personally plead guilty to the governor of Yinzhou and the chief eunuch of Yinzhou. He said that the riot was caused by the indigenous people and that the troublemakers had been executed, and he boldly asked the court for forgiveness.
The governor and the eunuch looked at each other. Not only did they not dare to punish him, but they were eager to comfort him.
Shengzhou was the domain of the Chen family from the beginning. If the imperial court wanted to conquer it, it would need at least 50,000 troops, and it might not be possible to win. In fact, the terrain in Central America and southern Mexico is rugged and the climate is complex.
There are too many variables.
As long as the Chen family does not openly rebel and pay taxes to the court honestly, the governor and the eunuchs will be looking for trouble.
In the ninth year of Chongxing, a rebellion broke out in the Northern Sulong Kingdom. Tens of thousands of natives surrounded Mazu City, and 20,000 to 30,000 Han people followed in the rebellion.
The rebellion was quickly suppressed, Beisulong Kingdom was destroyed, and the imperial court established Beisulong Mansion.
This incident shocked the government and the public. The rebellion of the indigenous people was nothing. The Han people actually helped the indigenous people to fight. You can imagine how angry the local people were! The Yinzhou patrol censor revealed the truth. The emperor couldn't suppress it even if he wanted to, so he ordered the governor
and the chief eunuch were all dismissed.
The real turning point came with Emperor Wu Zong Zhu Youzhen, who spent three years in Yinzhou and saw with his own eyes what the colony was like.
When the chief eunuch of Yinzhou returned to China, he specially used an official treasure ship to transport the eunuch's embezzled property. After returning to China, he reported the shipwreck and said that two ships had sunk.
Reappropriate funds for the construction of treasure ships.
After Zhu Youzhen returned to the court to clean up the powerful officials, he killed more than ten civil servants in one go due to the Yinzhou corruption case, and dozens of eunuchs had their homes confiscated and beheaded.
From then on, Yinzhou no longer sent eunuchs, the power of the governor was also weakened, the power of the state civil servants was strengthened, and the number of patrol censors in Yinzhou increased to twelve.
As for the treasure ships sent by the imperial court to Yinzhou, the responsibility of each ship fell to the captain.
If a ship sinks, even if the captain is saved, it will be an unforgivable death penalty. If more than two ships sink at a time, the fleet commander will be dismissed from his post to investigate. Even if the ship really sinks due to wind and waves, the fleet commander will not be allowed to serve as an official again.
As a result, the number of shipwrecks dropped sharply, and the gold and silver the imperial court obtained from Yinzhou increased sharply.
However, in the third year of reform, Zhu Youzhen was shot and killed, and the laws he promulgated were no longer strictly followed.
After Yanjia Emperor Zhu Cizhen cut off his powerful ministers at the age of eighteen, the first thing he did was to restore his father's reform decree, and the amount of money brought back from Yinzhou gradually increased.
By the way, Zhu Cizhen also learned from Zhu Houzhao and built a new Xiyuan army. He was afraid that he would die suddenly, so he replaced the Jin Yiwei and the palace guards, and also replaced most of the eunuchs in the palace.
Zhang Mei was riding on the treasure-carrying official ship heading to Yinzhou.
There are a total of twenty-eight ships in the fleet, ten of which are fully armed warships with a relatively small cargo capacity. Ten are armed merchant ships that can transport cargo and fight. The last eight are pure cargo ships with no combat effectiveness at all.
When the treasure fleet set out, it was loaded with goods from the Ming Dynasty, shipped to the Yinzhou colonies for wholesale, and then returned filled with goods from each colony.
When Zhu Cizheng announced the reform, he also left room for profit for the worms. That is, official trade was allowed, and officials were allowed to reach out, but Yinzhou's tax money was never allowed to get involved!
In particular, the gold and silver mines in Yinzhou must be branded as "official silver". Anyone who dares to reach out will be tantamount to treason.
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early morning.
Zhang Mei was admiring the morning sun on the deck, when suddenly a voice came from behind: "Mr. Kunshan is so elegant."
Zhang Mei turned around and saw a middle-aged scholar. He cupped his fists and said, "May I ask your surname?"
"I don't dare," said the young scholar, "I am a handsome man with a rich and elegant character. I have been working as a doctor in the Imperial College before."
"It turns out to be brother Yu Cai." Zhang Mei suddenly realized.
The local civil servants in Yinzhou initially selected Jinshi, but the Jinshi refused to take up their posts, so they had no choice but to let the candidates go.
Unfortunately, it was too remote. In the past few decades, Hai Rui started his career in Yinzhou and rose to the rank of Censor of Youdu. The rest of the civil servants in Yinzhou, limited by their origins, could only serve as magistrates.
Another background is that he was a teacher in the Northern and Southern Imperial Colleges.
Wang Yuan reformed the Imperial College system, so that teachers could be upgraded, and those who taught Jinshi could be released as officials. In these years, more than ten Doctors of the Five Classics of the Imperial College were released to Yinzhou as county magistrates.
The Fang Wenxiu in front of him must have also gone to Yinzhou to serve as county magistrate.
Fang Wenxiu cupped his hands and said, "Although Chi is ten years older, I dare not call him brother. Mr. Kunshan can just call me by his first name."
Zhang Mei was not polite and asked: "Where will Yu Cai take up his post?"
Fang Wenxiu said: "Xiangsong County, Shengzhou Prefecture."
Zhang Mei couldn't help but feel a little pitiful about Fang Wenxiu. This man was already in his forties. Not to mention that he was sent to Yinzhou, but he was still serving as an official in the Chen family's territory. The Chen family in Shengzhou had ulterior motives. Everyone knew about this.
It's almost as if he has not established himself as a king.
Zhang Mei could only say: "The incense in Xiangsong County is good, and the price is better than gold. It is a good place to go."
Not only is the price comparable to gold, when it was sold to Ming Dynasty, the price was four to five times that of gold.
In the beginning, Chen only collected rosin for sale, and it was used by Ming craftsmen as an auxiliary material for making ink. The calligraphy and painting works produced with this ink have a refined fragrance, which has the effect of refreshing the mind. The nobles especially like the fragrant ink.
A Buddhist and Taoist scripture.
Gradually, Chen recruited ink-making craftsmen to make fragrant ink directly at the place of origin.
Even, the ink ash is directly fired from fragrant pine, making the fragrant ink more fresh and natural.
While cultivating and planting fragrant pine, Chen also issued a ban: whoever dares to chop down a fragrant pine branch will have his hand cut off; whoever dares to cut down a fragrant pine tree will have his head chopped off!
Shengzhou fragrant ink is the only one that has no other brand. It is not easy to buy it even if you have money in Ming Dynasty.
Moreover, this thing is still a tribute, so the royal family has to withhold part of it.
Fang Wenxiu smiled bitterly. He was about to serve in Xiangsong County for five years. He couldn't be greedy even if he wanted to, because the county government was full of cronies of the Chen family. The only hope of getting rich was that when he left office, the Chen family gave him a gift.
Two sticks of incense and ink, after returning home, bribed the officials to see if they could arrange a good job.
When the fleet rounded the coast of North Korea, Fang Wenxiu had nothing to say: "I heard that there was a coup in the North Korean palace and that the Queen Mother is now in charge."
Zhang Mei snorted coldly: "North Korea is a degenerate country where officials and businessmen have harmed the country. The Ming Dynasty should learn from it!"
"Yes." Fang Wenxiu had to follow the words. He knew that Zhang Mei was worried about the country and the people.
North Korea is really hopeless. Two groups of nobles are in charge of the government, and the nobles also work part-time as compradors. Officials and businessmen are already one, officials are businessmen, and businessmen are officials.
Not only was the Jishi School of thought banned, but the spread of physics was also prohibited. Only Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism and Yangming's Neo-Confucianism remained in North Korea.
The king of Korea changes every ten years on average.
Three of the kings actually wanted to take back their power, but they were deposed after showing signs of doing so.
Now it is simply the harem that governs the affairs, and the Queen Mother also comes from two groups of nobles.
As for the territory of North Korea, when Wang Yuan was still in Dingyou, it had already shrunk. The four northwest counties and six northeastern towns of North Korea were all expanded by the early Ming Dynasty and were formerly the territory of the Yuan Dynasty.
At that time, Wang Yuan and Ding You were at home, and Zhu Zaiyi was eager to expand abroad. One of them was to regain the old lands inherited from the Yuan Dynasty.
Advancing by land and water, with soldiers pressing down on the border, North Korea directly chose to cede territory.
Today, the border between North Korea and the Ming Dynasty is not along the Yalu River and the Tumen River, but from the Chongchuan River and the Miaoxiang Mountains to the east. Changjin Lake and other things are all within the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
North Korea has become a negative teaching material. Upright ministers admonished the emperor and often used North Korea as an example to illustrate the negative consequences of the integration of government and businessmen. The king even became a puppet of the government and businessmen.
The temperature has continued to drop over the years, making it even more difficult for the Korean people. Countless people freeze to death and starve to death every year. However, the government, business and comprador people are richer than ever and can enjoy the luxuries from the Ming Dynasty.
But, again, compared to Japan, North Korean people are living in paradise.