Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1708 Why do Ming people live the life they have now?

"What's the benefit?"

"My husband, I think you should go out more often to see the lives of my Daming people in Hong Kong, and then to see the lives of local people. When you have a chance in the future, you can also go to see the lives of people from other European countries. Life."

"I think you will understand, what good is this for me, Daming."

He looked at Tang Bohu, but he was only a daughter. If he was a man, he would be better at governing the country than Tang Bohu in front of him.

"Go out for a walk more?"

Tang Bohu was even more puzzled after hearing this.

But soon, he took Mrs. He into casual clothes and walked out of the Governor's Mansion, planning to take a stroll in Hong Kong.

The whole of Hong Kong is divided into two parts. One is the core area where the Ming people live, also called the wealthy area. The people living here are basically the Ming people plus a few local prominent people.

The other area is the area where the locals live, also called the slum area. The two areas are clearly separated. The rich area is clean and tidy, with spacious roads, beautiful houses, and every household is very grand.

Relatively speaking, the slum area is much messier and messier. Although many houses are newly built, there is a huge gap between them and the wealthy area where the Ming people live.

Tang Bohu walked the streets of the rich area with He Shi, where it was bustling and lively, and from time to time, he could see Ming men dragging their families, bringing a few European women and a group of children out to play.

"Sanggong, look at the life of the Ming people here."

"As long as we Daming people come here, all of them are masters. Not only can we get a large piece of land for free here, but also have immigration subsidies. Whether it is work or life, we can live very comfortably. Needless to say, wealth and wealth."

"Look at these people, all of them are crooked, but all the women around them are very beautiful, all of them are native Europeans, and they may be just one of the many concubines. Not even a concubine, but a slave."

"Look at the houses and streets here, how clean, tidy, and beautiful they are. Compared with the locals in the slums just across the road, they are much worse."

"The roads are not spacious enough, not clean enough, and the houses are not as good as here. If you look at the people everywhere, they are all envious of the people of Daming."

"Why can we Daming people live such a life, but they can only live a poor life?"

He pointed to everything in front of him and asked Tang Bohu.

"That's because we Daming people are more industrious and intelligent, so we can live the life we ​​have now."

Tang Bohu thought for a while and replied.

"Diligent and smart can lead a good life?"

He smiled and shook his head and said, "Didn't I, a Daming man, be diligent in the past?"

"Didn't I, Ming people, not be smart in the past?"

"However, even in Suyang, a land of fish and rice, ordinary people still live extremely hard. The poor people don't even have enough to eat, not to mention that almost everyone in Ming Dynasty can have three wives and four concubines like now. "

"Is this something that can be changed with hard work and intelligence?"

"Look at every place in Hong Kong. As long as it is dirty work and hard work, which one is not done by local people in Hong Kong, are they not hardworking?"

He asked back.

When Tang Bohu heard this, he couldn't help thinking deeply.

Thinking about it carefully, Daming has indeed undergone earth-shaking changes in these years, especially for ordinary Daming people at the bottom.

In the past, we couldn’t even eat enough, and our lives were tight. Farmers worked hard and diligently throughout the year, and it was difficult for them to take the lead to support a family.

Now, a large number of Ming people have flowed overseas and immigrated to outside the customs.

You can easily get a large amount of land rewards, and even in many vassal states and colonies, as long as you immigrate there, you will be given free slaves to help you farm the land.

All of a sudden, Daming's life will be easier.

Even ordinary people can live the life of a rich man with no worries about food and clothing. Coupled with the import of a large number of slaves, everyone can buy a lot of slaves to work for themselves and have children for themselves.

"Yeah, why?"

Tang Bohu frowned and asked back.

"why?"

"It's very simple, because now the Ming Dynasty is mainly plundering externally. It plunders land for its own people, plunders people for its own people to use as slaves to cultivate the fields, and plunders women for its own people to serve as concubines and slaves."

"Hard work doesn't make you rich!"

"What can really make you rich is to own a huge land and a huge wealth. Only by plundering from outside can our current prosperity of Ming Dynasty be achieved."

He replied very positively.

"But what's the difference between that and a robber?"

"Didn't my Ming Dynasty become a country of robbers?"

After Tang Bohu listened, he also said anxiously.

"Of course there is a difference. The so-called benevolence and morality are for our own people. Externally, we should focus on national interests and abandon the so-called benevolence and morality."

"Our Ming Dynasty is strong, so we can obtain the fertile land in Liaodong, Western Regions, and rivers outside the customs. The people of Ming Dynasty can't eat up the food produced in a few years."

"We have a strong Ming Dynasty, so we can let the grasslands, Central Asia, and Northwest become our pastures, and let nomadic tribes graze our cattle and sheep."

"We have a strong Ming Dynasty, so we can get the provinces of Nanyang, the Golden Continent and Australia. We have vast and fertile land and endless grasslands, which are used to distribute a large amount to our people for free."

"Without such a large amount of land, taking Suzhou as an example, a family of eight is free to use less than 2 mu of land. Even if you are exhausted, how many catties of rice can be produced on this 2 mu of land in a year?"

"But with the vast land, hard work has real meaning. You can cultivate 100 mu, 200 mu, or even thousands of mu of land with hard work. You can get a hundred times or a thousand times more food a year than before. Let it be natural. son will be rich."

"Because our Ming Dynasty is strong and can plunder abroad, the Japanese, Siam, Malacca, Ottoman Empire, and England are still compensating us a lot of money every year."

"Only when the court has money can it support a large number of immigrants, reduce taxes, and even exempt corvee."

"In the past, our Ming Dynasty paid attention to benevolence, righteousness and morality, but it was the ordinary people at the bottom of our Ming Dynasty who suffered. Scholars are masters, and they don't work hard, and they don't know the five grains. Of course, they don't understand the hardships of the ordinary people at the bottom."

"Opening your mouth means benevolence, righteousness and morality. Govern the country with benevolence and righteousness, and subdue the barbarians from all over the world with virtue. How can they really know the hardships of the people?"

"Liu Gongcai is a real genius through the ages. Although he is a scholar, he really understands the hardships of the common people, and also understands that what can really make the common people rich is not hard work, but more land and more wealth. The people live a good life and make the country strong, so that they will not be bullied by others, and only in this way, when our Ming Dynasty tells people about benevolence, justice and morality, they will be willing to listen to you."

He sighed while speaking, she also reads the newspaper every day, and the more she reads, the more she feels that many of the things said in the newspaper are reasonable, and they are truly wise sayings, and the so-called Confucian mantras are simply nonsense.

"This~"

After listening to Tang Bohu, he was shocked for a long time and could not calm down.

"Why did Mr. Liu ask you to support the pirates?"

"The Japanese pirates plundered in Europe, and the slaves they captured were sold to us Daming people. These slaves became an important labor force for our Daming overseas colonies and vassal states. They cultivated land, built roads and houses for our Daming people."

"These women have become concubines of our Daming people. They have given birth to future generations of our Daming people, washed and cooked for our Daming people."

"Without these female slaves, there would be countless people in Ming Dynasty who wouldn't even be able to marry wives, let alone inherit incense and reproduce for future generations."

"If there were no Japanese pirates to plunder Europe, how much industry would Hong Kong lose?"

"Slave trading, weapon trading, food trading, which one does not require a large number of people and generate a lot of benefits and wealth."

"The Japanese people have done the dirty work, but the biggest beneficiaries are us Ming people, and they can also suppress the development of European countries and make them weaker, and they will not pose a threat to our Ming Dynasty."

"This is why Mr. Liu supports the pirates, because in the final analysis, it is all for the fundamental interests of our Ming Dynasty, for the prosperity of our Ming Dynasty, and for our Daming people to have many children."

He looked at Tang Bohu, and couldn't help but speak again.

It's all said and done, if Tang Bohu still doesn't understand and sticks to the things and concepts of Confucianism, then he really doesn't have much future.

If you can't do it well, Liu Jin will soon replace someone else to do it, and some people understand the truth of it.

"Master, your official position is getting bigger and bigger, and you will definitely have to consider these things in the future, but you must clearly know that the interests of the Ming Empire are the core interests, and the so-called benevolence, righteousness and morality are only for our own people! "

(End of this chapter)