Da Ming Tai Shi

Chapter 488 Serious Social Problems in Guangzhou

The splendor of Guangzhou Port is not just about how much secular gold and silver it brought to Daming.

During the more than ten years of the prosperity of Guangzhou Port, Ming Dynasty or China regained the temperament of the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of all nations.

Whether politically, economically or culturally, China in this period is definitely the best China in thousands of years.

The Ming sea ships from Guangzhou Port, Quanzhou Port, and Pingjin Port followed the charts of the Arabs or the route traveled by the ancestors of the Tang Dynasty, and recreated the maritime glory of the Chinese themselves.

The poetic and picturesque romance unique to the Orientals began to spread across half the world.

Southeast Asia, Central and Western Asia, Arabian Peninsula, East Africa, North Africa.

It then entered Europa through the Arabian Peninsula, crossed the Mediterranean Sea to Venice, or possibly all to Iberia.

A mysterious and powerful eastern empire began to be known to the human beings who breathed together under this sky.

Chen Yunfu is also well-known, of course.

"Pope of the East", "a ruler more noble than an emperor", "the greatest dictator"

Before the Ming army loyal to Chen Yunfu conquered the west, Chen Yunfu had already gained a large number of little fans, and perhaps there would be many little fans.

And this Cosimo Medici who traveled thousands of miles to study in Guangzhou is one of them.

He was extremely fascinated by the legends and stories that belonged to Chen Yunfu. Of course, Cosimo himself knew that he would never see this so-called greatest dictator under the sky.

Of course Chen Jinghe will not help Cosimo realize this wish, he does not have the skills.

On the carriage leaving Tianfu Academy, Chen Jinghe and Chen Jiading expressed a worry of their own.

"There seems to be a lot of foreigners in the school?"

Chen Jiading hummed: "It's not just the school, there are also a lot of foreigners who have settled here in Guangzhou over the years. I haven't paid attention to the specific data. The Department of Household Affairs should know, but I guess it will not be less than 20."

"20?"

Chen Jinghe was taken aback by this number: "There are only a few people in Guangzhou."

"In recent years, as Guangzhou has become richer and richer, many people in the north have moved south to work and settle down. At the end of last year, Guangzhou seems to have reached 80. It is estimated that it will break one million in the past two years."

Guangzhou is not Nanjing, and there are no more than one million Dingkou, but 80 is definitely not a small number.

But in a city with a population of 80, more than 20 of them are foreigners, and this ratio is very scary.

"Doesn't that mean that in Guangzhou, the ratio of the number of our Ming people to the number of foreigners is almost three to one?"

Chen Jinghe became anxious: "This can't be done. Pu Gengshou's Quanzhou Rebellion was caused by too many Arabs. So many foreigners came to settle in Guangdong, and the number is increasing day by day. It will inevitably cause huge disasters in the future. It cannot be avoided.”

Chen Jiading was stunned for a moment, then nodded and sighed.

"Your Highness is right, but I, a businessman, am not qualified to say anything about this matter."

"Isn't there any officials in the Guangzhou government office or the Guangdong chief envoy's office?" Chen Jinghe said urgently, "The ratio of three to one is too appalling.

Let’s just say that 15 years ago, when my father was in charge of developing Liaodong, he still knew how to control the Jurchen tribal groups in Liaodong and the ratio of the number of them to our Han people. develop.

Nowadays, foreign barbarians gather in Guangzhou. If it is not controlled, ten years later, will Guangzhou be the Guangzhou of my Ming Dynasty, or the Guangzhou of foreign barbarians? "

The young and passionate Chen Jinghe is as impulsive and simple as thousands of students in the world. Whether it is the hibiscus flower case discovered in Dongguan or the current social situation where foreigners gather in Guangzhou, Chen Jinghe is very dissatisfied , and use this to criticize the inaction and stupidity of the Si Yamen.

"I have to go to Si Yamen to respond to this matter."

Chen Jiading is a businessman who is not easy to speak, while Chen Jinghe is a serious official, so he has to find Fang Jian, the prefect of Guangzhou, in addition to his enthusiasm.

"Your Highness." Chen Jiading stopped Chen Jinghe, and said earnestly: "You are now the accountant of the Canton Stock Exchange. For such a matter, he will go to the Household Regulatory Office to worry about it. Otherwise, it is also a matter of the Chasi Office. You say you Go report it, overreach."

There are official rules in the officialdom. Sometimes it is not that the officials are cold-blooded and turn a blind eye to what happens in the society. It is the unique inheritance of official rules that have been bred by the official standard system for thousands of years in China.

Some things should be taken care of by oneself, and those that should not be taken care of by oneself should never be taken care of.

It seems cold-blooded and selfish, but if you think about it from another position, if every official uses the feeling of "worrying about the world first" as an excuse to comment on anything that is not his own right, it will undoubtedly cause serious political problems. Internal friction, the government affairs manager's yamen has become a place where officials fight every day, which will seriously delay administrative efficiency.

It can be seen from the so-called ideological contention among various schools of thought from generation to generation to the change of Xunmeng during the Shenzong period of Song Dynasty, to the party struggle in Donglin in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and the Hundred Days Reform in the late Qing Dynasty.

This is all political thinking brought about by dialectics itself.

Now Chen Jiading is trying to persuade Chen Jinghe to be quiet.

"Your Highness, you are the crown prince, but now, you are an official." Chen Jiading said earnestly: "If you are an official, you have to abide by the rules of the officialdom."

These words are somewhat heavy, but the meaning is also very clear.

You, Chen Jinghe, are just an inconspicuous account holder of the Canton Stock Exchange. In the eyes of those opportunistic businessmen, you are a great court official, but in the eyes of Guangdong officials, you are just a small fifth-rank.

Fifth grade?

Although Guangdong is not as good as Nanjing, Wu Shigao, the governor of Guangdong, is an alternate of the Military and Political Academy, and the prefects of Guangzhou are all from the second rank.

There is no shortage of senior officials here.

When will you, Chen Jinghe, take up the position of the chief envoy of Guangdong, and then talk about worrying about the country and the people? Now, it's not your turn to worry about it.

To put it more bluntly, if Chen Yunfu dies tomorrow and Chen Jinghe returns to Nanjing to succeed him, then you have the final say in the whole country, and no one cares about you.

But now, be steady and mature.

Undoubtedly, Chen Jiading's earnest and earnest persuasion played a huge role in Chen Jinghe's growth.

Stepping out of the carriage and looking at the Canton Stock Exchange in front of him, Chen Jinghe gave a wry smile.

"Yeah, what brother Jiading said is right, I'm not even familiar with the work in the Canton Stock Exchange, so it's my turn to worry about those things.

I shouldn't think about the case of Hibiscus Flower, or the settlement and residence of foreign foreigners in Guangzhou. "

After clearing up his mood, Chen Jinghe turned around and smiled at Chen Jiading, bowing slightly.

"Thank you, brother Jiading, for your words of instruction, Jing He, thank you."

People must be down-to-earth.

If you learn to run before you learn to walk, you will definitely stumble.

(End of this chapter)