Chapter 1191: Daming is so big, I want to see it
In fact, there are other ways and means besides recruiting refugees to obtain the population. For example, Zhang Caifu, Zhang Cai ’s son, gave Marin an idea to go to the dental shop to buy slaves.
In fact, although the refugees were in distress, they were still individuals with identities. The slaves in the dental shop are all slaves who do not even have the status of ordinary people.
It should be pointed out that the laws of the Ming Dynasty prohibited ordinary people from privately holding slaves. This is because the increase of slaves will reduce the number of good people paying taxes to the state, which will affect the state taxation.
However, this policy was only seriously implemented during the Hongwu years of the early Ming Dynasty. With the passage of time, by the middle of the Ming Dynasty, it had become too loose.
During the Hongwu period, only the top tycoons who were honorable and high-ranking members were eligible to raise slaves. Others are not qualified. Merchants are useless even if they are rich. Not only are they not allowed to wear silk, they are not allowed to buy slaves. The phenomenon that ordinary merchants can buy slaves on TV does not exist. Of course, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, merchants can do the same. In the Hongwu years, businessmen dared to do this, they had to stay in prison.
Right now in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's population policy has been loosened. However, it has not spread to the public. Small private landlords and businessmen are still not eligible to buy slaves. But they also have countermeasures. For example, ordinary people can circumvent the legal restrictions by means of "accepting children and daughters". Or, directly sign an employment contract to circumvent legal restrictions.
But there is a person who can legally buy slaves, that is, the class of scholars whose officials are the main body ...
As long as you have merit, there are no restrictions. In the early Ming Dynasty, only Xungui and Sanpin servants were allowed to keep slaves. By the middle of the Ming Dynasty, as long as they were officials and scholars, they could freely support slaves. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, ordinary wealthy households were able to raise slaves ...
Why is this so? In addition to the loosening of policies, the massive increase in population is also an important reason.
The Ming Dynasty was socially stable and economically prosperous, and its population naturally increased year by year. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the population was only more than 60 million, and the natural labor force was precious. Zhu Yuanzhang never allowed the precious population to be wasted on slave-servants. Therefore, he restricted the existence of slave-servants in various ways and liberated slaves in large numbers.
However, by the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Hongzhi Dynasty, Daming's population reached 80 million or 90 million, and it is said that it reached 100 million. Because, there are a large number of hidden people.
The population has grown so much, but the land area has not increased, and naturally there is a large surplus of labor. Many poor people can't afford so many children at all. In order to keep the children alive, those poor families voluntarily sent their children to large households for slavery. Because only in this way can children be fed. Moreover, the money from selling the children can also support the children left behind at home.
The mid-Ming dynasty was not serious. By the end of the Ming dynasty, Daming's population had reached about 150 million, and it seemed even more crowded. At this time, the court had to open one eye and close one eye. At this time, ordinary people, as long as they pay, can legally buy slaves ...
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Right now in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the population is small and large. Ordinarily, ordinary people are not allowed to buy slaves. However, Marin is not an ordinary person. He is the sovereign of the Beihai Kingdom, and is also the emissaries of Dongfan. He belongs to the court and belongs to the class that allows the purchase of slaves.
So, Marin took Zhang Jiafu and others directly, went to the dental shop to buy slaves ...
It's just that Marin's handwriting is a bit big, which shocked the court ...
In just three days, Marin swept through the capital of Beijing and bought 3,500 slaves at a low price of a couple of silver and a slave. Moreover, most slave-servants are adults. After all, these are all used to reclaim wasteland, and children are not easy to use.
Such a huge handwriting naturally aroused the idea of the Ming Dynasty. So, on behalf of the Ming Dynasty, Li Dongyang interviewed Marin ...
"Master Ma, why did you buy so many slaves?"
"Dongfan Island needs development, and naturally needs a large population. The victims don't know how much to recruit, so buy some people first."
"Cough ..." Li Dongyang coughed twice and continued:
"You are right to buy slaves, and you are no problem as the owner of Malaysia. However, your handwriting is too big, and there are 3,500 people in one shot. "
Indeed, the influence is not good, the people of the Ming Dynasty are very conceited. It is indeed very hurtful for a monarch to buy a lot of Ming Dynasty slaves in the capital city of Ming Dynasty. Therefore, Li Dongyang interviewed Marin and let him close. It ’s not that you ca n’t do it.
"I get it ..." Marin is a wise man, and naturally understands what Li Dongyang means-don't be too blatant, work quietly ...
"Since then, I have quietly bought people in Fuzhou, Ningbo and Guangzhou?" Marin asked.
Li Dongyang shook his head and said:
"You can't talk about buying people, otherwise people will be unhappy. You have to say-hire people ... for example, in the name of hired boatmen, hire female weavers ..."
Ma Lin seconds to understand-that is to save face for the Ming Dynasty chanting ... That is to say, when the slaves buy normally, but when they report to the Shibosi, they must be reported as "employed." In this way, the face of Daming Dynasty will not be hurt ...
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Seeing that he could no longer buy slaves in Beijing, Marin had to temporarily stop. Anyway, come to Japan. Moreover, Li Dongyang also pointed out the direction-to continue to buy in the name of "employed" in the future ...
But now that things are basically done, you can't sit in Beijing. The European side is still waiting to go back, and the things on the Daming side are not finished yet ...
For example, a very important thing-after Zhang Cai bought Taihu pig and Biluochun tea species in Taihu area, how to transport it to Keelung?
Fortunately, tea species do not take up much space. But those Taihu pigs take up a lot of space ...
Think about it, or let your boat deliver the most suitable ...
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Moreover, Marin also intends to go to Anhua, Funan, to buy black tea seeds, and hire artisans who know how to make black tea. Then, it was grown on Taiwan Island and Cuba, and produced tea.
It's not that Marin likes to drink black tea ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ but black tea has a long shelf life and doesn't worry about the tea leaves breaking. Moreover, tea making requirements are lower than bubble tea. It is more appropriate to brew milk tea with black tea bricks.
In addition, Marin intends to go to Fubei, Shuzhong, and southern Yunnan to buy medicinal materials such as Coptis chinensis, Youyang Artemisia annua, and Panax notoginseng, as well as seeds of medicinal materials, in preparation for their needs.
Coptis chinensis can be used to extract berberine in a simple way. It is a good medicine for the treatment of diarrhea, tuberculosis, pneumonia, typhoid fever and diphtheria. Moreover, the extraction method is super simple, and it is a good thing to use through.
Youyang Artemisia annua, needless to say, artemisinin walks up ...
And Sanqi is the main drug of the famous traumatic baiyao, let alone ...
Anyway, these are all needed. The Ming Dynasty was only allowed to trade in the ports of three cities and shipping companies, and it was difficult to acquire these drugs in large quantities. Therefore, Marin intends to run all over the place this time and get as much as possible. But first of all, he must be qualified to go around Daming ...
Therefore, Marin cheated Zhengde and asked to run around Daming. As for the reason, it is very strange-Daming is so big, I want to see ...
