nownovels Chapter 851: The Evil Way Of Governing The Country, The Princes Who Evacuated The Japanese Country [
Chapter 851: The Evil Way Of Governing The Country, The Princes Who Evacuated The Japanese Country [
Thinking of the huge role those Japanese slaves played in the Ming Dynasty, King Zhu Bo of Qi couldn't help but sigh:
"No wonder Mr. Yan said that slavery is an unconscionable and hugely profitable trade!"
"I'm a little worried now that after the Japanese slaves are gone, the court will continue to order people to arrest other slaves."
Think about it, the Ming Dynasty's expenditure on feeding those five million Japanese slaves was nothing more than potatoes and sweet potatoes that were now in abundance and basically worthless.
If we really want to talk about the value of these potatoes and sweet potatoes, we cannot say that they are worthless, but at most two or three cents of potatoes and sweet potatoes are enough to feed a Japanese slave for a day.
On average, five million Japanese slaves only need about 10 million to 20 million cash for food a day.
In other words, the daily expenditure is only about 10,000 to 20,000 Guan.
After one year, it is only about 3.65 million to 7.3 million guan.
Even if you include the clothes and simple medicines and other supplies that Ming Dynasty occasionally kindly gave to these Japanese slaves, the total amount will not exceed 10 million yuan.
However, if the Ming Dynasty's national infrastructure built by these five million Japanese slaves in the past year were borne by the local people of the Ming Dynasty, and in the case of labor instead of labor, the court would have to spend at least 200 million yuan. !
And as long as these five million Japanese slaves survive and continue to undertake construction work for free.
Next year, these five million Japanese slaves can also continue to bring at least 200 million yuan in labor cost savings to the Ming Dynasty.
In the year after that, and the year after that, they continued to work until all five million Japanese slaves were killed or injured. It is conservatively estimated that it can at least bring more than one billion yuan in labor cost savings to the Ming Dynasty.
And this is only the savings brought about in terms of labor costs. If you also take into account the benefits brought by the national infrastructure construction built by the five million Japanese slaves, it is even more inestimable. Three" measured.
For example, in a local county, due to water shortage, the grain yield per mu has always been only about one or two dan.
However, through the river channels dug and dredged by these Japanese slaves, farmland no longer lacked water, and the original low-grade dry fields were turned into high-grade paddy fields. [It is also normal for grain production to increase from the original ten or two kilo to two or three kilo. .
In this way, the grain output per mu of an entire village, or even an entire township or an entire county, may be doubled.
In other words, the per capita food income of local people has doubled!
And such a doubling of per capita food income is a sustainable thing. It will be like this this year, next year, and every year in the future.
And things like this are not isolated cases, they occur commonly throughout the Ming Dynasty.
These hidden and continuous income increases were the bulk of the income brought by Japanese slaves, and the labor costs saved because of this were not worth mentioning.
Hearing the words of Qi King Zhu Su, Crown Prince Zhu Biao frowned, then shook his head slightly, looked at the brothers in front of him, and warned with a very serious expression:
"To govern a country, we must ultimately follow the Holy Way, the Royal Way, and the Grand Dao!"
“Although enslaving slaves is a temporary pleasure, it is ultimately a wrong way and a crooked way!”
"If you are too greedy for this momentary pleasure, you will go further and further away from the right path, until you end up alienating the people."
"By then, the country's destruction will be just around the corner!"
By enslaving a large number of slaves to undertake the country's various infrastructure construction, and to replace the heavy corvee that the people of the Ming Dynasty originally had to bear.
In a short period of time, this will indeed be of great benefit to the country and the people of Ming Dynasty.
Just like the current Ming Dynasty, with these five million Japanese slaves, it saved the Ming Dynasty two years of development!
The people of the Ming Dynasty no longer have to bear those too dangerous and heavy corvees, and the happiness of the people's lives has also been greatly improved!
However, these five million Japanese slaves are not immortal. On the contrary, when they are only guaranteed the most basic food and clothing, the five hundred Yi slaves Kang Shi are extremely easy to die from overwork.
Once these five million Japanese slaves died, what would the Ming Dynasty do?!!
Continue to send troops to attack other vassal states whether they surrender or not, and capture their subjects to be used as slaves of the Ming Dynasty?!!
Once this is done, the Ming Dynasty will not be a suzerain country worthy of looking up and respecting in the eyes of other vassal states, but a tyrannical country that cannot be avoided.
Even these vassal states would unite to resist the Ming Dynasty!!!
Well, even if the Ming Dynasty does not mind becoming a tyrannical country in the eyes of other vassal states, it is not afraid that other vassal states will unite to resist the Ming Dynasty.
Even the Ming Dynasty successfully suppressed all these rebellious vassal states, and then turned all their subjects into slaves of the Ming Dynasty.
So when the subjects and slaves of these vassal states all died due to the high pressure of the Ming Dynasty, what should the Ming Dynasty do?!!
What would the Ming Dynasty do if it could no longer find a vassal state that it could attack and enslave?
In other words, where will Ming find slaves who can drive them as weeds without worrying about their life and death?!!
Zhu Biao is almost certain that Ming Dynasty, which is addicted to the sweetness of slaves but cannot find a new source of slaves, will definitely turn its attention to its own people!!!
Perhaps at the beginning, the court only demoted those prisoners who had committed the death penalty as slaves.
However, because there were too few death row prisoners to bear the massive corvée construction projects, the imperial court would further demote those prisoners who committed serious crimes into slaves.
If the prisoners who committed serious crimes were not able to fully afford the massive corvee construction projects, then the court would further demote the prisoners who committed minor crimes into slaves.
Step by step, by that time, everyone in the Ming Dynasty will be in danger. Everyone is worried that they will be captured by the court as slaves, and the Ming Dynasty will become a tyrannical court in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty people.
At that time, in order to prevent themselves from being demoted as slaves by the imperial court, and in order not to remain slaves until death [unknown] the people will inevitably unite to overthrow the tyrannical Ming Dynasty!
And how long can the Ming Dynasty survive without the support of the people?
The Ming Dynasty, which prospered because of slaves, will eventually perish because of slaves!!!
Therefore, in the view of Prince Zhu Biao, capturing people from other countries as slaves is, after all, an irreversible evil way to govern the country.
If you want to govern the country, you still have to follow the right path in the long run.
After hearing his eldest brother's warning [Qin King Zhu Di, Zhu Nan, Zhu Di and other ten princes also nodded slightly.
Naturally, they also knew the meaning of their elder brother's words.
After all, they did not learn the "Dragon Slaying Technique" taught to them by Yan Changqing in vain.
Then King Yan Zhu Di changed the topic and said:
"That Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was still a figure in the Japanese country, and he almost caused trouble for the Ming Dynasty's eastern expedition to the Japanese country."
It should be said that Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was indeed a leading figure in the Japanese nation of this era.
First, an army of 500,000 Japanese warriors gathered to attack King Zhu Di of Yan. Although in the end, King Zhu Di of Yan and Duke Feng Sheng of Song led the enemy deep, attacked from both front and rear, and were annihilated in one fell swoop.
However, after jumping into the sea to escape, he did not die. Instead, he escaped to Dewa Country, Mutsu Country and other places on the right side of Honshu Island to make a comeback.
After that, they even planned to extend the front line with the Ming army, and use the Japanese country's local advantages to fight guerrilla warfare and attrition warfare with the Ming Dynasty, so as to drag down the Ming Dynasty to death.
How should I put it? If Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's idea was placed in the Ming Dynasty, then there would be no problem and it would be feasible.
But unfortunately, if this idea is placed in the Japanese country, there will be some problems.
Because the most critical point is that Ashikaga Yoshimitsu overestimated the size of Honshu Island in Japan!
The entire Honshu Island is only the size of a province of the Ming Dynasty. No matter how Ashikaga Yoshimitsu wants to extend the front, how far can he extend it?!!
Not to mention that more than half of Honshu Island at that time had fallen into the hands of the Ming Dynasty.
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, who only had half of the province left to move around, even if he wanted to trade space for time, it was just a dream.
In other words, even if you trade space for time, you can't trade much time.
Moreover, Honshu Island is surrounded by the sea on all sides. With the help of the Ming Navy fleet, the Ming army can go around to the other side of the coast of Honshu Island at any time to carry out back-and-forth attacks.
Under such circumstances, the entire coastal area of Honshu Island basically cannot be used as a stable logistics site for Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, and can only develop further into the interior of Honshu Island.
In this way, the scope of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's activities was further reduced.
Moreover, the Ming army rarely went out of the city to fight in the field. Most of them stayed in the city, or sent out large-scale troops to attack a certain place. They basically did not engage in guerrilla warfare with Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.
They just asked the Japanese who had surrendered to the Ming army to search for Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's guerrilla troops, and let them fight guerrilla warfare and a war of attrition against Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.
Therefore, in Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's guerrilla warfare and war of attrition, in the end, except for the greater losses of the Japanese who surrendered to the Ming army, the Ming army itself suffered no losses.
And after Qin King Zhu Zhen solved Dekaido Island, then landed on Honshu Island from Tsugaru Strait, and captured Dewa Country and Mutsu Country in one fell swoop, the entire Honshu Island was surrounded by the Ming army on all sides.
At this point, there are Yan King Zhu Di and Jin King Zhu Fan to the north, Qi King Zhu Bo to the south, Prince Zhu Biao and Chu King Zhu Zhen to the west, and Qin King Zhu Zhen to the east.
It can be said that at this point, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu has become the thorn in the side of the Ming army, with no way to retreat!
In addition, the Ming army attacked a local kingdom and built a military city base on the spot. This step-by-step combat method did not give Ashikaga Yoshimitsu any chance to make a comeback.
Therefore, after persisting for more than half a year, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was surrounded by various Ming armies.
Hearing the mention of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu by Yan King Zhu Di, Chu King Zhu Zhen couldn't help but chuckle when he thought of his father-in-law Dingguo Duke Wang Bi's evaluation of him.
He immediately attracted the attention of other brothers. Seeing this, Chu King Zhu Zhen smiled and said:
"I just remembered what my father-in-law said about Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. There are two brushes, but there are only two brushes!"
Hearing this comment, the other princes couldn't help but smile...
In the end, Prince Zhu Biao restrained his smile and said seriously:
"Okay, let's wrap up the affairs here in Japan, and then we should go back to Ming Dynasty."
The other princes also knew what Prince Zhu Biao meant by "holding back your hands", and they all nodded and responded:
"good!"
"knew."
"I'll let someone make arrangements right now."
Not long after, the Ming army held a merit-rewarding meeting on the Japanese island of Kyushu to the surviving emperors of the northern and southern dynasties, as well as some local lords, as well as certain retainers, generals and Japanese warriors.
In this regard, the Ming army was not stingy at all. All the Japanese who had previously surrendered to the Ming army were verbally supported by the Ming army.
Generous rewards.
For example, the Emperor of the Southern Dynasty of Japan, his original actual control range was only the seven or eight local kingdoms around Kyoto.
But this time, the Ming army directly designated more than 20 places around Kyoto in the Southern Dynasties as its territory.
The same was true for the Japanese emperor of the Northern Dynasty. The Ming army also classified more than thirty places around Kyoto in the Northern Dynasty as its territory.
There were also some Japanese samurai who performed outstandingly in the campaign against the Muromachi shogunate and Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.
The Ming army also promoted them to daimyo, and then rewarded them with certain local registries on Honshu Island, Kyushu Island, Shikoku Island, and Dekaido Island.
Their leader.
As well as those Japanese slaves captured before, the Ming army also rewarded hundreds of thousands of Japanese slaves as subjects of their respective autonomous states, and sometimes rewarded millions of Japanese slaves.
Slaves were given to them as subjects of each autonomous state.
However, in order to prevent these Japanese slaves from gathering to cause trouble, the Ming army moved all the millions of Japanese slaves to Shikoku Island for guarding.
After that, the emperors of the Northern and Southern Dynasties of Japan, as well as the new daimyo who were promoted, only needed to go to the Ming army stationed on Shikoku Island with the "Volume of Merit" issued to them by the Ming army.
Just get the corresponding number of Japanese slaves.
And after their Ming army completed the eastern expedition against the Muromachi Shogunate and Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, they also wanted to withdraw from the Japanese country and return to the court with their troops.
Upon hearing the news that the Ming army would finally withdraw from Japan and return to the court, the emperors of the northern and southern dynasties of Japan, as well as the new daimyo who had been promoted, all looked ecstatic.
Then he suppressed his joy and said extremely artificially that he couldn't bear to leave the Ming army.
After hearing this, King Zhu Bo of Qi also deliberately played tricks on these Japanese people:
"Since you are so reluctant to leave us, then I will not leave."
As soon as these words came out, the Japanese who were still looking ecstatic immediately became uglier than the dead emperor.
In the end, it was Prince Zhu Biao who spoke and asked Qi King Zhu Zun to stop messing around. Only then did Qi King Zhu Zhu give up the idea of continuing to play with the Japanese.
Finally, King Zhu Fan of Jin spoke and said:
"In order to celebrate the happy cooperation between the Ming army and the Japanese over the past year, a seven-day banquet was held. All the drinks and food were provided by the Ming army. All the Japanese who contributed to the Ming Dynasty will be honored.
Everyone can drink as much as they want!”
"But General 0.8 and other generals have to rush back to resume their duties, so they won't be able to enjoy it with everyone!"
After that, after the banquet started, the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes just drank a glass of water and wine to show their appreciation.
Then he landed on the sea ship and began to return to the Ming Dynasty.
And when we saw the mighty Ming fleet really starting to leave in large numbers, the emperors of the northern and southern dynasties of Japan, as well as the new daimyo who were promoted, and the Japanese
The warriors were all moved to tears.
It’s not easy. After more than a year, the Taishang Emperor of Ming Dynasty finally left.
After that, the Japanese country finally became their world again!
Then looking at the various fine wines and delicacies being served in front of them, the emperors of the northern and southern dynasties of Japan, as well as the new daimyo who were promoted, and the Japanese warriors were directly trapped.
Get into the carnival.
At the same time that Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes left.
On Tsushima Island and Tamra Island, some "Ming pirates" who were not "controlled" by the Ming Dynasty also drove their pirate ships equipped with the Ming Dynasty's most advanced muskets and artillery.
Start heading towards Kyushu Island.
Not long after, they arrived at Kyushu Island.
Looking at those "good wines and delicacies" with added condiments, they had fallen into wanton carnival, and could not distinguish between the enemy and the enemy, the emperors of the northern and southern dynasties of Japan, and those who had been promoted
The new daimyo, and those Japanese warriors.
These "Ming Kou" looked at each other, and then a silent killing began among the Japanese.
In this regard, those Ming troops who stayed on Kyushu Island turned a blind eye, as if nothing happened.
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