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Chapter 82 The Guards and the Imperial Manor (Part 2)

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    In this large-scale clean-up operation, except for a few blind people who dared to resist and were slaughtered by the veterans, the remaining more than 400 ruffians who were regarded as idlers were all captured obediently!

    For these people, Zhu Youxiao did not simply let them go or kill them. Instead, he asked the veterans to escort them to build roads. With the capital as the center, they had to repair the roads leading to various imperial villages!

    This is definitely an arduous task. With only 400 people, it is simply impossible to complete such a large project. However, Wu Bingrui, the governor of Shuntian Prefecture, saw another way out!

    Mr. Wu immediately gave Zhu Youxiao a guide on how to deal with prisoners. In this guide, Wu Bingrui stated that whether the convicted prisoner was exiled or imprisoned, it was a waste of money and a waste of money!

    In order to avoid such unnecessary waste, Wu Bingrui asked Zhu Youxiao to abandon exile and retain prison terms, and let all prisoners serving their sentences work to atone for their sins!

    After Zhu Youxiao saw this excerpt, he couldn't help but sigh to himself. He had been thinking about all these things all day long, but he didn't notice these small things. It is naturally a good thing to reform the prisoners through labor, so with a stroke of his pen, Wu Bingrui asked Wu Bingrui to do it first.  Let¡¯s try it out in Shuntianfu!

    This incident also made Zhu Youxiao think of another question, why couldn't the Ming Dynasty recruit a large number of slaves to do hard and dangerous work, thereby reducing the burden on the people of the Ming Dynasty and allowing them to engage in more meaningful work?

    Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao issued a secret order to the British Duke Zhang Weixian, allowing the border army to use foreign slaves in exchange for military merit!

    Zhang Weixian was so frightened that he almost fainted, but he still passed the matter through private channels to Xiong Tingbi, who had just taken office. As for what Xiong Tingbi did, he didn't care.

    The reason why Zhu Youxiao did this was because he knew that the main reason why the West was able to develop rapidly after the great voyage was that the European barbarians solved the two problems of food and labor shortages through maritime adventure.  Crucial question!

    High-yielding crops such as potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes were brought to barren Europe from the American continent by explorers, freeing the old Europeans from hunger and enabling them to use more land to produce industrial raw materials!

    At this time, far away in England, the enclosure movement of sheep eating people has begun. A large number of farmers have been driven off the land by the nobles, and the land that originally produced food has become a pasture for sheep, producing food for the nobles.  You can make a lot of money out of wool!

    ????????? Don¡¯t those noble lords in England need food?

    The answer is of course no!

    The reason why the noble men of England dare to do this is because high-yielding crops can use very little land to meet England's food needs. The land saved in this way can naturally be used to produce raw materials!

    And this phenomenon will develop rapidly throughout Europe in the next few decades, so that small Europe has become the most important wool producing area in the world. However, during this period, there was no large-scale famine in Europe!

    At the same time, Europeans with a small population began to colonize the world. The fundamental reason why they were able to occupy and develop so much land with a small population was the use of slaves!

    These self-proclaimed civilized white people massacred and enslaved technologically backward peoples all over the world, using muskets and bayonets to force them to contribute their wealth, land and freedom.  At the same time, more people in Europe began to engage in high-end jobs such as technology, science, and military, while a large number of slaves were engaged in low-end labor such as construction, herding, and farming!

    It is precisely because of the high-yielding crops and the large number of low-class slaves that supported the rapid development of Europe, allowing Europe to complete the development path that other civilizations in the world had not completed for thousands of years in just three hundred years!

    In later generations, many people said that the germination of capitalism had appeared in the late Ming Dynasty. Some people claimed that if the Manchus had not entered the customs and interrupted the development of the Ming Dynasty, China would have entered the capitalist era before Europe.

    It's just that these people are too idealistic. Not to mention the deep-rooted feudalism in China that emphasizes agriculture and suppresses business, even the population and land output of the Ming Dynasty at that time could not support the Ming Dynasty's move towards capitalism, because facts have proven this  !

    When the wealthy south planted a large amount of mulberry and hemp due to the demand for foreign trade, the grain output declined and could not be supplied to the barren north. Therefore, when natural disasters came, the Ming court could not come up with excess grain to relieve the victims in the north, which led to the entire  The collapse of the Ming Dynasty!

    ?It can be said that raw material crops and food crops also compete for land, but because Europe has high-yielding crops, it ensures the food problem of Europeans, which puts Europe on a prosperous road, allowing the barbarians of Europe to survive in the next three hundred years.  , become the master and moth of the world!

    However, because the Ming Dynasty could not guarantee the food supply of the people, it went on the completely opposite path. Not only did it lose a large number of precious human resources due to famine and plague, but it also allowed the Qing Dynasty, a backward civilization of semi-serfdom, to rule for 268 years.  .

    It was these two hundred and sixty-eight years that caused the entire Chinese civilization to lose the opportunity to participate in dividing the world. It was also these two hundred and sixty-eight years that caused China to fall into a hundred years of chaos.

    The land was lost, the people were killed, countless outstanding Chinese sons and daughters died generously for the survival of the motherland and the nation, and the Chinese civilization that has been inherited for five thousand years was almost cut off. Even if the Chinese nation survived this half year, it took more than half a century to survive.  I have barely regained my former status and confidence!

    In the original history, no one in the Ming Dynasty knew this. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty, which had a civilization of five thousand years and was at the top of the world in economy and technology, would collapse due to problems such as population increase, land annexation, and climate change.

    Zhu Youxiao believes that the people of Ming Dynasty are the smartest, hardest-working, and bravest people in the world!

    They should not be struggling for food and clothing, but should live a prosperous and worry-free life.

    They should not be wandering around, blindly killing or being killed in order to survive, but should become warriors feared and respected by people all over the world.

    The basis of all this is whether we can feed the Ming Dynasty's 100 million people with less land. As long as this is achieved, Zhu Youxiao believes that the Ming Dynasty's potential will be unlimited!

    Zhu Youxiao has already sent people to look for high-yielding crops. The great voyage not only benefited Europe, but also benefited China a lot. At least high-yielding crops far away in America should have appeared in the Ming Dynasty by this time!

    Zhu Youxiao has begun to imagine that when crops such as potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes are found, cultivated on a large scale in Huangzhuang, and eventually become the main food crops of the Ming Dynasty, the biggest hidden dangers of the Ming Dynasty will be solved. At that time, the Ming Dynasty will  No matter how you want to develop, you will not encounter any difficulties!

    Therefore, Zhu Youxiao actually attaches no less importance to Huangzhuang than the Guards. Zhu Youxiao's conception of Huangzhuang is even more complicated than that of the Guards. It's just that now is the beginning, and everything needs more time.  Finish!

    Time passes very quickly in the busyness, and December 22, the day that civil servants pay attention to, arrived quickly.

    Although this day was not a major court meeting, basically all the officials in Beijing came to the Meridian Gate to wait, because after all, this was the first Sutra banquet since the new emperor ascended the throne, and there was no restriction on the rank of officials participating in the Sutra banquet.  It has received the attention of all civil servants in Beijing!

    ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? After the military honors had retired, all the civil servants were eagerly awaiting it as if they had been given a shot of blood!

    Zhu Youxiao did not disappoint them. He directly sent an order to the Wenhua Palace, and ordered the British Duke Zhang Weixian, the first assistant Fang Congzhe, and the second assistant Liu Yizhen to know the banquet!

    The civil servants breathed a sigh of relief, accepted the order in an orderly manner, and headed to the Wenhua Palace!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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