Chongzhen Undergraduates

"See clearly?" Huang Zongxi asked.

"I can see clearly that the crew on the three ships are dressed in various styles, and the hulls are mostly damaged, as if they have fought many battles. There is a flag with the Chinese character "Shi" hanging on the mast. It should be the flag of a pirate leader. "The young captain looked down on the flag.

"Master, Shi? Which one?" Huang Zongxi was taken aback, not listening carefully.

"General Shi Lang's Shi." Fang Yi happened to see it with a telescope.

"I'm afraid Shi Lang is here." Huang Zongxi hurriedly took Fang Yi's telescope.

"No way, our Daming's battleship is so broken? Just like a beggar, not only the ship is broken, but even the people are dressed in rags." The captain looked disbelieving.

"Oh, that's Shi Lang's boat. When we left last year, they sent each other to Champa along the way." Huang Zongxi suddenly became happy, and after traveling for more than a year, he finally saw the villagers.

"Hurry up, hang up the big Ming flag." Shi Lang also saw clearly that the ones flying the bright flag are his compatriots.At this moment, the pirates also knew that they were in trouble, and they all changed their sails and fled.

"Quick, beat him up." Shi Lang saw that the strength of his own people was almost equal to that of half of his navy, and he suddenly thought of showing his face.

"General Shi Lang, stop chasing him and bring Huang home." Huang Zongxi stood on the deck of the ship looking at Shi Lang and shouted from afar.

"Okay, let's go home!"

All the crew gathered outside and shouted together, which is also regarded as Mingqi's official appearance here in an official form.

However, the Dutch merchant ship fleeing in the distance was full of anger and unwillingness, as if an outsider had broken into their territory.

Chapter 5 Seventy: Zhu Youjian who encourages concubines

The big battle ended and the small battle continued, especially the defeated army scattered in various places, at least more than [-], forming a serious social security problem.The so-called "a defeated army is not as good as a bandit, and a deserter is a thief!"

The next thing in the Ming Dynasty is to suppress the bandits and reassure the people, and it usually takes at least half a year to two years for this kind of thing to be truly eliminated.

Fortunately, the Nanjing team was very efficient. When Zhu Youjian returned to Nanjing, various measures and plans had been placed on his desk, and some of them could be printed on the spot, such as the Anmin Notice, the distribution of relief money and food, etc.; Zhu Youjian personally reviewed, such as the dispatch of officials.

After millions of troops crossed the river in later generations, those who followed the army were the cadres who went south.Zhu Youjian remembered that there was a TV series "Going South and Down" that specifically reflected this real historical event.The current situation in Ming Dynasty is just the opposite. It is necessary to send officials from Jiangnan to the north.

If it hadn't been for several years before launching the Northern Expedition, Zhu Youjian would have to ask Donglin Party or Dakai Enke to absorb so many officials now.The reason why the emperor is tolerant to the scholar-bureaucrats is because the emperor cannot handle the affairs of the world alone. It is the scholar-bureaucrats who really manage the world.

Fortunately, Zhu Youjian's work in this area has been advancing. Several times of administrative talent training and multi-faceted talent replenishment, coupled with the training of various colleges for two consecutive years, Zhu Youjian dared to say that he has enough official reserves. Come to stabilize the world.Many of the stories are written in one stroke, or they only focus on military offensives, wishing to unify the world within a year.I'm afraid this kind of bloody plot just wants to wait for the next year to be full of flames.

What society fears most is anarchy, which is proper chaos.

Throughout May, Zhu Youjian was so busy that he was dizzy. If he hadn't insisted on going back to the harem to sleep every day, he might not have known that there was still a queen in the harem.

On this day, after Zhu Youjian handed over the "public grain", the couple lay on the bed chatting.Xiong Lijing used her fingers to draw circles on Zhu Youjian's chest, as if she still had something to say.

"Before the prince left, he always said that there were too few people in the imperial palace in Nanjing. He said that there used to be thousands of people in the imperial palace in the capital, including maids and eunuchs. He asked me to persuade the emperor, saying that according to the ancestral system, some eunuchs and eunuchs should be recruited. .” Xiong Lijing said.

"Yes, there are not only many court ladies and eunuchs, but also dozens of concubines." Zhu Youjian replied in a daze.

"According to the ancestral system, shouldn't the emperor be drafted?" Xiong Lijing said with a slightly changed expression.

"That's right! A group of teenage girls should be selected from the people to enrich the harem. I can keep as many as I want." Zhu Youjian drooled from the corner of his mouth in a daze. He could no longer feel whether it was a dream or a dream. Realistically, most men yearn for three thousand beauties under their crotch. I am afraid that the conversation between him and Xiong Lijing has already given him hallucinations, and he feels like he is in the flowers of countless beautiful girls, and his heart is rippling.

"Ouch! Why are you pinching me?" Zhu Youjian suddenly felt a pain in his waist, and immediately woke up.

"You are a big pig's hoof, why did you lie to me before, you said you can only marry three or two, did you think of a little girl in your dream just now?" Zhu Youjian opened his eyes and saw He already had a bad feeling about Xiong Lijing's ferocious appearance.

"I don't have one! You see, I don't even have three or two now." Zhu Youjian quickly defended.

"I can understand that you took that half-mature lady in for the sake of stability. But you were clearly thinking about starting the draft just now." Xiong Lijing's eyes widened horribly.

"Are you jealous?" Zhu Youjian laughed, he never believed that there is a woman who is not jealous in the world.

"Say, how many do you plan to accept into the palace?" Xiong Lijing asked urgently.

"As the emperor, of course, the more...the more the better." Zhu Youjian rolled his eyes and said hastily, "Look, I'm already forty, and my son has four. This body can't bear it."

"Ten, up to ten." Xiong Lijing gritted her teeth and said, "Count me in."

Zhu Youjian was happy, after all, it was the Ming Dynasty, such a jealous woman would allow him to find ten women, he was very happy.

"What you're talking about is no longer the problem of the emperor alone. The war has been chaotic for many years, and all the young and strong men died. I am afraid that the ratio of men to women in the country has become seriously excessive. Over the past few decades, the population has continued to weaken, which has affected The national strength has grown, and this is what I discussed before the imperial court today."

Zhu Youjian sighed. He originally expected to start a large-scale population migration immediately, but calculating the domestic population base, he may have to wait a few years.

"Then what does the emperor plan to do?" Xiong Lijing asked.

"There is only one way, and that is to encourage taking concubines." Zhu Youjian said: "Especially a large number of disabled soldiers. These people have been injured on the battlefield. They need a stable life in the back half of their body. Naturally, they cannot do without women. As the saying goes Men are strong and women are soft, and only when softness overcomes rigidity can both rigidity and softness be combined, and the world will be peaceful."

Zhu Youjian thought of the war syndrome that later generations often talk about. Generally, men who have been on the battlefield will have problems in their hearts.In Liaodong before, Zhu Youjian and Li Dingguo talked about similar things.The reason why the Haier Army of the Western Army was incorporated into the Marine War and stationed in Liaodong, Zhu Youjian hoped that in the next battle against the Japanese, he would use the gentleness of the Japanese women to warm the hearts of these soldiers.

"How to encourage more marriages? Raising a daughter-in-law also costs more money." Xiong Lijing asked.

"This matter is easy to handle. I plan to implement a new household registration system, so that men who have reached the age of [-] can set up their own households, and rewards will be given according to the account number. And only men can land and have household registration. Adult women must marry to have a household registration book. In this way, women must marry in order to survive." Zhu Youjian explained.

"This is too unfair to women." Xiong Lijing said sadly.

All policies depend on the social conditions at that time. For example, before the opening of household registration for later generations, there were regulations that children could follow their mother's household registration but not their father's.Thinking about the high status of women who can eat commercial food in order to let their children eat commercial food, I am afraid that the post-[-]s generation will not realize it at all.

"Then if there is a man who is very rich, wouldn't he be able to marry a lot of wives?" As a woman, Xiong Lijing actually disdains this kind of thing.

"Therefore, this kind of policy must be constrained. I plan to use one wife and one concubine as the benchmark, and the more taxes on concubines, the more money the more money will be paid." Zhu Youjian smiled, he was not afraid of someone marrying a concubine, Anyway, as long as you are willing to pay, and the concubine's fee is still paid on an annual basis, according to the annual difference.Compare Zhu Youjian's eyesight in collecting taxes with him, I'm afraid you won't die if you toss.

"Haha..." After Zhu Youjian's explanation, Xiong Lijing leaned forward and backward with a smile.

Zhu Youjian needs a rapid population recovery so that the entire Chinese nation can have the capital to contend for world hegemony.But excessive gathering of women in the hands of a few wealthy people is also a factor of social instability.If monogamy cannot be achieved, then monogamy and one concubine will be implemented, and births will be encouraged.Ordinary men can find two wives, which is universally beneficial.Zhu Youjian can't be a bunch of emperor's harem by himself, without considering other people's needs, that's similar to Beijing youth's style, as if all the girls in the world only value their brothers.

"Speaking of the harem, you haven't seen your imperial concubine for many years, so you don't miss your precious daughter?" Xiong Lijing finished laughing, staring at Zhu Youjian and said.

"Little Ake! I should take time to see her." Zhu Youjian thought of Ake, and he felt guilty, but he actually liked the girl better.

Chapter 571: The romantic debt in the nunnery

Zhu Youjian, the emperor, brought some living habits of later generations, such as taking vacations.

According to records, Chongzhen seldom went out of the palace since he came to the throne, and he was very hardworking. He was an emperor who didn't know how to enjoy vacations.Obviously, even so, he was not a good emperor.

Having been busy for more than half a year, Zhu Youjian wanted to take a vacation for himself, of course it was not as simple as staying in the palace and strolling around the back garden.

Yangzhou is a good place, at least Yangzhou has people that Zhu Youjian cares about.Zhu Youjian also wants to see how Yangzhou is recovering. In this era, Yangzhou is equivalent to Shenzhen in later generations.

Zhu Youjian equipped himself with a pair of brown glasses, so fashionable to walk on the streets of Yangzhou City, he is far more attractive than the old masters who have just become popular with glasses.

This place is not far from the nunnery where Chen Yuanyuan lives. Zhu Youjian can even see the pretense of Liu Zongmin's noodle restaurant.

"Boss, many girls see you here, are you exposed?" The new bodyguard is the famous Chen Wangting, who is over 50 years old, and looks like Zhu Youjian's housekeeper.

Yes, that's right.This person is the founder of the famous Chen-style Tai Chi, one of the four great martial artists of the Ming Dynasty, born in 1600.