Back to the Ming Dynasty to be a tyrant

Horesten exclaimed: "Could it be that no one thought of resisting the brutal rule of their emperor?"

Cohen said with a smile: "Of course there are, but they are all dead, and the people of Ming Dynasty still think that what their emperor did is correct, and those people should die. Don't you think it's very sad?"

Without waiting for Horesten to answer, Cohen said to himself naturally: "Of course it's not sad, their emperor seldom collects taxes from them now, and often gives them silver coins, clothes, and exquisite food.

Not only that, because of the provocative behavior of those fools in Spain, their emperor sent two fleets and slaughtered countless Spaniards to avenge his people.

Such an emperor, his people would think him cruel?Will you think about overthrowing him?No kidding, if it wasn't for God's sake, I'd even want to change my nationality.

You know, I can speak the official language of the Ming people, which is a great advantage - I've even inquired about it. "

Horesteng's hand holding the pipe suddenly became a little trembling—all of this simply overturned his long-standing worldview and outlook on life, it was terrible!

However, Cohen ignored Horresten, which was already on the verge of collapse, and instead brought the topic back to drugs: "It is such a powerful emperor, but he ordered the people under his rule not to take drugs, which is a magic drug.

Not only that, but the emperor, who is sacred and powerful in the eyes of the Ming people, also punished the smokers and traffickers and their families by beheading them. Don't you think there is something wrong with this? "

Horesteng said: "You mean, are there any disadvantages of drugs that we don't know about?"

After nodding his head, Cohen said: "Yes, that's how I doubt it, even now we haven't found any harm.

However, during the negotiation this time, I deliberately lied to Li, and found that there were indeed some disadvantages that I didn't know about.

What I don't know right now is whether this disadvantage is caused by excessive smoking, or it can only be discovered after long-term smoking. "

After finishing speaking, Cohen also lit his pipe, and after puffing out the smoke circle, he said calmly: "But it doesn't matter, anyway, I have already ordered people to capture some slaves for related experiments."

Horesteng said: "Then let's decide, let's not smoke this thing, but in view of the profit of this thing, we still have to sell what should be sold."

After a slight pause, Horesten continued: "Or, we can consider selling these things to those British and Spaniards?"

Cohen responded quite naturally: "Of course, who is not selling? As long as there is profit, I plan to sell even in the Netherlands, let alone those countries that are hostile to us?"

Horesteng also laughed and said: "Of course, God will not forgive you if you leave the silver coins and remain indifferent."

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After receiving Li Chengyan's reward, Emperor Chongzhen secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

The Little Ice River, which had been silent for two years, seemed to be frightened again, and natural disasters began to appear in the entire Ming Dynasty.

Of course, there is nothing to do with natural disasters, if they come out, they will come out, and it is good to resist them-and Emperor Chongzhen is not worried at all about the most important food for resisting natural disasters.

Not to mention the grain in the regular warehouse and the reserve warehouse, even if the grain was shipped to the disaster-stricken areas, Emperor Chongzhen was fully confident.

After all, the railway that has been laid for several years, although not as well-connected as later generations, but it is not a big problem to undertake the burden of material transfer.

At the very least, the cost is much lower, and the time is much faster than when using manpower.

The only thing that makes people feel disturbed is the problem of not enough barbarians.

Even Hong Chengchou, Minister of the Ministry of Railways, felt that this issue was disgusting, and even studied it with Guo Yunhou, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, intending to see if there is any way to draw a cake for those barbarians without affecting the progress of the railway construction. Make them more motivated.

As for those people who wanted to immigrate to the real border and were temporarily thrown on the railway construction site, Hong Chengchou had no idea about them at all.

The people who immigrated to Shibian were also people of Ming Dynasty, and they also had household registration, so any inexplicable death would be a big trouble.

As a result, those Japanese slaves who shouldered the heavy responsibility of supervisors also deliberately avoided these Ming people, and reported words such as "hard work and hard work" to their daily assessment.

In fact, how deceitful these people are, no matter whether it is Emperor Chongzhen, or Hong Chengchou and Guo Yunhou, as long as they have been to the railway site in person, no one knows.

It's true that they work very hard, but once they find a dangerous job, these people run faster than anyone else - there are officials and barbarians behind them, what can the common people do?

What's even more painful is that many people have other ideas - Meng Fanxing and those who went outside the pass to catch slaves are doing well now?Why can't I go by myself?

Chapter 627 Take off your pants and put what?

After Hong Chengchou asked Wen Tiren, Guo Yunhou and other bigwigs to study together, he came to a conclusion-these people who are building the railway cannot participate in slave hunting.

It's not that Hong Chengchou didn't want people to catch more barbarians, but that these people all ran to catch the barbarians, and there was still a problem of insufficient manpower for the railway repair.

The most deceitful thing is Emperor Chongzhen, no matter what it is for, anyway, his old man just abolished corvee directly.

The most direct consequence of the abolition of corvee is that people are conscripted to work and paid for money, and they cannot be used for death.

If these people ran to catch the barbarians again, let alone the problem of how many more people died on the road and during the process of catching the barbarians, the pile of work left behind would be enough to cause headaches.

However, Emperor Chongzhen never thought about how headaches Hong Chengchou and others had - he still had a headache!

It is said that it is to change the imperial examination system or something, but it has been implemented, but it is hard to say how effective it will be.

This kind of change will take at least many years to see the effect, and what I am most anxious about is time.

In the past 14 years, the imperial examinations have not been completely changed, but a few gaps have been opened with a hammer and a stick, which is far from achieving the goal I want.

Needless to say, we still have to continue digging.

Emperor Chongzhen, who was finally free and didn't have to worry about killing people in the court and military, once again set his sights on Daming's internal problems.

Judging from the entire process of Da Ming singing coolness, apart from the most fatal natural disaster of the Little Ice River, there are only a few major problems left.

One is the problem of the vassal king, which is basically not a problem now.

As the progress of relocating the vassal kings and people overseas was carried out bit by bit, the vacated large tracts of land and a large number of newly vacated jobs were enough to make Daming's life easier by half.

The rebellions in various places and the establishment of slaves outside the customs are even less of a problem-the rebellions in various places are rebelled because there is no food to eat. After Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, this problem basically did not exist.

As for Jiannu, there are quite a few remaining Jiannu, but right now they are all fighting against Mao slaves at Nurgandusi, so how dare they look south to Daming?

Except for these long-standing problems, the rest are the problems of the imperial examination.

Even if Emperor Chongzhen had already passed the discussion in the court before, it was the same to reduce all the preferential treatment from scholars to Jinshi, which was a temporary solution, not a root cause.

The biggest problem is that the population base of the Ming Dynasty is too large!

Unlike the original history of only tens of millions of people left after the rebellion and slavery cleansing, the current population base of Daming has already reached the [-] million mark.

And the sociology that Emperor Chongzhen had recreated before also dealt a heavy blow to Emperor Chongzhen on this point.

With a population of 8000 million, even if there are only a quarter of school-age children, that would be a full [-] million.

Even if only one percent of the 8000 million children can obtain the title of scholar, that would be a full 800 million children, and when it comes to Juren, it is estimated that there will be about 100 million children.

Calculated on the basis of 100 mu of preferential land given to one person, 5000 million multiplied by [-] mu, isn't it [-] million mu?

In terms of conversion, it would cover an area of ​​more than 3 square kilometers.

If the concept of more than 3 square kilometers is not clear, then using the area of ​​two Chengdu cities as a metaphor, isn't it much simpler?