"City?"

"Your Majesty, what do you mean by this business in Dengzhou City?"

"But Dengzhou City has been robbed by Qingyao. This business is not safe!"

Zhu Heji glanced at Da Bo Ling, who said "not safe", and said to himself: First you followed the pirate Su Dadu, then you became a mountain bandit, and finally you became a rebel... It's all Ling Chi's fault, what risk are you afraid of?

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After being glared at by Zhu Heji, Da Bo Ling immediately changed her words and said: "With the Holy Spirit here, we are not afraid of being robbed... But we can't take care of this business for you!"

"You don't need to worry about it," Zhu Heji said with a smile, "This is the children's property... Grandpa Taizu made a lot of vassal kings, and they were all used as pigs in the pen.

In the final analysis, the territories guarded by these vassal kings were not conquered by themselves or managed from scratch. Otherwise, Jianwen would not be able to kill them, and even a temple would not be able to keep them captive..."

"Emperor Taizu was a little more serious about Shoucheng." Qiu Shuzhen nodded, "It's a pity that he didn't keep it!"

"The lesson is profound!" Zhu He said, "We have to plan carefully for our descendants...Compared with perfumes, textiles, and glass, cities located at the crossroads of East-West trade are the real businesses that can be passed down for a long time!

And this is the easiest business for our family to succeed."

This is the main reason why Zhu Heji must protect the "emperor's privacy".

Without the "emperor's private interests", the emperor would not have the ability or motivation to run these overseas colonies.

In fact, these overseas colonies cannot be established by relying on the "public authority" of the imperial court.

"Your Majesty," Da Bo Ling remembered Zhu Heji's earlier words about sealing his sons as kings, so he asked, "Is the business in this city you mentioned the same as going overseas to make kings? You are

We want to build our city on other people’s land!”

Qiu Shuzhen was stunned, "Can others agree?"

"Yes!" Zhu Heji said in an understatement, "If you don't agree, we will destroy it!"

Daboling nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, that's it!"

Qiu Shuzhen also understood that we still have to fight! But who is going to fight?

Zhu Heji looked at Qiu Shuzhen at this time and said, "Shuzhen, our family will definitely be full of descendants in the future. If we all stay in this three-acre land of the Ming Dynasty and become kings, we will have to follow the old path of the Ming Dynasty again. So.

I thought about spreading the branches outside... This is also the tradition of us Chaozhou people!"

Of course Qiu Shuzhen knew what her husband's words meant.

She is the eldest wife, and most likely her son will inherit the throne in the future. Therefore, she may not support Zhu Heji's "city business."

"This is a good thing!" Qiu Shuzhen immediately put on a smile, looked at Da Boling and said, "How about we build more vassal states and cities so that the children can have a share of the family business to pass on?"

Da Bo Ling responded with a smile: "This is great...it's just that we still have to work hard to make money, otherwise we won't be able to keep all the children out!"

Zhu Heji saw that Qiu Shuzhen and Da Boling could still reach an agreement, and he laughed with satisfaction... Other emperors had too many wives and they started fighting in the palace. But here, here is still so harmonious, and the wives can fight together.

, it’s so inspiring, it deserves to be a saint’s home!

…

Zhu Heji and his wives were discussing how to be a good emperor and a good ancestor who could distinguish between public and private matters.

His "twenty-five filial piety" father, Zhu Tianwang, was in the magnificent Tianwang Mansion with the nine thousand-year-old Eunuch Pang and the old man Yu Zhongxian, while drinking a small drink and studying Zhu Heqi's work.

"The Ming Dynasty Treaty".

"King of Heaven, this covenant..." Eunuch Pang, wearing a pair of reading glasses ground out of crystal glass, read "The Ming Dynasty Covenant" word by word, and finally shook his head and said, "Everything is good, just two.

The first is the issue of royal property. This is to compete with the people for profit! I’m afraid those scholars will oppose it!”

"Don't be afraid of this," King Zhu Tian said with a smile, "Just fight...the people in the council can't compete with my bad boy. My bad boy has always been made by everyone when we have money!"

Although he still called Zhu Heji "bad boy", his "Guan Gong face" was full of pride.

Obviously, Zhu Heji was the pride of his life.

"That's true," Eunuch Pang nodded, "The Holy One does not live alone, and we (we) have made a lot of money by following him... People from the Yanping Palace also made a lot of money from the Nanyang trade.

If we all support him together, there should be no problem with this one."

Those who made money following Zhu Heji were all first-generation nobles!

He paused and then said: "But is it really necessary to write in the land equalization system?"

"Of course it is necessary!" King Zhu Tian nodded and said with a smile, "The equalization of land is the foundation of the country... Without the equalization of land, all the rich and powerful people in the world would buy land and collect rent. Who would go to Lushun or Dengzhou?

Such a city run?"

It turns out that King Zhu Tian had long discussed with Zhu Heji the benefits of adhering to the equalization of land. One of them was to avoid the situation of "wealthy by merchants and guarded by land".

Although this kind of thinking of buying land and passing it on to descendants does not necessarily limit the development of Chinese capitalism.

But Zhu Heji was in a hurry to industrialize!

Therefore, the "germination" of capitalism can be accelerated as quickly as possible. All obstacles that may hinder industrialization must be removed as much as possible.

King Zhu Tianwang gained a lot of votes in Dengzhou City and established a "trade name", so he tasted the benefits and wanted to replicate Dengzhou City's success in Lushun.

He planned to discuss with Zhu Heji after a while and withdraw the territory of two counties and one state in Dengzhou, leaving only Dengzhou. At the same time, he would acquire another piece of land in Lushunkou to establish a new "Tianwang City".

When the time comes, he will be guarding both sides of the entrance to the Bohai Bay, so he is not afraid of not making money.

Yu Zhongxian interjected at this time: "But this method of equalizing land among clans and villages also has loopholes. There may not be equality within a clan, otherwise there would be no such thing as righteousness."

The so-called "yimen" refers to the kind where hundreds or even thousands of people of the same clan live together, regardless of family, and work together to achieve equality within the clan.

The most typical one is Jiangzhou Yimen Chen.

But since this kind of behavior will win the clan the title of Yimen, it can be seen that it is not common. If there is a large loss of population and the continued survival of the clan has major problems, such as the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, the phenomenon of Yimen will be more common.

, after all, the land is worthless if the people are gone.

But once the world becomes peaceful, the population grows, and the contradiction between man and land eases, the situation will immediately change.

"Then it has nothing to do with the imperial court!" King Zhu Tian said with a smile, "The ancestors can't drink a bowl of water evenly. When we divide the family, we give more to the big house and less to the other houses... Can you blame the court?"

This is an act of unfilial piety from the ancestors. Don’t you blame the court for being unfair! If you didn’t find your ancestors properly, can you blame the court?

Yu Zhongxian nodded: "You really can't blame the court!"

King Zhu Tian added: "Besides, we divide the land among clans and villages... This land can only be registered in the name of the clan and village, and cannot be converted into private land."

King Zhu Tian went on to say: "Furthermore, the land that a clan or a village can occupy is not very much, some are more than 10,000 acres, and some are only two to three thousand acres.

When we carried out land equalization, we had already divided the land, so the merger in the future will not be as big as usual."

The land use rights are registered in villages and clans, so it is almost impossible to completely fall into private hands. Moreover, if people from one clan or village start to make trouble, the cost of suppression will be high.

For the rich and powerful, the cost of land allocation is too high and the risk is too high.

Maybe they saw the difficulties and seemed powerless, so they simply stopped annexing the land.

And if they don't engage in mergers and acquisitions, then their capital can only be invested in industry and commerce or overseas businesses.

After listening to King Zhu Tianwang's analysis, Yu Zhongxian and Mrs. Pang both knew what was going on.

Mr. Yu nodded and said with a smile: "It seems that the Holy One has already made a plan. Jiu Qiansui and I are worrying too much."
Chapter completed!