Wanli Youming

Chapter 375

Chapter 375

Zhu Yijun knew that allowing the emergence of national ideology and improving the status of the Han people in the country was already the biggest change made by the enlightened reformers among the bureaucratic literati.

Moreover, this was only possible when the emperor himself was not conservative.

Even, in this case, it still happened after a lot of brutal bloody struggles.

Therefore, he knew that at this time, people from other civilizations could not be treated as human beings.

After all, Ming's capitalism has only just sprouted, and it hasn't reached the point where it needs to completely increase the freedom of all human beings around the world.

But if Ming's productivity develops to a certain level, that is, it really doesn't need to rely on land at all, and can earn profits from the world to maintain its own prosperity, it may also need to give some freedom to all human beings in the world.

However, by that time, maybe the people of the world have already been Sinicized.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun agreed with Xu Xuemo, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, that the etiquette should not be inferior to the barbarians: "That's good, but the scholars of this dynasty have the obligation to proclaim the etiquette to the world! It is still necessary to encourage scholars to go out and preach the king's etiquette." .”

The chief minister of the cabinet, Shen Shixing, said yes at this time.

And because Zhu Yijun and his ministers in power established that the new rites should give greater courtesy to the common people, and allowed the Han people with a lower ethical status among the common people to have a certain freedom, and formally established that the status of the Han people was higher than that of the Fanyi in terms of etiquette and law. .

So, next, the Ministry of Criminal Justice really amended the law according to this purpose.

The content of the revision is mainly to impose legal constraints on the clans and parents who overly restrict the freedom of the Han people. It also clearly stipulates that the killing of barbarians by the Han people should only be punished in the name of harming the benevolence of the Han people, that is, only fines; When the Han people are unwilling to pay the fine, the penalty below imprisonment is allowed, and the barbarian kills the Han, and the sentence is the same as the next crime, and I, my parents, brothers, descendants, and cohabitants will all be beheaded!

In short.

Because the Ming Dynasty itself did not lack labor force, the rulers of the Ming Dynasty did not take the Fanyi too seriously in order to practice the purpose of making the newly established etiquette and law only serve the purpose of strengthening the country and benefiting the people, and even deliberately hoped to pass this kind of Seriously favoring the native Han people to reduce the number of Fanyi and promote the Sinicization of overseas Fandi, so as to achieve the goal of continuously strengthening the country and benefiting the people.

The reason why the Han people who killed the Fanyi were still punished with fines is that in a short period of time, before a large number of Han people appeared in some overseas places in the Ming Dynasty, the local Fanyi still needed to undertake the function of consuming all kinds of goods in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the Han people cannot be allowed to kill Fanyi wantonly.

The Shimadzu family, the daimyo of Kyushu in Japan, also realized the strength of Ming Dynasty after Ming occupied the Matsuura Peninsula and other Kyushu areas, so they asked Zhu Yijun for permission to resume their tribute through Shangshu, an official stationed in Dongying by Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yijun granted the restoration of the Shimadzu family's tribute.

Although the tributary system is a disadvantageous system for Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yijun intends to improve it instead of abolishing it completely.

Because in Zhu Yijun's view, the original tribute system can be used as a diplomatic channel equivalent to contacting foreign officials.

It's just that I can no longer be like before, in order to save face and show that I am rich all over the world, so I don't need any exotic things from foreign countries, and in order to show my strength and gain the loyalty of the barbarians, I have to give more gifts than the tribute.

And before Zhu Yijun formally issued an edict that the barbarians should not be subdued, the Shimadzu Ministry hurriedly sent a tribute envoy to China because they learned that the Ming Dynasty had granted them tribute.

The Shimadzu Department is so active because they want to learn more about Daming, and because before the tributary system, foreigners who always came to pay tribute can get a gift from the Ming court that is several times more valuable than the tribute and make a lot of money. Buy a batch of goods on the way to pay tribute and return home to earn huge profits.

The Shimazu aristocrat who led the team to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty this time was Iehisa Shimadzu, the younger brother of Yoshihisa Shimadzu, the lord of Shimadzu.

After the Shimadzu family arrived at the capital of the Ming Dynasty, they began to send people around to order goods from the Ming Dynasty.

On the other hand, Iehisa Shimadzu himself took a few samurai to the Jiaofang Division, planning to go here to solve his physical needs, and to find out more secrets of Ming Dynasty by the way.

However, Xu Xuemo, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, had already asked for an edict not to allow the Secretary of Jiaofang to entertain Fanyi because of the difference between Han and Yi.

Therefore, when the Shimadzu family came to the Jiaofang Division, they were stopped by Shen Siwen, a Han citizen from Zhejiang who came here, and said: "You Japanese slaves can't go in, go back."

The Shimadzu family could understand the language of Han people in Zhejiang for a long time, because the people in Ningbo, Zhejiang often went to Japan for trade.

Therefore, Shimadzu Jiahisa asked at this time: "Why can't we enter?"

Shen Siwen chuckled: "Do you still want us Han people to serve you Japanese slaves? Even if Jiaofang Sidao whores are cheap, they are nobler than you Japanese slaves! People like you are like dogs and cannot enter this place !"

Pfft!

Shimadzu Iehisa directly pulled out the knife and pierced Shen Sixiao's abdomen.

His son, Toyohisa Shimadzu, who came to Daming together with the Shimadzu family, turned pale when he saw this, and hurriedly asked, "Father, what are you?"

"It's okay! The Ming Dynasty has always valued etiquette, and its monarch will not punish me for killing a small man! Even if I punish him, it will not cost me any money."

After talking for a long time, the Shimadzu family pulled out their swords and looked at Shen Siwen who fell on the ground: "Besides, this person insulted me Yamato too much, how could he not kill him? Otherwise, how can we let them Han people know that my Yamato people are not good?" How annoying?! You can also make up a few knives."

"Yes!"

Then, Shimadzu Toyohisa also pulled out his knife and stabbed Shen Siwen randomly.

Shen Siwen was riddled with holes for a moment.

Seeing this, the people in the Jiaofang Division were already startled.

However, Lai Erliang, who borrowed money from Yunnan to come to the capital to buy goods and prepare to leave the customs for business, was quite calm when he passed by and saw this scene, and hurried to the Shuntian government office to beat the drum and report the case.

Because the land ruled by the Shuntian Mansion is under the foot of the Son of Heaven, the government government dare not take any report lightly, so as not to provoke the anger of the superiors because of the delay. In addition, the examination method has not been abolished since Zhang Juzheng was founded, so the " Li Zhen, the Prime Minister of Shuntian Prefecture, who was ordered to study the new etiquette and law in the Mansion Daily, took the case in a hurry.

Because of this, Li Zhen learned that Japanese people had killed people, and realized that this was an opportunity to prove to the emperor that he supported the new etiquette law, so he decisively ordered soldiers to come to Jiaofangsi.

After the people from the Shimadzu family who had been in the Shuntian government office for a long time came, they did not dare to directly resist, but directly stated their identity and said that they were tribute envoys.

The people in Shuntian Mansion hurriedly informed Li Zhen of this situation.

"Dong Weng, it's about tribute envoys, not to mention they have already entered the Jiaofang Division, do we really want to arrest people?"

Jin Heqing, Li Zhen's staff, asked Li Zhen about it.

"So what about the tribute envoys? According to the new rituals, all foreigners are as cheap as domestic animals!"

"The more I enter the Jiaofang Division, the more I want to take it. This shows my determination to abide by the new rituals! I can't dare to take people from Shuntian Mansion just because the Jiaofang Division is run by the government!"

Li Zhen chuckled, and then said: "Still arrest these criminals and put them on death row, search for their accomplices, and file a case for the sufferer! We will go to the same hall and send someone to report!"

Shimadzu Iehisa and Shimadzu Toyohisa were sent to the prison in Shuntian Prefecture.

Toyohisa Shimadzu was very puzzled by this, and couldn't help asking Shimadzu Jiahisa: "Father, they don't seem to want to treat us with courtesy?"

(End of this chapter)