Zhangjiakou is positioned as the economic center of Xuanhua Province in the future, and Xuanhua City is the political center.

The post road and business road from Zhangjiakou to Mobei Kulun, the post road and business road from Zhangjiakou to Datong, and the post road commercial station from Zhangjiakou to Beijing. The three lines are connected here. The economic prosperity of Zhangjiakou will inevitably drive the imperial court's control of the Bashang grassland.

The increased control led the imperial court to strengthen its economic control over the Mongolian tribes in the north.

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Beijing, Xuanhua, Zhangjiakou, Datong, Taiyuan, Guihua, Baotou, etc. are connected in series.

Resting for a night in Badaling Guancheng, the emperor continued his journey northward the next day, at the foot of Jiming Mountain on the north side of the Huailai Basin and on the east bank of the Yang River. Zhu Yihai settled in this famous post station in the three provinces of Jiming.

Post stations began to be built in the Yuan Dynasty. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was already a very famous and prosperous post city. There were gates on the east and west sides, with towers and piers outside the city. Five roads crisscrossed the city, dividing the city into

There are twelve areas of varying sizes.

There are post offices, post warehouses, horse carriages, and a large number of shops and residences in the city.

This used to be a prosperous city for a long time, integrating post offices, post offices, warehouses, businesses and residences. After the Tatars entered the customs, it became even more prosperous, but it was eventually destroyed when the Tatars fled.

When the emperor of the Ming Dynasty arrived here on his western tour, this post city had regained its vitality.

The imperial court re-established a post house, a delivery shop, and even a civil information bureau here. Because it was on the main road to Gyeonggi, it also became a cargo terminal, with a large number of warehouses, tooth merchants, officials coming and going, and the army.

Military depots, military warehouses, etc. were set up here.

It is three hundred miles away from Beijing, surrounded by mountains and rivers.

The renovated Yicheng not only prospered again, but also became an important commercial goods transfer station in northwest Beijing in a short period of time.

Even outside the post city, a large area of ​​​​Xinfang District has been built, with a large number of warehouses, residences, inns, restaurants, etc. Even the new city wall has not had time to expand. Now it is not only a post station, but also a Huailai Basin.

The most lively town, even surpassing Huailai County, and even more than ten blocks away from the former Baoan Prefecture City in the west of the basin.

Some officials even suggested that the imperial court demote Baoan Prefecture in Sangqian Hebei Province to Baoan County or rename it Zhuolu County. The county seat should be moved to Jimingyi City and a new city should be expanded outside the city.

However, some people think that Jimingyi is to the east of Yanghe River, and the Huailai Basin should be bounded by the Yanghe River from east to west, with Huailai County to the east and Baoan Prefecture to the west. Now Baoan Prefecture has been changed to a county and moved to Jimingyi

Go, it's really unreasonable.

There is such controversy because of post-war reconstruction. Only some places along the important Beijing-Zhangjiakou line have regained vitality, such as the former Baoan Prefecture, which is now almost an empty city.

However, Zhu Yihai thinks there is no need to worry about this. As long as this place is stable and it is just around Beijing, why are you worried that it will not become lively? There is no need to turn Jimingyi into Zhuolu County just because Jimingyi is busy and Baoan Prefecture is desolate.

The emperor rode into Jiming Post on horseback. When he looked at the outskirts of the post city, a large number of new houses, countless warehouses, warehouses, and even an open-air cattle and horse market, fur market and slave market had been built.

lively.

It is really a drought that kills people, and a flood that causes waterlogging.

"Go and have a look at the slave market. If there are any Han people, we can redeem them with the market price of our internal funds and free them. They can be sent directly to Zhuolu County in the west to settle down and be resettled, and the land will be allocated to them."

Wang Zhiren, the second assistant who accompanied him, asked the emperor, "Why don't your majesty directly issue a decree not to buy and sell Han people? If found, just ask the dealer to hand over the Han people to return the favor."

Zhu Yihai shook his head.

This kind of order is easy to give, but it is not thoughtful enough.

Wen Anzhi explained to the emperor that in the Spring and Autumn Period, the king of Lu had made a decree that if the people of Lu found slaves of Lu abroad and asked them to pay for redemption and bring them back to Lu, then the king would be rewarded heavily.

, one of Confucius's disciples met a slave from the state of Lu, and paid for the slave to be redeemed and brought back to his country, but in the end he refused the king's reward.

Unexpectedly, after Confucius found out about this, he criticized his disciple, saying that he did bad things with good intentions.

Sure enough, from then on, when Lu people encountered enslaved people outside, they rarely rescued them.

The reason is also simple. Not everyone is as noble as Confucius's disciples, or not everyone has the same conditions as him and pays a lot of money to redeem people. Originally, the king had rewards, so rescuing people is both famous and profitable.

At least you won't lose money. But after Confucius' disciples decided not to reward people, everyone had to bear the cost of saving people themselves, and many people simply stopped saving people.

It was originally a good thing, but in the end it was completely destroyed because Confucius' disciples did good things and bad things.

Now if the emperor discovers that there are Han people among the slave traders, and directly orders them to be handed over for release, the people here will be rescued, but in the future, those Han people who were kidnapped as slaves by the Mongols and Jurchens in the grasslands outside the Great Wall will

, no one would be willing to take them to the Central Plains again, so they would have no chance of being rescued.

If the emperor redeemed them at market price, the dealer would not suffer any loss, and he might buy and sell the Han people on the grassland again next time.

"Wen Shoufu is right. Not only can we not forcibly release them, but we have to redeem them at market price. We even have to give them an additional reward and tell them to do the same in the future. In this way, those slave traders, they are outside the Great Wall.

If we encounter my Han people as slaves on the grassland again, driven by profit, we will find a way to bring them back to the Central Plains and hand them over to us."

For Emperor Zhu Yihai, although this cost money, even more money than ordinary transactions, it was still cost-effective and worth doing.

Wang Zhiren nodded, greatly appreciating, "I suggest that it is best to add a few more articles, including the plundering and trafficking of the people of the Ming Dynasty. The behavior of the people of the Han Dynasty should be severely punished. Those who are already outside the customs can not be counted. It is only for those who are from now on."

These actions will be carried out in the Central Plains in the future."

"What Wang Qing said makes sense. I, the Ming Dynasty, have been kidnapped and sold into slavery outside the Central Plains. We, the Ming Dynasty, must find ways to rescue and redeem us. We must also prevent any more kidnappers from forcing the Han family into slavery."

"Let me add one more thing. All Mongols, Jurchens, Semu people, etc., who own Han slaves must report it immediately and have the court pay for redemption. Anyone who hides or harms them will be killed without mercy!"

"In the Ming Dynasty, civil and military officials, gentry, etc. were not allowed to own. Han people who were bought and sold as slaves must be reported to the court for redemption."

"From now on, all officials and civilians who dare to treat Han people as slaves will be executed without mercy!"

The emperor did not ban the slave trade, nor did he restrict officials or common people from owning or using slaves. However, both the Han people and the Mongolian Jurchens were prohibited from owning Han slaves.

In fact, this was also the system established by Zhu Yuanzhang in the early Ming Dynasty. He once stipulated that the common people were prohibited from keeping slaves, and meritorious officials could not have more than twenty slaves in the first grade, twelve in the second grade, eight in the third grade, and eight in the fourth grade.

No longer allowed to own slaves.
Chapter completed!