Quanzhou.
More than a year has passed since the battle to destroy the country in the four years of Zhaowu.
As the first place in the south of the Yangtze River, it is also the capital palace of the Southern Ming Dynasty. It has the scene of almost all the people fighting against the city under the turmoil of heaven.
After Duke Jingguo led his army to capture Quanzhou in the late fourth year of Zhaowu, the once blooming city of Quanzhou was directly destroyed by hundreds of large and small artillery guns for several months.
Then, the army broke through the city. In the last madness of the Southern Ming Dynasty, that is, the people were soldiers, the soldiers of Daheng, who were red-eyed, almost completely wiped out the entire Quanzhou City!
Quanzhou City, which once had a population of nearly 200,000, was almost a dozen of them after the war. There were dozens of mass graves in the north of the city, and groups of crows, bones and rotten rot, almost turning the northern suburbs of Quanzhou into a completely forbidden area.
Quanzhou Port, which is close to Quanzhou City, is naturally not much better. Under the desperation of the war, the desperate Fujian navy was almost destroyed in this Quanzhou Port, and the entire Quanzhou Port was almost completely scrapped.
However, after Duke Jingguo led his troops to capture Quanzhou, he immediately began to restore Quanzhou Port.
The incident of the black slave that once alarmed the emperor was born in Quanzhou Port.
Before the opening of the Maritime Warehouse Department of Daheng, and even for hundreds of years, even before, even before, the sea ban was clearly prohibited, but under the collusion between officials and businessmen, for a certain part of the people, the sea ban was just a monopoly amulet.
Therefore, the commerce and trade in Quanzhou Port is also extremely prosperous.
Later, when the Great Heng established itself, the Jiangnan chaos, the sea ban naturally became a source of rootlessness. Quanzhou Port, as the only port without any restrictions at that time, was able to be a leap-like expansion in just one or two years, with daily gains of gold and can be seen everywhere in this Quanzhou Port.
It is precisely because of the wealth of Quanzhou Port that the Fujian Navy has the confidence to roam all over the world, and the capital of the Southern Ming Dynasty has also fallen here.
It was not until the establishment of the Daheng Ningbo Port Maritime Bureau that the rushing overseas wealth was slightly enriched.
However, the status of Quanzhou Port is still unshakable. After all, Daheng ruled the world and established the Maritime Warehouse Department, he had to consider the overall situation of the world. The rules of the Maritime Warehouse Department were naturally extremely strict.
Quanzhou Port has almost complete freedom, and the Southern Ming Dynasty was established by gentry and businessmen as the main body. In addition, resisting the strong army of Daheng also required the wealth of Quanzhou Port. The almost unlimited Quanzhou Port has the attraction to merchants at home and abroad.
It is because of this unlimitedness that in just a few years, black slaves flocked to Quanzhou on a large scale, like the Kunlun slaves of the Tang Dynasty, becoming a trend for noble families to compete.
After pacifying the Southern Ming Dynasty, the almost out of place black slaves, except for a small number of whom died in chaos, were arrested by the army and became cheap labor that could be exploited freely.
Quanzhou Port leads to cement avenues everywhere. The newly repaired Quanzhou Port has made great contributions to the existence of these black slaves.
Even later, because the cost of using was too low compared with that of the victims in the Han area, Duke Jingguo also bought thousands of black slaves from Western merchants one after another, and wrote a special memorial, explaining the benefits of using black slaves, hoping to develop them into long-term strategies, adding countless cheap young and strong people to Daheng's various engineering plans.
This memorial also caused many court officials to agree one after another, causing quite a stir, but it was finally left alone.
After all, Daheng is not short of population, and even has too many people to bear it.
For example, the meaning of road construction is not only to more effectively connect all places and reduce road costs, but also to allow too many people to have a new way of life.
What's more, once slavery is opened, it will evolve and continue to exploit. It will not be just black slaves. If you want to gather it, it will be difficult for you to ascend to the sky.
It is obvious that although black slaves are easy to use, they are obviously not in line with the national conditions of Daheng, and even strictly prohibit them.
Therefore, those black slaves became the only and last black slaves in Daheng territory.
Their destiny is also extremely clear.
By the end of the fifth year of Zhaowu, Quanzhou Port, which was repaired with black slaves' blood and sweat, had gradually restored its previous prosperity and hustle and bustle with the stability of the Jiangnan region and the establishment of the Quanzhou Maritime Control Bureau.
The Maritime Warehouse Department is undoubtedly an extremely special place. Since the establishment of the first Maritime Warehouse Department in Daheng and Ningbo Maritime Warehouse Department, the existence of the Maritime Warehouse Department has been clearly standardized.
Although the grade of the Maritime Warehouse Department is not high, the local governments have no jurisdiction and are directly governed by the central government. The silver tariffs of the Maritime Warehouse Department are also directly subordinated to the national treasury.
In this way, it is obvious that the Maritime Bureau is undoubtedly a typical yamen with extremely low positions and extremely bright official positions.
With the rapid development of maritime trade and the busyness of things, the Maritime Bureau will naturally become larger and more powerful.
In the middle of the fifth year of Zhaowu, due to the increasing huge things of the Maritime Warehouse, after discussion in the court, the Maritime Warehouse, which was originally the sixth rank, was directly changed to the fifth rank.
The officials in the various maritime yamen in Daheng naturally rose in the east wind and were directly promoted to the fifth grade. Even the maritime squadrons, which were originally the sixth grade, were mostly promoted to the fifth grade.
Even though the order of Daheng is always changing and the promotion of officials is not as difficult as the promotion of the officialdom during the previous Ming Dynasty, the emperor has always attached great importance to the promotion of officials.
You should know that after the emperor seized the power of the Ministry of Personnel in the late Ming Dynasty, the Ministry of Personnel has not appointed a Shangshu until now.
From this point, it can be clearly seen that the emperor attaches importance to the promotion of officials.
Not to mention the promotion and promotion from the emperor to rule. Anyone who rises above the level must be promoted to heaven and appointed by the emperor.
In this way, it is completely conceivable how rare it is to promote such a higher level, and such an almost established large-scale promotion.
Such a huge happy event, since the order was issued from the center, the civil service offices in various places were filled with gongs and drums, and a joyful scene.
If the current rules were not for the strictest, it would have been a scene of singing day and night.
Zhang Huangyan was naturally very happy. You should know that in the third year of Zhaowu, he was just a seventh-rank county magistrate.
So far, in just two years, he has directly jumped to a fifth-rank official!
In short, in just two years, there have been two consecutive promotions!
After such grace and popularity and extreme joy, there will be an uncontrollable fear.
The higher you fly, the worse you fall. This sentence is equally common in officialdom.
As mentioned, he barely had some political achievements to support Dingbian County when he was promoted to higher level, but after only one year, he was promoted to higher level. How could he talk about his achievements and achievements?
Without sufficient and solid support for political achievements, and being so popular and being hated by others, if you are not careful, you may fall into dust...
Chapter completed!