With the light of day outside the window, Jung Yoo-myung turned over with difficulty and moved half of his body out from under Chu Chao-hui's thighs and arms. Yesterday there was no ten magnitude earthquake in Kang City, the royal capital of Wu, only Zheng Yuming's own body shook with such intensity that the affected person who woke up in the morning thought for some time that he had lost control of his body.
Playing the loud call of Chu Chao Hui found himself underneath what is missing, closed his eyes long arm stretch, Zheng Yuming into the arms of the tight hold, to continue his sound sleep.
Zheng Yuming side of the head to see the window cracks into the sunlight, knowing that today's time is not early. The Prime Minister's Office of a large number of official business, usually this time, Zheng Yuming has long been up to deal with political affairs for an hour or two.
"Chao Hui!" Zheng Yuming gently pushed Chu Zhaohui, the action is too light did not wake up, only snoring slightly smaller.
Chu Chao Hui sleep and no snoring habit, is really rushing hard plus last night too hard, too tired to have this morning this snoring phenomenon.
The slightly darker color next to Chu Chao Hui s eyes stopped Zheng Yuming from lightly pushing the action. Chu Zhaohui can sleep until noon today, as long as rushed before three or four o'clock in the afternoon to mix into the large group of Banshi into the king's capital. Zheng Yuming wanted to let Chu Chao Hui rest a little more and wait until lunch to wake up. In order not to wake up Chu Chao Hui, Zheng Yuming moved his sore body little by little towards the bed.
"Is it dawn yet?" Just when Jung Yuming could move out completely from Chu Chao Hui's arms, Chu Chao Hui woke up, and with one hand he scooped Jung Yuming into his arms again, flipped his lover's body, and lowered his head sideways to pluck Jung Yuming's rear acupuncture point to check the inside. The military healer's booster drug in addition to increase the pleasure of lovemaking, but also can play a muscle relaxation effect, this effect allows Zheng Yuming's body to better withstand the joy of lovemaking.
"Quickly let go, today I have to help the Great King draft a few imperial edicts, if I don't, I won't be able to make it in time to read them out when the army is marching into the capital!" Chu Chao Hui's greatly grinning checking maneuver drew a protest from Zheng Yuming.
"An imperial edict?" Chu Chao Hui stopped moving.
"It's the issue of Zhou Cheng and their status, the issue of the feudal lord's fiefdom, the issue of the fiefdom's private soldiers, and the issue of the meritorious minister's fiefdom." Zheng Yuming wrenched four fingers before counting.
"Slavery is going to be abolished, right?"
"Abolition will not be enforced at once; the slave trade will be abolished first." By abolishing the slave trade, the life of slavery will also be strangled at the source.
"Warm water boiling frog policy is good." Chu Chaohui looked at Zheng Yuming appreciatively, being able to have the Western Marquis step in and enact system reforms was less resistance than if Zheng Yuming himself had implemented it directly.
Zheng Yuming smiled proudly, "Just like the people of Ulsan, perceptions can change without realizing it."
Wu's six months of war, spent all of Zheng Yuming's hard work for three years to save under the supplies and money, but these supplies and money is not all consumed, it consumes at the same time, greatly promote the development of various industries in the Ulsan region.
All the military supplies needed by the army were manufactured by the Ulsan nobles in the handmade workshops and factories in the Nambu Valley that were jointly organized by Jung Yoo-myung and the Ulsan nobles. The money spent on the war was turned into profits that went back into the pockets of Jung Yoo-myung and the Ulsan nobles. The most profitable ones were the dozen or so factories that manufactured military uniforms, quilts, and shoes.
All the factory and workshop owners in Ulsan who had the ability to produce these goods received orders, and all of these factory and workshop owners made a full profit, and the workers who worked in the factories and workshops, because Jung Yoo-myung had an agreement with the nobles who opened the factories and workshops long ago, they also earned a good wage, and those slaves who worked in the factories, because of the same wage and salary treatment as the commoners, they had already separated from the slavery status in terms of the actual treatment.
Manufacturing owners made money, and those who supplied raw materials also got a share of the pie, and there was a union of civilian home weaving in Ulsan. The advanced spinning machine patterns in the Nambu Textile Factory slowly leaked out, and clever craftsmen followed the patterns and principles of the spinning machines described by the weavers, and made cottage machines suitable for home weaving. The cottage looms were not as advanced as those in the Nambu Textile Factory, but they were a few notches better than the original local spinning machines in Daqin.
After using these spinning machines, the efficiency of the farm women in Ulsan was several times higher than before. The Nambu Textile Factory produced mid-range and high-end fabrics, and the peasant women spun low-end fabrics, which nicely compensated for the imbalance between high and low-end fabrics in Ulsan.
Most of the fabrics used in the orders for military uniforms and quilts were middle-end and low-end fabrics, the middle-end fabrics were monopolized by the Nambu Textile Factory, while the low-end fabrics were supplied by Ulsan's aristocratic weaving workshops and commoner's family weaving. The amount of low-end fabrics needed was so large that the nobleman's workshop had to increase the number of workers in order to earn more money, and a large part of these workers were slaves who were transformed.
Family weavers of peasant women initially rely on their own hard work to increase production, but they are willing to work hard, but also have to rest to eat and go to the toilet, a machine can be used for up to fourteen or fifteen hours. A clever civilian came up with a way to make the machine twenty-four hours non-stop, that is, when the housewife weaving fatigue to go to rest, they hired a woman who can weave to the home to continue to weave, so that the machine can be twenty-four hours in the work.
When people found that this can make profit on hired labor, the smart immediately asked carpenters to build more spinning machines, expanding the scale of employment, these civilians became the new industrial workshop owners.
Textile is divided into spinning, weaving, printing and dyeing, in order to improve the output and efficiency, textile craftsmen began to division of labor, spinning spinning, weaving weaving, weaving and dyeing cloth by specialized printing and dyeing workshop printing and dyeing, they formed an interdependent, mutually supportive business chain.
Military uniforms and quilts formed a commercial chain, as did military shoes, and any workshop or family that could make shoes was open day and night.
Zheng Yuming orders these orders, there are samples of plate making together with the follow up under the hands of the manufacturer, Zheng Yuming as far as possible in the cultivation of nobles and factory owners workshop owners of the assembly line manufacturing awareness.
The large orders placed by Zheng Yuming in the Ulsan region not only allowed the industrial workshops in Ulsan to flourish, but also stimulated the cultivation of cotton and hemp in the states of Chu and Chen, and even Zhao. Most of the cotton flax from these countries was purchased by the merchants of Chu, and the high price compared to the previous years prompted the nobles who planted cotton flax to decide to expand the planting area again next year. The decision of the nobles of the surrounding vassal states was welcomed by Zheng Yuming, who did not want cotton and hemp to become the main crop in the Ulsan region, where the textile industry was so well developed.
In addition to military uniforms and military quilts, military shoes, the munitions list also included a variety of household items, medicine and herbs. The large number of medicines required by the army could not be configured by Jiang Gui and the valley healers. After consulting with Jung Yoo Ming, Kang Kyu contracted out the configuration of some pills and ointments, and the Ulsan healers all received business, for which they were well paid. The army's purchases of household goods also made the Ulsan nobles who received the secret recipe from Jung Yoo Min's hands a fortune.
All in all, a once-in-a-century upheaval in the Kingdom of Wu accomplished the people of Ulsan from top to bottom, who collectively benefited from this war chest. During this hectic manufacturing process, the capital of Ulsan had its initial development.
Ulsan region is not big, the local feudal lords are small feudal lords, guiding them to abandon slavery and turn slaves into free labor is not a big coefficient of difficulty, but implementing it in the scope of the Kingdom of Wu is not so simple and easy. The remaining big feudal lords in Wu, farms could easily have hundreds of free slaves, to let the feudal lords turn free labor into paid labor all at once would surely cause opposition from the big feudal lords, which would be detrimental to the state of Wu that needed to stabilize and develop. So Zheng Yuming requested that the content of the four edicts issued by the Western Marquis had to be mild and had to carry concealment.
Chu Chao Hui squinted for a while after Zheng Yuming struggled to go to his office in the front hall. At noon in the bedroom with Zheng Yuming ate a lunch carefully cooked by Su women, only then dressed, put on a cloak, with five guards sneak out of the palace, to the outskirts of the countryside to wait for the Banshee army.
At the end of the afternoon, Crown Prince Sheng, accompanied by Zheng Yuming, took the royal court ministers and nobles out of the royal capital and went to the outskirts of the city, three miles away, to greet the triumphant army. On this day, the royal capital was almost empty, and the people crowded on both sides of the avenue to watch the warriors with their young and old.
Prince Sheng and the courtiers and nobles had just arrived at the place where they were booked to meet, a team of one-color equipment, holding up the 'Wu' king's flag and the 'Chu' general's flag, underneath the military flag were the Chu dynasty Hui, Dong and Nan Sima who were riding high horses with full body armor, and they were followed by the columns of soldiers arranged in a horizontal line. Behind them was a column of soldiers arranged in a horizontal line, at the forefront were more than two hundred chariots, and behind them were infantry carrying various weapons.
East and south two Sima lead the army to the border is in the end of summer, the soldiers are wearing single clothes, since Ri Ji cut off the military supply, the army's food, clothing, equipment and other supplies are transported by the south port wooden ship. This also caused the clothes on the generals under the two Sima's command to be uniform in color and style with the Ulsan army, all of which were navy blue in color, dressed in short clothes on the top and bottom, with armed belts around their waists, the soldiers' feet were laced up with cloth shoes, and the officers' feet were laced up with leather boots.
There was already an imposing presence when thousands of troops walked, and now the uniformed clothing added to that.
The people of the royal capital Kang City had never seen an army whose uniforms were still uniform, plus the infantrymen walking in the forefront were the five hundred slave civilian soldiers that Chu Chao Hui had personally trained, these soldiers had all been trained in formation and walked with a consistent pace of action, giving an even more impactful visual effect. The people of the king's capital gave the warmest welcome to these elite soldiers, and the cheers resounded through the sky.
On this day, the Western Marquis sent a messenger to issue five edicts before the army.
The first course was that all slave soldiers who participated in the pacification and resistance against the Tang invasion were restored to the status of free citizens, and slaves with notable military achievements were rewarded by the generals of the various armies on the basis of their merits to the royal court. Because of the slave soldiers' great contribution to the peace of Wu, Wu has since canceled the slave trading market and also canceled the statute of pursuing the branding of runaway slaves.
When the slave trade was abolished, the labor trade was changed to employment.
The second course was to abolish the private soldiers on the fiefs of the feudal lords, whose security would not have to be guaranteed by themselves, but would henceforth be taken care of by the royal court for law and order and security.
The Western Marquis believed that the source of the great turmoil in Wu was the fact that Jiang Dafu had raised 8,000 private soldiers and had the backing to help Ri Ji succeed in usurping the throne. This edict of his claimed to pinch the possibility of the feudal lord's embracing soldiers for rebellion.
The third is the Push Grace Order, which allows the feudal lord to divide the fiefdom equally among his first sons after a hundred years, of course, it is fine to divide some of it among the commoner sons, only that the commoner sons cannot get more than the first sons.
The fourth way is that in the future, rewarding meritorious officials will not be rewarded with fiefs, but will only be rewarded with money and the promotion of titles, which can be inherited by the first-born son, only that he will have to be demoted to a lower rank to inherit. The title only represents the status, not the actual power, but can discuss politics.
Once the four edicts of the Western Husband came out, the nobles were talking, a third of them were in favor of it, most of these people were Ulsan nobles, a third of them were bewildered or neutral, and a third of the nobles had grievances.
The first edict on slaves, which did not ask them to abolish the status of existing slaves on their fiefs, did not touch much on their existing interests, and the nobles did not inspire opposition to it.
The third order of pushing grace was approved by the feudal lords. When there were many sons, there were always favorites and dislikes, and according to the order of pushing grace, even if one's favorite son was not the first-born son, one could get a share of the property openly and honestly when dividing the property.
The fourth way to change the reward of fiefs to money and titles, the nobles think that the material is almost the same, and then say the most should be rewarded generously Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui, followed by the two men to build up the Ulsan nobles did not speak out against it, most of the meritorious ministers themselves do not have any objections, the royal capital of the small portion of meritorious nobles naturally can not come out to oppose it.
Only the second, the nobles with fiefdoms, were a bit upset by the edict that they could not keep private soldiers.
However, facing the tens of thousands of troops in front of them, the disgruntled nobles all chose to remain silent. Chu Chao Hui was the actual person in charge of this army, and the staunch supporter of the Western Marquis was this military authority figure. The two civil unrests had made the Wu nobles timid, and they no longer had the strength to openly oppose it.
The last edict of the Western Marquis was to order Zheng Yuming to evaluate the rewards for the generals and soldiers of the royal court and those with military achievements. Zheng Yuming's last edict was executed in the driest and most generous manner, and once the list of rewards came out, the nobles up and down the royal court were all smiling happily.