In the sixth year of Wanli, something appeared in the Central Plains that seemed ordinary at this time but was extremely important to the future.

After returning to the court after his father's funeral, Zhang Juzheng returned home and went all the way. He was stung by others and scolded him for being unfaithful and filial to his power. When he returned to the capital, he made another decision that would suffer more infamousness.

Official craftsmen schools were established in four provinces, including northern Zhili, southern Zhili, Shandong and Zhejiang Province. They were directly under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry. They were divided into cotton and wool and canvas, wine making, koji, oil making, salt and tea making, daily clothing department stores, paper printing, tool making, building materials and bricks, and finally, fuel disciplines such as shipbuilding, ship repair, wood, coal, and turbulent oil.

The Craftsman School was no longer a new thing in the Ming Dynasty, and it was not surprising that the rules were formulated by officials familiar with the teaching of different disciplines. Only Zhang Juzheng's order made the entire Grand Canal twilight.

The four major schools of officials do not recruit students from all over the world. In this era, the basic foundation of any country is agriculture, especially a big country like the Ming Dynasty. Once farmers put down their hoes and do something else, the country will be destroyed.

30% of the students are allowed to enroll in military craftsmen from all over the country, and the remaining 70% are only allowed to enroll in the canal.

The craftsman school in the four provinces is very encouraging. The four provinces enroll a total of 3,200 students a year. The school system is four years. The government only provides the school venue. Each student pays 3 taels of silver for a year, and pays an extra 3 taels of pounds before eating in the school.

The students basically take care of themselves in the accommodation. The school provides the land, but from the school, the cafeteria to the dormitory, all the students who paid the money to go to school work and work on their own. Each school first built a brick kiln and a small shed.

Fortunately, the Ministry of Works was not too dark, and the bricks and soil were allocated by the provincial governing departments, so the students were not allowed to spend money.

The salary is so bad that the result is self-evident. The admission notice was printed from Beijing and sent to every canal along the canal. The canal was read to the canal households. Three months later, no school in the four provinces recruited enough students.

Nanzhili recruited only 108 people, and was called Liangshan Academy, which became the biggest joke in the sixth year of Wanli.

There were only a few people in the government and the country who had guessed Zhang Juzheng's behavior. The court's use of sea transportation instead of canal transportation will become a real reality in the near future.

Everyone knows that the cost of shipping is much lower than that of shipping, but for hundreds of years, the shipping has become a huge industry and has a great impact; for the second reason, the number of people employed in shipping exceeds 100,000, and their families have a million people pointing to this job to eat.

This is an unsolvable problem. The livelihood of millions of people, these people have no land or skills. Even if they want to join the army, they will not have the army to collect troops. Nowadays, since Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou, they always pay attention to a bad family.

Most of the Cao people have urban populations, and in the words of Qi, the city people have deep routines.

Without the canal transportation, these people will cause social turmoil.

Even Chen Mu's shipping could not touch the slightest amount of the canal transport. What they transported by sea was just money, grain and goods from Nanyang.

But now these two things are no problem. One million canal residents only need ten years. In ten years, most of the next generation of canal residents will enter Xuanfu, Nanzhi, Beizhi, and Guangdong through the craftsman school, and the remaining canal residents can still meet the needs of canal transportation.

As for the interpersonal relationships, Zhang Juzheng is not afraid of anything. Now Zhang Juzheng is a filthy person who is inferior to pigs and dogs. The students he brought out and fellow villagers scold him like this. Is it useful to manage his connections?

What else can he do and who can't offend?

If you stand a wall with a thousand feet without desire, you will be strong. Zhang Juzheng does not need to worship a general. He will still go up to the nine heavens and nine abyss, but no one can control him.

This action is related to the renewed expansion of the overseas market of the Ming Dynasty, but it has little to do with Chen Mu. The key is that the progress of Western Minister Yin Zhengmao is too fast.

The Portuguese, who had been entrenched in Goa for decades, gave up this business station and completely withdrew from India at the end of the fifth year of Wanli, declaring that its official Eastern route had completely failed.

Only the Portuguese forces left in the Indian Ocean have not had much left with Portugal. They are widely distributed in the Kingdom of Arakan, and the Indian tribes in Myanmar are active in the turbulent battlefield with mercenaries.

Yin Zhengmao relied on military or bribery to obtain Goa. On the contrary, the Governor of Goa really had no choice but to bribe Yin Zhengmao to return this land to the Ming Dynasty's Atlantic Military Office and continue to survive on the land of India in the form of a beautiful mirror.

Nowadays, most of the land scattered in southern India is divided into Yin Zhengmao and the South Indian Capital is governed by the three thousand miles of land. It is expected that 90,000 dan of cotton can be transported to the country in the sixth year of Wanli.

The reason why the Governor of Goa gave up his rule over Goa is funny because their ties to Lisbon were completely cut off.

As for why, I have to ask Lin Afeng, the African king who established his capital on the other side of the Arabian Sea, who took the country's name as Han.

In nearly two years, no Portuguese ship could reach the Indian Ocean safely through the Arabian Sea. The same experience also occurred in the Persian Safi Dynasty and the Turkish Ottoman Empire.

There is a very interesting thing here. Even before the Ottomans negotiated peace with the Holy Alliance in the fifth year of Wanli, they fought in the Mediterranean in the west and almost collapsed, and the trade between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean did not stop.

Everyone needs this tax to support the war.

As a result, the trade in the Indian Ocean was disturbed by a group of pirates with strong combat power.

It’s not that Lin Afeng and his subordinates are so offensive. On the contrary, in the two years, in addition to being powerful at the beginning, their fleets floated on the sea most of the time to avoid the pursuit of the fleet formed by the Safe Dynasty and Ottoman after they were angered.

But triangular trade is more popular in this era. There is a triangular trade in western Africa that belongs to white people. They load black people on ships and sent them to America for sale, which is called the black slave trade.

There was also a triangular trade in northern Africa. Barbarian pirates plundered European ships in the Mediterranean or directly attacked European coastal cities and then sold white people to the Ottoman Empire as white slaves.

Now there is another triangular trade in eastern Africa, which has been prosperous until its end. The Ming Dynasty merchants and Portuguese sold goods through Malacca to the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea, and the Ottoman and Safi merchants through the Red Sea and then sold them to Damascus by land.

However, most of the time, this batch of goods left the hands of the Ming Dynasty merchants, and then turned to Damascus and was snatched by pirate ships from the Han Kingdom and sold back to Ming Dynasty merchants at a low price, and then sold to merchants in the Indian Ocean by the Ming Dynasty merchants.

In just two years, a mature commercial channel was almost destroyed by pirates. Lin Afeng was busy with this main business and also went to Goa and turned it into ruins.

The Portuguese's own power could not be defended at all, not to mention that Yin Zhengmao's expansion in India was too fast, and he was unable to contact the country, so after discussing with the Bishop of Macau, the Governor of Goa decided to temporarily break away from the control of the Holy See and surrender to the Ming Dynasty.
Chapter completed!