In the sixth year of Wanli, there was an event in the Central Plains that seemed uncommon at this time, but it had an extremely important impact on the future.

After his father's funeral, Zhang Juzheng, who returned to the court, returned to his hometown, and was poked in the back by others along the way, scolding him for being disloyal, unfilial, and greedy for power.

In the four provinces of North Zhili, South Zhili, Shandong, and Zhejiang, a government-run craftsman school was set up, which was directly under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry, and the disciplines were divided into cotton spinning, wool spinning, canvas, winemaking, koji, oil and salt making and tea making, daily clothing, department stores, papermaking, printing, craftsman's tools, building materials, bricks and tiles, and finally fuel disciplines such as shipbuilding and ship repair, wood, coal, and oil.

The craftsman school was not new in the Ming Dynasty, and it was not surprising that the rules were set by officials who were familiar with the teaching of different subjects, but Zhang Juzheng's order made the entire Grand Canal noisy.

The four major government-run schools do not recruit students from all over the world, and the basic plate of any country in this era is agriculture, especially in a big country like the Ming Dynasty.

Thirty percent of the students are allowed to enter the school of military craftsmen and civilian craftsmen from all over the country, and the remaining seventy percent are only allowed to enter the school of the children of Caohu on the canal.

The four provincial government-run craftsman schools are coaxing, a total of 3,200 students are enrolled in the four provinces a year, the school system is four years, the government only gives the school space, each student pays three taels of silver for a year, and pays three taels more to eat in the school.

The accommodation is basically the students take care of themselves, and the school gives the land, but from the school, the canteen to the dormitory, all of them are the students who have paid the money to go to school and work by themselves, and each school is built with brick kilns and small sheds.

Fortunately, the heart of the Ministry of Engineering was not too dark, and the bricks and soil were allocated by the provincial political departments, and the students were not allowed to spend money.

The treatment is so poor, the results speak for themselves, the enrollment notice was printed from Beijing, sent along the canal to the hands of each Cao Chang, and the Cao Chang read it to Cao Hu, and three months later, none of the four provincial schools recruited enough students.

Nanzhili only recruited one hundred and eight people, and was known as Liangshan School, which became the biggest joke in the sixth year of Wanli.

Only a few people in the government and the opposition have speculated about Zhang Juzheng's behavior - the matter of the imperial court's use of sea as a substitute for shipping will become a real reality in the near future.

Everyone knows that the cost of sea transportation is much lower than that of Cao Yun, but Cao Yun has been associated with commerce and military for hundreds of years, and has become a great industry with a lot of influence; Second, there are more than 100,000 people working in Caoyun, and counting their families, there are millions of Caoyun people who eat on this job.

This is a problem that cannot be solved, the livelihood of millions of people, these people have no land and no skills, even if they want to be soldiers, there is no army to collect them - since Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou in these years, recruiting soldiers has paid attention to non-good families.

Most of the Cao people are urban population, and in Qi's words, the city people have deep routines.

Without luck, these people will cause social unrest.

Even Chen Mu's sea transportation failed to touch Cao Yun in the slightest, and what they transported by sea was just money and grain goods from the South Seas.

But now these two things are no problem, it only takes ten years for a million Caomin, and most of the next generation of Caomin will enter the government-run factories in Xuanfu, Nanzhi, Beizhi, and Guangdong through the craftsman school, and the remaining Caomin can still meet the needs of Caoyun.

As for the intertwined interpersonal relationships, Zhang Juzheng is not afraid, Zhang Juzheng is not afraid of anything now - they are all unscrupulous people who are not as good as pigs and dogs, and the students and fellow villagers he brought out are all scolding themselves like this, is it useful to manage contacts?

What else can he not do, and what else can he not offend?

Standing on the wall and having no desire, Zhang Juzheng does not need to worship the general, he still goes up to the nine heavens and down to the nine abysses, and no one can control him.

For this action, it is related to the expansion of Daming's overseas market again, 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, abandoned the trading post and withdrew from India at the end of the fifth year of Wanli, declaring their official eastern route a complete failure.

The only Portuguese forces remaining in the Indian Ocean had little to do with the Portuguese, and they were widely distributed in the kingdom of Arakan, Burma, and India, and were active in the turbulent battlefield with mercenaries.

Yin Zhengmao did not rely on military or bribery to obtain Goa, on the contrary, it was the governor of Goa who really had no choice, and bribed Yin Zhengmao to bring this land under the rule of the Ming Western Military Government, and continued to live on the land of India in the form of a mirror.

Nowadays, more than half of the city-states scattered in southern India are divided by Yin Zhengmao and governed by the capital of South India, and the 3,000 miles of rivers and mountains are expected to be able to send 90,000 quintals of cotton to the country in the sixth year of Wanli.

The reason why the Governor of Goa renounced his rule over Goa is amusing is that they have been completely cut off from Lisbon.

As for why, you have to ask the African king Lin Afeng, who was named Han on the other side of the Arabian Sea.

For nearly two years, not a single Portuguese ship had been able to reach the Indian Ocean through the Arabian Sea unscathed, and the same happened to the Safavid dynasty of the Persians and the Ottoman Empire of the Turks.

There is a very interesting thing in this, even before the Ottomans negotiated peace with the Holy Alliance in the fifth year of Wanli, they were fighting in the Mediterranean to the west, and the trade between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean did not stop.

Everyone needs this tax money to support the war.

As a result, trade in the Indian Ocean has been muddyed by a group of powerful pirates.

It's not that Lin Afeng and his subordinates were very aggressive, on the contrary, in addition to being majestic at the beginning, for two years, their fleet spent most of the time floating on the sea to avoid the pursuit of the fleet formed by the Safavid and Ottoman after being provoked.

But in this era, the triangular trade was more popular, and there was a triangular trade in West Africa that belonged to the whites, who loaded blacks on ships and sent them to the Americas to sell, which was called the black slave trade.

There was also a triangular trade in northern Africa, where Barbary pirates sold whites to the Ottomans as white slaves after plundering European ships in the Mediterranean or directly attacking European coastal cities.

Now there is a very short-lived triangular trade in eastern Africa, where Ming merchants and Portuguese sold goods through Malacca to the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea, and Ottoman and Safavid merchants sold them overland to Damascus through the Red Sea.

However, most of the time, this batch of goods left the hands of the Ming Dynasty merchants, and on the way to Damascus, they were robbed by the pirate ships of the Han Kingdom, sold back to the Ming Dynasty merchants at a low price, and then sold by the Ming merchants to the merchants in the Indian Ocean.

In just two years, a mature commercial waterway was almost destroyed by pirates, and Lin Afeng even made a trip to Goa while he was busy with this main business, turning it into a ruin.

The Portuguese could not hold on to their own strength, not to mention that Yin Zhengmao's expansion in India was too fast, and seeing that it was unstoppable and unable to contact the country, the governor of Goa, after consulting with the bishop of Macao, decided to temporarily break away from the control of the Holy See and join the Ming Dynasty.

On the other side of the ocean, a battle is about to start over an arquebus that is close to being scrapped.