Today's Ming Dynasty is strong.
The territory has exceeded the beginning of the country.
From the Chief Secretary of Beishan, which is located on the land near the Sea of Okhotsk today, all the way south to Sakhalin Island, then all the way to the pass, and then to Haojing, they are all the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and this does not include various enclaves.
The economy benefited from the technological revolution brought about by the steam engine, and productivity increased significantly.
Prices are so cheap that ordinary people can afford to wear gold and silver. With the promotion of various high-yielding grains and the application of chemical fertilizers brought about by the development of chemistry, there is no longer any famine in the world.
In addition, Ming Dynasty is now the only industrial country in the world, while all foreign countries are agricultural countries.
Except for minerals, the imported goods exchanged for exported goods are almost all grains.
In order to live a luxurious and luxurious life, foreign nobles basically exchanged grain for Ming Dynasty's industrial products.
And because of this, Ming Dynasty’s food is now particularly abundant.
Crops with relatively low nutritional value, such as sweet potatoes and corn, are no longer used for personal consumption in the Ming Dynasty's agriculturally developed provinces, but are used to raise pigs, chickens, and ducks.
Therefore, the breeding industry began to develop significantly.
In addition, as the income level of the people of Ming Dynasty increased, the demand for meat also increased, thus further promoting the development of the breeding industry.
Because the domestic demand for meat increased in the Ming Dynasty, coupled with the increase in income, the demand for animal skins also increased, so the animal husbandry industry also developed highly.
The number of cattle and sheep in the major pastoral areas under the direct rule of the Ming Dynasty was far greater than before, and because there was no exploitation by the Tatar nobles, the income of herdsmen in these places increased a lot.
In addition, because the Ming Dynasty's guns were already very powerful, the General Administration of Ordnance Manufacturing had used mercury fulminate as propellant to create rifled guns.
Therefore, there are fewer and fewer herders who are dishonest and want to make a living through robbery.
Therefore, the herdsmen who are wealthy and can no longer compete with the Ming Dynasty's guns and cannons now only like to sing and dance.
Even in order to sell their large number of cattle and sheep at a good price and not to prevent the large amount of money they earned from being confiscated by the government, they have now become particularly docile and kind, and are basically very cooperative with the government's dispatch of their young men to fight.
Without the threat of nomadic forces from the north, the people in the pass naturally lived a very peaceful life. Therefore, many inland Han people still did not know how to use weapons.
After all, there were no more slaves entering the country to plunder the country like in history.
The population thus increases exponentially.
Not only in the south of the Yangtze River, but also in the northern Shanxi, Liaodong, and Beijing areas, many large towns with tens of thousands of households appeared.
In the past, traditional wealthy areas such as Jiangnan, Huguang, and Guangdong already had several cities that never sleep.
Shaanxi, which was severely devastated by natural disasters, did not experience large-scale peasant uprisings or even the decline of various industries.
As a passage of the Silk Road, the population here is still increasing due to the development of commerce.
After all, no matter how bad Shaanxi is, it is still better than outside the Great Wall. Therefore, there are still many proletarian people in the south who migrate to these places to start businesses, bringing the advanced production technology from the south to Shaanxi.
God's plan to cause chaos in Shaanxi and then destroy the entire Ming Dynasty has undoubtedly failed.
Li Zicheng, who historically ended the national destiny of the Ming Dynasty, is now living a very cool life in the South Asian subcontinent.
He and Zhang Xianzhong were the backbone of the Ming Dynasty World Development Company. The Mughal Empire, which was in its golden age, was not their opponent and had already ceded many territories to the Ming Dynasty in order to negotiate peace.
As a result, people like Li Zicheng became farmers in the Ming Dynasty here, using slave ownership to sell a large amount of the grain they produced to the court, while they themselves acted as big landowners in these places.
Zhu Youxiao, who lived in the Qinzheng Hall of the Daming Garden, looked at Nuo Da's map of the Ming Dynasty territory, and reviewed what happened in the various places he ruled through the information provided by the electronic translations and memorials from various places.
When his hand stopped in Daning, he knew that a railway there was about to be opened to traffic, and it would be the first railway in Ming Dynasty. The military supplies arriving in the capital through sea roads and canals would be transported to Da Ning in a shorter time. Ning, and then radiate to the entire outside the Great Wall.
When his hand stopped in Ezozhou (Hokkaido), he knew that King Hirado Zhu Yusong was building a summer palace for him there because of the beautiful scenery. In addition, it could also be used as a base for his future inspections of the Arctic.
When his hand stopped at Manlajia, he knew that his favorite Chen Xin was serving as governor there and preparing a fleet to go to the legendary Australia in order to meet the Ming Dynasty's increasing demand for iron ore.
Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but smile because of this. He didn't expect that the Ming Dynasty would already be so powerful now that he had only been emperor for fifteen years.
But Zhu Youxiao was not satisfied with this.
Because he has just passed his thirties now, he is still considered a young emperor.
"Siberia's forest resources are what I want."
"I also want the gold of America."
"Europe, a land with a suitable climate, should be used as the agricultural base of the Ming Dynasty, and no industrial civilization should appear again."
Therefore, while Zhu Youxiao was thinking about it, he asked his new concubine Du Hongyin to mark what he wanted to mark in these places for him.
With the improvement of the economic level of the people in the Ming Dynasty, coupled with Han supremacy, many scholars with new ideas, such as Gu Yanwu and Wang Fuzhi, opposed the castration of Han people. In addition, in order to increase the number of Han people, Zhu Youxiao has now decreed a ban on Han people in the world. Men from the Han family who self-constituted themselves were no longer recruited from the outside. Even those who self-consecrated themselves would be severely punished. For the use of new eunuchs, they were basically selected from captured foreign children and castrated.
However, Zhu Youxiao considered that even though these foreign children had been Hanized, they were not of Han descent and would not be suitable to become eunuchs like Wei Zhongxian and Wang Chengen in the future, hold great power, and participate in court affairs.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao planned to gradually change the existing internal affairs system, so that the phenomenon of eunuchs participating in government affairs would gradually disappear, and gradually hand over internal affairs to trusted ministers who belonged to their own interest groups, so that in the future those eunuchs could only engage in middle- and lower-level occupations.
Zhu Youxiao knew that the reason why the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not have eunuch dictatorship was because it had an Eight Banners aristocratic group that was tied to the emperor's interests. The emperor could control the imperial power without relying on eunuchs.
Zhu Youxiao, on the other hand, has formed an aristocratic group tied to the emperor's interests. This aristocratic group is all members of the Xingming Society and is a shareholder of major government-owned industries.
These people are Zhu Youxiao's trusted ministers.
Zhu Youxiao plans to gradually rely on these people to maintain his power and status.
As for whether these people will eventually become unstoppable because they control too much power and wealth, and become an obstacle to the internal innovation of the empire, he can't control that much.
After all, Zhu Youxiao had to admit that his own abilities were limited and he could not design a perfect system. In addition, even if he knew many systems that looked better in later generations, he would not dare to copy them directly. He also had to consider today's Ming Dynasty Are you suitable for such a system?
However, Zhu Youxiao now only determines that the Ming Dynasty is only suitable for the emperor and a group of nobles to become big capitalists, and then control the entire empire to expand externally, and increase the wealth of the people throughout the empire through external expansion, so that class contradictions have not been intensified. .
Because Zhu Youxiao did this when he came to the throne, and it proved to be very successful. Ministers like Bi Ziyan were very active in safeguarding imperial power after they became big capitalists.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao now only knows that he can trust these ministers who are tied to his own interests to ensure his power.
Back to the topic.
In order to gradually withdraw eunuchs from the stage of history, Zhu Youxiao asked his concubines to begin to take on some internal work such as personal service for him. After all, he, the emperor, now has to have concubines every once in a while, and these concubines cannot be idle. It just happened that he could do some housekeeping work for him, so now it was his concubine Du Hongyin who was working beside him instead of a newly promoted eunuch.
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