Over the past fifty years, the total population of the Ming Empire has grown at an astonishing rate, now reaching a record of more than 2.7 billion. This is despite the high number of miscarriages and premature deaths.
There are more than 1.6 billion people living in the Ming Dynasty alone. There are more than 420 million people in North America, more than 290 million people in South America, 180 million people in Nanyang, and 90 million people in Australia. , the population of Fujian has also exceeded 120 million, and there are more than 25 million people in East Africa.
In the Ming Dynasty itself, the total population of the eight states of Dezhou, Fazhou, Yingzhou, Xizhou, Yizhou, Bozhou, Danzhou, and Ruizhou to the west of the Jifu region reached more than 600 million.
The four states east of Kifu, namely Dizhou, Dunzhou, Fuzhou and Mozhou, have a population of about 400 million. The remaining more than 500 million people live in the eight states east of the Ural Mountains.
The local environment is not particularly harsh, because Zhongzhou, located in Central Asia, is also included. The population of Zhongzhou alone reaches 130 million.
This means that the total population of the states along the Pearl Necklace is less than 400 million. Compared with the land and resources owned by these states, the burden is actually not heavy.
What's more, the huge population of the Ming Empire is also the envy of many countries. France, which lives next door, has a population of only 250 million, not even 300 million.
These people were enough for Louis XIV to control mainland France, but to digest West Africa, it was far from enough. At least this large population must be reproduced.
If he had to digest an overseas territory, Louis XIV would definitely choose West Africa instead of French India, because the local nobles were wise, but the West African chiefs were not.
Most tribes across West Africa are not much different from what they were a hundred or two hundred years ago. Less than 30% choose to keep pace with the times, and the rest are just eating and waiting to die.
In view of this, Louis XIV planned to completely digest West Africa in the future and turn the area into a second French mainland.
The local resources are rich, and the land is still harvested every two years. It is a pure waste of land resources to be managed by black tribes.
Do they know how to develop important industrial raw materials like oil?
They don't understand at all, and when they see oil burning, they think it's a warning from the gods...
Since the Ming Empire was able to digest South America, where the majority of the indigenous people were, France could also digest the black and fertile West Africa.
The specific process may be more than a hundred years behind the speed of the Ming Empire, but Louis XIV believes that he can afford to wait.
Anyway, there is no way to compete with the Ming Empire for world hegemony, so we can simply close our doors and live our lives.
It turns out that France's native population is about 50 million, and the Ming Empire's native population is about 500 million, which is about ten times that of France.
Today, the native population of France is about 270 million, and the native population of the Ming Empire is about 1.6 billion, which is about five or six times that of France.
It seems that they are catching up, but the overseas population of the Ming Empire is mainly Ming people, while the overseas population of France is mainly local indigenous people. This is an essential difference.
There are only 120 million French people in France, accounting for only half of the total population.
The total number of Ming people in various parts of the Ming Empire is as high as 2 billion, accounting for more than 70% of the total population.
In other words, the Ottoman Empire, whose main population was less than 45%, was more dangerous than the French Empire, which only gave Louis XIV some comfort.
Not to mention the Inca Empire. Except for the black miners and the white people engaged in the animal husbandry industry, the rest are all Incas. The population structure is very similar to the Ming Empire, and it is also very safe.
That's why Louis XIV was prepared for danger in times of peace and agreed to the second homeland plan proposed by Colbert, which was to digest West Africa and turn it into a "natural extension of the French Empire"!
If we don't do this, France will be thrown away by the Ming Empire...
In 1800, France's net financial income csj reached a record high of 32 billion francs, equivalent to the same amount of Ming Empire banknotes.
However, the Ming Empire's CSJ soared to as much as 700 billion yuan, more than 20 times that of France. Louis XIV was dumbfounded.
The reason is that although France's overseas territories are large in area, have a large population, and are rich in resources, they cannot be developed in depth because indigenous people make up the majority.
The overseas territories of the Ming Empire were just the opposite. More than 80% were Ming people, and almost all of these territories had a certain industrial base.
Among them, the industrial level of the three major territories of America, Australia, and Fujian is no less than that of France, and they are almost self-contained.
It has made great achievements in light and heavy industries such as aircraft, automobiles, shipbuilding, metallurgy, petrochemicals, medicine, home appliances, construction, papermaking, printing and dyeing, and its economic strength even exceeds that of Prussia and other countries.
Moreover, the population, natural resources, and land area of these three overseas territories are sufficient, and the climate is very good. They are envied by many French people as the "place of choice"!
In contrast, the northern region of the Ming Empire was truly a bitter cold place.
Even so, more than 300 million people live there, and the population even exceeds that of France itself.
A proud Frenchman would definitely not go back to settle in such a cold place.
Even if you go to India or West Africa, it is much better than going to the cold zone and living like a brown bear in winter. That is really worse than death.
However, this area, which is despised by many French people, has become a huge resource base for the Ming Dynasty due to its extremely rich natural resources.
Emperor Haojing has announced that since the mining technology has reached the established standards, the Tyumen Oilfield will be developed starting from 1800 with a short-term recoverable reserve of 10 billion tons and a long-term recoverable reserve of 30 billion tons.
Through the continuous exploration of the exploration team in the past fifty years, it has been determined that the coal resources in the area east of the Ural Mountains reach more than 5 trillion tons, and the natural gas resources exceed 3 billion cubic meters.
Plus gold, silver, iron, copper, aluminum, tin, nickel, lead, zinc, magnesium, titanium, tungsten, molybdenum and other metal mineral deposits, mica, asbestos, fluorite, graphite, limestone, apatite, diamond and other non-metals Mineral deposits were gradually discovered.
The Xianbelia region has been transformed from a sparsely populated, cold and desolate ghost place into a cornucopia of mineral resources.
In the next three hundred years, in addition to the need for states in the region to transport food from other places, there will be no shortage of various industrial resources.
It can be said that the industrial output value of the Xianbelia region alone is equivalent to the industrial output value of the entire France, including its overseas territories.
The biggest advantage of the local factory is that there is no need to pay long-distance transportation fees. The mine is right next to it, and the ore can be mined and smelted immediately.
This kind of processing method, which is equivalent to a front shop and a back factory, undoubtedly greatly reduces manufacturing costs. Whether it is an industrial finished product or a semi-finished product, it is extremely competitive in the market.
Emperor Haojing can be responsible. Except for saltpeter, copper ingots, petroleum, refined oil, and many by-products produced by petroleum refining, the Ming Empire almost does not need to import industrial raw materials from other countries.
The Fujian state controlled by the Zheng Group is its own related household, so it is naturally not included.
Sweden can still export high-grade iron ore to the Ming Empire in exchange for various daily necessities.
Near the Ming Empire, there were even larger oil fields, namely the North Sea oil fields located between Yingzhou, Danzhou, and Sweden.
However, Emperor Haojing believes that the existing technical means are not enough to ensure the normal operation of offshore drilling platforms, and hopes to postpone it for about fifty years.
It is planned to develop this offshore cornucopia that is not too deep after the relevant mining technology is further improved. In later generations, Norway became a wealthy country by exploiting offshore oil.
Once the North Sea oil fields are exploited, the financial income of Yingzhou, Danzhou, and Sweden will take off immediately, and Ming Dynasty will also get a big piece of the pie.
However, the Tyumen Oilfield that is now under development has caused Imperial Oil's stock price to soar to a high of 563 yuan per share. The original issue price was only 10 yuan.
In order to recover blood as soon as possible, Zhu Cixiang did not plan to continue eating alone.
After completing the big move, he began to acquire the remaining assets from a series of giant companies in the industry such as Imperial Oil, Imperial Oil, Xianji Chemical, Daming Communications, Thunder Power, and Guanghui Pharmaceuticals.
In the initial stage alone, the funds obtained through equity transfer amounted to more than 5 billion silver coins, which had already solved Zhu Cihong's urgent need.
By the time it was officially listed on the Minsk Stock Exchange, the total market value of Imperial Oil alone had reached 20.7 billion silver coins.
At that time, Zhu Cihong sold Imperial Oil directly for cash, and directly earned more than 10 billion silver coins, but only a fool would sell his equity at that time.
The current market value of Imperial Oil is fifty times that of the original, and this does not include the annual dividends paid by the company to itself, the largest shareholder...
Ten of the one hundred companies in the DM100 index are controlled by Zhu Cihong, and one is controlled by the consort Gong Yonggu and his wife, namely World Media Group.
The other one is Qianqi Department Store Group, which is located in major cities in the Ming Empire. It is controlled by Zhu Cixiang's children who stayed in Beijing without a fiefdom.
In order to avoid fighting for power and profit, it has always been managed by her sister Zhu Yuluo. Other royal shareholders, like ordinary retail investors, do not participate in the management of the company and are only responsible for collecting annual dividends.
Others, like Mu Bo, have also entered the DM100 index by virtue of their holdings in Southern Tobacco Company, and he is also a real billionaire himself.
Even if they lose Yunnan, a treasure land for growing tobacco, the Mu family has bought a large area of land in South America to grow tobacco. As long as the brand remains, it will survive.
The Ma Shiying family, which was once quite prestigious in Guizhou, has become famous for its liquor brand Guizhou Laojiao.
After moving to Sardinia, "Guizhou Laojiao" became "Guiguo Laojiao".
Although the word has been changed, the taste has not changed and it is still popular among consumers.
Those who could make a fortune in the Ming Dynasty in the past, except for those who felt that they had made enough money and took advantage of the move to escape, others continued to make money in the new homeland, and they made more money than before.
Those who retired did not make any money at all. They bought a large amount of cheap seaside land to build sea-view villas. They could easily sell it through their previous connections and became real estate businessmen.
Those who heard the news and spent huge sums of money to buy land in Minsk, the new capital, made a lot of money. Now they can feed themselves and their children just by collecting rent.
There were countless such people in the Ming Empire. Among the eight states west of Mingsk, only Danzhou was the first to be opened to the public, allowing them to buy and sell land at will.
Subsequently, seven states followed suit step by step based on changes in the current situation. That is, even if someone misses one opportunity, there are still seven opportunities waiting for you.
If you miss them all, you are either a fool or a blind person!
If you don’t understand the real estate industry, what about high technology?
Is it possible to invest in Caihong Company, which produces televisions, tape recorders, and video recorders?
These video and audio products have always been in short supply and have a bright future.
If you are not optimistic about this, then there is no need to read anything and just dream, because you can have everything in your dreams!
There are also high-tech companies in the DM100 index that laymen cannot understand, such as Pentium Technology and Volkswagen Software.
These two are real technology companies. The former is responsible for producing hardware including processors, and the latter is responsible for writing code and manufacturing software.
After hundreds of years of development, both companies have become giants in the hardware and software industries.
In the fall of 1800, Pentium Technology Company launched the BT-99 processor, with a frequency of 99MHz, surpassing the previous generation BT-68 and becoming the company's latest product and the most advanced processor in the world.
Paired with 16MB of memory and a 512MB hard drive, it can run the Gate operating system of Volkswagen Software Company, as well as the most attractive first-person action games "Heroes of the Three Kingdoms" and "Dungeon Siege", and real-time strategy games "Black Alert" and "Century of Empires". As well as leisure and entertainment games "Monopoly", "Plants vs. Zombies", "Energy", "Virtual Life", and "Legend of Prince".
Twenty years before this, with the Big King game console and arcade machine, the two companies have harvested a wave of leeks together, and now they can harvest again...
Brand new computer configuration, brand new operating system, brand new advanced games!
This is the birthday gift that the rich second generation dreams of, and they can stay at home.
It doesn't matter if there is no Internet. As long as there is a LAN, you can play online.
The rich second generation don't care about spending more money as long as they can connect to the internet directly from both homes.
And the more people connected, the better, because all nine games support multiplayer battle modes.
If you feel it's not enough, you can go online and have fun. Both "Black Alert" and "Age of Empires" support up to sixteen people playing against each other.
There were places similar to Internet cafes before, but the performance of the BT-68 processor can be described as miserable, and it was impossible to play more exciting games.
Even if popular software companies write fun games, due to backward hardware, they cannot be reflected on the computer. At best, they are just a bunch of code.
Kai Technology, a company that specializes in machine installation, specially launched the famous "Post-2000" brand machine based on the release time of hardware and software.
In the early stages of launch, the top-end configuration is priced at 6,666 yuan per unit, so don’t bargain, as demand exceeds supply.
The queue has been waiting until the year after next. There are many rich buyers all over the world, and you are one of them...
There are many people who can't afford a computer. It doesn't matter, large Internet cafes have been opened in Minsk.
You can recharge your membership for 2 yuan per time, and the membership price is 1.5 yuan.
Accommodation is provided at night and at six in the morning, and only ten yuan is charged at ten o'clock.
As a result, young people who couldn't afford computers began to plan to stay overnight.
It's fine on weekdays, but on weekends, almost all local Internet cafes are packed with college students and salary-earners.
The largest Internet cafe has a thousand computers, all of which are top-of-the-line models, which amazes players.
The Internet cafe has five floors, with the lower four floors being the entertainment area and the fifth floor being the office area and warehouse.
At this time, no player will despise the difficulty of climbing stairs.
Even if there is an empty plane on the fourth floor, I would like to fly up and sit there in one quick step.
Salary-wage players may use half of their salary every month to recharge their membership, in addition to room and board.
The happiest thing for everyone is the holidays when they don’t have to work and can do almost everything.
Moreover, you can also buy instant noodles, sausages, rice bowls, soda drinks, etc. in the Internet cafe, but cigarettes are not sold and smoking is not allowed.
Because I'm worried about fire, I'm also afraid that some idiot will accidentally burn the screen with a cigarette butt.
People who are addicted to smoking usually can't bear it anymore and rush to the smoking room on each floor to take a few puffs, and then go back to fight with the enemy.
Internet cafes do this for everyone's benefit. Don't you have to spend money on smoking?
Once the money for buying cigarettes increases, won’t there be little money left for surfing the Internet?
It was hard to get used to it at first, but when the war got into full swing, who would bother smoking?
"Fourth! Hold on! Hold on! My tank will be here soon!"
"Fart! You asked me to resist a minute ago! My heavy factory was bulldozed, and your pile of tanks drowned in the river?"
Trash brothers like this are everywhere in the hall.
I am so addicted to food, I have even made my teammates miserable.
"Da Zhuang! Don't be afraid! Let's go together! Fight him to death!"
"What? There's a war elephant on the other side! Our cavalry can't beat it!"
"Cannon?"
"Taken!"
"Where are you, Lao Liu? Both of our troops are on top!"
"Don't you look at the picture? They dug into our backyard!"
"Go back quickly and save us!"
These conversations were all personally experienced by a certain emperor, because in the palace, a group of juniors often made this classic coordination mistake, and then accused each other of being pig teammates!
If you want to play games calmly, you have to play casual entertainment games, and you can't go online.
Being online means that it will cause psychological imbalance, and then you will start to curse again...
Once the top-end version of the post-2000 computer was launched, it swept the gaming market and also the office market.
Zhu Cixiang believes that the game market is more profitable than the office market, and the former can cut leeks quickly.
It is enough for a company to have a few office computers, and they do not require high-end equipment, and the requirements for software and hardware are not high.
Playing games is just the opposite. Especially in the early stages of computer games, it can really be described as hot.
The higher the computer configuration, the more games it can run, especially those high-configuration games that have just been launched and are the most popular among players.
There are rich second-generation people who would rather spend tens of thousands of yuan to immediately buy a computer to go home and play happily.
Then Zhu Cixi asked Pentium Technology Company, Volkswagen Software Company, and Kai Technology Company to set a more conscientious selling price.
The top-end model is equivalent to less than two years' salary for a salaryman. If you want to buy it, you don't need to buy the top-end model.
