Grand Duke Lin's words made the senior officials of the Ming Dynasty present frown.
After all, they are all vested interests in the Ming Dynasty who have property and business in their families.
Now the industrial products of the Ming Dynasty need a market.
In addition to the exclusive Ming Dynasty, Japan, Korea, Annan, Nanyang, and Indian vassals.
Another big market is Europe.
anyway.
Europe has always been an important market for China's foreign trade.
Including tea, porcelain, spices and other key products that China has exported to the outside world for thousands of years, in fact, many of them are transported to the west - not to the west, nor to the east.
Today's senior officials of the Ming Dynasty are not only big landowners, but also big factory owners - none of these people's families run factories and engage in export trade.
The Ming Empire is on the verge of entering imperialism.
As for Zhu Daohua, the great emperor of tomorrow.
Of course he can't stop all this, not to mention that he himself is the largest capitalist in Ming Dynasty.
therefore.
When I heard that the Europeans might unite to fight against the Ming Dynasty.
It is normal for Ming Dynasty's senior officials to worry that the European market is closed to Ming Dynasty.
But Emperor Zhu didn't have much worry about this.
"Let's just stick together. Anyway, we can't go to Europe now, and we also need a strong opponent to integrate the Chinese world."
Emperor Zhu waved his hand and said.
At the beginning, he was still a little bit phobic.
But now, the Slav army has killed tens of thousands.
It would be really weird if he was still afraid of foreign countries and European countries.
For Emperor Zhu.
Even if there is no European market, it is nothing.
The key is that if the emergence of a European alliance allows the Ming Empire to take advantage of the pressure brought by this opponent and continue to integrate internally, then it will obviously be more beneficial than harmful to the Ming Empire!
Any political entity that is too strong will weaken.
If the Ming Empire now occupies the northern part of the Kazakh Khanate, relying on the large and small fortresses established by the Russians here, the western border of the empire will be greatly stabilized, relying on the northern Kazakh grasslands and using the Yenisei River as the border .
The Ming Empire would reach the Caspian Sea in the west, the Arctic Ocean in the north, the Governor's Palace of Jinshan in North America (Vancouver area, Canada) in the east, and Australia in the south.
This will be an unprecedented super empire in human history.
Moreover, the Ming Empire also integrated the entire Eastern world unprecedentedly.
Even Japan, an alien in the Eastern world, is now included in the Celestial System of the Ming Empire.
The victory of national power.
Far away from the Han and Tang dynasties.
However, as the saying goes, the peak comes and then the decline.
Emperor Zhu knew very well that the Ming Empire was not yet ready to sit back and relax.
There are many challenges ahead.
Especially inside!
He is not so arrogant as to think that history has ended here - although there are also some scholars on the border of the empire who are touting similar views.
But Emperor Zhu did not get carried away.
After all, he returned to this era from the 21st century.
history.
It's far from over.
The Ming Empire must retain an opponent who seems to be decent.
What's the saying?
If the country is free from foreign aggression, it will perish.
Emperor Zhu thought for a while and said: "If you occupy the fortress in the northern Kazakh grassland, you don't need to move on. The Ministry of Industry can plan a railway from Beidou to Central Asia, passing through Guanzhong, Gansu, the Western Regions and other places. This railway will It will be an important strategic logistics line for Ming Dynasty to consolidate its northwest frontier! In terms of investment,"
Emperor Zhu looked at Peng Jun, who looked embarrassed.
Peng Jun saw the emperor's gaze and hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Revenue has no surplus food. The budget for the eight years after the liberation has basically been arranged."
"It doesn't matter. This railway cannot be repaired in a short time. It would be good if it can be completed within ten years. It may even take twenty years."
Emperor Zhu said.
The current Ming Empire, in the words of later generations, is in an era of large-scale infrastructure construction.
Especially railways.
After the railway transportation capacity was fully demonstrated, the entire Ming Empire began to invest heavily in railways.
The large-scale development of labor employment, steel, timber, machinery and other industries driven by investment in infrastructure has also become another huge driving force for the industrialization development of the Ming Empire.
"This railway connects the Central Plains and the Western Regions. It will definitely be profitable in the future. The Western Regions, Central Asia and other places are rich in minerals, especially oil and gas resources! This is a way to get back the capital without worrying about it. For the time being, issue debt first, and then To attract investment, 30% of the shares will be put up for sale first.”
Thanks to the development of the financial industry, although Emperor Zhu's money in the Ministry of Revenue basically has somewhere to go, the fiscal revenue of the Ming Empire is basically stored in the treasury like the former Qing and Ming dynasties, but will be spent. go out.
Moreover, the Ming Empire had abundant financial tools. Although the wars had not stopped in recent years, they did not cause the domestic industry to decline and the people to live in dire straits.
Even because of the war boom caused by several wars, orders from the domestic steel, chemical, cotton textile, and pharmaceutical industries have exploded.
In conjunction with the reform of the imperial examination system, the Ming and Qing dynasties continued to flow into the country through international trade, and the silver buried in the cellars was pried out, turned into real capital, and put into the furnace of industrialization.
The industrialization of the Ming Empire was already in full swing.
And Zhu Daohua, the initiator of the launch of this behemoth, did not know where this largest industrial machine in human history would go in the future!
There isn't much he can do now.
Land, education, reform of the imperial examination system, constitutional government (rituals), and parliamentary politics.
Although every change.
None of them can truly "get to the root".
But then again.
in this world.
And how many of them actually touch upon fundamental changes?
reform.
Isn't it just a process of peeling off the old skin bit by bit and growing new skin?
If they come up, they will be chopped to death.
That would not be reform.
But revolution.
Zhu Daohua's current role is the voltage stabilizer of this huge empire.
As the founding emperor, as long as he is still alive, even if there are some twists and turns in the behemoth Ming Empire, there will be no major changes.
only.
What happens after he leaves?
"Your Majesty, we cannot allow the Europeans to integrate so easily. Maybe we can support the Ottoman Turks to cause them trouble."
Grand Duke Lin suggested.
Ottoman Türkiye?
The sick man of West Asia?
Can they do it?
Zhu Daohua waved his hand and said: "We can give them limited support, but Europe is too far away from us. Our territorial requirements are limited to Central Asia, and we can't control anything further away."
"The next thing is to consolidate the newly occupied land. Of course, what you swallowed must be digested well!"
(End of chapter)
