First Prince of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 128 Seek Truth From Facts
Zhu Biao sat in the room for a while and then went to Wenhua Palace to read. He still wanted to read "Qi Min Yao Shu". He was going to arrange immigration soon. This book is a comprehensive agricultural book. 1500 years ago, Chinese agriculture, horticulture, afforestation, sericulture, animal husbandry, veterinary medicine, breeding, brewing, cooking, storage, etc...

Although there are professional people in charge of these matters, Zhu Biao feels that he can't go up and direct without knowing anything, he must have a basic understanding, so that he can help those common people with some of his insights in later generations.

Zhu Biao thought that there was some toothache here, but unfortunately "Heavenly Creation of Things" did not appear until the end of the Ming Dynasty. He had that book, but he forgot to read it after he bought it home.

If he could still remember something after reading it, it would be trivial to push Daming forward 100 years, but it would be useless to regret it. If the world really knew it earlier, it would be a mess.

Zhu Biao concentrated on reading agricultural books. Fortunately, Daming is still ahead of the world in every aspect, maintaining its crushing advantages in all aspects of science, technology and military.

Japan is now in the Muromachi Shogunate, and entered the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. The Japanese local princes were separated, fighting each other, fighting for power and internal strife, and people's livelihood was difficult.

Some feudal lords of the Southern Dynasties who were defeated in the war organized warriors, merchants and ronin to carry out armed smuggling, robbery and burning activities in the coastal areas of Daming, that is, Japanese pirates. How did their situation develop?

Although there is no division in Goryeo, the situation is not much better. The inherent social order has been completely destroyed by the Wuchen regime and the Goryeo-Mongol War. The aristocratic families rely on the Yuan Dynasty to carry out crazy mergers and plunders. Private farms are spread all over the whole of Goryeo. .

The supreme ruling group also scrambled for power and profit, and the throne changed frequently, so that there were conflicts between King Chungyeol and King Zhongxuan, and King Zhongsu and King Zhonghui.

Anyone with some discernment can see that Goryeo is already in a situation where serious illness cannot be reversed. The social contradictions are so sharp that they are almost irreconcilable, and the change of dynasty is imminent.

As for the countries in Central Asia and West Asia, they are also in turmoil. The Mongol rule has all started to have problems, but Europe has already come out of the Black Death and the dark Middle Ages.

Counting the time, the Western Renaissance is about to begin. In fact, Zhu Biao also has a sense of crisis, and it’s not that he has never thought about starting industrialization. It’s just that industrialization requires various prerequisites such as machine production, knowledge reserve, technological progress, capital accumulation, and labor liberation.

The background of industrialization in the West was that the bourgeoisie ruled actively developed overseas trade, carried out colonial rule, accumulated rich capital, expanded vast overseas markets and produced the cheapest raw materials.

On the other hand, the further implementation of the "Enclosure Movement" has resulted in a large amount of cheap labor, and the flourishing handicraft industry has accumulated rich production technology knowledge and increased production.

However, it was still unable to meet the needs of the ever-expanding market, so a revolution in the means of production emerged. Does the current Ming Dynasty have these prerequisites?
If it doesn't have it, Daming now has few people and the fields are barren.Since the rise of the army, the people died or migrated to other counties, and they were not allowed to return to their hometowns. Their families were separated, their livelihoods were wiped out, and many villages were covered with bones and grass.

The water transportation in various places is blocked, the water flow is blocked, the official roads are blocked, and the people are cut off. The Dongting Lake Basin in Huguang was originally a rich and fertile land, but now the land is sparsely populated, with few farmers and many barren ones.

It's not like Zhu Biao has never seen what Yangzhou and other famous cities look like now. Where is there a market to speak of?Even though these prerequisites are ignored, they want to forcibly develop industrialization.

What happened to that machine?What is the working principle?How to assemble and run?What materials are needed for manufacturing?How are raw materials mined and refined?
Not to mention the ancients, even modern people would not understand as long as they are not occupations linked to industry. Most people simply enjoy the benefits of an industrialized society, and very few people will go to the bottom of it.

Industrialization is not just something that can be promoted by the principle of steam. It is impossible for Zhu Biao to find someone from the Ministry of Industry to let them see the steam and lift the lid of the pot, and then give an order casually. We want to industrialize, and the machine will be realized for nothing. .

They would just look at each other, and then looked at Zhu Biao wondering if His Royal Highness was in a daze, and after carefully expressing that they didn’t understand, they had to ask Zhu Biao to explain, not to mention that Zhu Biao didn’t understand the principle behind, just understood, a machine There is no assembly line for raw materials and processing.

If this is the case, then we need to find someone to train, to impart knowledge first, so that everyone at least has a concept first, so that we are back to the unsolvable problem, education must be done first, the court officials are starving to death, and taxes everywhere cannot be collected Come on, how to engage in education?
Zhu Biao's current situation can be said with certainty that in the world, there is no technology to learn from, and he can only build a car by closing his doors. If the productivity technology of the whole society is not yet available, it will take several generations to start.

This is the realistic law of the development of social science and technology. It takes at least two or three generations to impart knowledge, update concepts, and cultivate knowledgeable personnel. After all, it is a blank start. The actual basis can be used for reference.

Then the technical means are also developed, which can provide a realistic basis for knowledge, and then some simple instruments and machines can be produced on a small scale. From machines to industrial production, this is another long road.

We must know that the rapid rise of our country in later generations is due to the premise that many advanced theories have been discovered, confirmed and announced, and our technological foundation is still completed with the help of red bears.

156 projects with a total amount of tens of billions of aid, tens of thousands of technically mature scientific and technical personnel to assist, guide and teach, numerous important technical drawings and implementation plans announced...

Industrialization is by no means a simple matter, and with the current foundation of Ming Dynasty, it is good to maintain the operation of the state government, where there is no money to invest in the bottomless pit, not to mention that Zhu Biao is not the master of the house now, Lao Zhu is a very traditional person .

Moreover, the resistance from the court will not be small. Some ministers who claim to be loyal to the country continue to speak out, persuading him not to be so ambitious, and to care more about farming, mulberry, taxation, and northern Mongolia.

The destiny is not trustworthy, the sage does not follow the old rules, and if he wants to be the king of the new century, it is not that Zhu Biao did not think about such a beautiful vision when he was young. After all, does he have the pressure to seize the heir? power.

But as he grows up, looking at the broken mountains and rivers left by the Yuan Dynasty, the bones are exposed in the wild, and the state capital where there are no chickens crowing for thousands of miles, Zhu Biao's thoughts are no longer so lofty, but he lowered his head to face the riddled and riddled city. Hong Wunian.

What's more, is it the time when the current Ming Dynasty has to change at the end of the dynasty?Is it the time when land annexation is serious and social class contradictions cannot be reconciled?Is it time for foreign powers to invade the country?

Neither, half a step ahead of the times is a pioneer, one step ahead of the times is a great man, two steps ahead of the times is a lunatic, and life is hard if not sent to the rack.

Of course, it’s not about not doing it, but waiting. He is destined not to be the monarch who enjoys the dividends of industrialization, but he will be the founder, the pioneer of educational ideas, a young cow who is hardworking, and future generations of China will be Enjoy his blessings.

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