Daming: Lend the system to Emperor Hongwu at the beginning

Chapter 100 Conquest of Japan [Seventh More]

For more than three months, he went to the most grassroots fields, teahouses and wineries, and contacted ordinary people, handicraftsmen, workers, boatmen, and even some small workshop owners and other people from all walks of life. Since then, there has been a more in-depth understanding of the changes in the people.

This is the decade when the land of China recovered its vitality at an extremely fast speed.

Especially in recent years, material has become more and more abundant.

He remembered that in the first year of Hongwu, some people didn't even have an iron pot. In winter, the poor family could only wear a pair of trousers.

When some people are ploughing in the spring, they don't even have a hoe, so they can only work with sticks and hands, and the production efficiency is extremely low.

And during this time, when he went through several nearby provinces again, he found that such things were rare.

The people did indeed begin to become rich.

Of course, there are relatively rich provinces near Nanjing, and there are still many people in the north who are still struggling below the food and clothing line.

But this is indeed a very big improvement compared to ten years ago.

And such a change has a great relationship with Zhu Yuanzhang's policy of self-cultivation and nurturing for the past ten years.

Since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang basically did not start the war lightly, except for the war to regain territory that must be carried out in the surrounding area, and even the conscription of the people was very restrained.

He even took a cautious attitude when he even attacked other worlds. If it was not necessary, he would try not to bring troops from the early Ming Dynasty.

All food and grass supplies all come from the other world itself.

In this way, after ten years, the national strength of the Ming Dynasty finally showed signs of prosperity.

This is the most gratifying place for Zhu Yuanzhang.

But Zhu Yuanzhang was not satisfied with such a change.

What he wants is a prosperous world where everyone has clothes to wear and food for everyone.

If we continue to cultivate our health and rest like this, I am afraid that it will be difficult to achieve this goal in 20 or 30 years.

Because in the original history, he has always insisted on the policy of recuperating and recuperating among the people, and he did not change it until he died of old age at the age of 31 in Hongwu.

And many of his descendants followed the same policy.

Even though there are a few assholes out there, most of them at least do it.

However, looking at the entire 270-year history of the Ming Dynasty, he clearly saw that the best life for the common people was the Hongwu and Yongle dynasties with the most clean government and the most severe penalties for corruption. Tolerance, the life of ordinary people is getting more and more difficult.

Slowly, he fell into a situation where corrupt officials, local tyrants and gentry jointly oppressed the common people like in the late Yuan Dynasty.

Of course, these are not problems for him now, because he will live longer than the original history, and those officials of the court will live under his rule for a long time in the future.

Under his own rule, no corrupt officials can escape the punishment of the court law.

For the Ming Dynasty, the real serious problem was actually natural disasters.

In fact, the entire Ming Dynasty was in a stage of frequent natural disasters. The further back, the more natural disasters, which was also one of the important factors for the final destruction of the Ming Dynasty.

It is wishful thinking to rely on self-rehabilitation and to resist natural disasters.

Manpower is exhausted, it is only a legend that man will conquer the sky.

The reality is that a flood will claim countless lives, destroy decades of development in an area, and create thousands of refugees.

As for immortals?
The kind of people who use a sky thunder secret technique, but can't even chop a pig to death, and use a rain falling technique, and the rain that falls is not enough for a child to bathe. For a big empire, they can play a very small role.

The only way to change this situation is to develop industry.

This is the conclusion Zhu Yuanzhang came to after seeing the ever-changing science and technology in the late Ming and late Qing planes, especially the late Qing plane.

In the next ten years, Zhu Yuanzhang set the tone for the Ming Empire to develop.

Establishing workshops covering all walks of life, building roads, dredging rivers, developing aquaculture... Each of these things needs to be done.

To accomplish these things, there is a premise and huge financial support is needed.

This could not help but remind Zhu Yuanzhang of a piece of news that Zhu Biao told him before.

Japan has state-owned silver mines.

And silver is the most needed thing for the rapid development of Daming today.

Although Daming has replaced the use of silver money with treasure banknotes, each bank still needs a large amount of silver as a principal reserve there for emergencies.

In addition, they also need to go to the late Qing Dynasty to conduct large-scale transactions with foreigners. The productivity of the current Ming Dynasty is still very weak, and the material production cannot even fully satisfy the domestic market, and it simply cannot support the export of large quantities of goods.

But silver is different.

Anyway, it was dug out from silver mines, and it was very suitable to be transported to the late Qing Dynasty and exchanged for various machine tools and various advanced technologies from foreigners.

Therefore, after Zhu Yuanzhang's three-month visit and investigation, he determined that the people were stable enough and the time to fight against the Japanese country was basically ripe, so he called Tang He over.

"Tang He, we are going to conquer the Japanese country!"

"Look at it!"

"Those Japanese people are too arrogant, you must give them some color!"

Zhu Yuanzhang handed a report to Tang He with a serious look on his face.

Tang He took a look and his face was straight.

"The Japanese people are so hateful. Your Majesty sent envoys to make them pay tribute to my kingdom of heaven. Not only did they not obey, but they killed my ambassadors of the Ming Dynasty. This matter is tolerable or unbearable, and they must be taught enough lessons. ."

Although this actually happened seven years ago.

At that time, it was even exposed by Zhu Yuanzhang's understatement.

But after a lapse of seven years, Tang He still speaks righteously when he talks about it now, as if he just knew about it.

"Very good!" Zhu Yuanzhang was quite satisfied with Tang and the old brother's answer.

"We will mobilize fifteen warships and thirty troop transport ships for you. You will bring eight thousand navies and twenty thousand new-style infantrymen to conquer the Japanese country. Be sure to bring back the guy who killed my ambassador in the Ming Dynasty, and we will kill it yourself. his head!"

"Of course, we don't want to kill the Japanese country. We will let the fourth child go with you. This kid has been doing well in recent years. This time, let him go on our behalf. After you stabilize the overall situation, let him go. Stay there for a few years to see if you can control the situation in Japan."

"As ordered!" Tang He respectfully gave a military salute.

As for discussing with courtiers and officials to use foreign troops to fight, for Zhu Yuanzhang, this does not exist.

I'm just fighting a war, do I still need someone's approval?

(End of this chapter)