Carrying AK into Ming Dynasty

Chapter 946 Tech giants and financial overlords

Time flies like a cloud, the years roll forward, and 30 years have passed with the flick of a finger.

In the 35 years of Taishun, the world has undergone earth-shaking changes because of Asia. To be precise, it is because of one emperor and one king.

The emperor is naturally Zhu Cihong, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and the king is Liu Hongjian, the king of the Great Qin Kingdom.

After 30 years of vigorous development, the population of the Ming Empire exceeded 8000 million. The Beiyang and Nanyang Navy of the Ming Dynasty successively established had 140 first-class battleships, 290 six second-class battleships, and [-] third-class battleships.

The fleet of the Ming Empire galloped across the Spice Islands in the South Seas, Australia, and the Americas. The ships of European countries saw that the fleet of the Ming Empire had retreated and made a detour. The Spice Islands in the South Seas became the back garden of the Ming Empire. It reached a terrifying 300 million taels.

In America, Emperor Zhu Cihong followed the phalanx set by the Regent and supported Aragon Conquista as the No.18 Sapa Inca (emperor) of the Inca Empire.

Therefore, the Ming Empire has the 100-year mining right of the Potosi silver mine in the Inca Empire and the continuous rubber input from the Inca Empire. The Potosi silver mine reserves are the largest in the world. People are shaken, and there is no need to worry about endless rebellions due to national awakening in the future.

In the course of 30 years of soaring, the largest business group in the Ming Empire—Xishan Shanghe made great contributions.

As the imperial merchant group of the Ming Emperor, Xishan Merchant Co., Ltd. owns the most merchant ships in the world, from Dagu in Tianjin to Nagasaki in Daqin, from Taiwan to Batavia, from Luzon to Australia, from Dani to Honolulu and then to Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire, wherever the Ming Fleet visited, the Xishan Shanghe fleet was always loaded with gold, silver, rubber, and spices.

Relying on huge warships and ubiquitous business groups, the Ming Empire quickly completed the primitive accumulation of capital in the empire, and also completed the expansion of the imperial currency, the Ming silver dollar.

At first, Daqin adopted the Ming silver dollar as the only official currency recognized, and then the Nanyang Spice Islands, Australia, and the Americas. All regions supported by the Ming Empire only used the Ming silver dollar as the only trade medium.

The Ming silver dollar is not only linked to gold and silver, but also spices, rubber, and oil. After a brief confrontation 30 years ago, the Europeans finally had to say that they succumbed to the national prestige of the Ming Empire.

Of course, there is still the shadow of Liu Hongjian, King of the Great Qin. In fact, compared with the technological take-off speed of the Great Qin, the Ming Empire is not the same except for its larger size.

Under the iron and blood policy of King Liu Hongjian, it took only eight years for the land of Dongying to complete the delocalization of the Japanese. From characters to language to surnames, from clothing to hairstyles, from etiquette to culture, everything has been followed. Ming system.

The price is that the Japanese in Japan went from 1000 to 500 million at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, after the Saito disaster, the Dutch invasion, and then the bloody massacre of Qin Wang Liu Hongjian and the complete submission of the Japanese. In the end, there were only about [-] million people left.

Among them, males accounted for less than [-]% due to the perennial wars, and most of them were young children. This made the builders of the first batch of survivors who came to Daqin each assigned more than three concubines of Japanese women.

As a result, more than 650 years have passed. Although the population of Daqin has exceeded 30 million, the proportion of Chinese and Chinese descendants has risen from [-]% [-] years ago to [-]% today. Four.

Liu Hongjian always believed that where there is oppression, there is resistance. Liu Hongjian insisted on treating obedient Japanese citizens the same as Chinese civilians. Of course, the treatment of obedient citizens can only reach the level of Chinese civilians.

They can enjoy the same education and the same taxes as the descendants of Chinese descendants. They can engage in business, military and agriculture, but they are not allowed to engage in politics.

The transformation and testing of the Japanese will last for 100 years, which is the national policy set by Liu Hongjian since the founding of the country.

In 100 years, four generations, with all the historical imprints of the Japanese people wiped out, is enough to make them regard Han culture as orthodox.

While reforming the Japanese, the scientific and technological take-off of the Great Qin State began as early as the year Liu Hongjian became a feudal clan.

Relying on the team of craftsmen brought from Daming, with the help of Liu Hongjian's drawings, and a group of supporters such as Han Yu and Gu Jia went all out.

In August of the eighth year of Taishun, the Daqin Institute of Technology was completed, in December the Daqin Defense Military Academy was completed, and in April of the following year the Daqin Business College was completed.

From June to December of 11 in Taishun, Daqin Spinning Factory, Glass Factory, Cement Factory, Steel Factory and other workshops sprung up and went into operation one after another. The forty large merchant ships purchased by Daming were formally established.

In March of the 12th year of Taishun, the Daqin Military Factory was built, dedicated to the research and development and improvement of firearms and warships.

In July 16 in Taishun, Daqin's self-developed train was successfully trial-produced and sold to Daming in batches a year later. In the same year, Daqin's first chief assistant, Han Yu, died at the age of 89.

Liu Hung-chien held a state funeral for him in Kyoto, and was accompanied by the Taimiao, where the whole country mourned for one month.

In the midsummer of the 20th year of Taishun, Daqin's first thermal power plant was put into operation, and Daqin became the first country in the world to enter the electrical age.

In the 25th year of Taishun, Daqin independently developed a carbon electrode arc, and the next year the first first-class battleship built by the Daqin Empire was launched.

The battleship was fifty feet long and divided into three floors. It was powered by internal combustion engines and powered by electricity. Its artillery was equipped with a terrifying 210 pieces. Among them, the main gun on the bow could penetrate the old ironclad ships still in service in Ming Dynasty with one shot.

Liu Hongjian named this type of battleship the Dreadnought-class battleship, and quickly started production and shared the key technology of the Dreadnought-class battleship with his good friend Zhu Cihong who was waiting for food.

The 25th year of Taishun was a crucial year for Daqin to catch up with Ming Dynasty in terms of technology and various machinery. In the same year, Gu Jia, the founding father of the country, died of illness at the Daqin National Defense Military Academy at the age of 86.

It took Liu Hongjian seven years to complete the Ming industry from scratch, from the start to fully catch up with Europa, and then it took another 20 years to catch up with the Ming Empire and complete the counterattack.

Of course, it’s not that the craftsmen of the Ming Empire didn’t work hard enough, it’s that the technical books in Liu Hongjian’s hands are too against the sky. Summarizing the development process of science and technology, the Great Qin State has taken many detours less than Europa and even Ming Dynasty.

Yes, for a long time Liu Hongjian did not hand over the various books brought from later generations to anyone, including the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty and the Great Qin Dynasty. In fact, Liu Hongjian has always been in charge of the technological progress of the two countries.

It must be done, but it cannot be done, because he is still not sure whether this will cause adverse consequences such as overthrowing a huge empire, or entrusting inhumane people, causing advanced technology to flow into Europa.

Regardless of whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Great Qin Dynasty, in fact Liu Hongjian has always only handed over technical drawings that are urgently needed for development to the craftsmen, and the supply of drawings from the Ming Dynasty had stopped as early as Liu Hongjian left.

Technology has its own development history, and he doesn't care about the land of Daqin as he pleases. This also led to 30 years later, Daming developed into a financial empire with technology leading Europe, but Daming silver dollars spread all over the world.

Daqin, on the other hand, developed into a scientific and technological empire that was ahead of Ming Dynasty in technology, and its legal currency was the silver dollar of Ming Dynasty. Technology was the only weapon that Liu Hongjian left to his descendants.

In the late autumn of the 35th year of Taishun, the then 57-year-old King Liu Hongjian of Great Qin received a secret letter from Ming Dynasty. The envelope was sealed with the private seal of Emperor Zhu Cihong of the Ming Dynasty.

Liu Hongjian frowned slightly, put on reading glasses, and then opened the envelope. The content was not long. After Liu Hongjian finished reading the content, his brows slowly relaxed. He put down the letter paper, and a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

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(End of this chapter)