Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 757
Regardless of whether he feels comfortable or uncomfortable, Zhu Youjian has to admit that in terms of scientific and technological theory and practice, the current Ming Dynasty lags behind Europe. The main reason is that the focus of education is different. This most important link, in his Leading the way is change, but it will all take time.

The people living on the land of China have infinite wisdom, but this wisdom has been led astray.

People in this land pay too much attention to enjoyment. Whether it is spiritual or material, as long as they can please themselves, people will spend a lot of energy and financial resources to pursue it.

After the 56 ethnic groups drink too much alcohol, all 55 ethnic groups are good at singing and dancing. Only the Han people drink too much and go to the bathing center, and they will maintain this behavior for a long time. To think and create.

Europeans also like to enjoy, but some of them know how to restrain their desires. After enjoying, they will devote all their energy to how to make greater progress in this industry. While enjoying the fun of success, they can also Earn more profits so that you can get better material enjoyment.

For thousands of years, all kinds of concepts that have bound human nature are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, making the Chinese people lack the ability of divergent thinking. They always think according to the existing mode when encountering problems, and divergent thinking is the source of creativity.

To completely change this situation, in addition to spending a long time, the education system and model must be changed to guide more people to gradually get rid of traditional thinking routines.

The way of thinking of Europeans determines their practice-oriented behavior habits. Their education system is more focused on creativity and practicality, and in the subsequent process, it is continuously improved to make it more mature and advanced.

Confucian culture or theory is very suitable for perfecting personal cultivation. In the process of cultivating Qi Zhiping, countless outstanding people have been born. This is also worthy of the pride and pride of future generations.

However, governing the country with Confucian culture often highlights its many obvious shortcomings.

Of course, any theory has its own disadvantages, and European pragmatism also has many shortcomings. When encountering major events, pragmatism only cares about individuals, ignores others and the collective disadvantages are fully exposed.

In Zhu Youjian's conception, the combination of Confucian culture and pragmatism should be a relatively good system, but he has no idea whether this goal will be achieved in the end.

Let’s take one step at a time. The world is changing at any time. No matter how perfect the idea is, once there is a deviation in the middle, the final development direction of things will gradually drift away from the original top-level design.

No matter how excellent the system is, it must be continuously revised and supplemented with the passage of time to make up for the loopholes and defects that arise at any time. It is very reasonable to keep pace with the times.

Everything must be gradually explored and improved in practice. Timely correction of deviations is what policy makers should do. They must have a keen intuition for changes in the current situation, ensure that the formulation of major policies does not deviate from reality, and can take into account the vast majority of people. In the long run, a Ming Dynasty with a prosperous people and a strong country will always stand on top of the world.

Zhu Youjian hated the concept of colony. This disgust came from the description in the textbooks of later generations that China was once a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. Therefore, he specifically told Fang Yizhi that Ming Dynasty must never admit that Luzon was a If Ming Dynasty's colony had to be given a certain title, vassal is the most appropriate title.

Because the whole country admired the great Ming Dynasty's glory and heavenly power, and eagerly wanted to join the Chinese civilization circle, the Luzon court voluntarily and unconditionally made Daming the suzerain state forever, and signed a formal contract.

The Lusong court was established at the beginning of the 15th year of Chongzhen. The ruler, Cruz Lopez, was named Lin Jianfeng in Chinese.

Since Spain has ruled Luzon for nearly a hundred years, the locals in Luzon are all named according to Spanish customs, such as Lin Jianfeng.

Lin Jianfeng, who is over [-] years old, is a descendant of immigrants from the Southern Song Dynasty. He has lived in Luzon for hundreds of years. Although he has intermarried with the local aborigines for more than ten generations, the whole family has always cherished their homeland and has a strong sense of identity with Chinese civilization.

During the last massacre, his family had taken in hundreds of immigrants from the Ming Dynasty for refuge. The members of the Lin clan also had a natural sympathy with the immigrants from the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, after proper investigation, Lin Jianfeng was established as the lord of Luzon. A series of treaties and texts were signed with the Ming court.

These treaties include the garrison agreement, Ming immigrants retain the right of self-defense and autonomy, Luzon will no longer establish an army, and Ming will help Luzon build its own economy, etc.

According to the agreement, Luzon will permanently assign the right to use Subic Bay to Daming for the use and parking of the Ming Fleet. The [-]-mile radius around Subic Bay is a military restricted area, and all other personnel are strictly prohibited from entering and staying.

Subic Bay is located about [-] miles northwest of the entrance of Manila Bay. It is more than [-] miles long and nearly [-] miles wide. It covers an area of ​​tens of thousands of hectares and has a water depth of tens of meters. Ships can berth here, and it is a world-famous excellent port. After the Ming army occupies this place, it will build the first sea defense line around the South China Sea, providing extremely effective protection for the South China Sea area of ​​the Ming Dynasty.

Since the situation in Luzon stabilized, Ming has gained many benefits from this vassal state.

The bureau dispatched personnel to Luzon to expand the overall expansion of several copper mines that had been mined for many years, hired local people to mine the copper mines on a large scale, and then selected brass for smelting and casting into copper coins. The Four Seas Trading Company used these Copper coins were purchased in large quantities from Luzon, or neighboring small countries such as Chenla, Champa, Siam, etc., to transport corn, cotton, rice, soybeans, etc. back to the country and put them on the market.

These grains have played a great role in the prosperity of Daming's market, effectively improving and improving the living standards of the people in Daming, especially the continuous shipment of large quantities of corn and soybeans to Daming, providing a very sufficient supply for the livestock and poultry breeding industry in Daming feed.

Sihai Commercial Bank has opened feed processing factories in Manila and Daming. After processing corn and soybeans, they use their distribution channels scattered in various states and counties to sell them to farmers and civilians at extremely low prices. If it is large, these farmers can sell it at the market price and earn a considerable profit.

Using Luzon’s mineral resources in exchange for other resources from other countries to feed back Ming Dynasty, this kind of business is sure to make a profit without losing money. It’s no wonder that the European economy developed so rapidly in the later period, and the big powers drew a large amount of blood from colonies all over the world to support the mother’s body. , This kind of business without capital is the basis for the rise of Europe.

In addition to the basic means of production such as food, the wealthy merchants of the Great Ming Dynasty, including the Four Seas Trading Company, have also found many other opportunities to make money.

Among them, the timber business has become a hot business that earns huge profits.

All kinds of rare woods growing in the jungles of South Asia, such as huanghuali, red sandalwood, chicken wing wood, rosewood, black rosewood, striped ebony, etc., have all become the objects of rush for timber merchants in the Ming Dynasty.

Because their own safety was fully guaranteed, many Ming businessmen appeared in South Asian countries. They used to be cautious, but now they proudly throw out the newly minted silver coins of Ming Dynasty, instructing a large number of indigenous people to go to the mountains to log and transport them back to the country for sale. .

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