Plane Merchant's Dream of a Powerful Country

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The third target plane, Yanhuang Continent.

The time here has just reached the beginning of 1413 AD, which is a full 600 years of time difference from the main plane, so it is no wonder that this plane is the farthest from the main plane and spends the most 'yu' material, because the time span is too different Big, it has exceeded Yadi's estimate, and being able to get here is a small probability event in itself.

At this time, the master of Yanhuang Continent is Zhu Di, the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty.Anyone who has read "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" knows that Zhu Di is not a good person, but he is indeed a capable person.Before him, no one was able to rise up as a vassal king, defeat the centralization of power, and rule the world, but Zhu Di did it.During his 22 years as emperor, he did many important things: he ordered the relocation of the capital to Beijing; he ordered the compilation of the Yongle Canon; It was done during his tenure (the last time was Emperor Xuande).

Since 1413 was the 11th year of Yongle, and the city of Beijing did not take shape until the 19th year of Yongle (that is, when he was about to die), Zhu Di was still in Nanjing at this time, staying in the Ming Palace built by his father Zhu Yuanzhang. Moreover, Nanjing at this time is not called Nanjing, but the capital.

According to the history of the main plane, 1413 should be Zheng He's fourth voyage to the West.The leader is envoy Zheng He, the eunuch, and Wang Jinghong, the deputy envoy, commanding an army of more than 868 people and driving 26800 ships. Boli, Pahang, Kelantan, Kayile, Belumos, Bira, Liushan, Sunra and other countries.The entire mission included 93 officials, 2 soldiers, 140 commanders, 430 commanders, 1 scribes, 1 households, 1 household doctor, 2 yin and yang officer, 180 teacher, and Sheren 7 people, 5 medical officers and doctors, 10 eunuchs, 53 eunuchs, 1413 junior eunuchs, and 1415 internal emissaries (including Ma Huan, the translator).The whole operation started in 8, and returned to China on August 12, 11. In November of the same year, that is, in November 1415, the special envoy of Bang Gela came to Yanhuang to present the "Kirin" (giraffe).Of course, all of the above is the history of the main plane, and this is the third target plane, so the situation is quite different.

Yanhuang Continent, Capital (Nanjing).

Zhu Di, who lives and works here, is looking at the memorials after the cabinet's screening and submission.Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, did not use the tiring work method of handling everything in person. Zhu Di set up a cabinet (which was later emulated by Western countries) to help him handle political affairs, so the work intensity was greatly reduced.Of course, the cabinet at this time does not have much real power. It can be understood as a senior secretary who only does some preliminary screening and suggestion work. The real final decision-maker of the regime is still Zhu Di.However, at this time, most of the memorials submitted by the cabinet were discussing and dissuading the new "Zheng He's voyages" on the grounds that the consumption would be huge and the gains outweighed the losses. It is suggested—stop!

These made Mr. Zhu very unhappy. As a "horsebacked" emperor with ideas and means, Zhu Di was also a good hand in governing the country in addition to frequently leading troops on expeditions.He insisted that "families provide enough for the people" and "the people are well-off" are the foundation of world peace.Therefore, great efforts were made to develop and improve the military garrison system and the rules for the opening of salt merchants to ensure the supply of military rations and border salaries.Send Xia Yuanji to rule the south of the Yangtze River and dredge Wusong.Encourage the reclamation of unused land in all parts of the Central Plains, implement methods such as relocating people to widen the countryside, and supervising people's farming to promote production, and pay attention to measures such as relief and relief to prevent farmers from going bankrupt.It is precisely because of these measures that its "Yongle" is endowed with surplus and envy, reaching the highest peak in the early Ming Dynasty.Therefore, Mr. Zhu really felt that he had done a good job, and finally found the fun of "offshore tribute" that he liked, but he was immediately gossiped by the officials, and the emperor was unhappy, and the consequences were very serious.He has already made up his mind to find one or two "models" tomorrow morning, give him a good reprimand, and vent his anger.

Regarding the purpose of Zheng He's voyages, historians of later generations have many speculations and assumptions, such as promoting the economy, publicizing the Ming Dynasty's national prestige, searching for the missing Jianwen Emperor, welcoming the tooth of Buddha, and so on.There are arguments for these speculations, but history has no way to test how.However, according to the results of various data collected on the Internet, Yadea believes that Zheng He's voyages to the West are to satisfy Mr. Zhu's "vanity", which should be a more reliable result, that is, the so-called sense of satisfaction of "kings and ministers everywhere". And the sense of expansion is what Emperor Zhu Di values ​​more.

You know, from the perspective of income and expenditure alone, Zheng He's several voyages to the West were purely loss-making.During the Yongle period, Zheng He spent about 600 million taels of silver on his voyages, equivalent to twice the annual expenditure of the national treasury at that time, and this did not include shipbuilding and other expenses.In addition, the Ming Dynasty implemented a sea ban policy. Every time Zheng He's fleet went to sea, although it was mighty, but "solitary sails far away", private maritime merchant fleets were not allowed to follow behind it and do trade with it.Among the people, the basic national policy of "no slabs are allowed to go into the sea" has been pursued.

Liujiagang, Taicang, is one of the main stops of Zheng He's fleet.At this time, a huge fleet of hundreds of ships is docking here.

"This is Zheng He's treasure ship?" Wang Fan asked through the large screen in the aircraft, seeing the largest ships in the fleet.

"Yes! Zheng He's treasure ship, the largest is 44 feet four feet long and eighteen feet wide, equivalent to about 151.18 meters in length and 61.6 meters in width on the main plane. The ship has four floors, 9 masts on the ship can hang 12 sails, and the weight of the anchor Qianjin, it takes 200 people to set sail, with a load capacity of [-] tons. It can accommodate thousands of people, and it should be the largest and strongest ship in the world at this time on this plane." Yadi retrieved the data from the database, explained.

"What kind of ships are those small ones? Are they also treasure ships?" Wang Fan continued to ask, pointing to other ships with different shapes around him.For him, it was a pure surprise to see the legendary Zheng He fleet by accident.

"Those are not called treasure ships, but should be horse ships, grain ships, passenger ships and warships. In the entire fleet, they are used for carrying goods, transporting food, fighting and living respectively."

"It is unexpected that the craftsmanship of the Ming Dynasty is so high."

"Wang Fan, actually~~"

"what happened?"

"Although I understand your pride, I am very excited to see the glory of my country's history. But I still want to point out that the reason why the Ming Dynasty developed ship technology is not only the emperor himself who valued it, but also its predecessor, the Yuan Dynasty. An important reason. In history, the Yuan Dynasty had a tradition of ocean trade, and ocean trade was very developed. It had several ports with the largest trade volume in the world at that time, the most powerful navy in the world, and a large number of civilian and merchant ships. Sailing laid the groundwork."

"That nation on horseback, a nation that treats Han Chinese as slaves? It's a pity to say that!"

"What a pity? You don't miss the rule of the Yuan Dynasty, do you?"

"How is it possible? I think that if the Ming Dynasty did not implement the maritime embargo policy, maybe the future superpower and the empire on which the sun never sets would not be the Stars and Stripes and the United Kingdom, but Yanhuang alone."

"Maybe."

Ming Palace, Huagai Palace.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, it's not good~~" A little eunuch rushed in hurriedly.

"Bastard, what is so disrespectful." Standing aside, the eunuch Changsheng who was in charge of Zhu Di's daily life reprimanded him (When Zhu Di was the emperor, he trusted eunuchs and dared to use eunuchs, so a few famous people came out: Zheng Needless to say, Sanbao eunuch, seven voyages to the West; Wang Jinghong, eunuch, Zheng He's deputy; Hou Xian, talented, discerning, strong and courageous, five envoys to the absolute domain, and Zheng Heya; Yi Shiha, consolidating the northern frontier defense , researched modified weapons in his later years, such as modified rifles; Ruan An, a famous architect and water conservancy engineer in the Yongle Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty. Here they proved a sentence, ability does not ask the source, it has nothing to do with whether a certain part is normal, a golden gun cannot be lifted , still work!).

"But Your Majesty, outside, outside~~"

Zhu Di was also displeased when he heard the words of the little eunuch who was still unrepentant, and had already decided to ask the left and right to drag the little eunuch down to be whipped and punished, so as to rectify the palace rules.But when he turned his head to look out the window, he couldn't help standing there for a moment.

Through the Chinese-style windows, one could see three giant ships flying fast from a distance in the blue sky outside, and they had already arrived over the palace at this time.According to the visual inspection, the length and width of hundreds of meters far exceed the size of the largest treasure ship in the Zhenghe fleet. The tens of thousands of square meters of ground shading and shadows created by each warship immediately silenced the officials of the Ming Dynasty and the emperor himself who had never seen such high-tech equipment.

"Escort, escort, hurry up!" Following the eunuch Changsheng who was the first to react, he screamed and shouted, and groups of Imperial Forest Army armed with sharp knives and simple shotguns with pre-charged guns rushed out of various palaces, towards the place where Ming Chengzu was. The location is coming.

Within half a minute, inside and outside Zhu Di's house, and inside and outside the courtyard, an anti-enemy force composed of hundreds of people was already in place, and they all looked nervously at the three giant ships in the sky.In particular, the golden dragon pattern painted on its sides and ribs, the clear and vivid artistic picture, made everyone unconsciously conjure up a thought: "Is this a fairy descending from the earth?"

"Your Majesty, do you want to withdraw from the city through the secret underground passage first?"

"Don't be so nervous!" Zhu Di shook his head and refused.Then he stared at the dragon pattern without blinking.Since ancient times, the dragon has been the symbol of the emperor and the representative of the emperor.At this time, an unknown existence suddenly appeared in the capital in a daze. In the imperial city, in front of him, Zhu Di had a premonition that the sky of the Ming Dynasty might change drastically.

Just when everyone was tense and the people of the capital climbed onto the roofs of their houses one after another, looking at the sky above the imperial city, teams of Imperial Forest Army troops outside the city were rushing desperately to the city to rescue King Qin, three giant ships in the sky, With a few sounds, the cabin door opened wide, and a two-meter-tall steel warrior slowly exited the cabin, jumped, stayed in the air, and landed, like a pioneer officer clearing the way, occupying Fengtian Temple, showing up for the generals behind, sweeping clear obstacles.