Daming Jingtai: I am the eternal benevolent king

Chapter 345 The Ming Dynasty version Made In China, broken leaves, broken leaves of the Ming Dynasty!

The emperor strongly protected women and encouraged them to get out of the house and participate in social activities.

There were many female generals in the Ming Dynasty. Duan Si'e was granted the title Chongzuo Bo. Miao Yao had female generals serving in the army, as well as Mongolian female generals.

Tai Hospital also has a group of female medical officers.

Zhu Qiyu plans to promote a group of local female officials to encourage women to go out of the house and enjoy equal social rights like men.

If we want to encourage women to go out of the house, we must give them the best protection and allow them to enjoy higher social rights, so that they can change their living condition of being completely dependent on men.

Establish women's rights, let Ming women go out of the house, enjoy social rights, and contribute to the Ming Dynasty.

Establish an honest society, reduce crime rates, and achieve social security.

Let merchants do business under rules instead of growing wantonly, and it is strictly forbidden to form consortia that do not care about their family and country for their own interests.

Ten years after the establishment of the sea, the Ming Dynasty still did not allow the sons of merchants to participate in the imperial examination.

The status of craftsmen has been improved, the status of doctors has been improved, the status of art practitioners has been improved, and the status of women has also been improved, but the social status of merchants has not been improved.

Yu Shiyue is eighty-four years old this year. He is low in energy and can no longer support the work of the Ministry of Punishments. He originally wanted Xuan Shi to succeed him as Minister of the Ministry of Punishments, but Xuan Shi was not in good health and could only transfer Xiang Wenyao back to Beijing.

Veteran ministers Shang Ren and Peng Shi were also transferred to the central government. There were almost no veterans in the local area, and they were all middle-aged ministers and governors.

"Yu Qing, if you are not in good health, you should go to Sanya to spend the winter. Why do you have to stay in the capital?" Zhu Qiyu had a good attitude towards the old minister.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness. The old minister in Beijing can still be more helpful. The Ministry of Punishment is not as good as before. It issues new laws every year. If new people come in and don't understand, they will mess up the rules."

Yu Shiyue has lost all his teeth and speaks slowly.

Veteran ministers who are over eighty years old have seats in the morning court. They do not go to court every day, but come specially for special occasions.

"I'm tired of Yu Qing. Shang Qing is an expert in this field. Before Xiang Wenyao returns to Beijing, ask him to help you."

Zhu Qiyu looked at Shang Ren: "Shang Qing, I have read all the articles you have written recently, and they are somewhat decadent, which is not like your style."

Shang Ren is an all-rounder, which is why he was retained back then.

Shang Ren laughed twice, bowed and said, "I am already sixty years old. I am no longer young. I cannot write as impassioned poems as I did when I was thirty."

"Your calligraphy is the best in this dynasty."

Zhu Qiyu no longer had the same spirit as before: "I want to use your calligraphy as a standard font published by the Ming Dynasty for people all over the world to learn. Why don't you agree?"

"Your Majesty, although my calligraphy is still good, I can't be ranked first."

Shang Ren was very humble: "If you want to be popular all over the world, it is better to use the ancient calligraphy. The old minister is just picking up the wisdom of others."

"Of the princes who are learning calligraphy from you, who do you think is the most accomplished?" Zhu Qiyu asked.

Shang Ren thought for a moment.

"Don't worry about my face, just tell me." Zhu Qiyu said.

"The old minister thinks that the seventh prince's character has great potential." Shang Ren was talking about Lao Qizhu Jianchao.

"If he becomes your closed disciple, will you accept him?"

Shang Ren suddenly looked constipated.

Zhu Qiyu laughed loudly: "Shang Ren, Shang Ren, you are still so naughty."

"Your Majesty, don't blame me." Shang Ren couldn't stand it any longer. Zhu Jianchao had a talent for calligraphy, but he was vain and refused to work hard. He couldn't succeed like this.

"Yao Kui, which prince do you think can learn the kung fu from you?" Zhu Qiyu looked at Yao Kui again.

Yao Kui tensed his hands and didn't want to speak.

"Peng Shi, tell me."

Peng Shi curled his lips and said nothing.

Zhu Qiyu was amused: "I don't care, you are all the masters of the princes. If they don't learn well, it will be embarrassing not only for me, but also for all of you."

"Did I not give you enough rulers?"

The courtier rolled his eyes wildly. How many roots have been broken in these years? Which courtier has not planned to use a ruler? Who hasn’t beaten the prince?

The problem is that the prince is unwilling to work hard.

Everyone is like this, they all have a lot of money, why should they work hard?

We are all princes, we get what we want, why should we work hard?

"I think the twentieth prince is the smartest."

Yu Shiyue spoke slowly: "Although he is young, he has shown amazing talents. The veteran thinks he has the most promise."

Many courtiers nodded, thinking that Xiao Twenty was a genius.

"Your Majesty, the seventeenth prince knows the art of war, and the minister feels that his future is limitless." Li Bing also said in a nice way that if he was really a genius, he would have accepted him as a closed disciple long ago.

"Li Bing, then you have to give me all your money."

"All my sons are your disciples."

"Even if they go to succeed the vassal in the future, they will go to other places to become emperors."

"You are all Imperial Masters. It would be nice to build a temple for you when the time comes."

The courtiers rolled their eyes, there were too many emperors, right?

In the civil and military affairs of the entire dynasty, who has never taught the prince? Even those who have never been taught are embarrassed to speak.

The morning atmosphere was relaxed.

In the past ten years, the emperor rarely got angry, and occasionally teased the courtiers. The courtiers seemed not to remember the emperor who killed everyone in the past.

What really made the courtiers feel comfortable was that the emperor strictly disciplined the princes and completely delegated power to important ministers. He never favored, favored, complained, etc. He taught the princes in the way of a king of a country and strictly ordered the courtiers to fight as they pleased. A dutiful son emerges from a stick.

Secondly, the emperor cared about the health of his courtiers to the extreme.

I heard that it is planned to build a summer sanatorium in Harbin to allow courtiers to go there to escape the heat in the summer.

Feng Xiao whispered a few words in the emperor's ear, and Zhu Qiyu showed a smile on his face: "Let's go out and see something new."

After speaking, he walked down from the throne, followed by the courtiers, and walked out of Fengtian Hall.

A eunuch pushed a strange cart made of wood and iron and stopped at the entrance of Fengtian Palace. After receiving the instructions, he started running on the cart.

"This, this is the bicycle His Majesty said?" Li Xian was surprised.

It is not unusual for Ming Dynasty to produce bicycles.

In the 21st year of Jingtai, Ming Dynasty created the first machine tool for producing nails. Looms were also developing continuously, and bottle blowing machines appeared for blowing cans and bottles.

In the 22nd year of Jingtai, a cloth merchant in the south of the Yangtze River registered the first hydraulic mechanical loom. This was reported to the palace, and Zhu Qiyu rewarded it with a bronze talisman.

The bicycle has a dead flywheel. It is mainly made of wood and is not resistant to construction. It will probably break after a few cycles.

However, bicycles will change the way people travel, which is of greater significance.

When the bicycle came back, a group of old men gathered around the bicycle and marveled: "Your Majesty, if this is energy-producing, I can ride this thing to fight, and I can travel forty miles a day!"

Li Bing immediately saw the war use.

"This can change people's travel environment. With this thing, horse-drawn carriages will be eliminated." Li Xiandao: "In the future, new cars will be developed. This is a travel innovation."

Qiu Jun took off his clothes and went up to experience it himself.

"These clothes are inappropriate. You have to wear short clothes." Qiu Jun was very excited after coming down.

Ming Dynasty had a high degree of acceptance of strange clothes.

In the 17th year of Jingtai, the first suit was born, four hundred years earlier than in the West, so it was called Jingtai suit, but its popularity among the people was not high.

Chinese people love to look at weird and weird clothes, but they are not very happy to actually wear them themselves.

Such as leather shoes and leather bags.

The Chinese wear leather shoes and use leather bags, which can be traced back to three thousand years ago.

But to be honest, leather shoes are really uncomfortable to wear, and they are far less comfortable to wear than Daming’s boots, which sell well all over the world.

However, leather shoes are more popular in the Northeast because of the cold.

Someone in the private sector invented silk stockings. I don’t know whether they copied Spanish work or developed it themselves. Anyway, the patent has been registered.

But sales were bleak. Women felt uncomfortable wearing them, and nobles felt ashamed, so they stopped wearing them.

Mark it, these stockings are for men.

In fact, they are thick socks. The merchant changed the name to promote them, registered a patent, and used a disgusting color, white.

We still have to wait for the emergence of nylon materials, and black is the way to go.

Zhu Qiyu rarely used power to promote inventions and creations. That would be to force the seedlings to encourage development. After all, Ming Dynasty was crossing the river by feeling the stones. What if it went astray?

But, he has been investing in these creative industries.

And expand the manufacturing market, use the market to force invention and creation, and at the same time accelerate the roll-up of the market. Only the crazy involution of the market can stimulate people's ingenuity.

For example, North Korea opened the first batch of clothing factories. The emperor invested in a large number of clothing factories in North Korea, forcing the clothing factories to involuntarily innovate. Today, North Korean clothing factories are ranked second. No one dares to say that they are first. They are all rolled out. .

The cannery market is huge. There are canneries everywhere in the Ming Dynasty. Everything can be canned. Preservatives were invented in the 16th year of Jingtai.

Canneries are becoming more and more popular, and food additives have also come out. Nowadays, everything can be canned, and everything can be canned. Businessmen have all kinds of ideas in order to make money.

As long as the market can make money, businessmen will be crazy about involution and roll out new technologies.

The center is only responsible for controlling the general direction and expanding market capacity.

In this regard, Daming is professional.

For example, in the southeastern countries, the Ming Dynasty's clothes and food overwhelmed their markets. In the Indian countries, the traditional small-scale peasant economy was overwhelmed by the Ming Dynasty's commodity economy.

A large number of slaves, grain, and gold poured into the Ming Dynasty, and India became a dumping ground for Ming Dynasty goods.

The most interesting thing is that India produced countless raw silks for the Ming Dynasty and shipped them back to the Ming Dynasty. After the Ming Dynasty weaved clothes, they sold them to them.

For this dumping ground, the Ming Dynasty and the six countries of Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Italy, Britain and France fought hundreds of wars.

The Ming Dynasty even wanted to turn the Ottoman Empire into a product dumping ground. This could not be done without fighting a few big battles. However, Ming Dynasty goods can be seen everywhere in the Ottoman Empire.

A large amount of cash returned and spawned countless new companies in Ming Dynasty.

And places that become product dumping grounds will become poorer and poorer, but this is not the worst. The worst is San Myanmar. They really want to buy Ming products, but Ming will not sell to them.

They can only buy them from various Indian countries at high prices, or go over the mountains to buy them from Wusheng, who risks beheading their heads to sell a little.

As long as the market is large enough, there will be an industrial revolution.

As long as the emperor does not forcefully press the stop button, Ming Dynasty will spontaneously complete the industrial revolution and become the world's most powerful country.

Just talking about clocks and clocks, the Ming Dynasty introduced them in the twelfth year of Jingtai, and they have been developed for eleven years and have already dominated the world.

There is already a tendency to transform from low-end manufacturing to high-end manufacturing, giving up low-value-added things, such as food, to produce high-value-added things, such as watches.

Made in China.

Appeared around the world six hundred years in advance.

90% of traditional watch dealers in Europe were wiped out, and the rest are just struggling to support themselves.

Like Europa, there are only a few hundred watch companies, but in the Ming Dynasty there were thousands. They were so huge in the country that even clock towers were built all over the countryside.

There are bell towers all over Wushun.

The new province has not yet been conquered, and all the orders have been snatched up.

How else can I roll it?

We can only go abroad to get involved, involve European watch companies, and monopolize the watch industry.

In the 22nd year of Jingtai, the world's first wristwatch was born. It was the Jingtai watch. It was the first wristwatch given by the emperor to important ministers at the end of last year.

In the 23rd year of Jingtai, the first watch was auctioned in France. The French Emperor Louis XI got this watch at the price of 10,000 beauties and named it Louis XI.

It has attracted strong attention from Europa watch manufacturers, and there is also a tendency to develop pocket watches into wristwatches.

But they have a doubt. Without a patent, they are a little afraid to imitate.

The Ming Dynasty had a huge territory and a huge population. Likewise, its involution was also the most terrifying.

As soon as wristwatches appeared, hundreds of watch brands appeared among the people.

Patent law has already been subdivided. If you innovate on the basis, you only need to pay a small patent fee.

If you have a major innovation, you can apply for a second patent. You don’t have to pay patent fees, but you can collect patent fees.

Patent law protects the interests of the holder, but it does not always belong to you once it is registered. If someone else makes a major innovation, they can apply for a patent.

Therefore, there are many patents of the same type.

Ming Dynasty is the country with the most stringent patent laws. There is no such thing abroad. You can copy it as you like, but don’t copy Ming Dynasty’s patent laws.

If you copy it, Ming's warships will attack you.

A small country in India copied the looms, and the Ming Dynasty led an army to attack several cities. They paid a huge amount of gold and destroyed all the looms before giving up.

If Europa is captured, I can't hit you, but I can hit your boat to go out to sea, unless you never leave Europa.

All ships plying the sea were sunk.

Force other countries to attack you, sacrifice the head of the company boss, and then pay Ming Dynasty's huge plagiarism costs, and that will be the end.

Otherwise, just waste it. Ming Dynasty was serious about being a pirate.

The ships of the Ming Dynasty could only go as far as Madagascar.

There is no way to go around the African continent and lead to Europe, because the Strait of Gibraltar has not yet been dug and there is no way to pass through the Ottomans.

Therefore, people in the Ming Dynasty are willing to abide by patent laws, and the court will really come to the rescue if there is any problem.

As for merchants who plagiarize patents, it would be even better. Those who belong to the three ethnic groups will have no property, immigrate to the frontier, and are not allowed to engage in business.

Ming merchants, of course, consciously abide by the patent law. If they want to circumvent the patent law, they must carry out major technological innovations.

Protecting patents in this way allows people to keep inventing and creating, and the things invented and created will be protected and passed down forever like a golden mountain.

In the same way, innovative patents are also protected. This is to encourage the private sector to create, invent, and innovate. If you want to bypass patent laws, then innovate technology.

The Ming Dynasty already had the primitive accumulation needed for the industrial revolution.

With a large reserve of knowledge, Ming Dynasty has translated books from all countries in the world, giving you ten or twenty years to learn.

So, wouldn’t industrialization be born in Ming Dynasty?

Zhu Qiyu is waiting for the day when it will bear fruit.

In order to bear fruit, the Center purchases a large number of books every year, translates them, makes them public, and lets people learn from them.

Many books on extinct civilizations are not available in their country, but they are in the Ming Dynasty.

For example, in the Egyptian civilization, the Ottoman Empire packaged all books and cultural relics and sold them to the Ming Dynasty, including mummies. However, no one wanted the mummies and thought it was unlucky. On the contrary, it was books. Although no one could understand them, they were still willing to buy them back and store them.

Just like oracle bone inscriptions, people in this generation cannot understand them, but they are treasured. (Oracle bone inscriptions were discovered during the Guangxu period)

Zhu Qiyu was not interested in the ancient Egyptian characters that he couldn't understand. He was only interested in the pyramids, and he couldn't move them back.

He photographed many palace painters and painted them, and spread them to the country. Many people in the country went on adventures and marveled at the splendor of ancient Egyptian culture.

In order to let people learn this knowledge, an additional question, common sense, was added to the imperial examination.

From these translated books, randomly select a question and take the test.

The proportion of points is not small either.

Never underestimate Mingren's learning ability. Mingren's learning ability is from the bottom of his heart the best in the world, the first in the ages, and the first in eternity. If you push it forward three thousand years and push it back three thousand years, you will still be the first. Damn it.

If you study the Four Books and Five Classics, some people can pass the Jinshi examination. If you add Western learning, there are still people who can pass the Jinshi examination. If you add world culture, there will still be people who can take a fancy to it.

This is national superiority.

"It's well done. Take it back and continue to improve it." Zhu Qiyu has high hopes for bicycles, which are the epitome of industrialization.

It was created now because the emperor painted a picture and wanted to gain great wealth. It will take at least twenty years before this thing can be promoted to the whole people.

Returning to Fengtian Hall, Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "My lords, machines will change people's lives."

Li Xian also lamented that the emperor said he didn't believe it before, but now he really believes it.

"I sometimes wonder, the Ming Dynasty has a vast territory. Is it space that really lengthens the distance between the center and the local areas?"

Zhu Qiyu walked up to the throne and said, "It's language."

"Chinese characters were commonly used in the Ming Dynasty, and they have been used since ancient times. From the oracle bone inscriptions to the present, it has never stopped for six thousand years."

"Looking at the equally splendid ancient Egypt, ancient Babylon, and ancient India, it's all because the writing was broken, and their inheritance was also broken."

"Our Chinese characters are timeless and full of vitality."

"That's why today, the Ming Dynasty is so powerful and has such a vast territory, but it is still under the central rule."

"This is also the reason why I hate the Yi people, because they don't understand Chinese and can't understand our words. It's so difficult for them to learn it, so it's better to kill them."

Zhu Qiyu pondered for a moment and said, "However, the Ming Dynasty is not without its hidden dangers."

"Dialect problem."

"Although the same Chinese characters are used, the dialects and accents are different in different places. There are several different dialects in Hebei."

"Let's just say that this capital master speaks with a southern accent and a northern accent. I can't understand some of the words."

"Although Yayan is the official language, there are hundreds of thousands of dialects among the people. Sirs, this is a hidden danger."

"I want to get rid of dialects and let children learn elegant dialects."

The courtiers looked troubled. This problem cannot be solved by any dynasty. The reason is very simple: there is no television.

Just learn Mandarin in front of the TV, even if you have a radio.

Everyone in the court speaks with a southern accent and a northern accent, let alone among the people? The courtiers came from all over the country, and they couldn't understand each other very well. They spoke in very thick dialects.

How do you send someone to teach?

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid there is no solution to this matter." Bai Gui smiled bitterly.

"There is no solution for the moment, but we still have to think of ways to see how we can promote Yayan."

Zhu Qiyu said: "Also, which dialect should be chosen as the official language?"

"I used to use Yayan, but the intonation was not particularly standard, and it had a strong accent. I felt that it could not be used by common people." "We have to choose a language that can clearly express the meaning of Chinese and be understood by everyone. The tone is clear and the words convey the meaning."

Zhu Qiyu still wanted to use Mandarin.

However, the gap between the elegant language of the Ming Dynasty and Mandarin is very large. Mandarin has not yet been found in this era, and even Zhu Qiyu himself cannot speak it.

Then bring together the best of hundreds of schools of thought to create Mandarin.

"Your Majesty's words are very true. Words and language are important matters of inheritance and cannot be careless in the slightest."

Li Xian attached great importance to it: "The old minister thinks that a department can be set up to collect dialects from all over the world, and then create a language based on the dialects from all over the world for people all over the world to learn."

"Since it is an official dialect, it must be simple and easy to understand. At least when spoken, no matter which dialect is spoken, people can understand it. This is the premise, otherwise there is no way to learn it at all." Bai Gui added.

The courtiers discussed it.

"There is no rush, just take your time. If it takes a hundred years to promote it, it will be a good thing." Zhu Qiyu knew that without electricity, it would be impossible to completely promote Mandarin.

But the electric revolution is the second industrial revolution, and the span in between is probably a hundred years.

After going to court, Zhu Qiyu walked to the Yangxin Hall with his hands behind his back, thinking all the way.

Seeing several eunuchs surrounding something and talking about it, Feng Xiao immediately went over to scold them, and they came to apologize.

An old eunuch came over slowly: "Old minister, I pay my respects to Your Majesty."

"Xu Bin, you are not in the ceremonial department, why are you here?" Zhu Qiyu also marveled at Xu Bin's ability to live. He is about to be ninety years old and is still serving as the eunuch Bingbi in the ceremonial department.

It seems that the six impure roots are the root cause of a short life. Is Yu Qian...forget it, he is already so old. If he gets stabbed, he doesn't know if he can survive.

After Zhang Yong retired, Dong Ci and Liang Fang were jointly in charge of the ceremonial department. Because they lacked experience, the emperor transferred Xu Bin to the ceremonial department as eunuch Bingbi, which lasted almost ten years.

After Zhang Yong was idle for several months, he led his ship to sail to the West.

Xu Bin helped Zhu Qiyu do great things, so he could call himself a minister and call the emperor his majesty.

"Your Majesty, the Royal Commercial Bank has developed a steam engine. The old minister looked at it and was very surprised."

what?

Zhu Qiyu was shocked. Someone had drawn the steam engine model ten years ago, but the model had never been up to standard.

Just as he was talking, several eunuchs brought in a big thing, which was a steam engine.

After the greetings, Min Jie began to introduce the steam engine.

It is indeed a steam engine, but it is not a steam engine that changed the era. This is a pressure cooker steam engine model based on the ancient Greek steam engine model.

You said this thing is not a steam engine, it is indeed, but you said this thing can be used, right? I really thought too much.

In fact, the steam engine was proposed and prototyped as early as the first century. What really changed the era was the Watt steam engine 1,300 years later. Before Watt, many generations of people continued to make improvements, and finally succeeded.

Watching Min Jie's explanation, saliva flew everywhere.

"Take it back and continue studying it."

Min Jie's heart skipped a beat, knowing that the emperor was dissatisfied, but wasn't this just a steam engine? What's wrong?

"I don't want to talk about anything else. How many of these things can be made in a year?" Zhu Qiyu asked.

Min Jie stopped talking. He made more than two thousand, but this one was successful, let alone applied.

"Your son Min Gui is good. You should learn from him and be down-to-earth in your work. Take it back and do it again."

Zhu Qiyu just walked into the palace and turned around: "Write an article about everything you discovered and publish it in a newspaper. The Central Committee will issue an order to let people all over the world develop this steam engine. I hope to see the finished product soon. .”

"Feng Xiao, when delivering the edict, tell everyone in the world that if you can develop a steam engine that can be used in industry, you will be given a golden talisman."

Feng Xiao was shocked. The golden talisman was a gold medal for immunity from death, and not many people were given it by the imperial dynasty.

When entering the palace, Feng Xiao asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, what is the beauty of that steam engine?"

"With it, the territory of the Ming Dynasty can be doubled and it can be ruled."

Feng Xiao was surprised, but not doubtful.

Zhu Qiyu was still young. After the birth of the steam engine, the industrial revolution entered the fast lane. With him working in the Ming Dynasty, he could quickly carry out the electric revolution.

In the Western Region.

Spring is coming, and supplies are being delivered again.

The city that had been frozen for the whole winter was opened again, and countless people who were still alive poured into the city crying.

Before the freeze, a total of 1600 million people were expelled, including locals.

The number of people who survive the winter alive is at most 700 million.

Yu Qian ordered a porridge shed to be set up to appease everyone, and issued household registrations to settle down.

The Ming army in the Western Regions was about 190, and they captured about 400 million captive women, and some million locals. Most of these locals were children.

Including the freed slaves, the population was just over 10 million.

Throughout the winter, supplies continued to come in and porridge shacks were set up on the road, otherwise only a few people would die.

The center did its best.

After the transportation was resumed, tens of millions of people were gathered to transport as many living people as possible here.

In order to appease the slaves, Yu Qian announced that after the slaves shaved their heads, they would be given a female slave as their wife and they would settle down in the Western Regions.

The population of the Western Region was originally about 20 million, but only 6 million people remained.

After Yu Qian received the imperial edict, the emperor actually asked him to return to Beijing to rest and recuperate, and handed over the power to Wang Yue, Fan Guang, and Yang Xin. He returned to Beijing to rest and wait for the next war.

Yu Qian didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Is my body so bad?

He had no idea. After giving the last order, he took a carriage back to Beijing. His carriage was driven by a royal driver. When passing through the asphalt road, all transportation was stopped to give way to Yu Qian's carriage.

Yu Qian was speechless. He wanted to travel at night, but was rejected by the medical team because the temperature was low at night and it would not be okay if Yu Qian had any physical problems.

This is the emperor's strict order. The wealth of the entire team is tied to Yu Qian.

The order before leaving was to bulldoze the Western Region-style buildings and rebuild Chinese-style buildings. Some special ones could not be demolished and could only be retained.

In order not to lose the architectural style, the Central Committee sent painters to draw everything and create a replica of a city in Beijing.

Including documents, treasures, etc., must be transported to the capital, and even those with writing must be sent to the capital.

The center will be translated into Chinese characters and recorded in Chinese history. These unique copies will be properly preserved, and several copies will be copied and hidden in different places.

These are common practice. The Ming Dynasty has occupied many countries in these years and has done this.

In other words, the culture of many countries has been cut off, such as India, but in the Ming Dynasty, India’s complete cultural system can be found.

However, this is not disclosed to the public at this stage.

Treasures such as stone tablets and statues are open to the public after being properly protected, and people are allowed to spend money to visit them.

The Western Region is not a foreign country. Since the Han Dynasty, China has ruled here. In geography, it is said that the western end of China is Congling.

This is also the place where the ancient legends such as Gonggong and Hou Yi took place.

Zhu Qiyu was not as cruel as he was to foreign countries, and he was especially careful about protecting culture.

After household registration, all persons will be registered as Han registered persons.

There will be many stone monuments and temples in the newly built cities and roads. The stone monuments mainly commemorate the dead soldiers, and the temples commemorate the generals.

The stone monument built this time commemorates some slaves who froze to death.

In the Tarim Basin conquered by Yang Xin, the central government will select a city and name it after Yang Xin. In the city center, a temple will be built to worship him. After a hundred years, one of his disciples will be selected and placed in the Tarim Basin. This is the temple guard.

Not only Yang Xin, but everyone who has made outstanding contributions will receive this treatment.

Ordinary military generals will erect monuments in temples with inscriptions describing their contributions as a commemoration.

This set is very mature.

Not only military generals, but also civil servants who have made outstanding achievements in local governance will erect monuments to commemorate them, and will choose a street to be named after him.

In order to enhance Han culture, the Ming Dynasty would also erect monuments for Chinese sages in the conquered areas, such as Jiaozhi. Wang Bo, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, once visited Jiaozhi. The Ming Dynasty would set up Wang Bo monuments, and the inscriptions recorded Wang Bo's deeds in detail.

The Han people left too many footprints in the Western Regions, such as Zhang Qian, Tang Xuanzang, etc. The Ming Dynasty would build temples in new cities to offer sacrifices.

During the Jingtai Dynasty, the culture of worship and worship flourished.

Many ancient people were exhumed and worshiped, and the places of worship were not their hometowns, but these new places.

If they really couldn't find it, they started to make it up and make it up. For example, Li Bai's footprints traveled all over Southeast Asia and his brilliant poems were written in Xinyizhou. Especially after the recovery of Suiye, many stone tablets of Li Bai's poems were built. .

The ends of the earth where Su Shi was exiled also became Borneo.

Qin Qiong once led a large army to conquer Yuuerhai, and Yuuerhai had one more general who could offer sacrifices.

Li Jing marched westward and conquered the Aral Sea.

Qin Shihuang passed by Luzon when he was on tour.

Make it up.

The footprints of the Han nation suddenly expanded from the land of China to the whole world. Regardless of whether the whole world can adapt to it or not, we have walked through it anyway.

Folk expansion literature has developed to the extreme.

Guan Yu's son Guan Suo retreated to Burma and became king in Burma, and Zhang Fei's son became king in India.

Various fictitious characters, in the writings of literati, appear to be real.

Some of them were actually officially accepted.

For example, Nanke Mansion, Nanke comes from a short story, and Nanke County in Nanke Yimeng appeared in Jiaozhi.

Guan Suo actually appeared in Myanmar. Although this character is fictional, but the official believes that this person exists, so there is.

There are also people with great imagination. King Zhou of Shang did not die, but fled to Greece and created Greek civilization.

The Egyptian pyramids were not built by the Egyptians, but by Qin Shihuang.

In this regard, the central government kept silent, but soon launched a textual research record of King Zhou and prepared to build a temple of King Zhou in Balkhash Lake to worship King Zhou from a distance.

The center interacted with the people, and expansion literature became popular.

Anyway, many ancient Chinese people have appeared in the Western Regions, including Bailixi from Shanxi. Bailixi can appear in Jiangbul, which is really unparalleled!

Fan Guang invited officials from the Timur Khanate to watch the ceremony, which caused quite a sensation.

The officials of the Tamerlane Khanate were all confused. Are you smart people so capable of bragging?

I don’t know who wrote the inscription, but it collided with Zhang Qian’s. Baili Xi did not assist Qin Xiaogong, but went to the Western Regions as an envoy. Great Qin’s control of the Western Regions began with Qin Xiaogong.

It’s fine if you commemorate Li Bai in Suiye, but you have to commemorate Baili Xi in Jiangbul. Isn’t it embarrassing?

That's right, Broken Leaf is on the edge of Rehai, south of Almaty, and is under the control of Ming Dynasty.

Wang Yue was more reliable and mainly selected ministers from the Western Han Dynasty to enter the temple.

Without Yu Qian's suppression, the three of them were completely free.

The names of streets and villages mostly use local ancient names, while the names of cities are determined by the central government and new names are decided.

The naming bureau will personally examine it, then read ancient books, and then decide on new names based on the terrain, including local mountains and rivers, all of which will be given new names.

Only the streets continue their local names, such as Yilibali, the name of the main street is Yilibali, and the name of the city is Yining.

The slaves who entered the city knelt on the ground and cried bitterly when they obtained their household registration.

These slaves have different skin colors and come from everywhere. Those with darker skin are from India, those with very fair skin are from Europe, and those with medium skin are from the Ottoman Empire.

The first thing you need to do after obtaining household registration is to shave off your dog’s tail and wear Hanfu.

They can automatically become Han Chinese without passing the Chinese proficiency test.

However, some of them have been in Ming Dynasty for at least five or six years. They are not very good at speaking, but they can definitely understand. Those who can't understand will have died long ago, and they can basically speak Chinese.

But suddenly when I heard Chinese, I subconsciously blurted out: "Cha".

The conditioned reflex they have developed over the years is like countless whips, which have tamed them into dogs. It is not easy to become humans again.

As the new female slaves were transported, they were assigned their first wives in their lives.

They would put all the suffering they had suffered on their wives, and each one was like a mad cow. Countless female slaves died on the first night.

Wang Yue and the others ignored this, and the imperial edict made detailed plans for their jurisdictions. Wang Yue was responsible for the Junggar Basin, Yang Xin was responsible for the Tarim Basin, and Fan Guang was responsible for Yili heading west.

If they become Han Chinese, they will be allocated houses, land, farm tools and other necessities just like the Han people.

However, military control was implemented in the Western Regions.

Mainland laws do not apply and everything is subject to the specific circumstances within the region.

For the Han people, regional construction was based on the employment system. These freed slaves could earn wages just like the Ming people.

On the construction site, they are still second-class people. They feel inferior because of their appearance, because unlike Akito, Akito can tell them apart immediately and even bully them.

They don't want to work either. The court distributes things but not money. If they want to make ends meet, they have to make money by themselves.

North of the Altai Mountains, the Junggar tribe.

One winter, 120,000 people froze to death!

Ah Shi was like a crazy bull. As soon as the weather thawed, he led his cavalry to attack the Western Regions. Wang Yue was not in a hurry and used every move to make Ah Shi lose his temper.

There is nothing you can do if the army rushes in. It depends on whether you can run fast enough.

Wang Yue didn't pay much attention to such small details. If he was massacred, he would be massacred. This is inevitable in war.

He received a secret order telling him that before winter, he would be transferred to the south to capture two Burmese.

Wang Yue knew that the opportunity to be promoted to Duke had come.

He wrote back to the emperor, meaning that Guo Deng could take over his position, and suggested that Chen Shao serve as Guo Deng's deputy general.

This is to give credit to the emperor's confidants.

Chen Shao was the most unlucky. After working for so many years, he never fought a big battle. Although he was promoted to marquis, it was given by the emperor in recognition of his hard work and merit, not by war.

Guo Deng is the emperor's brother-in-law. After returning to Beijing, he and the princess gave birth to two sons, and his promotion to the Duke of the Kingdom is just around the corner.

Wang Yue believed that the Junggar tribe was acting like a fox and a tiger, and Ah Shi was already thinking of retreating. After all, Fan Guang had cut off the Timur Khanate in the middle, and had shown everyone the weakness of the Timur Khanate, and that its collapse was imminent. .

Mansuer has occupied the edge of the Aral Sea and is showing signs of revival.

If the Junggar tribe expands westward, they will soon be able to regain their strength and establish a Kazakh Khanate.

The Golden Horde can no longer survive. There are all opportunities here.

Wang Yue could only sigh, looking at the huge fat meat, but he couldn't eat it. The Ming Dynasty's front reached its limit when it reached Lake Balkhash.

The main reason is the climate problem. It's all desert, there are no supply areas, and it's too difficult to transport food from the interior.

If the Ming Dynasty had not adopted the Mongolian fighting style, it would not have been able to reach this far.

Also benefiting from the Ming Dynasty's terrifying financial resources, the emperor was willing to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in this desolate place, with absolutely no return on investment.

Given the size of the Ming Dynasty and the distance of ancient wars, Lake Balkhash is the farthest place to be explored.

The Ming Dynasty was unable to carry out the Western Expedition. Even if it was willing to do so, it would not be able to control it. As long as a strong power appeared in Central Asia, this territory would be lost.

Unless the Ming Dynasty can change the mode of warfare, especially the mode of transportation, this will be the limit of the cold weapon dynasty.

Even if the emperor wanted to enfeoff the kings, he would not be able to firmly control this place, because this place is too desolate and is not the basis for kings and hegemons. He can only be the king of a small country here, and when a big country rises, it will be annexed.

Wang Yue sighed a little. The geographical environment of the Ming Dynasty was different from that of the Tang Dynasty.

In the early Tang Dynasty, there was a long and warm winter, and the grass in the Wusheng area was green. The entire Western Region became extremely wealthy due to the climate.

It is obviously a cold winter in Daming now. How many livestock freeze to death in Rehe in a year?

Why do the Mobei tribes invade the south every year? Because I can't live.

The Ming Dynasty controlled the grassland. How much money did it spend on the grassland every year? In fact, it would be more cost-effective to abandon the grasslands and maintain the defense of the Great Wall.

In the past, the central government had an annual income of 6 million, and there was still money left over. Now the fiscal year has an annual income of 60 million, which is not enough to spend.

There are too many flowers to maintain the entire grassland.

Although there are many Han people in Rehe and Ningxia, the Huhua is visible to the naked eye. The more people in these places, the more powerful they are at sucking blood.

Same thing as the Western Regions.

It seems that we have conquered thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, but in fact it is a burden of thousands of miles, and they are all useless wasteland.

If not, Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia will not be able to develop with peace of mind unless they continue to build the Great Wall to keep the barbarians out of the Great Wall.

This was something the emperor did not want to see. The emperor allowed the people to go wild and encouraged them to go out to rob and kill.

The same is true of colonial thinking, which is Huhua thinking.

Why are the Han people unwilling to rob and want peace? Because the Han people are superior to others. This is why in modern society, the whole world is shouting for peace!

China, on the other hand, has understood that peace is the most important thing in two thousand years.

Zhu Qiyu was a freak. He tried his best to promote the Huhua of the Ming Dynasty. He took off his clothes and became a savage, fighting for territory and food with the savages.

Then the savages were slaughtered and the doves occupied the magpie's nest.

This is okay, but the world will eventually end, the emperor will eventually die, and the prince cannot maintain such a huge territory.

No matter how big a country is, it will eventually collapse, and even the bigger it is, the faster it will collapse.

At that time, money was spent on building empires for the vassal states. When the Ming Dynasty declined, these vassals would eat the flesh of the Ming Dynasty like crazy.

What is the difference between this and a world full of barbarians?

This is also the essence of the peace thought passed down by our ancestors.

Brothers, in the face of interests, will turn against each other and become enemies.

Wang Yue sighed quietly. In his opinion, the more the emperor worked, the more he consumed the power of the Ming Dynasty to fill the vassal state, which in turn promoted the vassal state to become bigger and come back to bite the Ming Dynasty.

The pinnacle of a unique civilization, barbarians everywhere.

With the pinnacle of civilization everywhere and enemies everywhere, which situation would be better?

This is the reason why the Ming Dynasty did not allow the Southeast Asian barbarians to sinicize, nor did it allow the barbarians in Central Asia to sinicize. This is called sweeping away treasures and hiding good things. I will not let you use them, and I will make you mad.

The more Wang went westward, the more he felt that this place was poor and backward. The Ming Dynasty spread culture here, but in the end he had to give up and let them learn Han culture, and then use Han culture to deal with the Ming Dynasty.

Isn’t it Annan? The dog raised by Daming Dynasty bites Daming Dynasty everywhere!

(End of this chapter)