Daming Jingtai: I am the eternal benevolent king

Chapter 367: The King of Wei and King Shang succeeded to Fan, and the salary increased and he became more and more depressed.

The war in the Mediterranean ended.

Dachu entered a period of recuperation and hooked up with Britain.

Exchange what we have and have in-depth cooperation.

France, the new overlord of Europe, was immersed in the joy of acquiring a huge colony. However, France was really ill-fated. At the end of the 39th year of Jingtai, Louis XI became seriously ill.

Charles VIII is only 13 years old this year.

It simply cannot deserve the title of Europa Overlord.

His sister Jeanne was a disabled person. For the sake of power, she married her uncle Louis, Duke of Orleans, and was on the verge of becoming the Queen of France.

But she underestimated the person beside her, Louis was Louis XII.

As Louis XI became seriously ill, the continent of Europe was in turmoil again. There were countless people who wanted to challenge the French hegemony, including Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands as far away as Germany and the Ottomans.

Louis XI asked Ming Dynasty to fulfill its promise.

Liu Daxia personally went to Paris as an envoy to visit the seriously ill French Emperor. After a confidential discussion, Ming Dynasty was willing to help Charles VIII stabilize his throne.

As for the conditions agreed to by Ming Dynasty, outsiders have no way of knowing.

Dachu was originally ready to make a move, but with Liu Daxia's return, he lurked in the abyss and no longer paid attention to the situation in Europe.

Britain, which was the best with Dachu, naturally kept sending people to inquire about the news.

Zhu Jianshen kept the secret secret, but he carried out many cooperation with France, especially 10,000 people quietly boarded the ship and sailed into the Ming Dynasty.

As for Spain and Portugal, looking at the New World, they have sent a large number of ships to trade in the New World.

Britain and the Netherlands wanted a share of the pie, but were rejected by the Spanish-Portuguese coalition. They kept the sea map secret and would not allow anyone to covet it.

But Eastern Europe is getting more lively.

After the Ottomans annexed the Balkan Peninsula, rebellions continued due to the unauthorized actions of various countries, which made the Ottomans very troubled.

Bayezid believed that Da Chu must be the one causing the trouble.

Because Da Chu has recently been recruiting skilled craftsmen to ship to the Ming Dynasty, the scale is larger than before. Many people in the country are tempted by the high salary and are willing to go to the Ming Dynasty.

But in the thirty-eighth year of Jingtai, Bayezid did not allow the Ottomans to leave the country.

In fact, all countries are not fools, and they naturally do not allow the loss of talent. However, the Ming Dynasty gave a lot of money, and it was just a recruitment. When the contract expires, you can return to the country, and they also give gifts to everyone. Many people who were unsuccessful in Europe went to the Ming Dynasty.

But this quantity is strictly controlled by each country.

Osman was so awesome that he was not allowed to do so, so Ming Dynasty naturally had to deal with him.

Therefore, all the territories newly annexed by the Ottomans were unstable. Even Greece was seeking independence and received strong support from the Ming Dynasty.

All over Greece, efforts are being made to Chineseize it.

Bulgaria also followed suit and sought the support of the Ming Dynasty. They also planned to go to Bulgaria and fully Sinicize. However, they did not come up with anything to impress the emperor. The emperor did not allow them to sinicize. Bulgaria felt aggrieved.

Precisely in the thirty-eighth year of Jingtai, the 20th prince, King Zhu Jianjun of Wei, succeeded the vassal in Kazakhstan, changed Qiuming to Anyi, and established his capital in An, also known as Daliang.

The reason why the capital is set in this damn place, Tyumen, is because oil fields were discovered here, but it is difficult to exploit them on a large scale with existing technology.

As for the amount of oil stored, the prospecting team also said it was unclear, but there was definitely oil here.

The prospecting team discovered that there should be oil fields in many places near Tyumen, but mining is difficult and the reserves are unknown.

It was the emperor who directly drew a circle and asked King Wei to establish his capital here.

The territory of Wei State extends to the Ob River in the east, the Ural Mountains in the west, and the Aral Sea and the northern shore of the Caspian Sea in the south. It is equal to Western Siberia and part of Kazakhstan, plus a part of Turkmenistan.

The territory is vast, but in Zhu Jianjun's eyes, it is all bad land. The richest place is the land along the Caspian Sea.

Before leaving the capital, his father told him that it was all oil, and you could just sit on the oil and become the emperor.

Zhu Jianjun also implemented the two-capital system and established a Nanjing on the coast of the Caspian Sea.

As the most important barrier vassal state in the western frontier of the Ming Dynasty, it can absorb the blood of the Ming Dynasty to the greatest extent, and it is very close to the Ming Dynasty. As long as the China River is successfully opened, a big river will appear in the two countries, and the transportation capacity will be expanded hundreds of times. The Wei State can be a good barrier. The benefits are: Mostly.

Just this year, the last force of the Timur Empire surrendered to the Ming Dynasty after being strangled by the Three Kingdoms Allied Forces, and the war ended completely.

This war is also interesting. The Yarkand, Safavid, and Braha kingdoms fought a bloody battle against the Timurid Empire. In the end, it was the Ming Dynasty that got a big advantage.

Timur's remnants of 300,000 people surrendered to the Ming Dynasty and were protected by the Ming Dynasty.

Then, Fan Guang placed the remnants of Timur on the shores of the Aral Sea to support his restoration, which made Braha very angry.

Brakha was a khanate established by the Uzbeks, which was considered free from Mongol rule.

But Fan Guang is bad, he will put it in front of your house, watch and beat you.

In the past ten years, Yang Xin led the troops and captured half of the Fergana Basin, and repeatedly robbed Anyanji with the Yarkand Khanate.

The Yarkand Khanate's center of gravity was in Samarkand, but Yang Xin was so hard on it that it was about to give up on the basin.

The war has been going on for ten years, and the most fertile basin in Central Asia has been reduced to ruins.

Ye Erqiang was unwilling to take over this mess. The only one who could solve this mess was Ming Dynasty.

Especially after Timur's remnants surrendered to the Ming Dynasty and settled in the Aral Sea, Sayid of the Yarkand Khanate was also panicked. They had a blood feud with Timur.

In the past, the Kazakh Khanate of Mansuer relied on it to share the pressure of the Ming Dynasty.

Now, Mansu'er was defeated and committed suicide. The vast pastures of Kazakhstan were taken away by the Ming Dynasty and given to the King of Wei.

This King of Wei was not someone to be trifled with. As soon as he succeeded to the throne, he led his troops to beat the Siberian Khanate so hard that the Siberian Khanate fled across the Ural Mountains.

Even the Junggar Khanate was dealt with by King Wei.

This shows the ability of King Wei of Ming Dynasty.

The Golden Horde collapsed in the 33rd year of Jingtai and split into the Kazakh Khanate, Kazan Khanate, Crimean Khanate, Astrakhan Khanate, Siberian Khanate, and Nogai Khanate. There are also some small forces.

As the Ming Dynasty has been running Central Asia for more than ten years, it has defeated the Kazakh Khanate and the Siberian Khanate.

Even in the thirty-seventh year of Jingtai, the headquarters of the Golden Horde surrendered to the Ming Dynasty on a large scale.

Because the Ming Dynasty made a slogan of going home and recruited Mongolians and Uighurs to go home.

Many Mongols returned to the Ming Dynasty with their tribes.

It is estimated that more than one million Mongolians returned to the Ming Dynasty, and it is said that they were not treated differently. In recent years, Central Asia has become increasingly chaotic, and more and more Mongolians and Uighurs have returned to the Ming Dynasty.

Even before his death, Mansu'er was surrendered. However, he had a bad temper and refused to bow his head, so he committed suicide. Most of his troops surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.

With the collapse of the Golden Horde and the Timur Khanate, Mongolia's rule over the world came to an end, and the Ming Dynasty was an important driving force.

Many Mongolian people began to "miss" their hometown.

In particular, the Ming Dynasty used the slogan of going home to attract Mongolian people to go home, and there were crowds of people like clouds.

Sayid sent envoys to negotiate with Fan Guang and was willing to give up the Fergana Basin, but he needed the Ming Dynasty's ordnance support.

He used the banner of the Mongols and claimed that the Yarkand Khanate and the Ming Dynasty were one family, and that the common enemies should be dealt with Bukhara, the Safavids, and even the new dynasty rising in India.

Fan Guang knew that Yang Xin was bound to win the Fergana Basin, which was a stepping stone for him to become a prince.

But he knows better that what is not obtained on the battlefield will never be obtained at the negotiation table.

We have to wait for the outcome of the Anyanji War.

Let's talk slowly here, hang on to Yarkant, and increase the offensive intensity on the battlefield.

Ye Erqiang is the same way.

Said is definitely the top military genius in the world, even Yu Qian is inferior to him.

But he only has one person, and the people around him are all scum. If he had a few top players like Fan Guang and Yang Xin, it would have become a big deal long ago.

His defeat lies in the fact that, except for himself, there is no support from top famous generals, and the national affairs are still in chaos.

Ming Dynasty does not have top-level coaches, but there are many top-level generals.

Sure enough, at the end of the 39th year of Jingtai, the Ming army occupied Anyanji, marched westward, and fought consecutive victories. When the heavy snow fell, the troops surrounded Kuzhan.

By taking Khujand, the Fergana Basin was sealed.

There were only two places in the Yarkand Khanate where heavy troops were stored, one was Anyanji and the other was Khujand, and both places were fighting hard.

Yang Xin fought for An Yanji for six years before he completely conquered it.

If Khujand continues to defend the city, I am afraid it will last another ten years.

Fan Guang stepped up negotiations.

In July of the 5th year of Jingtai, Ming Ye reached an agreement, with Khujand as the boundary. Ming supported the Yarkand Khanate with 100 muskets, 200 million bullets, and 100 bicycles. Ming was willing to invest million, and Ye Qiang Khanate The Yerqiang Khanate cooperated to help the Yerqiang establish an economic system.

After Khujand was captured, the Ming Dynasty's western frontier was sealed. The Ming Dynasty would no longer open up to the west. The western frontier was bounded by the Ob River, Lake Balkhash, and Khujand and would no longer open up to the west.

But when it comes to recruiting people from the mountains in the south, it's basically the old way of being gentle and squeezing.

For the Ming Dynasty, these mountains are just strategic barriers. It doesn't matter whether they want them or not. If any prince wants them, they can just block them out.

The prince doesn't want this damn place either. There are no resources in this place and it's a lot of bullshit.

The good news reached the central government, and Yang Xinrong was granted the title of Fei Guogong.

After transferring Fan Guang back to Beijing, Yang Xin succeeded him as governor of the Aral Sea.

Fan Guang was very reluctant to leave the battlefield, but he was almost eighty. The emperor wanted to transfer him back to Beijing a few years ago to take care of himself in old age, but he always said that Western Xinjiang was unfair and he did not want to take care of himself in old age.

Now that Yang Xin has captured the Fergana Basin, Western Xinjiang has been completely sealed off, and future wars will be small-scale fights.

With the cooperation of Yang Xin and Li Jin, there is no need to worry.

Fan Guang was reluctant to part with every plant and tree on the battlefield, but he knew that his war career had come to an end and that it was a pity that a warrior died on his bed.

His second son, Fan Jiong, died of illness in the 40th year of Jingtai's reign. His ability to live to eighty was definitely due to the emperor's medical team, otherwise he would have died long ago.

Fan Guang did not return to Beijing immediately, but took a car to meet Zhu Jianjun. He came all the way to see the King of Wei and exchanged many words with him.

It is nothing more than reusing Li Jin, making good use of Li Jin, and the country will have no worries.

Be careful of the Yarkand Khanate. Sayid's military talent is top-notch. In this era, few people are his opponents.

However, the Yarkand Khanate is supported by Sayid. As long as Sayid dies, the Yarkand Khanate will collapse.

You are still young. As long as you survive Said, the legacy of the Yarkand Khanate will be yours.

The Ural Mountains are a natural barrier. If you keep the barrier, the Khanate will not collapse. The Ming Dynasty still has the support in the western Xinjiang. The Junggar tribe cannot rise. Although the current territory is not good, Samarkand is the essence of the place. Wait for Yarkand Khan If the country falls, it will all be your territory.

Zhu Jianjun was very moved.

The veteran traveled hard in the car for two months just to warn him.

"Why do my father have so many capable ministers and generals? Why are they willing to serve the Ming Dynasty? Why don't I!"

Zhu Jianjun lamented that there were too few talents.

He asked the same question as his father back then.

Li Jin was not something he could ask for. This person was his father's most loyal confidant, more loyal than Fan Guang, and would not leave the Ming Dynasty.

With the signing of the peace treaty by Ming Ye, Wei's territory was considered stable.

But there was still a crippled Siberian Khanate, and Zhu Jianjun didn't care.

In the forty-second year of Jingtai, King Zhu Jian of Shang succeeded the vassal family.

The emperor sent him the strongest lineup, with Han Yong personally in command, Zhao Fu as deputy commander, Wang Xin, Zhou Yu, Li Gao, Song Cheng, Mao Rong, Mao Hai and other important generals, Yang Yiqing as patrol envoy, and eunuch Qin Cheng as Supervise the army.

This is definitely the strongest lineup.

Among them, the ones with the lowest achievements are Mao Rong and Mao Hai. The former is Mao Sheng's eldest son and succeeds as Marquis of Nanning. The latter is Mao Zhong's nephew and was awarded the title of Hu Lin Bo by his own efforts.

Mao Hai, in particular, was a representative of the Young and Strong Sect, and the emperor loved him very much.

As we all know, it is more difficult for Zhu Jianji to succeed to the vassal than any other vassal king. There is still no territory in Eastern Europe. Zhu Jianji can only huddle in Yekaterinburg and wait for the opportunity.

Han Yong's intention was to recruit the Junggar tribe and use the Junggar cavalry to attack the Kazan Khanate.

With a wave of his hand, the emperor recruited 100,000 cavalry from the Mongols, and ordered Wei and the Western Regions to prepare sufficient food and grass for the western expedition to Kazan.

Han Yong has not shown his prominence in the center for many years, and he has forgotten how he came to the position.

In the first battle of the year, Li Jin and Yang Xin combined 20 troops to attack the Junggar tribe. They killed Ah Shi and recruited his tribe to surrender. They gained more than 3 herdsmen and soldiers.

The Junggar Khanate died, and the defeated Siberian Khanate was wiped out.

Then, they crossed the Ural Mountains and dealt a fatal blow to the Kazan Khanate. The Kazan Khanate was still immersed in the joy of defeating the Muscovy Principality.

He didn't take Daming seriously at all.

Han Yong directly taught him how to behave.

Divide your troops into multiple groups and attack the city.

The Kazan Khanate was deceived by the Ming Dynasty. It was not that the Ming Dynasty was too strong, but that Kazan had just become independent and had not yet sorted out its internal affairs. It just went around like a small power and fought in a circle, draining the domestic finances.

As a result, wherever the Ming army went, they were welcomed with food and drink.

This time the Ming Dynasty did not engage in massacre.

But to defeat the Kazan Khanate in one battle.

When the Muscovy Principality heard that Kazan had been defeated, it immediately sent troops eastward to follow the Ming Dynasty to grab territory.

The Crimean Khanate and the Astrakhan Khanate also followed suit.

As a result, the Kazan Khanate, which had just emerged less than ten years ago, was attacked by the four major powers. In September of the 42nd year of Jingtai, the Ming army captured the royal capital and Kazan was destroyed.

Zhu Jianzhen had learned the art of war from Yu Qian since he was a child, and Han Yong also taught him. He always thought that the old man Han Yong was flashy.

As a result, this battle completely defeated him.

Is Han Yong so awesome?

In one and a half years, from the Ural Mountains to Kazan, a khanate was destroyed?

This time I am completely convinced. After Yu Qian passes away, the one who can take over Yu Qian's place is probably this old commander. Zhu Jianjun is greedy. It would be great if he could be kept in the Shang Kingdom.

However, Han Yong did not continue to use troops. Instead, he sent envoys to contact other countries and was willing to transfer some benefits.

In November of the 42nd year of Jingtai, the Shang Kingdom established its capital in Kazan, but its territory was not large. The Shang Kingdom gained nothing in the territory west of Kazan.

Croatia and Afghanistan received huge benefits, but the Principality of Moscow received very little.

The Shang State sent envoys to join forces vertically and horizontally, and was willing to deeply tie up with the Muscovite Principality and jointly expand westward.

Zhu Jianyan understood what Han Yong meant. The Ming Dynasty's transport capacity had reached its limit and it was impossible to go further west.

Even the territory to the east is difficult to consolidate.

They were outsiders who came in. Although the people here were used to being ravaged, they couldn't stand the Eastern European countries staring at him.

Sure enough, Zhu Jianji's throne was not secure, and the forces supporting Zhu Jianji demanded that the division of flesh begin.

He even incited local rebellion and threatened Zhu Jianji.

Han Yong brought 27 Ming troops, and the large army was still behind. The emperor expected to send 100 million troops, and the population would move to hundreds of millions.

Then Eastern Europe cannot afford to support these people.

Han Yong did not carry out the massacre immediately, but instead accumulated food and grass. He did not pay much attention to gold, silver and jewelry. He collected a lot of food, grass and meat.

When it comes to rebellion, they turn a blind eye, try to appease those who can be appeased, and start a tug of war with those who cannot be appeased.

In the forty-third year of Jingtai, Han Yong suddenly revealed his butcher knife.

Begin to clean up the domestic resistance forces. Of course, whoever resists will be the one who has the final say.

The reason why Han Yong was so confident was that the Ming Dynasty recruited 17 Japanese soldiers and sent them to the Ural Mountains, and the Japanese soldiers fought from east to west.

The center forced another 170 million people to immigrate from the mainland through the Western Regions and arrived here.

There is an asphalt road connecting the Ming Dynasty and the Shang Kingdom, but there is no asphalt road after passing the Ural Mountains. All walking is done by human legs. It took more than a year to get here from the Ming Dynasty.

Along with the immigrant army, there are 30 troops responsible for guarding the immigrants.

Therefore, Han Yong was not afraid that the other three countries would take advantage and carried out a deep cleanup east of Kazan.

In just one year, 17 of the 12 Japanese troops died. The emperor waved again and sent another 20 levies. These beasts killed people during the day and played and sang every night.

The Han people looked envious.

But this kind of good thing should be left to the Japanese army.

This kind of news cannot be hidden, and Daming is not prepared to hide it.

Sure enough, it aroused fear in the countries of Eastern Europe, but in July of the 43rd year of Jingtai, the Shang State and Moscow allied forces to attack the Crimean Khanate.

Zhu Jianji personally led the troops. This direct disciple of Yu Qian became famous in one battle.

They conquered more than a hundred cities and killed the Crimean Khanate until it begged to surrender. However, fate was unpredictable. The Muscovy Principality suddenly rebelled and stabbed the great merchants in the back. Zhu Jianji was defeated, leaving more than 30,000 corpses, and retreated into the country.

Later, Zhu Jianji personally led an army of 44 to attack the Principality of Moscow. In the th year of Jingtai, the army besieged Moscow.

There was great fear in Moscow.

Zhu Jianjian sent troops to massacre the city, intending to kill every last person, which also aroused fierce resistance from the Slavs.

This made Muscovite even more frightened.

There is no fear when soldiers surround the capital. The key is that the Ming Dynasty engages in massacres. Their weapons are advanced and there are many ways to kill people.

In the past, Zhu Jianji kept it and used it.

The Muscovite backstab made Zhu Jianjian so angry that he vomited blood and immediately began to massacre. There was not even a chicken in the city captured by Zhu Jianjian.

There are few Slavs. If we continue killing like this, how many seeds will be left?

Muscovy requested peace talks.

Zhu Jianji didn't talk about it.

But he was stopped by Zhao Fu, who thought it was time to talk or fight.

At the same time, he told Zhu Jianjian: "You are the leader of a country. You should not act so recklessly. The military must be in line with politics. You cannot destroy a country just because of a moment of anger. This is a stupid idea."

Zhao Fu can also be regarded as Zhu Jianji's master.

Zhu Jianji bowed.

He was really pissed off about being stabbed in the back by Muscovite. This had something to do with the environment in which he grew up. He had a very smooth life growing up.

Except for his father taking care of him, everyone treats him well.

Unlike the prince, the courtiers all said that he was most like his father.

People who have never experienced setbacks are on fire.

Fortunately, there were old ministers like Han Yong and Zhao Fu who helped him stabilize the court situation. They allowed him to follow his own temper and also warned him how to be the leader of a country.

The emperor assigned each prince an old minister to provide them with security.

If there are no top generals like Han Yong, Zhao Fu, Yang Yiqing, and Qin Cheng, a big defeat can shake the morale of the army. How can there be another battle? How could it be possible to surround Moscow?

After awakening, Zhu Jianji immediately changed his thinking, not to destroy Moscow, but to obtain more benefits.

All his losses in the Crimean Khanate must be compensated by Moscow.

Negotiate and massacre at the same time.

The effect is excellent.

In the end, Moscow ceded ten cities, and Crimea ceded the upper reaches of the Volga River, which was considered a heavy loss.

However, the Ming Dynasty offended several khanates in Eastern Europe and made them join forces to keep warm.

Zhu Jianji didn't care. The top priority was immigration and replacing the natives with Ming people.

really.

After the war, Han Yong reprimanded Zhu Jianji. As an emperor, you must be patient. You have been handling government affairs for His Majesty for many years. Don't you understand this?

It’s no wonder that Zhu Jian was confused, Daming couldn’t bear it.

The Shang Kingdom was different. The Shang Kingdom had just been established for more than a year and had 200 million citizens. They were all angry and had not resumed production. They relied entirely on the blood supply of the Ming Dynasty. Hell had begun.

If Han Yong, Zhao Fu and others had not stabilized the situation for him, the Shang Kingdom would have collapsed no matter whether he won or lost this battle.

When the news reached Ming Dynasty, it was already the beginning of the 44th year of Jingtai.

The emperor didn't care too much, because the emperor's energy was focused on the steam engine.

The first train in Ming Dynasty is under emergency trial operation.

Using steam engines as power to make a train was proposed by the emperor in the 30th year of Jingtai, but the development of steam engines was slow.

It has been thirty-two years since the beginning of imitation of European steam engines and mass production!

The emperor spent more than 20 million to recruit relevant foreign talents from Europe, as many as . Among the Italian slaves, nearly one million people served in the Ming Dynasty.

There are as many as 70 steam engine practitioners.

It took thirty-two years to finally complete mass production from scratch.

In front of a simple railway track, a horse pulls a four-wheel train. The steam generated by the burning of coal is converted into mechanical energy and kinetic energy, and works together with the horse to pull the carriage.

"Try to unload the horse!" Zhu Qiyu was more nervous than ever. There are no horses to pull the vehicle, only steam to propel the vehicle.

It did move.

But it can't go straight, and there are control problems, but it can go.

"As long as it moves, it will be good." Zhu Qiyu was very excited. Ming Dynasty took this big step. In a few years, trains will change the world!

"I want to invest in 20 train factories to develop trains for me. If the development is successful, I will reward you with a reward of 100 million! All the shares in the train factory will belong to you!"

"Three years!"

"Three years from now, I want to see that trains can run on this track without any accidents. I want to lay the track to every corner of Ming Dynasty!"

Zhu Qiyu's eyes were blazing: "Three years later, it will be Jingtai's forty-seventh year. I want to see the results!"

"Whatever you need, I will give you!"

"If they can't do it after three years, they will all be executed!"

They were quite happy at first, but after hearing the emperor's last words, everyone's legs weakened and they knelt on the ground in fear.

"I'm not kidding, it only takes three years. If you do it, I will reward you with everything!"

"Don't talk about the shares in this train factory. Even if you want to be an official, I will allow it!"

"If you can't do it, don't blame me for being cruel!"

Zhu Qiyu couldn't wait any longer.

He is 66 years old this year!

He couldn't guarantee how many years he would live.

In the 40th year of Jingtai's reign, Yu Qian died of illness. Recently, Shang Ren, Wang Hong, Peng Shi, Zhu Ying and Wang Fu are all in poor health.

No one knows how many years he has left to live.

Although there are many elites in the court, there are more and more feudal states, and people have to be sent to help the feudal states form a center and stabilize the government.

Zhu Qiyu sat on the imperial chariot and drove back to the palace.

The prince did not give birth to his eldest son until the thirty-ninth year of his reign in Jingtai. In the next few years, he gave birth to two sons. Otherwise, the fourth son would not have gone out to inherit the vassal.

The emperor thought about changing the prince more than once.

Fortunately, the prince gave birth to a son, otherwise he would definitely be replaced by the prince.

After the fourth son succeeded to the vassal, Zhu Jianqi also became trembling. There was no threat to the government and the public. He only had to wait for his father's death to succeed to the throne smoothly.

"You are looking forward to my death!" Just after entering the Yangxin Palace, the emperor's words were like a bolt from the blue.

Zhu Jianqi kowtowed in panic: "My son, I will never have any unfilial thoughts, absolutely not!"

Without his mother's mediation, his relationship with the emperor became increasingly estranged.

He also knew that Zhu Jianjian was willing to join the feudal clan mainly because his father was so capable that they might not be able to outlive his father.

Zhu Jianqi also has this worry.

Although the 66-year-old emperor is old, he is still full of vitality. He usually has no illness or disaster. He takes a handful of tonics and has taught himself Chinese medicine.

The eunuch who accompanied the emperor throughout his life, Wang Cheng, died of illness in the 27th year of Jingtai, Zhang Yong died of illness in the 39th year of Jingtai, Jin Zhong died of illness in the 40th year of Jingtai, Feng Xiao also died last year, and died in the 43rd year of Jingtai. Yes, Xu Gan died this year.

The eunuch currently serving the emperor personally is called Wang Zhi.

All the old concubines in the palace, except Concubine Tan, died of illness one after another. Last year, in the forty-third year of Jingtai, seven concubines died in one year.

It has been rare since ancient times for people to live seventy years.

The emperor had nothing to do, but he began to study Chinese medicine on his own. He often explored medical science with Concubine Tan, and even ordered Taoist priests from Wudang Mountain to learn how to maintain health.

Looking at the ministers of the government and the public, there are many who live to be eighty years old, and there are not none who are ninety years old.

Zhu Jianqi was worried that he would follow in the footsteps of Emperor Renzong. Renzong had been in office for ten months at least, but the sad thing was that it was Prince Yiwen.

The emperor's treatment of him was far inferior to Emperor Taizu's treatment of Prince Yiwen.

If Zhu Jianqi died in front of him, he would definitely come back from abroad to order his fourth son to take over the throne, and would not support the so-called grandson at all. What would happen to Jianwen? Will the emperor forget it?

The key is that the relationship between the two of them is not here.

Although Zhu Qiyu was not wary of his son, his son's ambition disgusted him. He liked Lao Twenty, not only because Lao Twenty was smart, but mainly because Lao Twenty was filial and had no ambition, at least the ambition was not written on his face.

nonsense.

Although he is the legitimate son, he is ranked twenty, so how can he inherit the throne over his nineteen brothers? Of course I have no ambition!

And me?

I have been a prince since I was a child and have been a prince for more than 20 years. All my brothers are better than me. Who has considered what I think?

Who hasn't laughed at me all these years? I can't have a son and I'm destined to be homeless?

Is it really true that I can’t give birth?

It’s the Crown Princess who can’t give birth!

Your Majesty, you don't allow me to have a bastard, let alone a bastard to inherit the throne. You named Crown Princess Yang to give birth to her. If she can't give birth, do you have to rely on me?

It's a joke that you succeeded to the throne as a concubine, but you didn't let my eldest son become a concubine.

The problem is that Yang Tinghe won the emperor's heart, and the emperor was not allowed to change the princess, so his son could not be born!

Zhu Jianqi felt sad, but since his mother died, no one was willing to listen to him talk about his feelings.

"I don't dare say it, but I hope it in my heart."

Zhu Qiyu snorted coldly: "Otherwise, why was the San Burmese rebellion not reported to me?"

"Your Majesty, I only learned the news this morning. You were not in the palace in the morning. I wanted to wait until you came back before reporting." Zhu Jianqi shouted that he was wronged.

"Stop your little thoughts."

Zhu Qiyu sneered: "The Three Burmese rebellion is beneficial to you, so you hold off and let the rebellion get bigger and bigger so that you can lead the troops and prove yourself with military exploits, right?"

"My son does have this intention, but I dare not not report it to you!" Zhu Jianqi felt depressed.

His father has a weird temper.

To put it bluntly, I just hate him. He likes talented sons, such as the fourth, twentieth, and thirty-first.

He doesn't like his father either.

Growing up, his father liked to see his jokes. He not only made fun of him himself, but also allowed the civil and military officials of the dynasty to make fun of him.

Everyone in the civil and military circles of the dynasty knew that the prince was useless except for his good temper. Even the people thought so.

The wise and powerful Emperor Jingtai gave birth to a son who was as stupid as a pig.

It's a joke that everyone knows.

Zhu Jianqi thought that he was a good prince. He had handled government affairs for many years and made almost no mistakes. Although he was not absolutely good-tempered, he was usually cheerful.

He admitted that he was pretending to be good-tempered. Anyone who had been suppressed for thirty years would have gone crazy!

The new ministers all praised him as Renzong alive.

However, those Jinshi did not know that Renzong, whose temple name was Renzong, was not lenient at all. He was a ruthless master.

"Thirty-one, what do you think of the Three Burma Rebellion?" Zhu Qiyu looked at Zhu Jianmo.

Zhu Jianmo is only 21 years old this year. His mother-in-law is a strong man and a native of Guangxi. Because Zhu Jianmo is very smart, his mother-in-law is also favored by the emperor. In the palace, he can compete with Concubine Tan.

Zhu Jianmo glanced at his eldest brother and said sternly: "My son believes that the root cause of the Three Burmese Rebellions lies in India. There are dynasties in India that have risen powerfully, so they are causing trouble on our border with the Ming Dynasty. As long as the Indian dynasties are destroyed, peace will naturally return to Three Burmese." .”

This is a general. Once he has been trained, he will become a famous general.

Zhu Qiyu nodded: "Prince, if you want to command the troops and gain military merit, I will give you this opportunity, but you must be careful. Don't imitate the old four. You have all your abilities but don't know how to use them. Adjusting measures to local conditions will be more useful than any number of military arts you have seen." .”

"Thank you for the gift, Your Majesty!" Zhu Jianqi was still very happy.

With his military exploits, his position as prince is considered stable. The key point is that he can stay away from his father and live a comfortable life for a few days.

"Bring up the map."

"This is a newly discovered continent with an extremely vast area, even larger than the Ming Dynasty."

"There are gold and silver resources everywhere. It is a chosen place."

"I plan to entrust you here."

The Americas have discovered it a long time ago. In recent years, a large amount of silver from the Americas has poured into the Ming Dynasty, and the market capital of the Ming Dynasty has exceeded 500 billion.

It's all silver brought back from North America by the Ming Dynasty.

In the past two years, the number of ships shipped back has increased. There are several shipping routes from the Ming Dynasty to the Americas, mainly from Japan to the Americas via Hawaii. This route is the safest.

Hawaii was discovered in the 41st year of Jingtai's reign. Although it was a strategic location, the princes were unwilling to go and become a vassal because it was too small.

This kind of island country is basically enfeoffed to clans.

The princes all wanted a large piece of land and wanted to be the overlord.

"My son is willing!"

Zhu Jianmo was naturally willing. Ming Dynasty sent millions of people one after another, and Lao Twenty-seven and Lao Twenty-eight were enfeoffed.

But the emperor needed a pioneer to truly occupy this treasured land.

In fact, Canada is a completely rotten land, equivalent to the Siberian frozen soil, and their population is concentrated in the Great Lakes.

Despite Canada’s large land area, it is actually a scumbag.

If Thirty-One is asked to go, he will definitely not go to this poor land, but to deal with the Mexican indigenous people. California and Texas are better places to entrust.

As for the chosen land of America, as long as there are enough princes, it will always be just a big island and will never become a big island for overlords.

Of course, even if he becomes an overlord one day, he will still be a Mingren and a descendant of Zhu Qiyu, and he will have to respect Zhu Qiyu.

Ming Dynasty at least has the hope of becoming a vassal and not being killed.

In recent years, the real estate development in Daming has been in full swing.

The development of real estate, related industries, and skyrocketing wages and bonuses have also driven consumption throughout Daming, bringing a wave of benefits to the market.

Especially during the period of brutal real estate expansion, money is really not money.

It has driven the impetuous atmosphere of the entire society and opened up consumption.

Naturally, when the scale of consumption is huge, the market will be extremely prosperous.

Salaries doubled every year.

When Jingtai was fifteen years old, an ordinary worker's salary was only 10 yuan. When Jingtai was thirty years old, his salary rose to 22 yuan.

But prices have barely risen.

During this period, people invested the money in their pockets in their future, namely their children.

The central government frantically encourages childbirth, and even proposes to give birth to 20 children without tax.

Children are exploding.

In just a few years, the population exceeded 20 billion.

When the people live a happy life, every family is contented. When the poor suddenly become rich, they will naturally be content.

In the 25th year of Jingtai, the salary was only 50 yuan, which had only increased by yuan. The people lived very comfortably. Two people worked for yuan, and they could feed a family of ten people without worrying about food and clothing.

As a result, in Jingtai's 50th year, wages doubled to yuan, but this time prices tripled.

Forty-one years after Jingtai, wages doubled again, rising to 125 yuan, but prices tripled from last year.

In the past, the family's income was 50 yuan and they could feed ten people.

In the 250st year of Jingtai's reign, wages have doubled. The two of them earn yuan, but they can no longer feed a family of ten.

There are many reasons, the main reason is the change of basic life needs.

In the past, it was about eating enough, now it is about eating well; in the past, it was about eating at home, now it is about going out to restaurants; in the past, it was reluctant to buy, but now it is about taking out a loan.

Because of the prosperity, living standards soared.

The most predictable thing is that when bicycles were first introduced, there were very few private buyers. By the 41st year of Jingtai, almost everyone had a bicycle.

It’s one per person!

The number of bicycles put into the market in Ming Dynasty was as high as 22 billion!

This number is horrifying. A one-year-old child has a bicycle.

The price of bicycles has increased, from the initial five hundred yuan to more than seven hundred yuan.

Even if wages increase further, a bicycle is enough for one person's salary for three years. It is definitely a high-end luxury product.

But everyone buys it.

The domestic market for high-end luxury goods consumption has reached a scale of 10 billion, while in the 6000th year of Jingtai, the scale of high-end luxury goods consumption was only million.

Because at that time, high-end luxury goods were only consumed by the rich and powerful. In the 41st year of Jingtai, thousands of households were consuming them.

In the 210nd year of Jingtai, per capita wages jumped threefold, reaching yuan. Prices did not rise again this year, but house prices doubled.

As a result, in Jingtai’s forty-three years, the per capita salary soared to 500 yuan!

Housing prices began to be calculated by the foot, and the land in the garden was calculated by the foot. The most expensive garden in the capital was sold for over 100 million.

The scale of the domestic consumer market has reached a terrifying 100 billion, and the high-end luxury goods consumer market has exceeded the 30 billion mark.

However, under extreme prosperity, factory owners complained about the difficulty in recruiting workers, and workers also complained about the hardship of life.

The salary has increased 10 times from 50 yuan, but life has become harder!

In the final analysis, what I pursue is different. In the past, I pursued a full stomach, but now I pursue a car, a house, a big house, and a bicycle.

The loudest complaints are from farmers.

Farmers are the hardest hit. They should have been the first to get rich, but instead they became cannon fodder in the Industrial Revolution.

Although the central government does not collect agricultural taxes, the gap between the rich and the poor has widened visibly.

In the forty-third year of Jingtai, the emperor issued a decree to provide farmers with part of their land subsidies, and the amount of this subsidy was borne by factory owners.

The more local industries make, the more they will provide to local farmers.

This caused complaints from factory owners, and many factories wanted to close down directly.

At this time, news of the mass production of steam engines came out.

Replacing labor with machinery will become the main theme in the next few years, and as a result, a large number of workers will be unemployed.

For the unemployed, the center also has arrangements to immigrate to new places. There is a shortage of workers in new places and the wages are not high, but the money is good.

The scariest thing is fiscal revenue.

Forty-three years after Jingtai's reign, the central government's fiscal revenue reached a terrifying 12 billion!

The total revenue of state-owned enterprises is as high as 70 billion!

According to calculations, the total profit of the Royal Commercial Bank and the royal investment industry exceeds 10 billion.

This shows what?

The total market value is only 500 billion, so much money is in the hands of the central government!

It shows that the central government monopolizes the entire industry. Except for state-owned enterprises and imperial enterprises, other enterprises have not developed, or they have fallen behind in the new round of economic wave.

Being fooled by real estate has confused everyone and cannot see clearly where the future lies.

This directly led to the all-round monopoly of the central government and imperial enterprises. This was a very serious problem. In the 38th year of Jingtai, state-owned enterprises and imperial enterprises only accounted for one-tenth of the market share. Now it has become Half of the total market, which is very scary.

The more money the center collects, the less able it is to digest it, and it can only be forced to invest in real estate, which makes real estate more prosperous.

The more prosperous the real estate industry is, the more miserable people's lives will be.

In fact, the first depression patient was born in Ming Dynasty, the first in history.

At the beginning of Jingtai's 44th year, the emperor adjusted his policy and ordered the orderly development of real estate. Some small cities were not suitable for real estate speculation.

The emperor began to protect small cities and planned to counter-urbanize.

In recent years, ordinary people are willing to buy houses in cities because they make money. Especially the nearly 100 major cities across the country are the best places to buy houses. Not only do they not lose money but they also make money.

The policy of protecting small cities has encountered fierce opposition from the central government, banks, and the public.

The emperor seems to be awake in the world, but he goes against the wishes of all the people.

If you want to curb housing in small cities, you have to ask the people in small cities if they agree!

Everyone has seen the benefits of real estate. Don’t people in small cities get greedy when they see people in big cities achieving their small goals with a house?

I am greedy like crazy, and I hope that the policy will be slightly tilted. When I come to my hometown, I have also experienced the addiction of a rich man.

As a result, the emperor's policy ended everyone's dream of getting rich.

What does it mean?

Don’t let us get rich!

The people in the small city hated the emperor so much that they scolded the emperor and became more and more confused...

Then let’s go buy a house in a big city!

No one can restrain our desire to get rich suddenly.

Sure enough, house sales in big cities surged.

This policy was promulgated in January of the 44th year of Jingtai and canceled in March. It was changed to effectively curb the growth of housing prices and ensure a happy life for the people.

The problem is that people's happiness lies in rising housing prices.

Who cares if it collapses tomorrow?

Anyway, if it collapses tomorrow, I will scold the emperor.

After the new policy was cancelled, real estate sales in big cities declined, and there was a small wave of price declines. However, investors couldn't bear the excitement, so they quickly followed up with purchases, and house prices rose back up.

What really scares the center is.

Hong Kong became the first city in the Ming Dynasty with a population of over 10 million!

Ranking among the top ten, Suzhou has the smallest population, with a population of 9 million.

Ming Dynasty cannot afford to support so many workers.

There is also a terrible trend of migrant workers who work in the fields during the busy farming season and work in the slack farming season.

The land needs to be cultivated intensively, and the whole process requires manpower and is done bit by bit, so the grain output of the Ming Dynasty is high.

Nowadays, the emergence of migrant workers has led to people not caring about the land, but coming to work in the city.

They also took away the jobs of the local labor force.

As a result, the number of unemployed people has increased, and private food production has not increased, creating a series of vicious cycles.

The emperor even wanted to issue a decree not to allow farmers to come out to work and tie them to the land, but the central government opposed it.

The reason is very simple. Farming is really unprofitable. If you continue to tie up farmers, they will have to put down their hoes and rebel.

After all, it was all the fault of machinery.

If there weren't so many machines that would be needed by so many people, urban factories would still be able to afford them even if all the farmers moved to the city.

The problem is that machinery has replaced labor, creating a wave of unemployment, and then migrant workers have moved into the cities and taken away their jobs, leaving even more people unemployed.

The problem must be solved fundamentally.

The issue of unemployment must be taken extremely seriously.

Qia Qia also stumped a group of old academics in the center. They used to worry about not having enough to eat, but now they worry about not being able to find a job.

They were also puzzled. They were content with just having enough to eat, so what was the fuss about?

Keren, they all yearn for a better life and want to be rich.

The emperor has no idea. Industrialization is an inevitable trend and elimination is an inevitable mechanism.

"Let them go back to farming." Wang Fu put forward the most irresponsible opinion.

“If they were willing to farm, they wouldn’t come to the city to work.”

Zhu Qiyu said angrily: "I don't want to farm, and I don't want to immigrate either. Last year when I immigrated to Shang Dynasty, I was tied up!"

"Are we going to take all the unemployed people to new soil this year?"

This is a good idea.

Ming Dynasty does not need these eliminated workers, but Xindi does.

The difficulty is that these people have families and are used to the life of the Ming Dynasty and are not willing to go to new lands. Immigration is also troublesome. It is better to take a boat. Men and women can be separated and not too many disgusting things will happen.

But if you go to Eastern Europe and escort a group of women away, there will probably be trouble in the Ming Dynasty.

Certainly not.

train!

It would be nice to wait until the train is completed, but even if it runs in three years, laying the track to Eastern Europe will not be possible in twenty years.

The immediate problem cannot be solved yet.

"My lords, can you create a new industry?"

This is the only way to create new industries and absorb the unemployed, which is to give them new jobs.

Then you have to use your brain.

What industries does Ming Dynasty have now, and what industries is it lacking?

In fact, another reason for the sharp increase in unemployment in the Ming Dynasty is that the generation that had many children grew up and became the main labor force in the market.

The main labor force of Ming Dynasty is as high as 6 million!

Even modern society can't absorb so much labor, right?

We have to find a way to absorb the surplus labor in the market.

(End of this chapter)