Daming Jingtai: I am the eternal benevolent king

Chapter 368 The opening of the Zhonghua River, the construction of the railway, and the conservative Chu

Agriculture, industry, and commerce are natural enemies, so ancient society has always emphasized agriculture and suppressed commerce.

House prices and inflation go hand in hand.

High housing prices mean high inflation.

In society, there are contradictions between agriculture and industry and commerce, between property and have-nots, between workers and peasants, and between cities and rural areas. The contradictions are backlogged and become more and more onerous.

The faster society develops, the more severe inflation will be.

Because the country has fallen into an endless cycle of domestic sales and real estate speculation.

It’s not that Ming Dynasty lacked market vitality, but human inertia was at work. A large number of factory owners turned to invest in real estate, and large-scale social funds entered real estate, leading to high inflation in Ming Dynasty.

Naturally, the problem of high unemployment arises.

In the 44th year of Jingtai's reign, the central government issued a decree to cool down the real estate market, effectively circulate real estate funds into industry, and comprehensively promote industrial development.

The center has invested RMB 3 million to provide all-round support to the industry.

Another 3 million were allocated to provide comprehensive support to agriculture and encourage farmers to develop side businesses instead of working as migrant workers in cities.

To put it bluntly, the goal is to prevent farmers from taking jobs from city residents.

The direct impact is that immigration has been intensified. All the sons and daughters of the common people have moved to new places. The existing surplus labor force in the city has been given immigration subsidies to start their own businesses in new places.

Especially workers who have been eliminated from the market must go to work in new places.

And encourage private capital to invest in new places.

The imperial company spent 10 billion to invest in vassal states such as Zhou State, Shang State, and Wei State.

Going out is not just to Eurasia, but to new lands. The new lands of the Ming Dynasty are tens of thousands of miles away, and they are all the best successors to the old industries that have been eliminated.

As steam engines were introduced in factories, old machines were gradually transferred to new places and to underdeveloped areas.

In order to expand employment, the central government plans to release 10 gold coins and 100 billion silver coins to prosper the market.

This money is really not much.

Because the Ming Dynasty is vast and covers four continents. South America has just been discovered. The total population is around 22 billion, and there are 600 billion currencies in the market. It is enough, but not sufficient, and it has not yet reached the time of inflation.

The key is that Ming Yuan is the world currency and the world's hard currency.

All countries use Ming Yuan in small amounts, and the royal families and princes of various countries have a small amount of Ming Yuan in their hands. The purchasing power of this thing is too strong.

But after Ming Dynasty takes over the minerals in North America, it will continue to transport silver to the country in the next few years.

In other words, banks will continue to release money in the next few years.

Stimulate the market and reduce unemployment.

In the forty-fourth year of Jingtai, a thing called plastic appeared in Ming Dynasty. It was cheap, convenient, durable and other high-quality properties. It instantly became the new favorite of factories and soon became popular all over the country.

Taking the lead, a large amount of funds entered the plastics industry.

At the end of the 44th year of Jingtai, the Huangjue brand steam locomotive completed its first trial run under manual control and was successful.

In July of the 8th year of Jingtai, the Daming brand steam locomotive reached a speed of kilometers per hour and was successfully tested.

After receiving the emperor's commendation and the emperor's decision, the Royal Commercial Bank's shares in the Ming Dynasty steam locomotive were equally distributed to all scientific researchers, and the scientific researchers jointly held the shares.

In November of the forty-fifth year of Jingtai, the Shenyang Train Factory innovated the boiler, optimized the impact of temperature rise on the boiler, and changed the effective use of waste heat.

At the end of December, the forty-fifth year of Jingtai, the Tianjin Railway Factory reformed the rolling bearings, innovated the wheels, and conducted more than a hundred speed-increasing tests on the trains.

In the first month of the 17th year of Jingtai, 17 train factories presented National Day gifts to the emperor. A locomotive jointly manufactured by 11 factories successfully completed its trial run in front of Deshengmen. The prince personally rode the train and reached a speed of kilometers per hour. .

Important ministers also rode along and lamented the rapid development.

The emperor waved his hand and commended Factory 17 on a large scale. The director of the factory gave a silver charm, and the rest of the community gave a bronze charm. All the shares in the center were given to the meritorious people, and a new round of capital injection was made to Factory 17.

In early February of the 20th year of Jingtai's reign, the emperor spent billion to establish the Daming Railway Bureau, coordinate the train factories, and start building railways.

"Twenty years, I will give you twenty years to build the Ming Dynasty's railways to every corner!"

Zhu Qiyu was in an excited mood: "Didn't Ming Dynasty have few investment projects? This time the investment projects are coming, they are all large-scale investments!"

"The Ministry of Industry has given it to me. If Ming Dynasty wants to build all the railways, it will need more than 500 billion yuan!"

"There are still vassal states!"

"It is expected that the project scale may exceed 2000 billion!"

"As for the rate of return, it takes 40 years to pay back the capital. The life of a train is about 60 to years, which is equivalent to a net profit of years."

“In the past, large-scale investment projects only had asphalt roads, but now real estate is added.”

"The railway is coming. Put the hot money in the central government into the railway. Real estate is already hot enough. Don't add more fuel to it."

"Real estate cooling is not an empty talk."

In the ten years since real estate development has been in full swing, the size of the private market has reached a terrifying 1200 billion.

After Lao Sanyi succeeded to the vassal, he discovered several large-scale mineral deposits and continued to transport money to the country. This led to large-scale investment in real estate, and real estate was also blocked.

Nowadays, housing prices in small cities have been skyrocketed.

Take Hebi, Henan, for example. In the 200th year of Jingtai, a large house with a thousand feet in the city sold for yuan.

In the forty-sixth year of Jingtai, you can't buy a house in the same location and area in Hebi for 12 yuan.

In the thirty-eighth year of Jingtai, the average salary of a worker in Hebi was 10 yuan. In the forty-sixth year of Jingtai, the worker's salary reached 1050 yuan.

As for housing prices, a building costs 700 yuan per square foot, and a house of 7 square feet sells for yuan. It would take an ordinary worker six years to afford it without eating or drinking for a year.

But don’t forget, house prices are going up.

The price of such a house was only 6 yuan last year, but it has increased by yuan in one year.

And such a building cannot meet the living needs of the family at all. Everyone is used to living in a separate house. Who wants to live in a pigeon cage?

Living in a building is not a noble thing, but only poor people live in a building.

Rich people live in big houses.

As for the villa, compared with the house, it is just rubbish. The villa is just a broken house with a separate courtyard. The house has mountains, water and views, and it pays attention to elegance.

However, Zhaizi has long refused to approve it.

The central government issued a strict decree that no one was allowed to build a house. As a result, the existing houses seemed to have doubled in price, and they were still worth nothing.

Therefore, the family can only squeeze into the building. One hundred feet is quite large, and it is impossible for a family of more than ten people to live in it.

In this era of filial piety, parents had to live in a separate room, and the children lived separately for men and women, so the parents had no room to live in.

Although the building is cheap, it is not applicable.

The purchase was too big, and I thought it was a waste. I still had to save money to buy a house, so I lived in a small house for the most part.

Now they are all six-story buildings.

The evil intentions of developers are the same in any era. There are endless sharing areas, shoddy goods, and cutting corners. In recent years, there have been many developers who have copied everything, but they still go their own way. There are property problems, water leakage problems, sound insulation problems, etc. The problem of garbage removal is a problem every year.

If you think about it, you can understand that the central government suppresses real estate developers too hard, and they can only make money by relying on side tactics.

As long as it didn't reach the emperor's ears, it was basically a near miss, but if it reached the emperor's ears, the person who died wouldn't be the same person.

People who live in pigeon cages all long for a big house.

But the central government is the most absolute. In rural areas, it is not allowed to flip houses, let alone expansion or reconstruction. It is not allowed at all. In order to promote the purchase of houses, it is also absolutely impossible.

When the houses in the city can no longer be sold, they will demolish the houses in the countryside to get the last bit of money.

Real estate is a good place to store huge amounts of money.

But for the people, it is definitely not a good thing.

With the construction of the railway.

A large amount of capital has gradually withdrawn from real estate and turned to investment in infrastructure.

But it cannot be withdrawn immediately or on a large scale, otherwise real estate will be wiped out. It must be withdrawn in an orderly and slow manner, and funds must be withdrawn slowly while ensuring a steady increase in housing prices.

The Ming Dynasty was a madman for infrastructure construction. Asphalt roads were built one after another. Not to mention the roads in every village, towns were definitely connected by asphalt roads.

Building bridges, improving farmland, increasing irrigation, and storing water to attack cities were done every year.

Due to the development of real estate, Daming gradually reduced its infrastructure projects and instead invested in real estate and education, especially education.

The Ming Dynasty implemented nine-year compulsory education in the 41st year of Jingtai.

The boom in real estate also brings good things, that is, education is booming and families become wealthy and are willing to support their children's education.

The more the emperor suppressed real estate businessmen, the more they tried to make money from other places. The emperor asked them to invest in the education industry, so they set up cram schools and taught the children to death, resulting in a bunch of nerds and problem solvers.

Railway has become the next new trend in Ming Dynasty.

The emperor invested 20 billion first, and the hub invested another 20 billion. Each train factory invested in technology and attracted some private capital to collect a total of 100 billion.

The construction of 14 major trunk railway lines was announced.

The main line planned by the Ministry of Industry connected the major provinces of the Ming Dynasty.

Railways in various regions, and then attract local capital to invest in them, after all, it is impossible to launch so many projects at the same time just by relying on the central hub.

As a new trend in Ming Dynasty, private capital is willing to follow the investment.

But how to ensure the rights and interests of shareholders is what private capital is worried about. However, when they submitted the message to the central government, they were ridiculed by the emperor. You are not willing to invest, but I have all voted.

Then the folk nonsense stopped.

It is obvious that the railway is a money-making project with eyes closed, and anyone who does not get on the train is a fool.

The seven factories that develop railway tracks have begun to design the route. Construction is expected to start in the summer of Jingtai 7, and they will be tested while laying.

During this period, 17 train factories have to continuously test the safety of trains, especially the operation conditions in wind, rain and snow, to ensure that the tests can be completed without delaying the construction period.

During the period of track laying and mass production of trains, there was no delay in both.

With a wave of his hand, the emperor attracted a hundred high-quality companies to enter the train industry. The world market is so huge that just 24 companies cannot capture such a large share.

This is the first batch of investment promotion, and there will be more investment promotion in the future.

The businessmen recruited are basically involved in railway investment.

This sends a signal that only by investing in railways can you participate in train investments.

The Ming Dynasty market is extremely huge. Although the number of births has dropped in recent years, the population has reached 25 billion. If everyone takes the train every day, what terrible benefits will it produce?

These more than 100 companies alone cannot capture such a huge share.

There are also feudal markets and European markets!

The emperor predicts that 2000 strong companies will be recruited.

It's not that the emperor couldn't afford it, or that he didn't want to live alone. The main reason was that Zhu Qiyu was old and he didn't want to wait until he closed his eyes before the Ming Dynasty Railway had spread across the country.

Besides, the railway cake is so big, if he swallows it in one bite, it will lead to bureaucracy and technological stagnation.

On the contrary, it has attracted a large number of private enterprises, and neither state-owned enterprises nor imperial enterprises have a dominant position, and can maintain innovation.

This project is so big that Li Dongyang personally oversees it.

Wang Hong died of illness in the forty-fourth year of Jingtai. Zhu Ying succeeded him as the first assistant, and Wang Fu was still the second assistant. This made Wang Fu a little depressed.

This railway siege will be the most important project in the next twenty years.

Wang Fu originally wanted to compete for the role of hosting.

However, the emperor said that he was too old to travel easily, and the opportunity should be given to young people.

The main thing is that Wang Fu's limit has reached this point, and the future belongs to Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, Liu Daxia, Wang Shouren, and Yang Tinghe.

Li Dongyang entered the cabinet in the forty-fifth year of Jingtai.

That little brat back then has become a mainstay in the court.

Zhu Qiyu lamented that he was really old.

At 69, he finally felt what it was like to be old. He slept less, became more forgetful, became lazy, and sometimes reacted slowly.

Although he tried his best to pretend to understand, he was getting old when he was old.

Last year, Changde died of illness, and this year, his eldest daughter Gu'an also passed away.

He has 27 daughters and 41 sons.

Counting the deceased Zhu Jianji and Shoukang, there were 70 children, but in fact there were 14 others who died in infancy, so there were 84 children to be precise.

Among the emperors, he is considered to be among the best.

He was the longest-reigning emperor of the Ming Dynasty and left behind many things, including Jingtai lanterns, Jingtai cloth, Jingtai porcelain, Jingtai calendar, Jingtai Dadian, Jingtai Wan Guo Zhi, Jingtai Meridian, Jingtai Map, Jingtai Ci Hai, etc. Something like Genesis is enough to last ten thousand years.

Starting from the 13th year of Jingtai, Yongle Dadian was added.

In the forty-sixth year of Jingtai, it was published and promulgated to the world, Jingtai supplemented version of Yongle Dadian.

The Central Committee once wanted to revise the Jingtai Dadian.

But the emperor refused, thinking that he could not take away the credit of his ancestors, so just writing a revised version would be enough.

Zhu Qiyu further delegated power to government affairs.

Basically no longer participating in the morning court, Zhu Jianqi became a veritable vice-emperor. Except for major matters that could not be decided, all other decisions were made by him.

Even at court meetings, the emperor rarely showed up.

Therefore, when courtiers had important matters, they would go to Yangxin Hall and have secret talks with the emperor. This made Yangxin Hall gradually replace Fengtian Hall as the place where important decisions were made.

The prince seemed to have great authority, but in fact he was completely dependent on the emperor.

If the emperor doesn't nod, it still won't work.

This time the railway administration should have been handled by the prince, but the emperor had no intention of gilding the prince, and instead took the credit. This is still the Jingtai Dynasty, and all the credit belongs to me.

The prince had no choice but to endure.

In fact, his father has been a monk since he was sixty-five years old. There are no concubines in the harem, and all the people who serve him are old people.

In fact, it was to guard against the prince and kill the emperor.

After the age of seventy, the emperor lived in seclusion and did not even enter the harem. He only moved in three places: Qianqing Palace, Yangxin Palace, and Fengtian Palace, and did not go to other places.

The emperor's guard against the prince was clearly visible to both the government and the public.

The emperor almost said that as long as I die, it will be the prince's fault.

The relationship between father and son was so bad that the courtiers sighed.

Invisibly, the prince's reputation is getting worse and worse. Unfilial piety is the biggest problem.

How can an unfilial prince set a good example for the world? The last person to be notorious for being unfilial was Yang Guang. Where did Yang Guang take the Sui Dynasty?

There are even voices among the people to welcome King Shang back to the throne.

The King of Shang did a great job in Eastern Europe. In recent years, large-scale immigration has mainly been to Eastern Europe and America. The emperor even sent all the adopted orphans, more than three million women, to Eastern Europe.

The King of Shang started a business in Eastern Europe. He was capable and filial. If he were to inherit the throne, he would definitely be better than the prince.

Zhu Jianqi almost vomited blood when he heard this.

July of the forty-sixth year of Jingtai.

Good news comes from Wushuang. The China River is expected to be fully opened in October, as a tribute to the Longevity Festival!

The Zhonghua River Project began in the 23rd year of Jingtai, and it has been years since. Bai Ang, the launcher of this plan, died on the plateau due to severe hypoxia in the th year of Jingtai.

Of the 4 officials of the Flood Control Department, as many as 6 died on the plateau.

The total investment in the hub reached 11 billion.

The slave scale used 2400 million people.

The total project period is 23 years.

The corners of Zhu Qiyu's lips twitched, and the teeth in his mouth moved. There were only a few complete teeth left, and his expression was extremely excited: "Go and invite all the important ministers in the cabinet."

He asked the official who reported the victory in detail, and then read the victory report submitted by the Flood Control Department.

Soon, important ministers of the cabinet arrived after hearing the news.

"Your Majesty, the water volume of the Zhonghua River is expected to cover the entire northwest."

"If this big river is navigable and connected to the Ili and Syr Darya rivers, it can flow into the Aral Sea."

Wang Fu chuckled and said: "The volume of the Aral Sea has increased dramatically. Let's build another river leading to the Caspian Sea."

"Although the Ming Dynasty is not in Central Asia, the countries in Central Asia will always be shrouded in the shadow of the Ming Dynasty!"

"Zhonghua River, the first big river in the northwest!"

Zhu Qiyu nodded slightly and walked to the map: "The Ming Dynasty was afraid of fighting in the Western Regions because its transportation capacity could not keep up!"

"Immigration is even more important. How many years have it been since then? How many people have been moved here?"

“It’s because I have to walk to immigrate.”

"As long as the river is opened and river transportation replaces land transportation, we will continue to transport troops there. The Fergana Basin has been rebelling for years, hasn't it?"

"Waiting for the river to open!"

"Let me see who dares to rebel!"

"An alien race is an alien race. In the past, there was insufficient transportation capacity. We followed the migration of the vassal country and moved a small number of people there. When the river is opened, I will let them see the true strength of the Ming Dynasty!"

"We will recruit another 20 Japanese troops from Japan!"

"Send them to the Fergana Basin and slaughter them by me!"

Zhu Qiyu's eyes were fierce.

Yang Xin took over the Fergana Basin and took control of the Aral Sea. However, the rebellion has not stopped in the past few years, and it was impossible to build it at all. It was destroyed as soon as it was built.

What was once the richest region in Central Asia has now become the worst place.

Also, the tribes in the Pamir Plateau in the south are not honest. They all want to steal the Ming Dynasty. When the river is opened, let them see how strong the Ming Dynasty is!

"As long as the transportation capacity can keep up, we will directly send one million troops to the border!"

Zhu Ying sneered: "Conveniently wiped out those khanates."

"And the Safavids, who are trying to make things difficult for me as the prince to inherit the vassal, just in time to send troops to destroy this bullshit khanate!"

Persia was divided into two parts by the emperor, and was given to the twenty-fourth prince Zhu Jianxi and the twenty-sixth prince Zhu Jianchu.

The two princes went to inherit the vassal state as early as the 37th year of Jingtai. However, they only occupied a few coastal towns and there was no vassal state yet.

He originally wanted to wait for King Shang and King Wei to jointly take over the northern part of the Caspian Sea, and then send troops to attack Safavid from the sea and take over the southern part of the Caspian Sea.

Now look, the fighter plane appears.

"Your Majesty, it's too early to say that now."

Shang Ren pointed to the map: "You think it is more important to connect the Shule River and the Heihe River, so as to turn the entire Western Region and Qinghai into an oasis."

“Both the Shule River and the Ili River are top priorities, with priority given to water use in the Shule River.”

Zhu Qiyu agreed.

September, Wusheng.

This piece of pure land has suffered tremendous damage in the past twenty years or so. More than 20 million slaves lived on it.

Massive amounts of garbage are generated every day. In this era, there was no professional garbage disposal technology, and all was thrown away casually, seriously polluting the ecological environment of Wusheng.

The real source of garbage is people.

The Ming Dynasty invested a total of 2400 million slaves in Wushen, and more than 1000 million people died from various causes. These corpses were hurriedly buried, causing a serious environmental burden.

The beautiful environment of a natural pure land has become a garbage dump everywhere, which is sad.

Just relying on the environment to digest itself may not change it for a hundred years.

Don’t forget, this is the source of water for all countries. The Yangtze River and the Yellow River originate from here.

In the thirty-eighth year of Jingtai, a strange disease appeared in the people of Sichuan. In the forty-eighth year of Jingtai, it was discovered that the people in the Yangtze River Basin all suffered from this strange disease, but the severity of the symptoms varied.

Nearly ten thousand doctors began to search for the source of the disease and climbed to the plateau step by step.

The source of the Yangtze River was discovered and severely damaged.

Therefore, in the 41st year of Jingtai, the Central Committee proposed to strictly protect the natural environment of Wusheng, but it was too late, and the damage had already been done. It only took one year to destroy, but it took a hundred years to protect it.

And the progress of the project cannot be stopped.

This kind of protection is just shouting slogans.

The Center has invested 1000 million to deal with the garbage on the plateau. The simplest way is to build an incinerator and burn it directly.

However, this will cause even worse environmental impacts.

After repeated discussions, it was decided to bury the garbage in areas far away from water sources and uninhabitable, especially in uninhabited areas.

That is to abandon those desolate areas and focus on protecting river sources, water sources, and the environment of human settlements.

Fortunately, there are no non-biodegradable plastic bags or other garbage, which would be even more troublesome.

Mainly toxins produced by corpses.

As long as the bodies are moved to uninhabited areas, the water situation downstream can be alleviated.

In September, the forty-sixth year of Jingtai.

With a loud noise that shook the sky and the earth, the connecting section of the Brahmaputra River and the Shiquan River was dug up. A huge amount of water merged with the Shiquan River and rushed downstream in a mighty manner.

After the flood season, the blocking parts of the Shiquan River and the two tributaries of the Yarkand River and Hotan River were dug through again.

The huge amount of water rushed through two tributaries and merged into the Tarim River.

According to the normal flow direction, the Tarim River will flow into the Chelchen River.

but.

The Water Control Department changed the direction of the Tarim River and merged the Tarim River and Kongque River together. The second section of the Chelchen River merged into the Kongque River first.

A huge artificial river was built in the middle.

The terminus of the Kongque River is Lop Nur. Officials from the Flood Control Department in this section are nervously waiting for the river to merge.

All river flow directions are carefully calculated.

Kongque River is just a part of this huge project.

Connecting to the Kongque River has two purposes: one is to fill the Shule River with water, and the other is to connect to the Kaidu River.

The distance between Kaidu River and Ili River is very short, which is the most important link connecting Ili River.

In order to fill the Ili River and Shule River with water at the same time, the Water Control Department carried out a large-scale diversion of the Shiquan River, diverting the river that should have flowed into India into the inner Xinjiang.

The Kongque River received a huge amount of water.

Fill Lop Nur.

But this is not the purpose of the Flood Control Division.

Lop Nur is just a water storage lake, and the Kongque River is destined to be connected to the Shule River.

But the Kongque River alone cannot support the Shule River Basin.

Therefore, officials from the Flood Control Department dug a longer artificial river.

The Tarim River and the Chelchen River will be brought together to enlarge the drainage basin of the Chelchen River and help the Chelchen River flow to Lop Nur.

Let Lop Nur form a transit reservoir.

Three rivers, the Tarim River, Cheerchen River, and Kongque River, fill the Shule River with water.

The Flood Control Department is worried that the amount of water is still not enough.

Several small rivers in the area were deliberately diverted to merge into the Tarim River, and the riverbed leading to the Kongque River was lowered, so that the Kongque River could continuously fill the Shule River with water.

The Shule River flows through Dunhuang, Guazhou, and Yumen, but due to less and less water, it dries up at Jiayuguan.

With the water injection from the Tarim River and Kongque River, the Shule River can directly connect weak water.

There is a big river in the interior and the western regions.

The Water Control Department even proposed that if the Shule River basin is not enough, the Irtysh River should be diverted and allowed to cross the Altai Mountains to continuously fill the Shule River with water.

This proposal impressed the emperor.

The emperor didn't care whether Central Asia was thirsty or not. Anyway, the Ming Dynasty needed a big river, and it would be best if it could directly connect to the Ob River. In this way, the entire river would be a natural barrier for the Ming Dynasty's western frontier.

the other side.

It is the Kaidu River, connecting the section of the Ili River.

Because the Central Committee proposed to give priority to water use in the Shule River, the sections of the Kaidu River and the Ili River must wait until the water filling of the Shule River is completed.

Then dig out the last section.

After waiting for a full month, the Shule River successfully connected the weak water, and then the sections of Du River and Ili River were excavated.

The Ili River was expanded and eventually flowed into Lake Balkhash.

However, the Fergana Basin has become Ming Dynasty territory.

The Ili River has two tasks. One is to inject water into Issyk-Kul Lake, connect the last kilometer of Issyk-Kul Lake and the Tarim River, connect the Tarim River to Issyk-Kul Lake, and connect it to the Ili River. The Tarim River and the Ili River, At the same time, water is added to Lake Issyk-Kul.

The second one is the diversion of Lake Balkhash into the Chu River.

Help the Chu River merge into the Syr Darya River.

Eventually it flows into the Aral Sea.

Only the main stream of the entire Zhonghua River is completely completed.

The name of the entire river is collectively called the Zhonghua River. Its drainage area is larger than that of the Yangtze River, and its role is greater than that of the Yellow River.

The entire people along the line were relocated. They were supposed to move to the Fergana Basin, but there were riots every day in the basin, so they had no choice but to move to the Wei State.

In December of the 46th year of Jingtai, Wusheng reported victory to the central government, and the construction of the Zhonghua River was completed!

Basically the same as the plan.

After the Shule River is filled with water, large ships can travel along the entire route, and the weak water basin has been expanded to allow large ships to travel throughout the entire journey.

The transportation capacity of the Ming Dynasty can be transported directly from the country to the Aral Sea.

The entire river basin is under the control of Ming Dynasty.

The Zhonghua River also became the third river in the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty has eight major rivers, the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, the Zhonghua River, the Heilongjiang River, the Yenisei River, the Lena River, the Ob River, and the Lancang River, all of which are major rivers.

The Flood Control Department also proposed to divert water from the Irtysh River into the Shule River to enlarge the Shule River Basin and facilitate the Ming Dynasty's ships to reach the Ob River.

And then completely control the Ob River.

The main reason is that the Irtysh River will further inject water into Gansu, expand the river channels in Gansu and Qinghai, and allow the central government to send more large ships into Central Asia.

The emperor immediately approved this resolution, and the construction period is expected to be three years.

The 1400 million slaves who survived this time were converted into second-class people because of their meritorious service, were given a part of their wages, and were renamed the Ming Dynasty Engineering Team.

Second-class people have the right to marry. This is a reward for building a bridge to the Zhonghua River. In the future, they may become Mingren.

With the completion of the construction of the Zhonghua River, asphalt roads have been opened throughout Wusheng.

The Ming Dynasty is no longer controlled by officials, but everything is appointed by the central government. Wusheng has changed from the Xuanwei Division to the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty.

As of the forty-third year of Jingtai, all provinces in the Ming Dynasty had asphalt roads, and asphalt roads leading to the vassal states are now being built.

Mainly the roads in India and Central Asia.

And in Western Europe.

The drastic changes in Eastern Europe have sounded the alarm to Western European countries.

The Shang King of the Ming Dynasty defeated the Crimean Khanate and the Muscovite Principality. Now the two khanates bowed to the great Shang Dynasty.

This directly threatened the Ottomans' eastward advance.

Osman spread fearful news like crazy.

Dachu must have been affected, but not significantly.

In the past few years, Zhu Jianshen has been consolidating his base areas, and the whole of Italy is undergoing ethnic replacement.

By the forty-fourth year of Jingtai, there were no aboriginal people in Italy. They were all Ming people dressed in Han Chinese clothes.

They are more conservative than Ming Dynasty.

People are not allowed to have their hair disheveled, they are not allowed to cut their hair short, and they are not allowed to wear fancy clothes. Even Jingtai clothes are classified as fancy clothes.

Etiquette is more important than in the Ming Dynasty.

Mechanical and chemical studies were denounced as terminal studies, and even fundamentalist studies were classified as banned books by scholar-bureaucrats and were not allowed to be read.

This caused great dissatisfaction with the Roman Pope.

After Zhu Jianshen occupied Italy, he stopped building churches and built several Buddhist temples, which greatly stimulated the Pope in Rome.

The pope even wanted to hold a crusade south.

Regarding this, Zhu Jianshen completely ignored it and continued to build temples and Taoist temples. Confucianism spread everywhere, and Buddhism and Taoism merged with Confucianism to achieve today's status.

The people of Ming Dynasty embraced Confucianism, not other religions.

The European countries are also happy to see the joke. Anyway, the Holy Roman Empire has fallen. Everyone knows that the Pope's way of ruling is stable, and no one wants to have an emperor sitting above him.

The introduction of Dachu in the first place was Spain's strategic vision.

Looking at it now, it is the most correct thing.

In the same way, there is a pope to control Dachu. Dachu will always be an outsider in Europe, and they are natural targets.

Zhu Jianshen was in pain and happy at the same time.

He carried out profound transformation of his country.

Especially from the country, tens of thousands of diehards were attracted to carry out major surgery on Da Chu.

Liu Daxia saw this and could only sigh.

He understood the meaning of King Chu very well. After all, Chu was an outsider in Europa, which was surrounded by wolves. If they did not maintain their cultural independence, they would soon be assimilated.

The reason why Han culture is strong.

As strong as it is, it can never be assimilated.

After more than three hundred years of Westernization in later generations, Han culture has finally gained the upper hand.

Look at every culture in the world, they have all been assimilated. Only the Han culture has endured for a long time. The more it is assimilated, the more it removes the dross and extracts the essence, the more powerful it becomes.

Therefore, in order to ensure independence, Dachu forced its citizens to instill strict Confucianism.

Not only that, Zhu Jianshen also carried out reverse export to France.

The new French emperor, Charles VIII, successfully ascended the throne with the support of the Ming Dynasty and was able to inherit the rich France.

The title of Europa overlord has been transferred back to Spain.

In recent years, Spain has brought back a lot of money from the new land, which has caused high inflation in Spain and forced it to sell the money to Ming Dynasty.

Naturally, Spain became rich, reorganized the Armada, and once again became the overlord of Europe.

But the North African colonies were still in French hands after all.

And these lands are being encroached upon by Da Chu.

The population of Dachu has reached 620 million, and the central government is still sending people over. This poor land in Italy cannot accommodate too many people, so the only choice is to immigrate to North Africa and carry out soft colonization.

France had too much to take care of itself. Although Charles VIII had two powerful sisters and a strange uncle who married his sister, he naturally chose to side with Da Chu.

Zhu Jianshen knew very well that when Charles VIII grew up, he would turn his back on others.

But when the time comes, Dachu will be able to take back the North African colonies as a matter of course.

That was the inherent territory of Da Chu.

His son Zhu Youtang took control of Cairo and made it extremely prosperous. The Nile River Basin also became lush again.

His younger brother, King Chong, also lived a very prosperous life in the lower reaches of the Red Sea.

The three brothers, uncle and nephew cooperated tacitly.

However, King Chong is not a king and hegemon. He has been managing his own land over the years and has been expanding very slowly.

In the thirty-eighth year of Jingtai, the eighteenth prince Zhu Jianbin, the twenty-first prince Zhu Jitao, the twenty-second prince Zhu Jiangen, and the twenty-third prince Zhu Jianjin were entrusted to South Africa, East Africa, West Africa, and Central Africa respectively.

The nineteenth prince, Zhu Jianrui, was enfeoffed to the island of Madagascar after thirty years in Jingtai.

Today, the four kings of Africa are all occupying land in the racehorse.

It was King Chong who was the slowest, and even seemed to occupy the canal, and it was enough to eat and drink enough.

Zhu Jianshen sent someone to talk to his younger brother, and it turned out that King Chong had a temperament that would neither fight nor rob. As of today, his territory is bordering that of Sui Wang Zhu Jitao.

Zhu Jiantao's Suiguo has become a country as big as the waist in Africa.

On the contrary, King Chong and King Sui were on good terms. King Sui was afraid of King Chu, so he stopped fighting and became friendly with King Chong instead.

As for the island countries on the African continent, they are occupied by clan kings. Regardless of whether they like it or not, the emperor is stingy anyway.

Da Dao is also reserved for his son.

The small island was then entrusted to the clan kings.

The main reason is that the previous kings of the clan were picky and unwilling to go to Africa. Instead, they coveted Borneo in the country, which disgusted the emperor, so he directly entrusted the island and became the island owner.

However, the emperor stipulated that each island country was a country that could not be conquered by vassal states.

The major vassal states must provide certain financial support. To put it bluntly, they are to support them and are not allowed to attack them.

Definitely a good place for those who lie flat.

Zhu Jianshen was also getting older. He did not dare to expect that he would live as long as the emperor, and was worried that he might die at any time.

And the North African territory cannot be taken back.

Zhu Youtang is capable. If the Chu State is handed over to Zhu Youtang, he will definitely be able to get North Africa back.

However, he had to consider his other sons. He had eight sons. It would not be bad if he could divide his sons and become the king of a small country in North Africa, relying on the Chu State.

Zhu Youtang was firmly opposed.

He believed that the vassal state would allow Da Chu to enter endless wars, and believed that Da Chu should have been a unified dynasty.

So what if the Mediterranean is bigger? As long as there is a boat, you can reach anywhere.

He didn't know that the Ming Dynasty's steam engine had been successfully developed and installed on ships and trains.

These words made Zhu Jianshen's other sons hate their eldest brother.

Zhu Youtang didn't care either.

He had no feelings for Zhu Jianshen. He was raised by the emperor, and the emperor taught him tactics. He was the prince of Chu appointed by the emperor, and Zhu Jianshen did not dare to replace him.

Da Chu is indeed powerful now, but he cannot afford to offend Ming either.

Don't forget, there are seven vassal kings in Africa, and Zhu Jianshen's family is not the only one.

Zhu Jianshen set his sights on West Africa.

West Africa is too big and Zhu Jiangen alone cannot completely occupy it. Instead, he can entrust his sons to West Africa and become real vassal kings.

Zhu Youtang still disagreed.

Zhu Youtang grew up with Zhu Jiangen and knew that this uncle was a idiot. The emperor's grandpa entrusted him to West Africa because he actually asked his father to protect him.

After Zhu Youtang ascends the throne and stabilizes the territory of Europe, he will launch troops in West Africa. West Africa is too big for his 22nd uncle to eat, so he will help eat some.

Zhu Jianshen was very angry with Zhu Youtang.

He even wrote to the emperor and wanted to depose Zhu Youtang.

As soon as the letter was sent away, he heard that King Shang was causing great trouble in Eastern Europe. He immediately admired this man, who was very capable in the palace.

When I arrived in Eastern Europe, I felt like a fish in water.

But seeing the lineup the emperor assigned him, Zhu Jian felt deeply sad.

If he is equipped with this lineup, he can push it to the Arctic Ocean, and the Vikings are nothing.

But he knew that the Eastern European dungeon was definitely the most difficult among the vassal kings, followed by King Wei, and third was King Chu.

During this time, he was also looking at the map. If it were him who fought, he probably wouldn't be able to do as well as the fourth brother, who actually defeated two khanates.

With the emperor's support, Laosi continued to encroach on Moscow's territory.

He made up his mind to go to Moscow to become emperor.

Seeing the great ambition of the fourth child, Zhu Jianshen looked down and saw that the Chu State could not even get back its territory in North Africa, and it was still regarded as a colony by France.

He can't wait any longer. He is getting older and older. If he waits for Zhu Youtang to succeed to the throne, his other sons may not end well.

We must first take back North Africa, plot West Africa, and enfeoff our sons.

In the forty-fifth year of Jingtai, Zhu Jianshen quietly recovered Algiers.

After receiving a warning from France, France threatened to sever diplomatic relations with Chu, but Zhu Jian was determined to regain the territory. He ignored French advice and swallowed Colma to regain Chu's inherent territory in North Africa.

It also forcibly expelled the French, claiming that the area was the inherent territory of Da Chu. As a friendly country, France should return Da Chu's legal territory.

This made the little French emperor furious.

He was still waiting to fight back when he grew up. Who would have thought that Zhu Jianshen would stab France directly in the back? It was not once or twice that Da Chu failed to keep his word.

The little emperor immediately contacted Spain and asked the boss to come forward to punish Chu.

(End of this chapter)