Daming Jingtai: I am the eternal benevolent king

Chapter 376: Kunlun Fengchan, crackdown on counterfeiting in Europe, collision of ideas, various folk attitudes (Happy New Year’s Eve)

To the east of Warsaw is the State of Qi.

The west was swallowed up by Germany. In order to smoothly annex the territory, Germany shouted the slogan of accepting the Poles.

Large numbers of Poles poured into Germany, and Germany gained a large area of ​​territory in northern Poland and established a foothold west of Warsaw.

Therefore, there is nothing wrong with the Poles shouting the slogan of building a new Poland.

We Poles are not greedy, we can just divide it according to the original German-Polish territories.

The Kaiser saved a white-eyed wolf.

Lithuania also wants to be independent. The problem is that there are no indigenous people in Lithuania.

A large country with a federal system like Poland, but within a few months, all the indigenous population disappeared. It was really not the Japanese soldiers who did this.

There were very few Japanese soldiers in the Dashang establishment, so they recruited Cossacks on a large scale.

Why do you want to exterminate us and establish what kind of Lu country? We are also willing to surrender, aren’t we?

It's a pity that King Shang didn't reason with them.

"Military expenditure losses are as high as 3 million."

"Your Majesty, there is quite a bit of criticism in the country about supporting the vassals all over the world."

"Your Majesty, these are the vassal state's domestic affairs. Since the enfeoffment has been divided, let the vassal state take care of its own affairs."

The Belarusian population is disappearing and passing is being established.

We in Belarus also accept being slaves.

"The number of casualties remains high. In recent years, the number of casualties in the American wars, Central Asian wars, and wars among the khanates in the Ming Dynasty has been as high as 10."

Zhu Qiyu said calmly: "It is true that immigration has become more powerful in recent years."

Li Dongyang responded: "Your Majesty, since you have sealed the vassal state, you must be prepared to face risks independently."

Zhao State is also expanding its territory to the north, and Zhao State wants to be the overlord of the Baltic Sea.

"If the Ming Dynasty does not help, the Chu State, the Chen State, and even the Sui State and the Wei State will not be able to gain a foothold in Europe. Collapse is inevitable, and the Ming Dynasty's efforts over the years will be in vain."

Zhu Qiyu asked Liu Jian, the first assistant: "How many troops can the Ming Dynasty recruit?"

"Current technology cannot support the food of the world's 40 billion people."

In August of the fifty-sixth year of Jingtai, just after the emperor's eightieth birthday, news came that the 17 European countries would form the European Union.

Liu Jian said cautiously: "In these years, 9 million people have been moved to immigrate to the vassal country. The people love and hate the imperial court."

“If the European Union is not contained now, will the European Union concentrate on developing steam engines?”

"But don't you know how many people there are in the country?"

When the great merchant came, he thought he could live a good life.

Li Dongyang's words aroused the admiration of Wang Hao and others.

"There is not a penny less for the pension, so what's the fuss? When you are a soldier and get paid, you have to be prepared to sacrifice your life for your family and country. This is an honorable thing."

Zhu Qiyu also thought about his son.

"What is the population red line? Qiu Jun has calculated it. If the population of Ming Dynasty exceeds 30 billion, some people will go hungry."

"In order for the prince to succeed to the vassal, the Ming Dynasty went to war abroad year after year, and military expenditures increased year by year. Last year, in the 3.2th year of Jingtai, military expenditures were million."

"How much did Ming get?"

But the merchants still used them as slaves.

"After all the calculations, I got some treasures, worth around 20 million."

The Polish population is disappearing and the state of Qi is being established.

"The Chu, Chen, Sui, Wei and other countries were all internally independent. They did not give any tax to the Ming Dynasty, and in turn sucked the blood of the mother country."

"The military expenditure is indeed large, but it is borne by me alone. It comes from internal funds. What can the people say?"

Zhu Qiyu did not argue with him and asked: "Li Dongyang, I ask you, do you know how much effort the Europeans contributed to the successful invention of the steam engine in the Ming Dynasty?"

Zhu Qiyu argued: "Liu Jian, have you ever thought about what it means for 17 European countries to form the European Union?"

Cossacks are cannibals.

"As for the number of people killed in battle, soldiers died for their country and deservedly died."

"What's the point of this?"

Cossacks were recruited on a large scale and rounds of counter-revolutionaries were launched within the territory.

"If you enjoy the treatment of a vassal king, you have to bear the corresponding risks."

If they are given enough benefits, they will turn into killing machines and slaughter all Lithuanians and Poles for the big businessmen.

Liu Jian's words were agreed by Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, and Wang Hao.

"In America and Oceania, there are fewer people and more land. Letting them immigrate will bring them happiness, relieve the domestic population pressure, and make the vassal country prosperous."

Belarus is the most unlucky. In the past, they were recruited by Poland as a servant army and went on expeditions.

"If everything requires the mother country to come forward, why didn't the Ming Dynasty directly control it in the first place? Why did it have to be enfeoffed?"

"When the time comes, a huge powerful country will appear in the western border of the Ming Dynasty, and it will confront the Ming Dynasty every day. This is good."

"Or is it better to beat him to death with a stick while he is weak?"

Zhu Qiyu argued: "Li Dongyang, help me choose."

Li Dongyang rolled his eyes: "Your Majesty, you are sophistry."

"Where am I quibbling?"

Zhu Qiyu pointed at his beard: "My beard is already white, and I am already old. Why are you arguing with a child like you? I remember clearly how you had to urinate urgently in the palace when you were a child."

Li Dongyang's whole face turned red!

When he was a child, he was summoned to the palace by the emperor for questioning, and he was admired by the emperor. Then he studied in the Imperial College, and was always being trained by the emperor.

"Which one of you did I not watch grow up?"

Zhu Qiyu said: "Now that you have entered the cabinet, you want to step on me, the old emperor, to ascend to the throne? I have been kind to you in raising and teaching, but have you forgotten?"

"Wei Chen and others don't dare." Liu Jian and others knelt down.

"Liu Jian, you are the oldest, tell me." Zhu Qiyu still didn't believe it. He couldn't manage this cabinet anymore.

Today's important ministers in the court are basically from close ranks of the emperor.

Many of them were watched by the emperor growing up.

Naturally, they were dwarfed in front of the emperor. The emperor was very familiar with their peeing in their pants.

Liu Jian's face darkened and he smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty, Mr. Li Ge didn't mean that. He was just complaining about injustice for his mother country."

"Humph."

Zhu Qiyu put his hands in his sleeves and lay on the throne: "I don't care, this is the European Union, I am upset when I hear it, I will kill them."

Then, he turned over with his butt facing the subject.

Liu Jian and others were speechless.

The emperor gets more and more playful as he gets older, always pretending to be an elder. Yes, he is eighty years old this year. He is an important minister in the court and is younger than his son. He is indeed an elder.

But this old emperor was extremely difficult to fool.

After Zhu Ying and Xiang Zhong checked the officials for the emperor, Zhu Ying died and Xiang Zhong succeeded him as the first assistant. Within two years, Xiang Zhong died of illness and Han Yong succeeded him as the first assistant.

In the fifty-fourth year of Jingtai, Han Yong died of illness, and the Ming Dynasty generals fell.

In the same year, Fan Guang and Wang Yue died of illness.

Li Bing succeeded him as the first assistant, but he died in office just three months later. Liu Jian succeeded him as the first assistant.

Zhu Qiyu has transformed from the young emperor back then to an old emperor. He is the oldest in the court and has tortured all the old ministers to death. He is the oldest in the court.

Liu Jian and Li Dongyang looked at each other, feeling helpless.

This old man is a submissive donkey. If you go against his will, you will definitely feel uncomfortable with the rubbing. The key point is that the old man is talking about business, and he talks about someone who peed his pants when he was a child. He specializes in inserting tubes into people's lungs.

Nowadays, the emperor spread the rumors about the scandals that happened to the ministers of the government and the public when they were young, and everyone in the world knows about it.

Folks who teach their children all say that Li Dongyang peed his pants when he was a child. What happened to my son peed his pants?

"Your Majesty, this is the only time."

Li Dongyang smiled bitterly: "I will help the vassal country fight a big war in the end, and from now on it will all depend on the vassal state's own ability. What do you think?"

Zhu Qiyu remained silent.

"Your Majesty, the European Union is not a small battle. After the conquest is over, the Ming Dynasty will really no longer be able to conquer the west." Li Dongyang refused to let go.

Wang Hao came out to smooth things over and said that the vassal state should face danger independently. As long as the emperor continued to help, the vassal state would not grow.

Zhu Qiyu reluctantly walked down the steps.

Immediately, the cabinet drafted a decree to declare war on the European Union.

"Everyone, get up. There aren't that many rules in the Yangxin Hall. You played in this hall when you were young. Why are you so restricted when you grow up?"

Zhu Qiyu stepped down from the throne with a smile on his face.

Could you please stop talking? We also want face.

"Kunlun Mountain is ready. I will be the first emperor to enshrine Kunlun."

Zhu Qiyu smiled and said: "But my body can't go that far. Let the prince go on my behalf and invite my important ministers to take the memorial tablets with them."

Speaking of this, Zhu Qiyu's tone was low: "I promised them back then that I would take them to become a Zen monk."

"Fifty years have passed."

"I was finally able to go to Kunlun Mountain to be a Buddhist monk, but they are no longer here."

Zhu Qiyu sighed: "But the Ming Dynasty is getting better and better. The railway has been built to the Kunlun Mountains. Let my departed ministers take a train to see the thousands of miles of mountains and rivers in the Ming Dynasty!"

Liu Jian was very sad because his teacher Xue Xuan died of illness very early.

But what's even more sad is that the emperor is really alive.

After my birthday, I turned eighty.

Kublai Khan lived to be 80 years old, Zhao Gou lived to be 81 years old, Wu Zetian lived to be 82 years old, and Emperor Wu of Liang Xiao Yan lived to be 86 years old.

These are the longest-lived emperors in history.

Judging from the emperor's posture, he is eighty years old and has nothing wrong with him at all. He will probably continue to suffer.

There are fortune-tellers among the people who have calculated the emperor's destiny and believe that the emperor will never miss the year. Who would have thought that the emperor lived to be 80 years old.

Except for the anxious prince, everyone in the government and the public felt that it was okay. The old man felt comfortable with the massage. He was really broad-minded and dared to use it for anyone. Anyone could use it.

Prince Zhu Jianqi is actually not too anxious in recent years.

Because in the fifty-second year of Jingtai, the emperor named the prince's eldest son Zhu Youquan as his grandson, the prince's position was completely stable.

The main reason is that his father can't move anymore and can't change the prince.

As Zhu Qiyu lived too long, he could only confer the title of grandson. Once his son died before taking over, he would let his grandson take over directly.

In fact, the crown prince position is already secure.

There is really no one competing with Zhu Jianqi for the throne, his father is too capable.

For example, the emperor's favorite fourth child, Zhu Jianjian, is already the emperor of Eastern Europe. Who wants to come back and live with his father?

No one can guarantee that he can survive his father.

The only prince in the palace now is the forty-one old man Zhu Jianya.

The most important thing is, what a great saint.

Zhu Qiyu is quite satisfied with his eldest grandson Zhu Youquai. This son is different from his stupid father, but somewhat similar to Zhu Qiyu's cunning and ruthlessness, and he has a better grasp of the emperor's mind than his father.

Still a great poet.

Just like his mother, he is a hidden poet, good at chess, calligraphy, painting, sculpture, chemistry, physics, architectural design, etc.

He is an all-rounder.

But such people tend to go astray, enjoying the scenery and abandoning government affairs. This was the case with the former Emperor Xuanzong.

In the past few years, the prince and his father have been in power, and Zhu Jianqi still has to listen to his son on some matters. This father is a loser.

In the past few years, Zhu Jianqi focused on creating humans. He gave birth to five sons, one of whom died in infancy, and now has eight sons.

He also covets the land in Eastern Europe.

I want my son to get a share of the pie.

However, the fourth uncle refused and instead gave all the benefits to his son. This made Zhu Jianqi dissatisfied with him and always complained to his son that his fourth uncle was disrespectful.

If this were all in the country, the vassal state would definitely be reduced, and then there would be a crisis, which would repeat the life trajectory of Emperor Taizong.

In front of the emperor, Zhu Jianqi did not dare to reveal anything.

The emperor is old and likes to watch dramas like family fun, so his children and grandchildren far away in the world will give him a petition every year to show their filial piety.

I don’t know if it’s true or not, but if the emperor is happy, he will reward him with many things.

"Do you have any ideas about Lao Forty-one's fiefdom?" Zhu Qiyu asked again.

All the good places in the world are almost divided, and the ones that still occupy them are powerful countries.

"Your Majesty, do you want to be sent to Western Europe?" Li Dongyang hit the nail on the head.

After Chen Guo established the vassal state.

Zhu Qiyu found that Western Europe was not that powerful.

The military is not strong, the politics is average, and the painting is terrible.

Before, he thought that European oil paintings were very powerful and could be painted as if they were photographed, so there were many oil painters in the palace.

But Wang Yue revealed the true face of the oil painting to him.

The principle of oil painting is to use small holes to form images, use a mirror to map out the picture, and then apply it according to the light, so the painting will be similar, but the left and right will be wrong, because the small hole imaging is upside down.

Many court painters lost their jobs because of Wang Yue's revelation.

Oil painting became the end of all paintings.

On the other hand, oil paintings have great practicality and are very popular among the people. Because the paintings look similar, the common people don't understand the artistic conception. It's just colorful and beautiful.

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Recently, a treasure hunting fleet returned to Beijing to report that the Egyptian pyramids were not majestic in scale. They spent four years drawing the pyramids on paper one by one and sent them back to the capital.

Zhu Qiyu discovered, is this a pyramid? Why is it so small!

That's right.

The pyramid in the painting is indeed very big, but it is completely different from what Zhu Qiyu saw in his previous life. Is it enlarged in equal proportions?

Who did it?

Zhu Qiyu was a little confused and summoned all members of the archaeological team for detailed questioning.

I learned that the painted pyramid was a real pyramid without a drop of water added.

In other words, the pyramids seen by later generations are fake!

Whose proportionally expanded product?

There are pyramids, but not that big, so this is not a prehistoric civilization, but a fake thing made by man.

There are also treasures excavated from Greece, which initially aroused the tourism craze in Northeast China, but those who have been there once all left disappointed.

That's it?

A crooked lion, a faceless figure, a naked knight riding a horse, what the hell are these!

Are you too poor to wear clothes?

What artistic value does this crap have? A butt competition? What rubbish!

The archaeological community of the Ming Dynasty raised questions about ancient Egyptian civilization and ancient Greek civilization.

Since then, Zhu Qiyu has completely removed his filter on the West. He has always believed that the West in this era is more powerful than the Ming Dynasty.

Indeed, he acquired a lot of Western technology.

For example, medicine, astronomy, machinery, chemistry and other technologies are indeed more advanced than the Ming Dynasty.

However, medicine and astronomy are good for India!

Mechanics and chemistry have nothing to do with Europe. They are an integrated version of the world's civilizations. Europe has only developed further by removing the waste and retaining the essentials.

In these aspects, there is indeed a gap between Daming and them, but it is definitely not a huge and irreparable gap.

This comparison was the conclusion reached by Ming Dynasty after challenging all civilizations in the world.

Compared with literature, all literature in the world is rubbish.

Compared with painting, Chinese painting is the most advanced thing.

Compared with music, Ming Dynasty music and dance are both masters.

Compared with mathematics, Ming Dynasty's calculation of scriptures challenges all civilizations in the world.

Therefore, all comparisons between Ming Dynasty and Ming Dynasty are comparing Ming Dynasty with the world, rather than comparing Ming Dynasty with any other country in the world.

Because any country cannot compare with Ming Dynasty in all aspects.

The archaeological community began to seriously question the history of the existence of Egyptian civilization, and even began to question whether Egyptian civilization existed.

As for the Babylonian civilization, it has been directly eliminated by historians, saying that this civilization did not exist in the world and there are no relics. Even the records in the books are ambiguous and completely untrustworthy.

If you want to prove the existence of Babylonian civilization, you need to provide definite evidence and archaeological remains. Without physical proof, everything is invalid.

Moreover, this physical object must be proven to be a product of ancient Babylon.

It is the same as asking China to prove the existence of the Xia Dynasty. One thing must be unearthed to prove that it was made by the Xia Dynasty people. How to confirm it? We must travel through time and space four years ago, and the entire process must be broadcast live for the world to see. This thing was made by the Xia Dynasty people. , and then dig it out at the corresponding location to prove it.

Otherwise, the Xia Dynasty would not exist!

Similarly, ancient Babylon did not exist, but this one really did not exist! There is no completely certain ancient book that is absolutely authoritative and can withstand verification and scrutiny. It contains evidence for the existence of ancient Babylon.

No.

All books cannot withstand scrutiny, which proves that the ancient Babylonian civilization did not exist.

As for the cultural relics unearthed, there is not a single one, not a single stone. It’s a waste of time.

Greek civilization does exist, but it can only compete with the Xia Dynasty, and you are not worthy of the Shang Dynasty.

Therefore, some people in the archaeological community have proposed that China is the only ancient country in the world that exists and continues to this day.

Greek and Indian civilizations also existed, but they both perished.

Egyptian civilization may or may not exist, it is doubtful.

So, are Europeans from China?

Folk scholar Wang Shouren proposed the theory of ethnogenesis, believing that all people in the world originated from the Ming Dynasty.

As soon as the remarks came out, people all over the world discussed them.

This statement is widely accepted.

The Center does not agree with this statement, because the appearance of Ming people and Europeans is different, so the theory of origin cannot be inferred.

Folks believe that the origin of culture may have originated from the Ming Dynasty. After all, after Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions, Han culture has carried out cultural transfusion to the world. This is beyond doubt.

Whether the origin of world culture is Han culture is debatable, but people generally believe that the origin of culture may not be conclusive, and that cultural development is more like the rhythm of development, integration, and further development.

Later, Wang Shouren launched a blockbuster, the theory of evolution.

Humans evolved from apes. When humans leave their familiar environment and enter a new environment, they will evolve according to the environment. Therefore, humans look different, and this difference in appearance is closely related to the environment.

The theory of evolution, which supplemented the theory of origin, aroused heated discussion in the Ming Dynasty.

This statement has actually spread to Europe, where it is very popular.

The Pope refutes this idea and believes that humans are created by God and cannot be questioned.

No one can say where people come from.

The imperial court was not interested in where the person came from, but it was interested in Wang Shouren. His father, Wang Hua, was now the governor of the Western Regions.

This guy Wang Shouren didn't take the imperial examination well and engaged in the theory of evolution. His father scolded him in a letter.

The emperor read the Theory of Evolution and was shocked by Wang Shouren's amazing talent.

This guy no longer studies mind science, but studies the origin of human beings.

A genius is a genius in every aspect.

Darwin just happened by chance. If you want to become a top figure, you must have the right time, place, and people. There are too many great talents who have been buried in the world.

Scientific development requires an extremely relaxed social environment and super-abundant funds.

This is also the reason why the Renaissance is so important to Europe. Without the Renaissance, Europe would still be ruled by the Pope. They invented nothing.

Zhu Qiyu has been curbing his violent temper in recent years, just to create a relaxed social environment for the people. He invested all the money from the Royal Commercial Bank to reserve sufficient funds for the people to allow science and invention to flourish.

Wang Shouren followed Yangming's theory of mind and embarked on another path, directly beginning to study things to gain knowledge.

"Your Majesty, I think Greece is good." Xie Qian said.

Wang Hao retorted: "Greece is Chu's food. If we step in, Chu may not be willing."

"The Ming Dynasty sent 40 troops. In the future, it will gather an army of 150 million to conquer the Ottomans."

"It is only a matter of time before the Ottomans destroy the country."

"Why don't you ask the forty-first prince to grant him the title of Ottoman native Türkiye?"

Xie Qian snorted: "The great Ottoman Empire cannot be completely destroyed in just a few decades. The forty-first prince is by no means a talented and beautiful person, and he cannot take over this fertile land."

It's hard to say this, but it's the truth.

Regardless of Zhu Jianya's ability or not, this person is very Buddhist. To be precise, he is a scientific researcher who likes to conduct physical experiments.

He was not interested in politics, preferring to experiment.

Sending him to Türkiye is forcing him to die.

"Xie Qian is right, Old Forty-One cannot stop the Ottoman counterattack."

Zhu Qiyu smiled and said: "What do you think of the second and third sons of the prince's family?"

Zhu Youque, the second eldest son, and Zhu Youjin, the third eldest son of the prince's family, both have restless tempers.

Obviously, they are not interested in being a vassal king at home, and would rather venture into the outside world.

"Wei Chen thinks that both princes are good to each other." Li Dongyang said.

The emperor and his grandsons all studied with Li Dongyang. Li Dongyang knew the character of Zhu Youque and Zhu Youjin very well. Among the eight sons of the prince, only two of them wanted to be grandsons.

The emperor must make a decision in advance, otherwise there will be chaos in the future.

There was no hope for the Ming Emperor, so he wanted to go to foreign vassals.

According to Zhu Youqi's intolerant temperament, after he ascends the throne, his two younger brothers may not have a good life.

They themselves also planned in advance and wanted to go out and inherit the vassal.

"Then divide the Ottoman Empire into six parts. Chu, Shang, and Wei will occupy one part, and then grant two vassal kings to them. The remaining part will be divided into multiple small vassals. The countries that contribute this time will all be granted one. Son, come over."

Osman is too big.

Even if it is divided into two vassal states, it cannot be eaten.

The key point is that the Ottomans cannot be killed in one strike. The future war may take twenty or thirty years to completely destroy the Ottomans.

Then simply seal off many vassal states and let each of them take charge of its own territory.

"I think Ireland is good, and Iceland is good too. It suits Old Forty-One's temperament. I'll ask him what he means in a few days." I feel sorry for my son by banishing him to Iceland.

His sons were all from great vassal states.

There is nothing in Iceland except the aurora.

"Your Majesty, the places in the Kamal Alliance are pretty good." Xie Qian said with a smile.

Zhu Qiyu nodded slightly, but was still thinking about where to send his younger son.

After chatting for a while, the emperor wanted to eat. After leaving them to eat, he returned to the government office to handle official duties.

The emperor is in good health and everything in the Ming Dynasty is running smoothly.

Starting from the 54th year of Jingtai, the railway was laid for ten years, connecting almost provinces of the Ming Dynasty, from Yuerhai in the north to Malacca in the south.

From Sakhalin in the east to Khujand in the west, the entire line is open to traffic.

The railway in the west is still under construction.

It will connect Moscow to Beijing, and in the future it will connect Warsaw and even Berlin.

The ten-year protection period for railway technology has expired. Starting this year, various countries have begun to build railways, and Daming is responsible for supporting them.

In the 54th year of Jingtai's reign, artificial power generation was successfully achieved.

In the fifty-fifth year of Jingtai, the first light bulb was born.

This year, the fifty-sixth year of Jingtai, the Ming Dynasty’s first electric lamp was successfully tested, marking the transition from the era of kerosene lamps to the era of electric lights.

The electrical revolution quietly sprouted.

The first power plant of the Ming Dynasty was built in Gyeonggi Province. It was expected that in the 59th year of Jingtai, the palace would be electrified within three years.

The birth of the electric light seemed easy.

But it is the result of the emperor's fifteen-year long investment, which is the result of nearly one million engineers' painstaking research and error-prone trials.

Regarding electricity, the emperor waved his hand and implemented a state-owned enterprise monopoly.

On the one hand, the investment is huge and capital may not be willing to invest. On the other hand, electricity is not in his own hands, so Zhu Qiyu is worried.

This makes the electrical revolution develop slowly.

Because the dividends of the steam revolution have not been exhausted yet.

The factory is unwilling to make troubles. It has made enough money now. Only when the factory is in a dilemma will it find ways to make changes.

The Ming Dynasty's huge demographic dividend market caused prosperity in all walks of life.

In the fifty-sixth year of Jingtai’s reign, the average monthly salary per capita in Ming Dynasty exceeded 1000 yuan!

This is per capita. The total population of Ming Dynasty is 27 billion.

In recent years, the population growth has been slow because people's lives have improved and they are not willing to have children. After all, they have led a petty bourgeoisie life. They are not willing to invest their energy in the next generation, but want to enjoy the good life now.

Another point is that the status of the mother-in-law's family has plummeted.

In the past, in the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, the mother-in-law always occupied a dominant position. Coupled with the influence of filial piety, the mother-in-law was overbearing and unreasonable.

In recent years, private betrothal gifts have skyrocketed.

This betrothal gift is not controlled by the central government, but is caused by people who make money from outside the vassal and come back to marry wives, causing the betrothal gift to skyrocket.

Ming women are first-class people in the world.

There is no girl who cannot get married.

The Ming people in the outer vassal were used to playing with natives and white women, and they all thought Ming women were good, so they did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to return to their country to get a wife.

The policy also promotes Ming women to marry outside their homes.

Certain policy subsidies will be given to Ming women who marry outside their homes.

This has contributed to the trend of out-marriage.

Local men cannot find a wife, so they can only increase the betrothal gifts and work hard to open books, which brings down the ecology.

The price of betrothal gifts has skyrocketed year after year. Buying a house and a car is a basic necessity. Now coupled with the sky-high price of betrothal gifts, the worth of women in society has skyrocketed.

It is more appropriate to have a daughter than a son!

It directly shattered the secular concept of favoring boys over girls!

People are snobbish.

In the past, sons were given birth because they were a labor force and could provide protection against old age.

Now my son is eating his old age.

One house, two cars and two bicycles are cheap, but the house is expensive. Daming real estate is growing steadily every year.

Taking out a loan to buy a house will empty the wallets of three generations of grandparents.

Then he married a wife and forgot about his mother.

They have to repay loans and support their families and children, but they cannot support their parents at all. This leads to alienation from family ties, which was never possible before.

No one talks about raising children for old age, but everyone is doing it.

Those who don’t do it are alien and criminal.

Now, what we are doing is different.

There are fewer and fewer filial piety people, and human nature is becoming more and more indifferent.

In the past, when passers-by asked for a drink of water, the family would bring out goodies to entertain the unexpected guests.

Nowadays, when relatives meet, they don't say anything sincere except for comparison. As for giving delicious food to relatives, don't dream about it. My son doesn't have enough to eat.

In the past, parents were in charge, but now, children are in charge.

The entire society has been turned upside down, and people's hearts have been completely broken.

Even if the emperor issued imperial edicts for many years, requiring the people to study the scriptures diligently, no one would read those things, and no one would believe what was said in them. The way of the saints is the way of fools. Anyone who suffers a loss is taking advantage, that is all fools, and now it is a commodity. Society, wake up...

Datong society is so good, why don't housing prices drop?

Why not raise wages, but only raise housing prices?

Why do you have to spend money everywhere when you don’t have money in your pocket?

Social contradictions and class contradictions are all intensifying.

Therefore, ordinary people can settle accounts and immediately find that it is appropriate to have a daughter. The daughter will receive a betrothal gift, and there is no problem if the family does not subsidize the dowry.

It is normal for a woman from a family to beg for help from hundreds of families.

Even an ugly daughter can marry well.

If you are beautiful, then go and be the concubine of a high-ranking official, and your chickens and dogs will ascend to heaven.

The direct impact is that the birth rate among the people is reduced.

In the past, a family could not wait to have 20 children because it was tax-free.

Now, I wish I could have just one child, preferably a daughter. Never give birth to a son, that unlucky thing...

Another direct reason is the immigration issue.

The emperor forced families to immigrate families with many sons and daughters, which resulted in the people not daring to have children. After they had children and raised them, they were removed and died unluckily.

Women's status has skyrocketed.

The son's status plummeted.

In the forty-fifth year of Jingtai, the first case occurred in the Ming Dynasty. A son refused to provide for his parents in old age. The son was sentenced to immigrate to fisher sea.

At that time, the whole society blamed this son.

Nowadays, it has become common among the people for sons not to provide for their parents in old age, and there are fewer and fewer voices of criticism.

In the fiftieth year of Jingtai, the emperor issued an imperial edict that all children had the obligation to provide for their parents in old age. Children who did not provide for their parents in old age were sentenced to migration.

Did this need to be said before? This is a ritual that has been established for two thousand years. Is it still necessary to issue an imperial edict?

But now, it has become an obligation and something that must be borne!

And this received very little response.

The people do not punish the officials. There are only cruel children in the world, but there are no cruel parents. Which parents are willing to bring their children to the government?

Because parents are reluctant to let go, this trend is spreading to the whole society.

In the same year, Ming Dynasty established the eighth department, the Ministry of Justice.

Private courts are established to manage private cases.

But the social atmosphere cannot be changed by an imperial edict.

Just like the original foot binding, the emperor issued many imperial edicts, but the use was not very big. In the end, the emperor drove the official lady who bound the feet home, and this stopped the foot binding storm in the officialdom.

However, to this day, some people are binding their feet.

It's just that those who have their feet bound are not Han people. Women from abroad all have their feet bound. Does the emperor know whether there are Han people?

Regarding this matter, the emperor kept issuing imperial edicts. There were edicts issued every year, but they were still useless.

This kind of deformed aesthetic is incomprehensible.

There is no way to stop this trend. Without buying and selling, there will be no killing.

There is also female infanticide, which has been happening for many years.

However, in recent years, after the fertility rate plummeted, there are indeed fewer, almost non-existent, because baby girls are valuable.

There were also fewer baby girls sent to the Yangji Hall for the emperor to raise.

In the first few waves, these baby girls went to teach in the private sector and lived well.

After that, after receiving education, they were all sent to other feudal vassals.

Folks will take advantage of loopholes.

I realized that if I went to a foreign vassal, I would definitely not want to send my daughter to the capital to be raised by that fool, the emperor.

Birth rates plummeted.

The death rate is also plummeting!

Since the emperor forcibly implemented the insurance system, the average life expectancy has increased year by year, from 57 years old in the 67th year of Jingtai to years old in the th year of Jingtai.

It was postponed for ten years.

Just for the pension!

They retire at the age of 55 and live on a pension after retirement. They are reluctant to die if they don't earn back their money.

Aging has actually become a future development trend.

Therefore, in the 55th year of Jingtai, the central government issued an order to encourage people to have children.

But the effect is very poor.

In the fifty-sixth year of Jingtai, the central government issued an order to abolish forced immigration and replace it with voluntary immigration.

In order to have children, the center also worked hard.

In recent years, the population has moved out at a rate of 50 million every year.

The number of people voluntarily migrating abroad is in the tens of millions. These are skilled people. They can earn more in foreign countries than in their own country, so they are willing to immigrate.

This kind of immigration is carried out by family members. It is also an ideal immigration status and can receive double subsidies.

The Ming Dynasty will give one share, and the vassal states will give one share.

The abolition of forced immigration now means that the Ming Dynasty's conquests may have to be temporarily stopped.

But smart people will find that the center is playing word games.

The central government can completely immigrate through conscription, and female soldiers can also be recruited. This kind of thing has happened before. The first batch of people to move to the Wei State were male soldiers and female soldiers.

Capitalists know best that they are making so much money now because they are reaping the demographic dividend.

There are now as many as 15 billion young people in the market. These people are the main consumer market. The extremely prosperous market is directly related to the large number of young people in the Ming Dynasty.

The official financial report said that if the Ming Dynasty continues to reduce its fertility rate, it will enter an aging society in the next thirty years.

Thinking about the consumer market for the elderly, capitalists shudder.

Ming Dynasty capitalists are not allowed to take advantage of policy loopholes, let alone run away after making money.

Ming Dynasty supports the development of industry, a century-old industrial company, and a formal company with a solid fundamentals. It will crack down on those companies that are opportunistic and make shady money.

This is social responsibility.

Of course, who doesn’t want to make smart money? There are policies and countermeasures.

But the emperor closed this loophole.

Force companies to have a sense of social responsibility.

If you don’t, fine, I’ll teach you, but if you can’t, then I’m sorry, you can go to hell.

Capitalists are forced to engage in industry, and they are forced to donate money to charity.

To prevent them from transferring assets.

A tax on the rich has long been levied.

Everyone's family assets are checked every year, and taxes are collected based on assets. If it is buried underground, well, you will never see the light of day. Once it is exposed to the light, you will be punished to death.

The tax collector is not a cannibal, and he has no right to kill people, but he can issue you a fine.

For the rich, don't let them die, let them see their money is gone, that is the cruelest thing.

In order to calculate the assets of all wealthy businessmen in the country, the Ministry of Finance has 20 accountants, or accountants, and the palace also maintains hundreds of thousands of accountants.

Count every day, check every day.

Paying the rich tax also has benefits. You will be invited to every charity dinner. After all, you are a rich person.

If you want to leave the country, there is no way.

In order to conduct tax inspections, the Ministry of Finance strictly guards against skinny companies, fake legal persons, etc.

Even, in order to collect taxes smoothly, the central bank’s stock market plan has not been launched.

The stock market was actually born in the twelfth year of Jingtai's reign. The central government did not support it, because this kind of private fundraising situation could easily give rise to scammers.

The emperor has always used the stock market as the next reservoir.

But now that real estate is developing steadily, the emperor has no intention of expanding the stock market, but maintains the status quo. The central government neither supports nor opposes it.

Therefore, capital was strictly controlled within the Ming Dynasty.

Then they can only support private births.

After all, the more people there are, the bigger the market will be, and they can continue to make money.

People who want to make money and run away, ruining an industry, have to ask themselves whether their necks are stiff or not. Do all the nine tribes agree?

Anyway, during the Jingtai period, no one dared to go against the emperor.

After the Wanshou Festival, the emperor issued a decree to implement the five-child policy, encouraging and supporting young boys and girls to have more than five children, and providing policy rewards for the sixth child.

And use part of the local wealthy people's tax as an infant fund to provide convenient social services for infants and infants, such as free tickets, tax exemptions, and free snacks for infants and infants.

This can make wealthy businessmen complain endlessly.

The emperor will definitely cut off their flesh again to subsidize the poor.

Throughout the Ming Dynasty, there were no absolute poor people. In the 500th year of Jingtai, the central government set the poverty line as a family with an annual income of less than yuan.

In the following years, it will start from 500 yuan and be adjusted upward every year.

For families who cannot make 500 yuan, local officials will provide non-welfare assistance after learning about the situation, that is, helping them find jobs without giving them money.

If you are extremely poor due to laziness or other personal reasons, you will have to move to another country.

If extreme poverty is caused by external factors such as disease, natural disasters, force majeure, etc., local officials must provide one-on-one assistance.

This is called targeted poverty alleviation.

Therefore, you can’t find a homeless person or an extremely poor family in Daming.

The emperor would send people to visit every year.

In Daming, as long as you are not lazy, it is very easy for a family to earn 500 yuan a year. You can earn even if you work in a factory for ten days.

Don't underestimate the disabled. Disabled people are still self-reliant. There are many disabled people who repair watches and leather shoes, and they still live a good life.

Ming Dynasty provides policies to take care of the disabled.

A monthly subsidy of some rice and grain money is provided. It’s not much money, but I’m sure I won’t starve to death.

By the 830th year of Jingtai, the poverty line had reached yuan.

Now, the per capita monthly income has reached 1000 yuan. One person earns 1.2 yuan a year, and a family has an annual income of more than 3 yuan.

This does not include the appreciation of real estate.

In terms of family wealth, if farmers have land, they own the land; if they have houses in the city, they also own the houses.

They are all appreciating assets.

Farmers are living a good life. With the development of business, Ming Dynasty's agricultural subsidy increases every year. In the 200th year of Jingtai, the agricultural subsidy reached 4000 yuan per mu of land. A family with acres of land can get yuan.

Farmers' income from growing grain, plus agricultural subsidies, is not as good as that of urban workers, but it's not much worse.

In the 760th year of Jingtai, the per capita monthly income of farmers was around yuan.

The average monthly income of workers is 1200 yuan.

But farmers have no housing pressure or transportation expenses.

Living in the city, housing pressure and transportation pressure are a huge expense.

If averaged, the income of farmers and workers is about the same.

But workers have room for advancement.

Basic workers earn 1200 yuan, and engineers earn 6000 yuan per month.

But farmers, no matter how good you are in farming, you are still harvesting these grains and making this money, and there is no room for improvement.

The advantage is that you can stay at home and don't have to go out to travel.

There are many migrant workers who come to work in cities, but they are not welcomed and the policies do not favor them.

This is to compete with urban residents for jobs, resulting in an increase in the urban unemployment rate.

Yes, farmers are giving birth to sons in large numbers, and there are a lot of sons, but they have no land, and they have no land to farm in the countryside. They can only go to the city to compete for jobs with the city people.

But they can immigrate, and when they go to new lands, they will be given land.

There was no mainland Ming Dynasty, and the outer vassals were all land, but they were short of people.

In fact, it is also found in the mainland. There is a large area of ​​frozen soil in the north, and you can live by growing food.

The policy does not support this kind of migrant workers at all, and may even drive them back to their hometowns.

The workers in the city don't want to see them anymore.

There is a lot of pressure in the city, the labor unions are clamoring for a wage increase, and the workers all want a wage increase.

But migrant workers are cheap.

Capitalists use migrant workers to lower prices with workers, but migrant workers are not skilled enough. If they want to learn skills, they must be taught by a master. City people simply do not take migrant workers as apprentices.

As a result, migrant workers have become a means for capitalists to lower prices, and conflicts between migrant workers and workers have intensified.

Of course, migrant workers are cheaper. They have no skills, have land at home, and have no worries. They work to earn money and marry a wife in the city.

When it comes to marrying a wife, the people in the city are pissed off again.

How many beautiful daughters-in-law have married into rural areas.

Because rural people can afford betrothal gifts. Some rural people have five daughters and three sons. They withhold the daughters’ betrothal gifts and use them all for their sons’ weddings. The urbanites will be given double the betrothal gifts required by the rural people. We farmers rich.

The city used to do this too.

But urban girls are well-educated and independent-minded, and they continue to resist, causing this wind to blow hard to the countryside.

Rural girls also study, but their voices are still small and they cannot resist their parents. Even if the court has policies, officials cannot judge the minor matters of their parents.

City people cannot find wives, but rural people can, and the conflict arises again.

However, as farmers spread their branches and branches from generation to generation, the land at home can no longer support a large number of people, let alone marry a wife.

In order to force landless farmers to immigrate, the central government dealt with landless rural people as black households and filled them in as black households in their household registrations.

Rural people without land are required to either immigrate to a new place or master a technology in a factory and become a skilled worker. After passing an assessment, they can change their household registration.

This directly caused a large-scale outflow of rural labor force and moved to other feudal vassals.

It’s impossible not to move.

The skills in the factory are passed down by word of mouth from masters to their apprentices.

The contradiction between urban and rural people has been going on for a long time. This generation has experienced the pain of being squeezed out by migrant workers, so they value their own products and will never hand over their technology to rural people.

This has resulted in a wave of immigration that has forced a large number of landless rural people to immigrate to foreign lands in recent years.

I really don’t have enough to eat at home.

For example, a family received twenty acres of land in the ninth year of Jingtai. The plan at that time was that it would not change for thirty years.

But now it is the fifty-sixth year of Jingtai. Forty-seven years have passed. When they were first divided, every family was filled with joy.

In recent years, the central government has been crazy about encouraging childbirth.

Then the result is that with 20 acres of land, three generations, and hundreds of men and women combined, there is no food to eat.

Every family has a sad face and counts the grains of rice to get by.

Either immigrate or learn technology.

A woman is easy to talk to and can get married no matter what, but what about dozens of men in the family? They still have to get a wife!

In particular, the king of the foreign vassal said that dividing wives in new places immediately attracted tens of millions of people to emigrate.

Thanks to the emperor's massive recruitment of soldiers and continuous subsidies to farmers in recent years, otherwise the people would have rebelled long ago.

Since the 2th year of Jingtai, the number of private soldiers recruited by the imperial court has exceeded million.

This alleviated the contradiction between man and land in rural areas.

Coupled with agricultural subsidies and targeted poverty alleviation.

No matter how hard it is for people, they can still have a bite to eat, and no matter how hard it is for families, they still have to provide for their children to study.

By the fifty-sixth year of Jingtai's reign, the folk literacy rate had reached 95%.

The number of people who have completed three years of education has reached 13 billion.

The population who have completed six years of education is around 7 million.

Nine-year education is around 2 million.

There are only 4 million people with twelve years of education.

Also because of education, the people have become somewhat literate and know that there is a clear road ahead. When they go to the new land, they don’t have to endure the contradiction between man and land. They have large tracts of land and wives. They have everything except their hometown.

But in this day and age, is hometown still so important?

As long as the peasants have a way to survive, they will not rebel. This is why the emperor has a strong control over the grassroots. In the past, when the gentry controlled the grassroots, rebellions would have continued.

From the fiftieth year of Jingtai to the fifty-sixth year of Jingtai, during these six years, there was not a single case of rebellion in the Ming Dynasty.

Because everyone can have enough to eat, not all of them can live a good life, but most people can live a good life. Anyone who is willing to work hard and endure hardship can live a good life.

(End of this chapter)