Daming Jingtai: I am the eternal benevolent king

Chapter 460: The War Begins: Every generation has its own mission ()
The Great Yuan, Great Zhao, Great Shang, Great Sui, and Great Wei established a new system of Western Europe, Eastern Europe, West Asia, and Central Asia, called the Eurasian Community of Shared Future.

At the same time, it is absorbing African countries and joining the Eurasian-African community with a shared future.

African countries are ready to take action, after all, they have a lot to offer.

On the other hand, the countries of Oceania and North and South America participated in the Shanghai Conference and reopened their markets to the Ming Dynasty.

The main reason is that these countries have no intersection with the Ming Dynasty, and there will never be a possibility of war.

Unlike the Eurasian countries, these countries are too close to the Ming Dynasty. If you look at the Ming Dynasty's attack on India this time, you will know that if they are so close to the Ming Dynasty, they will either kill the Ming Dynasty or become its slaves.

Africans are pure mothers if they have breasts.

Europe needs to give them benefits if they want to win over them.

Daming had to give them benefits if they wanted to win over them.

Anyway, neither of us offends, both sides make money.

Zhu Jianji used war to open up the situation, which alleviated the pressure of domestic public opinion and the financial crisis. At the same time, he resolved diplomatic disputes to a certain extent and promptly saved the Ming Dynasty's position as the world hegemon.

In fact, in today's world, the Ming Dynasty is too big, but it is restricted everywhere. If you fight the vassal states, other vassals will become alienated. If you don't fight, these vassal states will become more and more excessive.

Far inferior to those small countries, if they can survive and develop slowly, they have a chance to surpass the Ming Dynasty.

Daming is a living target, standing here.

He wanted to maintain the vassal system, but the vassal state did not agree.

If we don't maintain it, the vassal state will have to tear off a piece of flesh from the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Jianji drew his sword in time.

It defeated the arrogance of the vassal state and alleviated the food crisis, allowing Ming Dynasty to survive the financial crisis safely.

By the twelfth year of Chenghua, the Ming Dynasty's economy was improving.

The Great Depression is finally over.

And Ming Dynasty’s fiscal deficit has also become huge.

Because maintaining the false prosperity during the Great Depression required money from the court. Although the court did not directly distribute money to the people, it actually did.

In order to prevent people from starving to death as much as possible, the court also restricted food supply.

The past two years of Ming Dynasty have also been interesting.

Apart from the little food, there was a frightening amount of other things. All kinds of merchandise and colorful clothes were everywhere.

Commodity prices plummeted and became extremely cheap.

As long as you spend money, you can buy everything except food.

The supply of grain is restricted, and every household receives grain and oil based on their household registration.

Grain was the lifeblood of the Ming Dynasty. In order to combat hoarding, it was taken into public ownership and purchased and distributed uniformly by the imperial court.

In order to stabilize food prices, the court provided real money and silver subsidies.

People did starve to death, very few, and there was no major famine.

From the ninth year of Chenghua to the end of the eleventh year of Chenghua, in a total of three years, the average person lost twenty kilograms, and there was no fat person in the world.

Because fat people will be reported.

A fat man who has no food to eat must be hiding food secretly.

If we don't feed animals meat, we will definitely not go hungry. Every household can only eat enough, and eating well will definitely be out of the question.

In the ninth year of Chenghua, Zhu Jianji took the lead in adopting a vegetarian diet. No meat was allowed in Shangshi Bureau and Guanglu Temple, and only sea fish was the main food.

In addition to raising necessary war horses, the Ming Dynasty rarely saw living animals, because the Ming Dynasty banned grazing. Starting from the ninth year of Chenghua, grazing was prohibited and livestock grazing was not allowed.

The euphemistic name is to protect the ecology, but in fact it is worried that the powerful will take advantage of their positions to get meat for themselves.

Ban grazing and support sea fishing.

In the past two years, sea fishing has become the hottest industry.

In the past few years, the sea fish that no one wanted was now on the dining tables of people all over the world. The sea fish from the United States and the Pacific region were all brought to the dining tables of the Ming Dynasty.

Relying on sea fish, Daming spent the most difficult three years.

Due to the shortage of food, reclamation projects are accelerating, and all coastal cities are reclamating the sea and are in urgent need of cultivated land to grow food.

In the 13th year of Chenghua, Bohai Province officially succeeded in land reclamation.

From Jingtai to Chenghua years, the average height per person fell by 0.1 cm.

Because nutrition can’t keep up.

In the past, people in the Ming Dynasty were free to eat meat, including pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, and fish, and seafood was free in coastal areas. Prices in inland areas were more expensive, but they were still affordable.

Suddenly, after three years of hard life, in the eleventh year of Chenghua, Indian grain appeared in the country, and every household was frantically stocking up on grain.

Grain control has just been lifted for a month, and the state has returned to semi-control, and grain purchases have been restricted again.

No matter how noisy and noisy the people are, food restrictions just don't dare to be relaxed.

The three-year grazing ban has also begun to be gradually lifted, but at a very slow pace.

It was not until the 14th year of Chenghua that grain control was finally removed and the market economy was restored.

Because in the 13th year of Chenghua, a major event happened. Emperor Zhu Jianxi of the Sui Dynasty died. The princes of the Sui Dynasty seized the throne, and the country fell into chaos.

As a result, one corner of the Eurasian four-corner politics is missing.

The neighboring country of Iraq began to encroach on the territory of the Sui Kingdom, causing chaos in West Asia and further shortages of oil.

In the same year, Emperor Zhu Youhui of Iraq ascended the throne and announced that Iraq would be changed to Persia and the Persian Empire would be established.

Weiguo took advantage of the chaos and proclaimed himself emperor, changing the country's name to the Babylonian Empire.

War in West Asia.

Instead, it gave Ming a chance to breathe. The most troublesome thing for Ming now is not oil, but a serious shortage of food. The entire Western world is like a box, enclosing Ming inside, especially the United States, which does not provide food for Ming. But the main problem lies in The west.

Since West Asia is in disarray, the Ming Dynasty's western defense line can be temporarily relaxed.

Draw out your troops and control the northern region of South Asia and the area south of the Hindu Kush Mountains.

This is the most important grain route of the Ming Dynasty. It is precisely because of the war in West Asia that West Asia has no time to go eastward and interfere with the grain route, so that the safety of the grain route can be ensured.

The entire South Asia, although it has a population of 1.6 billion, still has enough food to export to the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, in the 14th year of Chenghua, the Ming Dynasty lifted its food control.

The reclamation in Bohai Province was successful, adding another province to its cultivated land.

In the same year, the Yenisei River water diversion plan was successful, turning the Tashkent Desert into a huge above-ground freshwater lake.

There are many lakes scattered across the five provinces of the Western Regions.

Drought problems in the Northwest have been greatly alleviated.

In the next ten years, a lot of cultivated land will be added in the five provinces of the Western Region.

The plan to raise the Qinghai Plateau has been launched for 24 years, and it is expected to be successfully completed in Chenghua in 20 years.

Just wait until the climate warms up.

But the issue of food security is still the biggest national policy of Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Jianji issued an imperial edict that he must hold the grain bag in his hands. The issue of food security is a problem that Ming Dynasty must solve.

Coastal provinces across the country must speed up reclamation.

Expanding cultivated land, improving planting technology, and innovating planting methods are top priorities.

When the food problem is solved, the energy problem lies ahead.

Ming Dynasty was not an oil-poor country.

However, the old emperor had a strict decree at that time not to exploit his country's oil for the time being. In other words, we would not exploit our own oil and leave it to future generations.

Spend money to buy foreign oil, and the energy initiative will always be in the hands of Ming Dynasty.

This plan is very good.

But the feudal lord is not a fool either.

In the early days, in order to obtain Daming's technology and build quickly, they were willing to sell energy to Daming.

Now, the era of barbaric development has passed, and everyone has hardened their wings. They all want to challenge the Ming Dynasty's vassal system and establish themselves as kings.

Naturally, they are unwilling to sell energy to Ming Dynasty.

After the first Great Depression, various countries had broken up with the Ming Dynasty. After the Shanghai Conference, everyone also hid their intentions and refused to export energy to the Ming Dynasty on a large scale.

The Ming Dynasty once fell into an energy shortage.

Zhu Jianjun had to issue an order to exploit domestic oil deposits.

In the past ten years, Daming has used energy mines mined in China.

As countries around the world gradually become isolated and form their own systems, the connections between continents and regions become closer and closer, and a wave of anti-globalization emerges.

Daming has been gradually isolated in the world.

There were only two paths before the Ming Dynasty: first, to be self-sufficient and arm itself with its own energy and minerals; second, to wage war against energy countries and use force to conquer them.

Zhu Jianji's method was to instigate relations between vassal states and let them fight with each other, so that the Ming fisherman would benefit.

He is very familiar with Eastern Europe and Western Asia.

He probably knows the character of King Sui better than Emperor Shizu, especially the troubled ones in King Sui's family. He knows it very well.

At that time, he predicted that when the Sui King died, there would be a succession of princes to seize the throne.

as predicted.

As soon as Sui Emperor Zhu Jianxi died, his sons started fighting.

If he again provokes Wei and Yi to draw chestnuts from the fire, chaos will naturally arise in West Asia.

The Kingdom of Wei transformed into the Babylonian Empire, and the Kingdom of Iraq transformed into the Persian Empire. The central government all approved.

The Ming Dynasty wanted to make good friends with these two countries and dismember the Sui Dynasty, so that the Sui Dynasty would no longer be the foundation of a great empire.

At the same time, obtain oil from West Asia.

The military strategic islands arranged by Emperor Sejo in the Persian Gulf played a decisive role.

Zhu Jianjian appeared in West Asia as a mediator to mediate the relations between various countries. At this time, the Shang Emperor was also sending people to mediate the relations between various countries.

But what the Shang State can give, the Ming Dynasty can give.

What the Shang Kingdom couldn't provide, the Ming Dynasty could also provide.

At the same time, the Shang State could not threaten these two countries, but the Ming Dynasty could.

Zhu Jianjian deployed heavy troops on strategic islands, pretending to harvest the fruits of victory, and forced all countries to agree to the Ming Dynasty's adjustment.

But can Ming Dynasty really mediate?

Only a fool can mediate.

It's better for them to break the dog's brain. The more they defeat Ming Dynasty, the more they will gain.

Not only did Ming Dynasty not mediate, but he also sold them weapons like crazy and supported them in fighting.

At the same time, we will guard strategic islands and regain control of the Persian Gulf.

All oil imports and exports must be approved by Ming Dynasty.

Even though these energy sources may not be able to enter Ming Dynasty's pocket, Ming Yuan's status as the world's currency can be regarded as preserved.

Guaranteeing the currency of the world currency is the core political purpose of this separatist struggle.

This is also Zhu Jianji's strategic layout for doing this.

In recent years, Ming Dynasty has eased from the financial crisis and restored 70% of its pre-crisis economic level. By the fifteenth year of Chenghua, Indian countries began to seek to get rid of the control of the Ming Dynasty.

The Dhaka Conference was held in Dhaka, the provincial capital of Bengal Province.

Zhu Jianji must control India in his hands.

He stated that Ming Dynasty did not covet Indian territory and had the natural right to protect Indian countries.

We must ensure that the Indian countries will always be vassal states of the Ming Dynasty and will never be shaken; they will always use the title of Ming Dynasty and Ming Yuan and they will never be shaken.

The Ming Dynasty was an enlightened suzerainty and allowed free trade among the vassal states. However, the Ming Dynasty had the right of first refusal to purchase all goods from South Asian countries.

In return for the same economic return, South Asian countries have the right of first refusal for goods exported by Ming Dynasty.

Finally, during the Dhaka peace talks, the Ming Dynasty signed new agreements with the countries in South Asia. In the 16th year of Chenghua, the Ming Dynasty withdrew its troops from South Asia.

This is Zhu Jianji's political wisdom.

He does not want territory in South Asia, but a right of first refusal.

In fact, a word game was played.

Mao Yong does not have the right of first refusal for Nan Ya to purchase Daming products, because Daming sells to anyone, and Nan Ya's purchasing power for Daming products is not that great.

Countries like Qin and Jin already have complete industrial foundations.

Xu State already has a reputation as a South Asian factory and is not highly dependent on Ming Dynasty's general commodities. Instead, it is highly dependent on Ming Dynasty's luxury goods.

On the contrary, food from South Asia was indispensable to the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty had to rely on food from South Asia to maintain its rule.

But don’t forget that the countries in South Asia are defeated countries.

As a victorious country, Zhu Jianjian could ask for more things, but Zhu Jianjian did not. He showed the magnanimity and courage of the sovereign state, and also showed the tolerance of the head of the clan.

By the fifteenth year of Chenghua, Zhu Jianjian was already the only person of his generation in the clan with great achievements.

Zhu Qiyu is the only one of his forty-one sons who is still alive.

If the South Asian War is victorious, he only wants a right of first refusal, nothing more.

No pushing too far.

This is political wisdom.

Zhu Jianjian wanted to ask for it, and if he could ask for it, the South Asian countries would definitely give it to him, but this would only deepen the hatred of the South Asian countries towards the Ming Dynasty.

Never forget that the emperor is from the same clan and the people are compatriots.

The legacy of the old emperor is clearly written, and the people of the world are qualified to share his legacy. The old emperor pretends to have the people of the world in his heart.

If Zhu Jianjian is not asking for war reparations.

The people of South Asia will be alienated.

Don't forget that Ming Dynasty is the suzerain state and the world hegemon. A world hegemon must be ambitious and courageous to be the leader.

We should not just look at immediate interests, we should take a long-term view and lay out the world pattern for the next few hundred years.

really.

The successful passage of a series of treaties in the Dhaka peace talks has aroused cheers among the people of South Asia, and the people's perception of the suzerain country has been rising.

In the 16th year of Chenghua, Ming Dynasty placed the largest grain order for South Asian countries, and the price given was better than the market price.

Zhu Jianjian clearly won the battle and did not pay any compensation. Instead, he returned benefits to the countries in South Asia, clearly trying to win people's hearts.

If Zhu Jianzhen had not been too old, others would have suspected that Zhu Jianzhen coveted the land in South Asia.

However, it is understandable that the Ming Dynasty was really short of food.

The 53 billion people are all mouths, and they can eat any amount of food.

It is very difficult to support such a huge empire.

In the 17th year of Chenghua, Guixu Province was officially established, becoming a nail wedged between South Asia and Central Asia.

In the same year, the imperial court announced the construction of a railway from Guixu to Beijing, which was expected to be completed in fifteen years.

The main purpose is to control South Asia!

Ming Dynasty must not lose South Asia. Without South Asia, it will starve. This is a strategic issue and a national policy.

Wei, the overlord of Central Asia, was the first to express dissatisfaction.

It is believed that Ming Dynasty is suspected of encroaching on other countries' territories.

The Hindu Kush Mountains can be said to be managed by the Ming Dynasty. Legally, they should not belong to the Ming Dynasty. It is considered to be the common property of all countries. The emperor of the Ming Dynasty stole the common property as his own, which is really a shame for everyone in the world.

Ou Mingti supports Wei.

The Ming Dynasty wants to take back the frozen soil on the east bank of the Ob River that was given to Wei during the Jingtai period. Now the Ming Dynasty wants to take it back.

If you don't agree with us establishing Guixu Province, then we will take back the territory given to you.

This made the new Emperor Wei very angry. This was obviously given to his father by his grandfather. Are you too stingy as an uncle? Do you have to go back for this?

The old Wei emperor Zhu Jianjun died in the 14th year of Chenghua, and his second son Zhu Youhuan ascended the throne.

After Zhu Youhuan ascended the throne, he imprisoned his concubine brother.

He is the third child.

Because the eldest son died young, according to the line of succession, he should inherit the throne, but his elder brother was quite famous and was more popular with his father.

The state of Wei also staged a good show to seize the legitimate son, and Zhu Youhuan finally won. As soon as Zhu Jianjun died, he found a gimmick to imprison his eldest brother.

Zhu Youhuan had just ascended the throne and officially needed to establish his authority. At this time, Zhu Jianjian asked for frozen soil. He must not agree.

In the middle of the seventeenth year of Chenghua, Ming Dynasty declared war on Wei.

Zhu Jianji once again went on a personal expedition.

His timing was very good. If his brother Lao Twenty Zhu Jianjun was still alive, he would not dare to declare war so casually.

After Zhu Jianjun died, Zhu Youhuan imprisoned his brother, and his political prestige reached its lowest point. At this time, the Ming Dynasty declared war on Wei, which was also when Wei was at its weakest.

With the precedent, no one dared to look down on Zhu Jianji. Zhu Youhuan could stand out among Zhu Jianjun's many sons. He was definitely not a fool. He immediately asked Shang Guo for help.

Zhu Youqu sent an army of 100,000 troops to help Wei in the war.

Zhu Youtang of the Great Yuan Dynasty sent 60,000 troops to the Wei State.

Zhu Jianjian's personal expedition this time raised great hopes in the country.

Moreover, the uncle versus the nephew is also the biggest attraction.

It is well known that the uncle and nephew of Ming Dynasty are feuding.

From Taizong and Emperor Jianwen, Xuanzong and King Han, Shizu and King Xiang, the hatred between uncles and nephews has continued to this generation. Zhu Jianji versus Zhu Youhuan is so exciting.

It has become Ming Dynasty’s biggest fun.

Zhu Jianzhen is seventy-nine years old this year. He is the longest-lived person of his generation. He will definitely be able to capture his nephew.

Moreover, he started planning for the war against Wei as early as the eleventh year of Chenghua.

It's just that the time wasn't ripe at the time.

He is the sharpest sword in the world. He needs to fulfill his responsibilities before he dies and scare all the neighbors around him.

At this time, he finally understood the meaning of his father's hard life.

Finally got it.

His father lived hard, not for himself, but to help him move forward.

Now, he is also supporting his son to move forward.

His son Zhu Youyi was capable, but in his eyes, he was still relatively mediocre. He had to help his son stabilize the country while he was alive.

He will fight the war!

Just let your son be a responsible person.

And Zhu Jianji, a cunning old man, also showed that he would not confront Old Twenty, because Old Twenty Zhu Jianjun was not easy to deal with.

His father commented: Among my disciples, the best one is the fourth, and the second best is the twenty.

When he was in the Shang Kingdom, he never competed with Lao Twenty.

But he had watched Lao Twenty fight, and he was definitely a top-notch talent.

As a man matures, he is unwilling to confront someone head-on. After all, he does not dare to gamble with the destiny of the Ming Dynasty. But when the throne of Wei is in the hands of his nephew, he is no longer afraid.

He can beat Zhu Youhuan to the point where he calls him daddy, but daddy is a bit price-deprecating, so let’s call him fourth uncle.

The war lasted only three months.

Wei State's Ob River defense line collapsed thousands of miles. Zhu Jianji personally led his army deep into Wei State and attacked the capital of Wei State.

He is very familiar with this place.

He has been to all these places.

Even if the current Shang Emperor is Zhu Youquan, he is far less knowledgeable about the Shang Kingdom than he is. Whether it is the Shang Kingdom or the Wei Kingdom, he has walked through every inch of rivers and mountains.

In September of the seventeenth year of Chenghua, Zhu Jianji stationed himself in the capital of Wei.

Wei Guo closed the city gates and did not dare to open the door to fight.

As for Zhu Jianjie's encirclement point, he knew that Shang State would definitely come to help.

In the sixty-fifth year of Jingtai, Zhu Youquan became a vassal king from his grandson, and retreated to the Shang Kingdom. He still had huge ambitions for the throne, so he must be very unwilling to do so, and he would definitely come.

Zhu Jianjian is not anxious at all. The older he gets, the more stable he becomes.

Now I finally understand why his father always said that the old minister is stable. The old minister cannot accept new things, but he is very knowledgeable in handling these government affairs.

He is now, closing his eyes, the entire battlefield is in his mind, and he can fight a war alive.

If placed in ancient wars, he would be at a disadvantage at his age.

Because in ancient wars, the commander had to be near the battlefield, and when there was a hand-to-hand encounter, the commander had to rush forward, or run to escape for his life, and the old man's physical strength would definitely not be able to keep up.

Not needed now.

He is in charge of the command room, and everything is communicated by phone. All he needs to do is give command. Not to mention that he is seventy-nine, even if he is one hundred and nine, he can command the war if his head is not confused.

Finally, in the spring of the 18th year of Chenghua.

The merchant army appeared.

Zhu Youquan wanted to use a winter to break the will of the Ming army.

In the end, he still miscalculated. Under the command of Zhu Jianji, the will of the Ming army did not collapse, but became more courageous as they fought.

They also turned the away game into a home game.

The people in the nearby villages were not afraid of fighting here at all. They even came here to sell their goods. Some families even married their daughters to Ming soldiers.

The Ming army was at home in the capital of Shang Dynasty.

The main reason is that the people around here are all descendants of the expeditionary force, and their ancestors came here this way. They have heard these stories from their grandparents since they were young, and their ears can feel the cocoons, so they are naturally familiar with them.

Moreover, military discipline under Zhu Jianji's rule was good, and the Ming army's military discipline was already very good because military pay and subsidies were sufficient.

Military discipline is strict, and once discovered, punishment will be severe.

There is no need to rob it, just buy it with money.

Therefore, the Ming army forcibly turned the capital of Wei State into its home field, as if it were the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

The merchant army was stunned.

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