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The 24th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, 1426 AD, is the Zhengdan of the Spring Festival.

The Spring Festival is the most important annual traditional festival of the Chinese nation. Worshiping ancestors, worshiping gods, setting off firecrackers, dancing dragons and lions to celebrate the reunion, adults and children are all happy.

As the central empire in East Asia for a long time, every Spring Festival must be visited by the Quartet.The surrounding small countries will always take advantage of this festival to make some money while worshiping the Central Empire.

The central empire would always give a large amount of rebates worth far more than the other party's tribute gifts to the envoys of small countries who came to celebrate the new year to show their magnanimity.Regardless of whether you lose money or not, face is very important anyway.

Due to the absolute economic interests, there are always waves of envoys from small countries who come to worship the Central Empire every year.From the emperor's birthday to the empress dowager's birthday, from great victory gifts to New Year's greetings, there are always endless reasons to come and pay tribute.Plane Travel Guide 1680

However, among the many mission needs, the most important one is the Chinese New Year.Regardless of whether they come to worship at other times, almost every nominal country will come during this festival.This year is no exception.

Especially because the Ming Dynasty's foreign conquest wars in the past two years have never stopped, and the area of ​​​​the conquered territories has also continued to increase, and the vassal states that have been enfeoffed are hundreds or even nearly a thousand, which directly led to the tribute to the vassal state this year. There are many vassal states in China.

This is the true meaning of all nations coming to court, and it is much more meaningful than those wonderful adjectives recorded in history books—just the sum of the number of missions who came to pay tribute made the capital nearly 10 more for nothing. population.

This is the imperial court's repeated orders to remind the princes that the number of missions should not exceed 100. Otherwise, if the nomadic tribes went to Beijing to pay tribute in the past-usually accompanied by business, each mission would have thousands of people.

Fortunately, the prosperity of the capital is becoming more and more breathtaking. Under normal circumstances, the daily population of the capital is around 300 million.Among them, the resident population accounts for half, while the floating population accounts for the other half.

The former Great Ming Capital was only the core area of ​​the country and even East Asia, but now it has become the center of the world.

Almost every day, a large number of people flooded into the capital, which led to the continuous expansion of the capital. Even because the expansion speed was so fast, the Ministry of Industry had no way to continue to maintain the construction of the capital's city wall.

Usually, before the city wall of the Ministry of Industry is built, the vast land outside the city wall has already been occupied by countless people, and then a lively market and street are formed, as well as many government offices or shops.

As business tax officially became the main fiscal revenue of the Ming Empire, the court's emphasis on business was also increasing.

Once it is found that important commercial interests need to be included in the urban planning—that government office doesn’t want to charge more money, and the market will be prosperous and rich if there are shops under it, there will be voices in the court to put it under the capital.

As a result, the Shuntian Mansion Yamen has long been overwhelmed, and a lot of Yamen and assistant officials have been set up separately below to lighten the burden a little.After all, the area and population under the jurisdiction of the Shuntian government office have long exceeded the original estimate.

Finally, with the continuous expansion of the Shuntian government office, the coverage area of ​​the capital is also increasing.Later, the Ministry of Industry really couldn't continue, and directly asked the emperor to stop building the walls and moats of the outer city.

Anyway, the surrounding areas of the Ming Empire have already been conquered, and there are basically no enemies that can threaten the capital—whether it is a nomadic tribe or an enemy country, they are no longer called enemies of the Ming Dynasty.

After discussing with the cabinet for a long time, and asking the National Teacher for advice for a long time, the emperor decided that the expanded area of ​​the Ming capital would no longer be dedicated to the construction of facilities such as outer city walls and moats.

Not only that, even many half-built city walls in the city were pushed to the open space.As a result, these places were quickly bought by businessmen from all over the place. Who doesn't know that the land price in the capital is now unimaginably high?

Even so, there are still countless people who don't know who to buy with money?Owning a real estate in the capital has become a good thing that countless people would laugh out loud in their dreams.

I don't know how many families who were originally completely impoverished in the capital became rich suddenly because they sold their houses or manors.These people became ruthless and simply moved to other places to live after charging a lot of money.

The huge income from selling the real estate completely frees these people from worrying about the rest of their lives.Even future generations don't have to worry about life anymore, it's so easy to be a rich man.

Looking at these situations in Tang Shaozhe's eyes, he couldn't help admiring for a long time: the upsurge of housing prices in the capital hundreds of years later had already been detonated by him in advance.Jingshiju, it's really not easy!Plane Travel Guide 1680

However, despite all the inconveniences, such as high prices, too many yamen, and too large a city, they still couldn't stop people from running towards the capital.

Now is not the era of inconvenient transportation in the past. The opening of the Tongtian Road can basically meet the needs of all people to travel freely.Gone are the days when family members would worry about traveling far away. Almost well-to-do families can go out to visit mountains and rivers without worrying about the long distance.

Coupled with the fact that there are post offices all over the world today-specialized in delivering letters and things to people all over the world, the common people of Ming Dynasty have never enjoyed such wonderful treatment.For the first time, they knew that life could be so wonderful.

In the past, when we traveled far or separated two places, we needed to communicate with each other, so we could only rely on fellow villagers to bring letters, and there was no other way.

Of course, it may be more convenient for officials, after all, there are post stations that can be used, but the common people do not have this condition.

However, with the establishment of the Post Office and its layout all over the world—at least any town in the Ming Dynasty has a corresponding branch office for the convenience of the people, and the convenience, speed and safety of information transmission has been praised by everyone.

I still remember the crazy upsurge caused by the first announcement of the function of the Post Office in Tongtian Tower.

Almost all the people are mobilized, trying to use the convenient communication function of the post office to communicate with the outside world.However, with the official opening of the post office, the national census and household registration review began again.

Even if you want to communicate, at least there should be a clear address, right?The subsequent household registration review in China is almost equivalent to re-planning the cities and towns across the country, and for the first time, the real figures are counted up and brought before Zhu Di.

In the past, this has never happened before. Although the Ming Dynasty used the poll tax as the basis to allow the Ministry of Households to make statistics, a large number of dignitaries annexed private households, and a lot of data existed in name only.

With the development of the enfeoffment of the world, Daming began to disqualify the gentry from tax exemption under Tang Shangxian's suggestion.Many problems in the past have almost been gradually alleviated and disappeared with this policy.

Although many dignitaries may be dissatisfied, they basically can't afford to make any waves under the general trend of dividing the world.