Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 361 The world is chess
For Gao Yushi, the only effect of the trend of the world situation is to aggravate his sense of urgency, but he made reference to these situations in the plan he made at the beginning of the time travel, so he will not be worried, at most he will re-examine See if there are any mistakes or omissions in your plan.

He has never been as optimistic as other time traveler predecessors about the matter of Ming's going to the sea. It seems that as long as there is a leader who insists on opening up the sea to colonize, he can easily complete the huge transition to the sea.

China's territory is too vast, and the "mainland policy" of the Chinese people is too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. What's more, the vast majority of Chinese people in this era can't see the sea in their lifetime. It is impossible for them to abandon the habits of thousands of years. , Abandoning the ancestral idea of ​​returning to the roots of fallen leaves, and ran to the "other side of the sea" to do some colonial development.

When a fox dies on the head mound, the fallen leaves return to their roots. This is the Chinese thinking that has been passed down for thousands of years. If it is not a last resort, who would die thousands of miles away overseas, and the ancestral graves cannot be entered?

Not to mention China, even the early Western colonists, most of them couldn't get along in their own country, so they had to go to the sea.And those countries that engaged in colonial expansion from the beginning had no choice but to do so because there was no hope of land expansion at all.

For example, Portugal, the first country to carry out colonial expansion, except for the Atlantic Ocean, has only one big country, Castile (the former main body of Spain), which semi-surrounds it. The ocean re-expands.

Castile, on the other hand, saw the benefits of Portugal's maritime expansion, so it followed the trend and embarked on the road of colonial empire.In the future, whether it is England or France, including the Netherlands, etc., it is all stimulated by the huge benefits of the Spanish Empire's maritime expansion, so it follows this trend step by step.

Why have the Chinese not been interested in overseas expansion for thousands of years?
This issue is actually very complicated. Some people say that China’s vast land territory has reached the limit of its ruling ability at that time; Lost interest in foreign expansion; some people even say that the Chinese have loved peace since ancient times...

Except for the fact that Chinese people have loved peace since ancient times, Gao Yushi agrees with some of the above opinions, but at the same time believes that these opinions are not complete.

At least one point, Gao Pragmatism thinks is very important, which is not mentioned above: whether the benefits of overseas expansion can exceed the cost of ruling overseas territories.

To put it more simply: Is it a profit or a loss to expand overseas.Even if it is earning, is it enough?Are you worthy of the manpower, material and financial resources spent by the imperial court to rule these overseas territories?
Not to mention it’s too far away, it’s not like Daming didn’t have no territory in Nanyang in the early years – do you know about the Jiugang Propaganda Department?
According to the records of "Ying Ya Sheng Lan", in the country of Java (Java Island, Indonesia) in Nanyang at that time, there were three classes of people in the country. The first class was Tang people, that is, Chinese; the second class was Arabs, and the third class They are the locals. The Tang people have the most expensive food and clothing, while the natives are the most vulgar.

At the same time, in the old port country of Nanyang (the old port of Malaysia), there were already many Chinese at that time. Most of the wealthy people there were Ming people who came to Nanyang from the coast of Guangdong. It has acquired advanced production and living materials and is deeply respected by the local people.

It was here that Zheng He eliminated the pirate king Chen Zuyi, and later Emperor Yongle set up the Old Port Propaganda Department here.There was no king in Managa at that time, it was just a territory of Siam, and the king of Siam sent a governor to manage it.Later, when Zheng He went to the West for the third time, he brought with him an edict from the emperor of the Celestial Dynasty, naming the governor as the king of Managa, and Managa established the country accordingly. Dare to send troops to recover, this is the national prestige of the Celestial Dynasty at that time!
But even so, the Ming court still did not pay much attention to Nanyang, and later generations have two completely different views on this situation.

One of the most mainstream views is that the voyage to the Western Seas cost a lot of money, had no benefits, and was a complete loss-making business. Therefore, as soon as Cheng Zu died, the court stopped this waste of national power.

Another point of view is to find a lot of historical materials to prove that going to Nanyang is actually a profitable thing, but because the matter of going to Nanyang is controlled by the emperor and eunuchs from the beginning to the end, and the civil official group has no profit in it, so it is fooled The emperors of successive dynasties after Chengzu told them that going to Nanyang was an absurd act of wasting the people's fat and anointing.

With Cheng Zu's heroic talent, he would send Zheng He on seven voyages to the West just to show off his national prestige?Or did he act like this in order to find Zhu Yunqi?
What a joke!When Zhu Yunqi was in charge of the whole world, he had millions of soldiers, and Chengzu dared to set up an army with only [-] guards to calm the situation. After he was in charge of the world, would he be afraid of Zhu Yunqi, a hairless phoenix?

Don't be ridiculous, talk about Zhu Di, even if it's Gao Pragmatic, he won't be afraid!This situation can still turn Zhu Yunwen against the wind, so I just find a piece of tofu and kill him head-on!
Therefore, Gao Yushi is more willing to believe that the main reason why Ming Dynasty refused to focus on Nanyang is that the civil official group could not exert influence and gain benefits in the great event of Nanyang development. "Sea and land parallel strategy.

The emperor after Chengzu, because most of the assistants around him were civil servants, they also misunderstood Chengzu's real intention of going to the West.

In the final analysis, the civil officials did not get any benefits, and the emperor was deceived by the civil officials, thinking that there was really no benefit, and Ming's parallel land and sea strategy died so far.

But this does not mean that Gao Pragmatism only needs to explain the truth to Zhu Zaihou or Zhu Yijun, and Daming will be able to return to the correct path. Before the Little Ice Age has yet to show its power, quickly move the remaining population in the north to the south. Simply migrate to Nanyang to develop—how ​​can it be so easy!
If the Civil Service Group is so easy to deal with, how stupid would Daming be?
Long Qing had Gao Gong in his hands, a gold medal fighter who needed seniority, prestige, wrist, and influence. Only now did he carefully open a small hole and throw out a small month. Hong Kong came to test the trend.

If Gao Yushi dared to say that he should go to sea now and go to Nanyang, he would be impeached so much that even his mother would not recognize him.

How about a game of chess?Playing chess has to be done step by step. If you haven't done the layout well, you just want others to bow their heads and admit defeat, and really think that you have become a time traveler, the son of destiny?Liu Xiu, the son of the plane, will not accept it.

(End of this chapter)