Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 649 Since ancient times
"The Prophet of Plumbing Ducks in the Spring River, and the Chilling Birds Sleeping in their Nests in the Autumn Mountains..."

"It's time for the Ming Dynasty to change."

At the end of September, Hong Chengchou, who was dressed in a Taoist robe and had a rare day of rest, sighed as he watched the pool view in the mansion covered with fallen leaves.

A few days ago, he had just passed his fiftieth birthday, and he was considered to have entered the half-century ranks.

His age is not easy for ordinary people, but for him and most officials, this is just the age when he just stepped into the cabinet.

Hong Chengchou looked at the fish in the pond, sprinkled fish food in his hand, and saw the school of fish scrambling for the fish food he sprinkled, he seemed to think of something, and couldn't help laughing.

After a while, the fish food was finished, and he wiped off the residue on his hands, then turned and walked towards the depths of the corridor.

Yu Chenglong, who had been waiting for a long time, quickly followed after seeing this, Hong Chengchou said nothing until he walked into the study and sat down, took a sip of his teacup, and then he said to Yu Chenglong who was standing in front of the desk:
"Your political achievements are good. It is their idea that the officials sent you back to Beijing, not the old man's instruction. You don't have to be afraid."

"I've also read the memorials of the Ministry of Officials. They recommended you to be the North Korea Observer. This job is not too tiring, but it is not easy to accumulate merit. I am afraid that you will have to go to North Korea for three years before you can fully recover."

Hong Chengchou talked about Yu Jackie Chan's future, and the post of North Korean Observer he mentioned was the official post of foreign vassal established by Zhu Ciran at the beginning of the year.

The Observation Envoy is the Sixth Grade, and is responsible for observing the official positions of the foreign domains of the Ming Dynasty, such as Korea, Siam, Ganbozhi, Mongolia, Sulu, Boni, and Nanzhang.

In addition to faithfully recording the political atmosphere of temples and folks in various countries, observers also need to play a communication role.

However, in order to prevent the observers from doing anything wrong in foreign vassals, Zhu Ciran forbids the observers from participating in the politics of various countries.

In other words, the observer is a "historian" who records the situation of the vassal state, and only has the power of recording and passive diplomacy.

Without the will of the imperial court, they cannot take the initiative to carry out any political actions.

Of course, if the vassal monarch had something to bother Daming, then the Observation Envoy would serve as a relay. He was quite a resident diplomat, but his functions and powers were a bit more complicated than those of later generations of diplomats.

"North Korea is currently the number one foreign vassal in the country, and with the continuous dismantling of soldiers and horses, the heart of surrender is obvious, so don't interfere with its government affairs after you go there. After three years, the court will naturally assign a suitable official position for you to make contributions."

After Hong Chengchou finished speaking, he poured down the teacup in his hand, and Yu Jackie immediately went to refill tea for him when he saw this:

"The students will try their best to observe North Korea's affairs well. Thank you teacher for reminding me."

"Don't worry, I still have something to ask you." Hong Chengchou interrupted, then hesitated for a second, and then asked:

"In your opinion, what do the people and local officials think about Qi Wang Jiufan?"

Hong Chengchou clearly had the answer in his heart, but he still couldn't help asking. The reason was nothing more than that he wanted to make sure that after Zhu Youjian left, he could come back and continue to control the overall situation.

For his inquiry, Yu Chenglong did not hide it, but responded word by word:

"Based on the humble opinion of the students, the hearts of the people are still on the king of Qi, but the hearts of all the officials have been put on Long Live and the East Palace."

"The reason is that the king of Qi increased the length of Long Live and the East Palace in the textbook, and reduced the length of himself."

"If we also exercise control along this road, King Qi will soon be forgotten by the people... Even if he is not forgotten, it will not have the same influence as it is now."

Yu Chenglong expressed his opinion, which was basically the same as what Hong Chengchou thought, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.

"Okay, the old man knows, you can step back."

Hong Chengchou felt much more relaxed, and waved his hand so that Yu Chenglong could step back.

Seeing this, Yu Chenglong didn't stay too long, but slowly exited the study after returning the gift.

After he left, Hong Chengchou stroked his long beard, looked at the table and kept whispering:

"Textbook..."

"That's all for the textbook, there's no big problem."

Almost when Hong Chengchou was whispering, Zhu Youjian, who lived far away in the Mansion of the Five Armies in Nanjing, also pushed out the mountain of 32 textbooks.

In front of him was Lu Wenzhao, and looking at these textbooks, Lu Wenzhao couldn't help but smiled wryly:

"It took Your Highness a year to finally write the textbooks for these twelve subjects, but are these university textbooks really intended for Guochao instead of Qiguo?"

Looking at the 32 detailed textbooks, Lu Wenzhao couldn't help admiring his highness, but at the same time worried.

Just facing his question, Zhu Youjian smiled lightly:
"Qi State doesn't need university textbooks yet, but Daming really needs them."

"Besides, there are still many subjects that I am not proficient in. Therefore, I still need to collect talents from the court department to record the learning methods of all walks of life and teach students how to make a living in society."

"The teaching materials for this time are estimated to be released after three years. The official school will also be set to correspond to four levels of elementary school, elementary school, middle school, and university, with a total of 16 years."

"From the age of five to the elementary school, the students finish the education at the age of 20, which is just enough to become an adult."

Zhu Youjian said with joy on his face, turned around and took out a new calendar from the bookshelf behind him.

"This is the festival calendar of the Qi Kingdom. In addition to the previous 32 festivals, the King's Millennium Festival and the Queen's Millennium Festival have been added. The number of holidays has increased from 57 days to 63 days."

"However, there are twelve festivals among them, and the 28-day holiday belongs to the winter and summer vacations, which will not delay students' study too much."

"It's just that the country of Qi has to make corresponding regulations. The statutory holidays for employees in all walks of life are Wanshou Festival and Qianqiu Festival, as well as Qianshou Festival and Millennium Festival, as well as Shangsi Festival, Zhengdan Festival, Lantern Festival, and National Day. Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival and other holidays.”

"These ten festivals require a 22-day holiday, and employees must not be dismissed."

The festivals mentioned by Zhu Youjian are the ten important festivals of Qi State, but the 22-day holidays of these ten festivals are not paid vacations, because the productivity is not up to the conditions for these basic benefits, but the conditions will not be met in the future. will be increased as appropriate.

For the people of the Ming Dynasty who were accustomed to daily wages, such a holiday was easy to settle accounts, and there would be no such thing as full attendance without deducting hundreds of dollars.

"Let's arrange everything early. In addition, the preparations for Fan's day should also be prepared early to avoid riots."

Zhu Youjian explained the matter of the feudal clan, but Lu Wenzhao was very helpless:
"Your Highness, you don't know the reaction of the people after you announced the news of the Fan."

"Since March, Beijing's Baiwangfang has been surrounded by people, and the people are shouting for you not to go."

"At present, the number of people like this is no less than [-]. Once the news of your stay in Nanjing is leaked, I'm afraid it will take less than three days for the Five Armies Commander's Mansion to be surrounded."

"Forget it, let's not talk about this." Zhu Youjian waved his hand to signal Lu Wenzhao not to talk about this, but asked about the international situation:
"How's the situation in Europe? Has the Fron machine gained the upper hand?"

Several months have passed now, and Zhu Youjian is very curious about whether Spain can suppress the Protestant Alliance when the British Civil War was frustrated and France fell into civil strife.

"Returning to Your Highness, the latest news is that Denmark surrendered for peace, and Frank took advantage of Gusta's distraction to go north to launch a counterattack and regain part of the land from him."

"Franza (France) lost a lot of territory in Franz's counterattack, which also allowed the courts and military aristocrats in Franz to temporarily stop counterattacking Mazaran and unanimously external."

"Currently, Franza is preparing for war, and is ready to devote all 15 troops to the battle against Francia."

"In addition, the army of the red hair barbarians also blocked the counterattack of the Franji army."

"However, generally speaking, Franji has regained a lot of lost ground, and with the help of the first batch of 60 shi of wheat sold by Qi State, it has basically stabilized the domestic situation."

"Right now, Frank still maintains an army of 32 troops, with the help of 15 troops under his allies. It seems that he has the upper hand."

Lu Wenzhao explained the situation in Europe clearly in a few words, and Zhu Youjian kept nodding his head during the inspection.

"What about the situation in Southwest Asia?" Zhu Youjian asked about the Triple Alliance in Southwest Asia, and this is also the direction that Lu Wenzhao is mainly spying on at present.

"The situation of the Three Kingdoms has been basically spied out. The annual income is about the same as the estimate, reaching 600 million taels, the population is basically around 7000 million, and the army is also around 40."

"However, about [-]% of their army is still an old-style army that uses cold weapons. At present, only the Lu Mi Kingdom (Ottoman) is capable of imitating rifles and European flintlocks."

"Persia and Nanlu have introduced technology, but they have to wait for a while to mature."

"Guochao's construction of the Ganges River Bridge leading to Zhou State has already started. With the experience of the Yangtze River Bridge and Zhou Guo's willingness to provide labor, it is estimated that it will be completed in three years. At that time, the Guochao army can directly launch from Zhou State by land. An attack on the southern captives."

Lu Wenzhao gave a rough account of the changes in the alliance of three countries in Southwest Asia, and it is not difficult to see the scale of this alliance.

Counting down, the world has basically been divided into four alliances.

These four alliances are the Great Ming suzerain-vassal system, which accounts for one-half of the world's population, the Southwest Asian Alliance of Three Nations, which accounts for one-fifth of the world's population, and the European Protestant Alliance and Catholic Alliance, which each account for one-tenth of the world's population.

Among the four systems, as far as the current situation is concerned, the Ming Dynasty is definitely the first, followed by the three countries in West Asia, the Catholic League is the third, and the Protestant League is the fourth.

In addition to these four alliances, there are also countries such as Poland and Tsarist Russia, but the power is difficult to reach.

But for Da Ming, the other three alliances are just lingering.

When the railway is completed more than ten years later, and Ming's army can quickly reach the western front within three weeks, that will be the day when they will fall one after another.

The only thing to pay attention to now is to restore productivity so that the land in hand can be turned into resources.

Zhu Youjian doesn't need to worry about this. What he is more worried about is the assimilation of the indigenous people in Yingzhou and the northwest of Luchuan.

"Not counting marrying Han women, how many natives are there in the country?"

Zhu Youjian asked Lu Wenzhao, and Lu Wenzhao answered directly: "About 700 million."

"700 million..." Zhu Youjian frowned listening to the series of numbers, but quickly eased his brows.

Although there are still many of them, it can be seen that the natives are being assimilated.

As long as there are no mistakes, the current territory of the Ming Dynasty will be the basic territory of the Han people in the future...

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian couldn't help being proud.

He raised the standard of great unification. In the Ming Dynasty under his rule, in any province, the Han people occupied the main ethnic status and dominant position.

Even if such a territory shrinks in the future, it will not be able to shrink much, not to mention that after the era enters the industry, the expansion of Ming Dynasty will only become more and more rapid.

In the early days of industrial development, the fastest effective method was plunder, and the population market and resources were both needed by the industry.

For a country as large as Ming Dynasty, it is not an easy task to meet its needs, not to mention that the industrialization of Daming has only seen some results...

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian picked up the memorial from the Ministry of Household Affairs. He opened it and saw that the content recorded on it was the number of newborns that could be counted before the [-]th of September after the Zhengdan Festival.

"510..."

Looking at the number recorded in the content, Zhu Youjian couldn't help laughing.

The baby boom after the drought is much larger than he expected. If there is no accident, in the 23rd year of the apocalypse, the newborn population of Daming will reach about 650 million.

Compared with the newborn population of 650 million, the death population of less than 150 million made Zhu Youjian happy from the bottom of his heart.

With Ming's territory and industrial strength, according to the number of baby boomers, it only takes ten years for Ming to consolidate its rule in remote areas.

Probably when the railway leading to Central Asia is completed, the population of Ming Dynasty will exceed [-] million.

Launching the Western Expedition under such circumstances, if nothing unexpected happens...

Zhu Youjian's face was full of smiles, and Lu Wenzhao next to him also took the opportunity to say: "The population of newborns in Qi State this year has reached 25 as of August."

"Hmm..." Compared with Ming's baby boomer, Zhu Youjian didn't care much about Qiguo's baby boomer.

It's not that his mind is still on Daming, but that he knows that Qi will be a country of immigrants for a long time to come.

Therefore, the larger the population of Ming Dynasty, the larger the population of Qi State, and the two are complementary.

When natural disasters and man-made disasters occurred, Daming moved the population with unstable factors, and Qi State took over to calm the instability for Daming, and at the same time increase the population of the country.

Although the drought has passed, the territory of the Ming Dynasty is so vast, and there will be more natural and man-made disasters than before. Zhu Youjian believes that his brother and nephew will make decisions and dispositions that can maintain the suzerainty system of the Ming Dynasty.

The suzerainty system of the Ming Dynasty can also be said to be the tributary system. In the eyes of those who do not understand this system, this system is a kind of arrogance and complacency, and represents a backward concept.

But in fact the tributary system is precisely a kind of initial "globalization".

The so-called globalization, the most important thing is actually the international system and rules, that is, how to ensure that different countries can act according to the same rules, so as not to go to a barbaric country and be robbed, caught, eaten and hacked .

So, it's actually a matter of rules, values, laws.

Under the values ​​and legal system of the Ming Dynasty, the whole world is governed by the king's law. As long as the emperor is recognized, there is a rule of law and order.

If we want to ensure that foreign countries follow the same rules as us, we need foreign countries to pay tribute.

The significance of tribute lies in whether a country recognizes the emperor, whether it is willing to abide by the king's law, and become an orderly and safe place recognized by the emperor.

Only by acknowledging these, can this country conduct normal business dealings with Daming.

This system seems to discriminate against foreign countries, but the fact is that the tributary system is precisely the most friendly international system to foreign countries.

The tributary system has almost no brutal interference with foreign countries, and it has never wanted to change foreign ideologies and systems like the modern dominant international system.

The essence of the tributary system is actually just a requirement that different countries in the system follow a common rule of communication, and this rule is expressed by everyone being "approved by the emperor".

The biggest difference between the tributary system and today's Western-dominated international system is precisely because of the "universal" concept of Western Christianity,
They always want to change you with a universal thing, and the tributary system only requires different countries to interact with each other regardless of your "internal" situation, as long as "countries" abide by common rules and systems.

If you don't abide by this rule, so be with you, just don't deal with you.

However, if any country that does not open its eyes wants to do evil and harm the interests of this system, then the powerful Ming Empire does not mind teaching you a lesson.

On the basis of this system, Zhu Youjian re-established three different levels: Outer Domain, Inner Domain, and Ming Dynasty, but generally speaking, the order of use is still the same.

All vassal states prefixed with "Da Ming", such as Daming Siam, Ming Zhou and so on.

Of course, there are also countries that are more loyal, such as North Korea, which always calls itself "Arimei Joseon, Huangming Joseon, and Daeming Joseon" to the outside world, and the king publicly said, "I am a dutiful son of my parents' country, and you are a rebellious son."

For Zhu Youjian, there is no need for these vassal states to rule directly, he only needs to speed up the integration of the suzerain-vassal system.

That is to say, citizens of countries under the system can freely enter and leave other countries through formal procedures, and all countries use the "Da Ming Law" uniformly, but on the basis of the "Da Ming Law", they can add separate chapters belonging to their own country. For example, "Da Ming·Qi Law" is a model .

In addition to the law, the rest is the currency issue.

The currency under the suzerain-vassal system must be the currency of Ming Dynasty, which is the only common currency within the rules.

Zhu Youjian didn't have many rules, just a few, but these few rules have already allowed Daming to control the feudal lords and initially formed a globalization.

When the Ming Dynasty was densely populated, the population could flow out to assimilate other vassal states.

When the population of Ming Dynasty is insufficient, it can use economic means to attract the population of other countries.

Of course, it is not an easy task to gain the approval of Ming Dynasty and successfully join the suzerain-vassal system. This can be seen from Lin Danhan's encounter all the way west.

At present, there are actually quite a few countries that want to join the vassal system of the Ming Dynasty. Portugal and the Netherlands can be said to be the two pioneers in Europe who want to join the vassal system of the Ming Dynasty, but Zhu Youjian has never agreed.

The reason is that it will cost too much for Ming to directly intervene in Europe, and it will also arouse the vigilance of Spain and France, which is not worth the candle.

The most urgent task right now is to let Ming become a servant in India, and Levia become the main ethnic group and population. The European affairs will take a long time to be resolved.

What Ming needs is effective expansion, if there is no way to assimilate, then it is invalid expansion.

"The population of the feudal clans in Levia has actually reached 460 million, which is beyond my expectations."

Turning through the memorials from the Ministry of Accounting, Zhu Youjian sighed a little at the back, and at the same time he also saw a string of numbers representing reformed laborers.

He didn't respond to the string of numbers, but laid out the problem of Levi's immigrant population:
"Indian servants and Leviathan can often walk around, and the vassal kings don't worry about the court being angry."

"India's vassal state has a poor population, while Levia has a lot of prisoners and reformed laborers. This is something that can be done diplomatically in the future."

"We can't just focus on the immigration of Han people. Cross-ethnic marriages are a big trend. We can't let the Han people get rich, and the common people in India are still in a state of poverty."

"Increasing the benefits for marrying a man and distributing more acres of land are things that the court can do in the future."

Zhu Youjian discussed the matter of Han men and native women, and Lu Wenzhao also wrote it down after listening.

But at this point in the discussion, Lu Wenzhao also talked about the division of Qi into Han and Tu: "Then Qi..."

"What Qi State needs is recognition. After all, the people of Qizhou (America) are tribes who migrated from China. What is needed now is to recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors."

"The education problem in Qi State is a century-old project. Let everyone in Qizhou be able to study is what we must do."

Zhu Youjian didn't have many means of assimilation in Qi State, not because he didn't have it, but Qi State didn't need it.

The culture and writing of the people in Qizhou have long been emptied by the colonists, and their cultures and nationalities are different and imperfect.

In the past, the so-called countries were nothing more than larger tribes.

This kind of culture, when it comes to Qi State, which carries a complete culture and talks about the existence of "since ancient times" anywhere, will be crushed without any obstacles.

As in theory, so in reality.

Many tribes without culture and writing fell under Qi's culture almost at the very beginning of their naturalization.

The significance of Zhu Youjian's modification of the textbooks and promotion in Daming is that in his textbooks in Daming, he also added some content about Zhuxia immigrants going north and crossing the glacier to Qizhou.

Not only that, he also made amendments to Levia, India, South Africa, Europe and other places, claiming that the Chinese people came out of Levia due to environmental deterioration, and then lived in various places, and finally chose to settle in the most ancient place at that time. The Central Plains, which is suitable for living, has therefore become the most populous country in the past few thousand years.

As for the existing ethnic groups in other lands, they basically followed in the footsteps of the Chinese ancestors, walked in front of the Chinese ancestors, and they occupied the settlements left by the Chinese ancestors, and only in this way can they prosper.

Such a history change is naturally a bit disgraceful, but Zhu Youjian doesn't care.

Not only did he want to change history, he also needed Daming to excavate some Shang, Zhou and pre-Qin bronzes in the future and bury them in various places, so as to form a phenomenon that has existed in all places since ancient times.

Qi State is no exception...

　The location will be out tomorrow, the update may be later, probably two or three o'clock

　　
　
(End of this chapter)