Daming 1805

Chapter 3 The whole map of the Ming Empire
The car of Zhu Jianyan and his son left the palace and drove on an unusually quiet street.

The streets in the capital city are all asphalt roads, and all the hutongs have been built into concrete roads. Circuit lights are installed on both sides of the slightly larger streets.

The street lights illuminated the surroundings brightly, but apart from the occasional night watchman passing by, there were no people walking around.

Occasionally, other vehicles would appear, and they would follow the car of Zhu Jianyan and his son. Obviously, it was also the other princes and ministers who had been notified to go to the palace for a meeting.

The foreign war is deadlocked, the domestic political situation is turbulent, there are civil and industrial rebellions everywhere, the capital has long imposed a curfew, and all officials who can go out at night are officials.

The emperor also returned to the Forbidden City inside the city from the manor outside the city, and allowed a group of the most important ministers to drive directly into the palace.

The cars of the princes and ministers drove to the midday gate, and the palace gate guards who received the notice in advance came over to check carefully, and then saluted and released after confirming that the people and items on the car were in good condition.

The car that Zhu Jingyuan was riding in started again, slowly passed through the deep doorway into the Forbidden City, then turned right through the Huiji Gate, and stopped at the square in front of the Wenhua Palace.

The princes and ministers in the car came out one after another, all folded their hands in their sleeves, and invariably looked at Zhu Jianyan and his son.

Honglu Siqing is the protagonist of today's meeting and peace talks. He is the protagonist of a doomed tragedy. No one wants to take the blame for the lost land and seek peace.

What surprised them even more was that the protagonist, who was destined to be tragic, even brought a half-old child here. Did he think this kind of thing would give his son a resume!

If it was normal, the powerful and powerful people who could talk to Zhu Jianyan at the scene would definitely not help but ask what Zhu Jianyan thought.

But in today's atmosphere, they could only shake their heads secretly, and after nodding to Zhu Jianyan, they quietly queued up the stairs and entered the brilliantly lit Wenhua Hall.

The Wenhua Palace was originally planned for the prince's office. After Xuande, there were basically no adult princes who needed to work, so it became a place for the emperor to chat with the Hanlin people.

When Li Zicheng entered Beijing, the Wenhua Palace was destroyed and rebuilt after the Emperor Zhu Cilong regained his old capital.

The reconstructed Wenhua Hall, although the appearance is basically the same as the original building, but the internal structure and layout have completely changed.

The construction of the main body directly uses reinforced concrete, and the internal room planning is also more suitable for daily office work. Now, heating, electric lights and electric fans are also connected.

The functions of the Wenhua Hall and its ancillary buildings have evolved into the daily office of the cabinet members, as well as the occasional meeting of the imperial front.

Now, behind the main hall and upstairs are the partitioned office areas, and the rest of the middle area is the conference room.

In the main hall of the conference room, sitting on the main seat facing south, there is the emperor's throne and imperial bills.

On the left and right sides of the conference room, there are three rows of solid wood high-back chairs, which are the positions of ministers participating in the meeting.

In the middle of the conference room is a heavy table the size of a ping-pong table, with books and signs on one end and a situation map on the other.

There are no chairs around the large table, and the height is also standard for people to stand. It is a platform for small-scale discussions and presentations of plans.

On the three walls around the conference room, a huge map hangs.

The map hanging on the middle wall, titled "The Complete Map of the Big Tomorrow", is regarded as a map of the local area of ​​​​Daming.

The scope of the map is generally based on the map of the Qing Dynasty in 1820, plus the North Sea (Baikal) and the surrounding areas of Nerchinsk.

The Ming Dynasty is collectively called Shenzhou, with Xianbei (Siberia) to the north, Nanyang (Southeast Asia) to the south, Anxi (Central Asia) to the west, Tianzhu (South Asia) to the southwest, and Dashi (West Asia) to the west.

Anxi, Tianzhu and Dashi are also called Asia (called Taixi), the west of Asia is called Taixi or Europe (called Taixi), and the south of Taixi is called Mexico, also known as Africa (called Taixi).

The map on the left wall is titled "The Whole Map of the Daming Imperial Territory", which is a full map of all the areas under the control of the Daming Dynasty, including the Daming mainland, vassal states, and royal territories.

The scope of the map is based on the mainland, plus North Korea, Japan, Dongxianbei (Eastern Siberia), Nanyang, Tiannan (Australia and New Zealand and other islands).

West of North Yinzhou (west of North American Rocky Mountains, north of Mexico), southern South Yinzhou (south of Paraguay Basin in South America), Yingzhou (Hawaii Islands).

Tianzhu (Bangladesh, Pakistan, northern India), Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Persia (the coastal area around the Persian Gulf).

West Sea (Sinai Peninsula), East Mexico (Djibouti, Somalia), South Mexico (South Africa), Maryland (Madagascar).

There are also most of the archipelagos and islands in the Great Ming Ocean (Pacific Ocean) and the Lesser Ocean (Indian Ocean) such as Samoa and Andaman.

Most of the control areas outside the mainland mainly exist in the form of vassal states, and a few areas are "huangzhuang" directly under the royal family.

At present, most of the two ocean regions of the Great Ming Ocean (Pacific Ocean) and the Little West Ocean (Indian Ocean) are the sphere of influence of the Ming Empire.

Only the United Kingdom occupies half of Tianzhu, half of the Dashi Peninsula (Arabian Peninsula), and most of Egypt, and there are several small-scale islands in the Lesser Ocean.

Spain controlled Yinzhou's landmass from Mexico to Peru, with a few scattered islands in the surrounding area.

The map hanging on the wall on the right is titled "Quanyu Quantu", which is the world map.

But this world area is actually very similar to the full map of the Ming Dynasty on the left, and you can't tell the difference if you don't get close.

Because they originally used the same base map, they are all global maps centered on the Ming Dynasty, but the focus of the labels is different.

The world map is mainly marked with foreign countries, while domestic areas are relatively simple.

The world map centered on the Ming Dynasty will divide the Atlantic Ocean into two parts and place them on the extreme edges of both sides of the map, giving people a very inconspicuous feeling.

The Atlantic Ocean happens to be the vacuum zone of Daming's influence. As a result, it seems that Daming's sphere of influence has spread all over the world, but in fact it is much worse.

North Yinzhou only circles a long strip in the west, South Yinzhou only circles a triangle in the south, and Mexico (Africa) only controls the two corners of East Mexico (Somalia) and South Mexico (South Africa).

Tianzhu only accounted for half, and the Dashi area to the west of Tianzhu only controlled the surrounding area of ​​the Persian Gulf, and there was no stronghold in the western region of Thailand.

The current Daming Empire wants to turn the whole world into a vassal state, that is, a de facto colony, combining the world map with the full map of the Ming Dynasty.

But in Zhu Jingyuan's view, these sites are now enough.

In the future, oil in the Persian Gulf, iron and uranium mines in Australia, and granaries in South America and Indochina are all in hand.

As long as the current situation is stabilized and these lands and resources are truly digested, then the Ming Dynasty is truly invincible, stronger than the British Empire in history.

If you continue to support it now, in case the situation collapses and the empire disintegrates, it will really be over.

Therefore, the next task of the empire should be to end this consuming war as soon as possible and devote its energy to maintaining social stability.

To stabilize the internal situation of the empire, the method is actually very simple, as long as the Daming royal family spit out a little benefit, and no longer think about eating alone, but doing it is another matter.

Based on the experience of his two lifetimes, Zhu Jingyuan believes that the Ming Dynasty in this world may be one of the most powerful ruling groups in the world.

The royal consortium controlled by the royal family is the largest capital group in the empire, and it is also the contractor for almost all the franchise industries of the empire.

Mining, steelmaking, petroleum, roads, railways, terminals, large machinery and ships, finance, stocks, futures, tobacco, alcohol, sugar, tea and salt...

The traditional government-run industries in ancient times have been handed over to the royal consortium for exclusive management, and the emerging industries with huge profits are also given to the royal family consortium.

There are also a large number of high-cost industries, because the royal consortium's technology, capital, and first-mover advantages have objectively completed the actual monopoly, and private firms are unable to intervene.

The consortium also has privileges similar to those of the British East India Company. It controls its own armed forces and even fleets, and can directly open up, conquer and manage "Huangzhuang" overseas.

Some researchers believe that the wealth held by the royal consortium exceeds at least half of the empire's assets, and they are all key core assets.

At the same time, the clan groups of the new Ming Dynasty were completely different from those of the former Ming Dynasty. They had been completely modernized.

After Zhu Cilong was firmly established, he completely shuffled the Zhu Ming clan, achieved absolute control, and then established compulsory elite education in the clan.

The new generation of adult Zhu Ming clan, both male and female, basically have a level similar to that of modern college students, except for those who are really stupid and unable to educate.

He can also shoot, open cannons, ride horses, drive cars, and drive boats.

In the last years of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, the population of the clan reached about 30. After the rebirth of the Ming Dynasty, it did not shrink, but the reproduction speed accelerated again.

Since the Renwu Dynasty, the population of the clan has soared at a rate of doubling in 30 to 40 years, and it has approached the 150 million mark after 500 years.

That is to say, it is not impossible for the simple population of the clan to pull out an army of tens of thousands of people and organize a real "imperial army" of one million people.

The elite Zhu Ming clan of nearly 500 million, united around the emperor, strengthened the imperial power while also relying on the imperial power, and completely controlled the Ming Empire.

The entire empire has a population of more than 6 million, of which at least 2 million, and possibly even 3 million, are directly or indirectly working for the Daming Royal Consortium.

The huge assets of the royal consortium, together with the elite clan groups, and the population dependent on the life of the royal consortium, are the basis for the Zhu Ming Dynasty to maintain its rule, and it is also the shackles that imprison the power of the industrialized Ming Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)