Daming 1805

Chapter 441 What about the Imperial Cemetery?
The meeting site was quiet for a while. The monarchs of Xianbei, Kazakhstan, Khiva, Persia, and Egypt considered the various impacts of Zhu Jingyuan's reform plan or request.

Although the several princes had their own ideas about whether these requirements were good or bad, they all chose to accept them in the end.

Luo Yashan, the Duke of Xianbei who has the closest relationship with Zhu Jingyuan, finally continued to ask:
"Your Highness, regarding the ticket and purchase restriction system currently being implemented in Edo, how should it be implemented in our feudal states?"

Zhu Jingyuan waved his hand directly and said:

"Regarding the ticket and purchase restriction system, it is not currently considered to be implemented in the vassal state.

"Of course, if the princes of the state want to try to promote it themselves, the imperial court will not interfere."

Egyptian King Muyi tried to ask:

"Your Highness, is it because the relevant policies are still being verified, so you won't do a larger-scale promotion for the time being?"

Zhu Jingyuan waved his hand again:
"No, it was never considered to be promoted in the feudal kingdom from the very beginning.

"In the future... although it cannot be said that it will not be considered at all in the future.

"But at least the foreseeable future, I haven't considered it."

Several vassal monarchs suddenly fell into thinking again.

The role of tickets and the purchase restriction system, the several princes have either considered themselves or discussed with their staff.

They are more or less able to understand the possible impact of these programs.

In the short term, it may restrict development and reduce expected returns, but in the long run, it may contribute to social stability.

But whether it is the extent of the expected return reduction, the degree of limiting the development speed, or the benefits of long-term stability, they do not have a clear understanding.

They actually expect Daming to make a decision for them now, which saves them from thinking about it themselves.

As a result, Daming didn't make a decision for them now, and let them decide whether to do it by themselves, and they became entangled again.

A few seconds later, Lord Xianbei Luo Yashan couldn't help but continue to ask Zhu Jingyuan for his opinion:

"Dare to ask Your Highness, do you think we should implement policies related to tickets and purchase restrictions?"

Zhu Jingyuan directly spread his hands and said:

"I don't think this matter matters to you.

"The ticket and purchase restriction policy is a targeted prevention and stability maintenance policy specially formulated for the actual situation in the core area of ​​Daming and similar surrounding areas.

"The few of you are all vassal states of Ming Dynasty, and your stability is directly protected by Ming Dynasty.

"The key point is that the population size of your vassal states is relatively limited, and this kind of policy based on the idea of ​​fairness will not be too obvious regardless of its advantages and disadvantages.

"You don't need to be entangled in this kind of thing, I have more important things for you.

"I specially prepared a pilot reform plan for the situation of your vassal states."

The monarchs of several vassal states were really not entangled immediately when they heard this.

The situation in their own country is indeed too different from the cultural customs in the core area of ​​Ming Dynasty.

The Egyptian prince Muyi immediately asked:
"What arrangements does His Highness have, we must fully cooperate..."

Zhu Jingyuan also said very directly:

"For you vassal states, what His Majesty the Emperor and the imperial court are more concerned about is to allow you to truly integrate into the Ming system economically and culturally.

"According to this ultimate goal, I have prepared an integrated solution in three aspects, one is urbanization, the other is industrialization, and the third is emancipation of women."

Several monarchs listened attentively, but they were confused at the beginning, and they didn't turn the corner all at once.

With the goal of culturally and economically integrating into Ming Dynasty, industrialization and urbanization are relatively easy to understand, but is there any necessary relationship between the liberation of women and the goal in the end?

Of course there is a connection. Women's social status and self-awareness are the most basic part of traditional culture.

To maintain their original traditional culture and way of life, it is necessary to maintain the existing status and self-awareness of women.

To break the traditional culture of certain areas and let them accept foreign cultures, it is necessary to do the opposite.

The situation in Xianbei and Kazakhs is even better. The cultural atmosphere of the upper class is originally inclined to Ming Dynasty, while the middle and lower classes retain a strong customs and habits related to the Mongolian Yellow Sect and some cultures related to the Orthodox Church of Lucia.

The Mongolian folk traditions and the Yellow Sect culture system can be regarded as relatively marginal components of the Central Plains Celestial Dynasty culture, and they can be naturally and organically combined with the Ming culture.

Persia and Egypt have very strong Tianfangjiao culture...

Afghanistan, the historical cemetery of the empire, is now mostly in Persia.

After Egypt joined Daming, it received a large number of Tianfang Sect believers that Ming transferred from the entire Dashi Kingdom area.

Certain traditions of Tianfang Sect are in obvious conflict with Ming traditions.

In order to solve the cultural problems in these places and make them truly enlightened fundamentally and thoroughly, the medicine cited by Zhu Jingyuan is to liberate women.

The specific means of emancipating women are urbanization and industrialization.

Zhu Jingyuan could understand the doubts of several monarchs, so he basically didn't pause, and then continued to explain:

"Concentrate the development and construction of large cities, and send the population from scattered villages to large cities for centralized management.

"The process of urbanization, like the previous process of war and regime change, will bring about subversive changes in the living environment and way of ordinary people.

"In the process of this change, it is relatively easy to get rid of outdated parts of traditional culture, and even lead us to any more reasonable direction.

"At the same time, from Xianbei to Anxi to Persia, they are all places with vast land, sparsely populated and complex environments.

"Collecting the scattered population will make it easier for you to manage the vassal states, and of course it will also increase the income of the vassal states.

"Develop labor-intensive industries, recruit and attract large numbers of workers to work in factories.

"Let workers, including women, obtain a stable and continuous income, so that they can break away from family and traditional life.

"Women can become workers and gain economic independence before they can be truly independent in society.

"In this process, we can eliminate the original Tianfangjiao customs and complete the real secular social transformation.

"The key point is to liberate women, so that they are no longer imprisoned in the traditional family, so that they can independently accept and integrate into the culture and way of life of Ming Dynasty.

"At the same time, objectively, this process is also the process of modernization and industrialization of your vassal states. Industry can generate economic benefits far beyond the agricultural era, and greatly increase the income of your vassal states.

"So, for you vassal states, this process is of course beneficial.

"So I think, if His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, the court of Ming Dynasty, and manufacturers of Ming Dynasty are willing to invest, you should be very willing to accept it, right?"

Zhu Jingyuan's explanation was very straightforward, and the monarchs of the vassal states quickly understood it.

For the rulers of Anxi, Persia, Egypt and other places, the secular industrialization reform is of course beneficial to them, provided there is no external violent intervention.

The lives of ordinary people can improve. As monarchs, they can get more taxes, control more population through cities and factories, and gain higher actual power.

The disadvantages are also obvious. After concentrating the population originally scattered in a harsh environment into a few big cities, when encountering foreign violent aggression, the resistance will be reduced too much.

Correspondingly, Daming's ability to control several vassal states will also be raised to a higher level.

In the future, although the next few vassal states are still vassal states in name, they will be firmly bound by Ming Dynasty in all aspects of politics, economy, culture, and military affairs.

However, in the eyes of several vassal kings, this is not necessarily a bad thing, and the key is also irresistible.

The princes of Kazakhstan, Anxi, Persia, and Xianbei immediately patted their chests and promised to cooperate fully.

Only Egyptian Duke Mu Yi hesitated for a few seconds and asked an uncertain question:

"His Royal Highness, we know that urbanization and industrialization are beneficial to us and the common people, but ordinary people and the actual managers at the local grassroots level, and even middle and high-level bureaucrats may not be able...or willing to accept this kind of change."

Zhu Jingyuan glanced at Mu Yi for a while, the brain reaction of this historical celebrity has always been faster than the others.

However, Zhu Jingyuan felt that his reforms in Egypt were relatively successful in history. If Britain and France hadn't intervened, he might have defeated Ottoman and rebuilt a new Arab empire.

Now under the management of Daming, let him simply carry out a reform in Egypt, it is impossible for him to fail.

Does saying that now mean that you need to take care of your difficulties?

But no matter what the other party thinks, Zhu Jingyuan will not follow his train of thought:
"The Egyptian king might as well just say that the vested interests get it.

"Of course, the reform will harm the vested interests of the existing order, but it is not impossible to compromise.

"You can try to bring in some vested interests who are willing to accept changes in the process of establishing a new order.

"Then make the part that cannot accept change the common enemy of the new community of interests.

"Advancing according to this idea should be able to complete these social transformations relatively smoothly.

"If there is any problem that cannot be solved, you can ask Daming for help or simply consult.

"You are the Dukes of Daming, and Daming can provide you with all-round support in politics, economy, culture, and management.

"In your own domain, you have almost unlimited power.

"If you still can't solve the problem of urbanization and industrialization reform under such circumstances, you can directly ask the officials of Ming Dynasty to accept it and become a vain monarch."

Mu Yi, the Duke of Egypt, immediately understood what Zhu Jingyuan meant:
This job is not a big problem, at least it is not a big problem for you, the Ming court will also provide support.

You can't handle these things under such circumstances, so why don't you be the monarch of this vassal state.

Mu Yi could only promise in a hurry that he would work hard to carry out this reform.

The other princes complained a little bit about Mu Yi, but they didn't talk nonsense at this time, so they reassured together.

At this point in the topic, the official meeting is almost over.

Afterwards, we talked about some details, and it was time for lunch.

Zhu Jingyuan directly hosted a banquet in the palace for the five vassal monarchs.

After lunch, the five princes returned to their residences.

Digest the information received at today's meeting, and discuss future plans with your subordinates.

And thinking and discussing the things that I still need to ask Zhu Jingyuan for instructions.

After Zhu Jingyuan sent away several vassal monarchs, he also recalled and sorted out and considered whether he should discuss with the Duke of Persia specifically about the issue of the "empire cemetery".

But after thinking about it again, I still feel that this matter seems completely unnecessary.

In the original history, the fundamental reason why a place like Afghanistan could become an imperial cemetery is that its strategic position is too important, and it has been coveted by several great empires in turn since modern times.

When an empire tries to conquer and conquer Afghanistan, there are always several equal or sub-empires that interfere openly or covertly.

But before modern times, before the intervention of foreign empires, Persia had long ruled Afghanistan for nearly 2000 years.

After the establishment of the Persian dynasties, they were able to conquer Afghanistan relatively smoothly.

Although according to the standards of the Ming Dynasty, most of the time it should be ruled by Jiji, but the local aborigines did recognize the rule of the Persian monarch.

But for the later empire of the conquerors, they just didn't recognize it.

Even if the leaders of the nominal Afghan region admit it, the local military leaders and forces may not accept it, and they will always play tricks with the support of other forces.

In addition, the local terrain and environment are extremely harsh, the local population is extremely scattered, and there are traditional religious and cultural influences, so no foreign empire has been able to conquer Afghanistan since modern times.

If compared with such an environment and standards, Persia after modern times can also be regarded as a larger empire cemetery, and there is no great empire in history that can completely conquer Persia.

After modern times, the worst time in Persian history was also when Britain and Lucia partnered to divide the sphere of influence in Persia.

Continuing to deduce this standard, Lucia can be regarded as an imperial purgatory even more.

Afghanistan is just impossible to conquer, and Lucia can directly collapse several empires.

The "cemetery of empires" is something that happened after modern times. Afghanistan has long been the territory of Persia in classical times, and Persia has also been ruled by foreign dynasties for a long time.

In the present world, the main body of Persia has become the dog of Ming Dynasty, and the surrounding area of ​​Afghanistan is also the sphere of influence of Ming Dynasty, and there is no way for other empires to intervene.

Daming supports the integration of Afghans in Persia, which is completely a large cemetery fighting a small cemetery, which happens to be the business counterpart.

Coupled with the large-scale urbanization and industrialization plan proposed by Zhu Jingyuan, it was originally the best method for later generations to break the local traditional customs.

With better material living standards brought about by industrialization, and with targeted managers and means, the mountain people living scattered in the mountains will be pulled into cities and factories.

Let cities and factories, the social melting pot, dissolve their original traditions as much as possible.

Afghanistan in this world did not have the title of an imperial cemetery before, and there should be no chance of getting this title in the future.

(End of this chapter)