Daming 1805

In the second half of the 30th year of the Grand Duke's reign, Zhudi Lan began to feel a little entangled.

According to past practice, the prince had to manage two provincial administrative regions respectively during his training.

And it requires that the environment and living customs of the two administrative regions are completely different.

If Zhudi Lan's Prussian political participation can be regarded as provincial-level practical training, plus the Western Region Chief Envoy, it will be considered as completing two provincial-level practical trainings.

By the end of that year, I should have received the appointment edict as Minister.

But participating in politics is not the chief envoy after all. Zhu Jingyuan's initial participation in politics is not counted, and he served as chief envoy twice later.

If Prussia's political participation does not count as provincial training, Zhudi Lan may have to go to another province.

As a result, before the end of the year, in early December of the 30th year of the Grand Duke's reign, Zhudi Lan received news from the imperial court and the clan's mansion.

Let yourself go back to Beijing directly.

Zhudi Lan was a little sad. Could it be that he really wanted to be the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs?

Zhudi Lan took his family, said goodbye to his former colleagues, and took the high-speed train to Yingtian Mansion.

Zhudi Lan left the capital before he came of age.

He left the capital directly without leaving the palace.

So originally there was no courtyard of its own in the capital.

But since he was coming back, the sect's mansion had to arrange a special courtyard for him.

After settling down, Zhudi Lan immediately went to the palace to see his father.

Zhu Jingyuan has rarely visited the three main palaces in recent years, and has not built any other palaces or annexes around the capital.

I usually live in the original Forbidden City, and my office is directly located in the Qianqing Palace.

Zhudi Lan was brought into the office by the servant of Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Jingyuan stood up from his chair and came to Zhudi Lan to look up and down.

This child is now fully grown, with a height of 1.7 meters, and a well-proportioned body shape that is neither fat nor thin.

The 24-year-old young man overall looks quite calm and mature.

Zhu Jingyuan patted his son's shoulder gently, and said with emotion in his expression and tone:
"That naughty kid back then has finally grown up..."

Judy Lan didn't know how to answer. What she said in her heart was that I would rather not grow up than have you arrange so much extra work for me:

"My son... thinks it's good to continue being a child, without having to worry about the world.

"But since I was born into the royal family, I don't dare to evade responsibility."

Zhu Jingyuan was speechless after hearing the first half of the sentence, but was quite satisfied after hearing the second half:
"Assuming you are self-aware, come with me to see these..."

Zhu Jingyuan called Zhudi Lan to his desk.

This huge table has three huge monitors on it.

Both have a resolution of 6400×3200 and a 72-point display.

72 square decimeters, the aspect ratio is two to one, the width is equivalent to a 45-inch monitor, and the length is equivalent to a 55-inch monitor.

Three giant screens now display a bunch of various... things...

Some are the latest movies and games, some are players playing competitive games in public, and some are painted characters chatting with the audience.

Some people are exploring the inland wilderness, some are living in seclusion in deep mountains and old forests, and some are running family farms.

After Zhu Jingyuan saw what was on the screen clearly, Zhu Jingyuan asked him:

"What do you think of these things?"

Zhudi Lan knew that this was a test of himself, but Zhudi Lan did not think deeply.

Anyway, I don’t seek high scores, and I have no intention of competing for jobs.

Just explain your thoughts intuitively:
"My son thinks it is very good, it is good for the people to relax their spirits, and it is good for the stability of the world.

"Now the Ming Dynasty has no external enemies, and the internal world society as a whole is highly stable.

“In this state, conflicts between internal classes and groups are the biggest instability factors.

“The widespread and even excessive use of simple entertainment products is a very important tool to calm and downplay conflicts.

“And relying on manufacturers, even huge government factories, cannot provide nearly unlimited entertainment products.

“The creativity of ordinary people and the cultural and entertainment products created through the Internet platform have well filled this part of the demand.

“And this act of creation itself also satisfies the creator’s own needs.

“My Ming Dynasty has achieved universal industrialization throughout the world.

“Social productivity has improved tremendously compared to ten years ago, and it has improved dramatically compared to 30 years ago.

“The income of ordinary people has increased more than ten times compared to a few decades ago.

“The basic needs of ordinary people in their daily lives have basically been fully met.

"According to my understanding, in the most affluent and balanced place in the world, the influence of money has even faded to a certain extent.

“Even businessmen are beginning to compare with calligraphy, painting, literary and artistic works, and the number of Internet followers.

"It's just like the ancient scholars competing in poems, lyrics, music and poems...

“The public has begun to generally have higher-level needs, that is, the need to achieve achievements and gain social recognition.

“This simple folk art creation reduces the difficulty of gaining social recognition by many levels.

“Although there are a few sensationalists, the court’s guidance and management are in place.

"Father's guidance has allowed the court to avoid a lot of negative impacts."

In the past few decades, the development of science and technology and industry in Ming Dynasty has been in a state of serious partiality.

It is also uneven across regions and categories.

Because Zhu Jingyuan, the leader, is not omniscient and omnipotent, it is impossible to provide comprehensive guidance to the industry.

Initially, it mainly pulled key industries such as steel, military, chemicals, and semiconductors forward quickly.

These industries first broke out at a rate of development far exceeding normal times.

Then they will drive other related industries and accelerate their respective development speeds with the indirectly affected industries.

In the past 20 years, cutting-edge industries have certainly continued to develop.

However, the density of technology is getting higher and higher, cutting-edge research is getting deeper and deeper, and it is becoming more and more difficult to popularize it directly.

Except for a few industries such as microprocessors, it is getting further and further away from ordinary people's lives.

This has allowed other conventional industries to gradually catch up.

It was not until the 30s that universal industrialization was achieved throughout the world.

Even Beiyinzhou and Ximozhou have a large number of conventional factories and businesses that can produce industrial products with local characteristics.

The current supply of industrial products in Ming Dynasty is extremely abundant, the product types are relatively rich, and the prices are quite low.

Now the whole world is a unified market, and there is no external currency impact caused by exports.

Ming Dynasty also did not pay attention to or even suppressed the financial industry.

There is no comprehensive free securities trading market, and the development of various lending industries is not encouraged or supported.

Ming Dynasty's factories and commercial banks were unable to obtain loans and orders exceeding their registered capital.

How much assets factories and firms have can enable them to do large-scale business.

Prohibit and combat any form of financial leverage.

If everyone wants to make money, they can only operate physical factories and commercial banks, but cannot speculate on financial products.

The insurance industry is not open to the public.

This series of policies and regulations, in the eyes of people in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, must have seriously restricted economic development.Without the drive of free private investment, how can various industries be built and developed?

From a financial perspective, Ming Dynasty has a lot of problems.

It is obviously a completely abnormal market with continued deflation, continued sluggish private investment, and numerous industry operating restrictions.

However, the materials produced in this world are extremely abundant and can be circulated normally throughout the world.

The four major industrial groups will even lose money transporting goods to where they are needed.

Because they are not a conventional pure business group, but a social basic material security organization controlled by the imperial court.

Ming Dynasty has never followed the path of the American free market driven by finance and investment.

Rather, it is a form similar to the Soviet-style planned economy as the absolute subject, with partial private markets as a supplement.

Especially after the complete unification of the world, the statistical caliber of the four major industrial groups is also changing, paying more and more attention to the quantity and quality of final products.

The primary goals are no longer industrial profitability and the market value of items.

Therefore, there was no significant inflation in the Ming Dynasty, and there was also no large-scale currency depreciation.

For formal workers in the official factories of the Ming Dynasty, monthly wages start at one hundred silver notes, which seems to be equivalent to 1 yuan based on previous purchasing power.

However, the living standards of workers in the Ming Dynasty who received one hundred silver notes must be far higher than those of the working class who received ten thousand yuan in previous lives.

First of all, workers in Ming Dynasty basically have no mortgages, and there are no expensive imported products on the market.

The industrial production capacity of Ming Dynasty is basically equivalent to that of Zhu Jingyuan's previous life in the whole world combined.

But all raw material sources and markets are “domestic”.

Whether it is traditional cars and home appliances, or emerging computers and mobile phones, they are rapidly becoming "cheap industrial products."

A car similar to Zhu Jingyuan's price of less than 3 yuan in his previous life was usually sold for three hundred silver notes, which was equivalent to [-] yuan in his previous life.

The current release price of top-of-the-line computers from official factories has dropped to less than one hundred silver coins.

When products are on clearance, they are usually discounted in half.

Mainstream products only cost about [-] silver coins and can run almost all programs on the market.

Smartphones usually cost less than 2000 silver notes, which is no different from Zhu Jingyuan's [-] yuan mobile phone in his previous life. The most high-end products do not exceed [-] silver notes.

The Ming Dynasty industrialized the world and built a large number of factories that absorbed a large number of ordinary people as workers.

What's more important is that ordinary workers can maintain a decent and comfortable life.

Most ordinary people's children will not consider college from the beginning as long as they discover that their talents are not particularly good during their free primary school years.

The largest number of children of ordinary workers go directly to learn craftsmanship after graduating from primary school.

Ordinary people have not formed the understanding that they must go to college, and students begin to be diverted on a large scale as soon as they graduate from elementary school.

In addition, the imperial court paid special attention to education and built public schools throughout the world.

Naturally, the pressure for further studies and education will not be high.

People in the Ming Dynasty do not have universal compulsory medical insurance, but the medical care in the Ming Dynasty is also a basic social security industry.

The cost is not much higher than Zhu Jingyuan's medical reimbursement in his previous life.

In the past, American-style market-oriented medical care first raised the basic medical expenses and then used medical insurance to suppress them, resulting in a high GDP.

This is also the financial industry to some extent.

The world of Ming Dynasty is an industrialized world that basically does not rely on the financial industry for its operation.

It is a world with basically no capital bubbles.

Now there are even signs that, as Zhudi Lan said, the influence of money is beginning to fade in the generally wealthy areas at the core of the Ming Dynasty.

Because not everyone has the ability to invest and become a boss.

For those who have the ability to be owners, after the industries they invest in develop, they can easily be bought into or even absorbed by the four major industrial groups.

These entrepreneurs are left with a lot of money and then have nothing to do.

The key is that Ming Dynasty did not encourage them to engage in finance, and their money can only be used for actual living expenses.

The traditional culture of the Ming Dynasty does not encourage unlimited extravagance and waste, but encourages charity and giving back to society, and encourages the pursuit of literary and artistic standards.

This group of people has become the latest generation of people in the world who are rich, leisurely and capable.

So start pursuing other levels of achievement.

The traditional literature and art system of the Ming Dynasty had natural competition and entertainment qualities, and it was quickly discovered.

At this stage of social development, Zhu Jingyuan asked Judy Lan to evaluate various new things appearing on the Internet.

Judy Lan made a few general remarks in a casual manner, but did not continue to analyze in more specific details.

Zhu Jingyuan was quite satisfied with the angle chosen by Judy Lan, but was not satisfied that it ended in just a few sentences.

Zhu Jingyuan raised his right hand and pointed at several animated characters on the screen:

"Be more specific. For example, this kind of electronic shadow puppet...

“Initially, it was said that it was made with reference to the form of shadow puppetry, and it was a program used to perform on the computer screen through the Internet.

“Just as the simulation world has always had interaction and participation as its highest goal, it has also quickly transcended the original pure performance form of shadow puppetry.

“Start using relatively fixed people to play relatively fixed virtual roles and interact directly with audiences on the Internet.

“The storyline that opera should have is constantly changing and even beginning to decline in the process.

“Especially after the relevant technology was made public and a large number of ordinary people participated, the performances of many individual actors became more and more casual.

“Many of them have no script at all, they just chat with the audience or watch something casually.

“In my opinion, this kind of person is no longer a traditional actor, but is playing virtual role-playing.

"The most outrageous thing is that there are men pretending to be women on the men's network, and there are women pretending to be men on the women's network, and they are very popular.

"But I checked the household registration, and the images of most of the shadow puppet performers... are hard to describe in one word.

“At the same time, during the investigation, we found that there are also women who use the male accounts of their relatives to say that they are men on men’s websites and then pretend to be women.

“Of course there is also the opposite, where men use women’s accounts, say they are women on women’s websites, and then pretend to be men.

"What do you think about this kind of thing? How do you think the court should treat it?"

Daming's network registration and use is based on real-name system, but this real-name system is the user's real-name to the service provider and management agency.

But when ordinary users communicate with each other, there is no way to directly see each other’s real information.

It is equivalent to the vehicle management office and the traffic police. When you see the make of a car, you can directly check the database and get the car's information and the owner's information.

But ordinary people only see a few numbers on the license plate and cannot directly understand other information about the owner.

Ordinary people can't even see the license plate most of the time.

Basically no one directly uses the identity number as an online nickname, and most of them use another font size.

Just like Judy Lan's commonly used Internet nickname is Jinling 64 Young Master.

When others look at this name, they think he must be the 64th among his brothers in the family.

Those who know his identity will understand that he is a biological brother.

However, the Internet in Ming Dynasty is still segregated between men and women.

Therefore, in the Internet of one gender, there is no normal and legal form of another gender.

Things like openly pretending to be of the opposite sex and pretending to be the opposite sex also appeared.

Just like the Qing Dynasty, prostitutes were not allowed in the capital at first, but as a result, brothels where men were used to pick up clients appeared.

It's just that you can't do business on the Internet, and you don't need to find someone of the same sex in reality.

So there are only heterosexual performances on the Internet in Ming Dynasty.