I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Originally, the Ming Royal Navy's ocean-going fleet was only a temporary establishment. If they returned from a visit to Spain, the ocean-going fleet would be disbanded, and all generals and soldiers would do whatever they were supposed to do.

After all, although the commander of the Ocean Fleet, Deng Xianwu, holds a military position and is also a rear admiral, the problem is that he has really never done any other job besides teaching.

When he learned that Speichers, deputy steward of the Governor-General of the Netherlands East India, begged him, Deng Xianwu still felt inexplicable: "Why did he ask to see me?"

As a cabinet minister of the Ming Dynasty and a ministerial official on a state visit to Spain, Xie Jinglin, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, smiled lightly and said: "They must go to the Three Treasures Palace for nothing. They must have important things. These foreign devils will definitely not be able to do anything until trouble comes." No cramming!"

On the Chang'an, the flagship of the ocean-going fleet, Specks took his assistants, translators and more than a dozen people aboard the warship, which had more than [-] materials.

In terms of tonnage, this is [-] tons, which is even larger than the British first-class battleship HMS Sea Monarch. However, in terms of the number of artillery, it can only be regarded as a third-class battleship.

However, the firepower of this kind of battleship is too powerful, and it is by no means comparable to the main third-level battleships of the Netherlands. The Netherlands relies on its strong maritime power to colonize overseas. But the problem is that now the maritime power of the Netherlands is placed in front of the Ming Dynasty Navy. Not worth mentioning at all.

Even Erwin, the commander of the Dutch East India Company's combined fleet, had to admit that at least six third-level battleships were needed to barely deal with one of Ming's third-level battleships. Of course, this was just a morale-boosting explanation, let alone six. I am afraid that sixteen third-level battleships cannot deal with even one battleship of the Ming Dynasty.

This is because the Ming Dynasty's navy never goes to sea alone. It is at least a patrol-level squadron with more than four warships. A fleet of the size of the Ming Dynasty now would probably gather all the warships in the Netherlands. Not necessarily enough.

"Dear General, we in the Netherlands, including myself, are full of affection and yearning for the mysterious Eastern civilization. Since the establishment of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, successive kings have sent envoys to the Ming Dynasty to present exquisite gifts to the Ming Emperor. Daming must be able to feel this friendship..."

Deng Xianwu listened to the translator's translation and couldn't help but interrupt: "Indeed, our Ming Dynasty felt it. In the 30th year of Wanli, you Dutch invaded our Ming Dynasty vassal Fenni, and then our Ming Dynasty Sanxuan Liuweisi (territory Including today's Thailand, Myanmar and Cambodia), in the fourth year of Tianqi, they directly invaded our Ming Dynasty Penghu, and had a naval battle with our Ming Dynasty in Penghu, and invaded our Ming Dynasty in the same year, we all remember it clearly!"

Listening to the translator, Specks broke out in cold sweat. Han people are very vengeful.

In fact, this is our tradition. Even after more than 1000 years, ask any Chinese who doesn’t remember Broken Leaf?In the birthplace of Li Bai in the Tang Dynasty, was that the territory of the Tang Dynasty?
We remember, always remember.

If we set our sights on any piece of land, we will fight to death even if we fight to the death. As powerful as the Xiongnu, it took more than 400 years for the two Han Dynasties to grind to death. After the Western Han Dynasty established the Western Region Protectorate, all dynasties have His ability is to regain the Western Region.

In the eyes of neighboring countries and nations, the ferocity of the Han people is deep down. No matter which piece of land they set their sights on, they will take 50, 100, or even two to three hundred years to defeat it. No matter which opponent they set their sights on, no matter how hard they fight, In order to die together, you have to pull the other party to die together, and never allow the other party to continue to evolve and grow. It is completely different from the ferocity of the nomads who die in three minutes.

It's a pity that textbooks don't talk about this and only emphasize the integration of ethnic groups.The beautiful country has written the war of expelling and massacring Indians into their textbooks. They proudly believe that this land was won by the bravery of their ancestors; China has been emphasizing national integration, but a group of middle school students fell ill and thought that this 960 million square meter Kilometers of land are given away by charging phone bills...

Listening to Deng Xianwu's words, Specks hurriedly explained: "The things about Annan and Taungoo are all misunderstandings. It is the private behavior of the blind Carlos and the idiot Solano, and the relationship with the Dutch East Indies." The company has nothing to do with it. We, the Dutch East India Company and the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, have always valued our friendship with the Ming Dynasty..."

As the saying goes, eat with taste and listen to words.

Whether it was Deng Xianwu or Xie Jinglin, they all understood what the Dutch meant. They were here to be slaughtered, and if they didn't take action, they would be sorry.

Xie Jinglin and Deng Xianwu, one playing the red face and the other playing the bad side, bluffed Specs to the point where he couldn't find his way. Of course, the two of them quickly figured out the Dutchman's plan. What he didn't say, they just slashed wildly.

After repeated efforts, Ming Dynasty signed a friendly trade treaty with the Dutch India Company in exchange for 95 Dutch guilders and the territory of Paraguay.

Of course, what Specks didn't know was that the Ming Dynasty silk, tea, and various industrial products they peeped at would not only fail to help the Dutch improve the domestic business environment, but would also quickly impact the Dutch economic environment.

Now because of the tulip incident in the Netherlands, this is also the world's first economic and financial bubble (if you are interested, you can check it out, but I won't introduce it here, after all, it is a small number of words).

After leaving the Strait of Malacca, the ocean-going fleet entered the vast ocean.This huge fleet separated here. Ren Bao, the general of the Luzon fleet, led the Luzon fleet to the Australian mainland. This fleet not only had a large amount of weapons, crop seeds, supplies, but also thousands of prisoners. These unfortunate prisoners Will become immigrants who are exiled to Zhanzhou.

As for the Coconut City Fleet, it headed east along the coastline of the South Asian subcontinent. Their mission was to carry out state visits to South Asian countries.

The ocean-going fleets were loaded with exquisite silks, porcelain, handicrafts and tea. Everywhere they visited, they stopped to visit the local lords, gave valuable gifts to the lords, and sold the luxury goods they brought. These exquisite goods were favored by It was enthusiastically sought after by countless people, and the natives rushed to buy it.

The Ming merchants and officials were all dumbfounded by this fanaticism, and they secretly beat their thighs and sighed: "If we had known these goods were so popular, we would have organized our own fleet to explore overseas markets. Why bother?" Let people earn huge price differences through Xiyi!"

The fleet arrived in the Middle East, docked in Istanbul, and embarked on a goodwill visit to the Ottoman Empire.

At this time, the Ottoman Empire's national power was at its peak. The crescent flag was flying across the three continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Countless fierce warriors waved their full-moon scimitars and shouted wildly under the guidance of the crescent flag, launching a wave of war against Europe, Asia, and Africa. Attacks like a whirlwind of wind and rain.

Apart from Egypt, there is no country worth mentioning in Africa, and the Ottoman expansion into Asia has reached its limit, and Europe has become their key target. Whether it is for military considerations or religious conflicts, the Ottomans No empire will let Europe go.The Renaissance awakened Europe from the dark Middle Ages. The Age of Discovery gave Europe access to the American continent. The military strength of European countries is growing rapidly. One or two countries may not be very good, but if the entire Europe unites behind the cross, After forming a strong alliance, it became the most terrifying enemy of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire would never allow Europe to develop calmly, and eventually turned against itself!
So he beat him to death.They first encroached on the territory of the Byzantine Empire step by step, and finally captured Constantinople, the strongest city in Europe and the heroic city that "never falls", bringing a bloody end to the Roman Empire's thousand-year dream of rejuvenation. ;
Then the crescent flag moved westward and was planted under the city of Vienna again and again, only one step away from Western Europe.It wasn't until the powerful Ottoman cavalry roared across the plains of Central Europe that the Europeans discovered that they had done a stupid thing. They sat back and watched the destruction of Byzantium, which deprived Europe of an excellent bridgehead to curb the Ottoman Empire's westward movement.

Now they had to fight the Ottoman cavalry on the plains of Central Europe.At sea, the war between the Ottoman Empire and the Venetian city-state has been going on for more than a century. The Venetian city-state was originally the overlord of the Mediterranean. With its excellent naval warfare technology, it repeatedly defeated the Ottoman Empire's navy, which was not good at naval warfare.

However, the terrifying national power of the Ottoman Empire has time and again made the results achieved by the Venetian city-state become meaningless. The Venetians can no longer remember how many Ottoman fleets they have annihilated and how many enemy ships they have sunk. I only know that no matter how serious the losses to the Ottoman Empire's navy are, they can always make up for it within a year or two. In this war, the Venetians have no chance of winning!

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At the same time, as the Ming Dynasty's science and technology center, Liaodong's technology is becoming more and more developed, and more and more industries require fire cattle, which consume a large amount of steel, and there is an urgent need for steel processing tools.

Wang Ji, a craftsman from the Ministry of War in Nanjing, invented the dovetail milling cutter powered by a steam engine. Friends who are skilled in machine tool operations should be aware of the application of dovetail milling cutters in the industrial field. After this machine was invented, it was established as a national Level Science and Technology Award.

Wang Ji was specially instructed by Cheng Shijie to reward Jinzhou with a five-level mansion covering an area of ​​ten acres, and a one percent annual patent fee. Wang Ji would have an income of 4 taels of silver just from the patent fee, even if he had nothing to do with it. No need to do anything, you can just eat and wait to die.

Of course, Wang Ji is just a microcosm of the development of Ming technology.In just two years of reform, the Ming court distributed more than 890 million taels in rewards for scientific and technological progress.

This was even higher than the fiscal revenue during the Chongzhen Dynasty. Of course, these innovative inventions brought even more considerable economic benefits to the court.

However, these technologies can only alleviate the lack of human resources in Ming Dynasty, but they cannot fundamentally solve the problem.

Nowadays, the shortage of people in the Ming Dynasty is getting more and more serious. This is an objective problem. As the main wheat producing area of ​​the Ming Dynasty, Henan Province, Guide Prefecture, had a population of nearly [-] million in later generations, but how many people are there now?
There are less than 50 people, equivalent to only one-twentieth of future generations, but they own more than 1000 million acres of arable land. These 50 people, including 16% of newborns, only have 50% of the adult labor force if the adult labor force is included. The population aged above 26 and below is more than [-].

In fact, Guide Prefecture is pretty good, and Hunan and Hubei have smaller populations.

The cabinet proposed that the Ming Dynasty had a small population and wanted to attract slaves captured by war and slaves plundered by Western barbarians.

Cheng Shijie refused directly.

If the population is increased now, Cheng Jialong will definitely be cheated. These cheap laborers are just drinking doves to quench their thirst, and the gain outweighs the loss.

The King of Chu had such a thin waist that many people died of starvation in the palace. Cheng Shijie's voice represented Cheng Shijie's will.

Hence, the distinction between Huayi and Huayi.The cabinet bosses in the imperial court, censors, officials, and even bachelors from the National History Museum or the Hongwen Museum came out to make their presence felt. They spoke in detail, quoted scriptures, and argued endlessly.

"Yi" was originally a general term used by the Chinese people for non-Chinese peoples. This "Yi" means "Yi" in a broad sense. It can be seen from "Yu Gong", "The Book of Songs", "Huainanzi" and other documents that as long as It is a different nation from the Huaxia people, and they are all called "Yi" no matter where they are.

For example, "Shangshu. Dayu Mo": "There is no danger and no waste, and the king of the four barbarians comes." "Huainanzi. Yuan Dao Xun": "Yu showed virtue to him, and the guests from overseas flocked to him, and the four barbarians accepted him." "Mao Shi" "Justice": "During the reign of King You, the four barbarians invaded and all China rebelled." These "barbarians" all contain the character "四", so the "barbarians" are the collective name for the non-Chinese ethnic groups in the four directions.

Well, in the eyes of the ancient Chinese, you can actually think that, except for the Chinese, everyone else is a barbarian, a barbaric and uncivilized barbarian.The barbarians interpreted it from the glyphs in the Chinese oracle bone inscriptions, meaning "razor" means "flat", which means "big" and "bow".We can explain it in this way, that is, in ancient times, the Chinese ancestors expelled and attacked the barbarians, conquered them spiritually, and destroyed them physically.

The Chinese nation’s strategy of conquest is to leave the land without leaving any people behind.

It's incredible. China in ancient times was actually a corner of the Central Plains, and the people who originally lived around the Central Plains were all barbarians. Where did these barbarians go? In fact, they were either integrated into the Chinese nation, or they were wiped out.

The fundamental reason for the success of the Manchu and barbarian transformation of China was that Confucius, who had only respected Confucianism for thousands of years, was gradually deified.He was idolized and considered to be extremely upright in every word and deed, becoming the embodiment of correctness and truth.His teachings became classic doctrines and sacred maxims, which were absoluteized, carried forward absolutely, and twisted to the point of becoming the main god who ruled the spirit from generation to generation.

Because of the concept of being good at learning and becoming an official, studying Confucian classics has become a pursuit in life, a stepping stone to enter the official career, and a magical tool for carp to leap over the dragon's gate. Studying Confucian classics and becoming a successful person is a shortcut to the south.

Because those in power want to restrict the freedom of thought of the broad masses of the people, cultivate and train groups of slaves, and do not allow the interpretation and development of Confucian classics, in turn Confucian doctrine and thought have become a spirit that restrains and imprisons the broad masses of the people. The dogma and rope basically achieved the original purpose of dynasty rule.

But no one can solve the problem of Ming Dynasty.

Cheng Shijie thought of a very crucial question: "I remembered that Yin merchants immigrated to America!"

As a result, countless people began to quote scriptures and found relevant clues. (End of chapter)