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

In 1045 BC, King Wu of Zhou led the allied forces of the Zhou Dynasty to capture the Shang capital Chao Ge. Emperor Xin of the Shang Dynasty burned himself on Lutai, and the Shang Dynasty was destroyed.

At that time, Youhouxi, who was fighting against Dongyi in Shandong, led a 25 merchant army to fight against Dongyi. His retreat was cut off by the Zhou army. As a last resort, Youhouxi led an army of [-] to cross eastward to America.

Of course, this is simply not true.Anyone with some common sense in life knows that the survivors of the Yin Shang Dynasty really did not have the ability to cross the Pacific and reach the Americas 3000 years ago. At least anyone with some common sense in navigation knows this.

However, as soon as Cheng Shijie raised this matter, he was sprayed to death.

Although Youhouxi was a prince in the Shang Dynasty, his fiefdom was in the area (today's Jiangsu), which was called Huaiyi at that time.Youhouxi itself is not considered Chinese, but one of the four barbarians of the Shang Dynasty.Moreover, the 25-strong army of Youhou Xi that can be verified includes Yu Yi, Lai Yi, Huai Yi, Feng Yi, Huang Yi, Yu Yi, Bai Yi, Chi Yi, Xuanyi, Yang Yi, Fan Yi, Lan Yi, Tribes such as Shifang, Erfang, Renfang, Banfang, Linfang, Yufang, Hufang (the north bank of the upper reaches of the Huai River), Renfang (the people are the same as Yi, so Yi Fang, now in the Yishui area), etc. It’s not China.

Well, Cheng Shijie also knows the truth. In fact, with the development of human DNA technology, biologists finally solved the controversial topic among historians: based on DNA results, the origin of Native Americans was finally determined: they He is not a descendant of the Chinese, has nothing to do with the Yin Shang immigrants, and certainly has nothing to do with the Phoenicians.

Ancestors of Native Americans from North Asia.They left North Asia more than 1 years ago and entered the Americas through the Bering Sea Ice Bridge.

Cheng Shijie looked at Cheng Jialong and said: "Now the Ming Dynasty is facing a manpower shortage problem. Manpower shortages are being reported everywhere. What do you think you should do to solve the manpower shortage problem?"

"The easiest way is to catch black slaves. Anyway, there are many of them, and unlike later generations, they are the easiest to manage and very honest!"

Cheng Jialong smiled and said: "In future generations, those bastards will be spoiled!"

"Have you ever thought about a serious problem?"

Cheng Shijie pondered: "That's France. Although whites still dominate, the population ratio of whites to blacks is infinitely close, reaching six to four, which is already very dangerous!"

Cheng Jialong said without hesitation: "That would be easier. Castrate them and prevent them from leaving offspring. Their genes are too powerful and must be dealt with carefully!"

"But the problem is, once they are castrated, they have no strength. Just like eunuchs, their physical strength is no stronger than that of women!"

Cheng Shijie looked at the eunuchs in the distance and said, "Look, a palace maid can easily carry a hundred kilograms of weight. Those eunuchs can even carry seventy or eighty kilograms!"

Cheng Jialong continued: "That can only increase the birth rate of the Ming Dynasty. Actually, dad, you don't have to worry. Take Liaodong as an example. As long as there is enough food to eat, the people's concepts are different from those of later generations. They are still willing to have children now! In future generations, if people don’t want to have children, the biggest problem is too much pressure!”

Cheng Shijie nodded and said: "When I was a child, starting from the first grade of elementary school, I never asked your grandpa and grandma to send me off once. I always went to school with other children by myself. At that time, the elementary school was two and a half kilometers away from home. , I carry my schoolbag and go up there by myself every day. When I was in junior high school, I was fifteen miles away from home, so I went to school by myself!"

“The roads were very safe in those days, there were almost no cars!”

Cheng Jialong said: "I walked on the road you took to school when you were a child. That road was very safe. There is so much traffic now. How can parents trust their children to go to school? What's more, there are people who rob, deceive, and steal children. !”

"The main reason is that information has become more developed. Things happening on the other side of the earth can be transmitted over in a few minutes. Everything is feared to be infinitely magnified. Once Wuhen magnifies, it will cause panic!"

Cheng Shijie sighed and said: "The most fundamental reason is that the bastards in the Ministry of Education have done evil. The main body of our country is the working class. It is normal to go to work at 05 o'clock and get off work at 30 pm or 1:[-]. But the problem is that the children go to school. , they just set up a day at [-]:[-] noon and school ends at [-]:[-] in the afternoon. As long as a family has one child, it needs an adult to pick up and drop off the child. The annual tuition for a kindergarten is more than [-]. To train a child from From kindergarten to university, it’s impossible to do without hundreds of thousands!”

Cheng Jialong thought for a while and said: "Then we must change this problem. First of all, the school time must fully satisfy the working class, so that they can drop off before work and pick up after get off work. Especially at noon, the school must manage Rice, management tutoring homework!”

“Adjusting students’ schedules is a must!”

Cheng Shijie continued: "We must also increase the wage level of workers. At least we must ensure that a worker's monthly salary can support a family of five, at least five people, and not like the future generations!"

"There is nothing that future generations can do about it. Who wants the whole world to reap China's dividends?"

Cheng Jialong smiled and said: "Now the advantage lies with us. We can definitely follow the path of Western countries and leave them with nowhere to go!"

Cheng Shijie said: "There are only three ways to take it. The first is to improve the medical and health environment, increase the average life expectancy, and reduce the mortality rate of new babies. The second is to develop science and technology and use machinery to replace manpower!"

"The last point is to temporarily stop expansion and fully develop the economy."

Cheng Jialong said: "In fact, there is no need at all. We can not be so anxious to open up Hung Yen, Tian Shan, and Han Hai Provinces, and treat Hung Yen, Han Hai, and Tian Shan Provinces as no-man's land. Anyway, as long as the Ural Mountains are blocked, Maozi will not be able to come! "

“The Silk Road and Maritime Silk Road must be restarted!”

Cheng Shijie said seriously: "Economic development must be accelerated in an all-round way. As long as the railway network is completed, troops can be added anytime and anywhere in the Ming Dynasty to solve problems that arise!"

After the content of the conversation between Cheng Shijie and his son was improved and revised, it was passed to the cabinet, which asked the cabinet to discuss the issues of students' schooling, workers' lives, and farmers' living standards, and formulate relevant policies and legal regulations.

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When the ocean-going fleet arrived in Istanbul, the Ottoman Navy Minister made serious protests to the commander of the ocean-going fleet and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Xie Jinglin.

"We in the Ottoman Empire are very friendly to the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty did things that seriously harmed the interests of the Ottoman people. This is really regrettable."

Deng Xianwu naturally knew what the Ottomans were talking about. The main reason was that Countess Catherine of the Venetian City-State Republic had a good personal relationship with Cheng Shijie. She had always been able to enter Cheng Shijie's mansion directly without making an appointment. There were even rumors that Catherine even You can freely enter and leave Cheng Shijie's harem.As a minister, it was naturally impossible for Deng Xianwu to speculate and slander Cheng Shijie, the regent of the Ming Dynasty. This does not mean that he would expose his own shortcomings in this regard.

Deng Xianwu asked with a serious face: "Your Majesty General, I wonder how the Ming Dynasty offended the Ottoman Empire? At least according to the information I know, the Ming Royal Navy has never initiated conflicts with the Ottoman Empire. Instead, it is the pirates of the Ottoman Empire who often Attack our Ming merchant ships!"

After hearing Deng Xianwu's words, Navy Minister Ahmed said: "You sell powerful cannons and artillery shells to the Venetians, the powerful enemies of the Ottoman Empire, which poses a serious threat to the Ottomans! In the past few years, the Venetians have used them from you. The purchased cannonballs sank many imperial warships, causing many warriors to fight in the battlefield. This is unbearable! If the Ming Dynasty really cherishes its friendship with the Ottoman Empire, please stop providing such terrible weapons to the Venetians !”

Deng Xianwu said with a puzzled look on his face: "How is this possible? How could such a thing be discovered? A powerful artillery, which is an important weapon of the country, there is no way we can sell it to the Venetians!"

"Do you dare to do it or admit it?"

Ahmed said angrily: "You..."

Deng Xianwu continued: "There is no proof for what you say, why don't you bring over an abandoned merchant ship and let you see the true power of our Ming Dynasty's naval guns!"

Ahmed also wanted to see the power of Ming Dynasty's naval guns, so he asked people to arrange for them to pick out a large ship that was about to be scrapped from the captured Venetian armed merchant ships.

This is a Venetian [-]-ton armed merchant ship. Dragged by four tugboats, it finally arrived on the sea outside the port.

The ocean-going fleet was at least 2000 meters away from the target ships. After more than a dozen shells were fired, the large sailing ship was torn apart. Fire spewed out of the broken hull like a volcanic eruption, sweeping across the deck and getting out of hand.

Watching this scene, the Ottoman naval officers who were watching were fighting with each other, their faces turned pale, and Ahmad Xuande was also dumbfounded: "Is this the most powerful naval gun of your Ming Dynasty?"

"Of course, we have never sold it to the Venetians. If they are really equipped with such powerful naval guns, it can only mean that our naval gun technology has been plagiarized!"

After hearing Deng Xianwu's words, Ahmed said: "The holy war launched by the empire against the heretics was originally victorious regardless of whether it was on sea or land. Especially my powerful imperial navy was overwhelming and destroyed one after another. We have established many Venetian colonial strongholds in Asia, and we can soon plant the crescent flag in Italy..."

Deng apparently asked: "What then?"

"More than three years ago, the hateful Venetian pagans threw an unusual and despicable weapon into the battlefield. This weapon was fired from a cannon. It could penetrate the hull of a ship and then explode in the cabin. It would burn violently and would be inoperable once it caught fire. Fight it! Nearly two hundred of our warships have been destroyed by it, and the effect of the holy war has been greatly affected!"

Ahmed said: "However, although the Venetian naval guns are powerful, they are far inferior to the Ming Dynasty's naval guns. The Ming Dynasty is a good friend of our Ottoman Empire. Can you provide such ships to our Ottoman Empire?" gun??"

"No, no, no..."

Deng Xianwu shook his head and said: "This is an important weapon of the country and cannot be sold. We can put ourselves in their shoes and think about it. If the Ottoman Empire had such a powerful naval gun, would you sell it?"

"Absolutely not!"

Speaking of which, Ahmed had nothing to say.

However, as the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Murad proposed that the Ottoman Empire should establish diplomatic relations with the Ming Dynasty. The Sultan happily drafted the letter of credence and signed it himself. The two countries resumed diplomatic relations, which meant that the Ming Dynasty gained another A market with strong spending power.

From then on, merchants of the Ming Dynasty could freely do business and travel within the Ottoman Empire, and merchants of the Ottoman Empire also had the same rights in the Ming Dynasty. This was of great benefit to both parties, and both parties were extremely satisfied with it.

Murad also proposed that the Ottoman Empire also wanted to send a fleet to the Ming Dynasty. I wonder if the Ming Dynasty agreed.

Deng Xianwu said: "As long as the Ottoman Empire's troops are in the Ming Dynasty, they must abide by the laws of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, just like our Ming Dynasty in the Ottoman Empire, we abide by the laws of the Ottoman Empire, respect your customs, and will not do anything to harm the Ottoman Empire." You must do the same when it comes to imperial people, otherwise it will destroy the friendship between the two countries!"

Murad readily agreed.

Deng Xianwu's fleet rested for three days in the Ottoman Empire and replenished fresh water, vegetables, fruits, and meat. After concluding his visit to the Ottoman Empire, Deng Xianwu led the Ming Dynasty's ocean-going fleet across the Mediterranean and sailed to Italy under the guidance of an old Italian sailor.

Deng Xianwu also wants to visit Venice, not only to understand the political system, customs and customs of Europe's richest city-state, but also to strengthen Venice's ally.

Although Deng Xianwu did not admit that Ming Dynasty supported Venice, the support was real.

If possible, Milan, Genoa, Florence, Pisa and other city-states are also on his visit list.After opening the country, Ming Dynasty was full of curiosity about the outside world. Deng Xianwu was just the first to do so. In the future, visits like this across the ocean would become more and more frequent.

The Ming Dynasty's ocean-going fleet successfully crossed the Mediterranean and landed in the water city of Venice, where it was warmly welcomed by the Republic of Venice.

The silks, tea, spices, porcelain, linens, furs, etc. they brought set off a craze in Italy. Merchants from major city-states flocked to buy them, and gold and silver coins flowed to the Ming Dynasty at a general price. The businessman's pocket does not take money seriously at all.

Although Venetian merchants have been able to bring back these luxury goods from the East from time to time in recent years, the problem is that Cheng Shijie was originally the governor of Liaodong, and the goods he sold were mainly industrial products. Silk, tea, and porcelain were all products of private kilns.

What Deng Xianwu brought was porcelain produced by official kilns, silk produced by official textile factories, as well as various famous teas and handicrafts. The quality was many times higher than the goods they purchased at high prices from the private sector. They couldn't go crazy. That’s a weird thing!
Francesco Elizzo, the Venetian consul, did not need to rush to buy. As the consul of the city-state, he received a national gift from the Ming Emperor himself: two blue and white porcelain vases, one piece of silk, and two pieces of fine linen. , what a great gift.

The consul who accepted this great gift readily agreed to sign a trade treaty with the Ming Dynasty, and the citizens of Venice were [-]% in favor of this. Even an idiot could see that there were unlimited business opportunities in it. If anyone objected, then I just can’t get along with everyone. (End of chapter)