With the continuous improvement of the development quality of Daming, the continuous improvement of industrial and technological education, and the spurt of scientific and technological achievements,

On the other hand, the national power of Ming Dynasty has also continued to expand during these years of expansion. The advancement of science and technology and the improvement of the efficiency of the rule of law have all played an immediate and accelerated effect on national construction.

As early as the 15th year of Xiaokang, when Zhu Shuren decided to abolish the old "Law of Ming Dynasty" reform, it was calculated at that time that the population of Han Chinese in the 6000 provinces of the Han region had increased from 9000 million during the war against the Qing Dynasty to [-] million.

Now another 20 years have passed. Except for the two years of continuous drought and the earthquake that broke the Yellow River, the population did not increase for about five years, and the other 15 years have been growing normally.

So the proportion is slightly lower, and now the total population of the 2000 provinces in Han has reached more than 2000 million.In addition, the population of the original barbarian territory newly swallowed at that time was 1000 million. Now, with the destruction of Junggar, [-] million people have been merged in one after another. In addition to the natural growth of the local area, the cumulative number has reached nearly [-] million over the years.

Therefore, the total population of the newly conquered territories of Ming Dynasty has reached more than 4000 million.Especially in these more than 4000 million miles, the proportion of the population with Han Chinese ancestry is also rising.Most of the Han immigrants are bachelors, and when they arrive in the local area, they will send indigenous women as wives, concubines and maids. Therefore, among the 4000 million people, there are at least 600 million pure Han people, and at least thousands of people with mixed Han blood.

The population of Ming Dynasty reached 6000 million, of which the Han people were about 1000 million, more than 1000 were of Han mixed blood, and the others totaled more than 1000 million.After years of development, the industrial population has further increased from the original 2000 million to more than [-] million.

If the steam engine becomes popular in the future, the population will grow to the point where the per capita cultivated land will not require so much labor, and new labor will be squeezed out, and the industrial population will definitely usher in a wave of rapid growth.

It's a pity that Emperor Zhu Ciyu of the Ming Dynasty couldn't see all this with his own eyes.

In the 35th year of Xiaokang, the third year after the complete destruction of the Junggar tribe and the complete fleeing of Rakshasa, 51-year-old Zhu Ciyu finally passed away, perhaps because of excessive lust.

In fact, this is not considered a short lifespan, it is similar to his grandfather Emperor Longwu. In recent years, only Wanli has lived longer than him.

On the contrary, his father, Zhu Shuren, was more healthy, and it was also because Zhu Shuren had seen too many beauties in his previous life, so he didn't feel much. As a beauty who loves fragrance and cherishes jade and adjusts her taste, Zhu Shuren's threshold for being tempted is greatly raised.

Ever since, when Chen Yuanyuan, Dong Xiaowan, Li Xiangjun, Bian Yu, and Jingdu got old and faded, after the age of forty, Zhu Shuren became interested in a wide range of hobbies, seldom approached women, and felt that there was nothing new.

He became healthy just like Emperor Wu of Liang Xiao Yan.

The main difference between him and Xiao Yan in terms of health regimen is that Xiao Yan can not eat meat, while Zhu Shuren at most just does not eat fatty meat, and does not even eat pork and mutton after the age of 50.But fish and shrimp are still eaten, and crabs are saved. It is not necessary. Shellfish, beef and chicken can also be eaten a little bit.

In addition, Emperor Wu of Liang Xiao Yan liked to sit quietly and meditate. He didn’t exercise. Zhu Shuren also exercised scientifically, but it was limited to exercises that strengthened the heart and lung function. What he wanted was longevity, not muscle, so he didn’t do anaerobic exercises.

This kind of health preservation did not expect him to live longer than his son.

Fortunately, as early as the 25th year of Xiaokang, that is, the year when the main force of the Ming Dynasty just attacked Qinghai-Tibet and harassed Luntai, Zhu Ciyu was already over 38 years old at that time, and the infertile queen he established in his early years did not live to be [-]. Died at the age of [-].

At that time, Zhu Shuren had inspected enough of his three grandsons who were nominated. Taking advantage of his daughter-in-law's death for more than a year, he asked his son to make a new queen, so he made Zhu Hetan's mother and concubine the new queen. Became the third son of the emperor, but also the eldest eldest son.

At that time Zhu Hetan was 15 years old, about the same age as his father when he became the throne, and then he became the prince for ten years. Now that the father passed away, he became the throne at the age of 25.There is also his 75-year-old grandfather who is still alive.

But at this age, Zhu Shuren has long since stopped doing things. He is only responsible for providing a certain stability for the succession of the throne, and occasionally shows his face when he comes out.

Five years later, as his grandson reached his age, he himself would have his [-]th birthday, and then he would be completely closed, just like Qianlong when he was the Supreme Emperor in history.

Although Zhu Shuren later lived longer than Qianlong and Xiao Yan, setting a new record for the longevity of the Chinese ruler's health-preserving faction, it has nothing to do with the country.In the last ten years of his life, he did not participate in any red tape activities outside.

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After Zhu Hetan became emperor, he changed the Yuan Dynasty to Xiehe, and took the "Shangshu. Yaodian" "The people are bright, and the nations are in harmony."

(Actually, Fusang people also used this allusion later, but in that way, Zhaoming and Xiehe took one word each. At that time, Zhu Shuren was still there, and he didn’t like it, so he just took “Xiehe”. specifically emphasized.

This is also in line with Da Ming's line. Da Ming plays defensive counterattacks, legitimate defense benefits the people of Asia, and will not take the initiative to invade others.Therefore, only concord is enough, and there is no need for "Manifest Destiny" to savagely conquer, which was done by the barbarians of the United States and Japan. )
Zhu Hetan's genes seem to be better than his father's.Who made his father's generation, his grandfather didn't have prenatal and postnatal care? At that time, other sons couldn't adopt to become the emperor's grandson.

Zhu Hetan had no personality defects since he was a child. He was selected by selection and received a comprehensive education.

Zhu Shuren has observed that although this grandson has no great skills, his greatest advantage is that he knows how much he weighs. As a prince, he can humbly recognize himself, know the limits of his abilities, know what he can do and what he can't do, professional things To consult professional people, this is already the most needed quality of the monarch.

Because according to the Chinese tradition, the main thing for a monarch is "a gentleman is not a weapon", and he can't be arrogant to think that he is awesome in any aspect. As long as he finds awesome talents, appoint them well, and make the best use of them, then it doesn't matter if he doesn't know any specific professional affairs.

With the current level of national strength in Ming Dynasty, as long as the emperor is not crazy, humble, and listens to advice, that's enough.

Later, Zhu Hetan lived a long life, and his life span was much longer than his father's, only slightly shorter than his grandfather's.

It seems that during the Ming and Qing dynasties, this kind of situation where both grandparents and grandchildren live long, and the middle generation is relatively short-lived, will happen repeatedly.This is the case with Jiajing and Wanli, who both reigned for more than 60 years, but the Longqing in the middle was not long.Kangxi and Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty were also more than [-] years old, and Yongzheng was only a dozen years in the middle.

Zhu Shuren and Zhu Hetan seem to be perfectly stuck in the trajectory of Kanggan in another time and space.

Zhu Hetan finally lived to be 90 years old before he died, and his life span exceeded Qianlong by one year.However, he did not reign for 66 years until the last moment of his life.

Because he listened to a piece of advice given to him by his grandfather, saying, "Since ancient times, there have been too many heroes, such as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. If he had abdicated a few years before his old age, he would not have caused a catastrophe to the people of the world." .

In addition, the research of the Daming Academy of Sciences in recent years has been very comprehensive, and it has also dabbled in medicine. Although it has not advanced to the level of modern medicine, with the support of Zhu Shuren's personal research direction, the academicians of the Daming Academy of Sciences are still from the level of clinical comparison. The existence of "Alzheimer's disease" was confirmed.

In addition, Zhu Shuren himself set an example. After his [-]th birthday, he completely retreated, completely ignored political affairs, and did not even listen to daily advisory reports.

The effect of this example also made Zhu Hetan very respected, and finally set the iron law that "the emperor must be supervised by the prince to supervise the state to assist the government at the age of 70, and he must abdicate as the emperor when he reaches the age of 80".

Obviously, what Zhu Hetan did was quite similar to Qianlong in the parallel time and space who felt that "the time in power should not exceed that of the ancestors". Grandpa Zhu Shuren completely handed over power at the age of 80, and he must also completely hand over power.

But this is also a wrong attack, and later Ming escaped the problem of "many heros are not clear-headed in their later years, and the harm of a few years is greater than the accumulation of shrewd heroes in the previous decades".

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In the hands of a heroic emperor who knows how to advance and retreat, and can delegate power, Zhu Hetan has clearly brought about the further colonial expansion of Ming Dynasty and completed the industrial mission during these years of Zhu Hetan's reign.

After all, three years before his father's death, Robert Hooke had already built a complete Watt steam engine, and he also ordered two technical routes of "partial water-saving type" and "partial coal-saving type". Newton also developed Leyden bottles and lightning rods were produced, and permanent magnets were mass-produced with lightning strikes.

With so many pre-research achievements, it is simply too easy to induce subsequent scholars to develop how to put the steam engine on the front of the car or sea ship.

Historically, it took 20 years from Watt to move the steam engine to the sea ship and build the first experimental steam ship.It took 27 years to build the first steam locomotive.

But now in Daming, because of the inclination to induce running-in, the funding and promotion of the imperial research and development fund can greatly shorten the time wasted for scientists looking for money, investment and laboratories.

So these tasks can actually be completed within ten years.

In the first ten years after Zhu Hetan ascended the throne, when his grandfather was still alive, Daming built the first prototype test machine of the steamboat and steam locomotive.

Of course, historically, there will be another 30 to [-] years from the birth of the prototype to the final promotion and application.This is because the performance of the original steamship was so bad that the original steamship was not as good as the peak clipper sailboat.In the same way, the steam locomotives in the early days were not as fast as horse-drawn carriages.

This is normal. After the emergence of any new generation of technology, the model in its original baby state is not as good as the pinnacle of the old technology.

Just like in World War II, some people said that the P51 Mustang, the pinnacle of piston fighters, could defeat the German jet fighter ME262 in combat.

Therefore, the performance of steam ships and steam locomotives has been developed to be equal to that of sailboats and horse-drawn carriages.

But in any case, Zhu Hetan was lucky. His reign completely caught up with the take-off period of the industrial song's life.

That sourness can be compared to the Victorian era of the British in the original history of the West—Victoria’s tenure, but it happened to coincide with the full-speed boom of the British from the first industrial revolution to the first half of the second industrial revolution. Ascension to the throne, life to 82 years old, a total of 64 years in power.

Now Zhu Hetan ascended the throne at the age of 25, and has been in power for 66 years, until the age of 90, and the development of technology and industry has become more concentrated and more brilliant.

The huge explosion of productivity caused the total population of Ming Dynasty to quadruple in 7000 years from 66 million when Zhu Hetan came to the throne, which can be called terrifying.

By the end of the Xiehe period, the population of the Ming Dynasty had reached a terrifying 5000 million. Fortunately, the industrial population had reached more than 5000 million, and the population of peasants had been controlled within [-] million. There was trouble because there was too little arable land.

During Zhu Hetan's reign, the only foreign military use was to completely destroy the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam, which was both obedient and insidious.

In the tributary system of ancient China, it was no problem for neighboring countries to be kings, but they could not use their own year names.To use the reign name is to deny Zhengshuo of the Central Plains, and to fight for Zhengshuo's destruction by plotting rebellion.

The Vietnamese actually had their own year name as early as the Le Dynasty. When the Nguyen Dynasty was first established, they endured it for a while, but it may be that the Vietnamese have always regarded themselves as "Little China" and "continuing successors of Chinese orthodoxy after the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty". If you insist on being orthodox, then you have nothing to say. This contradiction is even more irreconcilable than the Fusang people, and it can only be completely eliminated.

Therefore, the Mekong Delta and other fertile fields in Southeast Asia can be brought directly to you. In this era, there is no such thing as Laos and Cambodia, and all the places that were conquered by Vietnam were reconquered for the second time.

However, Eastern Burma in Southeast Asia did not hold back, and had an annexation with Siam, and was later swallowed up by the Ming army. Only West Burma in the Rakhine Mountains and Siam around the Bangkok Basin still existed. The vassal state of Ming Dynasty would never dare to commit the crime of using its own reign name again.

After the complete collapse of Vietnam, the rest of Southeast Asia actually did not need to use troops.

Lan Fangguo in Borneo was directly founded by the survivors of Fujian and Chaoshan who fled the wars during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.When Ming became stronger, these Han nations voted directly.

Brunei is a country with an ancient civilization, and there is nothing wrong with it, so let them stay and let them find some mountainous areas on Borneo to survive, and just pay tribute every year.

After all, Daming is not a demon, and he will not insist on destroying and annexing the vassal state that has always been very cowardly and respectful.

In the Sumatra area rich in Palembang oil fields in later generations, there were small city-states established by Dutch colonists and Fujian pirate survivors. Since the Ming Dynasty needed to open east-west air routes, it directly accepted Sumatra and Malacca.

If there are extra farmers who have no land and need to colonize foreign countries, then throw them to Australia.
In the end, during the 66-year reign of Zhu and Tanna, more than 1000 million farmers who lost their land and refused to work were filled in Australia alone, and the imperial court gave them a boat ticket.New Zealand also stuffed two million.

Some other Pacific unowned lands have also developed a lot on their own in the form of commercial behavior based on the principle of voluntary voluntariness of the people.

There are even poor people who went to California, Oregon, Seattle and other west coast regions of the Americas north of Mexico on the other side of the ocean to pioneer and seek gold. These are also private commercial activities and have nothing to do with the decision-making of the Ming court.

Fortunately, due to the pressure of the industrialization process and the progress of science and education in Ming Dynasty, the people's literacy was well done, and the women were able to read, add, subtract, multiply, and divide.

During Zhu Hetan's 66 years, Ming's education and national quality have leapt, and it is not at all below the speed of industrial development.After urbanization, industrialization and women's literacy, the population will not grow so fast, and there is no need to worry that there will be [-] million people on the East Asian continent, and it will continue to expand and explode.Occasionally, if there is a little more, then spontaneously encourage emigration.

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