The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

Chapter 106 The World's Most Powerful Army
The environment of the industrial revolution is inseparable from a unified and stable society, as well as stable agriculture.

Ming Dynasty was a unified society.

And Daming's agricultural technology is the best in the world.

But without the analysis and experience of the industrial revolution of later generations, it is difficult for people to change traditional concepts.

For example, investing more people in farmland will bring more peaceful customs and abundant output.

But as it is said in the history of Chinese science and technology, China has reached the peak state of technology in the Song Dynasty.

in other words.

In ancient agricultural society, farming technology has come to an end.And Daming has also come to an end in terms of the area suitable for farming land.

Therefore, using traditional thinking naturally cannot meet the needs of social development.

What is needed is industry.

Industry brings two benefits.

Inexpensive and plentiful tools allow the common people to cultivate intensively and increase the yield of the fields.The prosperity of all walks of life can absorb the surplus population of farmers.

For example, in the case of refugees in Shandong last year, there was no land to grow, or the family had not enough acres to support people.

How to do?
Naturally, he went to the city to work.

This is not the case in future generations.

A large number of migrant workers provide sufficient labor force for all walks of life.

But without industrial development, how can cities provide jobs? Even if farmers go to cities, what job opportunities can they get?

From fifteen to six hours, I can only fill my stomach, and after a year, my hands are empty.

By twelve hours, ten hours, the annual income has reached a well-off level.

This is the change brought about by industrial progress.

But times are different.

In the countries of later generations, the martyrs faced a world that was carve up by the West. They monopolized energy, and they were eyeing the situation where they wanted to retain their interests in China. They could only start from the most difficult situation.

The Ming Dynasty had the world's advanced salt industry, iron smelting industry, porcelain industry, wood industry, and textile industry, while the West had not yet started.

The external environment we are facing is many times better.

But these are not enough.

From an economic point of view, the fuel problem cannot be solved, and if firewood is used as fuel, there will never be a breakthrough.

Firewood had become a scarce resource by the fifteenth century.

Although the amount is large, it can't even meet the needs of folk life, so how can it meet the needs of industry.

The steam engine solves this problem.

The geometric growth of the British coal industry was achieved on the basis of the widespread use of steam engines for pumping water.

Therefore, in the ranking of the three core technologies of the industrial revolution, most of them are considered to be steam engines, coke, and jenny machines.

Daming, like France, Italy, and the Netherlands, did not have an industrial revolution. Solving the problem of steam engines means solving the problem of fuel.

Then all walks of life will flourish, and the technologies of all walks of life will naturally make breakthroughs.

Zhu Gaochi is not worried about technical matters.

What he worries about is the ruling class.

The only thing that can stand in his way is the ruling class.

For example, Zhu Di in front of him, and Zhu Yuanzhang in Yingtianfu.

Zhu Yuanzhang is thousands of miles away.

It was Zhu Di who was right in front of him, so he made a lot of preparations. For every new thing, he had to convince Zhu Di first and get his approval.

Zhu Di is thinking carefully.

Zhu Gaochi didn't interrupt him.

In the Ming Dynasty, he had a chance.

For example, on the basis of the Huomen gun in the Song Dynasty, the West has advanced to the Tuhuo gun.

In the fifteenth century, the West came out completely from the impact of the Black Death, which wiped out one-third of the entire population of the West, that is, after a plague.

On the contrary, the per capita grain output in the West has been reborn, providing sufficient vitality for the society.

at this background.

The firearm technology of the East and the West is the same, and both sides use the burst gun technology.

In the [-]th century, the West produced matchlock guns based on the technology of tusker guns.

However, due to the "Malthus Trap" in Ming Dynasty, the country fell into poverty, and the vitality of society began to weaken.

Many knowledgeable officials have begun to work hard to reform and want to reverse this phenomenon.

For example, various small-scale reforms in the Jiajing period and Zhang Juzheng's reform in the Wanli period all failed in the end.

The agricultural society, with a population of nearly [-] million, has exceeded the load of the land.

From an economic point of view, any means are useless.

But Daming does not exclude external technologies and ideas.

For example, Western conquerors appeared in the East, and during the war with Ming Dynasty, they seized a lot of Western weapons.

Among them are matchlock guns.

In the Wanli period, it was transformed into a bird gun, which became popular in the southern army, as well as the Franji and so on.

There are also many officials who take the initiative to study Western books.

But it was different in the Qing Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty excluded technology. It can be seen from the inheritance of firearms from the late Ming Dynasty, which shined brilliantly on all battlefields in the early Qing Dynasty, to the prohibition of firearms in the mid-Qing Dynasty.

Learn from history.

In this atmosphere, Zhu Gaochi felt that he could persuade Zhu Di.

Moreover, Zhu Di was the monarch who organized seven voyages to the West. During his lifetime, he regained Annan, set up three announcements and six comforts, and established the Nuer Gandu Division.

Its scope starts from the Onan River (now the Onen River) in the west, extends to the Waixing'an Mountains in the north, reaches the sea in the east, connects to the Tumen River in the south, and crosses the sea in the northeast to Sakhalin Island.

Most of Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and other countries in the Indochina Peninsula, and a small part of Vietnam and Malaysia, almost cover the entire Indochina Peninsula, which is today's half of ASEAN.

"Xuan" refers to the Department of Xuanfu, and "Wei" refers to the Department of Xuanwei. Each has a Tusi and a Tuwang as respect, but they are all managed by the Department of Political Affairs and Envoys of Yunnan Chengxuan, which recognizes the suzerainty of the Son of Heaven.

I have been conquests all my life.

People with such a pioneering spirit will naturally not be too resistant to new things.

really.

Zhu Di did not refute.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaochi hurriedly continued: "So what should we do with the excess labor? If we don't solve this problem, we will become refugees."

Zhu Gaochi didn't need to explain how dangerous the refugees were.

"And in the future, the more children there are in the farmer's family, how will they divide the land when they grow up? How will they marry a wife?"

Faced with this kind of problem.

The solution for the nobles is the system of eldest sons.

But the common people can't do it, they don't have such a big interest motivation, instead they have to find a way to take care of every son.

Zhu Gaochi counted them one by one: "A family of five, with [-] acres of fields, rotates crops every year, and belongs to a well-off family."

"If the two sons grow up, the field mu will become [-] mu per capita, and it will be directly reduced to a Hirado family."

"If five sons grow up, the farmland will become six acres per capita, and even clothing will become a problem."

"In less than 100 years, a country with a strong country and a rich people will fall into poverty, and no method can change it."

Zhu Di pondered for a moment, then raised his head and said, "Your calculation is wrong, it's a bit exaggerated."

Zhu Gaochi did not argue, but nodded in recognition.

"Of course things don't work out that way. We also have business in our dynasty, which will absorb a lot of people, but it's just a delay."

"There are also poor people who were born, and naturally they can't afford to marry a wife. After they die, it can be regarded as a way to eliminate the poor, but this is generally the case."

"Industry is different. Industry will not only promote the prosperity of society, but also provide abundant employment opportunities."

"The common people don't have to stick to the fields. The surplus population can survive without the land."

"Things like last year's refugees are unreasonable. With the land and territory of our dynasty, even if the population multiplies to [-] million, we can still maintain a peaceful social situation."

"Refugees are born because of the surplus labor force in some areas, lost their fields, and they have no other way of life."

"And the development of industry and the prosperity of commodities will lead to the need for countless labors to solve this kind of thing."

"If my son's plan is fulfilled, even if my Ming Dynasty has a population of [-] million, we will still be able to maintain social peace."

If there are sweet potatoes, potatoes, etc., it can be expanded to [-] million.

It is not the social situation of extreme poverty in the late Qing Dynasty.

If you add the big voyage, it is another story.

But sweet potatoes, potatoes are not easy to get, and Zhu Gaochi couldn't explain it to Zhu Di, so he didn't mention it.

Twenty million.

Zhu Di was moved when he heard this.

The population of the Ming Dynasty prospered to [-] million, and according to the boss, the speed of population reproduction was slowed down.

Wouldn't the two-pronged approach prolong the national fortune?
Is it just that what the boss said can be done?
These are all his own ideas, the reason sounds right, but who knows if it will be true.

Zhu Di couldn't believe it.

But since the boss promoted industrial development, it seems that he has never said that he missed it. On the contrary, he has gained a lot of knowledge.

It turns out that things can still be done like this.

A different kind of knowledge made him both novel and fearful.

Wary because of unfamiliarity.

But the benefits are real.

The problem of at least [-] military households was simply solved without any twists and turns.

And silver.

This year is the most lenient year for Yan Wangfu in recent years.

Zhu Gaochi would not think that he could easily persuade Zhu Di, so he gave an example of what happened in Beiping City.

"The reason why the army of the Han Dynasty was strong was because of the sons of good families."

"Beiping is located in an important military area, with strong martial arts. There are 10,000+ military households. As long as they can live a prosperous life, inherit their fighting skills from their families, and be able to read and write, they will be 10,000+, hundreds of thousands of good families."

"But the father should know that there are already poor households in the military households of the various guards in Beiping. The [-] military households recruited by my son are proof of this."

"Poor people can't make good families. They don't even have enough to eat. How can they have motivation? Instead, they will become hidden dangers."

"So my son must develop industry."

Zhu Gaochi said firmly: "The development of industry is not only the prosperity of the economy, but also the geometric growth of material."

"Soldiers with fine armor, countless arrows, and massive firearms, aren't they invincible, invincible, and the strongest in the world!"

Zhu Di glanced at Zhu Gaochi.

Boss, sometimes very similar to Yao Guangxiao.

The thinking of the two of them always wanted to let Yan Wangfu have more military power.

Yan Wangfu.

If you want the strongest army in the world, what do you want to do?
"Boss, although your uncle died of illness, you still have your second and third uncles." Zhu Di warned directly.

(End of this chapter)