I became a mysterious person in textbooks after being pushed by the emperors

Chapter 54 The Age of Discovery and the Ming Dynasty
The problems in the Jiajing period were undoubtedly very big, and even extremely complicated. As he said before, this level of complexity almost surpassed any feudal era, second only to the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.

In such a complicated situation, even if Jiajing grasped some, he still missed more after all.

For example, open the sea.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the island country was in a period of feuding feudal lords and wars. Many daimyo and others who had failed in the war would organize their samurai and ronin to plunder the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty. As a result, the court and people of the Ming Dynasty were in trouble. Unable to bear the trouble, Lao Zhu ordered a sea ban in order to prevent pirates from nuisance, and it was an absolute sea ban, that is, "no one is allowed to enter the sea."Officials and people at the seaside are strictly prohibited from "traffic with foreign vassals and private trade of goods."

From Lao Zhu to the Jiajing period, the Forbidden Sea has always been restricted.

But when the era came to the Jiajing era, the situation was completely different.

Since Jiajing, for decades, the coast has been infested by Japanese pirates. Both the court and the people have found that banning the sea is no longer able to solve the coastal security problem. To eliminate the Japanese pirate problem, it is better to block it.

Kaihai was carried out in an attempt.

However, this move didn't last long, but it came to an end in just a few years, followed by a more stringent ban on the sea, which also caused the entire Ming Dynasty to truly lose the ocean and the stage of stepping into a new level.

The European countries have also surpassed the entire China one after another.

During the industrial revolutions, Europe has completely completed its counterattack.

And Huaxia's various technologies have also begun to fall into an endless loop of imitation, surpassing, and imitation.

If the Zhu Di period was a pity, then the Jiajing period was a pity.

With the strength of Da Ming at that time, if he could participate in the era of great navigation, even if he didn't need to monopolize it, it would be enough for Da Ming to catch up with the fast lane of development.

The Ming Dynasty may also perish, but China will surely enter a more glorious era.

Unfortunately, history has no ifs.

After all, Daming missed it, and the attempts of those years were shattered like a dream.

Huaxia also missed that era after all.

In the chat group, Jiang Chen's words were typed, and there was a hint of sadness in his expression.

It wasn't until he typed a thousand words that his typing gradually stopped.

On the other side, Zhu Houcong, who was in the hall, was completely attracted by the words Jiang Chen described.

"The Age of Discovery?"

"Open the sea?"

"Europa?"

Zhu Houcong muttered to himself, especially when he saw the scene of the New World described by Jiang Chen, which made his pupils widen.

"How can the Frangians acquire so much wealth in the world?"

Zhu Houcong muttered to himself, feeling a little shaken in his heart.

No emperor would dislike too much silver. Zhu Houcong’s lack of money is not much lower than Zhu Di’s. The Ming Dynasty’s treasury is also empty at this moment. Especially when it comes to the Jiajing Dynasty, Daming has more places to spend money. Short of money all the time.

And it's not just the imperial court, he also spends money on cultivating immortals.

As a result, what did Zhu Houcong see at this moment, the white money overseas.

Strings of silver, and gold, loaded and unloaded in great ships.

Even just looking at the cold words made him feel his breathing became heavy.

It's just that Zhu Houcong was still a little skeptical amidst his heavy breathing.

It's not that Zhu Houcong has never seen those Frangians, but they don't look like rich people.

And is the opponent really capable of occupying such a huge territory?
No way, this really made him too unbelievable.

"Of course!"

"The overseas land far exceeds China, and America is a completely undiscovered land, and the resources it possesses are unimaginable."

"At this moment, Europa has already started to plunder throughout the Americas, and they will be able to obtain more in the coming time."

"If Daming opens the sea at this moment, he will definitely be able to participate in it. Not to mention expelling all of Europa, at least he can get a share of the pie. This cup is also enough to bring Daming to a new height."

Facing Zhu Houcong's words, Jiang Chen chuckled and typed the words quickly.

The Ming Dynasty does have many problems at the moment, and they are even extremely complicated, but as long as it opens the sea and can continue, more than 90.00% of the conflicts can actually be solved.

This is not a joke.

but facts.

With the arrival of the age of great voyages, the entire global trade has ushered in the most prosperous period.

As China is the source of trade, all trade must go through China, and it will definitely bring China a lot of wealth.

And Huaxia doesn't need to consider that Spain, like Portugal, is afraid of being overwhelmed by wealth. With a population of hundreds of millions, they can easily digest these wealth.

Once digested, Daming will undoubtedly be able to enter a new height, and even without doing anything, China may have an industrial revolution.

After all, the basis of the Industrial Revolution was that the prevalence of global trade caused capitalists to need more efficient and faster production tools.

In Europe, in Great Britain, it's fine, and in China, it's also fine.

The probability may even be higher in China.

And as long as the industrial revolution comes, Ming's most important northern border trouble will no longer be a problem.

When the era of queuing and shooting comes, the grassland people will inevitably become able to sing and dance.

But if the border troubles in the north are no longer a problem, no matter how much problems the Ming Dynasty has, it will be enough to survive.

To put it bluntly, even if the Great Brightness is not enough, the new dynasty is enough to bring China to a new level.

This was the opportunity for the Jiajing era, the Ming Dynasty, and even China as a whole.

Unfortunately, in the end it was missed.

Otherwise, it wouldn't be such a pity.

Jiang Chen sighed and shook his head.

History is always so magical.

The original Huaxia was like a darling favored by the heavens. As an ancient civilization, the Chinese civilization was born, not as old as Egypt, not as long as the Mesopotamia, but a qualitative leap occurred in a short period of time.

From the Stone Age of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, it quickly stepped into the bronze civilization, moved towards the country, and matured.

With the brilliant culture of Xia, Shang and Zhou, Spring and Autumn and Warring States, and the blooming of brilliant ideas, Huaxia undoubtedly reached a new level again, a level that almost all civilizations can't match.

But then.

Huaxia seemed to be cursed, too.

The cycle of history is staged on the land of China time and time again.

Even if there are occasional brilliant blooms, it can be followed by silence.

Since the Great Qin ruled the world, the whole of China has been caught in an endless loop of fraud.

Dynasty change.

Dynasties change, everything seems to come to the origin every time.

A strong man in the prosperous Tang Dynasty could not withstand the erosion of time.

Obviously there are opportunities again and again, but because of one or another reason, they miss it again and again.

The commodity economy developed in the Southern Song Dynasty was bred, and the capitalism in the Ming Dynasty was germinated.

All of this turned into a fleeting dream in the end.

(End of this chapter)