Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 629 The Colonial Era of the Ming Empire

After Xiyi Province officially became Ming's first colony in Western Europe, Ming began to continuously develop and assimilate this area.

Not only to establish a government and a school, but as the empire intends to establish a foothold in Western Europe, the Ming Dynasty began to allow all major domestic officials, businessmen, and businessmen to enter Xiyi, and even farmers, Taoist priests, and monks.

Gradually, the entire Xiyi Province has become the most different region in Europe, and it is almost the same as in China.

There are gardens, Taoist temples, and tea houses and restaurants, and in some high-end clubs, signs saying "Western fans and dogs are not allowed" will be posted.

Statues of Zheng He and Confucius even appear on the banks of Amsterdam.

Kunqu opera is also played by the IJsselmeer.

In addition, the Central Bank of Ming Dynasty and the Imperial Bank of Ming Dynasty also began to settle here.

The Daming Stock Exchange branch was also established here, as well as domestic media and mining companies.

It soon became the most affluent area of ​​Ming Dynasty overseas, with a very developed economy and culture. The textile industry and chemical industry controlled the entire Western market and contained the rise of capitalism in the Western Yi countries. Since the empire officially established the Chinese pronunciation standard, Xiyi Province, like the rest of the country, has adopted Chinese as the official language.

Li Mingrui, the governor of Xiyi in Ming Dynasty, became the most powerful and richest governor in the empire, and the number of Xiyi women owned by him exceeded [-] in a few years.

And the Great Ming Xiyi Company under his name also occupies the most wealth in the empire's commerce and trade. From the Americas to Africa, half of the colonial trade in the entire world is controlled by him.

However, most of this wealth flowed into the Ming Empire. According to the division between Zhu Youjian and the cabinet, [-]% was exclusively his own internal money. Therefore, the current Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian of the Ming Dynasty still owns the most wealth in the world. of.

The cabinet is not poor now, and the revenue from the treasury has allowed the empire to implement nine-year compulsory education.

In addition, the capital invested in scientific research and development has also increased significantly.

Now the first steam locomotive has been built, thanks to the progress of the imperial steel manufacturing industry and the progress of the steam industry.

The most fundamental reason is that the continuous capital investment and the supply of talents for new education have allowed the empire to form a complete technological and industrial system.

Every year, most Mongolian children receive the most basic Chinese culture education, and more than half of the children are selected into new schools to receive education in various subjects. Among them, the main students will be selected into science and engineering majors, becoming the backbone of the empire's research technology.

The Daming Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering, the Daming Industrial School, the Imperial University, and other research institutions and universities all have their own set of scientific research systems. Researchers apply for projects, and relevant cabinet departments allocate funds for the projects. Every scientific research technology Invention has a dedicated team in charge.

Some new disciplines have also sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

In terms of physics, Ming Dynasty is no longer limited to the macroscopic aspect. After the emergence of the concept of elements guided by the Holy Science, the scientific researchers of the empire began to pay more attention to the microscopic structure of these elements, and even began to find ways to figure out the atomic weight of these elements. .

The improvement of microscope manufacturing technology has provided progress for scientific research. Researchers in Daming have indeed discovered the existence of finer substances, but what they see are cells, and they cannot discover molecular structures through microscopes.

But this is also considered a great breakthrough, causing fluctuations in the medical field and even the ideological field of the entire Ming Dynasty. Wu Youke's plague-spreading substances in the air were initially considered to be some kind of tiny cell organisms, although in fact this result was Wrong, but at least it proves that the scientists of Ming Dynasty have been actively thinking and developing.

The development of experimental science has always led to the emergence of many new theoretical things in Ming Dynasty. After throwing monkeys into a confined space that has been drained of air, it was discovered that living things would indeed die if they left the air. They applied the secondary metabolites of Penicillium to bacteria densely packed areas. In glass petri dishes, penicillin was indeed found to have an antibacterial effect.

The Ming Empire’s inquisition of theoretical knowledge also promoted the development of experimental science. In order to observe more desirable material structures, it began to continuously improve microscopes, to calculate atomic weights and scientific phenomena, and to continuously promote mathematical formulas and concepts. In order to achieve flying He began to try to use the theory of mechanics to build aircraft, and even dreamed of seeing what is in the sky one day.

The steam locomotive was produced in such an environment, and the first-class citizens of Ming Dynasty were too rich.

Wealthy people have a lot of time to do careers they are interested in. In order to achieve free and fast driving without relying on horsepower, there are hundreds of steam locomotive teams in the entire Daming, but the team that succeeded in the end was a team from the Daming Industrial School.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian is also in a good mood now. The Ming Empire can occupy a territory in Western Europe, and at the same time have its own colonies on every continent in the world. What he can see is that he can control more and more wealth, making He, the emperor, is also more interested in promoting new things in the empire.

Today's steam locomotives are still relatively large, and due to the fact that the rubber industry and organic chemistry have not yet fully developed to a mature level, they can only build railways by building rails for steam locomotives to run on the rails. The reason why it can be realized Running on the rails, in addition to steam power, it is also because the mechanics of the Ming Dynasty are already very developed, and the use of mechanics between the rails and the locomotive makes it possible for the locomotive to reverse and brake.

The first section of the railway in the Ming Dynasty was a one-mile-long railway built outside Xuanwumen. Before Zhu Youjian and the imperial officials and people saw its true face, it had been improved 34 times, and finally it was basically formed until now, realizing the steam locomotive Can run freely on it.

The steam locomotive has also been improved many times, and when it finally took shape, it has become a steel monster shaped like a dragon's head. The steam and smoke it emits can make the entire vicinity of Xuanwumen shrouded in a fairyland. The noise was so harsh that people couldn't help but cover their ears.

But from the moment the iron wheels of the locomotive began to roll, countless people cheered for it.

The Ming Dynasty is no different from the Qing Dynasty in the original history. No one regards this giant steel beast as something that "shocks the viewer".

Today's Daming scholars have learned about steam locomotives through paper media as early as ten years ago. They know that a group of people in the Daming Industrial School are developing locomotives that can burn coal without livestock.

It was still a joke at the time, and some people even thought it was people's whimsy. Some censors even impeached the Ministry of Industry of the Imperial Cabinet for not investing funds in research on such subjects.

But the Ming Empire was rich, and the imperial censor’s impeachment was just a pebble thrown into the pool, which would not cause much disturbance. On the contrary, with the spread of the media, there were more and more news about steam engines. more and more.

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