Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 650 The Sun Never Sets on the Great Ming of the Empire
The Ming Empire began to establish Dongying Province.

It is about to set the territory of the former Wa Kingdom as Dongying Province, which will be another province of Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, Emperor Zhu Youjian of the Ming Dynasty appointed Zhang Dai as the first governor of Dongying.

Zhang Dai was born in a wealthy family, and he is most familiar with playing. Zhu Youjian appointed him as the first governor of Dongying. The purpose was to let him develop the cultural industry in Dongying.

At present, the sale of silver and the opening of large-scale casinos are prohibited in Daming, but Zhu Youjian has instructed Zhang Dai to allow Dongying to sell silver and open large-scale casinos, and recognize their legality.

As a result, the houses of romance and large casinos in the Ming Dynasty began to move eastward on a large scale.

Places such as Qinhuai River, Yangzhou Slender West Lake, and Beijing Daming Gate were empty in a blink of an eye.

In less than a year, Edo, Kyoto, and Nara in Japan began to sing and dance, and became a paradise for men all night long.

In terms of land value, Dongying is no better than Le Lang. Dongying's land is barren and its resources are scarce, but the tax revenue it brings to Daming far exceeds that of Le Lang.

Every scholar-bureaucrat yearns for it. Whenever they are on vacation, they must travel east to Kyoto, Edo and other places to satisfy their physical desires, spend money like dirt, and return tired and lost a lot of money.

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In addition to the territory within the customs, the Ming Dynasty now has the four provinces of Monan, Dongbei, Lelang, and Dongying outside the customs, and there are also colonies in the Indian Peninsula, the Cape of Good Hope, Western Europe, and the Americas across the South China Sea.

The territory spans the world, so to speak, is already the so-called empire on which the sun never sets.

Now the Japanese Sea, the Daming Sea, and the Nanyang Sea have become the Inland Sea of ​​the Ming Dynasty. Ships are constantly coming and going, and commerce and trade are extremely developed. Moreover, because these places have become the Inland Sea of ​​the Ming Dynasty, and overseas places have become the territory of the Ming Dynasty, the tariffs have also been cancelled. The tariffs of the Zheng Group Privileges were further curtailed.

The commercial tax revenue of the imperial court is getting higher and higher. The Pearl River Delta, the Yangtze River Delta, and the North Zhili Gyeonggi area have become the industrial bases of the Ming Dynasty, while Huguang, Southwest, Lelang, and Northeast have become the agricultural bases of the Ming Dynasty. The continuous transportation of agricultural products and raw materials To Songjiang, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Ningbo, Yuegang and other places for processing and export or domestic sales.

Jinzhou and Batavia City of the Ming Dynasty and Ryukyu, which has not yet belonged to the Ming Dynasty, became transit points, allowing the goods of the Ming Dynasty to be exported to Western Europe.

Dongying doesn't need to go into details, it has become the entertainment base of Ming people, the concentration of brothels and casinos, as well as the concentration of Jianghu gangs, where all kinds of crazy human behaviors are staged.

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But in general, the center of the Ming Dynasty's ruled area is still within the pass, especially Beijing, Nanjing, Songjiang, Ningbo, Chengdu, Wuchang, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Yuegang, and Yangzhou.

The best universities and state-of-the-art manufacturing companies of Ming Dynasty, as well as banking institutions and securities institutions are all concentrated in these places, and at the same time, these places are also the hubs of the entire Greater East Asia region.

Moreover, these places are the places where the imperial nobles and first-class citizens gather.

The nobles and first-class citizens of the Ming Empire enjoyed the right to education, the right to life, and benefits such as medical insurance, social insurance, unemployment insurance, and endowment insurance, which enabled them to control the most wealth, consume the most, and spend the most spare time , which makes the commercial and economic activities in these places still the most active.

With the opening of the first railway line from Zhangjiakoubao to Beijing and the first railway line from Beijing to Nanjing, the communication between the north and the south of the customs and the communication between the outside of the customs and the inside of the customs became more convenient.

Railways, sea routes, water transport, and official roads became the four main lines of communication between the north and the south of the Ming Dynasty. Each of the main lines brought tens of millions of silver dollars to the Ming treasury each year, and the merchants, workers, and officials who lived on these four main lines also cost hundreds of millions of silver dollars. Thousands of dollars.

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In March of the 42nd year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen of Ming Dynasty started his first southern tour.

Now he seldom interferes in the political affairs of the court. The citizens of the empire seem to be accustomed to the form of the chief minister of the cabinet presiding over the government, and forget that he, the emperor, is the real manipulator behind the scenes.

In order to improve the Ming Dynasty's political and economic systems before he entered old age, and to ensure that the empire was in a state of constant renewal and progress, he had to re-understand the Ming society under his rule.

In the Forbidden City, except for a few more Dongying princesses and Korean princesses sent by local officials, there is not much change. The palace has also been renovated at most, and there are a few more bicycles and other new gadgets.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian could not see much change in the empire by himself in the Forbidden City, so he decided to come out for a walk.

He even has a great ambition to visit every inch of the empire in his lifetime.

Anyway, the empire now has the chief assistant of the cabinet to preside over the government affairs, and the Grand Marshal's mansion presides over the military administration. Zhu Youjian no longer has to deal with government affairs every day, and has time to go out.

What's more, he doesn't know how long he has to live, so he can only take the time to look at his empire, so as to determine how to make the empire develop better in the future without him.

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This time, Zhu Youjian went south by steam train.

As an emperor, he naturally has his own special train.

Even the imperial capital has its own special train, which was specially approved by Zhu Youjian.

The chief assistant of the empire no longer tours the south with Zhu Youjian. He has his own daily plan and can even directly issue administrative orders. Now Zhu Youjian has the power to remove and appoint him.

March is the season when the grass grows and the warblers fly. Zhu Youjian took the railway all the way south along the Grand Canal and the official roads of the two capitals. Through the glass, he could clearly see the scenery and humanities of the empire.

Shuntian Mansion, Baoding Mansion, Hejian Mansion and other scenery along the way flashed before Zhu Youjian like a slide show.

After the Northern Expedition, almost all the gentry in the north were wiped out, and the policy of clearing the land and acres was successfully implemented, and the people all had their own land. Therefore, the farmland in the entire Northern Zhili is enough to see the continuous wheat fields. It is getting late. You can also see farmers returning home with moon lotus hoes.

"Henan has now become a large grain-producing province. The saline-alkali land around the Yellow River has been treated. The Yellow River Railway Bridge was built the year before last. Futai recruited hundreds of thousands of people. After the popularization of chemical fertilizers, the yield per mu has increased a lot. Even in times of famine, you can still have sweet potatoes to satisfy your hunger. There is nothing better than this in a prosperous dynasty. Many people say that if His Majesty hadn't revived Ming Dynasty back then, everyone would still be living in Da Ming. under the weight of the son."

After listening to Chen Zhenhui, the governor of Henan, Zhu Youjian just smiled and said: "Henan is located in the Central Plains. It is the thoroughfare between the north and the south. It is also a large agricultural province. We should look for opportunities to promote the mechanization of agriculture. Don't let the people here continue. Facing the loess and back facing the sky."

"Wei Chen understands!"

When Chen Zhenhui answered, Zhu Youjian looked at the mighty Yellow River in front of him, and a railway bridge on the Yellow River, and couldn't help sighing: "If it weren't for my Daming having the major of concrete technology and bridge construction appearing in the new school, such a It is estimated that the bridge will not appear until hundreds of years later."

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