Daming Military Empire

Chapter 151 Rising Plan
It is said that just after Zhu Cijiong received the news of Liao Haiwei's recovery, the long-lost voice of the beauty of the system sounded in his mind: "Ding Dong, congratulations on completing the second glory mission and recovering the lost land. Now the reward: multi-layer battleship blueprint."

Zhu Cijiong only felt a strong dizziness, almost fell Xiali from the chair, and how many blueprints suddenly poured into his mind.After the dizziness passed, knowledge of countless battleships filled his mind: multi-layered decks, breech-loading naval guns, battleships, and cruisers.

The reward of this glory mission is many times greater than the reward of the survival mission. It is too huge. It is so huge that Zhu Cijiong can't figure out how much warship knowledge he has mastered for a while.

Just as he was about to take a closer look, the beauty of the system immediately reminded him: "Ding Dong, friendly reminder: The era of maritime supremacy has come, Sao Nian, create an invincible fleet to defeat the great powers, and dominate the world, the system will provide extremely generous rewards. The prompt is over, I wish you a happy game."

Yes, the age of great voyages is over, the era of maritime hegemony has arrived, the Netherlands is entering the golden age, and Britain has also begun to colonize and expand. These two countries will gradually replace Spain and Portugal to dominate the entire world.

And Ming Dynasty, in the history of Wanli, Tianqi, Chongzhen three dynasties, directly subjugated, a powerful empire fell into a deep sleep, until it was bullied by foreign powers
Thinking of that humiliating history, Zhu Cijiong couldn't help shouting in his heart: "Now I am Emperor Chongzheng, and the Ming Dynasty has awakened and defeated the invasion of Houjin; with world-leading military technology in hand, and with me, Zhu Cijiong, Daming It is bound to rise and dominate the entire world!"

After the excitement, Zhu Cijiong calmed down slowly, and began to consider the plan for the rise of Ming Dynasty.The rise of a great power does not depend solely on military or science and technology. The military depends on economic support, and science and technology must be backed by culture. Therefore, the rise of a great power must be comprehensive in the fields of military, economy, science and technology, culture, and diplomacy. If development is lacking in some aspects, it will be difficult, and it is likely to fall on the road to rise in the end.

Zhu Cijiong naturally didn't want to give up halfway because of some defects, so all-round development is a must, and he considered each aspect.

First of all, in terms of military affairs, is the existing army of Ming Dynasty enough?In fact, the army does not look at the number of itself, but the number of the enemy.How many enemies does Ming have?On the bright side, there are Houjin in the northeast, Mongolian Yuan in the north, Dongying in the east, peasant rebels in the northwest, remnants of the Yuan Dynasty in the west, chieftain forces in the south, and the rising Cossacks and Tsarist Russia.

The area of ​​Ming Dynasty is really too big, much larger than the combined area of ​​all European countries, not counting the Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom that will be faced later, but only the obvious and potential enemies around it. The army is far from enough, so the expansion of the army is imperative.

What is the situation of the Ming army now?The ones who can really participate in the battle directly are the few legions that have been reorganized, and there are actually not many after calculation:

The first-class legions are the Tianxiong Army, Guanning Army, and the First Army of the Imperial Guard;

The second-class legions are the Qin Army, Dongjiang Army, and Liaodong Army;

The third-class army has only the second army of the imperial guards, and then there are some ordinary frontier troops, defenders and station guards.

Therefore, the first step in expanding the army is to increase the number of reorganized legions. It just so happens that Qin Yiming and Qin Gongming are already admirals, but they have no subordinate legions. The defenders were reorganized into the Dingliao Army, with Qin Yiming as the commander-in-chief; the defenders at Shanhaiguan and Zunhua were reorganized and supplemented into the First Frontier Army Army, with Qin Gongming as the commander, so that the number of third-class regiments was enough for three .There is also the need to build multi-layer warships and establish a naval corps in the future. These can only be considered after returning to the capital, and this is roughly the only way to go now.

Next is the issue of economy. Although Zhu Cijiong has formed so many legions within a year, which seems to be very powerful, in fact, the equipment of each legion has not yet been fully equipped. The situation of Tai Chi was almost destroyed, because they were not equipped with enough flintlock guns, let alone enough artillery, and they were not even equipped with the new double-layer armor, otherwise it would be impossible for so many soldiers to die.

Now the army's equipment is supplemented by Zhu Cijiong's own money, and even the poor taxes of the army's rations are not guaranteed, and they have to be allocated from the treasury continuously, so the development of the economy and the increase of taxes have become overwhelming It must be done.

How does this economy develop?Zhu Cijiong came from time travel. Although he is not an economic expert, it is enough to deal with the development of Ming Dynasty.

To achieve great economic development, we must establish a market economy system, stimulate demand, develop industries, let some people get rich first, and drive the rapid development of the overall economy.

Most of the really rich people in Ming Dynasty are not ordinary people, but mainly clan forces and landlords and gentry. These people are actually moths. Reallocating resources and establishing a market system are the foundation of development.

Of course, the removal of moths cannot be completed in a day or two. What Zhu Cijiong can do now is to stimulate demand, develop industries, and let some people get rich first.How to develop this industry, relying on the original handicraft workshops will definitely not work, because the efficiency is too low, and there will be no industrialists at all. Only by carrying out the industrial revolution, extending steam power to civilian production, and rapidly increasing productivity can we Cultivate batch after batch of industrialists.

This involves the next technology. Technology can be said to be one of the aspects that Zhu Cijiong is most proud of. The technology he masters is definitely the most advanced technology in the world. Other countries are at least four or fifty years behind him.But this technology is only showing a little advantage in the military industry, and it is far from crushing other countries, so the development of this technology is also imperative.

What does the development of science and technology rely on?Modern people know that the development of science and technology ultimately depends on talents. It depends on high-level scientists and great inventors to continuously promote the progress of science and technology, and it also depends on ordinary scientific and technological talents to transform science and technology into productivity.

Now Zhu Cijiong's subordinates don't mention the great scientists and great inventors, even Xu Guangqi, Bi Maokang, Song Yingxing, etc. are the only ordinary scientific and technological talents. Even if they are busy to death, they can only be guaranteed. The limited application of technology to military production is far from achieving the effect of promotion.Now he has the most advanced technology in the world, but it has not been fully promoted.

Therefore, Zhu Cijiong is going to vigorously promote Western learning in the next step. Several university-like schools will be established to allow Xu Guangqi and others to cultivate a group of scientific and technological talents, so that science and technology can be quickly transformed into productivity.

The promotion of Western learning involves cultural levels. How to say about this culture, I don’t know if there are any who can really understand the connotation of culture. Anyway, Zhu Cijiong can’t figure it out.He only knew that in order to promote Western learning, there must be a cultural atmosphere in which Western learning can survive. Now it can be said that there is basically no cultural atmosphere in which Western learning can survive, and the Ming Dynasty is still dominated by traditional Confucianism.

This cannot be rushed, after all, Confucianism has been deeply rooted in Ming Dynasty, if you want to say that Confucianism is smashed to the ground, and then you go directly to Western learning, it will definitely not work, it is unrealistic, and it is unnecessary.

Confucianism is not useless, it has many advantages, but it also has certain defects. This defect is too divorced from reality. The so-called "books have their own golden houses, and books have their own Yan Ruyu." 'It's definitely wrong to think that thought determines matter.

And Western learning does not only have advantages but no disadvantages. It can indeed greatly promote the development of society, but this promotion is basically purely material, and it can be said to be very empty in terms of thinking.

In fact, Confucianism and Western learning are not opposed to each other, but complement each other. Confucianism emphasizes ideological development, while Western learning emphasizes material development, and the two just complement each other.That is to say, Confucianism cannot be killed with a single stick, but rather must be affirmed, developed, and promoted, and Confucianism and Western learning must be treated equally.

This issue is a bit more complicated. It can be said that Confucianism has been developed to the extreme in Daming, and there is no need for propaganda or promotion. It is already deeply rooted.On the contrary, this Western learning has no foundation at all in Ming Dynasty, and it must be vigorously promoted if it is to be developed. If this is done, it will appear to be biased towards Western learning. Representatives of Confucianism will definitely go crazy and oppose it.

How to do it?In fact, it is very simple, that is to promote Confucianism as a basic subject, which is fair, and everyone has seen that I am not biased towards Western learning, I also attach importance to Confucianism, and I want all people to learn Confucianism, first learn Confucianism and then learn Western learning!
That is to say, at the cultural level, Zhu Cijiong decided to vigorously promote Confucianism first, so that ordinary people with conditions can be literate, and then promote Western learning, so that those who are interested in learning about things can learn Western learning. To promote it, take Confucianism as the foundation and Western learning as a supplement, and subtly influence it. When more people learn Western learning, gradually everyone will get used to it.

Finally, there is the issue of diplomacy. Whether Ming Dynasty has diplomacy or not, there must be, but the foreign policy is not comprehensive.Generally speaking, the foreign policy of the Ming Dynasty in the past was that my Ming Dynasty is a kingdom of heaven, you are either a subject of my dynasty, and if you pay tribute, Daming will give you benefits and protect you, and those who do not pay tribute are either enemies or Huawai Barbarian, Da Ming does not make friends, if you dare to come over, I will beat you!

Doing this would definitely not work. Daming is tantamount to being a loner. If he really wanted to fight against the great powers, it would be a country against all the great powers!If it was before the Age of Discovery, there might still be a chance of winning, but after the Age of Discovery began, the great powers have gradually become stronger, and it is unrealistic for one country to fight against all the great powers.

Therefore, Zhu Cijiong first recruited Portugal as an ally. This is just the beginning, and he will develop more allies in the future. After all, Ming Dynasty does not want to dominate the world. It is not easy to suffer from more allies!

(End of this chapter)