Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1596, Daming has taken the lead in the world

In Anning Harbor, Anning City, Ningguo, Simon and Brown are drinking tea in a tea house halfway up the mountain, looking at the extremely busy Anning Harbor in front of them.

Anning Port is currently the second largest port in Tianzhu and the largest city in Ning Kingdom. King Ning started his business here and established his capital here.

As the country of Ning, it also has a good port, backed by the Tianzhu continent, and an important trading point on the Indian Ocean route, which has long since enabled the rapid development and prosperity of Anning City.

After these years of development, the population of Anning City has exceeded one million people. Yanran is already a big city, with tall buildings and busy traffic. In addition to the prosperous slave, spice, and cotton trade, Anning City is even more crowded with merchants. , trade is very prosperous.

"This Port of Peace is really big and bustling."

Overlooking the peaceful port in front of you, large ships are moored at the port. The slaves unloading at the dock are always busy without stopping, and the business buildings near the port are always busy with traffic and extremely busy.

A series of spacious cement roads extend to the end of the field of vision, and the traffic extends in all directions.

This made Simon unrecognizable exclamation.

In Europe, even in the Republic of Venice, which has the strongest commercial atmosphere, it is difficult for you to see such sales.

In addition, European cities give the impression of being dirty, smelly, and messy, but the Anning City of the Ming Dynasty is very clean and tidy, and everything is neatly planned. When it is full of flowers and plants, when the flowers are in full bloom, the fragrance of flowers is overflowing.

Building after building, the glass of various colors on it reflects the charming light under the sunlight, and it looks like a feast for the eyes.

The streets are clean and tidy, you don’t have to worry about stepping on indescribable objects, and you don’t have to worry about someone pouring an unpleasant liquid from the top of your head.

The shops on the street are all glass windows, allowing people to see the goods and goods inside at a glance, and people enjoy shopping freely here.

Where is it like a European city, even if it is Paris in France, it still stinks, is filthy, chaotic, the streets are dirty, the city is messy, and all kinds of bad smells make you throw up even the overnight meal come out.

As for the pedestrians on the street, most of them are dirty to death, with tattered clothes and unkempt faces. In addition, Europeans don’t like to take a bath at this time, and they like to grow beards and long hair. European cities are not good places at all. The reason why many nobles like to build their family castles in the countryside.

At least in the countryside, the air is clean and there is no need to worry about all kinds of dirty things.

As for the Anning City in front of you, you can't see many phenomena in European cities at all. What you can see represent wealth, affluence, sunshine, cleanliness and so on.

Even the slaves here, the slaves who do the heaviest physical work, are all neatly dressed, with their hair cut short and their beards shaved off, so they look clean and not at all sloppy.

Even though he has already seen Chixia City, seeing how clean and tidy An Ning is, Simon has to admire it.

"No wonder Ming people keep saying that Europeans are barbarians!"

Simon sighed.

After coming to the territory of the Ming people, he had contact with some Ming people.

Daming people are full of contempt for Europeans, thinking that Europeans are barbarians, they don’t like bathing, they don’t like hygiene, they are very dirty, and at the same time they are very barbaric. Newspaper reports about Europe often describe the mess of European cities Difference.

Therefore, people in Daming have the impression that Europeans are unhygienic and messy. At the same time, because a large number of Europeans were sold to Daming as white slaves, Europe was labeled as slaves.

But now, after seeing that Anning City is clean and tidy, and seeing the Daming people here, all of them are well-dressed, well-dressed, confident and gentle.

Simon also has to admit that Daming is what a truly civilized world should look like.

Rich, civilized, clean, polite, full of knowledge, confident and courteous, this is what people in the civilized world should look like.

In contrast, Europe is more savage robbers, dirty fishermen, and lowly slaves.

"The people of Daming are already ahead of the world in every aspect!"

Brown took a sip of tea slowly, looking at the city of Anning in front of him, his feelings grew even more.

He has been in Daming for several years. Although this is the first time he has come to Anning City, he has visited Chixia City many times and met many people from Daming.

Daming people are actually very friendly, warm and hospitable.

Their characters are more reserved, Burmese and introverted, they pay attention to moderation, gentleness, advocating gentlemen, and they pay attention to convincing others with virtue instead of the robber spirit of Europeans.

After getting in touch with Daming people more, he also understood why Daming could become the most powerful country in the world.

Their advantages are too many.

Of course, the most important thing is that Daming people are very smart and hardworking.

The reason why the Ming people were able to run rampant in the world, sweep away the Quartet, and colonize the whole world, relied on the powerful force in their hands.

"They have a very complete military system. The Ming Empire implements a compulsory military service system. Every adult male has the obligation to serve in the military. Only after strict selection and testing can he join the army."

"When they join the army, they don't pick up weapons and go to battle as soon as they go. They need to go through a long period of rigorous training. At the same time, they must come from a clean family and be good children."

"In the army, not only do you need to learn various military skills, but you also need to learn cultural knowledge, literacy, and many combat skills."

"In addition, they also established a special military academy to force military talents, and at the same time cultivate the loyalty and patriotism of these soldiers. The army built in this way is naturally very powerful in combat effectiveness!"

"Their political system is also extremely perfect. The king has supreme authority, so he can concentrate on major tasks. However, many things still need to be discussed with ministers and nobles to deal with them, thus forming an effective centralization."

"Unlike the European side, the nobles and kingdoms of all sizes are fragmented, it is difficult to form an effective centralization, and the power of the king cannot be consolidated, so Europe is like a mess."

"In addition, in terms of technology, Daming is much ahead of the world. They are now able to manufacture steam trains, steam ships, and various machines driven by steam, which greatly improves their productivity. Create a steady stream of wealth for them."

"In terms of education, the people of Ming Dynasty attach great importance to it, and vigorously set up various schools, private schools, etc., and even now the people of Ming Dynasty can basically let all children receive basic education, and many educations are still free. of."

"Can you imagine?"

"The children of the Ming people are basically in school, and they can read and write. What a terrifying thing, you know that the population of the Ming Dynasty is more than [-] million."

"There is a great nobleman in Ming Dynasty who likes running schools very much, and spends tens of millions of taels of silver on education every year!"

Brown sighed as he spoke.

Nothing shocked him more than this.

The people of Daming attached great importance to education far beyond his imagination. Whenever Daming went to a place, he would inevitably set up a school so that his children could enjoy education and study.

What an incredible thing this is.

You must know that in Europe, reading is something that nobles and really rich people can do. Absolutely most people are illiterate, illiterate, let alone read and write. Even in Europe, there are letters, but there is no After going to school, naturally I can't read and write.

But on Daming's side, they have managed to get every child to go to school, which also means that in a few years, almost everyone in Daming will be able to read and write.

What a terrifying thing this is when it is linked to the extremely large population base of Ming Dynasty.

The Jews knew all too well the power of knowledge.

The Jews have been able to persevere for thousands of years, always maintain their own heritage and culture, and have always been relatively rich, not relying on the superficial business.

It is the Jewish people's emphasis on education and knowledge. They are very willing to invest in the education of their children. They have tried their best to let their children receive education, read more books and learn more since they were young.

But even so, there is absolutely no way for the Jews to do what the Ming people do, vigorously popularize education, and let every child go to school.

But Daming people are doing this, trying their best to let every child go to school.

"Send every child to school?"

"Invest tens of millions of taels of silver in education every year?"

When Simon heard this, he immediately opened his mouth wide.

Although he already knew that the people of Ming Dynasty were very good, he never imagined that the people of Ming Dynasty could be so good that they wanted every child to go to school. A nobleman was willing to spend tens of millions of taels of silver every year to invest in education.

Tens of millions of taels of silver, even the king of France, Louis XII, gave away such a huge amount of wealth, but the nobles of Ming Dynasty can easily take it out, the key is to invest in education.

This level of emphasis on education is really scary.

"This is just one aspect of Da Ming's strength. The current Da Ming is already so strong that it is difficult to hold back, but I think that in ten or twenty years, the strength of Da Ming at that time may make everyone They all feel hopeless.”

"Those countless Daming people who have grown up with new education will become more patriotic, mastering knowledge and skills, which will make them stronger. Looking at other places and countries around the world, I am afraid that by then they will not be Daming people. opponent."

"That's why I said that if possible, we should all immigrate to Ningguo. Life is always better under a powerful empire, and we can enjoy many benefits of this powerful empire."

Brown said with a smile.

He is not a pedantic person, let alone a stubborn person.

For those among the Jews who have always adhered to the ancient traditions, they are extremely xenophobic, form a small group of their own, live the life of an ascetic monk, and are unwilling to integrate into the world or see the world clearly.

Even though they migrated to Ning State, they still want to continue their millennium tradition in Ning State, and they are unwilling to contact Daming people, but they also think that Daming is like Europe, relying on the meager knowledge and ability they have mastered. Go into business and get rich.

They think too simply, and they don't look at how smart, intelligent, and hard-working the people of Ming Dynasty are. The European way doesn't work in Daming at all.

In the future, the gap with the people of Daming will only grow wider and wider, to the point of despair.

"In addition to the military, political, economic, and educational aspects, the people of Ming Dynasty are also leading the world in terms of infrastructure~"

"Whether in Europe, the Middle East, or the Ottoman Empire, the Persian Empire, etc., everyone basically travels by walking and riding a horse."

"But the Ming Empire is completely different. Even in the Anning City in front of you, you can see the concrete roads extending in all directions, and you can see bridges."

"The road traffic is extremely convenient, and you can also see a large number of four-wheeled carriages, bicycles, ox carts, etc., but these are nothing."

"What is really powerful is the trains and railways that are being vigorously developed by the Ming Empire."

"Using the train driven by steam, it can travel thousands of miles a day. Once the railway from Daming's westernmost Nanyun Province, which is the east coast of the Black Sea, to Daming is fully repaired."

"At that time, they will be able to reach the distance of tens of thousands of miles in only a few dozen days, and this train is very comfortable to ride, and you won't even feel any bumps on it. The water is all steady."

"The Ming Empire is vigorously building such a train and railway. They even proposed to build a bridge across the Yangtze River. The Yangtze River is one of the top few super rivers in the world. Only the people of Ming Dynasty thought of investing tens of millions of taels of silver to build such a bridge."

"The Ming people are vigorously building railways, roads, ports, bridges, dams, reservoirs, digging canals, etc., and the funds invested in infrastructure construction every year are calculated in billions of taels of silver."

"You can imagine that in the future, when these are basically completed and form a network, the transportation of the Ming Empire will extend in all directions, but in other parts of the world, people will still be the same, going out on foot, and only a few people can travel on horseback. The gap is huge. Big!"

Although Brown himself has never been to the mainland of Daming, and he has never made a train, but in Chixia City and Anning City, seeing the concrete roads extending in all directions, and planning steamy and spacious roads and streets, he can imagine the infrastructure of Daming. How powerful it is.

He lamented that Ming Dynasty was leading the world in all aspects, and also lamented the wealth possessed by this huge empire.

PS: There is a big show in the village, right next to my house, this head is buzzing~
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