Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2089, a man of insight in Europe
In a manor in the Spanish Empire, several young nobles gathered together, talking all over the place.

"Alfred, tell everyone what the Ming Empire is like."

Villa looked at his friend in front of him. Alfred was one of the students sent by Spain to study in the Ming Empire, and he had just returned from the Ming Empire not long ago.

At present, it has also been highly valued by the Spanish Emperor Charles V, and has a bright future.

"Yes, I heard that the cities of the Ming Empire are extremely prosperous and lively. I really want to go to the Ming Empire for a walk, but I don't know how to speak the Ming dialect."

Igor on the side is also full of curiosity.

They have heard too much about the Ming Empire, and they have seen too many products from the Ming Empire with their own eyes. They were also fortunate enough to participate in some dinner parties and receptions where people from the Ming Dynasty attended.

No matter from which aspect, the Ming Empire seemed to far surpass the Spanish Empire.

Alfred sipped his tea lightly and said, "The tea from Daming is better. It is very difficult to buy really good tea here in Europe."

He gently put down his teacup. The young Alfred was almost like a Daming person, with short hair and a clean shaved beard, and the clothes he wore were all of Daming's style, which was very simple and not popular in Europe. Such aristocratic clothing, such clothing is not only unsightly, but also very inconvenient.

"How should I put it, the Ming Empire has too many and too many places worth learning from the Spanish Empire. I don't know which aspect to talk about."

"Then tell me about the emperor of the Ming Empire."

Villa thought for a while and said.

"The emperor of the Ming Empire is very different from our Spanish side."

"Da Ming pays attention to inheritance, especially the inheritance of his own surname. It is impossible for the throne of the Ming Empire to be passed on to people with foreign surnames like ours in Europe."

Afred and said.

"But what if you don't have a son?"

Igor said quickly when he heard it.

"It can be passed on to the descendants of the brothers, but it is absolutely impossible to say that it is passed on to the grandson, because the grandson has a foreign surname, so the emperor of the Ming Empire definitely has the same surname, and it is impossible to pass it on to the grandson like we do in Europe. matter."

"In addition, the Ming Empire attaches great importance to future generations. The emperors and nobles of the Ming Empire often have many women. If there are enough women, they will naturally have enough descendants."

"Just like the current crown prince of the Ming Empire, he has more than 200 sons and more than 200 daughters."

Alfred replied.

"God, more than 200 sons, more than 200 daughters?"

When Igor and Villa heard this, they were dumbfounded. This adds up to more than 400 descendants, which is too huge.

"That's too much, how many women does he have?"

Igor was dumbfounded, this is too fertile, the key is to be able to bear it, and this can still support, this is the key point.

Some monarchs in Europe are also very fertile, but there are not many offspring who can raise adults. Marriages are common among European nobles, and most of the time they are cousin marriages. Various aristocratic diseases are very common. One of the characteristics is that Descendants are rare, and some noble titles are passed on, and it is discovered that no one can inherit them, and there are no descendants.

"The Prince of Ming Dynasty has many women, perhaps hundreds or even thousands. This is also the reason why he has many offspring."

"The people of Ming Dynasty are different from us in Europe. They don't pay much attention to bloodlines. Many of the descendants of the Prince of Ming Dynasty are of mixed blood. Among them are the mixed blood descendants of various tribes of Ming Dynasty, and even the mixed blood descendants of Eastern European Slavs. The two daughters of Grand Duke Ryazan of Eastern Europe gave birth to six or seven children for Prince Ming."

"Ming people believe that if close relatives get married, the offspring will have many diseases and defects, so there are very few cousin marriages in the royal family and nobles of the Ming Dynasty. Because of some genetic diseases common to the nobility and royalty."

Alfred introduced the royal system and noble marriages in Ming Dynasty in detail.

"But if this is the case, won't it cause the blood of the common people to flow into the upper class?"

Igor thought for a while and said.

"Yes, the mother of the emperor of the Ming Empire is an ordinary person, and the people of Ming Dynasty don't care about it."

"What they pay more attention to is the surname, which is the most important thing."

Alfred nodded.

"It's really hard for people to understand them. How can the blood of nobles be mixed with the blood of ordinary civilians."

Libya also shook his head and said.

For the European nobles in this period, blood was extremely important, and the blood must be pure, so many cousins ​​married.

"But this is also one of the reasons why the Ming Empire was so powerful, because they didn't pay attention to blood, but paid more attention to surnames and inheritance, so their surnames can be kept forever. There are many ancient surnames, and the inheritance is similar to ancient times. It can even be said that Every surname is a heritage with a long history."

"As for us in Europe, many surnames are passed on, and then they disappear."

"Because of the emphasis on surnames and inheritance, Daming people are more united than us Europeans. They value cultural inheritance, so they have always been a unified empire. Even if there are occasional periods of division, they quickly We can unite again."

"In contrast to our European side, unity is only short-lived, and division is long-term."

"A small Europe is about the same size as the mainland of the Ming Empire, but how many countries do we have?"

"England, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, the Holy Roman Empire, even the interior of each country is still fragmented, with large and small states, very scattered."

"This is why our west is always inferior to the east. We are divided and unable to concentrate our efforts to do some big things. Naturally, progress is slow."

"In terms of simple railway construction, there is no railway in Europe so far, but what about the Ming Empire?"

"do you know?"

"The railways of the Ming Empire have already criss-crossed and extended in all directions. They even directly built the railway from Houzhao City in the Baltic Sea across the long Eurasian continent to their easternmost Beijing and Tianjin regions."

"They built railways from the cold Siberian plains to the south, to the tropical Southeast Asia, to Cochin and elephant forests."

"They even spent more than one billion taels of silver just to build the railway to the southwest region, so that the regions with the worst traffic conditions can be connected to the train and have convenient transportation."

"The construction of the railway has made the Ming Empire stronger than ever. They can easily transport the grain produced in the Black Earth Province of Eastern Europe to the mainland thousands of miles away."

"They can also transport a large number of cars and motorcycles produced in the Beijing-Tianjin area to Europe for sale, and cattle and sheep from the northern grassland area can be transported to the south for sale on a large scale."

"In winter, their tropical fruits and vegetables from the Nanyang region can be transported by rail to the cold Beijing and Tianjin regions. Even in winter, they can still eat fresh vegetables and fruits."

"Look at our Europe again. It is fragmented. It is difficult for us to even raise funds to build a railway. The communication between our various places still relies on primitive horse-drawn carriages, and the speed is very slow."

"Even so far we don't have a few decent concrete roads."

"What do we compare with the Ming Empire?"

"They have millions of troops all over the world. They have their own fleets in Western Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, West Africa, and the Red Sea. They can even gather anywhere in the huge empire in just a few days. Hundreds of thousands of troops."

"Their fleet is huge, and any fleet that comes out is enough to sweep any fleet in Europe."

"Do you know how much the Ming Empire's annual financial income is?"

"They can receive a huge tax of more than [-] billion taels of silver a year. What a huge income, and most of the tax is used for the construction of the entire empire."

"Da Ming built a lot of railways, roads, ports, reservoirs, dams, canals, etc. They also invested a lot of money in education and built a large number of schools. Almost every child can go to school."

"This is the Great Ming Empire, a hopelessly powerful existence, a unified and powerful empire!"

After Alfred finished speaking, he also let out a long sigh.

Only when you truly understand the Ming Empire, can you know how powerful it is. This definitely does not mean that it only has a vast land and a powerful army, but that it is powerful in all aspects.

The more you know about the Great Ming Empire, the more you will feel desperate. The huge gap makes it impossible to even see any hope compared with the Great Ming Empire.

Alfred also wrote a very, very long letter to Charles V for this purpose, and put forward many suggestions similar to those of the Ming Empire.

He believes that if the Spanish Empire wants to become stronger, it must learn from the Ming Empire, establish a powerful centralized dynasty, truly unify the empire, take advantage of the unification, and then gradually carry out reforms to become stronger.

This is deeply in line with the ideals and ambitions of the young Charles V, and it is also deeply valued by Charles V.

After listening to Alfred's words, Igor and Villa were also shocked and had nothing to say. Although they knew that the Ming Empire was strong and powerful, they still didn't know that the Ming Empire was strong in all respects. The empire is really strong in those places.

Now that they have listened to Alfred's words, they finally understand where the Ming Empire is strong.

"If our Spanish Empire wants to be as powerful as the Ming Empire, we must learn from the Ming Empire!"

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(End of this chapter)