Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 827, The Great Empire
In the Shuxiang Yayuan community in the western suburbs of Beijing.

Accompanied by the yelling of newsboys selling newspapers, the whole city seemed to come alive, becoming noisy and lively.

Gilt woke up from sleep. The mattress made of springs was very comfortable to sleep on. Covered with a quilt made of cotton, it formed the strongest seal in this winter, making it difficult for people to get up.

"Oh, it would be great if I could marry a Daming woman."

Gilt shook his head helplessly. It has been almost half a year since he came to Daming, and he has settled here in the capital for more than four months. He also has a deeper understanding of this huge empire.

In the past six months, he has been to the grasslands in the north, and he has seen the hometown of Genghis Khan. There is already a grassland province of the Ming Dynasty, and the powerful Mongols are grazing cattle and sheep for the Ming people.

He has also been to North Korea and Japan, and felt the strong influence of Daming in North Korea and Japan. The people there are learning from Daming in an all-round way. Everything and every aspect has been greatly influenced by Daming.

He also went to Shanxi along the repaired concrete road, tasted Shanxi millet porridge, and drank Shanxi Fenjiu; along the concrete road to the south, he also went to Shandong, and compared his drinking capacity with Shandong people.

In just half a year in Daming, he didn't stop for a day, trying to understand this huge empire from all aspects.

For this reason, he also specially studied Chinese characters and languages, and also gave himself a very authentic Chinese name Ximenxue. Ximen has a similar pronunciation to Spain, and Xue has the same pronunciation. Although it sounds a bit like a woman's name, Gilt still likes it. The Chinese name Ximenxue.

In addition, he also shortened his hair, shaved off his beard, put on Daming's clothes, and even spoke with a Beijing accent.

After washing with hot water burned by briquettes, Gilt habitually went to the teahouse next to the community to have morning tea while listening to the newspaper reader in the teahouse read the Ming Morning Post of the day.

Through the Daming Morning Post, one can learn almost every aspect of detailed information about Daming, which is more comprehensive and accurate than inquiring and researching by oneself.

"Mr. Simon, is it still the same?"

Gilt is an acquaintance in the tea house, because he is from far away Spain in Europe, and his blond hair and blue eyes make everyone remember him immediately.

"Same as usual~"

Gilt nodded with a smile. When he came to Daming, he was used to drinking morning tea. If he didn't drink it for a day, he would have no energy for the whole day.

Soon, a pot of Longjing, a bowl of mutton soup, a few steamed buns, and a side of haggis noodles were brought up, and at the same time, the newspaper reader invited by the teahouse had already started reading the newspaper.

While savoring it carefully, he also took a newspaper and listened to Mr. Newspaper Reader's reading at the same time, carefully looking at it.

"Crack~"

Mr. Xingmu, a newspaper reader, slapped the table, and said in a clear and correct voice: "The great victory in the Western Regions, the Western Regions will be settled in one battle..."

"Western Region has won another victory!"

Gilt looked at the newspaper and couldn't help sighing.

He still remembered that the newspapers reported the news of the great victory in the Western Regions before the Chinese New Year. Not long ago, good news came from the Western Regions, the Great Victory in the Western Regions.

The Ming army completely defeated the army of the Chagatai Khanate, and even the Khan of the Chagatai Khanate was captured alive.

Gilt looked carefully, because he hadn't learned Chinese for a long time, and he didn't know some characters, and some words were hard to understand the meaning of them, but fortunately, there was a newspaper reader who explained them in detail, and he could quickly understand the meanings.

"Da Ming is really too powerful. A western expedition used [-] troops, and this is only one-fifth of the total strength of Da Ming. A million soldiers will expand their navy this year to [-]. Ten thousand."

"With such a powerful Ming Empire, a single country is enough to sweep the entire Europe."

Gilt couldn't help but sigh.

In the past, in his cognition, the powerful countries included France, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Ottoman Empire, but now, he feels that compared with the powerful Ming Empire, these are scumbags.

Whether it is Daming's taxes, military strength, force, whether it is the strength of the army or the strength of the navy, Daming is enough to blow up any country he knows.

"Thank God, we Spain and Ming are now allies!"

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but draw a cross on his chest.

Because of the interests of the Americas, Ming and Spain reached an agreement, Spain recognized Ming's sovereignty over the Americas, and the two sides jointly cleared all the colonial strongholds of European countries on the Americas except Spain.

Daming recognized Spain's exclusive trade rights with Daming in the Americas, and also recognized that Spain was the most powerful country in Europe, and supported Spain's fight against Portugal and European pirates.

He felt that forming an alliance with Ming Dynasty was definitely the wisest choice. If such a powerful empire became your enemy, it would definitely be like a nightmare.

Looking at the current Western Regions and Central Asia, the powerful khanate established by the descendants of the Jin family was wiped out by the Ming people, and even the descendants of the Jin family were captured alive.

"The Western Regions are already very close to Central Asia. If you go further west, you can already border the Ottoman Empire. If you go further west, you can reach Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Black Sea. We can get through, and it will not be a good thing for us in Spain."

Looking carefully at the newspaper, the Western Regions and Central Asia were even published on it. This printing technology is too advanced.

After analyzing the map, he soon realized a problem, the land trade route might have to be opened up by the Ming people.

The morning tea was drunk very slowly, it took a full hour.

"Son, pay the bill~"

Carefully fold the newspaper, this newspaper is going to be sent back to Europe.

"Mr. Ximen, a total of eighty characters!"

Xiao Er hurriedly walked over and said.

"You don't need to look for the extra, it's your reward~"

Gilt took out his money bag, took out a silver bill from it and put it on the table and said.

"Alright, thank you Mr. Ximen for the reward!"

Xiao Er looked at the bank notes on the table, and immediately thanked them happily. The one hundred cash bank notes, the latest small-denomination, face-value bank notes issued by the First Bank of Ming Dynasty.

The life of ordinary people is mainly based on copper coins, and the value of silver is too high, so the Daming First Bank also withdrew from the new bank notes.

Bank notes with denominations of [-], [-], [-], and [-] coins were quickly circulated throughout Daming because of the good credit of the Daming First Bank.

The silver note that Gilt put on the table just now was a one-hundred-cent silver note, which fully rewarded the child with twenty coins, which is quite generous.

"The lives of the people of Ming Dynasty are really rich!"

"The purchases are calculated in pennies and pennies, but the income is calculated in silver. There are too many things that can be bought with one tael of silver."

Gilt walked out of the tea house, looked at the bustling streets, and sighed.

If you have a detailed understanding of Ming Dynasty, you will be amazed at the wealth of Ming people. Calculated according to the Beijing-Tianjin area, the income of ordinary people has now reached the standard of four taels of silver per month.

Income is high, but prices are very low.

Sea fish from Tianjin costs a few pennies a catty, rice from Nanyang costs a few pennies a catty, and flour from Liaodong costs a few pennies a catty.

In Europe, only nobles can enjoy white sugar, but in Daming, it only costs less than a hundred cents a catty, which is very cheap.

Also, Daming's cloth is ridiculously cheap. Before the price of wool and cotton increased, the price of a piece of cotton cloth was only a few tens of renminbi, and the supplies were extremely rich.

Compared with his hometown Spain, the common people of Daming lived in paradise.

Look at the bustling street in front of you, look at the high-rise buildings on both sides of the street, the streets here are clean and tidy, and there are special people to clean them every day; the Ming people here are gorgeously dressed, and everyone has a ruddy complexion. When everyone talks, the most talked about thing is National affairs.

Everyone is discussing the Great Victory in the Western Regions, discussing the matter of relocating millions of people to the Western Regions announced by the Ming Dynasty, and also discussing going to the Western Regions to grow cotton, going to Nanyang to grow sugar cane, going to the West to do business, building private colonies, and so on.

Everything in front of him made Gilt feel that this is what a truly great empire should look like.

The country is prosperous and powerful, the military is strong, and it is invincible in every battle. All the countries in the four directions have been beaten and surrendered to themselves; the monarch of the country has strong power, and is full of pioneering spirit. Competent, dedicated to assisting the monarch in handling state affairs.

The common people in this country are rich in food and clothing, and more importantly, they are full of love and loyalty to the country in spirit. A kind of pride and self-confidence makes every foreigner who comes to Ming feel self-conscious. This is what a great empire possesses. noble nation.

Self-confident, self-reliant, hardworking, intelligent, loyal to one's own country and king, and proud of one's own civilization.

In the people of Daming, even ordinary people, everything Gilt saw made him sigh: "This is a truly great empire!"

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　I think what we lack most now is national self-confidence!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)