The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

Businessmen opened an ancestral exhibition hall.

The people were very curious.

Ancestor Exhibition Hall, what does this mean? On the opening day, the wonderful lion dance performance attracted more people. People paid to enter the exhibition hall to see what it was like.

"My husband complained that he wanted to use Qianqiu Suichang to remove his clothes."

Such words can be vaguely seen on the bamboo slips inside the glass cover. The Imperial College Supervisor next to him took the initiative to explain: "A woman came to the pass to leave the customs and said, My husband is a firecracker for thousands of years. Please let me go and provide for her husband." Give me winter clothes.”

"The Han Dynasty woman unearthed in Gansu applied to leave the customs and sent winter clothes to her husband who was guarding the customs. It was moving to read."

The students of the Imperial College were full of envy, "There was Meng Jiangnu in Qin who cried at the Great Wall, and there were women in Han who traveled thousands of miles and went out to send winter clothes to their husbands regardless of danger. This shows that since ancient times, love has been long-lasting."

People suddenly understood and smiled on their faces.

"History is not about time, but about countless individuals and events." A man in a long gown said.

There are many cabinets in the exhibition hall, and each cabinet displays different items, including pottery, ironware, and letters, all of which are ancient items.

"The day before yesterday when I was cleaning up the old house, I found an old plowshare. I was going to throw it away. On the inside of the plowshare, I found a line of words carved by my father. He said, 'Repair it. It will still be usable. Don't throw it away.' At that time, my Tears flowed down, as if my father was talking to me again." The middle-aged woman in a boxer suit wiped her tears.

While people here lamented and remembered, laughter erupted elsewhere.

It turned out that there was a strange-looking pottery model with human faces squeezed into a ball. It was so funny that the visitors couldn't help laughing.

There were also two little pottery figures, holding their faces and kissing.

I don’t know which ancient person carved a smiling face on the bronze yue head. What’s even more fun is that a few front teeth were specially carved on it, making the visitors smile from ear to ear.

On the pottery basin, there was a pair of smiling eyes and a small mouth, which looked like a human face.

The bronze man shivered and stuffed his hands into his crotch to keep warm.

The ancient soldier extended his left hand and gave a thumbs up.

"The ancestors are so funny."

"I seem to see my ancestors saying, 'You, future generations, don't think you are the only one who can be funny,' hahaha."

"This is a bit like being in need of urination and not being able to find the toilet." Someone pointed at the trembling bronze man who covered his crotch with his hands and laughed.

The Ancestors Exhibition Hall is not fixed.

The businessman rented a temporary hall. Seeing that the business in the capital was good, he kept doing it for half a year. When there were fewer visitors, he packed up his things and went to the next place to find a place for the exhibition.

Life in Beijing is becoming more and more diversified.

Qidian tea is popular in the market.

Similar to milk tea, there are those with added fruits, some with added sugar, etc. Although the tea style existed in the Han and Tang dynasties, it was popularized in the Song Dynasty. However, after the death of the Song Dynasty, tea ordering disappeared and only recorded in writing.

Historically, the social prosperity of the Ming Dynasty did not reach the height of the Song Dynasty, so tea was not ordered in the Ming Dynasty.

"People in Song Dynasty need to have more free time."

Ordering tea takes a lot of effort, so people in the capital sighed.

While drinking exquisitely ordered tea, they commented on the ancients.

On clothing.

Because women had plenty of money and it was their nature to love beauty, merchants produced leather high-heeled shoes.

In the West, walking is difficult because there is a lot of mud and feces on the streets. The businessman was inspired by this and asked someone to make a pair of shoes with high heels. They were quickly welcomed by the nobles and became a trend in the [-]th century.

It is different from the East. Oriental high heels are the product of women's love for beauty.

It existed as early as the Zhou Dynasty, and there are many records in Tang and Song poetry. However, in history, the leather high heels of the Ming Dynasty were similar to the high heels of later generations. Nowadays, the Yongle Dynasty has risen ahead of schedule.

Acrobatics and acrobatic performances at the Grand Theatre, Cuju Field, Bamboo Field, Song and Dance Hall, Drama Theater, Temple Fairs and Markets.

Dragon dance.

Lion dance.

Shehuo performance.

There are millions of people in the old and new urban areas of the capital. Different from the traditional social model, the power of the noble class has been compressed. As the slave system has been completely blocked, each family has begun to use Japanese, Korean, and Nanyang maids. , but the population dependent on powerful families has been greatly reduced.

Like a high-consumption city, it stimulates countless new demands.

The coalmen who delivered coal to various houses drove donkey carts, ensuring the livelihood and cooking of millions of people in the capital and solving the fuel problem.

The significance of coal mines replacing timber.

If the fuel of future generations returns to wood, it will bring huge disasters, rapid population reduction in a short period of time, large-scale industrial regression, etc. For the same reason, Ming Dynasty's demand for coal mines has reached the point where it is inseparable.

Coal Age.

The four big characters on the front page of the social newspaper did not wake up the people. They had entered a new era.

Kang Binzhi, the governor of Goryeo.

After returning from the investigation in Korea, a high-profile meeting was organized. The organizations present included the Food Stamp Issuing Bank, the Energy Development Bank, the Agricultural Development Bank, the Industrial Promotion Bank, the Communications and Construction Bank, the Ministry of Railway Engineering, and the boss of the Jinzhou Shipyard. Technical report manager
  Not only Goryeo trading firms, but also domestic trading firms, and the big boss of Lianheji also participated in the event.

The top floor of the tallest building in Ming Dynasty.

The corridors are all laid with wool carpets, which, combined with the carpet style and weaving methods of the Samarkand region, not only give off an aura of wealth, but also give people a sense of comfort and pleasure when they step on them.

Various precious calligraphy and paintings are hung on the smooth walls as white as snow. The porcelain on the table is specially fired, and each one is valuable.

In a specially provided room, musicians are playing beautiful music.

Every oil lamp is different and full of art.

Behind the large glass windows, thick red curtains are tied with yellow tapes and bound into beautiful shapes. They have been carefully taken care of by the building managers. There is something extraordinary behind every detail.

There are mahogany conference tables and neat objects in the hall. Hundreds of upper-class people have their tables filled with delicacies from the mountains and seas, as well as wine, rice wine, rice wine, etc.

Jiang Binzhi walked to the stage and applause began.

Jiang Binzhi put in a lot of effort for this meeting, but the reward for his efforts made Jiang Binzhi blush.

"I stand here today and am very happy to share with you some thoughts and opinions on the economic development and construction of the Koryo region."

"Crash."

The businessmen applauded vigorously.

The stewards at the Food Stamp Bank were more dignified. Their right fingers clapped on the palm of their left hand, as if they were very elegant.

The domestic coal mine merchants and the Korean coal mine merchants, who were originally at odds with each other, actually sat together in harmony. This was something that would have been unimaginable six months ago. Although it did not happen domestically, there were many conflicts in Korea.

The strong dragon does not suppress the local snake.

The caravans sent by the large domestic coal mine merchants were defeated and expelled by the Ming Dynasty merchants in Goryeo.

Jiang Binzhi waited for a while, and then continued, "As for the economic development and construction of the Goryeo region, there is a strong domestic opposition. The reasons are not explained here."

"However, domestic scholars should rest assured that Goryeo will embark on a new path, and the energy issue is an important proposition for the development of our current Ming Dynasty society."

"With society's overall energy demand doubling and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's basic energy economic idea of ​​"first from outside to inside", developing energy in the Goryeo region has become an urgent issue."

"With the rapid progress in shipping capacity, the interactive development of productivity between Korea and the mainland has met the conditions required for the industrialization and urban rise of the Ming Dynasty. We need to examine and promote the economic development of the Korea region from a more comprehensive, innovative and sustainable perspective. Construction.”

A total of [-] million yuan in loan support, technical support promised by the Ministry of Railway Engineering, and a glowing promise from the head of the Jinzhou Shipyard to provide the lowest ship price and guarantee the annual ship launching capacity of the Jinzhou Shipyard. It will be at least doubled next year.

They all burst into laughter.

The private merchants were also laughing from ear to ear.

The newly appointed Governor of Goryeo is indeed a good person. He will not implement the Workers' and Civilian United Ministry system in the Goryeo area, and many restrictions have been relaxed. Although they are all sucking their interests, compared with the benefits that can be seen in the future, no one is bigger. Businessmen can’t go wrong either.

Day two.

Most of the newspapers published the news and it spread a lot, but the common people just regarded it as a novelty and threw it away shortly after the conversation, without understanding its significance.

Wenhua Hall.

Jiang Binzhi reported to Zhu Gaochi the results of the past few days and the next plan. After listening, Zhu Gaochi did not express too many opinions, but began to think deeply.

The future world structure will be very different.

No country can develop in isolation, and every country is pursuing more trade. Therefore, isolating its opponents has become one of the ultimate means of the United States, and most weak countries cannot cope with this method of the United States.

The development of Western civilization has achieved excellent results and provided modern Chinese civilization with a lot of reference and learning. Therefore, understanding the West, learning the best of the other, avoiding the worst of the other, and combining their own advantages are what many scholars are trying to do.

The Han people are indeed the nation that is best at learning.

When the Han people broke away from the control of the foreigners, the first thing they did was to solve the problem of the emperor's existence. What a great achievement this was, in a civilization where the emperor had a history of two thousand years.

How ridiculous and ignorant it is to say that Chinese civilization is a closed and arrogant civilization even if such deeply rooted fundamentals can be changed.

In the first half of the sixteenth century, Portugal and Spain successively became the richest countries in Europe. The Age of Discovery they ushered in was an unavoidable research direction for learning and understanding the achievements of Western culture.

Such a huge accumulation of wealth has been accomplished in just a few decades, which is very rare in human history.

So how did Portugal and Spain do this?
  In the early days, when people discussed the colonial era, they would attribute all credit to their wealth, or at least the primitive accumulation of capital, which was obtained by plundering colonies.

This statement is not wrong. But if it is entirely attributed to this, it would be a wrong study. The Mongols plundered half of the world, and the Jurchens plundered the entire China. They also accumulated wealth, but they did not lead to a more advanced civilization. Instead, they brought Here comes the great regression of civilization.

The early European colonists brutally plundered the indigenous peoples of the New World. However, if you only follow this line of thinking to find the source of wealth in Portugal and Spain, you will go astray. Instead, you will not understand how they obtained wealth. The real way.

Looted wealth represents only a very, very small proportion of the total wealth that Europeans gained through creation throughout the colonial period.

The reason is simple. The indigenous peoples of the newly discovered mainland did not have much wealth to plunder.

When Portugal and Spain rose to prominence, although they nominally owned sub-Saharan Africa and the entire Americas, they did not actually colonize much of the territory. In the hundred years after Columbus discovered the New World, the footprints of the Portuguese and Spanish colonists were as large as And less than [-]% of the land, even those lands that have been set foot on, most of them are not developed.

Looting wealth can only transfer wealth, but cannot create wealth.

The only way to increase wealth is to create more wealth by developing productivity.

The discovery of the New World was the good fortune of the West.

The civilization of the New World was very backward. They could not resist the caravans of Westerners. This was not possible in the East, whether it was the north, the northeast, or the south of China.

Therefore, during the Ming Dynasty, although a large number of Han people poured into Nanyang and became the local wealthy class, and even had a lot of power, they were not able to do what Westerners did in the New World.

The Westerners established trade with the Ming Dynasty. Portugal and Spain could make up for their own lack of productivity through trade, thus effectively increasing their wealth.

In the process, their needs and interests in establishing cities in the New World were maintained.

Only by seeing clearly the context of the development of things can we understand what Ming Dynasty needs to do to expand the world and walk on the right path, and how to do it.

The model of the governor of Goryeo was different from that of the governors of the seven western provinces.

The main function of the governors of the seven western provinces is strategic needs, and the model of the governor of Goryeo, when forming a perfect supply chain with Boni and other regions, and the development of productivity, will become the future maritime road of the Ming Dynasty.

"Goryeo's future will be poor."

Zhu Gaochi frowned and said slowly, as if he had seen the future. Jiang Binzhi was in awe of His Highness the Crown Prince.

The prestige of His Royal Highness is unmatched by anyone.

But the closer they get to His Highness the Crown Prince, the more people will feel more surprised and suspicious. Like the prophet mentioned in Central Asia, His Highness the Crown Prince knows everything. The prince is silent and has strange powers. Jiang Binzhi lowers his head and is very silent.

"There will never be a shortage of people on the land. People are the creatures that can best adapt to the environment."

"Since ancient times, people have not been allowed to snore on the side of the couch. Although some people have said so, the prosperity of Chinese civilization has indeed promoted this kind of phenomenon. This is the saying of the world."

"The number of people in Goryeo will decrease, but the number of people in Ming Dynasty will increase."

"So the model in Goryeo cannot remain unchanged. In ten years, or twenty years, or even thirty years, the current model will become unable to adapt. If it continues to be maintained, not only will no benefits be obtained, but it will also bring disaster. "

"No one knows how things will happen in the future, but I hope that while I am still alive, I can solve this matter and let Chinese civilization reach a higher level first."

Zhu Gaochi explained some things.

Jiang Binzhi half understood.

October of the tenth year of Yongle.

This month, the number of Korean yangban classes and Korean maids who entered the Ming Dynasty through the docks exceeded [-]. The Ming Dynasty people who entered Korea, including sergeants, officials, businessmen, scholars, workers, managers, etc., totaled [-].

Teams of "elite soldiers and strong generals" organized from coal mines across the north rushed to Korea one by one to develop undeveloped coal and iron mines.

In just one year, fifteen coal washing plants were opened in Jinzhou, Dengzhou, Laizhou, and Tianjin, forming industrial parks. The first steam engine ship carrying Korean coal arrived at Dengzhou Pier. , opened the curtain of a new era.
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  Goryeo is divided into eight realms.

Pyongan Province borders Liaodong, Hamgyeong Province borders Nurgan Province, then Hwanghae Province, Gangwon Province, and further south Gyeonggi Province, Chungcheong Province, Gyeongsang Province, and Jeolla Province.

Ping'an Road and Hamjing Road belonged to the Andong Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty. They originally belonged to China. After the Tang Dynasty, they were separated for a long time and finally fell under the control of Goryeo during the Yuan Dynasty. Now they have returned to the Ming Dynasty.

Hamgyeong Province has the smallest population, followed by Pyongan Province. Hwanghae Province has the largest population among the three areas.

Huanghaidao is currently taken over by the Ming Dynasty and still belongs to Goryeo in name.

The Ming Dynasty did not establish three divisions in three places, but established a capital division. The Ming Dynasty placed the seat of the governor of Goryeo in Haizhou, where the former Zuojun Control Office was located.

During the Goryeo Dynasty, the Yellow Sea Road was divided into two roads. The capital was also Haeju, with Mu under it. There were Hwangju and Haeju respectively. Then there were the Duhufu, which were: Yan'an, Pingshan, Ruixing, Toongcheon, Gushan, and Ongjin. .

In addition, there are seven counties: Fengshan, Anyue, Zaining, Sui'an, Baichuan, Xinchuan and Jinchuan. As well as the eight counties of Xinxi, Wenhua, Changlian, Songhe, Kangling, Enli, Tushan and Changyuan, and the three roads of Qilin Road, Jinjiao Road and Qingdan Road.

There were smart Liangban people who hoped that the imperial court could establish the Third Division in the local area and completely reorganize the system. However, when the news came back, when they learned that the Ming Dynasty refused, those smart Liangban people became desperate.

The Ming Dynasty not only retained the local system, but also did not allow changes on the grounds of respecting local traditional customs.

In the face of strength, desperate elites entered the Ming Dynasty in large numbers.

They abandoned their ancestral property, exchanged it for food stamps from the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, and went to the Ming Dynasty.

The businessmen who once again acquired a large amount of land established one industrial crop estate after another, and soybeans, jute, cotton, and sumac were planted in large quantities.

The rapid expansion of capital and wealth has triggered the participation of many local second-class people.

They worked together with the merchants from Daming Trading Company to mine.

Korea has ginseng, and Shaanxi also has ginseng.

Historically, the ginseng in Shaanxi was completely excavated in the early and mid-Ming Dynasty and became extinct, while the ginseng in Korea was completely excavated in the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty. Only then did Houjin monopolize the ginseng trade, which even had the original Ming Dynasty demand. Such great power, not to mention today's Ming Dynasty.

The price of food in Goryeo keeps rising.

The two classes who controlled the grain reached a consensus with the Ming Dynasty merchants. They did not release a grain of grain to the people. A large number of farmers went bankrupt and began to sell their fields in order to survive.

In the Goryeo area, large-scale land annexation began in the eighth year of Yongle and reached its peak in the second half of the tenth year of Yongle.

Goryeo is like a treasure basin.

Countless businessmen from the Ming Dynasty joined in. Even the Ming Dynasty Industrial Bureau and various organizations were greedy and extended their hands to reserve fields in Korea. Heji Trading Company controlled more than [-] acres of fields in Korea.

It's a field, not a wasteland.

Food stamps can be used to buy Ming Dynasty products, and the price of food stamps is stable. Both the yangban and the common people of Goryeo regard Ming Dynasty food stamps as treasures.

The merchants of the Ming Dynasty seemed to want to buy all the fields in Goryeo.

If the price were normal, Goryeo would become rich quickly, but now it is abnormal. Because of the lack of food among the people, the price of an acre of land is like cabbage price.

In the past, a bucket of grain could buy an acre of good farmland, but now it is even more exaggerated, and only one liter is needed.

It seems like the late Ming Dynasty in history.

Under Hou Jin's control, the people of Liaodong could only buy one liter of grain for one tael of silver. Therefore, the population of the Han people in Liaodong had returned to four million. By the time Hou Jin entered the Pass, there were only a few hundred thousand left.

The attachment of the Northern King of Goryeo did not allow the local area to acquire the civilization of the Ming Dynasty.

Under the out-of-control order, local production collapsed, the entire economy was completely ruined, people returned to a bartering environment, and a large number of people starved to death.

Countless refugees ran to Seoul and Goryeo further south.

Such a huge number of refugees had a huge impact on the central and southern regions of Goryeo, making the King of Goryeo and the King of South Goryeo exhausted to deal with it.

The refugee uprising in Shaanxi in the late Ming Dynasty did not occur in a short period of time.

As early as the end of Wanli, due to land annexation and natural disasters, there were already a large number of refugees in northern Shaanxi, and many censors reported local disasters to the court.

But Ming Dynasty, which was financially bankrupt, was unable to solve the problem.

After more than ten years of fermentation, the refugees who lost their restraints in the previous period began to transform into bandits. They went from robbing big households without harming their lives to gradually destroying everything.

Therefore, although there are a large number of refugees in Korea today, they do not dare to rebel because of the fear of the people. It will take time to settle, which will also bring them greater pain.

Simultaneously.

A large number of businesses have recruited countless cheap laborers with the slogan of taking care of food.

They work from morning to night. The first thing they do when they open their eyes is work. They eat only a small amount of food every day, and then work until the moment before going to bed.

To work and to die.

The world in the eyes of Goryeo people became monotonous.

The maximized use of capital allowed the goods in the northern part of Goryeo to develop rapidly, which was even better than that of Jinzhou in the past. It only took three years, and businessmen even joked that this place was the pearl of the Ming Dynasty.

Extreme prosperity and extreme poverty appear on the picture.

"Tears of the times."

A painter who traveled from the capital to Goryeo painted it.

painting.

A child who was begging was injured in the leg by a carriage decorated with gems that was speeding on the road. The lady on the carriage shed tears of compassion through the car window and gave the child a dime. The child tried hard to cushion the child. He hurt his leg, showed a happy smile, and was about to reach out to the high car window and take the dime.

Under the stability of Korea.

In the spring of the [-]th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, the vigorous construction of the Western Railway and the Nanyang Railway officially started, and the number of formal workers on the Ming Dynasty Railway reached two million.

This year.

The wages of ordinary workers in the Daming Industrial Bureau increased to one yuan and eighty cents.

The Ming Emperor returns.

Everyone celebrates. (End of chapter)