The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

A flag with the Chinese character "Yan" was placed on the train.

The specially-made carriage has a floor, and the solid wood seats are cushioned with thick leather mattresses. There are several books on the table. The seventeen-year-old young man is surrounded by the same group of young people.

They wore fur coats with gleaming metal fasteners on their chests.

The faces of the young people were particularly excited and quiet. The noisy personalities in the past have now become restrained, because in the second half of the carriage, His Royal Highness was talking to the officials.

There were many people accompanying them in the five-car carriage.

The train departed from the capital and passed through several places. The next stop was Xuzhou, where the prince would stay for two days.

The disciples of the Great Tomorrow Kingdom were discussing the news from the seven western provinces.

"Why is it that the Arab Empire, which could compete with the Tang Empire back then, has completely perished now? The local civilization is not only not as strong as in historical data, but is full of numbness."

"Because of the years of war, the economy has been destroyed and people have become poor, so technology is also regressing."

The young people were talking a lot.

Different from the education in ordinary schools, the private schools in the Imperial City Martial Building offered more courses and provided sufficient teachings. Many of the brightest people in the Ming Dynasty taught there.

"Humph."

The old man suddenly coughed twice, and the young people panicked. It turned out that His Highness the Prince came to them at some point and listened to them discussing the situation in the world.

Everyone is quickly thinking about how they performed just now.

Zhu Gaochi's eyes were gentle and he looked at the young people with encouragement. His eyes finally fell on Zhu Zhanji. Zhu Zhanji lowered his head like other young people. His father was not strict with him, but Zhu Zhanji had been afraid of his father since he was a child.

"What are your thoughts."

Zhu Gaochi asked gently.

Zhu Zhanji plucked up the courage and said bravely: "Because they don't have our Ming Dynasty there."

"Haha."

Zhu Gaochi showed an inexplicable smile.

Zhu Zhanji didn't know whether his answer satisfied his father, so he was very restrained. The other young people were also nervous and did not dare to breathe. The only sound of the wheels could be heard in the carriage.

This answer is very confident.

But Zhu Gaochi wanted this answer.

Zhu Gaochi did not follow his son's words and asked again: "What do you think is the most important thing for a country and a nation?"

After a while, Zhu Zhanji whispered: "Development."

This is a tricky answer. Development is something Zhu Gaochi often puts forward in front of ministers, and it seems that his son keeps it in mind.

Zhu Gaochi asked other young people.

Some of the young people were eager to try, some were worried, and some were timid. Everyone gave their own answer. The rest of the people in the carriage also listened curiously, hoping to hear new opinions.

"economic development."

"The strength of the army."

“Official Integrity.”

"The morality of the human heart."

Zhu Gaochi nodded. After everyone finished speaking, he laughed and said slowly: "For a country and a nation, the most important thing is confidence. Failure is not terrible. What is terrible is the cooling of people's hearts."

With the development of civilization and science and technology in later generations, scholars have studied more social phenomena, including those in the vast Arab region, which has become one of the research directions of scholars.

From clans to nomads, to family ties, the expansion and contraction of the country, and so on.

"Any nation may experience physical defeat, but it will never be defeated. But when a country is defeated psychologically, it will move toward real destruction."

After Zhu Gaochi finished speaking, people began to think deeply.

Not to mention other civilizations, the Chinese civilization has just been completely defeated.

Most people in later generations did not understand what this meant, because in the eyes of many people, ancient times were the same and did not change.

They also don’t understand why the battle of public opinion is important.

The strength of the United States is indeed worthy of recognition, but their concern and preparation for future generations is not actually that the United States is declining, but that the future generations are rising too fast, and the speed of catching up frightens them.

If future generations are not taken into account, the United States is still the largest in the world, leaving the third place far behind. The distance between it and the third place is still widening. The only change is that there is a strong competition. The opponent followed closely behind.

So for a country like this, the method chosen must have its own scientific reason.

From the unanimous praise of Emperor Qin and Han Wu, to all kinds of reflections, from the unanimous praise of Huo Qubing, to all kinds of my hometown, the collapse of people's hearts is the greatest weapon.

Faith is not religion.

When a country's faith collapses, disaster strikes.

The greatest role of the Ming Dynasty was to restore the confidence of the Han people and establish a new belief. Although this belief was defeated three hundred years later, it could be regarded as a new wave of blood for Chinese civilization.

Zhu Gaochi patted his son on the shoulder.

The current Ming Dynasty needs an emperor. Zhu Di is old and has entered middle age. What makes Zhu Gaochi even more worried is that the original owner's lifespan was only [-] years old in history.

Zhu Gaochi was not sure whether he could change, so he needed to cultivate a qualified successor for Ming Dynasty.

"No one knows the future or what will happen, because things are unpredictable. But as long as Ming Dynasty and its people do not lose confidence, Ming Dynasty will not fall."

"And what you should be thinking about is how to maintain the country's confidence, and how to maintain the country's confidence so that the fire can be passed on forever."

Zhu Zhanji is the eldest son of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

His Royal Highness has only one princess.

No one doubts Zhu Zhanji's right to inherit. Everyone is convinced that the future Emperor of the Ming Dynasty will be His Highness the Crown Prince, and the future emperor will be His Highness the Crown Prince's eldest son, that is, the seventeen-year-old young man in front of him.

Nobles, civil servants, generals, scholars, businessmen, and ordinary people all set their sights on the young man. Their heavy expectations made the young man both proud and worried.

"My son understands."

Zhu Zhanji controlled his excitement and tried to maintain a calm tone.

"Crack clap."

"Woo~"

Xuzhou Railway Station.

An endless crowd of people had been waiting on the platform for a long time. The government invited an elderly local elder to prepare rice wine. The old man excitedly toasted to His Royal Highness, and Zhu Gaochi accepted it with a smile.

"Crash."

"Long live His Royal Highness the Prince."

There were loud cheers on the platform.

Xuzhou is an important military area. Since ancient times, Xuzhou has been a place that cannot be avoided. It can be said that whoever captures Xuzhou wins the initiative.

The famous saying "Including Advantages in Me" is also about Xuzhou.

Zhu Gaochi reviewed the army in Xuzhou, met with local squires and factory owners, as well as local organizations and leaders of the Ming Dynasty Industrial Bureau, and finally held a closed-door meeting with local civil and military officials.

Day three.

Zhu Gaochi took the train and continued north.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has arrived in Xuzhou."

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has arrived in Jinan."

"His Royal Highness the Prince has returned to Beiping Province."    Beiping.

The newspaper's front page headlines reported the prince's schedule every day. Over the course of a month, the people went from excitement to calmness, from calmness to excitement, from excitement to intensity. On the streets of Peiping, the Yan-character flag was hung at the door of every house.

March [-], the twelfth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty.

The city is red.

In cities with a population of one million, starting from Daxing New Town, flags are flying everywhere.

this day.

All factories are on holiday at the same time.

night.

The city that never sleeps never sleeps at all.

The workers brought their families with them, and the family came to Dongmen Street very early. Since the day, the street has been full of people, and the traffic has been completely blocked. The Yamen has arranged a lot of people to divert people who need to enter. The people and caravans of the city were diverted to other city gates.

There were not enough public toilets on the street, and the cesspool shop organized manpower to clean them.

From morning to afternoon, from afternoon to evening.

at midnight.

Because it was too cold, many people finally chose to go home under the consolation of the guards, but there were still people holding quilts and guarding the door of the shop. It seemed that they were going to spend the night here.

as predicted.

When the sun rose the next day, not even a fly could fly across Dongmen Street.

People don't know how many people are here, they just know that it is crowded.

All the patrolling soldiers came, and the guard station also arranged a large number of manpower. It was the first time that the yamen saw such a grand occasion, and it took a lot of effort to maintain normal order.

The officials of the Chief Secretary of Peking changed one after another.

The young boy at the construction site turned into the captain of the inspection yamen, leading his colleagues to patrol the surrounding areas diligently.

"Don't crowd, keep your distance, and pay attention to safety."

"In the interest of order and safety, anyone pushing will be arrested and severely punished."

Ma Xuan shouted loudly.

"Tap tap."

A row of sergeants was arranged to come over, with ten steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, separating areas. Finally, the patrol officers breathed a sigh of relief. They almost cried. There were too many people.

Even at the end of the year, there are not so many people in the city.

It seemed as if the entire Beiping Prefecture had arrived.

A hundred and fifty steps wide straight road, such a wide road, cannot meet the needs here. In the distance on both sides, there is also a vast sea of ​​​​people.

"If our country can have such a prince, what could be happier than this?"

In the restaurant in the distance, several Korean businessmen looked at it and couldn't help but sigh.

"Crackling."

Military households from all directions, led by Chief Katai and with the permission of the guard station, rode their own horses and were fully armed, standing guard on both sides of the road like a river converging.

Years of working with agricultural machinery and high work efficiency gave them more time. They hunted wild boars and wild beasts from time to time and practiced regularly. The men had tanned skin and big calloused hands, holding their weapons tightly and skillfully. On horseback.

They didn't know when His Highness the Crown Prince would pass by them, but no one was impatient. They came here on their own.

Large well system.

Each family has one hundred acres of land.

In the past few years, the government and the guards had tightened their control, forcing many military households to separate their families. Most of the children of each family, except for the eldest son, were settled in farther places. However, they soon received letters, even though they were far apart. However, the second sons are living well in other lands and have their own families. In less than twenty years, a new small family will be born.

Low-interest agricultural loans, low-interest housing loans, and long-term agricultural preferential policies.
  The lives of military households have greatly improved.

New plays in the theater will never be allowed to discredit soldiers and military households.

Their children played in the fields, dancing with guns and sticks from a young age. Under the strict Katai system, in addition to hares and deer, there were also more wild boars and wild wolves in the countryside. The children learned hunting from their parents since childhood.

There are abundant agricultural harvests, sufficient land, and every household has two or three animals.

Life was not very stable, especially due to the threat of wild beasts, but everyone felt satisfied and happy. At night, the public rooms in the guardhouse became a place for military households to relax.

The stability and development of the circle allowed military households to maintain a higher moral level.

last year.

According to statistics from the Ministry of War, there were nearly four million military households in the Ming Dynasty. Military land, regardless of quality or forest, totaled nearly [-] million acres, which laid a huge foundation for the agricultural stability of the Ming Dynasty.

"Wai!"

far away.

Flags wave.

Four hundred and fifty guards guarded the carriage in the middle. The convoy arrived at the outskirts of Beiping City. The officials who had set out to greet them early followed in the middle of the convoy, those on horseback, those on mules, and those in carriages. carriage.

Beyond the guards were local armies.

Katai shouted loudly.

Military households performed military salutes on horseback.

Zhu Zhanji followed the carriage on horseback, his face flushed. It turned out that his father's prestige and such high support from the people made Zhu Zhanji extremely proud.

The carriage is very low-key.

Zhu Gaochi had long asked the local government not to welcome him, but this was Peiping, where Zhu Gaochi set out, and it was also the old area where Ming Dynasty started industrialization, and the place where the Katai system was enforced the most strictly.

The government couldn't stop it, and tried its best to explain that Zhu Gaochi's only request was that there should be no accidents and order must be ensured.

When the carriage arrived in Beiping New District.

The shouts of cheers spread from the ground to the sky, and cheers continued one after another.

People waved the flags in their hands vigorously.

The petals in the baskets were scattered on the ground by the people, forming a thick flower street.

The wheels ran over the petals, leaving car marks.

The soldiers' footsteps trampled the petals.

With tears in their eyes, the old people held up bamboo baskets filled with food. They knew that there were so many people and their food could not be delivered to His Royal Highness, but they were very satisfied.

They wanted His Highness to see that they were offering food to His Highness.

There is no other country that cherishes food as much as the people in China, and offering their own food is the people's greatest sincerity.

Zhu Zhanji suddenly understood what his father said.

Such a nation, such a national heart, what power in the world can defeat him.

No wonder my father was trembling with fear every day. He would never agree to proposals that seemed more efficient based on the officials' ideas, even if it was the use of troops against Goryeo. He would rather think of more methods and arrangements by himself rather than directly use troops.

Picture of His Royal Highness the Prince of Ming Dynasty entering the city.

The painter, who was moved to tears by the atmosphere, painted this painting with a solemn face on the mountainside, looking at the city below. (End of chapter)