The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

Chapter 701 The foreshadowing of the times

Human behavior patterns are determined by the environment, and Ming Dynasty's governance system was also explored step by step.

The establishment of the Ming Dynasty, and even the maturity of the local three-level system, still had some systems left over from the Yuan Dynasty. In the ninth year of Hongwu, Emperor Taizu abolished the Secretariat of Xingzhongshu and established the Department of Proclamation and Administrative Envoys, the Department of Capital Command and Envoys, and the Department of Punishment and Inspection, which were in charge of local administration, military affairs, and supervision, collectively referred to as the "Three Departments."

The "three departments" are all the highest organs of provincial-level administrative regions.

Although the three-division system ensures the decentralization of power at the local level and the power of the government is not unlimited, and supervision and schools are suppressed under the influence of the government, it does not belong to the separation of powers.

Rule by man remains the dominant model.

Since it is governed by people, the power of the Chief Envoy must be able to rely on interpersonal relationships to greatly influence the Inspectorate and the Dusi Yamen.

Including some of the slavery systems banned by Zhu Gaochi, this door was completely closed.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know what the Song Dynasty was like. What he saw from the day he was born was what the Yuan Dynasty was like, including the people of this era, whose living habits were all affected by the Yuan Dynasty.

Therefore, the ban on slavery in the world and the restoration of some freedom of craftsmen came from the influence of Confucian culture, but some slaves still existed. For example, the imperial power and nobles could use slaves, and craftsmen still needed to be strictly controlled by the government, etc., which were influenced by the previous dynasty. of inertia.

When breakthroughs in science and technology are enough to break this balance, then the prosperity of civilization in the Song Dynasty and the accumulation of advanced science and technology can guarantee the prosperity of military force.

It can be said that the Song Dynasty was a pity dynasty during its existence. If it were born now, the Song Dynasty would not be destroyed. Because the peak of prosperity of current civilization directly determines international status and national strength, and in the ancient world of the Song Dynasty where the jungle was strong and the jungle was strong, military strength ranked first.

Because humans are social animals, it is already written in their genes.

The second child went to Beitianzhu, the eldest brother went to Peking for inspection, and the third child went to the Imperial College.

So people have to participate in social activities.

However, in the 1830s, Britain declared war on Burma. The British army assembled 66 warships and more than 10,000 troops, as well as a large number of servants from India. As a result, the war lasted for two years before Britain finally Victory was achieved with difficulty.

Because the development or backwardness of a civilization does not directly determine whether a civilization can survive peacefully as it does now.

The number of British casualties in the entire battle exceeded 1.5. Military expenditures exceeded 1300 million pounds.

Because of the limitations of the times and the lack of science and technology, the prosperity of civilization is not the first priority, but military power.

Like a shield and a spear.

Unfortunately, the Song Dynasty era was not completed.

Just like the future Qing Dynasty, the burial system of sacrifice was banned in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. However, tribes with relatively backward civilization had their own burial system, so the burial system was fully restored in the early Qing Dynasty. Later, under the influence of Confucian culture, the burial system was banned.

The Maori annihilated 500 British troops.

Only in the activities and exchanges of people can people gain a sense of satisfaction.

As a carrier of the times and a certain threshold, newspapers now publish elitist content.

The progress and retreat of civilization is clear at a glance.

As people get older, they become older mentally. Zhu Gaochi likes peace more and more.

in short.

After seeing the question at the end of the article, Zhu Gaochi also fell into deep thought.

Looking at the thoughts of the sages in the newspaper, Zhu Gaochi was also thinking. While reading the articles in the newspaper, he understood and explained according to his own thinking.

When I was a child, I could happily play with a rope for a long time. However, as I grow older and my body declines, people gradually "slow down" and most things cannot arouse my interest.

In people's minds, the empire on which the sun never sets is invincible, and the huge Qing Dynasty has no power to fight back.

Therefore, no matter how civilized the Song Dynasty was, it could only be conquered by a backward civilization due to its shortcomings in military power.

As a result, at the Battle of Istandelwana, the Zulus used spears to annihilate more than 1000 British troops in three hours. For more than ten years, the British army lost troops and generals in South Africa. Although they finally won, it was a tragic victory.

So it is understandable that people call the Internet era the information age, because the speed at which information spreads on the Internet can indeed be called a big explosion.

Just like the original Internet, the elite group has the highest proportion of users, so they can obtain a lot of useful information, and people's knowledge and knowledge have greatly improved. Therefore, the term "learning with computers" was born.

Zulu, South Africa.

This civilization includes economy, culture, thought, technology, politics, etc.

Guo Cailian was not used to the desertedness here, so she went back to her bedroom early, waiting for her daughter-in-law and grandchildren to greet her.

In the 5000s, Britain declared war on Afghanistan. The British army was directly defeated in this war. Nearly people were wiped out by the indigenous people of Afghanistan, and almost all the British troops stationed in Afghanistan were wiped out.

The Zulu Kingdom is not even a feudal dynasty, it is just a primitive tribe.

In the newspaper, a thinker's research report on the cornerstones of civilization attracted many people's attention and reading. Zhu Gaochi finished his breakfast and read the newspaper as a habit.

"So Ming's technology and technology have broken through this invisible barrier?"

The Sikes annihilated more than 4,000 British troops in the two Sikes wars.

When the Internet became popular, everyone began to participate, and it became a complete entertainment tool.

Therefore, historians, including Western scholars, believe that the Song Dynasty was indeed the pinnacle of Chinese civilization.

In the 5000s, Britain declared war on the Zulu. In this battle, Britain dispatched 8000 British troops and more than servants. The weapons used were the most advanced muskets and field artillery in the world at that time. The Lu people used primitive weapons such as canes, spears, spears, and cowhide shields.

The latest issue of the newspaper spread, and on the same morning, countless people started their own answers like the emperor. Zhu Gaochi thought for a while, and then shook his head.

The most terrifying thing for people is the improvement of the "valve".

Although the Song Dynasty was not a unified dynasty, with many powerful countries around it, and was even destroyed twice by foreign enemies, this does not deny the Song Dynasty's achievements in civilization.

So the same is true for the newspapers of the Ming Dynasty. Just by reading the newspapers of the Ming Dynasty, you can understand and grasp the latest situation, as well as the most cutting-edge ideas and technologies, etc. It can be regarded as an information explosion at the speed of paper media transmission.

The South African Union's 8 troops resisted the British army of 30 and eventually destroyed 7000 British troops.

Queen Zhangxi of the subcontinent rebelled and fought for several years, annihilating more than 11000 British troops.

Let’s look back at China’s two wars in the nineteenth century.

In the First Opium War, the Qing Dynasty successfully wiped out 22000 British soldiers at the cost of 69 casualties.

During the Second Opium War, the Qing Dynasty's 20-strong army was on the alert. In the Battle of Bali Bridge, Seng Gelinqin led 3 Mongolian cavalry as the main force. However, the total number of British and French forces facing the battle was only 2, and only 8000 of them participated in the battle. people.

But the result?

The Qing Dynasty suffered 21500 casualties in this war, while the British army died 134 people and the French army died 25 people...

Wasn't the military strength of the Qing Dynasty strong at the beginning of its establishment?

It's definitely strong.

However, the suppression and blockade policies adopted by the Qing Dynasty plunged the entire civilization into a long-term regression, which led to the phenomenon of being at the bottom of the world more than two hundred years later, turning the West's yearning and tribute to Eastern legends into contempt and enslavement.

As the diary of a British officer said, this is a nation that was completely conquered and fell into extreme numbness and ignorance.

Therefore, the ignorance of the Qing Dynasty is replaced by the entire Chinese history, and the entire Chinese history is believed to be ignorant and backward. It is also ignorant, and it also looks down on the records of admiration and boasting of Eastern civilization left by so many foreigners in history.

The inevitable development of things cannot be changed by human power.

The same is true.

The Ming Dynasty Industrial Bureau is indeed prosperous, but the future history of the Ming Dynasty Industrial Bureau has proven that if it only walks on this one leg, it will inevitably end up bankrupt, or the development of science and technology will fall into a long-term stagnation period. History has proven it.

Whether Chinese or Western, most inventions and popular applications of science and technology come from private businesses, including jobs, economic vitality, etc.

This is the success achieved with Chinese characteristics.

The Ming Dynasty Industrial Bureau is a means of regulating the distribution of social resources, and private business banks are a supplement to social and economic development. Both are indispensable. If either one is missing, it will lead to a broken head.

Just like in the process of building material civilization, we must not leave behind the construction of spiritual civilization.

Even the Empire on which the sun never sets in the 19th century, with its military power and technology, could not forcefully eliminate all competitors, let alone the Ming Dynasty in the 15th century.

The Ming Dynasty was indeed very powerful, and its current territory was indeed very vast.

But so what.

In the long river of history, only never-ending progress is the guarantee for the prosperity of national civilization. Temporary strength does not prove anything. Thousands of years of civilization history have proven this.

When a nation stops learning and progressing and stays in an environment of enjoyment, then no matter how strong the nation is, it cannot avoid the end of decline or even genocide.

Long-term developed countries have also found it.

Their response strategy is to liberalize immigration policies.

It has absorbed a large number of poor people and elites into its own land. Through the struggle and dedication of these poor people, the knowledge and technology of the elites have maintained the progress of the country, but everything has a good side and a bad side.

People who are accustomed to comfort will feel disgusted and dissatisfied when faced with the influx of large numbers of outsiders who are involved in the country, giving rise to new conflicts.

But without these large numbers of people involved, how can they ensure the competition and development of their own countries?

Ming Dynasty did not need to take this step.

Because the long history has proven the consequences of doing so.

Letting oneself struggle forever is the only way to maintain the prosperity of the nation.

From this point of view, the Ming Dynasty Industrial Bureau is indeed too comfortable. Just as everyone wants to be comfortable, who doesn't want to be comfortable?

How hard it is to study.

Doesn't such a painful thing go against human nature?

Children who don't want to play.

Learning is imposed on children by adults, just as adults are not picky eaters because adults only buy the food they like. The same reason is true, except that children have adults' supervision and requirements behind them, and adults only have social control. pressure.

This is the nature of the world.

Everyone's life in society itself is based on competition.

Without external competition, internal competition must be maintained. Without competition, civilization will stagnate and eventually be replaced by others.

"The Daming Industrial Bureau does need to monopolize some industries that should be monopolized, but the Daming Industrial Bureau must not monopolize productivity."

Zhu Gaochi wrote a sentence on the white paper.

Zhu Gaochi was already prepared to be hated.

If you want to be a good leader, you are destined to be unable to be praised by everyone.

Just like parents who are strict with their children.

The Ming Dynasty Industrial Bureau was indeed founded by Zhu Gaochi. Everyone was praising His Majesty the Emperor, but Zhu Gaochi was unable to give the Ming Dynasty Industrial Bureau what it needed, and even destroyed some things.

This is the difference between politicians and politicians.

Politicians treat politics as a serious profession, while politicians treat politics as a tool to become famous.

Politicians take the overall situation into consideration and are always ready to sacrifice themselves for the interests of the nation, while politicians are always ready to benefit themselves at the expense of others for the sake of the next vote and their own personal reputation.

Politicians have bottom lines and principles when negotiating for national interests, and will not be bribed by enemies. Politicians can be sellers or bargaining chips at any time.

Politicians are noble, great, and close to the people, while politicians are just actors in the people's hearts.

The biggest advantage of Lianji Commercial Bank is its control of Juedao's energy resources.

This is the core interest of the Ming Dynasty Industrial Bureau, and it has also touched the nervous nerves of the Ming Dynasty Industrial Bureau. Competition in Nanyang has proven that the energy in the northern system of the Ming Dynasty Industrial Bureau cannot compete with the energy in Lianji Island.

The prerequisite for industrial development is energy.

This is also the necessity of things.

In the early days, the Northern Army was able to almost drive the Confederate Army into the sea. When its own large organization was shattered and it was unable to obtain energy, the tractors on the fields could not be driven. After several decades, it returned to the age of manpower.

The Southern Army, relying on cheap energy supply, not only surpassed the Northern Army economically, but even left the Northern Army far behind.

His Royal Highness and the Governor promoted the vassal system in northern Tianzhu, coupled with the influence of the Nanyang Railway, one north and one south responded. In just a few years, all the major forces in the entire subcontinent were integrated into the Ming dynasty's vassal system.

The vassal system was established, and there were more and more merchants in the Ming Dynasty.

With the improvement of the vassal system and the implementation and protection of various systems, more and more forces are more abiding by the vassal laws of the Ming Dynasty. The personal safety of the merchants of the Ming Dynasty has been guaranteed, and more comprehensive commerce has begun.

The business model that started in Goryeo was brought to the whole world by Ming merchants, and the subcontinent cannot change it.

Pieces of land were purchased.

Economic estates were established one after another, including the cultivation of rubber in Southeast Asia.

Bicycles are being sold in increasing numbers.

There were even rickshaws.

The invention of rubber tires went from high prices to low prices. The rubber factory, tire factory, various rubber products, etc. first established by the Ming Dynasty businessmen than the Daming Industrial Bureau became one of the main commodities of private merchants.

The Ming Dynasty Industrial Bureau realized belatedly that the various factories it established later were unable to compete with the Nanyang Commercial Bank and eventually went bankrupt.

The imperial court will not give the full details to the Ming Dynasty Industrial Bureau.

Just like at the beginning of Peking, the factories within the Ming Dynasty Industrial Bureau system went bankrupt. In addition to the factory managers and shopkeepers who would be held accountable, fired or those who committed illegal activities would be imprisoned, the remaining workers would also be transferred to other factories.

The rubber industry is a big industry, as scholars from the Daming Industry Bureau pointed out.

Huge resources and manpower were invested, but in the end, the failure of this industry severely damaged the Daming Industrial Bureau and dragged down many profitable factories. For the first time in six years, Hong Xi's profit in the year-end report did not meet expectations.

Faced with fierce competition and external failures, the entire Daming Industry Bureau's senior management frowned.

All kinds of comments and dissatisfaction flooded the upper levels.

Some criticized the big shopkeeper, some accused the businessmen of unfair competition, and some even complained about the emperor's indifference.

"Jingle Bell."

A light-brown young man rang the bell and quickly pulled the rickshaw to the front of the waving guests. The fashionably dressed young man stepped onto the rickshaw and urged the driver to hurry up. His uncle had returned from abroad and he had to rush there. meet.

On the hard straight road, the young man pulled the rickshaw quickly.

Rubber tires run fast and stable on straight roads.

(End of this chapter)