The Ming Dynasty did not revolutionize

Chapter 447: Global Layout in the Future
Zhu Jianxuan has a rather pessimistic view on human nature, and is also rather pessimistic about the direction of evolution of social and political forms.

The political system he built in the Ming Dynasty was a relatively clean, honest and fair social structure as a whole, and it was very likely that it would not be able to be maintained after his death.

This is a summary of my experience in my previous life.

Even if a group is composed entirely of idealists, it is inevitable that changes in political strategies and tendencies will occur due to family and future generation interests.

This process is usually not very harmonious and usually results in a lot of waste of resources and talent.

Overall social productivity will decline.

What's more, the current Ming Dynasty has not undergone a thorough social revolution and has accumulated a huge amount of remnant culture and systems from the old society.

I was just dragged into the new era by myself.

It is natural for ordinary people to consider their families and descendants and pass on their family businesses, achievements and social influence to their descendants.

The key is that it is completely legal, so there is no way to control it by force unless there is a social revolution.

If the emperor does not make good arrangements for his descendants, leaving only one heir to be a lonely emperor.

If the emperor has only one son who can inherit the throne and the other sons can only be raised like pigs, it is equivalent to the emperor's family implementing family planning and only allowing one child.

However, there are no restrictions at all for meritorious officials, officials, and employers. They can work hard to develop industries for their large number of descendants and families.

Arrange for a descendant to inherit the resources you own, and use the social resources and energy you currently have to obtain more social resources for other descendants.

Then their family power will continue to expand like the proliferation of bacteria.

Then as time goes by and society continues to develop, they will form a new generation of folk family power.

This kind of family is not the local powerful family before the Tang Dynasty, but the modern global capital group.

There will be some specific families that control a large amount of means of production, social resources, basic industries, public opinion tools, education systems, and imperial examination channels.

If multiple families unite, they can even control the direction of the country's development and influence the emperor's policies and even the selection of candidates.

At that time, the emperor would be truly alone.

Zhu Jianxuan was ready to take the lead and arrange for his son to take up the position in advance, occupying the positions of these industry oligarchs, aristocratic families, and deep government in advance.

Since it is impossible to implement family planning for all bureaucrats, aristocrats, and wealthy business groups, a couple can only have one child.

The only thing we can do is to grab the advantageous positions in society faster than them.

Even if these sons fight among themselves, ordinary ministers cannot get into the same level of their fight until the world collapses and the sky and the earth break.

Moreover, the method of dividing the fiefdoms according to industries rather than regions gave them a natural basis for compromise.

There is no absolute competition between different industries.

Because the business scope of basic industries can spread across the globe, super-large capital groups will instinctively maintain world unity.

The business scope of a specific company usually cannot cover the entire world, but the business scopes of different companies will not completely overlap and they must be intertwined with each other.

If a capital group wishes to separate the market scope that it controls, other capital groups whose business scope overlaps with it will certainly collectively oppose it.

Large capital groups with a global presence are like the steel frames in reinforced concrete, binding the entire world together.

Therefore, dividing the country according to basic industries should not lead to the division of the world, but rather be conducive to unification.

I should have another 20 years to guide them to develop their industries into global ones, and make them interconnected.

Zhu Jianxuan would not express these thoughts directly to his sons.

Although the princes present were confused about this way of division, they were also unable to express it.

So after hearing the arrangement, the princes could only respond and say they remembered it:

"My son, please remember your father's teachings."

After Zhu Jianxuan finished making these relatively formal arrangements, he returned to his desk and sat down, and also arranged for the servants to move chairs for his sons.

Zhu Jianxuan waved his hands to let his sons sit down, and then began to chat about family and informal topics:

“What is your impression of America?”

The princes looked at each other, and the eldest prince spoke first instinctively:
“Your Majesty, I feel that America is still a wild place overall, but it has great potential in the future.

“Except for the lack of high-grade iron ore and oil mines, America can be considered a vast land with abundant resources.

“The soil of the Great Plains of North America is deep and fertile, and coal is very abundant.

"If it weren't for the frequent cold waves and tornadoes, the development potential of the Great Plains of America might be better than that of the Central Plains.

“But before Europeans and us arrived in America, America was basically a wild land, without any mature civilization to cultivate and build it for a long time.

“Even now, much of America is still covered with virgin forests and pristine grasslands.

“There are probably more large and medium-sized wild animals now than humans.

“Our current development areas in America have only just been connected, and we are still a long way from covering the entire continent.

"After all, the population is less than one-tenth of that of Ming mainland."

After listening to this, Zhu Jianxuan nodded slightly:
“The potential in America is indeed huge, and the current lack of oil and iron ore is not a particularly big problem.

“At present, there is enough iron ore in America to support the steel industry in America. If the demand rises sharply in the future, it can be shipped from Linzhou or even Australia.

“We now have large enough ships, and the cost of shipping will get lower and lower.

“Australia has abundant coal and iron ore deposits, and the grades and mining conditions are excellent.

"Now if we mine iron ore from Australia and ship it directly to New York for smelting, it will be cheaper than mining it from inland.

"But Australia also lacks oil, while Persia has nothing, but has more oil than water.

“So the distribution of resources around the world is generally uneven. It is impossible for one place to have everything and everything is abundant.

“Put the most suitable industry in the most suitable place and provide the most convenient and lowest cost solution.

“This is the natural way of thinking for future industrial planning.

“When you carry out industrial planning in the future, you cannot limit yourself to one place or one continent.

“We must focus on the world and have a global presence.

“What would happen if you concentrated all your properties in one place?
“Then if a natural disaster, social unrest or even rebellion breaks out in this place, it may directly destroy all your industries.

“If you have a global presence, even if an industry in one place disappears, it won’t have a fatal impact.

"The simplest and most straightforward example is that you all visited Australia on the way here. You know that the atomic weapons experiment has been successful, right?
"If all your assets are in an isolated town, even if you build a solid palace, an atomic bomb will vaporize them all."

When Zhu Jianxuan said this, the princes did not pay much attention at first, but they were suddenly awakened when he got to the middle.

When Zhu Jianxuan gave the last blunt reminder, several of them broke out in cold sweats. They had previously considered that their father would divide the fiefdoms according to their industries, and if they could not become emperors in the future, they could live directly in the Ming Dynasty and enjoy the dividends of an industry.

However, they also instinctively considered that they should find a place outside of the big city to build an independent manor as a royal palace.

Now, considering the power of atomic weapons, that idea immediately becomes very dangerous.

If the future emperor wanted to reduce the power of the princes and dropped an atomic bomb on his isolated palace and estate, his entire family would be reduced to ashes.

Moreover, there were not many ordinary people around, so the emperor had less psychological pressure to do so.

Even if he did not set up an isolated manor, but concentrated his operations in a province or even a continent, this area would be separated from the court controlled by the emperor.

The emperor viewed the areas under his control as rebellion, and the psychological pressure to arrange a large army to conquer them was also not high.

Therefore, he had to plan in reverse. He could not go out and build some isolated manor, but had to live directly in the most important big city, or even live next to the imperial palace.

By dispersing industries across the globe, the emperor would be unable to carry out precise and concentrated strikes, and his own foundation would not be damaged by changes in local situations.

Industries distributed around the world also serve as your own security force, allowing you to live anywhere in the world.

His own industries overlapped with the industries directly managed by the emperor, and there was no way to simply separate them through regional divisions.

In this way, the emperor would not be able to use weapons of mass destruction and could only use conventional means to fight against himself.

As long as the brothers who are not emperors can unite and help each other, the emperor will most likely have to compromise with other brothers and maintain an overall attitude of fighting but not breaking.

If you think about it this way, my father’s reminder is indeed the best plan.

In fact, Zhu Jianxuan’s arrangement may not be the best arrangement, but Zhu Jianxuan can make them think that this is the best arrangement through constant reminders and brainwashing.

If this requirement continues for more than ten or even twenty years, most of the princes will have this understanding and will plan in this way.

Once a certain routine is formed between them, there is a high probability that they can achieve their goals.

Zhu Jianxuan couldn’t think of any other more reasonable solutions for the time being, so he could only make the best arrangements possible.

As for the option that a prince did not become the heir but seized the position of emperor through other unconventional means, most princes did not consider it.

My father will definitely hand over the court's main army to the heir, and he will definitely hand over the most important industry to the heir.

After the heir becomes emperor, or even just becomes the heir, the scale of resources he gradually controls will surely quickly surpass that of an ordinary prince.

The only unconventional means is a sudden coup, which requires the support of external political and military forces.

Under the current Ming Dynasty political system, it is almost impossible for ordinary princes to establish a stable cooperative relationship with the army and court officials.

It is too difficult to launch a coup and the probability of success is too low.

Unless one can make friends with court ministers and military generals in the future, there is no need to consider the possibility of a coup.

After a few seconds of strange silence, the princes all reacted and responded to their father's reminder in a slightly confused manner:
"I will remember my father's teachings..."

Zhu Jianxuan nodded slightly, and then said very casually:

"Do you have any questions about your future plans and the American Development Corporation? Is there anything you want me to advise you on?

"If you have any other ideas or anything you want to know, you can ask me.

“I will tell you everything I can tell you.

“You should stay in America for several years to set up your American Development Company and run it smoothly.

“Then you can take turns being the shopkeeper, or even just hire a professional shopkeeper to manage it.

“Do your own planning and oversee the audit.

"But this process will definitely be quite long, and you probably won't have the chance to see me directly in the next few years.

"So if you have anything to say, you can say it now."

The scene was quiet for a few seconds, and the Ninth Prince was the first to ask a question:

"Father, the atomic bomb we saw in Australia, was it a fission bomb or a fusion bomb?"

Zhu Jianxuan replied casually:

“You should be able to see that the things you visited in Australia and Jizhou were all facilities related to uranium refining.

“So that bomb is naturally a fission bomb.

“The power of a single fission bomb is unlikely to exceed 100,000 tons of chemical explosives, and is usually in the tens of thousands of tons.

"Linking multiple fission bombs in series to create a larger submunition can build up the power to the scale of hundreds of thousands of tons of chemical explosives.

“But compared to a fusion bomb, it’s still several orders of magnitude behind.

"There is no theoretical limit to the power of a fusion bomb. If we evaluate it based on controllable standards, it should be at least as powerful as a 100 million ton chemical bomb.

"The theory of fusion bombs is mature, and it is estimated that it will take about three years to produce practical weapons."

Zhu Jianxuan's answer caused another round of silence at the scene.

In fact, most of the princes at the scene, whether they analyzed according to what Zhu Jianxuan said, according to the facilities they visited at that time, or according to the analysis based on the difficulty, believed that the bomb they saw at that time should be a fission bomb, that is, an atomic bomb.

However, they had not seen the actual difference between the two bombs, and the gap between their general knowledge and personal experience was huge.

When ordinary people look at numbers, they don't have a very intuitive understanding of the range of several hundred meters or kilometers.

Comparison is often needed to understand the concept.

The scene caused by the bomb at that time left too deep an impression on them, and the key was that there was nothing of similar level for comparison.

They could not imagine what a more powerful weapon might be like.

That's why they couldn't help but wonder whether the bomb was a fission bomb.

Now that it was confirmed that the thing was a fission bomb, of course, I began to guess instinctively, how powerful would a fusion bomb, which is theoretically more powerful than a fission bomb, be? What would the scene be like when it exploded?
The power of a fission bomb is equivalent to tens of thousands of tons of chemical explosives, and the effect is indeed shocking.

But the fusion bomb will reach hundreds of millions of tons, and the power of the fission bomb, which is already terrifying, will continue to increase by thousands of times...

The princes still couldn't imagine what the scene would be like.

Moreover, their father said it very easily. It is estimated that they will be able to see it directly in three years, and it will be successful within three years.

This should be the data reported to him by the craftsmen, which are basically conservative data, and the actual realization time may be shorter.

The princes were confused, and several of them instinctively wanted to ask how their father planned to manage and use this weapon.

However, they also feel that this issue is too sensitive, and it is information that is countless times more sensitive than general military intelligence.

If I ask directly, will it make my father unhappy or even wary?
(End of this chapter)