The Ming Dynasty did not revolutionize

Chapter 457 Linzhou Japan Africa
When the eldest prince Zhu Jingkun and the fifteen oldest princes returned to the American continent after taking the American elites to visit the Ming mainland.

The second group of princes following them, also fifteen people, completed a two-year internship in Guangxi.

They participated in the industrial infrastructure construction of Guangnan Provincial Administration, and were then ordered by Zhu Jianxuan to be collectively transferred to Linzhou to collectively preside over the overall development affairs of the Linzhou continent.

What Daming called Linzhou was the South America in Zhu Jianxuan’s previous life. It was the continent with the most abundant rainfall and water resources in the world.

Therefore, it was named Linzhou by the people of the Ming Dynasty, as the word "Lin" means heavy and continuous rain.

Linzhou has great potential in the agricultural era.

It mainly consists of vast plains with simultaneous rain and heat, the La Plata Plain in the central and southern parts of Brazil, and the low and humid Brazilian Plateau in the central and northern parts.

The key is to have a "Milky Way" flowing from the subtropics to the temperate zones.

The Milky Way is the Paraná River and the La Plata River in Zhu Jianxuan’s previous life, and its runoff is about three-quarters of that of the Yangtze River.

Its biggest feature is that the main stream flows from the subtropical zone with more rainfall to the temperate zone with less rainfall, which is equivalent to the Yangtze River flowing from south to north into Tianjin and into the sea.

It delivers the more abundant water resources in the tropics directly to the more water-scarce temperate zones, and also provides a natural waterway with great potential.

If the Yangtze River could run from south to north through the North China Plain and finally flow into the sea near Tianjin, the already unique shipping and water conservancy conditions would be greatly improved.

Judging from the agricultural conditions, Linzhou is almost the chosen place in the agricultural era.

But unfortunately, Linzhou also has the same defect as America in the north, that is, there is an extreme lack of shallow copper mines close to the ground.

Therefore, it was difficult for humans in primitive times to obtain the bronze technology that was most suitable for the time through relatively simple and primitive technology, so that the technological level lingered in the Stone Age for a long time.

The lack of metal tools prevented Linzhou from improving its productivity, and even prevented it from entering the feudal society that was common in the classical era.

When the agricultural era ended, Linzhou was extremely short of coal mines, and even during the First Industrial Revolution, it was still difficult to develop industrial construction independently.

However, Linzhou has quite rich oil resources, as well as abundant iron ore and various metal resources, as well as large natural saltpeter mines that are rare in the world.

Although there is a lack of shallow copper mines that can be mined in the agricultural era, there is no shortage of deeper copper mines that can be mined in the industrial era.

Therefore, it was not until the era of the Second Industrial Revolution that the potential of Linzhou's land and resources could be brought into play, and Linzhou had the opportunity to give birth to a world-class power.

However, the international environment after the Second Industrial Revolution no longer allowed a world-class power to emerge in America and Europe again.

The United States of America has already occupied this ecological niche, and Linzhou can only become the back garden of the United States.

The Ming Dynasty in this world basically controls Linzhou alone, and has also basically completed the second industrial revolution, which can maximize the potential of Linzhou.

After nearly two decades of intensive immigration, Linzhou now has a population of over 50 million.

It is also enough to complete industrial independent construction.

Therefore, the second group of princes who were ordered to preside over Linzhou, while handling Linzhou's existing daily government affairs, had the main goal of accelerating Linzhou's industrial construction.

Exploit the oil fields in northern Linzhou and the iron ore on the Brazilian plateau, and build large modern industrial cities.

The fifteen princes had been busy in Linzhou for more than two years. In the second half of the thirty-third year of Tiangong, they received a notice from Zhu Jianxuan.

They were asked to bring representatives from all walks of life in Linzhou to visit the Ming mainland.

Representatives will be arranged to attend, including well-known Portuguese and Spanish immigrants who stayed in Linzhou, as well as personnel from the Portuguese Governor's Office arranged by Portugal.

The royal families of Spain and Portugal were also invited.

After the beginning of the second year, in the spring of the thirty-fourth year of Tiangong, everyone gathered in Linzhou and set off.

These fifteen princes of Linzhou, elites from Spain, Portugal and all walks of life in Linzhou, followed the route of the American princes and elites.

First go to Australia to visit Wudu Mansion, then go to the Australian inland to observe the atomic bomb explosion experiment, and finally go to the Ming Dynasty to visit and pay homage to the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Jianxuan also first summoned his sons individually and made arrangements that were highly similar to those made for the previous fifteen princes.

Let these fifteen princes return to Linzhou and establish a Linzhou Mining Company.

Starting from iron ore mining in the inland of Linzhou, we will gradually build a large-scale mining investment and mining company on a global scale.

Starting with iron ore mining, it then extended to Linzhou heavy oil mining, Linzhou copper mining, and other metal and non-metallic mineral mining.

At the same time, we develop and prepare corresponding mineral exploration, mining, screening and smelting technologies, and develop corresponding mining machinery and equipment.

They were also promised that no matter who would be the heir in the future, they would own one-third or even two-thirds of the shares in the company and they would always have control.

The same instructions were given as for the first fifteen princes, reminding them that these arrangements had nothing to do with the selection of heirs.

This second group of fifteen princes, with a similar mentality to their previous fifteen brothers, returned to Linzhou with the Linzhou elites who had completed their tour of the Ming mainland.

The deterrent power of nuclear weapons and the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty made these people more honest and dutiful after they returned, and they cooperated seriously with the princes' work.

At the same time, the third batch of fifteen princes were also sent to Japan by Zhu Jianxuan to govern.

Starting from the death of Tokugawa Ieharu in the 44th year of Xianning, Zhu Jianxuan participated in Japanese affairs at the request of Tian Yiming and fought a short but brutal civil war in the Japanese archipelago.

He eliminated the group of court nobles headed by the Japanese emperor, the group of samurai headed by the Japanese shogun, and all the forces of the feudal lords.

The remaining samurai were sent to Africa to join the Ming domain that migrated to Africa.

Subsequently, the Ming Dynasty Japan was turned into the Ming Dynasty's Japan Province, and the three-official government agencies and nine prefectures and eighty-eight counties under them were established.

While building the traditional political system of the Ming Dynasty, it continued to send immigrants abroad.

The main purpose was to explore the interior of Africa, clear out the indigenous tribes in the interior of Africa, or suppress the indigenous peoples in Europe, Asia and Africa.

From the 44th year of Xianning when we took over the Japanese archipelago from the Ming Dynasty to the 34th year of Tiangong, 37 years have passed, which is almost a generation.

The situation in the Japanese archipelago is now completely different from what it was before.

The first step was to completely abolish the original feudal system and establish a Ming-style local administrative agency.

Japan, which was originally a country with many large and small feudal states and was completely fragmented overall, has now become a basically complete administrative region.

This is not a bad thing for the Ming Dynasty today.

The bourgeoisie is different from the feudal landlord class in that they are naturally opposed to local separatism.

Unless they are an independent group that can control a region on their own and refuse interference from foreign capital.

At this time, the capital that could interfere in Japan were all official capital of the Ming Dynasty and private owners, who were all outsiders to the Japanese archipelago.

Breaking down Japan's original feudal system and establishing a standardized, integrated administrative structure would make it easier for official and private capital from the Ming Dynasty to control Japan's market.

The original population of the Japanese archipelago has reached 30 million, which is basically the upper limit of the land carrying capacity in Japan's agricultural era.

If the Ming Dynasty does not control the population or increase output, it will be a loss for it to rule Japan.

Therefore, after the Ming Dynasty established its ruling system in Japan, it continued to send immigrants abroad to cooperate with the development of Africa, while strictly restricting Japan's population growth.

For the original daimyo and samurai families in Japan, those who did not pledge allegiance to the Ming Emperor and surrender before the battle broke out, and most importantly, those who were still alive after the war, were all sent to Africa as thugs for the African feudal states.

For ordinary peasant families in Japan, the main problem is that they have large family members and have no land or assets of their own.

They also half-lured and half-forced their entire families to Africa to open up wasteland, using the condition that they would be given land to farm after a certain number of years of working in Africa.

For all other families that remained in Japan, only one boy was allowed to remain in Japan, and the other boys had to immigrate to Africa after the age of fifteen.

Tian Yiming, who was born in Japan, knew about these arrangements and strongly supported them.

Tian Yiming knew that the population density in mainland Japan was already too high, and the population-to-land ratio was twice as high as that of the main provinces in the eastern part of Ming Dynasty.
After eliminating the samurai and courtiers, the best arrangement would be to send the excess population overseas to open up new land.

At the same time, Tian Yiming also knew that under the arrangement of the Ming court, Ming’s basic agricultural technology also entered Japan along with Ming’s investment.

These include fertilizers that directly increase production, pesticides that eliminate pests, and higher-yield seeds.

There is no need to send agricultural machinery for the time being, because in Japan's overpopulation, labor is cheaper than any machine.

Importing machines may improve efficiency, but it will also cause a large number of people to lose their jobs and affect Japan's social stability. Therefore, agricultural machines cannot be imported before the population decreases or before labor-intensive industries are established and absorb a large number of people.

After more than three decades of regulation, Japan's population has been reduced from 30 million to 20 million.

Although the per capita land area is still not large, with the fertilizers and pesticides supplied by the Ming Dynasty, Japan's agricultural products are no longer in short supply.

Most people don't need to control their diet and can just eat until they are full.

Tian Yiming and other warriors who followed the Ming Dynasty, as well as the vast majority of the people in Japan, were all grateful to the Ming Emperor.

The elderly who survived that time often lamented that their lives at that time were worse than those of animals when they recalled their lives when they were younger.

At the same time, they would not be able to control their emotions and would curse the emperor, general, shogunate, daimyo, and samurai of the time to death.

At that time, even samurai, who were people of noble status, were not allowed to eat rice freely.

As for side dishes, there is usually only a small salted fish or a pickled plum, which is really just one piece, rather than a whole dish.

At the same time, official and private investments from the Ming court also built many industrial and commercial industries in major cities in Japan.

Especially textile, clothing, toy, leather, furniture processing, etc. which require a lot of manpower.

After the civil war, the samurai who were able to continue to stay in Japan were those who had chosen to be loyal to the Ming Emperor before the civil war, and then participated in the civil war and survived to become officers.

They have become part of the Ming's ruling group in Japan.

Most Japanese samurai were able to write Chinese characters, and when they followed the Ming Dynasty to fight, they were required to learn and use the Ming Dynasty's elegant language.

After the civil war, they joined the Ming Dynasty's ruling system in Japan and used the Ming Dynasty's elegant language in their daily work.

Not only do they have no resistance to this kind of thing, but most of them are very proactive and enthusiastic.

They are proud of using standard Ming Dynasty elegant language in daily life, and ashamed of accidentally speaking in local dialect.

The new generation of scholars after the war started learning the elegant language of the Ming Dynasty from the moment they entered school, and even when they went to work in government offices, factories and businesses, they had to use the elegant language of the Ming Dynasty when they went to work.

Now these old samurai families and new scholar groups all live using the Ming language.

Over the years, ordinary people from all over Japan have been constantly listening to the Ming Dynasty's broadcasts and dealing with officials who use the Ming Dynasty's elegant language, and have basically learned some of the Ming Dynasty's elegant language.

Especially the residents in the cities, most of them can already understand the elegant language of the Ming Dynasty.

However, their own "dialect" was not completely lost, but began to mix with the vocabulary and grammar of Ming Yayan.

The Japanese language already contains a large number of words and pronunciations borrowed from Shenzhou.

Among these borrowed words, there are three pronunciations: Wuyin, Hanyin and Tangyin, which were introduced to Japan during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties, and Song Dynasties respectively.

However, this kind of dissemination is all folk, and the disseminators and audiences are not all Japanese. For example, Wuyin is mainly Buddhist terminology.

The Japanese also use these words selectively, integrating them into their own language.

A Chinese word in Japanese may have multiple different pronunciations because these pronunciations were introduced to Japan from different periods and regions.

This situation has carried over into modern Japanese language, creating a very outrageous but very common situation.

When Japanese people name their children or things, they can specify specific words and specific pronunciations respectively, but the two are completely unrelated and even opposite.

It can be written as Zhang San and pronounced as Li Si, and it can be written as Sha Bi and pronounced as Cong Ming.

They can create completely random combinations at any time, unlike the fixed polyphones in Shenzhou.

The most outrageous thing is that the Japanese government approves of this practice, and it only requires writing the Chinese characters and marking the pronunciation during registration.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has direct jurisdiction over Japan, it has officially required that the current Ming Dynasty elegant pronunciation be used to replace all previous pronunciations of different origins and purposes.

It also makes it clear that the existing pronunciation of the Ming Dynasty elegant language is the only correct usage, and all official agencies and personnel must comply with it.

For Japanese who were not enrolled in school or working in the imperial court or official institutions, their native language, which they used on a daily basis, was now considered a local dialect.

Japan's original kana system was not a formal writing form and has now been completely eliminated.

Zhu Jianxuan arranged for the third batch of fifteen princes to come to Japan. Their main task was to organize the expansion of major ports and develop related industries such as ship repair and ship building.

Since Japan has many mountains and a small land area, it naturally has many natural harbors. However, because it is an archipelago, it has no economic hinterland and can only engage in re-export trade.

However, Japan also happens to be located at an important node for the Ming Dynasty to travel to America.

It is just right to build more ports to provide services such as equipment maintenance, material and fuel supply, and personnel rest required for ocean shipping.

Japan can build at least three large ports in Nagasaki, Tokyo and Hokkaido.

The fifteen princes worked in Japan for two years, and were then sent to Africa by Zhu Jianxuan to oversee the development and construction of sub-Saharan Africa.

At this time, Africa had been completely controlled by the Ming Dynasty for more than 30 years.

During the Chongzhen era, except for the Earl of Huai'an and the Duke of E who were completely abolished for collaborating with the enemy and disobeying orders, all the other old vassal states of the Ming Dynasty were directly relocated to Africa.

Most of Zhu Jianxuan's brothers were also arranged to go to Africa to open up wasteland and build a new vassal state.

In the past thirty years, Africa has almost been the Ming Dynasty's primary overseas expansion area, with America and Linzhou having a slightly lower priority.

This is mainly because the original population in America and Linzhou was relatively small.

The number of indigenous people in the two continents is less than 10 million, and even if immigrants from Europe are included, there are no more than 20 million.

The number of immigrants needed to control the entire continent is also relatively small. Currently, the number of Ming Dynasty immigrants in the two continents is only 50 to 60 million.

The number of indigenous people in Africa is huge, approaching the 100 million population mark.

The key is that Africa belongs to the Old World, and the physical fitness and resistance of the indigenous people are very strong, at least much higher than those of the American indigenous people.

Therefore, in the past thirty years, the Ming Dynasty has continued to send more than 100 million immigrants to Africa through the official court and new and old vassal states in Africa.

As the Ming Dynasty continued to immigrate and conquer Africa, it was certainly impossible for the indigenous people of inland Africa to surrender without resistance.

Most of them would instinctively use force to fight back.

Whether it is the armed immigrants from the Ming Dynasty court and vassal states, or the Ming Dynasty's private development companies and explorers, they are not explorers and tourists in modern society.

These savages are unable to communicate and have to resort to force to confront each other, so the only way to solve these problems is to use force.

The equipment level of the Ming Dynasty's armed immigrants was at least two generations behind that of the African natives, and the fighting between the two sides was completely unequal.

In this process, indigenous Africans inevitably suffered large-scale population losses.

After more than 20 years of exploration, the Ming Dynasty court officials and the militia forces of the subordinate vassal states gradually completed the exploration and control of the entire African continent.

Currently, the vast majority of the remaining African natives have been incorporated into the management system of the Ming Dynasty court and vassal states.

According to statistics from the African Indigenous Peoples' Office, the current number of indigenous peoples on the African continent is approximately between 30 and 40 million.

Most of these natives were young and middle-aged slave laborers.

During the entire process of conquest, the old, weak, sick and disabled individuals among the indigenous people almost died due to various natural and unnatural reasons.

The number of remaining young and middle-aged slave laborers is still decreasing continuously.

Because the vassal states in Africa referred to the experience of America and castrated all the slave laborers they employed.

In the foreseeable future, when this group of slave laborers die, no indigenous people will be seen in the areas where Ming people live.

It should be that only in the mountains and forests where few people go can some undiscovered indigenous people remain.

The main tasks of Zhu Jianxuan's third batch of fifteen princes in Africa, in addition to sorting out Africa's administrative divisions, were to develop Africa's hydropower, bauxite and other mineral resources.

Supervise the construction of the Congo River water conservancy project and complete the construction of the local electrolytic aluminum industry.

(End of this chapter)