The Ming Dynasty is now strong.

The territory has exceeded that of the beginning of the country.

From the Beishan Governor, located on the land near the Sea of ​​Okhotsk today, heading south to Sakhalin Island, then to the inner city, and then to Haojing, all of which are the territory of the Ming Dynasty, which does not include various enclaves.

Economically benefiting from the technological revolution brought by the steam engine, productivity has been greatly improved.

The prices are so cheap that ordinary people can wear gold and silver. Moreover, with the promotion of various high-yield grains and the application of chemical fertilizers brought about by the development of chemicals, there is no need for hunger in the world.

In addition, the Ming Dynasty is now the only industrial country in the world, while foreign countries are agricultural countries.

The imported goods exchanged for exported goods are almost all grain except minerals.

For their own extravagant and lewd life, foreign nobles basically used food to exchange for industrial products from the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty's food is now particularly surplus.

Sweet potatoes and corn, crops with relatively low nutritional value, are no longer used to eat them in the provinces with developed agriculture in the Ming Dynasty, but are used to raise pigs, chickens and ducks.

Therefore, the breeding industry began to develop significantly.

In addition, as the income level of the people in the Ming Dynasty increased, the demand for meat also increased, which further promoted the development of the breeding industry.

Because the demand for meat in the Ming Dynasty increased, coupled with the increase in income, the demand for animal fur also increased, the animal husbandry industry also developed highly.

The number of cattle and sheep in the major pastoral areas directly ruled by the Ming Dynasty far exceeded before, and because there was no exploitation by the Tatar nobles, the income of herders in these places increased a lot.

In addition, because the Ming Dynasty's guns and cannons were already very powerful, the General Administration of Ordnance Manufacturing has used thunder mercury to build rifled guns for launching drugs.

Therefore, fewer and fewer herders are honest and want to make a living by looting.

Therefore, the wealthy herders who are no longer able to fight against the Ming Dynasty guns and cannons now only like to sing and dance.

Even in order to sell a large amount of cattle and sheep for a good price, and not wanting to be confiscated by the government, they have become very gentle and kind now, and are basically very cooperative with the government's transfer of young and strong people to war.

The people in the Guan area, which was not threatened by the northern nomadic forces, naturally lived a very peaceful life, and many mainland Han people still did not know how to deal with the swords and weapons.

After all, there is no Jiannu who entered the pass and deducted it like in history.

The population size therefore rose exponentially.

Not only in Jiangnan, but also in the north, Shanxi, Liaodong and the capital, there are many large towns with tens of thousands of households.

In the past, there were several cities that never sleep in the prosperous areas such as Jiangnan, Huguang and Guangdong.

There was no large-scale peasant uprising in Shaanxi, which was severely damaged by natural disasters, and there was no phenomenon of declining all industries.

As the channel of the Silk Road, the population here is still increasing due to the development of commerce.

After all, no matter how bad Shaanxi is, it is better than outside the Great Wall. Therefore, there are still many proletarians in the south migrating to start businesses in these places, bringing the developed production technology in the south to Shaanxi.

God's plan to cause chaos in Shaanxi and then destroy the entire Ming Dynasty has undoubtedly gone bankrupt.

Li Zicheng, who ended the Ming Dynasty's destiny in history, is now living a very casual life in the South Asian subcontinent.

He and Zhang Xianzhong, the backbone of the Ming World Development Company, were the Mughal Empire, which was in its prime, were not their opponents, and for the sake of peace, they had cut off a lot of territory for the Ming Dynasty.

Li Zicheng and others have become farmers here in the Ming Dynasty, selling a large amount of grain they produced to the court in the form of slavery, and in these places he was in front of the landlord.

Zhu Youxiao, who lives in the Qinzheng Hall of Damingyuan, looked at the vast territory map of the Ming Dynasty, and reviewed the events in various places he ruled through the information provided by the translators and memorials from all over the country.

When his hand stopped in Daning, he knew that there was a railway there about to be opened, and that would be the first railway in the Ming Dynasty. Military supplies and goods that arrived at the capital through sea routes and canals would be transported to Daning in a shorter time, and then radiate to the entire outer border.

When his hand stopped in Ekima (Hokkaido), he knew that Hirado King Zhu Yousong was building a summer palace for him because the scenery was beautiful and it could also be used as a place where he would visit the Arctic in the future.

When his hand stopped at Manlaga, he knew that his favorite Chen Xin was serving as governor there and was preparing a fleet to go to legendary Australia with the goal of meeting the Ming Dynasty's increasing demand for iron ore.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but smile. He didn't expect that the Ming Dynasty had already had such a momentum since he was the emperor for only fifteen years.

But Zhu Youchao was not satisfied with this.

Because he is just over thirty years old and is still a young emperor.

“Siberia’s forest resources are what I want.”

“The gold in America is what I want.”

"Europa, a land with a suitable climate, should be used as an agricultural base for the Ming Dynasty, and industrial civilization should not appear again."

Zhu Youxiao thought about it, while asking his newly-appointed concubine Du Hongyin to mark the content he wanted to mark in these places.

With the improvement of the economic level of the people in the Ming Dynasty and the supremacy of Han people, many scholars with new ideas such as Gu Yanwu and Wang Fuzhi opposed the castration of Han people. In addition, in order to increase the number of Han people, Zhu Youxiao has issued an order to prohibit Han men from castrating themselves, and no longer recruiting Han men to the outside world. Those who even castrate themselves will be severely punished. The use of new internal officials is basically selected from the captured foreign children and castrated.

But Zhu Youxiao considered that even though these foreign children had been sinicized, they were not of Han blood, so they would naturally not be suitable to become eunuchs like Wei Zhongxian and Wang Chengen in the future, holding great power and participating in the court's major policies.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao planned to gradually change the existing internal affairs system, so that the phenomenon of eunuchs participating in the government gradually disappeared, and gradually handed over internal affairs to trusted ministers of his own interest groups, so that those eunuchs could only engage in middle and lower-level professions in the future.

Zhu Youxiao knew that the reason why the Qing Dynasty did not have eunuchs' dictatorship was because he had an Eight Banners aristocratic group bound to the emperor's interests, and the emperor could not rely on eunuchs to control the imperial power.

Zhu Youxiao has formed a noble group bound to the interests of the emperor. This noble group is all members of Xingming Society and is a shareholder of major official industries.

These people are Zhu Youxiao’s confidant ministers.

Zhu Youxiao planned to gradually rely on these people to maintain his power and status.

As for whether these people will eventually become a big shot because they have too much power and wealth, and become an obstacle to innovation within the empire, he will not be able to control so much.

After all, Zhu Youxiao had to admit that his own abilities were limited and he could not design a very perfect system. In addition, even if he knew many systems that looked better in later generations, he would not dare to copy them directly. He had to consider whether the Ming Dynasty is suitable for such a system today.

Zhu Youxiao now only confirmed that the Ming Dynasty is only suitable for the emperor and a group of nobles to become big capitalists, and then manipulate the entire empire for external expansion, and increase the wealth of the entire empire's people through external expansion, which has left class contradictions in an unintensified stage.

Because Zhu Youxiao did this when he ascended the throne, and the facts proved that this was successful, ministers such as Bi Ziyan were very enthusiastic about maintaining imperial power after becoming great capitalists.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao now only knows that he can trust these ministers who are bound to his own interests to ensure his power.

Let's turn the words back.

In order to gradually let the eunuchs withdraw from the stage of history, Zhu Youxiao asked his concubines to start taking on some personal service and other internal work for him. After all, the emperor now has to accept concubines every once in a while, and these concubines cannot be idle, and they can do some internal work for him. Therefore, the one who stays by his side now is his concubine Du Hongyin, not a newly promoted eunuch.
Chapter completed!