Even if a private merchant is from a royal family and is extremely wealthy, he cannot confront the imperial court, let alone threaten the imperial power.

The advantage here is naturally to avoid the large gap between the rich and the poor, and the global wealth has been concentrated after the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, this also requires the emperor to govern the country with a good manner.

If the emperor engages in crazy extravagant consumption and rewards the wealth he has obtained with great rewards, it will still cause too large a gap between the rich and the poor.

For example, the Spanish Empire that rose in the early colonial era, which never set, was because its royal nobles quickly degenerated after obtaining a lot of wealth, but did not use their wealth to develop national science and technology and enrich the people, and thus quickly declined later.

As a time traveler, Zhu Youxiao knew the story of why the great Western powers rose and then declined in history. Naturally, he also understood what he should do as the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to avoid abnormal economic prosperity, that is, the entire country seemed prosperous, but it was only abnormal prosperity caused by the extravagant consumption of the nobles, rather than the commercial prosperity caused by the daily consumption of industrial products by the people, especially producers.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao did not spread money everywhere to reward nobles and nobles, nor did he let himself drink wine, meat and forest.

However, Zhu Youxiao did not use money only for finance, that is, borrowing money from the private sector to promote the rise of private merchants and thus giving more big merchants to the Ming Dynasty.

Because he knew that the rise of the Netherlands in history later declined because he was overly addicted to the financial industry and used the wealth earned from the world to speculate in stocks, which led to the prosperity of the financial industry, but did not develop significantly in technology. Although the private economy flourished, it was just a false prosperity of financial stimulus and did not usher in the industrial revolution.

Zhu Youxiao and his assistants just continued to spend their money on scientific and technological research and development and infrastructure that can maximize national interests.

He would rather throw the project to build large hydropower stations and railways into the plateau areas than to lend them directly to wealthy private businessmen, but wait for wealthy private businessmen to earn global profits and then share the profits to him.

Because of this, although the merchant class of the Ming Dynasty was already a very large class, there were no particularly powerful giant merchants.

After all, the main wealth did not flow to them.

However, technology and infrastructure projects have made great progress.

In terms of technology, aircraft, cameras, radios, and telephones appeared much shorter than the original history, which made the gap between the technological level of the French countries in the Americas and the vassal states that had not been destroyed by the Ming Dynasty and the local Ming Dynasty.

This is just a scientific and technological research result.

The theoretical gap is no longer something that a few generations can catch up.

Although they are on the same earth, there is a trend of one dimension different from each other.

In terms of infrastructure, railway mileage and highway mileage are increasing significantly every month.

Especially in the southwest, where the bird channel was originally connected to the waterway, in order to build railways and highways, the number of additional bridges built is several times more than the total number of stone bridges in the southwest region in history.

And the good thing is that these expenses are not paid by domestic people, and there is no need to collect more wealth from wealthy places like Jiangnan to help improve transportation conditions in places where the Ming Dynasty was still wild.

Because these expenses are all from global plundering.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty did not have to sacrifice the wealthy areas for improving poverty-stricken areas, so it prevented many people in Jiangnan from replacing mulberry fields into farmland due to excessive commercial taxes, interrupting the development of industry and commerce in the region, and even returning them to the previous farming production model.

Therefore, Suzhou has completely become a metropolis with what is called modern functions in later generations.

That is, it has the most dense science and technology industries and the most scientific and technological talents, and can siphon resources and talents around and even around the world to come here to process and further study, and become the vanguard of productivity development.

Of course, it is also related to the fact that Suzhou has no more wars.

Historically, from the middle and late Ming Dynasty, Suzhou gradually had the function of a modern city. The silk fabric raw materials from the surrounding Nanxun and Zhujiajiao towns had to be transported to the Changmen area of ​​Suzhou and sold to Suzhou merchants. Only after processing them into finished products can they be sold throughout the country and even the whole world.

Because Suzhou had the largest number of technical workers in the country at that time.

Of course, the process of Suzhou's continued transformation was interrupted by the Qing Dynasty's entry into the Central Plains. Later, because technology is leading in the West and production technology is also leading in the West, Shanghai, which is more convenient for foreign trade and foreign investment, has come from a small county to a strong manufacturing and financial industry, and radiates to the metropolis of several surrounding provinces.

Historically, Suzhou's ability to gradually have the function of a modern urban system and became a technical industry center in the Ming and Qing dynasties, which was also related to the fact that domestic demand accounted for the main demand during this period.

During this period, the military expenditure demand for military use in the north and the consumption of royal relatives and nobles in the capital and bureaucrats.

As the Suzhou-Hangzhou Grand Canal, it plays a very important role in Suzhou, the silk from Huzhou and cotton from Songjiang. All kinds of raw materials from the rich areas must be concentrated here, processed and transported to the capital to meet the needs of dignitaries and nobles and the army.

Therefore, Suzhou has gathered a large number of technical workers and handicraftsmen.

In this life, Suzhou has not experienced the chaotic times in history, and the industrial revolution began in the Ming Dynasty, so Suzhou, which was already well-developed and rich in handicrafts, continued to become the center of science and technology and industrial in the Ming Dynasty.

First of all, the technical workers here became the first batch of workers in the new textile industry and even the steam engine industry in the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, there is a rich cultural heritage, a high literacy rate and a high degree of prosperity. New-style education has also developed rapidly here, and a large number of technical talents have been cultivated.

Therefore, Suzhou was able to successfully transform into a modern industrial and commercial metropolis, and even Shanghai is still just a support for Suzhou.

Who made the explosion point of this life of science and technology mainly within the Ming Dynasty, and first in Suzhou, the most outstanding technical talents can be used as an industry, and gradually promoted it to the whole country and the whole world?

And the main function of Shanghai in this life is only trade.

The manufacturing center is still in Suzhou.

Of course, Suzhou is just a light industrial manufacturing center.

Because the technical workers here in Suzhou have been light industrial workers engaged in the textile industry from the beginning.

So the government-run industries in the court only moved light industry here. There was no way. There was the most skilled light industry workers here, so they had to put the light industry here.

The focus of heavy industry is still in the capital.

This is the result of the Ming Dynasty's industrial development not being dominated by the private bourgeoisie, but being dominated by the Ming Dynasty court with state power.
Chapter completed!