In the early morning of the 17th day of the first lunar month, a ray of rays of rays of rays shine on the ancient Nanjing Forbidden City.

The awakened Jinshui River ripples in the cold wind in early spring, like a jade belt, so bright.

The Forbidden City in the rays of the sunset gradually woke up, and the palace ushered in a new day of busyness.

Civil and military officials stepped onto the Jinshui Bridge in groups, chatting in a low voice along the way, and some people were still talking about the Lantern Festival banquet the day before yesterday.

More people are asking each other about the content of today's court meeting.

Yesterday, an imperial edict was issued in the palace, requiring all the princes and nobles of the Ming Empire to attend the dynasty meeting at Fengtian Hall, cabinet ministers, military affairs ministers, civil and military ministers, including the ministers of the Navy and other ministers in the court to attend the dynasty meeting in the Forbidden City.

Unexpectedly, the standard of this grand dynasty meeting was very high. It can be said that it was the entire military and political meeting of the Empire. The ministers were basically "Shangshu" and even the maritime ministers came. In short, everyone attended, which was as neat than all the imperial meetings and court meetings in the past.

It’s not too strange that so many big guys came. What’s strange is that no one knows what the agenda of this court meeting is.

In the past, most of the court meetings announced relevant issues in advance so that everyone can be prepared and do their best to perform at the court meetings.

But this time, the emperor did not reveal anything, and even the chief minister of the cabinet, Yang Shicong, was confused. He was chased by more than a dozen people in the morning and asked him, so annoyed that he almost cursed.

Not only that, the confidentiality work of this court meeting was also very high-end. All court officials had to sign a confidentiality agreement before entering Fengtian Hall.

The content of the court meeting was not to be leaked, and the leakers were held accountable, which made the ministers frightened and did not dare to enter Fengtian Palace.

Most civil and military officials felt vaguely uneasy. Thinking of the prince's actions on the Indochina Peninsula, there was suspicion of having self-respecting troops. Many ministers even began to suspect that the emperor wanted to depose the prince.

Or did Emperor Tianwu take this into consideration and wanted to "release military power with a glass of wine", set up a plan to catch all the military officials in one go, and then announce that the Ming Dynasty will resume the use of culture to build military affairs from then on?

Thinking about it, I feel that it is not possible. After all, His Majesty the Emperor restored the country with martial arts, so it is unlikely that such a thing will be kicked out.

Everyone speculated that they entered Fengtian Hall one after another, and each of them sat down according to their ranks. Everyone nodded and greeted each other. The hall was filled with a "buzzing" sound.

Soon, the military minister Cao Bianjiao came in, nodded and smiled at everyone, and sat down.

After a while, Emperor Tianwu Zhu Cilang came over and walked towards him, and everyone stood up to pay tribute.

Then, Wu Zhong announced the issue of this court meeting to open the world and unify the world!

For a moment, the ministers looked at each other and were all shocked.

Before this, although the civil officials and military generals of the Ming Dynasty also shouted the slogan of unifying the world, most people just regarded it as an exciting and high-sounding slogan to demonstrate the imperial hegemony of the Tianwu Dynasty.

Most people have never seriously thought about analyzing this possibility.

They subconsciously felt that the Tianwu Dynasty was already awesome to take over the Western Regions and the South China Sea. In historical books, they would unify the world!

The outside world is too big, too poor, too complicated, there is really no need to waste resources to fight, and no one has done it throughout history.

Today, His Majesty the Emperor regards unification of the world as a formal issue for the court meeting and requires the ministers to discuss it seriously. This is the first time.

Since we took it out and discussed, we would not sit and roll our eyes. The elites of the empire began to plan carefully.

In the first year of Tianwu, after Zhu Cixuan's Northern Expedition was successful, the Emperor and Ming Dynasty were unified, and the Ming Dynasty quickly embarked on the road of overseas expansion.

For more than 20 years, the Ming Dynasty took the ride-sharing of great geographical discoveries and colonial expansion, and developed trade routes in various oceans, making overseas trade prosperous.

The Ming Dynasty warships spanned the Ming Sea, from the South Ocean to the Small Atlantic Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean. The Ming conquerors killed the Dutch and regained Taiwan; massacred the Spaniards and captured Luzon; overthrew the Tokugawa Shogunate and liberated Japan; and claimed sovereignty over a large swathe of territory in the South Ocean, and even flattened the Indochina Peninsula with force and obtained a large swathe of land.

The cultural invasion led by Empress Xu quickly increased the influence of the Ming Dynasty in the world.

Emperor Tianwu Zhu Cilang used his powerful force to establish the undisputed hegemony of the Ming Dynasty in the world! He created a great era called "Tianwu Gold" by later generations.

Today, the Ming Empire is the second global empire in the world after the Spanish Empire, with an empire of 40 million square kilometers (including Australia and some overseas land outside Asia).

One-third of the land area of ​​the entire earth is from the Ming Dynasty! The sea area is even more vast. As long as you see the sea, it is basically from the Ming Dynasty!

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty was named "Empire of the Sun Never Set" by Westerners, which was more powerful than Spain, the previous world leader!

However, it was this stable atmosphere created by the Golden Age that caused the population of the Ming Dynasty to surge.

Human sexual instinct determines that the population will grow in geometric ranges. If not controlled, it can double every twenty-five years.

Under the stable environment of the Tianwu Dynasty for more than 20 years, the total population of the Ming Dynasty surged to more than 400 million, of which Jiuzhou, the Han area, accounted for 200 million!

At this time, the total number of the world population was only more than 600 million! (In 1650, the world population was about 545 million)

The population growth rate is faster than the growth rate of food supply, and according to the law of decreasing returns caused by limited land, food under population growth will grow in arithmetic order.

Over time, the population will inevitably exceed the food supply without other factors.

Insufficient food will lead to poverty and bad habits.

The disgusting population will also cause difficulties in employment, lower the average national income, and a high unemployment rate can easily lead to poverty, which will lead to political instability and bring disastrous consequences to the entire society.

In recent years, population issues have been a key issue for Zhu Cixuan. Although the Ming Dynasty launched several wars, occupied vast land, and carried out endless immigration.

But those overseas lands are both cold and hot, which is really worse than the environment in Jiuzhou, the Han area.

The strong rural concept also makes most citizens who have lived a good life unwilling to go overseas.

Several imperial meetings were about population growth, discussing how the Ming Dynasty should deal with it in the future. At that time, a general raised the topic of unification of the world and said: "With more population, there is a war except colonization, and there is no second way to go. My Ming Dynasty should take the initiative first!"

However, the imperial meeting established the population issue, and the general's remarks were too extreme, and he wanted to consume the population through war and ended up in vain.

But it was that imperial meeting that made Zhu Cixuan face the problems of this century seriously for the first time.

So, the main topic of today's court meeting was found, and "Unification of the World" finally appeared head-on in front of all the ministers and generals.
Chapter completed!