In November of the first year of Wanli, Tang Shen led hundreds of warships to Malacca under the protection of Yu Dayou, the general town. At the same time, Liu Xian's army also surrounded Malacca from land.

The Spanish were desperate and chose to surrender. The pearl on the sea and the key to the throat finally fell into the hands of the Ming army.

Almost overnight, the entire East and even the world changed suddenly. The Ming Dynasty, which had accumulated strength, surprised all countries as soon as it took action.

After solving Malacca, they immediately formed a powerful fleet, rushed straight to India, and seized Sri Lanka Island as the Ming army's maritime supply base.

At the same time, Xi Muyun also led the fleet to seize Java. At this point, the Ming Dynasty completely held the waterway between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.

The Western countries were shocked. They wanted to counterattack, but they had no hope of winning at all. Moreover, their troops were not opponents of the Ming Dynasty, so they could only choose trade sanctions.

Don’t forget that there are many contradictions between the Western barbarians. How could they be determined? The British took the lead in breaking their silence and began to trade privately with the Ming Dynasty. Soon afterwards, the Netherlands broke away from Spanish rule and joined the ranks of maritime hegemony. They actively engaged in business with the Ming Dynasty, and were also known as the sea coachman.

Of course, this coachman is only half a world. As for the East, the Ming Dynasty has the final say.

Taking Malacca and opening up the two oceans, for the Ming Dynasty, it was like opening up the Ren and Du meridians. Their skills soared, and their national strength rose, one step a day.

The countries in the South China Sea were more or less opened, and the merchants of the Ming Dynasty were spread throughout the South China Sea.

They sold jewelry, wood, grain, spices, rare treasures, and even maids and servants back to the Ming Dynasty. The silk, wool velvet, porcelain, tools, machines, and furniture of the Ming Dynasty also dominated the market in Nanyang, and all countries had to be involved in the huge trading system.

With the market, there are orders. With the orders, industries mainly in the southeast will develop rapidly.

The original human loom and hydroloom were not enough. In the third year of Wanli, skilled craftsmen in the southeast built the first steam engine. A year later, Tang Hezheng improved the steam engine and used it to extract water from coal mines, which was a great success. The random steam engine developed and reformed rapidly, and the first textile factory used steam as a power appeared in the southeast.

When the factory was running on the first day, it attracted most people from Suzhou to come and watch the fun. When they saw the cotton yarn flowing out like water, some people applauded and some people cried.

From then on, the handicraft workshops are probably never maintained anymore...

New power emerged, production efficiency increased dozens of times, the weapons manufactured were more sophisticated, and the cannons became sharper. The Ming army conquered huge territory one after another.

The huge overseas market gave birth to prosperity in the southeast. By the fifth year of Wanli, the fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty reached an astonishing 120 million yuan, of which commercial tax contributed 90 million yuan.

Compared with the Jiajing period, the finances increased by thirty times!

As the main force in tax payment, the Industrial and Commercial Group successfully replaced the traditional agricultural gentry force and became the master of the empire with the help of the consultative conference.

By the way, the Consultative Conference has given up its tongue-in-mouth name and changed it to the National Political Council. The representatives who presided over the meeting were divided into two types. The first type was the celebrity gentry and businessmen elected by each province, and the second type was the outstanding personnel selected according to the category, such as the military, education, newspapers, business, etc.

All representatives publicly recommended thirty respected people, called the Supervisor, presided over the meetings, formulated issues, participated in the meetings of various cabinet ministries, supervised and listened, made suggestions, and reviewed the budget... In the first Supervisor, Gao Gong and Ge Shouli, two old ministers with unparalleled qualifications. They completely established the authority of the National Political Council, and all the cabinets must accept the inquiries of the meeting.

Correspondingly, the cabinet has become more and more perfect. The five cabinet masters cooperated with each other and pushed forward the new policy.

The Ministry of War, Ministry of Works, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Personnel, and the four major departments were also divided. At present, the Ming Dynasty has set up a total of 17 departments, including three representatives of the military, namely the General Staff, Army and Navy.

As the navy expanded its territory outside and made achievements, the proud old army leader could no longer pretend to be invisible. Many of the territory captured were directly sent out to serve as governors. To put it bluntly, it was the local emperor who suffered so many benefits from others, but could he still make things difficult for others?

It was very smooth that the Navy and the Lu family achieved the same status.

In the local area, the Governor-General became a permanent official, and Tang Yi also made a rank adjustment. The Governor-General became a second-rank official, and the Governor-General was given the title of Prince Taibao, becoming a first-rank official.

The governor and the Secretary of the Shang Dynasty were rank, which led to a situation where the governor was the Secretary of the Shang Dynasty and the Secretary of the Shang Dynasty was the governor, and the connection between local officials and the central government was completely opened up.

Generally speaking, a relatively excellent governor is transferred to the capital and replaced by a certain department. After one term of training, he is expected to enter the cabinet. However, the Secretary of State takes over as the governor, which is regarded as a signal of a firm entry into the cabinet.

Obviously, Tang Yi had destroyed the official system left by Zhu Yuanzhang with small control and large control, and replaced it with a new official system with equal rights and responsibilities and clear responsibilities.

In the new official system, all the recruitment of talents is based on political achievements. Although it is inevitable to be nepotist and form cliques, the promotion of each high-ranking official has evidence, and what they do must be supervised and tested.

It can be said that there are almost no simple figures who can go through layers of tests and reach the top. The former Hanlin poets and prime ministers and Qing dynasties, who have been left now, are afraid that they will not even have bones left, and they will be swallowed up by others, with their skin and flesh.

The combat power of the bureaucratic system has expanded and the number of people is also increasing. In the past, the total number of officials in the two capitals and 13 provinces was only 20,000. If the officials who also received the salary of the court were added, the total number was about 100,000.

In Tang Yi's hands, this number increased tenfold, and the total number of officials reached one million.

A complete bureaucracy system operates efficiently and produces unparalleled power.

In the past five years, the Ming Dynasty completed a total of five million official immigration to Nanyang, and also assisted merchants, immigrating 7 million, with a total of 12 million.

The famine pressure in Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places has been greatly reduced.

Since the second year of Wanli, the amount of grain transported from overseas every year was as much as 15 million stones, which is as much as three times the grain!

As for the private grain transactions, the quantity is even more astonishing.

The rice overseas was of high quality and low price, and basically the people of the Ming Dynasty were able to escape the threat of hunger. Since the second year of Wanli, even if there were major disasters in the north, at most 18,000 people starved to death, which was enough to cause a sensation. Hundreds of thousands of people were hungry and homelessness never happened again.

The people don’t know the key, they just burn incense and blessings to the Prime Minister every day, hoping that he can always take charge of the Ming Dynasty and that everyone will have a good life.

But Tang Yi knew that he was only a portion of more than 100 kilograms, and even after boiling soup, it was not enough for a hundred people to eat. To put it bluntly, there was only so much food. Some people were full, and some people were hungry.

Since taking over as the governor of Nanyang, Tang Shen completely changed his merciful face. He used his army to capture the natives as slaves, loaded them on a ship, transported them from one island to another.

In a completely unfamiliar environment, the natives could only obey orders, burn mountains, clear wasteland, cut trees, build houses, build roads, and docks... endless projects were waiting for them. Sooner or later, these people would be exhausted, and the estates they left behind were taken over by merchants, immigrated from the country and filled quickly.

What Tang Shen liked to do the most was to capture the indigenous men, die of exhaustion in strange lands, and then encourage the Ming Dynasty to immigrate and marry the remaining women. In just a few years, a group of lively children were born.

Tens of thousands of teachers were transferred from the Ming Dynasty to let these children speak Chinese dialect, recognize Chinese characters, wear Chinese clothes and eat Chinese delicacies.

In the letters to his son, Tang Shen proudly declared: "In just twenty years, the number of Han people in the Nanyang Islands will exceed half, and in fifty years, it will exceed 70%. By 100 years, more than 90% will be Han people. Even if they are not related to blood, they will also recognize China in culture. Maybe they will not have the chance to see this life, but sooner or later, these islands will be like the Central Plains and are completely Han land."

Compared with the vigorous and vigorous Nanyang, the changes in the north are also no less than that.

Li Chengliang gathered the Jurchen soldiers as the vanguard, and after three major wars, he destroyed the Tuman tribe. Then the Ming army's forces crossed Heilongjiang and the Outer Xing'an Mountains.

According to legend, on the land in the extreme north, there is a divine beast named Zhulong living. When you open your eyes, it is the day, close your eyes, and it is the night. He keeps exhaling, transforming into gorgeous colors, decorating the sky in the extreme north, which is particularly enchanting.

With the desire to find the divine beast, an expedition team of 300 people embarked on the journey with thousands of sled dogs and strong Mongolian horses.

They headed north and took a full half year to return to the Ming Dynasty. When they went there, there were only 210 people. Ninety heroes stayed in the snowy wilderness all over the sky forever.

They did not find the Zhulong, but brought back a big bear with white body, a big penguin that could not fly, and a huge tiger. They even found the Beihai where Su Wu shepherded herding. Unfortunately, it was not the ocean, but just a bottomless lake...

The expedition in the far north once again inspired the enthusiasm of the Ming Dynasty. The rising national power and the high-spirited people. More and more warriors appeared. They were in groups and fearless, starting from the Ming Dynasty, exploring unknown lands. They wrote what they saw and heard along the way and brought back to the Ming Dynasty.

Every time the expedition team comes back, countless schools will hire warriors to promote their great achievements.
Chapter completed!