Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 393

Chapter 393

Lin Dagong's words made the high-ranking Ming officials present frowned.

After all, they are all Daming vested interests who have property and business at home.

Now the industrial products of the Ming Dynasty need a market.

In addition to the exclusive Ming Dynasty, Japan, Korea, Annan, Nanyang, and Indian feudal vassals.

Another big market is Europe.

anyway.

Europe has always been an important market for China's foreign trade.

Including such as tea, porcelain, spices, etc., China's top products exported to foreign countries for thousands of years, in fact, many of them are transported to the west—if they don't go west, they don't know where to go east.

In addition to being big landlords, the high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty are also big factory owners-which one of these people's family doesn't run a factory and engage in export and trade.

This Ming Empire is running into imperialism.

As for Zhu Daohua, the Son of Heaven.

Of course he can't stop all of this, not to mention that he himself is the biggest capitalist in Ming Dynasty.

therefore.

When I heard that the Europeans might form a group against Ming Dynasty.

It is normal for senior officials of Ming Dynasty to worry that the European market will be closed to Ming Dynasty.

But Emperor Zhu was not too worried about this.

"Let's stick together, anyway, we can't go to Europe now, and we also need a strong opponent to integrate the world of China."

Emperor Zhu waved his hand and said.

At the beginning, he was still a little bit phobic.

But now, tens of thousands of Slavic troops have been killed.

It would be really weird if he was still afraid of the ocean and Europe.

For Emperor Zhu.

Even the absence of a European market is nothing.

The point is, if the emergence of a European alliance allows the Ming Empire to take advantage of the pressure brought by this opponent and continue to integrate internally, then the benefits to the Ming Empire will obviously outweigh the disadvantages!

Any political entity that is too strong will weaken.

If the Ming Empire now occupies the northern part of the Kazakh Khanate, relying on the large and small fortresses built by the Russians here, the western border of the empire will be greatly stabilized, relying on the grasslands in northern Kazakhstan and taking the Yenisei River as the border .

The Ming Empire will reach the Caspian Sea in the west, the Arctic Ocean in the north, the Governor's Mansion of Jinshan in North America (Vancouver, Canada) in the east, and Australia in the south.

This will be an unprecedented super empire in human history.

Moreover, the Ming Empire integrated the entire eastern world unprecedentedly.

Even Japan, a heterogeneous species in the Eastern world, is now incorporated into the Celestial Dynasty system of the Ming Empire.

The victory of national power.

Far away from the Han and Tang Dynasties.

However, as the saying goes, prosperity and decline.

Emperor Zhu knew very well that the Ming Empire had not yet reached the point where it could rest easy.

There are many challenges ahead.

Especially inside!

He is not so arrogant as to think that history has ended here-although some scholars in the peripheral regions of the empire are touting similar views.

But Emperor Zhu did not lose his head because of this.

After all, he returned to this era from the 21st century.

history.

Far from over.

The Ming Empire must retain an opponent who seems to be passable.

What is there to say?

If there is no foreign trouble in the country, it will perish.

Emperor Zhu thought for a while and said: "If you occupy the fortress in the northern Kazakh grassland, you don't need to move on. The Ministry of Industry can plan a railway from Beidou to Central Asia, passing through Guanzhong, Gansu, the Western Regions and other places. This railway will It will be an important strategic logistics line for Ming Dynasty to consolidate its northwest frontier! In terms of investment,"

Emperor Zhu looked at the troubled Peng Jun.

Seeing the emperor's gaze, Peng Jun hurriedly waved his hands and said, "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Households has no surplus food, and the budget for the eighth year of Guangfu has basically been arranged."

"It's okay, this railway can't be repaired in a short while, it's not bad if it can be completed within ten years, maybe even 20 years."

Emperor Zhu said.

The current Ming Empire, in the words of later generations, is in an era of great infrastructure.

Especially railways.

After the railway transportation capacity was fully demonstrated, the entire Ming Empire began to invest heavily in railways.

The great development of labor employment, steel, timber, machinery and other industries driven by investment in infrastructure has also become another huge driving force for the industrialization of the Ming Empire.

"This railway connects the Central Plains and the Western Regions. It will definitely be profitable in the future. Western Regions, Central Asia and other places are rich in minerals, especially oil and gas resources! Merchants, first take out 3% of the shares for sale."

Thanks to the development of the financial industry, although the current Emperor Zhu basically has a place to go for the money from the household department, how can the fiscal revenue of the Ming Empire basically be stored in the treasury like the former Qing and Ming Dynasties, but will be spent? go out.

Moreover, the Ming Empire has a wealth of financial tools. Although the war has not stopped in these years, it has not caused the domestic industry to wither, and the people are in dire straits.

Even because of the war boom caused by several wars, orders in the domestic steel, chemical, cotton textile, and pharmaceutical industries have exploded.

In line with the reform of the imperial examination system, the Ming and Qing dynasties continuously flowed into the country through international trade, and the silver buried in the cellar was pried out, turned into real capital, and put into the melting pot of industrialization.

The industrialization of the Ming Empire has been rumbled and turned completely.

And Zhu Daohua, the initiator of the launch of this behemoth, did not know where this largest industrial machine in human history would go in the future!

There is not much he can do now.

Land, education, reform of the imperial examination system, constitutional government (rites), parliamentary politics.

Although every change.

None of them have been able to really "touch the root".

But then again.

in this world.

And how many have really touched on fundamental changes?

reform.

Isn't it just a process of peeling off the old skin bit by bit and growing new skin?

If they come up, they will be hacked to death.

That would not be reform.

It's revolution.

Zhu Daohua's current role is the voltage stabilizer of this huge empire.

As the founding emperor, as long as he is still alive for a day, even if there are some twists and turns in the giant Ming Empire, there will be no major changes.

just.

What about after he leaves?

"Your Majesty, we can't let the Europeans integrate so easily, maybe we can support Ottoman Turkey to find their troubles."

Grand Duke Lin suggested.

Ottoman Türkiye?

The sick man of West Asia?

Can they do it?

Zhu Daohua waved his hand and said, "We can give them limited support, but Europe is too far away from us. Our territorial requirements are limited to Central Asia, and we can't control it any further."

"The next thing is to consolidate the newly-occupied land. Of course, you have to digest it properly!"

(End of this chapter)