With the expansion of the territory, the Ming Dynasty set up 17 new provincial-level administrative units on the basis of the original two capitals and 13 provinces, including the three Zhili cities of Tianjin, Shanghai and Chongqing, as well as 14 political envoys in the three eastern provinces, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Turpan, Xinjiang, Taiwan, Annam, Hainan, Dongying, and Jiugang, as well as front-line fortresses such as Telin, Kuye, Vladivostok, Beihai, Yakusk, Yenisei, Yili, and Almaty.

Managing such a huge amount of land was a challenge for Zhu Youxiao, and the Ming elites in the court also felt powerless, in their opinion, the two capitals and thirteen provinces in the Central Plains were the homes in the true sense, and the surrounding land was barbaric, and it was not worth the effort along with the people there. This idea existed during the Southern Song Dynasty, when the Jurchens crossed the river with the Southern Song Dynasty after entering the pass, and their cavalry feared the mountains and rivers south of the Yangtze River until the rise of the Mongols. Similarly, the Southern Song Dynasty believed that the north had been destroyed by war, and that after recovering the lost land, it would have to move the population and allocate food and wages, which was really a loss-making deal from an economic point of view.

In 1987, based on data from the latest census of New China, modern geographer Hu Huanyong proposed the Heihe-Tengchong line in "The Distribution of the Chinese Population", and in 1987, based on data from the latest census of New China, he believed that the eastern half of the country accounted for 429 of the country's area, but the population accounted for 944 of the total. This data is still changing with the increase of population, which shows that even on the basis of modern information technology and industrial civilization, people still prefer to live in coastal areas, plains and other areas with suitable climate and convenient transportation, and this law cannot be forcibly changed artificially.

Regarding the concerns of the Ming elite, Zhu Youxiao did not immediately refute them, after all, these people restored Chinese civilization from the rule of the Yuan Dynasty and led it to the top of the world, these are their arrogant capital, and they are also worthy of future generations. However, Zhu Youxiao has still lived in the 21 st century, and he knows that modern times are a history of blood and tears of the Chinese nation, and countless martyrs sacrificed their precious lives in pursuit of independence, sacrificing tens of millions of people in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression alone.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, we played the dignity of the country and the self-confidence of the nation on the battlefield in Korea, and also exchanged 156 projects from the Soviet Union to aid China, thus truly starting the road of industrialization. Today, our comprehensive national strength is already the second in the world, and there is still a long way to go in the future, and there is almost no one to come in the future, and this kind of achievement is unique to mankind.

Self-made is great, but only you know the bitterness, this is not only physical patience, but also mental suffering, so when we affirm these achievements, we will also reflect on the shortcomings, hoping to get better and better. For example, on the issue of energy, we rely heavily on the import of oil, ore and other industrial raw materials, and as the world's largest importer and exporter, we have no pricing power, that is to say, we buy the most expensive raw materials, sell the cheapest products, and the fruits of labor are siphoned off by Westerners.

In order to change these passive situations, Zhu Youxiao learned from the painful experience and decided to forcibly migrate the population to the main strategic and energy-producing areas in the western half of the Heihe-Tengchong line, set up administrative institutions and health centers, and stationed officials to manage them. As a result, the country's demand for talents has increased dramatically, and the selection of talents has become the first priority of the imperial court.

In the Analects of Wei Linggong, it is said that "if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools." Ju is a state, a sage who is a doctor, and a benevolent man who is a friend." This is a wonderful answer from Confucius to Zigong's question about Weiren, which means that if a craftsman wants to do things well, he should first prepare his tools. If you want to contribute to the country, you must make friends with people from the upper class and virtuous people, and in this way, you must understand the national situation and establish good social relations, and then you can fulfill your ambitions and accomplish the purpose of benevolence.

Through reverse reasoning, we can draw a conclusion from this that if a country wants to attract talent, it must improve its own selection system. Although many people are criticizing the disadvantages of the Ming Dynasty's eight-share scholars, we should first affirm its positive role. After all, the study of history must adhere to historical materialism, Qin Shi Huang will not use a smartphone, but he is still the first emperor of the ages.

After the foreshadowing of the new policy, the Ming Dynasty has changed the eight-strand text in the imperial examination system to trial and line test, and added some engineering content on the basis of Confucian classics. In order to speed up the cultivation and selection of qualified personnel, Zhu Youxiao decided to implement compulsory education in the form of legislation, and the state will provide free teaching resources, and all children over the age of seven must enter the school, so as to broaden the children's knowledge, popularize practical knowledge, and enhance the soft power of the nation. At the same time, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Household Affairs jointly funded the construction of professional colleges and technical colleges in major cities, which are open to all students who have completed compulsory education, and strive to enable the children of poor families to change their destiny through knowledge.

The so-called 10-year tree and 100-year people, if you want to comprehensively improve the cultural quality of the people, it is not an overnight thing, let alone change the order overnight, so that people can question the authority of education. Although Zhu Youxiao had already won the support and admiration of the government and the opposition at that time, the problems that he needed to face if he wanted to do this were still very serious.

The first is money. Although the number of registered households doubled after the second census, and after the implementation of the new policy, the cultivated land in the whole country also recovered to more than 11 million mu in the 15th year of Wanli, and the annual income of the imperial court reached 6 million taels of silver, with the expansion of the territory of the Ming Dynasty, the accounts that needed to be spent also increased sharply. At this time, compulsory education was implemented, and it was difficult for the imperial court to cook without rice.

The second issue is the conflict of interests. At the end of the dynasties, there will be serious land annexation, and digging deeper is that the interest group has completed the monopoly of national resources, for them, the emperor's surname is Zhu or Aixin Jueluo. At the beginning, Zhu Youxiao took the lead in distributing part of the imperial village to the displaced people in the northwest, and they were forced to return the annexed land to the people under the pressure of the imperial court and social opinion, and they were already dissatisfied with the Zhu family.

Now that Zhu Youxiao wants to popularize compulsory education and expand the scope of enrollment for scholars in the imperial examination, this will break the monopoly of the scholar class on the bureaucracy, and will inevitably provoke their covert resistance and even support new agents. Thinking about the fact that Dolgon led tens of thousands of Eight Banner athletes to cross the Central Plains, hundreds of thousands of Jurchens actually ruled hundreds of millions of Han people for 268 years, and the reason is worth pondering.

In order to solve the problem of education funds, Zhu Youxiao ordered Wei Zhongxian to sit in Nanjing, strictly rectify the southeast salt mine, and the chief celebrant and the cabinet jointly supervised the specific accounts, and Dongchang and Jinyiwei supervised the officials involved throughout the process, and strive to restore it to the eight-figure figure in the Ming Taizu and Chengzu years within three years. In addition, he secretly ordered Qi Baoguo and Wang Chengen to expand the scale of excavation in Iwami Ginzan, and all silver ore was transported to Tianjin for smelting, and then handed over to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Household Affairs to be responsible for the production of currency.

As for the resistance within the scholars, Zhu Youxiao decided to unite the nobles and businessmen to squeeze, as long as he has military power and money bags in his hands, he will not worry about the world changing hands, and revise the content of the imperial examination and expand the source of students, and the poor family will also be able to produce noble sons, which will fundamentally break the monopoly of scholars, the power of the subjects will be further weakened, the civil rights will be improved to a certain extent, and the country's military and political power will be firmly controlled in the hands of the monarch.