It is said that as soon as Zhu Cijiong received the news of Liaohaiwei's recovery, the long-lost voice of the system beauty sounded in his mind: "Ding Dong, congratulations on completing the second glorious mission to regain lost territory, and now distribute the reward: multi-layer battleship blueprints." ”

Zhu Cijiong only felt a strong dizziness, and almost didn't fall off the chair, and he didn't know how many drawings were poured into his mind. After the vertigo, he had in his mind the knowledge of countless battleships: what multi-decks, breech guns, battleships, cruisers, ......

I don't know how many times the reward of this glorious mission is bigger than the reward of the survival mission, it is too huge, so huge that Zhu Cijiong can't figure out how much knowledge of warships he has mastered for a while.

He was about to take a closer look, and the system beauty immediately prompted: "Ding Dong, friendly reminder: The era of sea hegemony has come, Sao Nian, build an invincible armada to defeat the great powers and dominate the world, the system will provide extremely rich rewards." Tips are over, happy playing. ”

Yes, the Age of Discovery is over, the era of maritime hegemony has come, the Netherlands is entering a golden age, Britain has begun to colonize and expand, and these two countries will gradually replace Spain and Portugal to dominate the whole world.

The Ming Dynasty, after the Wanli, Tianqi, and Chongzhen dynasties in history, directly perished, and a powerful empire fell into a deep sleep until it was bullied by the great powers.....

Thinking of that humiliating history, Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but shout in his heart: "Now I am the Emperor Chongzheng in power, and the Ming Dynasty has awakened and defeated the invasion of the Houjin; With the world's leading military technology in hand, with Zhu Cijiong in hand, the Ming Dynasty will inevitably rise and dominate the whole world! ”

After the excitement, Zhu Cijiong slowly calmed down and began to consider the plan for the rise of the Ming Dynasty. The rise of a big country does not rely solely on the military or science and technology, the military must rely on economic support, and science and technology must be backed by culture, so if a big country wants to rise, it must develop in an all-round way in the fields of military, economy, science and technology, culture, and diplomacy.

Zhu Cijiong naturally didn't want to give up halfway because of some defects, so all-round development is a must, and he considered it one by one.

First of all, militarily, is the existing army of the Ming Dynasty enough? In fact, the army does not look at its own numbers, but at the number of enemies. How many enemies are there in the Ming Dynasty? On the bright side, there are the Houjin in the northeast, the Mengyuan in the north, the Dongying in the east, the peasant rebel army in the northwest, the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty in the west, the Tusi forces in the south, and the Cossacks and Tsarist ...... that are about to rise.

The area of the Ming Dynasty is really too large, much larger than the area of all the countries in Europe combined, not counting the Netherlands, Spain, and Britain that will be faced later, and only counting the surrounding areas of these bright and potential enemies The current army is far from enough, so it is imperative to expand the army.

What is the situation of the Ming army now? The ones who can really directly participate in the war are the reorganized legions, and there are not many of them:

The first-class legion is the Tianxiong Army, the Guanning Army, and the First Legion of the Praetorian Guard;

the second-class army of the Qin Army, the Dongjiang Army, and the Liaodong Army;

The third-class legion has only one second legion of the Praetorian Guard, and then there are some ordinary border troops, defenders and cantonment guards, and it is barely possible to defend the city, and it is not possible to pull it out to fight in the field.

Therefore, the first step in expanding the army is to increase the number of reorganized corps, it just so happens that Qin Yiming and Qin Gongming are already admirals, but there has been no subordinate corps, Zhu Cijiong simply reorganized the existing defenders of the left guard of Dingliao and Haizhou Wei into the Dingliao army, with Qin Yiming as the main general; The defenders of Shanhaiguan and Zunhua were reorganized and supplemented into the First Army Corps of the Frontier Army, with Qin Gongming as the main general, so that the number of third-class legions was enough for three. There is also the next step to build multi-layer warships and establish a naval corps, which can only be considered after returning to the capital, and now it is roughly the only way.

The next thing is the economic problem, don't look at Zhu Cijiong in a year to form so many legions, it seems to be very powerful, in fact, the equipment of each legion has not been fully equipped yet, if the equipment is neat, there will be no situation where the Guanning army was almost wiped out by Huang Taiji, because they are not equipped with enough flintlock guns, let alone enough artillery, and even new double-layer armor is not equipped, otherwise how could it be possible to kill so many soldiers.

Now the army's equipment is supplemented by Zhu Cijiong's own money, and even the army's food and salary cannot be guaranteed by the poor tax of Daming, and it has to be constantly allocated from the treasury, so it is imperative to develop the economy and increase taxes.

How will this economy develop? Zhu Cijiong came through time, although he is not an economic expert, but it is enough to deal with the development of the Ming Dynasty in front of him.

In order to achieve great economic development, it is necessary to establish a market economic system, stimulate demand, develop industry, let some people get rich first, and promote the rapid development of the overall economy.

Now most of the really rich people in the Ming Dynasty are not ordinary people, mainly clan forces and landlords and gentry, these people are actually moths, only know consumption and do not know development, so Zhu Cijiong is letting the peasant rebel army eliminate them, clean up the moths, redistribute resources, and establish a market system, which is the foundation of development.

Of course, the cleaning of moths cannot be completed in a day or two, and what Zhu Cijiong can do now is to stimulate demand, develop industry, and let some people get rich first. How to develop this industry, relying on the original handicraft workshop will definitely not work, that the efficiency is too low, there will be no few industrialists at all, only by carrying out the industrial revolution, popularizing steam power to civilian production, and rapidly improving productivity, can we cultivate batches of industrialists.

This involves the next science and technology, science and technology can be said to be one of the aspects that Zhu Cijiong is most proud of, the technology he has mastered is definitely the most advanced technology in the world at present, and other countries are at least forty or fifty years behind him. However, this technology is still only showing a little advantage in the military industry, and it is far from the extent of crushing other countries, so the development of this technology is also imperative.

What is the basis for the development of technology? Modern people know that the development of science and technology ultimately depends on talents, and it is necessary to rely on high-precision scientists and inventors to continuously promote the progress of science and technology, and even more importantly, to rely on ordinary scientific and technological talents to transform science and technology into productive forces.

Now Zhu Cijiong's subordinates are not to mention high-tech scientists and inventors, and there are only a few cronies such as Xu Guangqi, Bi Maokang, and Song Yingxing, who are even called ordinary scientific and technological talents. Now he has the world's most advanced technology, but it has not been fully promoted.

Therefore, Zhu Cijiong is ready to vigorously promote Western studies in the future, and he will set up several university-like schools, so that Xu Guangqi and others can cultivate a group of scientific and technological talents, so that they can quickly transform science and technology into productive forces.

To promote Western studies, it involves the cultural level, how to say this culture, I don't know if there is anyone who can really figure out the connotation of culture, anyway, Zhu Cijiong can't figure it out. He only knew that in order to promote Western learning, there must be a cultural atmosphere for the existence of Western students, and now it can be said that there is basically no cultural atmosphere in which Western learning can survive, and the Ming Dynasty is still the world of traditional Confucianism.

This can't be rushed, after all, Confucianism has been deeply rooted in the Ming Dynasty, if you want to say that you can put Confucianism down with a stick, and then go directly to the West, it will definitely not work, it is also unrealistic, and it is not necessary.

Confucianism is not useless, it has many advantages, but also has certain defects, this defect is too detached from reality, the so-called 'book has its own golden house, the book has its own Yan Ruyu. It's definitely not right to have a mind determine the meaning of matter in it.

Western studies do not only have advantages and disadvantages, but it can indeed play a great role in promoting the development of society, but this promotion is basically a purely material promotion, which can be said to be very empty in terms of thinking.

In fact, Confucianism and Western studies are not opposed to each other, but complement each other, Confucianism focuses on ideological development, and Western studies focuses on material development, and the two just complement each other. That is to say, Confucianism cannot be beaten to death with a stick, but it must be affirmed, developed, promoted, and treated equally between Confucianism and Western studies.

This problem is a bit complicated, Confucianism can be said to have developed to the extreme in the Ming Dynasty, and it is already deeply rooted without propaganda or promotion. On the contrary, this Western study has no foundation at all in the Ming Dynasty, and it must be vigorously promoted if it is to develop, and if it is done so, it will appear that it is obviously biased towards Western learning, and the representatives of Confucianism will definitely be mad and opposed.

What to do? In fact, it is very simple, that is, to vigorously promote Confucianism to the outside world, this is fair, everyone has also seen, I am not biased towards Western learning, I also attach importance to Confucianism, and I am preparing to use Confucianism to educate the barbarians!

That is to say, at the cultural level, Zhu Cijiong decided to vigorously promote Western studies internally and Confucianism externally, impartially, both of which were vigorously publicized and promoted, so that Confucianism could go out and Western studies would come in.

Finally, there is the question of diplomacy, whether the Ming Dynasty has diplomacy or not, there must be, but the foreign policy is not comprehensive. In general, the foreign policy of the Ming Dynasty in the past was, my Ming Dynasty is the upper kingdom of the Celestial Empire, you are either a subject of my Celestial Empire, called the minister Nagong, the Ming Dynasty will give you benefits and protect you, those who do not call the minister Nagong are either enemies, or turn into foreign barbarians, the Ming Dynasty does not make friends, if you dare to come over, I will beat you!

This is definitely not possible, the Ming Dynasty is equivalent to a lonely person, and if he really wants to fight with the powers, that is, one country against all the powers! If it was before the Age of Discovery, there might still be some chance of victory, but after the beginning of the Age of Discovery, the great powers have gradually become stronger, and it is unrealistic to ask one country to fight against all the great powers.

Therefore, Zhu Cijiong first pulled a Portugal as an ally, this is just the beginning, he will develop more allies later, after all, the Ming Dynasty does not want to dominate the world, and it is not easy to suffer if there are more allies!