In today's backward economic environment, economic crisis has never been a problem for Zhu Zhanji, because he initially thought that the current economic environment could not cause an economic crisis.

The most important point is that today's society is still implementing the physical monetary policy of gold and silver.

Moreover, the Ming Dynasty still has the Ministry of Internal Affairs to control the production resources of the entire society, which belongs to the era of planned economy, how can there be an economic crisis?

However, Zhu Zhanji ignored one point, that is, the internal affairs government controls too many resources, and if the internal affairs government's ass is crooked, the crisis caused is no less than the real economic crisis.

Yes, today's economic crisis or not a real economic crisis, no inflation, no deflation, no financial credit crisis.

But now the Ministry of Internal Affairs controls the allocation of important resources throughout the world, and when the Ministry of Internal Affairs has a crooked butt, it will lose its balance.

This imbalance is a waste of productivity, a waste of production resources, and a setback for the entire Ming economy.

Now, in order to conquer the west, the Ming Dynasty has tilted half of the country's resources towards the war, causing a false economic prosperity.

If the war does not stop, the crisis will not manifest itself, but if it stops, it will be found that the country's economy is out of balance because of the waste of productivity and production resources.

In a small way, such as the former large-scale steelmaking, one example is this.

In the grand scheme of things, this is a bit like the Soviet Union in the past.

Moreover, the power of the Internal Affairs Office was given by Zhu Zhanji, and the road was also designated by Zhu Zhanji, so no one else can be blamed for this matter, only Zhu Zhanji is responsible.

Now, because of the massive production of arms, the huge demand for steel, rubber, and food, many people are taking this express train.

If there are too many people with vested interests, Zhu Zhanji will just want to stop this war, and because of the general trend, he can only continue the war.

However, this kind of vested interest comes at the expense of the stability of the Ming Dynasty, which is somewhat more than worth the loss.

For Zhu Zhanji, it doesn't matter if the development of the Ming Dynasty is slow, anyway, no country in this world can pose a threat to the Ming Dynasty.

For the ruler of a vast empire, nothing is more important than the stability and prosperity of the Ming Dynasty.

The purpose of the Western Expedition is to eliminate the future threat of the Ming Dynasty, but if for the sake of the future, the current foundation is unstable, and the gains outweigh the losses.

Under such circumstances, whether or not to continue the Western Expedition needs to be weighed left and right by Zhu Zhanji.

The Spring Festival of the forty-second year of orthodoxy came in Zhu Zhanji's hesitation.

On the 28th of the lunar month, the European information from the General Administration Department made Zhu Zhanji make up his mind.

The forty-first year of the Western Expedition had already opened up the connection between the Ming Dynasty and the Baltic Sea in September.

Now in this era there is no St. Petersburg, Moscow does not occupy Novgorod, there is no unification of the Rus' states.

In the later St. Petersburg location, Petrograd Island, Vasilyevsky Island, built a naval fortress, a trade market.

The main role of this trade market was to trade with the eastern countries of the Hanseatic League, including Sweden.

In a large area west of the Ural Mountains, there is an abundance of furs, cotton, and various minerals. Through the Volga, Neva, Volkhov and other rivers, it was possible to open up trade routes between the two places.

After the Ming occupation of Moscow, the Nordic countries were already afraid. Through the Hanseatic League's trade relations with Monte, they issued a peace treaty to the Ming Dynasty.

In the treaty, they promised to take the Ming as their suzerain, allow the Ming to trade freely within the Hanseatic League, and pay a certain amount of goods to the Ming Dynasty every year to obtain the protection of the Ming Dynasty.

In the beginning, only the eastern countries of the Hanseatic League were involved, because the fall of Novgorod and Pskov allowed the Ming to take de facto control of the area.

But when the Ming army forced the principality of Kyiv, and the coalition forces could only passively defend in front of the Ming Dynasty, more and more countries joined this range.

It's just that due to the backwardness of communications, this information was not sent to the territory of Daming until the end of the year. At this time, the Ming Dynasty had already occupied most of Ukraine.

Although the Ming Dynasty was overwhelmed, it fought from the east of the Caspian Sea to Kiev and from the Ural Mountains to the Baltic Sea. But in fact, Da Ming can't be regarded as occupying this place.

Because, there are too few soldiers in the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty sent a total of more than 400,000 troops this time, but a small half of them were soldiers from the vassal countries of the Western Regions, and the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were only 250,000.

But from the west of the Ural Mountains to Ukraine, this is tens of millions of square kilometers of land.

That's the size of a China, but there are just over 200,000 people there.

Relying on these 200,000 people alone, it is impossible to form a rule, only to maintain deterrence.

The number of people in Daming is still too small, and there is no way to control it. Therefore, the strategy of the Ming Dynasty from the very beginning was to kill people and deter, rather than establish a ruling structure.

Now that the strategic goal had been achieved, the Lithuanians, Poles, Germans were all terrified and fled westward.

And in the later generations of Russia, within the scope of Ukraine, there have also been rivers of blood.

Everyone is already afraid of Daming, and now in such a large piece of land, nearly half of the people have been reduced.

Although there are still far more people hidden in the jungle there than the Ming people, they have lost their ruling structure, they have lost their constraints, and they cannot pose a threat.

The Ming Dynasty can't do anything now, because there are only more than 200,000 people, and once they are dispersed, I am afraid that they will fall into the sea of people.

has occupied Ukraine and Russia, and now the fruits of war have already made Daming indigestion.

If you really want to make the land here become the territory of the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that it will take hundreds of years and ten generations of efforts.

Therefore, in most countries have already sued for peace, if the Ming Dynasty continues to be aggressive and exterminate, it will cause national contradictions, which is not conducive to the future digestion process.

When it has been able to maintain suppression over the whole of Europe, it is no longer in the fundamental interests of the Ming Dynasty to continue to march westward.

Stopping the pace of war now and adjusting the tilt of domestic resources will not cause too much strife.

In the case of occupying an absolute advantage, stopping the westward expedition can also make all ethnic groups not regard the Ming Dynasty as a source of evil.

Regardless of the internal and external impact, it is good.

Therefore, in the New Year's Daily on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, the full text of Zhu Zhanji's decree was published on the front page. The main meaning is to stop the westward expedition, consolidate the fruits of the war, and then encourage the people of the Ming Dynasty to move westward, as long as they pass, distribute land and production materials, tax exemption for three years, and tax reduction for five years.

Although the holy decree published in the plain text had some effect, it was not very attractive to most of the Ming people.

Because everyone knows that it is a bitter cold place, instead of migrating to the extreme west, it is better to move to Dongzhou, where it is a real granary, and it is a treasure of nature.

Zhu Zhanji was helpless about this, and instead thought of using the method of later generations, that is, to establish production and construction corps in Russia and Ukraine.

The land was vast and sparsely populated, and the garrison was established in the fertile area, and the garrison army was used to stabilize the rule.

Of course, there are still some differences in this, that is, the imperial court is ready to bleed heavily and provide tractors and other tools for farming for the production and construction corps there.

No matter how much land there is, the production force of each household is limited, and only with a tractor can a family plant more land and have more harvests.

In addition, Zhu Zhanji is also preparing to implement the policy of returning farmland to forests in China, and all land on both sides of the road and along the river is not allowed to be cultivated, and trees will be planted.

In the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River region, once farmland is returned to forest, many peasant households will lose their land, and they will have to move outward.

Especially in Shaanxi, Shanxi, where the desertification situation is not serious, the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi is still a prairie, with green mountains and green waters everywhere.

If we continue to reclaim the land, it will become a wasteland for future generations, and now that there is abundant grain, it will not cause much shock wherever the practice of returning farmland to forests and speeding up the pace of industrialization.

However, the implementation of this policy is not so simple, because it involves the interests of thousands of households, even nobles and officials. Without adequate compensation measures, this policy will only be unenforceable.

However, if farmland is returned to forests nationwide, the land will be different in terms of fertility and yield, and it is necessary to formulate corresponding and reasonable compensation measures.

Any national policy needs to be evaluated and balanced by multiple parties before it can be formulated.

As for Tang Sai'er and Zheng Ying, if they didn't have the support of the imperial court now, they would simply not be able to continue their attack to the west.

In terms of firepower, the Ming army was unstoppable, but the number of these soldiers was too small.

It is impossible for hundreds of thousands of people to occupy tens of millions of square kilometers of land.

Now they are fighting smoothly, but they are only fighting with the main force of the coalition army, and they don't care about those small towns and cities at all.

Nominally, the Ming occupied these areas, but if they could not even control the output of the land, it would not be considered a real occupation.

Therefore, after receiving the order of the imperial court, they stayed in Moscow and Kiev in peace, and strengthened their local control.

If you don't have to work hard, but you can enjoy the benefits of victory, even the army has no opinion.

The only one who is a little unwilling is Guo Ang, he still doesn't know if his credit can replace Cheng Amber with Cheng Anhou.

After the forty-second year of Orthodoxy, new policies were formulated. In addition to the necessary supply of ammunition, Zhu Zhanji asked Tang Sai'er and Zheng Ying to pay for grain nearby, and no longer spend huge manpower and material resources to transport grain to the west.

Only those merchants, after the Ming Dynasty had already occupied that area, began to supply all kinds of goods there.

And when they come back, they often bring back the specialties from there, and all kinds of furs are very popular in Daming.

The Ming Dynasty tends to be calm, but because this war is not over, today's Europe is like a boiling oil pot, not only is there no calm, but a little wave will make this place explode.

Monte had been on another trip to Europe last spring, and it was time for him to go back when it was summer.

But when the East fought, Monte was stopped by emissaries from all over the world in Cologne.

Of course, these people didn't want to rob Monte, but wanted to get some information from him to know what the Ming Emperor wanted to do.

If there is another catastrophe two hundred years ago, the Ming Dynasty will be much stronger than the former Meng Yuan, and no country has the confidence to resist the Ming army.

In the past, Meng Yuan only relied on the harassment tactics of light cavalry to win victory after victory, but in the end he was helpless in the face of the fortified cities of Europe.

But the Ming Dynasty was different, and this completely different firepower of war left the Europeans powerless.

The Germans, the Poles, the Lithuanians, and the Rus, whom the Europeans called barbarians, have almost represented the strongest firepower in Europe.

But they were defeated in front of the Ming people.

Now the whole European people are panicking, for fear of the westward advance of the Ming army.

Their fortified city could not resist in the face of Daming's artillery, they were outnumbered, and they could shoot a musket of several hundred meters in the face of Daming, but they only delivered food.

Can't fight at all.

However, the Ming Dynasty was a more civilized country than the European nations, and His Majesty the Emperor preferred negotiation to war.

The Hanseatic League was originally just afraid that the Ming Dynasty would destroy Novgorod, so they tentatively negotiated with the Western Expedition Marshal, but they did not expect that the Ming Dynasty actually accepted their conditions, not only did not destroy Novgorod, but also let the Hanseatic League continue to rule the city.

The only difference is that the Grand Duke of Novgorod will later accept the canonization of the Ming Emperor and pay a tenth of the tax to the Ming every year.

After getting rid of the tithes of the church, the tithes of the more powerful Ming Dynasty were more acceptable to Europeans.

Because of this, Monte was increasingly valued by European countries, and even Lithuania, Poland, and several small Germanic states now sent emissaries to Cologne in search of peace.

However, at this time, Monte refused to intervene, he was only willing to act as an envoy to various countries, and went to Gibraltar and Crete to communicate with the two Ming admirals, and did not dare to make any promises.

In the months that followed, Monte had no chance to return to Daming, and trade came to a near standstill at a time when people were now in fear in Europe.

On the bright side, Monte acted as an envoy between the European countries and the two admirals of the Ming Dynasty, and attracted the attention of all countries.

But without almost everyone noticing, his heir to the "gentleman" has become an idol of the younger generation in Europe.

If Meng Zheng is a gentleman, he does have a lot of money that ordinary gentlemen can't match, and he spends money like dirt.

When he first arrived in Milan, he spent 20,000 silver coins to buy the family castle of Charles I, Duke of Orleans, in San Siro, the western suburb of Milan, in San Siro.

Charles I was originally the legal heir of the Duchy of Milan after the extinction of the Visconti family, but Sforza first declared Milan a republic, canceled the succession of Charles I, and later changed back to the Grand Duchy, assuming himself the Grand Duke and ruling Milan.

Therefore, the castle of Charles I was abandoned, and only the dense forest and gardens can still show the glory of the past.

After buying this ancient castle, Meng Zheng spent no less than 20,000 silver coins to repair it, turning it into a beautiful manor.

Moreover, he helped Maria set up a Milan football club to help him train players, and later funded the construction of a 15,000-seat football stadium on the edge of the family's forest, and established Inter Milan Football Club.

The weight of the gold and silver coins of the Ming Dynasty is one tael, that is, about thirty-three grams, while the gold and gold in Europe today are only four grams, and even if the gold coins issued by the nobility in England are only eight grams.

In other words, the gold content of Daming gold and silver coins far exceeds that of European gold and silver coins, which is not only higher purity, but also more timid and more sophisticated.

In today's Europe, the Ming currency is stronger and more popular than the gold and silver coins of any country.

On the island of Crete, there is a currency manufacturing center of the Ming Dynasty, and all European countries now ship all kinds of raw materials to Crete for the Ming to help them stamp into currency.

The actual gold content of 20,000 silver coins is stronger than the 20,000 gold coins of Jean Egü in France.

In addition to buying a mansion and spending a lot of money on the football team, Meng Zheng also built the first racecourse in Europe next to the football field.

Racehorses from all over the world are trained and raced, and Meng Zheng also cooperates with the Sforza family to make spinach and sell lottery tickets.

In a few months, Meng Zheng made a lot of money, and it is said that he has earned back the cost of buying a mansion.

Racetracks, football fields, and spinach have made Meng Zheng the most famous and capable gentleman in Europe.

Before him, there had never been a gentleman who could earn countless amounts of money by playing.

In addition to these aspects, Meng Zheng was also an all-rounder, buying a large plot of land on the shores of Lake Como and building a sailing club. It is said that he also planned to develop spinach into sailing competitions, which also attracted many nobles to build villas around Lake Como.

Because of his publicity, in Europe, the younger generation of heirs are very curious about him, the heir to the count canonized by the Ming Emperor, and they have come to Milan to make friends with him.

Especially after the Ming Dynasty defeated the European coalition forces, many families regarded Monte as a supporter they could rely on, and he was also valued.

Many of the heirs of the family came to Milan to buy property and make friends with him.

This has also contributed to Milan's economic development to some extent, and the Sforza family now attaches great importance to their relationship with Mengzheng.

However, compared to the spring breeze of Mengzheng, Zhang Han's development in Europe can be described as twists and turns.

Last summer, Zhang Han came to Europe with a dream of saving European civilians.

He preached in Venice that class is not a constant layer, that every commoner has the opportunity to pursue a higher level, and called on the commoner to study diligently and change his fate.

This theory was very much in line with the reality of Venice, and the great merchants of Venice were very appreciative of him at first as a thinker from the Ming Dynasty.

But when he called on civilians to abandon their ignorant religious beliefs and believe in their ancestors, in themselves, and not in religion, this act was like a hornet's nest.

The Holy See State lodged a strong protest and complained directly to the Admiralty of Gibraltar and the Admiralty of Crete.

However, the two admirals believed that this was Zhang Han's personal ideological tendency, and did not represent the meaning of the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, there are not only Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, but also the Truth Religion!

The two major governor's mansions did not care, and Zhang Han's influence became worse and worse, and the church had to come forward to argue with Zhang Han. But the church's foolish thinking collapsed after Zhang Han only needed to do a few experiments.

Educated in physics, the backward ideas of the church could not justify themselves.

At this time, the church could only use administrative power to expel Zhang Han.

From Venice to Milan, Zhang Han turned into a flood beast, and the Sforza family could not resist the pressure of the church, and under the secret arrangement of the General Administration, Zhang Han could only go to France.

Although France and the Holy See have ended the Great Schism, France has been fighting for the orthodox status of the Catholic Church, and in Avignon, there is still a papal council of cardinals.

They originally saw that Zhang Han was miserable with the Pope of Rome, and they thought that they could take advantage of it.

But they didn't expect that Zhang Han was a sharp double-edged sword, and they hadn't used this sword to hurt the other party, but they had injured themselves first.

The romance and unreliability of the French are famous in history, although the Renaissance took place in Italy, but the real rebellion will always be the French running at the forefront.

Zhang Han's theory of class change, religion is the idea of fooling the people, which is a direct digging of the foundation of the church.

Therefore, Zhang Han did not stay in Avignon for two days before he was expelled from the church.

This time, Zhang Han went to Paris.

The new King of France, Louis XI, betrayed his father, Charles VII, when he was a prince, and after ascending to the throne, he struggled with the Church for secular power.

Historically, France was unified in his hands, but this time and space was brought about by the butterfly effect brought about by the emergence of the Ming Dynasty.

The proliferation of muskets led to the early end of the Hundred Years' War and also to the early unification of France.

In other words, Louis XI, who already had the spirit of resistance, now has a much greater strength in his hands than the original time and space.

Therefore, when Zhang Han arrived in Paris, his ideas were recognized and supported by Louis XI.

The two of them can be said to be dry firewood and fire, and the smell is similar.

However, his ideas are very dangerous to the church, and if it is only propagated among the people, the church may swallow its anger because of the strength of the Ming Dynasty.

But now that he hooked up with Louis XI, the church wouldn't let them both go.

In just two months, Louis XI and Zhang Han were assassinated several times, the most rampant of which was that the church planted more than 20 pounds of explosives to blow them up.

Fortunately, the fuse of the explosives was a little longer, and the explosives exploded after the carriage passed, and the carriage did not face a direct explosion, and both men were only slightly injured.

The assassination also angered the young Louis XI, who was more active in supporting Zhang Han and preparing to introduce a civilian official system in Paris.

Compared with Mongolia, who is like a fish in water in Europe, Zhang Han is like a boat in the wind and waves, which may be subverted at any time.