As everyone knows, the rise of the world's great powers fundamentally relied on the industrial revolution, not on seafaring plunder. Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands, which only relied on plunder, did not decline in the end? And isn't Germany, a country that has not participated much in sailing, also very strong? What's more, Lao Tzu was sealed in the mainland, and there was no port for sailing.

Therefore, Zhu Ao put the focus of his development on agriculture and handicrafts, of course, he is not very proficient in science, and he does not expect to make an industrial revolution in his generation, but the trend of historical development must be told to future generations, so that they will not take detours.

Of course, Zhu Ao will not be complacent and work behind closed doors, since there is no way by sea and land, isn't there a land route? Although Zhu Ao's location is far away from the Western world and the national conditions in the middle are complicated, it is generally divided into the following forces.

First of all, to the west of Zhu Ao were the small tribes of Hami and Shazhou, which were later collectively known as the Seven Guards of Kansai, and their strength was relatively weak; To the west of Hami was the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, which the Ming Dynasty called the Uighurs; Uighur power extended to the eastern part of present-day Central Asia; Further west of the Uighurs is the Timurid Empire, which Zhu Hao feared the most, which evolved from the Western Chagatai Khanate, occupying a vast area from eastern Uzbekistan to Iran and Iraq, which was called Persia in ancient times, in fact, the Timurid Empire was only a dynasty of Persia, equivalent to the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties in China; After Persia and southwest is the Arabian Peninsula, which was known as the Great Food in ancient times; To the northwest of Persia is the Ottoman Turkish Empire, which controls the Black Sea in the area of present-day Turkey, and since Ottoman Turkey was founded by the Turks, we can call it a Turkic power; After Turkey, it is Europe, and if you go all the way to the northwest, you can go straight into the hinterland of Europe, and reach Germany, and then Germany will be France and Spain to the west, which is the end of the continent. Of course, there are two other points to note, that is, to the north of the Timurid Empire, which represents the power of Persia, is the Golden Horde, which controls a large part of today's Russia; In addition, the Indian states of South Asia are also prosperous and wealthy.

If Zhu Ao traveled all the way to the west like the Tang monks learned from the scriptures, he would be able to connect with Europe, the center of modern civilization, bring advanced technology to China, completely change the state of self-isolation in China at the end of feudalism, and enable his children and grandchildren to avoid being backward and beaten. Of course, this is not easy, and any of the forces mentioned above have a territory at least dozens of times larger than him. But then again, if you don't do something difficult, wouldn't it be in vain? Temujin's territory was not large at the beginning, and his brother had hundreds of years of knowledge more than him.

Zhu Ao looked at the big waterwheel with a smile on his face, and said secretly: Then let everything start here.

The ancients paid attention to an auspicious day of the zodiac, and Zhu Ao was no exception, he specially chose an auspicious day for the start of the waterwheel - the eighth day of the sixth month.

At the end of May of the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, the right guard of Ganzhou and the middle guard of Ganzhou were completed, and Lao Zhu knew that his son had ventured to Zhangye, and he had always protected the calf, and he ordered the right guard of Ganzhou and the middle guard of Ganzhou to rush to Zhangye and join the king of Su.

On the second day of the first month of June, the Ganzhou Right Guard and the Ganzhou Central Guard, under the leadership of the commanders Fan Chaoxi and Sun Xianrong, drove to Zhangye. Zhu Ao raised the account in his mansion and summoned two commanders, and participated together with Qu Neng, the commander of the left guard of Ganzhou, Zhang Long, Zhao Deyong, and Li Mian, the commanders of the A, B, and C guards of the palace, Wei Yansheng and Ji Junyong, the chief of the palace, and the two encirclers of the palace (responsible for the perimeter guard) Qianhu Hongfu and Cui Tianyou, and the honor guard department (responsible for the guard of honor of the palace, equivalent to the brocade guard of the vassal king) and the guard of honor (Zheng Wupin) Che Gang.

This is the current leader of all the institutions of the Su Domain, and it is also the team of Zhu Ao. Among them, the commander and the thousand households are military institutions, mainly responsible for tuntian and fighting. The Changshi Division is an administrative and judicial body, responsible for administrative litigation matters in the royal palace, and is responsible for regulating the behavior of the vassal king, and holding the vassal king accountable if the vassal king is at fault. Chang Shi Si led his subordinate units to overview the affairs of the royal palace, because its subordinate units are more complicated, and they are all in charge of some trivial things, so this article is only a brief introduction. They are:

The Registry Hall (in charge of clerical accounts), the Tribunal (in charge of prison supervision), the Pawn Dining Office (for cooking), the Shrine Office (for worship), the Treasure Office (for the Great Seal and the Talisman), the Jishan Office (for study), the Good Doctor Office (for curing diseases), the Ritual Office (for various ceremonies), the Gongzheng Office (for engineering), and the Breeding House (for raising animals).

In this set of teams, all commanders and thousands of households are unconditionally obedient to Zhu Ao, which is Lao Zhu's order. Not to mention the guard of honor, if the chief of the guard is disobedient, then what do you want him to do? The real trouble is the long history of the long history, because Lao Zhu stipulates that in addition to dealing with the general affairs of the palace, the long history also has the obligation to regulate the behavior of the vassal king, which is actually a kind of surveillance, and once the vassal king makes a mistake, Lao Zhu, who has always protected the calf, will not punish his son, so the long history who is responsible for persuading the behavior of the vassal king will naturally become a backstabber. Therefore, the officials who went to the vassal king's mansion to be the chief historian slept with one eye open, for fear that the vassal king would do something out of the ordinary and affect their future and even their lives. In fact, at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it was still very promising to be a long history in the palace, and most of them would be reused after the expiration of their terms, and some even became officials of Shangshu. It's just that the more you get later, the more you can't do it, and the jinshi don't want to go, so they can only find some people to fill it.

For the vassal kings, the left and right long history is the most difficult, not only to rely on them, but also to guard against them, for fear that they will find their own faults and report to Lao Zhu. Of course, some arrogant vassal kings don't care about this, and do whatever they want with Lao Zhu's favor. But Zhu Ao wouldn't do this, he still wanted big development, so he didn't want to leave a bad impression on Lao Zhu.

After seeing that everyone had arrived, Zhu Ao cleared his throat and said, "You are all the pillars of my Su Domain, and I have gathered you here today to discuss with you the development plan of my Su Domain. ”

Zuo Changshi Wei Yansheng was the first to speak, and said: "Back to Your Highness, Your Majesty has already instructed the development plan of the vassal country - build a high wall and accumulate grain. I'll just do it. Lao Zhu stipulates that the left is respected, so Zuo Changshi is regarded as the leader of the administrative organ, and he naturally answers the development question enthusiastically.

Zhu Ao was very angry in his heart, and said secretly: I still don't know how to build a high wall and accumulate grain? The key is how to build it? How to accumulate? On the surface, he said with a pleasant face: "Dare to ask Mr. what is the best plan?" ”