In the blink of an eye, it was the 23rd year of the Great Tomorrow's Apocalypse, because of the success of the opium trade, the deflation caused by Zhu Youxiao's blind expansion of productive forces and the imbalance between the scale of production and the expansion speed of market demand was curbed, and the economic development of the entire Ming Dynasty continued to maintain a healthy and steady growth trend.

Especially twenty years after the apocalypse, the happiness of all classes in the Ming Dynasty has increased significantly.

This is due to the huge income brought by most of the tobacco trade, so that the investment of Daming Royal Capital in various large-scale projects and welfare benefits continues to increase, the employment rate and salary and living security are improved, and the encouragement of cultural and entertainment undertakings naturally makes the people of Daming who are busy with life but cannot improve their purchasing power have more spare money to pursue fashion and quality of life.

The Engel coefficient also decreased, and the consumption level of various non-food, clothing, housing and transportation and other daily necessities increased, which made the commerce of the Ming Dynasty more prosperous and colorful.

Later historians believe that the heyday of the real Apocalypse was the beginning of the 20th year of the Apocalypse, and although the first day of the Apocalypse to the 20th year of the Apocalypse was thriving for more than ten years, because of the huge war expenditures and the huge investment in various constructions and the incomplete opening of foreign markets, many people were not lifted out of poverty.

Zhu Youxiao has been emperor for sixteen years, and on the surface, he should have reigned for twenty-three years.

The emperors of the Ming Dynasty have reigned for more than 20 years, and now Zhu Youxiao can be compared with Chenghua, and now although he is close to the age of confusion, but still alive and well, the establishment of the Ministry of Health has established a preliminary set of medical examination science, although it can not do a more complex quantitative analysis of the internal components of body fluids such as blood and digestive juices, but can also do some simple biochemical phenomenal tests, and use color contrast to define the health situation.

Coupled with the development of evidence-based medicine in traditional Chinese medicine, Zhu Youxiao's monitoring of his physical indicators is more accurate and timely, coupled with the fact that he is already good at exercising and practicing the way of health preservation, although there will still be a phenomenon of three or four women a day, but there is no sign of loss.

On this day, it was the day when Meisheng Company deported the tobacco profits from Ningbo, Jiangnan to Beijing Taicang, Zhu Youxiao also specially left the Forbidden City, and came to Taicang to check in person, looking at the boxes of silver dollars that had been exchanged through the Royal Bank and piled up in the entire Taicang warehouse, Zhu Youxiao nodded with satisfaction.

"Your Majesty, from under your feet to the front of a few miles away, a total of hundreds of new warehouses can hold these silver dollars, these are just the first batch of silver dollars just transported back from Tianjin, and there are several more batches one after another, not only by sea to Tianjin, but also by Cao to Tongzhou, and by land through Liangjing Avenue, it will take a total of two months to deport, from the time Europa is transported back to China, the cost of this transportation alone has consumed millions of silver dollars, Now the total inventory can be used by the treasury for three times in recent years, Your Majesty, please see the specific detailed accounts", Wu Lailiang, the warehouse waiter, told Zhu Youxiao a large number of words in his mouth like a bead.

The implication is that, Your Majesty, you have made a fortune now, you have made a fortune, and now there is more money in front of you than this, and there are still many on the way back, because you have made too much money, so the loss alone is millions.

Zhu Youxiao nodded with satisfaction after hearing this, looking at these dazzling silver dollars, the only thing he wants to do now is to distribute them as soon as possible through various means, stimulate consumption, enhance the purchasing power of the people of the Ming Dynasty, and let the entire Ming Dynasty continue to enter the highly developed process of social life.

As for the huge profits brought by the opium trade, not only Zhu Youxiao, the emperor, realized the huge benefits here, but even the ministers in the court also thought that the imperial court controlled opium, banned smoking at home, and earned foreign wealth to enrich the people of all walks of life in the country naturally won the unanimous support of all strata in the country, even the conservative party thought that this was the best way, and they also said in their New Year's message to Zhu Youxiao that His Majesty had achieved the benefit of the people, and he was really a wise monarch of the ages.

A low-level Western-Fan of Europa who worked hard for a year in England or Franc Machine or worked in a factory did not know that most of the value of his labor created went to the Ming Dynasty, and what they hated was only those in power, and those in power would hate the low-level Westerners who could not meet their exploitative strength.

In short, because the opium trade of the Ming Dynasty greatly frustrated the class nature of the development of all strata of Europa, people would care more about social issues such as how to eat and dress and have no energy to pursue their interests in natural science, and therefore they fell more and more behind the level of scientific and technological development of the Ming Dynasty.

A few months later, Zhu Youxiao also received a report from the Jinyiwei from Europa, saying that so-called "people of insight" in England and Francois had begun to propose sanctions or bans on the opium trade of the Ming Dynasty, and mentioned that Cromwell had been alarmist about the opium trade of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help laughing, according to the original historical trend, it should be two centuries later, it was some relatively enlightened Han bureaucrats in the Qing government who dominated China at that time who began to realize the crisis brought by the opium trade in England and other countries to the Qing court and tried their best to ban smoking, but now it has become a phenomenon that the Ming Dynasty carried out opium trade to Western countries, and some enlightened officials in Western countries realized the crisis.

It's all the other way around!

"Spread my will, tell Jinyiwei to support these diehards in Western countries as much as possible, and express the friendship of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time find ways to exacerbate the corruption and degeneration in their country, and if necessary, they can provide military assistance to some diehards;

However, at the same time, the domestic navy and land forces should also pay close attention to training and expansion, and should not take it lightly, especially to take the line of elite troops, and the military department can transfer a few more troops to inspect and inspect the oceans in various places, so as to prepare for future ocean-going naval battles; our Ming Dynasty's opium trade is fundamentally contrary to the national interests of these Western countries, so it is impossible to avoid solving the trade problem by force, it is only a matter of time. ”

Zhu Youxiao gave such instructions to Lu Xiangsheng and Yang Sichang, the first assistants of the cabinet, and although he prepared Lu Xiangsheng and others, he was not worried about how much of a challenge these Western countries would pose to the opium trade of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, it is the end of the Stuart dynasty in England, when the struggle between various sects is the most severe, the contradictions between the emerging bourgeoisie and the old feudal lords are intensifying, and it is the darkness before the dawn of England's rise to become a world super empire, just like the early days of modern Chinese history, on the one hand, the Manchu diehards on the one hand, and the emerging intellectuals on the other hand, the development of national industry and the awakening of national consciousness, are the darkest period before the Phoenix Nirvana, and it is also the most vulnerable time, the best time to fight.