Chapter 580: The Ming Dynasty Enters the Peak Era
The city of Donghu was occupied, and King Talong was hanged to death by Zhu Youlang, which also marked the demise of the Donghu Dynasty, and the entire Southeast Asian region was occupied by the Ming Dynasty.
As a result, the land territory of the Ming Dynasty moved thousands of kilometers southward again.
At this point, from Siberia to Manraka (Malay Archipelago) and the island of Java and Sumatra, almost all of Asia, except for Asia Minor and Iribari and parts controlled by the Rakshasa Kingdom, had been subsumed under the Ming Empire.
Of course, Uszang is still just a place of restraint.
The Ming Empire has reached an unprecedented heyday!
Politically, a large number of non-rational New School officials filled the local ranks, which greatly improved the administrative efficiency of the entire empire, and the policy guidelines became more open and aggressive.
A large number of young officials began to formally take over the power of the old bureaucrats, and the young Ming Empire blossomed politically.
Militarily, the army has expanded to more than 800,000 regular troops.
Due to the application of electricity, electroplating technology and welding technology have been developed, and the machining is more precise and faster.
Coupled with the improvement of chemical technology, the ratio of gunpowder and nitrified gunpowder began to appear, and the military weapons of the Ming Dynasty have soared again.
The rifling of the gun is finer, the caliber of the barrel is reduced, but the range is qualitatively improved, and the explosive destructive power is enough to break through any fortified city.
Large revolver machine guns have also appeared, and almost a single army of troops is superior to the classical cavalry of the previous thousands of men.
However, because the application of materials science and electrical has not been popularized on a large scale, many technical bottlenecks have not yet been broken, so the development of internal combustion engines is still very slow, so it has not been able to create better aircraft, but airships and various gliders have begun to equip the troops, and in the near future, Daming may be able to achieve three-dimensional combat on land, sea and air.
Economically, in the war to occupy Southeast Asia, the plundered population greatly promoted the productivity of the Ming Dynasty, which made the rapid development of major high-risk jobs such as iron-making, coal mining, bridge building and paving, etc., making the basic industry of the Ming Dynasty more complete.
The most commendable thing is that academically, after more than ten years of educational reform and the extradition of technical talents in Western Europe, there are already hundreds of thousands of scientific research talents in the Ming Dynasty, and there are millions of senior technicians of all kinds, coupled with the accumulation of various experimental data and experimental results, the natural science theory system of the Ming Dynasty has been quite complete.
Although Newton is still a teenager, someone in the Ming Dynasty has summarized his three laws of Newton, and established a classical physics system in the shortest time, and even directly extended electromagnetism, acoustics and waves.
In terms of chemistry, without waiting for Western scientists to discover the elements one by one and wait for Mendeleev to propose the periodic law of the elements, the Ming Dynasty has begun to pass on the material infrastructure of protons, electrons, neutrons and other elements and the properties of various elements to the next generation according to the various materials provided by His Majesty the Ming Emperor in the collection of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and has taken out the periodic law of the elements.
Of course, at this time in the Ming Dynasty called the royal periodic law of elements, because no one knows how His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty summed up these mysteries, and even many elements have not been extracted by the people of the Ming Dynasty, not only the properties and structures of various elements have been widely educated in the Ming Dynasty, but also the basic chemical theoretical knowledge such as the four basic types of chemical reactions and the concept of dynamic equilibrium has also begun to be rapidly improved by the Ming scholars, because of this, all kinds of new compounds and chemical materials will emerge in endlessly.
Biologically, from the ecosystem to the cell structure, and even genetic inheritance, it has also begun to be further elaborated and analyzed by Ming scholars using the data of the Royal Academy of Sciences.
However, due to the limitations of the instruments in the field of physical chemistry and the extracts of various bioactive substances, there is still a blank in molecular biology, and at most some simple theoretical demonstrations are made through quantitative experiments.
Of course, this can't be helped, after all, molecular biology is an emerging discipline in the modern 21st century, let alone in Daming.
It is a big breakthrough to be able to use fermentation engineering to produce some antibiotics and food and industrial products, and then to use microorganisms to make biological weapons and treat diseases.
Before the advent of electron microscopes and computers, the scientific research level of Daming will not soar much.
Of course, later generations of Chinese people can use abacus to create atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs, now in the Ming Dynasty, I Han people can create what kind of scientific miracles can not be predicted, mathematics is our strength, not to mention the Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao directly solved the problem of basic science, applied research is not a problem for the Chinese people.
Moreover, Zhu Youxiao is now willing to spend money to encourage scientific research, and now devoting himself to scientific research and education has become the most respectable profession.
The people of the Ming Dynasty spent a lot of energy on academic research and education or skill training, and the creation of labor value in terms of clothing, food, housing and transportation was directly paid for by the slave workers at the bottom and the people of other countries, which was the most ideal state of the Ming empire.
People habitually turn themselves into pedants, scientists, experts, or engineers in a certain field, and they also habitually build up theoretical knowledge, habitually make a career worthwhile, and no one worries about whether they can be fed or clothed, but anxious about whether they can become useful people in this empire, and can obtain a strong qualification.
Even if you can only eat, you have to pay attention to it, say that you are a gourmet, even if you can only drink, you have to pay attention to it, say that you are a wine taster, but there will indeed be many people to seek after, because people need a more quality and tasteful life, and different from ordinary people, in order to reflect their superiority.
Up to now, with the increase of per capita wealth in Daming, people are not only satisfied with the most basic living security, they urgently need to prove their worth, and they need a career that can make them move to a higher level of life.
However, in China, the professions that can make people feel meaningful have reached saturation, or are monopolized by some newly emerging capitalist families, so that many students trained by higher education have a sense of heroism and uselessness.
Therefore, the news that Southeast Asia was occupied by the Ming Dynasty caused a great sensation after it was transmitted back to China, because everyone realized that the annexation of this more than 2 million square kilometers and relatively densely populated and rich land will mark the emergence of countless new jobs, from politics to military to economic and cultural education, which is undoubtedly a gluttonous feast for all kinds of young students of the Ming Dynasty who urgently need to create value.
The cabinet and the six ministries entered a busy period, as the center of the empire, they coordinated the deployment of talents, funds, and material resources, intending to create more wealth for the Ming in the shortest possible time as soon as possible.