Time has entered the twenty-seventh year of the Great Tomorrow Apocalypse.

In the Western calendar, that is, in 1647 AD.

In the original history, the Ming Dynasty had been destroyed for three years, and the Hongguang Dynasty of the Southern Ming Dynasty had also fallen.

But in this time and space, the Ming Dynasty not only did not perish, but had jumped out of the shackles of being dragged down by the civil officials and gentry.

Militarily, at this time, the Ming Dynasty no longer had the guard system, and also canceled the military registration system, and at the beginning of the 21st year of the Apocalypse, His Majesty the Ming Emperor promulgated the compulsory military system.

Any adult man in the Ming Dynasty is obliged to serve in the Ming army for more than three years, of course, because of the large population of the Ming Dynasty, it is not strictly required that everyone must obey military service in peacetime.

In other words, on the surface, it is almost equivalent to conscription, that is, subject to individual voluntary military service.

However, unlike the traditional conscription system, once you join the army, you are not always a soldier, and both grassroots officers and soldiers have a length of service, which can effectively ensure that there is no phenomenon of supporting soldiers and becoming tenant farmers.

And because once they enter service, they will be separated from production and carry out full-time military training, so they can ensure that their combat effectiveness is always there.

The continuous entry of new recruits into the military system and the continuous discharge of veterans can keep the number of standing armies at a constant value, so that there will be no financial difficulties due to the increasing number of troops and the need to implement the guard system to raise soldiers, which will only turn soldiers into farmers who can farm.

At the same time, although the number of standing troops is constant, the officers and men who have served in the army can still maintain basic combat effectiveness after being discharged, and at least can operate basic military operations such as firearms and grenades.

In this way, the potential military power of the Ming Dynasty will become a force that cannot be underestimated, which can be described as a soldier for all people.

Because in the event of a large-scale war, these people can return to the battlefield after a short period of training.

For example, in other words, the Ming Dynasty can turn a regular army of one million into ten million in a short period of time.

In short, under the new mode of warfare and the new military system, the military strength of the Ming Dynasty is no longer comparable to any country in the world.

According to the calculations of the Ministry of War, the Ming Dynasty could support a local war with more than 500,000 troops for three years, and after the roads and railways were fully rolled out, the Ming Dynasty could put more than 1 million total troops outside the customs within a month.

This means that the Ming Dynasty can continue to expand the occupied area.

Of course, in order to make the most effective use of fiscal revenues, it is naturally not necessary to maintain a large number of conventional troops in the present period of peace.

Therefore, the standing army of the Ming Dynasty is only about 600,000 people, and the non-front-line combatants in the military system, such as military academies, field hospitals, propaganda propaganda and art troupes, are only more than 700,000.

In this way, Daming can invest a lot of money in the research and development of military weapons and the training of military personnel.

However, in peacetime, not only was the number of conventional armies in a state of contraction, but a large number of military enterprises under the Ordnance Department also began to turn into civilian enterprises, and began to focus on transferring the productive forces to the production of civilian machines or locomotives.

Even in order to pursue profits, turn losses into profits, and directly switch to a pure locomotive factory or steamship factory before there are no large orders.

However, once a large-scale military war breaks out, all kinds of civilian machine factories will spring up like mushrooms after a rain, and as long as Zhu Youxiao wishes it, it will become a chariot factory and a firearms factory in the blink of an eye.

Even as long as the imperial court allowed it, the workers could build chariots directly in the civilian machine factory and then drive them out to defend themselves against the enemy.

The war is fought by national strength, and the Ming Dynasty is not weak in its national strength, and now it can directly convert all the strongest national strength into military strength, that is to say, no country in the world now dares to argue with the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, Da Ming not only enriches his fangs, but also stretches out his claws and lays his own blood transfusion official road (traffic artery).

In terms of colonial plunder and the construction of the Line of Control of Communications, in addition to the farthest colonies that have reached the island of Honggang in Europa (the Ming Dynasty has renamed the island of Wight Island), colonies have been established in the Suez River valley in Africa, the Cape of Good Hope, the eastern side of the Indian Peninsula, Luzon Java in the South Seas, and Hawaii.

According to the statistics of the newly established Colonial Department of the Ministry of War, the Ming Dynasty now has one hundred and three non-Ming native colonies, the largest of which is about equal to the Zhejiang Buzheng Division, and the smallest is less than the size of a Shanghai County, and this number is still growing.

Because His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty stipulated that the merits of the navy were assessed by the number of colonies occupied and the value of plundered wealth, and companies mainly engaged in overseas trade, such as Meisheng Company, could also mortgage the tax ratio with the number of colonies occupied, and even the Ming Dynasty would give its output value dividend qualification in the colony.

In this way, it greatly promoted the enthusiasm of the navy, the military and civilian merchants to expand their colonies overseas, and because the wealth value of colonial plunder is also an important assessment index and is also linked to their own income, they cannot just find a piece of land to colonize, and they have to consider various values.

In addition to the progress made in the country as mentioned in the previous chapter, more lines of control are being built in Monan and Mobei and Siberia, and bridges are being built in overseas colonies such as Java and Fuso.

However, the construction of roads and bridges in the country is basically to hire the people of the Ming Dynasty as laborers, because of the high welfare and legal protection of the imperial court, the people of the Ming Dynasty naturally can not be treated as slaves, from the twenty-fourth year of the Apocalypse, after His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty promulgated the civil law, it is determined that as long as the people of the Ming nationality enjoy all the rights and obligations of the Ming citizens, whether they are officials or scholars, businessmen or people, and no matter what occupation they are engaged in, what their political status is, The safety of his life and property is protected by His Majesty the Ming Emperor (not the law).

That is, these people are only engaged in different occupations and have different lives because of their different personal interests and abilities, but they are all the children of His Majesty the Ming Emperor, and no one has this right except for His Majesty the Ming Emperor, who is the father, who has the right to kill them.

Therefore, these Ming citizens must enjoy eight hours of work, if they want to work longer hours, they must be paid double in accordance with the corresponding laws and regulations, if they are injured due to work, they must also be compensated, and these people must also be given benefits for themselves and their families.

The Ming government will also give them a lot of welfare subsidies, coupled with the improvement of the quality of life in the country, the citizens of the Ming Dynasty have high requirements for various welfare benefits of salary income, which makes the construction cost in the country will be very high.

However, in the colonial areas, all kinds of non-Ming people who were hired by indigenous people or plundered from other regions (the crime of trafficking Ming citizens should be Ling Chi, and no one dared to do so), so they didn't have to care about any treatment or treatment, and they were directly used as animals.

In this way, the cost of colonial construction and resource plundering is much lower and faster than that of domestic construction, and basically people make money abroad, while at home almost no one is willing to set up production bases in China, except for the royal capital that is trading at a loss in order to ensure that the core productivity is controlled at home.

However, in recent years, even the major domestic enterprises have begun to use colonial slaves to do the hardest grassroots work, after all, this can make the cost very low.

In this way, it also promoted the trafficking trade of foreign people, and many Ming enterprises that used to only trade opium are now engaged in human traffic.

For example, the Yang family's Yang Company, relying on the connections of Yang Sichang, a family insider, established a white human trafficking base on Honggang Island (the British colony of White Island, the Ming Dynasty).

And these white people who were sold to Daming as coolies will be habitually called "white pigs" by Daming! ”

Many of the "white pigs" collected from the countries of Europa were basically gathered here, and then numbered and sent to uniforms to be shipped to the Ming and its colonies to work.

However, these non-Ming citizens cannot enjoy educational support in Daming, so important positions must be Ming citizens, and there is no great impact on the employment of their own citizens.

Because of the increasingly generous welfare benefits and wealth subsidies of the imperial court, as well as the easy high income and low-cost life without worrying about food and clothing, many people have chosen to retire early and are unwilling to become producers, and many have directly become parasites and enjoy their success.

It can be summarized in this way that the most tired of the current Ming Dynasty are the group of imperial helmsmen in the center of power and the foreign slaves at the bottom, but it is the middle-level people who are the most carefree.

But the ordinary citizens of the Ming Dynasty, who had become an exploiting class, cursed the officials who drank the blood of their taxpayers, and at the same time hated the foreign slave laborers whose blood they drank.

Many shops opened by local Ming citizens will write "white pigs and dogs are not allowed to enter", as if they do not do this, and do not appear to be high-end in their stores.

However, many foreigners who came to Daming to do business or study Han culture were not angry because their own kind suffered such humiliation, as they were also rulers in the country, they were just as disgusted with these people as the Ming citizens, and they were even more cruel than the Ming citizens.

After all, its citizens are people who have been deeply cultivated by the 5,000-year-old civilization of China, and they have no nature of barbarism and killing, at most they are disgusted and exploited, but these hairy people who show gentlemen and actually hide a lot of violence will even take pleasure in killing or ** these people.

However, whether it is a white pig or a white person, foreigners of all walks of life are extremely longing for the Ming Dynasty, and those who praise the Ming Dynasty hope that they can become Han people of the Ming Dynasty, because in their opinion, only those who have become the Ming Dynasty sign that they are a civilized person, a quality person, and an elegant person.

The clothes of ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty can become a fashion trend among some nobles in Europa, and the phenomenon of being proud of learning Chinese and being ashamed of learning their own English is becoming more and more intense in Britain.

There are even many people in foreign countries, especially in the Europa area, who do not hesitate to spend a lot of money and give up their country's lofty political identity to become ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty.

But Daming is very strict about the immigration card, unless you are a genius like Galileo who can immigrate technically, ordinary Europa people who want to immigrate either have a high political status or can invest millions of silver dollars in Daming at one time.

But this does not prevent them from becoming the enthusiasm of the Ming people, in the next few decades, many aristocratic ladies in Europa will actively want to marry ordinary men of the Ming Dynasty, and even be willing to be concubines, or more to dye their hair black, wear Hanfu, in order to become a Ming person, at least like a Ming person.

After the Opium War against Britain, the Ming Dynasty began to change its attitude towards Britain, and then supported the Stuart Dynasty to suppress its domestic bourgeoisie, and the relationship with Britain gradually eased, and the middle class who were dissatisfied with the British Stuart Dynasty or eager to get more political voice also showed the Ming Dynasty's urgent yearning, yearning for the Ming Dynasty's care for merchants, and yearning for the common people to get a fair education and pass a fair selection examination to enter the court to take charge of the government.

As a result, many British bourgeoisie did not realize that their suppression was the result of the suppression of the Ming they longed for, but instead worshiped the Ming more and more.

And the Ming Dynasty naturally accepted the friendship of these people very calmly, while supporting it to suppress the domestic rebellion by selling weapons to the Stuart dynasty, and on the other hand, secretly instigating these British yeoman farmers and craftsmen and low-level merchants not to be satisfied with the status quo, in short, it is best to keep Britain in a state of chaos, and no one can have time to care about political reform.

What's more, the Ming Dynasty also sent some cultural figures from time to time to promote the breadth and profundity of the Ming Dynasty's Chinese culture, as well as the theory of cherishing peace, respecting ethics, and advocating civilian politics, which made foreigners feel that the Ming Dynasty was an ideal country.

What they don't know, though, is that the Ming are now desperately trying to use their blind worship to make their money and divide their country.

In terms of economy, the treasury income of the Ming Dynasty is indeed showing a geometric increase, the Southern Song Dynasty can account for most of the world's income by relying on the development of commerce and trade, and now the Ming Dynasty has carried out overseas trade in an all-round way for more than ten years, and the income will naturally not be less.

Zhu Youxiao didn't know how much money he had now, anyway, the investment plans of various departments in the Ming Dynasty had already been written to the fiftieth year of the Apocalypse, and he had even directly stated that he would abolish all taxes on peasants and extend free compulsory education for nine years.

And all this has not consumed the financial balance of the Ming Dynasty, of course, the Ming Dynasty cannot learn from the Southern Song Dynasty to lose part of this wealth every year, and now it can only be used for military expansion.

Coincidentally, the current cabinet is in charge of Lu Xiangsheng and Yang Sichang, the two bigwigs of the military department, so naturally they hope that the Ming Dynasty will continue to expand its territory, so that they can get more benefits from the military system.

Li Mingrui is now over the age of sixteen and a little tired of officialdom, and the same is true of Cheng Jiming, and as the reformists and hawks are making more and more profits overseas, many of the traditional gentry class in the old school of Cheng Jiming have already joined the commodity activities with red eyes and eagerness.

As a result, these two factions did not oppose the political aims of the rising hawks to expand their territory, not to mention that both military and peaceful expansion would be beneficial to them.

As a result, a note on the recovery of the political secretary of Jiaozhi was placed on Zhu Youxiao's case.