Chapter 581: The Expansion of Han Culture in the Steampunk Era

The empire entered an era of rapid development, and the demand for resources increased dramatically, and even vast lands such as Siberia were almost absorbed in more than a decade.

Not to mention Southeast Asia, which is just over 2 million square kilometers of land.

No one knows how long it will take for a piece of virgin land to be digested, and everyone wants to pounce on it and grab a profit.

In order to make the newly acquired land as much as possible, the center of the empire is busy, and the students of the empire who are eager to use what they have learned all their lives are also busy.

On the contrary, Zhu Youxiao, as the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, is the most relaxed at the moment, the country has developed to his most ideal state, and various systems have been established by him.

He no longer had to go out of his way to break shackles and conventions, and he had few political enemies, and his political prestige increased as the empire's wealth increased.

Therefore, over the years, Zhu Youxiao began to focus on taking care of his body and enjoying life, and he began to let the guards discover the mysteries of traditional medicine and enjoy him more sexually without affecting his body.

Yes, the Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao was even more depraved than before, and in a few years, he accepted many concubines, and even asked Li Dingguo to secretly send the British royal woman to the capital.

However, people were busy making money, and no one cared about how many times His Majesty the Emperor had a spring breeze overnight.

And Zhu Youxiao didn't care whether his people were competing for interests, whether they were not reserved and civilized enough, in addition to being able to ensure that his life was luxurious and corrupt enough, and his power was sufficiently expanded, he was no longer able to control the development direction of this era.

He was also not worried about the cyclical economic crises that would arise after the empire entered the age of capital.

Because for a trust empire like the Ming Dynasty, he can only solve the problems of declining employment and insufficient market consumption brought about by the cycle through unlimited expansion.

The southeast industry has just been occupied, and the military department has already aimed the spearhead at Uszang or Yili Jiangli.

In the original history, the capitalist empire would also have to expand externally in the later stage of development and a world war would break out, but in the twentieth century of the original history, the capitalist empire was not only Germany, Japan, etc., so the expansion process was bound to be stopped by other powerful capital empires, which led to these trust empires falling into a more serious crisis because of the war, and even directly losing the wealth accumulated over the years, cheapening some emerging capital empires, and greatly reducing the total wealth of mankind. The contradictions among human nations are also deeper, and the price of peace is heavier.

And in this era, the capitalist empire has only one family.

England, which should have had a capitalist regime ahead of schedule, is now struggling in a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.

Therefore, Da Ming can continue his expansion without anxiety, and he does not have to worry about any opponent he will have.

At this time, after breaking away from the suppression of Confucianism, a chicken soup philosophy that only teaches people to cowardice and numbness, the Han nation was like a tiger that woke up from sleep, and began to show his original most hideous fangs, and at the same time showed his proudest majesty.

Han culture began to spread unrestrainedly to the entire human social circle with military expansion.

The Ming Dynasty now represents the entire human society, the progress of the Ming Dynasty is the progress of human society, the increase in the wealth of the Ming Dynasty is the increase of human wealth, and the time when the Ming Dynasty unifies the world is the time to announce the elimination of the contradictions that arise in the human society due to the differences of race and ethnicity.

Of course, it is possible that multiculturalism will become a monistic culture, but this does not mean that in the future after becoming a monoculture, more diverse regional cultures will not be born on the basis of Han culture, but they will not be able to start wars.

It is commendable that after the Ming Dynasty began to enter the world of steampunk, Chinese poems, lyrics, songs, fu, dramas, etc., or the literature of the people of Yangchun Baixue or Xialiba did not fall silent, on the contrary, with the development of printing technology and the popularization of cultural knowledge, literature still became the spiritual food that no one could do without.

If before this, literary and artistic youth were only limited to the scholar class, then now there are literary and artistic youth in almost all strata, and various poetry societies and elegant collections are emerging in endlessly.

Orchid Pavilion, Liang Garden, Tengwang Pavilion and other places with great literary significance have become popular places, coupled with the acceptance of Sinology by a large number of new aconite people in the colonial areas, literary works based on Chinese characters have sprung up like mushrooms.

Moreover, Zhu Youxiao is in favor of making the world more warm poetry, so the imperial court also took out more money to fund people to create, in the field of literature, there is no distinction between you and slaves, as long as you can create, you can get great praise, and some of the new annexes of the dead country can also create a lot of lamentations that are no less than Li Yu.

In addition, people are also willing to pay for these literary works, spend some money to listen to the drama or sell some poetry collections published by someone, which is a relatively popular way of consumption for today's Ming Dynasty.

It is also normal that the development of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries has promoted the rise of the cultural industry.

If the development of poetry in the Tang Dynasty was due to the needs of official careers, and the rise of poetry in the Song Dynasty was due to the emergence of the market, then the resurgence of various literary styles in the Ming Dynasty was directly stimulated by money.

Many people began to rely on this as a profession, to make a fortune from this, and even the government began to rely on this to increase taxes.

Chen Zilongcheng, a scholar of the Ministry of Rites of the Ming Dynasty, once said that all the war disputes in human society are caused by poor communication due to different languages, so the world only needs one language, and how poignant love stories or magnificent inspirational stories can be expressed in one language, and the best way to express it is naturally the most profound Chinese.

This view was shared by all levels of the Ming Dynasty, and almost every official who went to the newly occupied territory first did to eliminate the local language.

As a result, Chinese characters can be seen from Siberia in the northernmost part to Australia in the south, and the pagodas of Siam and the imperial palace of Dongoo have been renamed after Chinese characters.

Li Bai's poems, Su Dongpo's lyrics, and Ma Zhiyuan's songs are sung in the Arctic Ocean, and they can also appear in Bali.

Song Huizong's eagle and Zhao Ziang's horse are also being imitated by new students in Sumatra and Java.

The advancement of the local identity of the Ming Dynasty depends on mathematics, physics and chemistry or political and historical geography to be proficient, and in these new annexed areas, it is necessary to rely on a few poems that can be memorized and a few articles can be created.

What new cultural movement, advocating vernacular literary reform, what new type of poetry, what short essays are super long, and new things in various cultural fields are constantly emerging, Zhu Youxiao just asked Dongchang to control his thoughts and speeches, and he didn't bother to care about the rest.