In November of the first year of Wanli, Tang Shen, under the protection of the general town Yu Dayou, led hundreds of warships to Malacca, and at the same time, Liu Xian's army also surrounded Malacca from the land. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Spaniards were desperate and chose to surrender, and the pearl of the sea, the choke point, finally fell into the hands of the Ming army.

Almost overnight, the pattern of the entire East and even the world has changed suddenly, and the Ming Dynasty, which has accumulated a lot of money, surprised all countries as soon as it made a move.

After solving Malacca, he immediately formed a powerful fleet, attacked India, and seized the island of Sri Lanka as a sea supply base for the Ming army.

At the same time, Xi Muyun also led the fleet and seized Java, so far, the Ming Dynasty completely pinched the shipping lanes between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.

The Western countries were greatly shocked, and they wanted to counterattack, but they mobilized troops thousands of miles, and there was no hope of victory at all. And their forces are not the opponent of the Ming Dynasty, so they can only choose trade sanctions.

Don't forget that between the West and the Yi, there are also many contradictions, how can you be ruthless, the British took the lead in breaking the silence, and the Ming began to trade privately, and soon after, the Netherlands got rid of Spanish rule, and also joined the ranks of maritime hegemony, actively doing business with the Ming, and also known as the sea coachman.

Of course, this coachman is only half of the world, and as for the East, it is the Ming Dynasty that has the final say.

After taking Malacca, the two oceans opened up the shipping route, for the Ming Dynasty, it was like opening up the second pulse of Ren Du, and the strength of the whole body skyrocketed, and the national strength rose rapidly, one step a day.

The countries of Nanyang, more or less, have been opened, and the merchants of the Ming Dynasty are all over the Nanyang.

They sold jewelry, timber, grain, spices, exotic treasures, and even maids and servants back to the Ming Dynasty, and the silk, woollen wool, porcelain, tools, machines, and furniture of the Ming Dynasty also dominated the market in Nanyang, and all countries had to be involved in the huge trade system.

With the market, there are orders, and with orders, the industry dominated by the southeast has developed rapidly.

The original manpower loom and hydraulic loom were not enough, in the third year of Wanli, the skilled craftsmen in the southeast made the first steam engine, and a year later, Tang Hezheng improved the steam engine, and used it to pump the water from the coal mine, which was a great success. The random steam engine developed rapidly and reformed, and the first textile mill using steam as power appeared in the southeast.

On the first day of the factory's operation, it attracted most of the people in Suzhou to come to see the excitement, when they saw that the cotton yarn was like water, flowing out, some people clapped their hands and said that some people cried.

Since then, the handicraft workshop has only been unable to sustain itself......

New power appeared, production efficiency increased dozens of times, weapons were manufactured, artillery was sharper, and the Ming army conquered huge territories one after another.

The huge overseas market gave birth to the prosperity of the southeast, and in the fifth year of Wanli, the financial revenue of the Ming Dynasty reached an astonishing 120 million yuan, of which the commercial tax contributed 90 million.

Compared with the Jiajing period, the financial situation has increased by 30 times!

As the main force of tax payment, the industrial and commercial group successfully replaced the traditional agricultural gentry and became the master of the empire with the help of the Consultative Council.

By the way, the Consultative Council has abandoned its tongue-twisting name and changed it to the National Council, and the delegates presiding over the meeting are divided into two types, the first is the celebrities and gentry selected by the provinces, and the second is the outstanding personnel selected according to the categories, such as the military, education, press, business, and so on......

All the deputies, and then 30 people of high moral standing and respect, called senior ministers, presided over the meetings, formulated agendas, participated in the meetings of the various ministries of the cabinet, supervised and observed, made suggestions, and reviewed the budget...... Among the first senior ministers, there were two veteran ministers with unparalleled qualifications, Gao Gong and Ge Shouli. They thoroughly established the authority of the National Assembly, and the Cabinet, including the Cabinet, was questioned by the Assembly.

Correspondingly, the cabinet has also become more and more perfect, and the five cabinet elders have cooperated with each other tacitly to promote the new policy.

The Ministry of War, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Crime, the Ministry of Officials, the four major departments have also been split, and now the Ming Dynasty has set up a total of 17 departments, of which there are three on behalf of the military, namely the General Staff, the War Department and the Navy Department.

As the navy expanded its territory and made great achievements outside, the proud old military leaders could no longer pretend to be invisible. Many of the territories that were defeated were directly sent from the army to serve as governors. To put it bluntly, it is the Emperor of the Earth, who has received so many benefits from others, can he still embarrass others?

It was smooth that the Navy and the Lu family achieved the same status.

At the local level, the governor of the governor became a permanent official, and at the same time, Tang Yi also adjusted his rank, the governor became the second rank, and the governor added the title of prince and became a member of the first rank.

The governor and the scholar were of the grade, so a situation was formed in which the governor was the governor and the governor was the governor, and the connection between the local officials and the center was completely opened.

Under normal circumstances, the relatively good governor is transferred to the capital to take over a certain ministry, and after a term of training, he is expected to enter the cabinet. And Shangshu's succession as governor will be regarded as an ironclad signal of joining the cabinet.

Obviously, Tang Yi has destroyed the small and large official system left by Zhu Yuanzhang, and replaced it with a new official system with equal power and responsibility and clear responsibilities.

In the new official system, all recruits are based on merit, and although nepotism and cliques are not exempted, the promotion of every high-ranking official is well documented, and all their deeds must be supervised and tested.

It can be said that there is hardly a simple character who can go through layers of tests and rush to the top. Those former Hanlin ministers, noble prime ministers, are now in the present, but I am afraid that there will not even be any bones left, and they will be swallowed by others.

In the past, the total number of officials in the two capitals and 13 provinces was only 20,000, and if you add the officials who also took the imperial court, the total number was about 100,000.

In Tang Yi's hands, this number increased tenfold, and the total number of officials reached one million.

A well-developed bureaucracy, operating efficiently, and generating unparalleled power.

In the five years before and after, the Ming Dynasty completed a total of 5 million official immigrants to Nanyang, and assisted merchants to immigrate 7 million, bringing the total to 12 million.

The pressure of famine in Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places has been greatly reduced.

Since the second year of Wanli, as much as 15 million stone of grain has been transported from overseas every year, which is three times the amount of grain!

As for the grain trade among the people, the amount is even more staggering.

Overseas rice was of high quality and low price, and basically the people of the Ming Dynasty were able to get rid of the threat of starvation. Since the second year of Wanli, even if there is a catastrophe in the north, at most 18,000 people will starve to death, it is enough to make a sensation, hundreds of thousands of people are starving, and the situation of homelessness has never happened again.

The common people don't know the key, but they just pray for Lord Shoufu every day, hoping that his old man can always be at the helm of the Ming Dynasty, and the big guy will always have a good life.

But Tang Yi knew that he was only a little more than a hundred catties, and the soup was not enough for a hundred and ten people to eat. To put it bluntly, there is so much food, and some people are full, and some people are hungry.

Since Tang Shen took over as the governor of Nanyang, he completely changed his compassionate face, he used the army, captured the natives as slaves, loaded them on ships, and transported them from one island to another.

In a completely unfamiliar environment, the natives can only obey orders, burn mountains, open up wasteland, cut down trees, build houses, build roads, and docks...... Endless works awaited them, and sooner or later, these people would die of exhaustion, and the estates they left behind were taken over by merchants, immigrated from the country, and quickly filled.

Tang Shen's favorite thing to do was to take the indigenous men away, exhaust them to death in a strange land, and then encourage the Ming immigrants to marry the remaining women, and within a few years, they gave birth to a group of lively children.

Tens of thousands of teachers were transferred from the Ming Dynasty to let these children recognize Chinese characters, wear Han clothes, and eat Han delicacies from novels.

In Tang Shen's letter to his son, he proudly declared: "In just 20 years, the number of Han people in the Nanyang Islands will be more than half, in 50 years, it will be more than 70 percent, and in 100 years, more than 90 percent will be Han people, even if they are not related in blood, they will identify with China culturally." Maybe I won't have a chance to see it in this life, but sooner or later, these islands will be the same as the Central Plains, and they will be the land of the Han family through and through. ”

Compared with the vigor of the South Seas, the changes in the North are no less impressive.

Li Chengliang gathered the Jurchen soldiers as the vanguard, and after three major battles, he destroyed the barbarian tribe, and then the Ming army's forces crossed the Heilongjiang River and crossed the Outer Xing'an Mountains.

Legend has it that in the land of the far north, there is a mythical beast candle dragon, open your eyes, it is day, close your eyes, it is night, he constantly exhales, conjure up brilliant colors, decorate the sky of the far north with colorful colors, especially enchanting.

With the desire to find the mythical beast, an expedition of 300 people, with thousands of sled dogs and strong Mongolian horses, embarked on the journey.

They went all the way to the north, and it took half a year to return to Daming, when they went there were 300 people, only 21 came back, and 90 strong men stayed in the snowy field forever.

They didn't find the candle dragon, but they brought back a big white bear, a big penguin that couldn't fly, and a huge tiger, and they even found the North Sea, where Su Wu was shepherding sheep, but unfortunately it was not an ocean, just a bottomless lake......

The expedition to the extreme north once again stimulated the enthusiasm of the Ming Dynasty, the rising national momentum, the high-spirited people, more and more warriors appeared, they were in groups, fearless, starting from the Ming Dynasty, exploring the unknown land, they put what they saw and heard along the way, wrote down the words, and brought them back to the Ming Dynasty.

Every time an expedition returns, countless schools hire warriors to publicize their exploits.

Inspired by them, more and more people embarked on a journey to find hope and wealth, in the fifth year of Wanli, the expedition of the Ming Dynasty came to the Ural Mountain, where they set a benchmark, planted the dragon flag, from the top of the mountain, in front of them are a horse and a flat river, without any obstacles...... (To be continued.) )