As the reforms in the southern provinces continued, one of the most obvious changes was the crazy rise in the imperial court taxes, and the growth rate of various commercial taxes was extremely terrifying. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Compared to the northern provinces, the southern provinces are more developed in commerce.

In particular, in light industry, along with the progress of reform, the production technology of light industry in the south is also undergoing tremendous changes.

The steam engine began to be used in large numbers in the production of light industry, and industrial productivity underwent a drastic change. The labor output of workers has increased by a hundredfold.

The most obvious change after the productivity of the light industry in the south increased was that in terms of trade, the price of light industry commodities in the Ming Dynasty fell again, and the output increased significantly. The demand for raw materials and markets began to expand, while the local market for commodities continued to grow with the continuous construction of railways, and the natural economy of the countryside was further impacted.

In overseas markets, the number of merchant ships in Daming is also growing. A large number of commodities began to be exported overseas, and at the same time, a large amount of raw materials, grain, gold and silver treasures were brought back.

The growth of maritime trade has in turn increased the revenues from tariffs.

The rapid growth of the imperial court's finances made the imperial court begin to have the money to build a large number of various infrastructures, which further increased the market size.

After the reform, the Ming Dynasty embarked on a virtuous circle from the new.

There are three most important infrastructures, one is water conservancy, one is the railway, and the other is the school.

If Daming wants to run all the way on the road of scientific and technological development, what is needed is to popularize the education of the whole people, and at the same time cultivate a large number of mathematics, physics and chemistry talents.

The development dividend of scientific and technological progress is obviously very large at present, there was no such thing as steam engines, railways, and telegraphs in the past, and the Royal Academy of Science and Technology has made these technologies out with the support of the imperial court at this time, and has become more and more mature in technology.

This means that there is something new to build and a new product to consume.

This is just like the later China, because of the introduction of a large number of Westerners' technology, so that the economy can maintain an average annual growth of more than 10%.

Economic growth is driven by innovation.

At this time, it was still the seventeenth century, and the Ming Dynasty was still the most advanced developed country in the world, of course, a developed country in the agricultural era.

If no new technologies emerge and no innovations are generated, economic growth will be slow. Unless the gap between the rich and the poor can be eliminated and those ordinary people who have not yet completed basic consumption can be enriched, so as to increase the vitality of the market.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty, under Zhu Youxiao's efforts for many years, has appeared a lot of new technologies, and is still running all the way on the road of invention and creation.

The emergence of these technologies has given Daming a strong vitality for development.

At the same time, the current reform is actually to make up for the deficiency by taxing those merchants and landlords who were exempt from tax in the past, and then investing in infrastructure construction and people's livelihood security, and then scattering the collected money to the ordinary people at the bottom of the society, so that they can have the ability to consume all kinds of commodities, and then promote the development of various commercial production, and the whole society will gradually move towards prosperity.

This reform is essentially no different from the change of dynasty. Zhu Youxiao used the Central Army to support the reform, just like fighting the world again. The enemy is the capitalism of the Ming Dynasty, and many things in capitalism are anti-human things, which is why the Ming Dynasty is a mess.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there will be chaos, that is, the world is not one, and there are two kings in a country, one king is the Ming Dynasty, and the other is capitalism.

Zhu Youxiao moved the model of later China, created a bunch of state-owned enterprises, supported state-owned capital, and trampled those chaebols.

Those chaebols in Jiangnan have been copied by Zhu Youxiao, and the top capital forces have been eliminated by Zhu Youxiao. The follow-up reform is to expand the results of the war, comprehensively suppress private capital, and limit private capital to a fixed business scope, so that they can no longer lie down and earn the people's money, and only by creating, producing and paying taxes can they be eligible for official recognition.

The only ones in the country that have not been cleaned up are those maritime merchants, but those maritime merchants do not have too complicated capital operations, they are smuggling gangs. I haven't been involved in politics, and the worst black history is to collude with the Japanese Invaders, and now the Japanese Invaders are gone, so I am not in a hurry to clean up those maritime merchants for the time being, but the factory guards have begun to secretly feel the rows.

When the capitalist chaebols were cleaned up, several rebellions also exposed a problem, that is, although those capitalists were rich and rich, they did not have military power. If the court engages in public opinion with them, it is useless to ask them to pay taxes, and the best way is to solve them by violence and directly eliminate them physically.

To sum up, if you can do it, you can't BB, and this reform is the same, directly use the army to clear the field, and the one who obstructs the reform is the enemy, and just do it.

To Zhu Youxiao's delight, the research team under the Royal Military Factory had finally developed smokeless gunpowder, and Zhu Youxiao personally visited the scene.

After the gunpowder was burned, the combustion residue was very small.

"Immediately develop new rifles, as well as machine guns." Colonel Zhu Youxiao ordered the military factory that whether it was a new rifle or a machine gun, Zhu Youxiao gave a basic research direction.

It has been fifteen years since Zhu Youxiao came to this world, and Daming's machinery manufacturing industry has been developing for more than ten years, and a large number of craftsmen in the precision manufacturing industry have been trained. Precision manufacturing has always been done by people, not by machines, but by experience.

Although it has been developed for more than ten years, the precision manufacturing industry naturally cannot be compared with the craftsmen of the 21st century, after all, the precision manufacturing industry of Westerners is the experience accumulated by a hammer for hundreds of years and passed down from generation to generation, so the machinery can be manufactured to be extremely precise.

But in this era, it was the most advanced, and it was more than enough to make rifles and machine guns.

With new rifles and machine guns, then the Ming Dynasty is really invincible, and from then on, for those nomads, it is the rhythm of chopping melons and vegetables.

For a productive empire like China, unlike the nomads who practiced bows and arrows and horsemanship every day, it was a great disadvantage in the era of cold weapons.

Once you enter the era of hot weapons, it will be completely different. Ordinary people can go to the battlefield with guns after two months of training, and those nomads are shot down before they can get close.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao was still constantly strengthening military technology, and the military was the most powerful and basic guarantee both externally and internally.

The armed forces of the Central Army determine the success or failure of reform.

"Your Majesty, we have developed the revolver, and now that there is smokeless powder, we can upgrade the revolver first." The person in charge of the military factory told Zhu Youxiao.

"Hmmm! After finalization, a batch will be produced and distributed to the public security system. Zhu Youxiao nodded, the pistol is not very useful on the battlefield, but the public security system needs a lot.

The advent of smokeless gunpowder meant that there would be a huge flyover not only in firearms, but also in artillery.

The time has come for the Ming Dynasty to start the global plunder mode, of course, Zhu Youxiao also realized that the Ming Dynasty does not actually need to use force to plunder the world, the Ming Dynasty is a production-oriented empire, and it can plunder the world by exporting goods, and there is no need to use force to rob, which will also damage the image of the kingdom.

The foreign policy of the Ming Dynasty is nothing more than two considerations: trade and immigration.

Trade is to exchange more resources by producing goods and exporting goods, so that the people of the Ming Dynasty can be rich. The immigrants were so that the Ming could occupy more land and resources.

In terms of immigration, Australia has become the territory of the Ming Dynasty at this time. Southeast Asia has become the backyard of the Ming Dynasty, and Southeast Asia has been incorporated into the territory of the Ming Dynasty everywhere.

The Indochina Peninsula and the Korean Peninsula were the dumping grounds for Ming goods.

Trade with India is also underway, and India will become an important source of industrial raw materials for the Ming Dynasty in the future, and in Africa, trade is also underway.

In the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, foreign trade has been very prosperous, and the ocean-going merchant ships owned by the Ming Dynasty have reached more than 1,200, and the tonnage is getting bigger and bigger. The enrollment of nautical schools is also increasing year by year. Daming's survey data on the sea state of various seas around the world is also increasing.

The most prosperous trade is Southeast Asia and Australia, and the Ming Dynasty is still continuing to migrate to Australia, while the trade in the Indochina Peninsula and the Korean Peninsula is also continuing to grow.

North Korea's exports to the Ming Dynasty were mainly minerals, timber, furs, medicinal materials and other goods, while the trade between Indochina and the Ming Dynasty was exported to timber, grain, tropical commodities and so on.

Merchants of the Ming Dynasty were operating everywhere in Korea, the Indochina Peninsula, and Southeast Asia, organizing the production of goods locally, and then transporting the goods back to the Ming Dynasty, thereby driving local employment, income, and buying industrial commodities of the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, Daming also has a large number of merchant ships bound for India and Africa.

India has now become an important dumping ground for the Ming Dynasty, and a large number of textiles and porcelain are being sold to India.

The Indian civilization has a great demand for silk and porcelain. The mantle of Buddhism is actually the ideal of the Indians.

Indians attach great importance to silk and porcelain.

It's just that the Indians didn't have any goods that could be exchanged with China as a production center in the past, so they had to sell spices to the Middle Easterners, and then the Middle Easterners sold the porcelain and silk they bought from China to the Indians, and then the Middle Easterners sold the spices to Europe in exchange for gold, and then imported the gold into China. China continued to absorb gold from all over the world, and then brought it underground with the funeral system.

When spices were scarce in Europe, the profession of piracy was born. And when China's currency tightened, it gave birth to the profession of tomb robbers.

Now that the Ming Dynasty is in the midst of an industrial revolution, this model has changed.

The Ming Dynasty needed a lot of industrial raw materials to keep its industry running, and India happened to be a region with an extremely rich production of natural raw materials.

The way the Ming Dynasty traded with India today was to exchange industrial commodities for India's industrial raw materials, as well as spices.

A large amount of industrial raw materials are then transported back to China to reproduce industrial products, and at the same time, some of the spices are shipped back to the country for sale, and some of the spices are shipped to Europe.

The trade between the Ming and Europe has now become that the Ming also sent merchant ships to Europe, and groups of merchant ships went to Europe twice a year, and then settled the trade in Portugal.

The merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty went to Europe, and it was already the second year in the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse. This brought great business opportunities to the Portuguese, who concentrated European goods to trade with the merchant fleet of the Ming Dynasty, and then sold the goods of the Ming Dynasty to European countries, making a lot of money from the difference.

The main exchange commodities between Europeans and the Ming Dynasty were precious metals, namely gold and silver. However, with the abolition of silver's monetary function by the Ming Dynasty, the exchange rate of silver fell sharply by three times, and silver became less valuable. However, gold was still valuable, and the Spaniards were able to plunder large quantities of gold and silver each year in Central and South America.

At the same time, the Ming also had trade in the Middle East, and trade with Ottoman Turkey and the Persian Empire also had a good start.

The merchant fleet of the Ming Dynasty would also trade around the continent every year, exchanging goods with Africans along the coast of the continent, just like in the Song Dynasty. However, Africans have a lower purchasing power, so many of the goods exported to Africa are cheap pottery, and when they come back, there are not so many goods to transport, and many times some local shells, firewood and other things are used as ballast.

Of course, Africans also have some valuable things, such as precious stones, gold, and ivory and other goods.

Daming never captured any black slaves in Africa, and obviously Daming did not have this habit. The immigration policy of the Ming Dynasty was different from that of the Western colonists, who needed a lot of labor in order to develop the New World, so they captured black slaves everywhere like they were capturing livestock.

The Ming Dynasty's immigration policy was to immigrate the native population to the New World, and establish a productive colony in the New World dominated by Han Chinese, and the phenomenon of enslaving other ethnic groups was not widespread.

Of course, Zhu Youxiao, a reborn person, also brought some dregs from Westerners, so he still did a lot in enslaving other ethnic groups. Especially in Southeast Asia, but I really don't have a good impression of those Southeast Asian monkeys. Now, although he realizes that this is a kind of colonial dross, the colonial system of the Ming Dynasty in Southeast Asia has been formed, and Zhu Youxiao is too lazy to cancel this system.

The primary task of a large number of ocean-going merchant ships is to communicate with the local and overseas immigration bases of the Ming Dynasty, transport the goods needed by the people who have emigrated overseas, and transport the goods produced by the overseas immigration places back, so as to ensure the normal economic operation of the overseas immigration areas.

The second task is to trade, sell the goods of the Ming Dynasty to the world, and then exchange them for a large number of precious metals, rare treasures, as well as a large number of industrial raw materials and native products.