With the Donglin Party being driven out of the capital, Zhu Youxiao was in a good mood, because there were no more messy flies in his ears.

At the same time, Sun Chengzong also joined the Han Emperor Party and completely broke off from the Donglin Party.

Sun Chengzong himself did not conspire with those corrupt officials of the Donglin Party, and with Zhu Youxiao's anti-corruption, many problems of the Donglin Party were exposed. This also made Sun Chengzong abandon the Donglin Party, and the Han Emperor Party put forward the slogan of 'building a moderately prosperous society' at this time, coupled with the strict party system, which also won Sun Chengzong's approval.

In history, after the death of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, Chongzhen ascended the throne and wanted Sun Chengzong to come out of the mountain several times. However, Sun Chengzong refused again and again, not because he didn't want to contribute to the country, but because he knew that it would be useless for him to go out of the mountain, and he would become the executor of the Donglin Party to seize the interests of the country, and not only would he not be able to serve the country at that time, but he would also bring disaster to himself.

Of course, Sun Chengzong's reluctance to do it does not mean that others are unwilling to do it, so Yuan Dudu will be on the throne.

Because of the pacification of Liaodong, Sun Chengzong was already the top feudal official of the Ming Dynasty, not only awarded the title, but also the governor of the Northeast and the emperor at this time.

The expulsion of the Donglin Party did not cause too strong a storm of public opinion, because the reputation of the Donglin Party itself was already stinking.

Large-scale corruption has been investigated, and the common people are not blind. Those scholars in the Jiangnan region, no matter how much you reverse black and white, will not help.

This rotten signboard, the Jiangnan Shi clan has also abandoned it, and is ready to change the vest.

Fang sent the book from Zhetuo Shen Yan, and Zhu Youxiao received it. For the book gift from this elder, Zhu Youxiao is still happy. I moved to the Heart Cultivation Hall and concentrated on reading books for a few days.

In this "Huainanzi". There are also notes and experiences made by Shen Yan. After Zhu Youxiao finished reading it. I just feel like I've benefited a lot. This book is a collection of 100 schools of thought, including 'world view, values, and methodology', as well as various examples of arguments, and Zhu Youxiao only felt greatly inspired after reading it.

Zhu Youxiao also found that his path to developing the consortium was still a bit crooked, but it was relatively easy to correct, and then the consortium could be changed to a state-owned enterprise, and at this time Zhu Youxiao's control over the consortium was still very strong. There is not much resistance to an early transition.

The main reason why we say that the line has gone crooked is that the capitalist line is not a very beneficial thing for a country and a nation.

In other words, the forerunners are prone to accidents.

If we want to say that capitalism was the first country in the world to reach the threshold of capitalist revolution, it must be the Ming Dynasty in China, which preceded the capitalist revolution of the British.

But the so-called lessons from the previous car and the division of the rear car.

The Ming Dynasty had no experience, so it overturned and was dug down by the merchant class in the corners of the country.

It is true that the British were the first to complete the revolution of capital, but Britain then managed two world wars. In the end, the national strength weakened and became a second-rate country in the world.

It is also a lesson from the past.

Why was China able to catch up so quickly? That's the late-mover advantage.

Fortunately, Zhu Youxiao is a traverser. Enough lessons have been learned. The Ming Dynasty was destroyed by capital, the British empire was crippled by Jewish capital, and the United States, which was formerly the world hegemon, was also weakened by Jewish capital and unable to balance the rise of China.

It can be seen from this that the danger of capitalists who disregard the interests of the state for the sake of selfish interests is very fierce.

If the royal consortium also becomes a capital force for private interests in the future, then the harm that erupts will definitely cause Daming to fall into a huge crisis.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao was just using a dose of poison to fight poison with poison. Of course, medicines are basically poisonous, and if you use it well, it is a good medicine, and if you don't use it well, it is poison, but it depends on the dose.

If the consortium can be transformed into national capital, it will be a good medicine.

After the nationalization of royal capital, if the group of workers under Zhu Youxiao began to dig into the corners of the country again, then the state-owned capital would continue to decline, which was also its weakness.

Going around and around, in fact, it goes back to the problem of governance. If an emperor is smart enough and diligent enough, it is actually very easy to govern the officials.

But if you encounter an emperor who is not flexible enough or has no culture, and is lazy and does not like to take care of things, then the rule of state officials will soon be relaxed, and the bureaucratic class will dig up the wall. If the foot of the wall is thick enough, it can be dug for decades or even hundreds of years.

Just like in the early and middle Ming Dynasty, the social atmosphere was simple, and those businessmen dug the corners of the country for many years after the rise before they dug down the foot of the wall.

But once the momentum of digging into the wall is formed, the mediocre emperor is powerless to reverse the situation, and can only watch an empire move towards the end step by step.

"There really is no eternal empire in this world." Zhu Youxiao finally realized only this truth, since an empire cannot be eternal, what is relatively eternal?

After thinking about it, only the word civilization remains.

Compared to the eternal empire, the eternal civilization is more reliable.

In order to shape a long-lasting civilization, the ancient sages have done a good job of this. As the most civilized nation in the world, the Chinese nation has fallen into the freezing point of history, but its profound culture has allowed China to rise again.

As a traverser, whether the Zhu dynasty is eternal, it is obvious that he will not force it. As the so-called three generations of virtue and king, whether the Zhu family dynasty can continue mainly depends on whether it can accumulate virtue.

If Zhu Youxiao has the ability to turn the tide, save the building from falling, and protect the people of the world, he will have great merit, and the Zhu dynasty can continue. Whether the future can continue depends on whether the emperor can continue to do good deeds and accumulate virtue. Zhu Youxiao can only spend more effort on educating the emperor's eldest son, so that he can understand these truths.

In addition to saving the building, it is also a great merit to promote education, open up the wisdom of the people, strengthen the Chinese civilization, and make the Chinese civilization 'for thousands of generations'.

Zhu Youxiao felt that he should revise his foreign expansion policy.

Foreign expansion must continue, but when dealing with the natives, we must not be too cruel and unkind, so as not to damage the yin virtue.

When the Spaniards and the British colonized the world, they did not accumulate yin virtues, so what in the end?

In the past, the Qin Dynasty destroyed the Six Kingdoms. Genghis Khan swept across Asia and Europe. The result?

Virtue is not prepared. Even if the territory is vast, it is only a flash in the pan in the end, and it is not a long-term solution. If the Ming wants to expand externally, the means of plundering should be as gentle as possible.

Moreover, Daming has the most powerful manufacturing industry in the world, and Daming has enough commodities to trade, and there is no need to rely on force to plunder roughly, and you can earn external resources through commodity exports. There was no need to sell opium to sustain trade, as the British did.

The Ming could not develop according to the bandit model of the Westerners. The robber mode is really cool, and you can make a fortune by robbing directly. But the harm is also very intense, the British plundered the world's wealth, the two world wars were a fine fight, if it were not for the post-war United States support, it would have become a third-rate country long ago.

When the United States was the hegemon of the world, it also sheared the wool of the whole world, and even openly shouted out the model of Chinese production and American consumption. It is really cool to suck the blood and sweat of the Chinese people, and you can consume it without labor. The result? The industry is hollowed out, and the manufacturing industry is basically finished.

Everything in this world. It's all good and bad. Delicious and tempting candies can make people lose a mouthful of teeth. Therefore, the means of foreign plunder must be as gentle as possible, and we must not follow the old path of brutal colonization of the world by Westerners.

Da Ming at this time. It has embarked on a trajectory of continuous outward expansion.

After the beginning of spring in the fifth year of the Apocalypse, there was a gold rush in the Heilongjiang River Basin, because someone found a large amount of gold sand in the river basin, which immediately attracted many people to the Heilongjiang River Basin to pan for gold.

Sun Chengzong reported this layer of news to the imperial court. In the morning of this day, you discussed this issue in the court.

"Your Majesty, gold is a thing that is forbidden for private mining, and the imperial court should immediately stop it and send personnel to preside over the mining." Guo Yunhou, the head of the household department, made a list of suggestions. Guo Yunhou was a relatively upright official, but also a vanguard against the Donglin Party, this time after the Donglin Party was expelled from the capital, Guo Yunhou was also promoted by Zhu Youxiao to be the head of the household department, to manage the country's finances.

Gold mining is definitely profitable, so Guo Yunhou advocates national mining.

Zhu Youxiao said: "What Aiqing said is very agreeable, but although there are more gold mines in the northeast region than the Heilongjiang River Basin, the further north you go, the more gold mines, and the colder the climate." I thought that a special department should be set up to be responsible for gold mining in the Northeast and the Outer Northeast. ”

"Your Majesty, if you go deep into the barbarian cold land to mine gold, it is beyond the competence of ordinary departments." Shen Yan came out and said, "Those who have this ability are none other than factory guards and the army." ”

"Then let's form a golden army! Specialized in gold exploration and mining for the imperial court. The personnel were selected from Jinyiwei and Dongchang, as well as from the army. "Zhu Youxiao made the decision to directly follow the methods of later generations of China and mine gold by troops.

The gold reserves in the Outer Northeast are very rich, and later Tsarist Russia continued to expand eastward, so a large amount of gold was dug up from the Outer Northeast region.

In fact, there are a lot of gold on the surface of the earth. In the past, China was like the Americas, where gold was easily found on the surface.

It's just that with the activities and mining of human beings over the ages, the gold that is easy to mine has been mined by people. Coupled with the fact that those princes and generals in Chinese history used gold for burials after their deaths, this makes China seem to have little gold today. However, the amount of gold in the private sector is actually quite a lot.

But the state reserves are pitifully small.

In the past few years, Zhu Youxiao has only saved more than a dozen tons of gold.

And in less inaccessible areas like Siberia, the amount of gold is much higher. Of course, it is unlikely that you can pick up gold while walking, because although it is inaccessible, there are still nomads who have been hunted for activities, and basically all the gold that can be picked up is picked up by them. However, the gold that needs to be mined is not being explored, so gold mining in the Outer Northeast is very promising.

It's just that the climate there is cold, and it is not convenient to replenish, and it is even more inconvenient to mine. To mine gold in those conditions, you have to use the military.

"Your Majesty."

The ministers directly agreed, no one came out to oppose or ruffle, and the efficiency of the government was more than one grade higher!

"Your Majesty, Mongolia withdrew from the area south of the Yinshan Mountains in Hetao a few days ago, and informed me through the embassy that the imperial court should take over as soon as possible."

"Does the cabinet have a plan?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

"Your Majesty, please." The cabinet immediately submitted the plan to take over the Hetao, Zhu Youxiao watched while Shen Yu explained: "After deliberation, the cabinet believes that Yinshan and the Yellow River should be used as a barrier to set up a defense line against the invasion of the Mongols. Four or five cities were built in the area to ensure that the Ming could occupy the loop for a long time. ”

The area south of Yinshan, that is, Baotou and the first line of the later generations, the area in this area is rich in water and grass, which can not only graze, but also cultivate.

As the saying goes, the Yellow River is only profitable, and there is no problem in developing irrigated agriculture in the Hetao area.

"Let's try it out according to this plan." Zhu Youxiao immediately passed this plan, as long as the city can be built, the Ming Dynasty can occupy the Hetao for a long time. At the same time, the Mongols may come to raid, so a defense system is also needed. The construction of the defense system in the Hetao area is a matter for the Supreme Command, and it will not be discussed in the court.

Another government affairs were resolved, and then the household department played a concert in the matter, reporting that the Mongolian tribe herdsmen who had taken refuge in the Ming Dynasty had been allocated pastures.

"Now that the pasture has been divided, the court's next support policy for herdsmen can also be implemented, and the most important thing on the grassland is to keep the sheepfold warm in winter, and strive to popularize it within three years." Zhu Youxiao commanded.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

As long as the herdsmen put forward their construction needs, the imperial court will provide them with loans and partial subsidies, and the construction projects will be registered in a unified manner, and then the construction projects will be tendered to the enterprises for construction.

This requires a multifaceted synergy, with mining on the one hand, construction on the other, and the banks that provide the funds. Ensuring that herders' cattle and sheep do not freeze to death in winter can allow herders to stabilize, have a stable income and have a full stomach.

After the spring of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, the imperial court had already begun to build cities on the grassland. However, it is not that you have to eat a big fat man in one go, but that you will divide the labor period.

The city was not very large, in order to allow the Han people to have a place to resist the nomads on the grassland, so as to set up an official government to manage the grassland area, and to station troops and hoard materials in the city.

Such a city, in terms of the productivity of the Ming Dynasty today, the cost is not very high. Once the city is built, just put up cannons.

The grasslands occupied by the Ming Dynasty this time are all north of Yinshan. Among them, the ** steppe of the later generations was also included in the management area of the Ming Dynasty at this time, but it was close to Mobei Mongolia, so it took the lead in building a defense system. At the same time, there was also a cavalry division stationed in the place to prevent some tribes from Mobei Mongolia from running to fight the autumn wind.

After all, these Mongol tribes who took refuge in the Ming Dynasty were relatively scattered and must have permanent troops to protect them. However, when the Mongolian tribes came to fight the autumn wind, it would take a long time to directly rob a large number of cattle and sheep. And in this time, the Ming Dynasty was enough to mobilize the Mongolian men under its rule, cooperate with the cavalry to strike at the incoming Mongolian cavalry, and even carry out counter-sweeps. (To be continued.) )