For a large country like the Ming Dynasty, it is difficult to take the lead in completing the industrial revolution under normal circumstances. Because the completion of the industrial revolution www.biquge.info not only technology, but also a lot of financial resources. But as a big country, there are basically no very rich objects to plunder from the outside, and under normal circumstances, there is no money to carry out the industrial revolution.

But the reason why small European countries like Britain were able to take the lead in completing the Industrial Revolution was because they were small countries and had rich goals to plunder. In order to ensure their superiority in plundering, they will also continue to develop their military, and then slowly complete the industrial revolution.

The Industrial Revolution did not happen overnight, and the first stage was the development of rural handicrafts. Before the invention of the steam engine, Britain spent a lot of time developing rural handicrafts. Just like China in the later eighties, it was also a period of development of rural handicrafts.

With rural handicrafts, there was the basis for the Industrial Revolution.

Now the reason why Daming can move towards the industrial revolution is naturally because of the existence of Zhu Youxiao's BUG, which is first technically available. At the same time, technology made profits, and a lot of money was made through raiding homes and the like, which was being smashed into the process of the industrial revolution by Zhu Youxiao at this time.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao's foreign plundering action was mainly to plunder resources, and the reason for the population growth and historical development of the Ming Dynasty led to the shortage of many resources. Coupled with natural and man-made disasters, resources are even more strained.

At the same time, in terms of trade, the main thing is to obtain the precious metals plundered by Westerners in the Americas, to solve the problem of insufficient currency circulation in the Ming Dynasty, after all, too much silver in the past was hidden in the hands of those rich people who were unwilling to spend it, and the people are getting poorer and poorer, lack of sufficient purchasing power, and the market does not have enough power, which has caused the problem of lack of economic vitality, and over time it will be an economic crisis, but before the Ming Dynasty, there will be an annual import of silver through sea trade, which has alleviated this problem to a certain extent. But the life of the common people is very difficult, and there is a long-term shortage of nutrients.

However, there is a solution to this problem. Because Zhu Youxiao styled the Apocalypse Treasure Banknote, the face value of the Apocalypse Treasure Banknote is now very strong, anyway, in the exchange with precious metals, the exchange rate with the silver dollar is 1:1. If Zhu Youxiao wants to make the Ming economy prosperous, as long as the banks release water and increase the money supply in the market, it can be realized.

Of course, it is also not allowed to release water indiscriminately, otherwise the state will suffer heavy financial losses. In the past few years, the imperial court has been implementing a monetary tightening policy, and the issuance of loans to private enterprises has been suspended for nearly three years. It's not completely stopped, it's just that fewer loans are issued, and the review of mortgaged assets is stricter.

This time in the Jiangnan reform, the Daming Central Bank released a wave of water.

After Jiang Dejing entered the cabinet, he also immediately adjusted the monetary policy of the central bank of Daming, and the monetary policy of Daming began to change from tightening to easing and entered the next stage.

Loans are issued mainly in the industrial sector.

In the past few years, the production capacity of steam engines in machinery manufacturing plants has become larger and larger, and steam engines can be supplied in large quantities to privately funded factories.

At this time, the water is released, and factories that use steam engines in large quantities will appear.

There is also the Jiangnan area, which has just been reformed and needs to be built. In addition, the Jiangnan area itself is an area with many factories.

As soon as the central bank's loans were adjusted, the number of factories in the industrial zones increased dramatically, and many township enterprises using steam engines appeared.

In the past few years, there have been many successful demonstrations of the use of steam engines, which made production efficiency explode, and at the same time the railroad transported goods to a wider market, and these factories were very profitable.

This is also an era that belongs to factory owners, so this time after the release of water by the Central Bank of the Ming Dynasty, private industrial investment is simply crazy. Not only did a large number of privately-owned factories appear in the northern provinces, but also a large number of privately-owned factories using steam engines also appeared in the Jiangnan region.

The industrial productivity of the Ming Dynasty has moved towards a stage of rapid improvement in the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, and the productivity has exploded directly.

The textile mills in the Jiangnan region began to be equipped with a large number of steam engine textile equipment, and the textile industry in the north also began to shift to the south.

The reform of the Jiangnan region has also provided a strong economic impetus for the heavy industry in the northern provinces, and the heavy industry in the north has sounded a new wave of prosperity.

At the same time, the larger-scale railway construction activities in the 15th year of the Apocalypse also injected a strong impetus into heavy industry. Not only the construction of the railway to Mongolia has begun, but also the railway from Huguang to Guangdong and Sichuan has also begun to explore the line and will be built.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty was building a nationwide railway network.

Grain, ore, timber, industrial commodities and other things began to be transported in large quantities by rail, and the commodities were sold to a wider area, and the establishment of factories suddenly became a trend in many provinces in the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse. A large number of landlords and businessmen are drilling into this.

Of course, not everyone can do it, but at this time it is in the crazy dividend stage, and the success rate is very high.

The explosion of light industrial productivity led to a surge in the number of industrial goods exported in the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse. In the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, the merchant fleet escorted by the Ming Royal Fleet visited Europe for the first time, sailed into the port of the Portuguese, and completed a trade with the Portuguese.

Portugal also signed a trade agreement with the Ming Dynasty, and Portugal suddenly became a transit point for the Ming Dynasty's exports to Europe.

For the first time, the Ming personally shipped goods to Europe, and the agreement signed by the Portuguese and the Spaniards to restrict the import of Ming goods has completely lapsed.

At this time, the way Daming plundered the outside world had become business.

Zhu Youxiao's action on the expansion of the territory has slowed down, Nanyang, Australia is already the territory of the Ming Dynasty at this time, on the Indochina Peninsula, Annam, Champong, and Khmer are already under the direct rule of the Ming Dynasty, the king of Champa and the Khmer King have to get the canonization of the Ming Dynasty, go home to become the landlord of the land, and they don't have to worry about their own country in the future, the administration and national defense of the Ming Dynasty have been given to them, they don't have to do anything, they have a large amount of income every year, just live in peace.

However, in the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao issued an order to abolish the king of Annam, and officially renamed Annam (Vietnam) as Cochin Province. The Ming army once carried out a plunder in Hanoi, which is not very moral. But now that Annan has been abolished, Zhu Youxiao announced that this is to recover the lost territory in history, and this immoral act has covered up the past, anyway, the materials in the palace will not record this history.

As for the differential treatment of the Nanyang natives, it is still ongoing, but in the name of education, it can always explain the past, and the Ming Dynasty, as a big country, will not look so bad on face. And there are indeed a lot of black histories of those natives! There are also reasons for explanation.

Also in Australia, the Ming Dynasty did not carry out any massacres, but according to the social stage of the Australian aborigines, they were first turned into bonded laborers, and then indoctrinated to integrate them into the Ming society.

But even if these black histories are turned out in the future, Zhu Youxiao is not afraid! Anyway, it's bad! There is even more unsightly black history for Westerners, and the Ming Dynasty will never be worse than those colonial countries in Europe anyway. And Daming's current expansion policy, at least there are still a lot of Huairou policies! The slaughter of foreign natives is now completely forbidden, as is looting.

The territory of the Ming Dynasty is now very large, and it has gradually advanced to the Arctic Circle to the north, and the golden troops sent by Zhu Youxiao have laid stone monuments along the way, and those lands have been assigned to the territory of the Ming Dynasty. To the south, it advanced to the islands of Australia and New Zealand. To the east, it took Hawaii and the west coast of North America, and Hokkaido, which later became Japan, was now also owned by the Ming Dynasty. To the west, it has advanced to the Central Asian steppes, and half of Kazakhstan has been incorporated into the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and a colony has also been established in South Africa.

The territory is larger, and there are more ethnic minorities in the territory, and the situation is much more complicated. It's time for Da Ming to stop and digest it.

However, the migration to North America did not stop, and in the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao ordered to organize a fleet of immigrants and sailed to Jinshan Port on the west coast of North America with 50,000 immigrants.

The rule over the Mongols also proceeded relatively smoothly.

With the construction of the railway to Mongolia, the force has been completely crushed, which tribe wants to rebel, the imperial court can directly send a large number of troops through the railway to suppress it, and there is no need to worry about any logistical problems.

However, the continuous expansion has slowed down, and it only continues to expand in North America, mainly to lay a foundation, and the expansion speed is not fast.

The expansion of the Western Regions Military Region also stopped, and Zhu Youxiao ordered Sun Chuanting to reclaim land in the Western Regions and build a national defense boundary. Sun Chuanting immediately led an army of 200,000 to reclaim and build roads in various parts of the Western Regions.

Sun Chengzong and other ministers are now more opposed to Zhu Youxiao's continued large-scale use of troops abroad, and although the situation is improving now, no matter how strong the country is, it can't withstand constant tossing! Especially for a country like the Ming Dynasty, the common people are very resistant to expeditions.

China is an agricultural civilization, and the common people are willing to sacrifice their lives and forget their lives in defending the land, but they are not very supportive of expeditions. The main reason why Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty was called a tyrant was that he organized several waves of large-scale conquests, and a large number of ordinary people were conscripted into the army and left their hometowns.

So although from a national point of view, Emperor Yang of Sui has made great achievements, but in the eyes of the common people, he is a tyrant. Zhu Youxiao didn't want to turn himself into a tyrant, so he didn't insist on it, and suspended the process of foreign expansion. It is intended to use small forces to expand externally after upgrading military technology.

Zhu Youxiao's foreign war activities have also been carried out quite a bit, and the reason why they have not been opposed by the common people is mainly because they have adopted the line of elite soldiers, fewer people have died, and a large number of soldiers have made meritorious contributions, so more and more ordinary people support these military activities.

But if there are several waves of defeat, there will be more casualties, and there will be strong opposition.

Moreover, science and technology are not developed in these years, and if people fight guerrilla warfare with you, the war will not end for a while and a half, and then the people who have worked hard and lost money will continue to fight, and the country will be warlike and will die.

In terms of foreign wars, the war was put on hold for the time being, and Zhu Youxiao focused on internal reform, digesting the territory to be developed, and doing business.

Externally, it is to concentrate on doing business and digging for gold.

The Ming fleet sailed to Europe, and in the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, it established a trade route with the Europeans for the Ming merchant ships, and the sea transportation was no longer the responsibility of the Europeans, so that the profits were more lucrative.

The most important thing is that the Ming Dynasty began to do business directly with European countries, and there was no need to be made another hand by the Portuguese and Spaniards.

Of course, these two countries are also running this route now, that is, to transport goods from the port of Malacca to Europe, and there is no conflict anyway.

The merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty were all under the protection of the Ming Royal Fleet, and they went to Europe en masse, and there were at least fifty large merchant ships on a voyage, and those privateers in Europe did not dare to provoke them at all. There are more than ten warships escorted each time, all of which are the most advanced warships of the Ming Dynasty.

The second group of merchant ships visited Spain, France, and the United Kingdom, and signed trade agreements with these countries one after another. Merchant ships from these countries can go to Malacca to trade with Daming, but they are not allowed to cross the Strait of Malacca.

After successive trade with these European countries, the number of goods exported in the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse soared wildly, with the trade volume reaching 150 million taels of silver and the trade deficit reaching more than 90 million taels of silver, which was extremely terrifying.

The external plundering of the Ming Dynasty does not need to be carried out by robbery at all. Plunder can be completed by exporting goods, but the Europeans have too few goods, and many of the goods exported to the Ming Dynasty were loaded onto the ship with their eyes closed in order not to empty the warehouse when the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty returned.

Wheat, slaves, ore, and even timber, anything of some value anyway, could be bought by a merchant ship of the Ming Dynasty. Although you can't make much money by bringing it back, you can't go back empty! The ship was not directly blown over by the wind and waves. And if you bring those things back, you can still make a little bit of money.

But Daming's goods have been exchanged for a lot of precious metals.

These precious metals were plundered back by Europeans in the Americas and other places, and Spain was one of the big ones, but the Spanish industry was too warlike and relied on imports for a large number of goods. So other European countries made a lot of money by doing business with the Spaniards.

But now that the merchant fleet of the Ming Dynasty is coming, it has robbed the business of many European countries. Their industrial products, in the face of Daming's industrial products, directly lost their competitiveness.

Predictably, such trade will not be peaceful for long. Those European countries, it is estimated that within a few years, they will begin to resist trade with the Ming Dynasty because of the large loss of precious metals.

Zhu Youxiao anticipated this situation, so in the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, he threw a huge sum of 100 million silver dollars at the navy and ordered the construction of larger and more advanced battleships, so that he could sanction those European countries under the banner of free trade.