The Ming Empire began to establish Dongying Province.

The territory of the former Wa Kingdom was set up as Dongying Province, which was another province of the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, the Ming Emperor Zhu Youzhen appointed Zhang Dai as the first governor of Dongying.

Zhang Dai was born in a wealthy young man, and he was most familiar with fun, and Zhu Youzhen made him the first governor of Dongying, the purpose of which was to let him develop the cultural industry in Dongying, and the popular point is the sound and sex industry.

Now the Ming Dynasty prohibits the sale of silver and the opening of large-scale casinos, but Zhu Youzhen has instructed Zhang Dai to allow Dongying to carry out silver selling activities and open large-scale casinos, and recognize its legality.

As a result, the Ming Dynasty's domestic wind and moon places and large casinos began to move eastward on a large scale.

Qinhuai River, Yangzhou Slender West Lake, Beijing Daming Gate and other places are empty in the blink of an eye.

In less than a year, Edo, Kyoto, and Nara began to sing and dance, and it became a paradise for men.

In terms of land value, Dongying is not as good as Lelang, Dongying is barren and has scarce resources, but the tax revenue brought to Daming is far greater than Lelang.

Scholars and doctors all yearn for it, and every time they are on vacation, they will go east to Kyoto, Edo and other prefectures to satisfy their fleshly desires, and spend a lot of money on it, and return with a lot of tiredness and loss.

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In addition to the land in the Guannei, the Ming Dynasty now has the places outside the customs of the four provinces of Monan, Northeast, Lelang and Dongying, as well as colonies across the South Sea or walking in the Indian Peninsula, the Cape of Good Hope, Western Europe, and the Americas.

The territory spans the globe, so to speak, and it is already the so-called empire on which the sun never sets.

Now the waters of Japan, the Ming Sea and the South China Sea have become the Ming Inland Sea, with an endless stream of ships coming and going, and commerce and trade are extremely developed, and because these places have become the Ming Inland Sea, and the overseas places have become the Ming Territory, the tariffs have been abolished, and the tariff privileges of the Zheng Group have been further reduced.

The commercial tax revenue of the imperial court is getting higher and higher, the Pearl River Delta, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Gyeonggi region of Beizhili have become the Daming industrial base, while Huguang, Southwest, Lelang and Northeast China have become the Daming agricultural base, and a steady stream of agricultural products and raw materials are transported to Songjiang, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Ningbo, Yuegang and other places for processing and export or domestic sales.

The Daming Jinzhou and Batavia City and the Ryukyus, which did not belong to the Ming Dynasty, became transit points, so that the Ming goods could be exported to Western Europe.

Dongying does not need to be repeated, it has become the entertainment base of the people of the Ming Dynasty, the concentration of green buildings and casinos, and the concentration of gangs in the rivers and lakes, staging all kinds of crazy human behaviors.

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But in general, the center of the Ming ruling area was still in Guannai, especially Beijing, Nanjing, Songjiang, Ningbo, Chengdu, Wuchang, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Yuegang, and Yangzhou.

The best universities in the Ming Dynasty are home to the most advanced manufacturing companies, banking and securities institutions, and they are the hubs of the entire Greater East Asia region.

Moreover, these places were the concentration of imperial nobles and first-class citizens.

The nobles and first-class citizens of the Ming Empire enjoyed the right to education, the right to life, and benefits such as medical insurance, social insurance, unemployment insurance, and pension insurance, which made them control the most wealth, the strongest consumption power, and the largest spare time, which made the commercial and economic activities in these places still the most active.

With the opening of the first railway from Zhangjiakoubao to Beijing and the first railway trunk line from Beijing to Nanjing, the north-south exchanges between the north and the south of the customs and the exchanges between the outside and the customs have become more convenient.

Railways, sea routes, water transportation, and official roads became the four major trunk lines of the Ming Dynasty's north-south exchanges, each of which brought more than 10 million silver dollars in annual tax revenue to the Ming treasury, and the merchants, workers and officials who lived on these four trunk lines were also millions.

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In March of the forty-second year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty began his first southern tour.

Now he rarely interferes in the affairs of the court, and the citizens of the empire seem to be accustomed to the form of the cabinet chief assistant presiding over the affairs of the court, forgetting that he, the emperor, is the real behind-the-scenes operator.

In order to make the political system and economic system of the Ming Dynasty more perfect before he enters old age, and to ensure that the empire is in a state of continuous renewal and progress, he must re-understand the Ming society under his rule.

In addition to a few more princesses and Korean princesses sent by local officials, there has not been much change in the Forbidden City, and the palace has been renovated at most, with a few more bicycles and other new gadgets.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen couldn't see much change in the empire when he stayed in the Forbidden City, so he decided to come out for a walk.

He even had a great ambition to walk every inch of the empire in his lifetime.

Anyway, now that the empire has the first assistant of the cabinet to preside over the government and the generalissimo's office to preside over the military affairs, Zhu Youzhen no longer has to deal with government affairs every day, and he has time to go out.

What's more, he doesn't know how long he has to live, and he can only hurry up and look at his empire to determine how to make the empire better develop in the future without his own.

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This time, Zhu Youzhen traveled south by steam train.

As an emperor, he naturally has his own special train.

Even the head of the empire has his own special train, and it was specially approved by Zhu Youzhen.

The Imperial Chief's assistant no longer toured the south with Zhu Youzhen, he had his own daily plan, and could even directly issue administrative orders, and now Zhu Youzhen had the right to remove and appoint him.

March is the season when the grass grows and the warbler flies, Zhu Youzhen took the railway along the Grand Canal and the official road of Liangjing all the way south, and he could see the scenery and humanity of the empire clearly through the glass.

The scenery along the way, such as Shuntian Mansion, Baoding Mansion, and Hejian Mansion, flashed in front of Zhu Youzhen's eyes like a slide.

Since the Northern Expedition, the northern gentry have almost all been eradicated, the policy of clearing the acres of land has been smoothly implemented, and the people have their own land, so now the farmland in the entire Beizhili territory is enough to see the wheat fields endlessly, Rao is getting late, and you can also see the farmers who return with the moon and lotus hoes.

"Henan has now become a large grain-producing province, the saline-alkali land around the Yellow River has been governed, the year before last to build the Yellow River railway bridge, Futai to collect hundreds of thousands of people is not a problem, millions of people concentrated here to eat grain did not starve to death, especially after the popularization of chemical fertilizer, the yield per mu has increased a lot, even if it is a famine year, there can be sweet potatoes and potatoes to fill hunger, the dynasty is prosperous, nothing more than this, many people say, if it were not for His Majesty to revive the Ming Dynasty, everyone is still living under the weight of the Tartars."

Zhu Youzhen just smiled after listening to what Chen Zhenhui, the governor of Henan on the side, said: "Henan is located in the Central Plains, which is the thoroughfare between the north and the south, and is also a major agricultural province. ”

"Wechen understands!"

When Chen Zhenhui answered, Zhu Youzhen looked at the mighty Yellow River in front of him and a railway bridge on the Yellow River, and couldn't help but sigh: "If it weren't for the emergence of concrete technology and bridge construction in the new school, such a bridge would probably not appear in hundreds of years." ”

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