"Spring River Plumbing Duck Prophet, Autumn Mountain Wind Cold Nestle Sleeping ......"

"This Ming Dynasty should also change."

At the tail of September, dressed in a Taoist robe, Hong Chengchou, who had a rare day off, looked at the pool scene in the mansion full of fallen leaves, and couldn't help but sigh.

A few days ago, he had just passed his fiftieth birthday, and he could be regarded as entering the ranks of half a hundred.

His age is not easy for the people, but for him and most officials, this is only the age when he has just stepped into the cabinet.

Hong Chengchou looked at the fish in the pool, sprinkling fish food in his hand, and looking at the group of fish competing for him to scatter fish food, he seemed to think of something, and couldn't help laughing.

After a few moments, the fish food was finished, and he cleaned the scraps from his hands and turned to walk deeper into the corridor.

Yu Chenglong, who had been waiting for a long time, hurriedly followed when he saw this, Hong Chengchou didn't say a word, until he walked into the study and sat down, picked up the teacup and took a sip, and then he said to Yu Chenglong, who was standing in front of the desk:

"Your political performance is good, it was their idea that the officials transferred you back to Beijing, not at the behest of the old man, you don't have to be afraid."

"I've also seen the performance of the ministry, they recommended you as an observer envoy to North Korea, this errand is not too tiring, but it is not easy to accumulate merits, I'm afraid you have to go to North Korea for three years to complete the callback."

Hong Chengchou talked about Jackie Chan's future, and the post of North Korean observer in his mouth was the official position of the foreign domain set up by Zhu Ciran at the beginning of the year.

The observation envoy was the sixth product, and was responsible for observing the official positions of the Ming foreign vassals such as Joseon, Siam, Gan Xiaozhi, Mongolia, Sulu, Boni, and Nanzhang.

In addition to truthfully recording the political atmosphere of temples and people in various countries, the observation envoy also needs to play a role in communication.

However, in order to prevent the observation envoys from doing misdeeds in foreign countries, Zhu Ciran forbade the observation envoys to participate in the politics of various countries.

In other words, an observer is a "historian" who records the situation of a vassal state, and only has the power to record and passively diplomacy.

Without the will of the imperial court, they could not take the initiative to carry out any political acts.

Of course, if the monarch of the vassal state has something that needs to trouble the Ming Dynasty, then the observer needs to play the role of conveying it, and he is quite a resident diplomat, but his authority is a little more complicated than that of later generations of diplomats.

"North Korea is now the first foreign vassal of the country, and the soldiers and horses are constantly being reduced, and the heart of submission is clearly revealed, so don't interfere in its government affairs after you pass, and after three years, the imperial court will naturally send a suitable official position for you to make contributions."

After Hong Chengchou finished speaking, he poured down the teacup that had been drunk in his hand, and Yu Chengchan immediately went to add tea to him when he saw this:

"The students will do their best to observe North Korean things, thank you for the teacher's suggestions."

"Don't worry about thanking, the old man still hasn't asked you something." Hong Chengchou interrupted, then hesitated for a second before asking:

"In your opinion, what do the people and local officials think about the current situation of Qi Wang's vassal affairs?"

Hong Chengchou obviously had an answer in his heart, but he still couldn't help asking, the reason was nothing more than that he wanted to be completely sure whether Zhu Youzhen could come back and continue to control the overall situation after he left.

For his inquiry, Yu Chengchan did not hide it, but responded word by word:

"In the humble opinion of the students, the hearts of the people are still on the King of Qi at the moment, but the hearts of the hundred officials have been placed on the Long Live and the East Palace."

"The reason for this is also due to the fact that King Qi has increased the length of the textbook on Long Live and the East Palace, and reduced his own space."

"If we also follow this path to control, the king of Qi will soon be forgotten by the people...... Even if it is not forgotten, it will not have the same impact as it does now. ”

Yu Chenglong expressed his opinion, which was basically the same as what Hong Chengchou thought, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.

"Okay, the old man knows, you can step down."

Hong Chengchou was a lot more relaxed, and waved his hand so that Yu Chengchan could retreat.

Seeing this, Yu Chenglong did not stay long, but slowly withdrew from the study after returning the salute.

After he left, Hong Chengchou stroked his long beard, looked at the table and kept whispering:

"Textbook ......"

"That's it, it's not a big problem."

Almost as Hong Chengchou whispered, Zhu Youzhen, who lived in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies in Nanjing City, also pushed out the piles of thirty-two textbooks.

In front of him was Lu Wenzhao, and Lu Wenzhao looked at these teaching materials and couldn't help but smile bitterly:

"It took His Highness a year to finally write the textbooks for these twelve subjects, but do these university textbooks really have to be used by the Guo Dynasty, not the Qi State first?"

Lu Wenzhao looked at the thirty-two meticulous textbooks, and couldn't help but admire His Royal Highness a little, and at the same time showed worry in his heart.

It's just that in the face of his question, Zhu Youzhen smiled indifferently:

"Qi Guo doesn't need the university's textbooks yet, but Da Ming really needs them."

"In addition, there are many subjects that I cannot be proficient in, so I also need the government and academic department to gather talents to record the learning methods of various industries and teach students how to make a living in society."

"It is estimated that the textbooks will be released in three years, and the government schools will also be set up at the four levels of Mongolian studies, primary schools, middle schools, and universities, for a total of 16 years."

"From the age of five to enter Mongolia, students can finish at the age of 20, just enough to become an adult."

Zhu Youzhen said, his face also showed joy, turned around and took out a new calendar from the bookshelf behind him.

"This is the festival calendar of the Qi Kingdom, in addition to the previous thirty-two festivals, there are also the Thousand Birthday Festival of the vassal king, the Millennium Festival of the princess, and the number of days off has increased from fifty-seven days to sixty-three days."

"However, there are 12 festivals, and the 28-day holiday belongs to the winter and summer vacations, which will not delay the students' learning too much."

"It's just that Qi also has to make corresponding regulations, and the festivals that all walks of life must give employees holidays on are the Wanshou Festival and the Qianqiu Festival, as well as the Qianshou Festival and the Millennium Festival, as well as the Shangsi Festival, the New Year's Day, the Lantern Festival, the National Day, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Double Ninth Festival and other holidays."

"These ten festivals require 22 days off, and employees are not allowed to be dismissed."

The festivals mentioned by Zhu Youzhen are the ten important festivals of Qi State, but the 22-day holidays of these ten festivals are not paid vacations, because the productivity cannot meet the conditions for making these basic benefits, but the conditions will be increased as appropriate in the future.

For the people of the Ming Dynasty who were accustomed to daily wages, such a holiday was easy to calculate, and there would be no such thing as full attendance without deducting a few hundred.

"Everything should be arranged in advance, and in addition, the preparations for the day of the feudal domain should also be prepared in advance to avoid causing riots."

Zhu Youzhen explained the matter of the domain, but Lu Wenzhao was very helpless:

"Your Highness, you don't know how the people reacted when you announced the news of the domain."

"Since March, Beijing's Baiwangfang has been surrounded by people, who are shouting for you not to go."

"At present, the number of such people is no less than 10,000, once the news of you in Nanjing leaks out, I am afraid that it will not take three days, and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies will also have to be surrounded."

"Forget it, let's not talk about that." Zhu Youzhen waved his hand to signal Lu Wenzhao not to say this, but asked about the international situation:

"What is the situation in Europe? Did the Fur machine gain the upper hand? ”

Now that several months have passed, Zhu Youzhen is curious whether Spain can suppress the Protestant alliance when the English Civil War was frustrated and France was mired in civil strife.

"Back to Your Highness, the latest news is that Denmark surrendered and sued for peace, and Franc took advantage of Gusta's distraction to launch a counterattack north to recover part of the land from him."

"Française (France) lost a lot of territory in the Franc machine's counteroffensive, which also made the court and military aristocracy within Françaine temporarily stop their counterattack on Mazarin and unanimously to the outside world."

"At present, Fran is fully armed and ready to devote all 150,000 troops to the battle against Fran aircraft."

"In addition, the army of the Red Hairy also blocked the counterattack of the Franz army."

"However, on the whole, Franji still recovered a lot of lost territory, and also with the help of the first batch of 600,000 stone wheat sold by Qi State, it basically stabilized the domestic situation."

"Now Franc still maintains an army of 320,000, and with the help of 150,000 troops under the command of his allies, it seems that he has the upper hand."

Lu Wenzhao made the situation in Europe clear in a few words, and Zhu Youzhen also kept nodding his head during the inspection.

"What about the situation in Southwest Asia?" Zhu Youzhen inquired about the Triple Alliance in Southwest Asia, and this is also the direction of Lu Wenzhao's current main spying intelligence.

"The situation of the three kingdoms has basically been discovered, the annual income is about the same as estimated, reaching 46 million taels, the population is basically about 70 million, and the army is also about 400,000."

"However, about sixty percent of their army is still an old-fashioned army that uses cold weapons, and only the Rumi Kingdom (Ottoman) has the ability to imitate rifles and European flintlock pistols."

"Persia and the South have already introduced technology, but it will have to wait a while longer for it to mature."

"The construction of the Ganges River Bridge leading to the Zhou State has already begun, and with the experience of the Yangtze River Bridge, coupled with the willingness of the Zhou State to contribute labor, it is estimated that it will be completed in three years, and then the Guo Dynasty army can directly launch an attack on the southern captives by land from the Zhou State."

Lu Wenzhao gave a rough account of the changes in the Southwest Asian Triple Alliance, in which it is not difficult to see the scale of this alliance.

After counting it carefully, the world is now basically divided into four alliances.

These four alliances are the Great Ming Sect vassal system, which accounts for one-half of the world's population, the Southwest Asian Triple Alliance, which accounts for one-fifth of the world's population, and the European Protestant Alliance and the Catholic Alliance, which each account for one-tenth of the population.

Among the four systems, in terms of the current situation, it is the absolute first of the Ming Dynasty, followed by the three West Asian countries, the third of the Catholic League, and the fourth of the Protestant Union.

In addition to these four alliances, there are also Poland, Tsarist Russia and other countries, but the power is difficult to be elegant.

However, for Da Ming, the other three alliances are just surviving.

After the completion of the railway more than ten years later, the army of the Ming Dynasty could quickly reach the Western Front within three weeks, and that was the day when they fell one after another.

The only thing that needs to be paid attention to now is to restore productivity so that the land in hand can be turned into resources.

There is no need for Zhu Youzhen to worry about this, what he is more worried about is the assimilation of the natives in Yingzhou and the northwest of Luchuan.

"Not counting marrying a Han girl, how many people are there in the country?"

Zhu Youzhen asked Lu Wenzhao, to which Lu Wenzhao also replied directly: "About 17 million." ”

"Seventeen million ......" Hearing this number, Zhu Youzhen frowned, but quickly soothed his brows.

Although there are many of them, it can be seen that the native people are being assimilated.

As long as nothing goes wrong, the current territory of the Ming Dynasty will be the basic territory of the Han people in the future......

As soon as he thought of this, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but feel proud.

He raised the standard of unification, and in the Ming Dynasty under his rule, the Han people occupied the dominant ethnic status and dominant position in any province.

Such a territory, even if it shrinks in the future, it will not shrink anywhere, not to mention that after the era enters the industry, the expansion of the Ming Dynasty will only become more and more rapid.

In the early stage of industrial development, the fastest effective means was plunder, and the population market and resources were all needed by industry.

It is not an easy thing for a country with such a huge size as the Ming Dynasty to meet its needs, not to mention that the industrialization of the Ming Dynasty has only achieved a little results......

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen picked up the note of the household, and he opened it to see that the content recorded on it was the number of newborns that could be counted before September 15 after the New Year's Day.

"Five million ...... 160,000"

Looking at the number recorded in the content, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help laughing.

The baby boom after the drought was much larger than he expected, and if nothing else, in the twenty-third year of the Apocalypse, the new population of the Ming Dynasty could reach about 6.5 million.

Compared with the 6.5 million newborn population, the less than 1.5 million dead population made Zhu Youzhen happy from the bottom of his heart.

With the territory and industrial strength of the Ming Dynasty, according to the number of this baby boom, it only takes ten years for the Ming to consolidate its rule in remote areas.

Probably when the railway to Central Asia was completed, the population of the Ming Dynasty could exceed 300 million.

Under such circumstances, the Western Expedition will be launched if nothing else......

Zhu Youzhen's face was full of smiles, and Lu Wenzhao next to him also took the opportunity to say: "The population of newborns in Qi Country has also reached 250,000 in August this year. ”

"Well...... Compared with the baby boom of Da Ming, Zhu Youzhen is not very concerned about the baby boom of Qi Guo.

It's not that his mind is still on Da Ming, but he knows that Qi will be a country of immigrants for a long time in the future.

Therefore, the greater the population of the Ming Dynasty, the more the population of the Qi State will be, and the two are complementary.

When natural disasters and man-made disasters occurred, the Ming Dynasty transferred the population of unstable factors and received it from Qi to calm the instability for the Ming Dynasty and increase its own population at the same time.

Although the drought has passed, the territory of the Ming Dynasty is so vast, and there will be more natural and man-made disasters than before, Zhu Youzhen believes that his brother and eldest nephew will make decisions and dispositions that can maintain the Ming Dynasty's feudal system.

The system of the Ming Dynasty is also a tributary system, which is regarded as a kind of arrogance and self-containment by people who do not understand this system, and represents a backward concept.

But the de facto tributary system is precisely a kind of initial "globalization".

The most important thing about the so-called globalization is actually the international system and rules, that is, how to ensure that different countries can act according to the same rules, so as not to go to a barbaric country and be directly robbed, arrested, eaten and cut.

So it's really a matter of rules, values, laws.

Under the values and legal system of the Ming Dynasty, the whole world is not the king's land, and the whole world is governed by the king's law, as long as the emperor is recognized, there is a legal system and order.

If we want to make sure that foreign countries follow the same rules as us, we need foreign tribute.

The significance of tribute lies in whether a country recognizes the emperor, whether it is willing to abide by the royal law, and become an orderly and safe place recognized by the emperor.

Only by acknowledging these can the country do business with the Ming Dynasty normally.

This system may seem to be discriminatory against Gentiles, but in fact, on the contrary, the tributary system is precisely the most friendly international system for Gentiles.

The tributary system has hardly interfered with foreign countries, and it has never wanted to change foreign ideologies and institutions, as has been the case with the dominant international system in modern times.

The essence of the tributary system is actually just a requirement that the different countries in the system follow the common rules of exchange, and this rule is expressed through the fact that everyone is "approved by the emperor".

The biggest difference between the tributary system and today's Western-dominated international system is precisely because of the "universal" concept of Western Christianity.

They always want to change you with something universal, and the tributary system only requires different countries to interact with each other, regardless of what you are "within", as long as "countries" abide by common rules and systems.

If you don't follow this rule, then let it go and don't deal with you.

However, if any country that is not open-minded wants to do evil and damage the interests of this system, then the powerful Ming Empire does not mind teaching you a lesson.

On the basis of this system, Zhu Youzhen re-established the three different levels of the outer domain, the inner domain, and the Ming Dynasty, but on the whole, the order used is still the same.

All vassal states are prefixed with "Daming", such as Daming Siam, Daming Zhou, and so on.

Of course, there are also countries that are a little more loyal, such as North Korea, which always calls itself "Ariamyeong Joseon, Emperor Myeong, and Daummyung Joseon", and the king openly says, "I am the filial son of my parents' country, and you are the rebel son".

For Zhu Youzhen, there is no need for these vassal states to rule directly, he only needs to speed up the integration of the suzerain-vassal system.

That is, the people of the country under the system can freely enter and leave other countries through formal procedures, and all countries use the "Da Ming Law" uniformly, but on the basis of the "Da Ming Law", they can add a separate chapter of their own country, such as "Da Ming Qi Law" is a model.

In addition to the law, the rest is the issue of currency.

The currency under the vassal system must be the currency of the Ming Dynasty, which is the only currency that is common within the rules.

There are not many rules set by Zhu Youjian, just a few of them, but these are the few rules, but these have allowed the Ming Dynasty to control the feudal domains and initially form a globalization.

When the Ming Dynasty was densely populated, the population could flow out to assimilate other vassal states.

When the population of the Ming Dynasty was insufficient, it could attract the population of various countries through economic means.

Of course, it was not easy to gain the approval of the Ming Dynasty and successfully join the clan system, as can be seen from Lin Dan Khan's encounter all the way to the west.

At present, there are actually many countries that want to join the Daming Sect system, and Portugal and the Netherlands can be said to be the two pioneers in Europe who want to join the Daming Sect system, but Zhu Youzhen has not agreed.

The reason is that the cost of Daming's desire to directly intervene in Europe is too great, and it will also arouse the vigilance of Spain and France, and some of the gains outweigh the losses.

The immediate priority is to let the Ming Dynasty work in India and Levia become the main ethnic group and population, and the matter in Europe will take a long time to be resolved.

What the Ming needs is effective expansion, and if there is no way to assimilate, it is ineffective expansion.

"The population of the domains of Levia has reached 4.6 million, which is beyond my expectations."

Zhu Youzhen sighed a little when he flipped through the household recital, and at the same time he also saw a string of numbers representing labor reformers.

He did not react to this series of figures, but laid out the problem of Levia's immigrant population:

"The Indian and Levian can move around as often as they please, and the vassal kings should not worry about the court getting angry."

"The poverty of the vassal states of India, and the abundance of prisoners and labourers in Levia, are things that can be negotiated in the future."

"We can't just care about Han immigrants, cross-ethnic marriage is the general trend, we can't let the Han people get rich, and the people in India are still in a state of poverty."

"Increasing the benefits of marrying Han and distributing more acres of land are all things that the imperial court can do in the future."

Zhu Youzhen was discussing the affairs of Han men and native women, and Lu Wenzhao also took notes after listening.

However, at this point in the discussion, Lu Wenzhao also talked about the division of the Han land of the Qi State: "The ...... of the Qi Kingdom"

"What Qi needs is recognition, after all, the people of Qizhou (America) are the tribes that migrated from China, and what they need now is to recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors."

"The education problem in Qi is a century-old plan, and it is necessary for everyone in Qizhou to be able to study."

Zhu Youzhen didn't have too many means of assimilation against Qi State, not because he didn't have it, but because Qi State didn't need it.

The culture and writing of the people of Qizhou have long been emptied by the colonizers, and their cultures and nationalities are different and imperfect.

In the past, the so-called countries were nothing more than larger tribes.

Such a culture can be crushed almost without any obstacle when encountering a complete culture like Qi and talking about the existence of any place that can be "since ancient times".

This is true in theory, and so it is in reality.

Many tribes without culture and writing fell under the culture of Qi almost as soon as they became naturalized to Qi.

The significance of Zhu Youzhen's revision of the textbook this time and his promotion in the Ming Dynasty is that he also added some of the content of Zhuxia immigrants to the north and crossed the glacier to Qizhou in the textbook of the Ming Dynasty.

Not only that, but he also made changes to Leviya, India, Nanzhou, Europe and other places, claiming that the Chinese people came out of Leviya because of environmental degradation, and then lived in various places, and finally chose to settle in the Central Plains, which was the most suitable place to live at that time, and thus became the most populous country in the past few thousand years.

As for the existing ethnic groups in other lands, they basically followed the footsteps of the Chinese ancestors, and when the Chinese ancestors walked in front of them, they occupied the settlements left by the Chinese ancestors, so that they could multiply.

This kind of history change is naturally a little disgraceful, but Zhu Youzhen doesn't care.

Not only did he have to change history, but he also needed the Ming Dynasty to excavate some bronzes from the Shang and Zhou dynasties and bury them in various places in the future, so as to form a phenomenon that has been around since ancient times.

Qi is no exception......

Tomorrow out of location, the update may be later, estimated at two or three o'clock

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