Zhu Jianyan finally decided to make Da Ming forever strong.

To improve the natural geographical space of the local areas as much as possible.

The eastern part includes Khugu, Ezo, the Japanese archipelago, the Korean Peninsula, the Ryukyus, and Dongning Island.

The northern part includes the Outer Khing'an Mountains, the Beihai Sea, and the entire Xianbei Wasteland except for the Western Xianbei Principality.

The western part includes the Balkhash Pool, the Green Ridge, the end of the Tianshan Mountains, the Kunlun Mountains, and the Himalayas.

The southern part includes a ring of peninsulas and islands such as Burma, Siam, Malacca, Old Port, Borneo, and Luzon.

The land area is directly connected to two oceans and is surrounded by natural geographical boundaries with multiple fully enclosed inland seas.

Many times, many things are difficult to determine, and the key reason is that the decision-makers can't make up their minds, or no one is accountable.

The emperor made up his mind and determined the direction, and the plan of the native province was quickly determined.

The local core, a densely populated area, is traditionally set up with smaller provinces.

Marginal areas, sparsely populated areas, set up provinces with large areas.

Outside the Xing'an Mountains and north of Beihai, only one Xianbei Province was set up, and the Xianbei Domain originally mentioned by Zhu Jingyuan was directly gone.

In addition, there is one province of Mobei Mongolia, one province of Monan Mongolia, and three provinces of the northern border.

The Lelangbu political envoy in the eastern part of Liaodong was split, the western part was merged into Liaodong Province, and the eastern part was merged with Kuwu to form Whale Sea Province.

The logic of such a split is to expand Liaodong as much as possible, but not to allow Liaodong to have a Jinghai coastline, to reduce the complexity of Liaodong's geographical scope, and to completely hand over the coastline of the Whale Sea on the mainland to the Whale Sea Province.

Together with the basically unchanged Heishui Province, there are three provinces in the Northeast Frontier.

The Korean Peninsula merged two political envoys to form the Korean Province, the two four diplomatic missions on the Japanese archipelago were merged into the two provinces of Edo and Nara, and the Haidong Provincial Diplomatic Mission, including the Ryukyus and Dongning Islands, was merged into Fujian Province.

In this way, there are three provinces in the east, east, sea, and Japan.

In the south, there is a province of Luzon, a province of Borneo, a province of Malacca and Old Port, and three provinces of the southern sea.

Yunnan merged the entire Burmese political envoys, and Cochin, Lancang, and Chenla merged to form Quang Nam Province, a separate province of Siam.

In the west, three provinces of Xijiang, Xueyu and Qinghai were established.

The other provinces in the original core area are basically unchanged.

In this way, the original two capitals and thirteen provinces, plus the fifteen provinces of the frontier, made a total of thirty provinces directly under the local administration of the Ming Dynasty.

On the contrary, the South Seas were dismantled, the border areas of Luzon were completely gone, and the key core areas of Borneo and the Old Port and Malacca were also gone.

In this way, the rest of the South Sea Islands are basically miasma.

Among the remaining areas, only the population of Java is a little more than that, and then there is the Tiannan Continent.

The rest of the land is basically south of the equator, so the Nanyang Domain is also directly gone, and it is renamed the Tiannan Domain.

After the relevant decision was decided, it was not immediately made public, but began to implement and adjust it step by step.

But Zhu Jingyuan, as the most special participant, immediately received a direct message from his father.

Zhu Jingyuan looked at his father's explanation and the general map planning, and his whole mind was clouded.

I made it clear to my father, and I originally thought that my father, as a traditional monarch, should consider and decide in a way that limits the size and geography of the territory.

As a result, he took the opposite direction entirely.

Zhu Jianyan didn't let his son guess his true thoughts.

In line with the mentality that his father educates himself, then he should also find an opportunity to educate his son, Zhu Jianyan wrote out his thoughts and decisions.

Zhu Jingyuan was completely stunned after reading these explanations.

"Is this really the way of thinking of the Ming Emperor? Are you sure it's not a nationalist head of the disgruntled youth? ”

Zhu Jingyuan looked at these words and realized what his father meant.

After thinking about it for a long time, I slowly realized that I was different again.

My previous judgment of the difference in thinking between myself and my father and grandfather was not accurate.

The biggest internal difference between myself and my father in terms of self-perception is not at all a question of whether or not to think that the traditional monarchy is backward, or whether to consider the possibility of the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.

The fundamental difference is that he himself feels that he is a Chinese, while his emperor's father thinks that he is a Ming man.

The point is that the concept of their own Chinese is complicated.

The concept of the father's Da Ming people is simple.

In this world, of course, there is also the concept of China, but this China is not the other China.

The most direct meaning of the two words China in Zhu Jingyuan's mind is the name of a country.

But in this world, the Chinese "two characters" in the Ming culture are not the name of a country.

It is not the official name of any ethnic group or dynasty in Shenzhou, nor is it even an unofficial folk pronoun.

The court and bureaucrats opened their mouths as "I am Daming", and ordinary people also spoke as "we Daming".

The word "China" is a broad identity that is largely used only in the context of historical and literary studies.

Zhu Jingyuan remembered that in the fourth year of the Jubilee in "The Legend of the Ram":

"Nanyi and Beidi are in exchange, China is endless, Huan Gong saves China and fights Yidi, and he is the king."

Qi Huan Gong's rescue of Xing Guo, Wei Guo and other countries is called "saving China", which shows that the original word itself was a general reference.

Confucius's "Spring and Autumn" has:

"The princes will raze it if they use the Yi ceremony, and if they enter China, they will be in China."

Han Yu's "Original Path" has:

"Confucius's work "Spring and Autumn" is also, the princes use Yi rites to raze it, and enter China is China."

The words of Han Yu and Confucius, one is the original sentence and the other is a quotation, and the meaning is of course exactly the same:

"If the princes go to learn the etiquette of Yidi, then they will treat him as Yidi, and the princes will use Chinese etiquette, then they can be regarded as members of China."

It can be seen that the word "China" is also an identity label, which is used to distinguish between those who adhere to tradition and those who betray tradition within the group.

You, a prince, use Chinese etiquette to deal with me, then I will recognize your status as a prince.

If you don't have Chinese etiquette to deal with me, then I'll treat you as a barbarian.

This definition and the popularity of related topics are basically inversely proportional to the strength of the Central Dynasty.

When the Central Dynasty was in full force and culture, this kind of topic was basically not raised.

Because there is basically no possibility of betrayal by members of the group, there is a difference between being ridiculed to death and being directly killed.

Only when it starts to go downhill, when all kinds of problems erupt, will it be taken out to screen traitors.

When the Central Dynasty finally falls, the conversation shifts to the other side.

During the Yuan Dynasty, there was a saying that "if you can use scholars today, and if you can do the way of China, then the lord of China will also be".

During the Qing Dynasty, there was "China and Yi Di also, then Yi Di Zhi; Yidi and China are also China's. ”

Whether the scope of identification of "China" has expanded, from whether there is betrayal within the group to whether outsiders can integrate.

Nowadays, scholars from the Taixi countries often discuss these topics enthusiastically.

They basically adhere to a two-way logic, that is, whether they are born in China or Yidi, their actual identities can be transformed into each other through learning.

This is the theoretical basis for them to want to become Ming people.

Now the Ming Dynasty is strong to the limit, and this kind of topic has no soil in the Ming Dynasty at all.

If there is an explanation, it is the place where the Ming court ruled, and where the Ming law and etiquette were used, it was China, and vice versa.

So what is Daming?

Compared to Taixi, Daming is another world.

Relative to the Taixi countries, the Ming Dynasty was another country.

Compared with the various ethnic groups of Taixi, the Ming people are the unified name of another group of people.

Compared with the Chinese languages of Taixi, Daming Yayan is a unified name for language and writing.

The Taixi people in this world will not use China to refer to the Ming Dynasty, but they will judge whether other people are enough for China.

When the Taixi people learn the language of the Ming Dynasty, they will not say that they are learning Chinese, but they are learning the "Zhengyin of the Ming Yayan".

When writing the text of the Ming Dynasty, it will not be writing Chinese characters, but writing "Ming Yawen Zhengti".

Because the communication between Taixi and the Ming is very close, because the two sides have been fighting for hundreds of years from exchange to trade.

Because the Ming Dynasty is absolutely strong relative to the whole world.

Because the Taixi people know enough about the Ming Dynasty.

The Taixi people knew that the Ming Dynasty was the official name of the native ethnic group and the current official name of the regime in this place.

Qin Stan, Khitan, Qin Na, and Demona, these titles that have been handed down in ancient times, the key is that they don't know the inaccurate transliteration of a few hands, and no one has used them for a long time.

The point is that if the Taixi countries continue to use that title, the Ming court and people will not pay attention to them at all.

This is completely different from Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, the Qing Dynasty.

The Qing Dynasty did not require the Taixi countries to call him the Great Qing, but changed it from the Great Qing Kingdom to China according to the habits of the Taixi people.

The ordinary people in the Qing Dynasty don't think that they are the Qing Dynasty, they are flag people or something else.

Even among the banner people, there are the upper three banners, the lower five banners, the internal affairs office, the Han army flag, the Mongolian flag and so on......

At that time, the Qing Dynasty was completely torn both inside and out.

At that time, this situation seriously hindered the efficiency of the Qing Dynasty's thorough transformation and catching up with the process of industrialization.

The current Ming Dynasty has now achieved complete consistency between ethnic groups, cultures, titles, countries, royal families, and imperial courts from the inside to the outside, from top to bottom, from self-awareness to external recognition.

This is the prototype of the nation-state formed by the natural development of modern times.

They speak the same language, use the same language, have the same identity, have the same cultural habits, and are all proud of it.

In this environment, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty said the words "I am the emperor of the Ming people".

Like Napoleon in the French Revolution, his title of emperor was Emperor of the French, no longer Emperor of Rome.

The Ming Dynasty in this world is smelting a group called "Da Ming", an ethnic group named after the country where they are located.

Zhu Jingyuan even considered that if such a Ming Dynasty unified the whole world, would the earth still be called the earth?

The earth is not actually called the earth now, but now it is the world, the world, and the universe.

If the Ming Dynasty unifies the whole world, then the world is the Ming Dynasty, just like the Great Qin who unifies the world is still the Great Qin.

If you go further, Da Ming will go to the age of the universe, if you come into contact with other alien civilizations.

That Da Ming may even become the name of all human beings, and the civilization of this planet is called Da Ming.

Zhu Jingyuan figured out these things, and then realized again that his butt was drifting, and only he was separated from his brain and hips.

His father, the emperor of the Ming people, has a very stable ass and brain.

Zhu Jingyuan also realized again the urgency of integrating other ethnic groups within the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming group is not completely stable at present, and it is still in the process of "leaving the same and removing the differences".

There are two meanings to leave the same and remove the difference.

The first is to keep the same places and discard different places.

The second is to retain those who have a common understanding and discard those who do not.

In the current Ming Dynasty, if someone stalks his neck and claims that he is not a Ming person and does not want to be a Ming person, then this person will be struggling in the Ming Dynasty and even in the world.

Therefore, there is no seeking common ground while reserving differences, it is just to leave the same and remove differences, and completely smelt the whole country and the population into one.

In this process, all the people in the whole country will "unify their minds" to some extent.

When faced with some national problems, the vast majority of people will naturally make the same choice.

The whole country was thus able to erupt with a very terrifying force.

In the traditional classical dynastic era, a country of 10 million people could produce 100,000 soldiers and it was considered good.

At that time, ordinary people went to serve as soldiers, in order to make money, to survive, and to fight for kings and nobles.

But once a nation-state is formed, a state of 10 million people can even pull out a million troops.

The army of such a country, they will take it for granted that it is fighting for their own country.

As a result, not only will the mobilization capability skyrocket by an order of magnitude, but the combat enthusiasm will also be raised by a large level.

Even with the same productive forces, the nation-state with a unified mind is crushed compared to the traditional classical state.

The advantages are many, but the disadvantages are also very obvious, especially for royalty and nobility......

That is, ordinary people are beginning to have a sense of ownership, and they feel that they are also masters of the country.

They no longer feel that the land and the country belong to the monarch anyway, and it has nothing to do with the monarch how he tosses and enjoys himself.

The monarch and the nobility are no longer the masters of the state, they themselves and the monarch are the masters of the state, and the monarch is only the head of the higher position within the group of masters.

How this leader manages the country and what decisions he makes are closely related to him, and they are all things that affect the future of his own race.

Therefore, you must always keep an eye on what the monarch is doing, whether the monarch is doing well or not, and if the derating is not good, you have to put forward your own opinions and let the other party correct it.

Of course, they may have been well-intentioned, but the monarch could not ignore them either.

Otherwise, the consequences can be very serious.

To put it bluntly, the ruler can't fool the people casually.

Zhu Jingyuan didn't know if his father realized this.

It should be that you are not aware of, or you are not aware of the existence of this difference.

Because as part of the entire Ming group, he himself was unified in this situation.

His current thoughts are considered from the perspective of all Ming people.

He...... As a prince cultivated by the prince, he has no cognition and habit of unbridled entertainment since he was a child.

Probably...... In his cognition, the emperor should have been such a person.

Now that the emperor has the consciousness of being the emperor of the Ming people, it is only a matter of time before the royal family also becomes a symbol of the Ming people.

The royal family, which has a relatively long heritage and a certain prestige, is itself a good tool to enhance the cohesion of the ethnic group.

But what should you do now and in the future?

His ass and brain are still drifting, and he hasn't found a place to land.

I don't have the kind of consciousness that formed spontaneously as a Ming person.

What I have is the cognition of Chinese, and I have a more strange human cognition.

Do you want to fall into the crucible of the Ming people, or continue to maintain your own independent mentality?

(End of chapter)