The meeting was quiet for a while, and the monarchs of Xianbei, Kazakhstan, Khiva, Persia, and Egypt considered the various implications of the reform plan or demand put forward by Zhu Jingyuan.

Although several national governments have their own ideas about the quality of these requirements, they all choose to accept them in the end.

Luo Yashan, the prince of Xianbei Guo, who had the closest relationship with Zhu Jingyuan, finally continued to ask:

"Your Highness, how should the ticket and purchase restriction system that is being implemented in Edo be implemented in our feudal domains?"

Zhu Jingyuan waved his hand directly and said:

"With regard to the ticket and purchase restriction system, we are not considering implementing it in the feudal kingdom at this time.

"Of course, if a few princes want to try to push it themselves, the imperial court will not interfere."

Mu Yi, the prince of Egypt, tried to ask:

"Your Highness, is it because the relevant policies are still being verified, so don't you do a larger-scale promotion for the time being?"

Zhu Jingyuan waved his hand again:

"No, I didn't think about promoting it in the feudal kingdom from the beginning.

"Later...... Although it cannot be said that it will not be considered at all in the future.

"But at least the foreseeable future, I haven't even thought about it."

Several vassal monarchs immediately fell into thought again.

The role of the ticket and purchase restriction system has been considered by several state ministers either themselves or discussed with their own staff.

They are more or less able to understand the possible impact of these options.

In the short term, it may limit development and reduce expected returns, but in the long run, it may contribute to social stability.

But they don't have a clear picture of how much expected earnings will fall, how much they will limit the pace of development, or how much the benefits will be for long-term stability.

They are actually expecting Daming to make a decision for them now, and they don't have to think about it themselves.

As a result, now Da Ming doesn't make a decision, and let them think about whether to do it or not, which is tangled again.

A few seconds later, Luo Yashan, the Duke of Xianbei State, couldn't help but continue to ask Zhu Jingyuan's opinion:

"Dare to ask Your Highness, do you think we should implement the policies related to tickets and purchase restrictions?"

Zhu Jingyuan directly spread his hands and said:

"I don't think it matters to you.

"The ticket and purchase restriction policy is a targeted prevention and stability maintenance policy specially formulated in response to the actual situation in the core area of Daming and similar places in the surrounding areas.

"Several of you are vassals of the Ming Dynasty, and your stability is directly protected by the Ming Dynasty.

"The point is that the population size of your feudal kingdoms is also relatively limited, and this kind of policy based on fairness will not be too obvious regardless of the pros and cons.

"You don't need to dwell on this kind of thing, I have more important things to give you.

"I have specially prepared a pilot reform plan for the situation of your vassal states."

When several vassal monarchs heard this, they really didn't bother.

The situation in their own country is indeed too different from the cultural customs of the core area of the Ming Dynasty.

Mu Yi, the prince of Egypt, immediately asked:

"If Your Highness has any arrangements, we will fully cooperate with ......"

Zhu Jingyuan also said very directly:

"For you vassal states, His Majesty the Emperor and the imperial court are more concerned about getting you to truly integrate into the Ming system economically and culturally.

"Based on this ultimate goal, I have prepared an integrated solution in three areas: urbanization, industrialization, and the emancipation of women."

Several monarchs listened attentively, but they were confused at the beginning, and they didn't turn the corner at once.

It is relatively easy to understand that the goal is to integrate culturally and economically into the Ming Dynasty, and to engage in industrialization and urbanization, but is there any necessary relationship between the final emancipation of women and the goal?

Of course, there is a connection, and women's social status and self-perception are the most fundamental part of traditional culture.

In order to maintain their original traditional culture and way of life, it is necessary to maintain the status and self-perception of women.

If you want to break the traditional culture of certain regions and make them accept foreign cultures, you have to do the opposite.

The situation in Xianbei and Kazakhstan was even better, the upper class culture was originally inclined to the Ming Dynasty, and the middle and lower classes retained strong Mongolian Yellow Religion-related customs and habits, as well as some Lucian Orthodox Christianity-related culture.

The Mongolian folk tradition and the Huangjiao cultural system can be regarded as a relatively marginal part of the Central Plains Celestial Dynasty culture, which can be naturally combined with the Ming culture.

Persia and Egypt already have a very strong Celestial culture......

Afghanistan, the graveyard of empires in history, now has a large part in Persia.

After the Egyptian side joined the Ming Dynasty, it received a large number of Tianfang Sect followers transferred by the Ming Dynasty from the entire Great Food Country region.

Some traditions of the Heavenly Sect are in obvious conflict with the Ming tradition.

In order to solve the cultural problems in these places and make them truly fundamental and thorough, the prescription prescribed by Zhu Jingyuan is to emancipate women.

The concrete means of emancipating women are urbanization and industrialization.

Zhu Jingyuan could understand the doubts of several monarchs, so he basically did not pause, and then continued to explain:

"Concentrate on the development and construction of large cities, and send the population from scattered villages to large cities for centralized management.

"The process of urbanization, like the wars and the change of dynasties, will bring about subversive changes in the living environment and ways of ordinary people.

"In this process of change, it is relatively easy to break down the anachronistic parts of traditional culture, and even lead us in any more reasonable direction.

"At the same time, from Xianbei to Anxi to Persia, they are all vast and sparsely populated places with complex environments.

"Pooling the scattered population will make it easier for you to manage your feudal kingdoms, and of course it will also increase the income of your feudal kingdoms.

"Develop labor-intensive industries and recruit and attract large numbers of workers to work in factories.

"To give workers, including women, a stable and consistent income, so that they can live away from their families and traditions.

"Women can become workers, they can be economically independent, and they can be truly independent in society.

"In the process, we can eliminate the original Tianfang religious customs and complete the real secularization of society.

The focus is also on emancipating women, so that they are no longer confined to the traditional family, so that they can independently accept and integrate into the culture and way of life of the Ming Dynasty.

"At the same time, this process is objectively also a process of modernization and industrialization of your feudal states, and industry can generate economic benefits far beyond those of the agricultural era, and greatly increase the income of the feudal states.

"So, of course, for the several of you vassal states, this process is also very beneficial.

"So I think that if His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Imperial Court, as well as the manufacturers of the Ming Dynasty, are willing to invest, you should be very happy to accept it, right?"

Zhu Jingyuan's explanation was very straightforward, and several vassal monarchs quickly understood.

For Anthy and the rulers of Persia and Egypt, secular industrialization reforms were certainly advantageous to them without the violent interference of outsiders.

The lives of ordinary people can be better, and as kings, they can get more taxes, control more people through cities and factories, and gain more real power.

The disadvantage is also obvious, after concentrating the population that was originally scattered in a harsh environment in a few large cities, when encountering foreign violent aggression, the resistance is much lower.

Correspondingly, the Ming Dynasty's ability to control several vassal states will also be increased by one level.

In the future, the future feudal states, although still nominally vassal states, but all aspects of politics, economy, culture, and military will be firmly bound by the Ming Dynasty.

However, in the eyes of several vassal monarchs, this is not necessarily a bad thing, and the key is also irresistible.

The four princes of Kazakhstan, Anxi, Persia, and Xianbei immediately patted their chests and promised to fully cooperate.

Only Mu Yi, the Duke of Egypt, hesitated for a few seconds and asked an uncertain question:

"Your Highness, we know that urbanization and industrialization are beneficial to us and the people, but ordinary people and local grassroots managers, and even middle and high-level bureaucrats, may not be able to ...... Not necessarily willing to accept this change. ”

Zhu Jingyuan glanced at Mu Yi slightly, this historical celebrity's brain reaction has always been faster than that of several other people.

However, Zhu Jingyuan felt that his reform in Egypt was relatively successful in history, and if it were not for the intervention of Britain and France, he might have defeated the Ottomans and rebuilt a new Arab empire.

Now under the management of Daming, let him simply carry out a reform in Egypt, he can't do it.

Now, does that mean to take care of difficulties?

But no matter what the other party thinks, Zhu Jingyuan will not follow his train of thought:

"It is better for the prince of Egypt to say directly that those with vested interests have it.

"Reform will certainly harm the vested interests of the existing order, but it is not impossible to compromise.

"You can try to bring in some vested interests who are willing to accept change in the process of establishing a new order.

"Then the parts that cannot accept change will be branded as the common enemy of the new community of interests.

"According to this line of thinking, we should be able to complete these social transformations relatively smoothly.

"If there is any problem that cannot be solved, you can ask Daming for help or simply consult.

"You are the princes of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty can provide you with all-round support in politics, economy, culture and management.

"Within your own domains, you all have almost unlimited power.

"If in this case, you still can't solve this problem of urbanization and industrialization reform, you can directly ask the Ming officials to accept it and become a vacant monarch."

Mu Yi, the Duke of Egypt, immediately understood what Zhu Jingyuan meant:

This work is not a big problem, at least it is not a big problem for you, and the Ming court will also provide support.

You can't handle these things in this situation, so don't be the monarch of this vassal country.

Mu Yi could only hurriedly promise that he would work hard to do a good job in this reform.

Several other princes complained a little bit about Mu Yi, but at this time, they didn't talk nonsense, and they reassured together.

At this point, the formal meeting is almost over.

After talking about some details, it was time for lunch.

Zhu Jingyuan directly hosted a banquet in the palace to entertain the monarchs of the five vassal states.

After lunch, the five princes returned to their lodgings.

Digest the information received at today's meeting and discuss future plans with your subordinates.

and thinking and discussing what Zhu Jingyuan will ask for instructions in the future.

After Zhu Jingyuan sent away several vassal monarchs, he also recalled and considered whether to discuss the issue of the "imperial cemetery" with the Persian princes.

However, after thinking about it again, I still feel that this matter seems completely unnecessary.

In the original history, the fundamental reason why a place like Afghanistan can become an imperial graveyard is that its strategic location is too important, and it has been coveted by several major empires in turn since modern times.

When an empire tries to conquer Afghanistan, there are always several subordinate or sub-empires that interfere overtly or covertly.

But before modern times, before foreign imperial intervention, Persia ruled Afghanistan for almost two thousand years.

Successive Persian dynasties were able to conquer Afghanistan relatively smoothly after their establishment.

Although by the standards of the Ming Dynasty, most of the time it should have been only a feudal rule, the local natives did recognize the rule of the Persian monarch over them.

But for the later empire of the conquerors, they just didn't recognize it.

Even the nominal chiefs of Afghanistan admit that the local military leaders and forces may not accept it, and will always play tricks with the support of other forces.

Coupled with the extremely harsh terrain and environment, the extreme dispersion of the local population, and the influence of traditional religion and culture, no foreign empire has been able to conquer Afghanistan since modern times.

If we compare it with such an environment and standards, then Persia after modern times can also be regarded as a larger imperial graveyard, and there is no great empire in history that can completely conquer Persia.

After modern times, the worst time in Persian history was that Britain and Lucia partnered to divide the sphere of influence in Persia.

Continuing to deduce from this criterion, Lucia can be regarded as an imperial purgatory.

Afghanistan is just unconquerable, and Lucia can make several empires collapse directly.

The "graveyard of empires" is a matter of modern times, and Afghanistan has long been the territory of Persia in the classical era, and Persia has also been ruled by foreign dynasties for a long time.

In the current world, the main body of Persia has become the dog of the Ming Dynasty, and Afghanistan is also surrounded by the Ming sphere of influence, and other empires have no way to intervene.

The Ming Dynasty supported the integration of Persia into the Afghans, and it was completely a big cemetery to fight a small cemetery, which happened to be a business counterpart.

In addition, Zhu Jingyuan's large-scale urban and industrialization plan was originally the best means to break local traditional customs that had been tested by later generations.

With the better material living standards brought about by industrialization, with targeted management and means, the mountain people scattered in the mountains were pulled into the cities and factories.

Let the social melting pot of cities and factories dissolve their original traditions as much as possible.

Afghanistan in this world did not have the title of the imperial graveyard before, and there should be no chance to obtain this title in the future.

(End of chapter)