Chapter 59: The Difficulty of Moving the Capital

Such a big progress of Yanwang caused a reaction in Nanjing.

Overall, though, Nanjing's response has been positive.

Because King Yan is not only himself, but also the head of the vassal kings. Although it is said that the vassal king no longer has any territory in the Central Plains. But on the political map, the vassal king still has a place.

Not to mention anything else, if all the vassal kings of the East, the South Seas, and the Western Regions unite to speak out for one thing, even He Xi must think about it carefully.

Not to mention, the vassal king, as a clan relative, is not only a threat to the emperor, but also the pillar of the royal family surnamed Zhu.

This is the biggest political change He Xi brought to Daming.

For He Xi, he was willing to fight against King Yan in the west. Without him, King Yan hit Central Asia, and the first impact on the Ming Dynasty was to reopen the Western Regions. If it is said that before this, the goods of the Ming Dynasty had to go through many checkpoints if they were to be sent to the Western Regions. All kinds of blockades.

But that's no longer the case.

The goods of the Ming Dynasty are under the might of the Yan King and can go directly to the Mediterranean.

Even if King Yan's soldiers and horses did not reach the Mediterranean coast, it was the same.

Without him, when King Yan was in the Western Regions, for the countries bordering the Mediterranean, it was simply far away. But King Yan has the capital of Taozhou, no matter whether his own foundation is stable or not, he is already a player on the chessboard of West Asia.

And the goods of the Ming Dynasty can come to Europe unimpeded.

Don't say that King Yan's arrival in Central Asia is itself to include Central Asia in the Ming market.

This is a very good thing for the industrialization process that the Ming Dynasty is underway.

How could He Xi not be happy.

will not make a stumbling block for King Yan. Not to mention, Central Asia is rich in gold and silver, and even a lot of gold and silver in the Ming Dynasty has been measured, and it is also from Central Asia. As for how it got to Daming, I don't know.

After all, there are never many silver mines in China.

As for Zhu Xiongying, he hoped that the kings of the Ming Dynasty would expand externally one by one, instead of focusing on returning to China to compete for power with him.

Therefore, Zhu Xiongying praised King Yan's exploits, and after Zhu Xiongying knew about King Yan's predicament, he was even more happy, and sent many stubborn Confucian scholars in the Ming Dynasty to King Yan's side.

Naturally, he was uneasy and kind to King Yan.

Zhu Xiongying hopes to intensify the contradiction between King Yan and ***.

If King Yan suppresses ***, he will naturally fall into a long-term war, a war for decades or even hundreds of years. After all, the war between King Yan and *** is not just a war between regimes, but a war between civilizations, and the war between civilizations is very long. Although many people in later generations dwarfed ***, but it can't be otherwise, *** was never an ordinary native, he was a very powerful people. Have their own resilience. You know, the first wave of impact after the industrial revolution in the West was actually Ottoman Turkey. Ottoman Turkey, on the other hand, was able to hold out under the impact of Western industry until the nineteenth century.

It's much stronger than the Qing Dynasty.

Now, they are the first wave to face the onslaught of industrial forces.

Among the Arabs, there will also be heroes and heroes. It was easy for the Yan king to defeat the Arab army, but the conquest was rare.

King Yan fell into a long-term war, and Zhu Xiongying was naturally happy to see it. Of course, if King Yan adopts the method of following the local customs to solve this problem, it is a major benefit to Zhu Xiongying.

It doesn't get any better news than this.

If King Yan does this, it will be to change the nationality of the Ming people directly from Xia, and in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, Yan is not the Chinese regime. Naturally, he lost the right to inherit the Ming regime.

King Yan's threat to the emperor's position naturally dissipated.

Zhu Xiongying has never let go of his worries about King Yan, that is the Yongle Emperor.

In Zhu Xiongying's heart, it was only after He Xi's threat.

King Yan may not know that he can't guess Zhu Xiongying's careful thoughts, but the thunder, rain and dew are all Jun En, and King Yan has nothing to do, let alone say it. King Yan is missing here

people, a large number of Han people. No matter what kind of person he is, as long as he is Han, he wants it.

Regardless of what they have in mind, as long as they can give birth to a baby, anyway, there are a large number of foreign women here, and it is the top priority of King Yan to let these women give birth to Han babies as soon as possible.

There are not enough people to do anything.

As long as it's a handle, it's all about it.

However, under Zhu Xiongying's small actions, King Yan couldn't be too peaceful.

It's just that the war on King Yan's side is not too big. It has almost no effect on Da Ming. It is just a source of profit for the Ming military industry.

He Xi no longer takes this matter to heart.

There was only one other thing, He Xi had to have a good talk with Zhu Xiongying.

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He Xi said, "Your Majesty has been in Nanjing for several years, and I don't know when I will return to Beijing?"

Zhu Xiongying was silent for a moment and said, "What does uncle mean?"

He Xi knew that Zhu Xiongying was shaken.

He Xi had already decided that with Beijing as the capital, even after the capture of Nanjing in the future, the capital would be moved to Beijing.

The reason why the capital of Beijing is set is that there are many reasons, and there is no need to say much here, in a word, Beijing has the benefits of coal and iron, and the war horse is vertical and horizontal. Sitting in Beijing, it controls Shanxi on the left and Northeast Goryeo on the right. Facing the sea, and backing the desert.

Even if there is chaos in the world, it is okay to fight again.

If the steel production capacity is exploded, it is almost impossible to compare with Beijing in the land of Daming.

Otherwise, why does the world's steel look at Hebei?

It is really the advantage of Hebei's steel production, and even later generations cannot deny it.

At least until the Third Industrial Revolution, steel was a symbol of national strength.

And the reason why He Xi asked to move the capital to Beijing was because he had the requirements of his own faction.

He Xi's abdication does not mean that He Xi's faction does not exist.

He Xicai is not such a fool.

Who are the people of the He Xi faction?

Specifically, adhering to He Xi's thought, the new law of the North Industrial Capital Group. The people of this faction were all over the army and the court.

It is the source of He Xi's power.

Even if He Xi retreats, this faction still exists. It's just that there is internal strife, and no one can knead them together except He Xi.

This group of forces is too large. So much so that He Xi felt a little out of control.

This is another reason why He Xi retreated.

Capital must be limited.

Although these people are He Xi's people, He Xi knows what kind of virtue they are. He Xi even had to admit one thing. In his camp, the moral level of some people is completely incomparable with Song Ne, Liu Sanwu, and Fang Xiaoru.

Or, it's just a difference in learning.

After all, He Xi himself denied the Confucian mandate of heaven. Although He Xi also has moral issues in his own knowledge, in fact, He Xi himself has not studied and preached more. Without him, Confucianism says too much morally. And in He Xi's knowledge, many things are too thorough, too cold, and too sharp.

This may be some of the problems of modern social science. They are like Ding Xian, on the face, they talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality, but they are all refined egoists in their bones.

At this point, He Xi can be regarded as a success. Succeeded in transforming these people into modern people.

He Xi found out about the Liaodong case and killed many people. In the end, it was decided to liberalize the government-run industries and control only a few key industries, most of which were given to businessmen.

But the problem is that human greed does not distinguish between official and private.

In the government-run factories, the stewards have to dare to treat the female workers as slaves, but in the private factories, is it good?

Naturally not, but the government supervises. Government and business are integrated, and power and wealth are naturally combined.

He Xi could even have made up his mind to use a knife on these people. Not anymore.

The emperor was also not

Pleasure thing. Not to mention what the night.

Zhu Yuanzhang can kill the prince like a dog, but before he dies, he has to give a banquet and treat him well, and all the generals of the first level are commanded, because they are the core of the Ming army.

They are the ones who actually run the army. And because he has very few troops in his hands, he doesn't think about it, as long as he is appeased. If you don't get too involved, you'll be fine.

And He Xi is the same.

He Xi used the power of these people to promote the reform of the law. It can be said that the new law has been implemented throughout the country. But He Xi also secretly wiped a lot of butts for these people.

Otherwise, there will be complications in the matter of changing the law.

He Xi understood Wang Anshi's mood at the moment, when Wang Anshi changed the law, he didn't know that among the people who were doing things below, some of them were cool officials. But so what?

There are cool officials in the new party, but in the old party, all of them are morally perfect. What's more, if he doesn't protect it, there will be no one to do it for him.

The new party ceases to exist.

Fortunately, He Xi's power is much greater than Wang Anshi's. I suppressed it while and dealt with it privately. But this one thing won't be played. When the capitalists are rich, they will yearn for power.

Can He Xi give them power?

No. That's why he chose to step down.

As soon as he withdrew, the huge new party was dissolved, and many things were easy to handle.

It's just that what He Xi wants is the internal cleaning and disposal of the new party. Instead of the new party falling apart and being pushed back by the old party. Although looking at it now, it seems that there is no so-called old party.

However, this does not mean that the old party does not exist.

In order to do this, He Xi had to make sure that the capital was moved to Beijing.

Because Beijing is the foundation of He Xi's business for so many years, plus it was originally a weak place for Confucianism. Now it has become an academic powerhouse for the new school. The amount of benefits it brings will be beneficial to all levels of Beijing.

It can be said that the New Party's roots in Beijing are deeply rooted. Almost to the point of being unshakable.

As long as Beijing is the capital, no one on the throne can try to overthrow the New Deal. Because stakeholders in Beijing will rebel.

But for Zhu Xiongying, it's different.