Lin Dagong's words made the Ming high-ranking officials present frown.

After all, they are all Ming vested interests who have property and industry in their families.

Now the industrial products of the Ming Dynasty need a market.

In addition to the monopoly of the Ming Dynasty, Japan, Korea, Annam, Nanyang, and Indian domains.

Another big market is Europe.

Then again.

Europe has always been an important market for China's foreign trade.

Including tea, porcelain, spices and other fist products that China has exported to the outside world for thousands of years, in fact, many of them are sent to the west - not to the west, and to the east does not know the place.

In addition to being big landlords, the current high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty are also big factory owners - which of these people is not a factory to engage in export and trade.

The Ming Empire is running into imperialism.

And for Zhu Daohua, the son of the great tomorrow.

Of course he couldn't stop this, even more. He himself is the biggest capitalist in the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore.

When I heard that the Europeans might cling together against the Ming Dynasty.

It is normal for senior officials of Daming to worry about the closure of the European market to Daming.

However, Emperor Zhu did not have much worry about this.

"Let's hold together, we can't fight Europe now anyway, and we also need a strong opponent to integrate the Shenzhou world."

Emperor Zhu waved his hand and said.

In the beginning, he was still a little bit of a phobia.

But now, the army of the Slavs has been killed in the tens of thousands.

It would be really strange if he was still afraid of foreign and European.

For Emperor Zhu.

Even without the European market is nothing.

The point is that if the emergence of a European alliance allows the Ming Empire to take advantage of the pressure brought by this opponent and continue to unify the interior, it will obviously be more beneficial than disadvantageous to the Ming Empire!

Any political entity that is too strong will weaken.

If the Ming Empire now occupies the northern part of the Kazakh Khanate, relying on the large and small fortresses established here by the Russians, the western border of the empire will be greatly stabilized, relying on the northern Kazakh steppe and the Yenisei River as the border.

The Ming Empire would reach the Caspian Sea in the west, the Arctic Ocean in the north, the Governor's Mansion in North America (Vancouver, Canada) in the east, and Australia in the south.

It will be a super-empire unprecedented in human history.

Moreover, the Ming Empire also integrated the entire Eastern World unprecedentedly.

Even Japan, an outlier in the Eastern world, is now included in the Celestial Empire system of the Ming Empire.

The victory of national power.

Far from the Han and Tang Dynasties.

However, it is the so-called boom and bust.

Emperor Zhu knew very well that the Ming Empire had not yet reached the time to sit back and relax.

There are many challenges ahead.

Especially on the inside!

He was not so arrogant as to think that history was over—although some scholars on the periphery of the empire touted a similar view.

But Emperor Zhu was not carried away by this.

He, after all, is back to this era from the 21st century.

History.

Far from the end.

The Ming Empire must retain an opponent who looks acceptable.

What is the saying?

If the country has no external troubles, it will die.

Emperor Zhu thought for a while and said: "There is no need to continue to move forward after occupying the fortress of the northern Kazakh steppe, the Ministry of Industry can plan a railway from the northern capital to Central Asia, passing through Guanzhong, Gansu, the Western Regions and other places, this railway will be an important strategic logistics line for the Ming Dynasty to consolidate the northwest border!" In terms of investment"

Emperor Zhu looked at Peng Jun, who was embarrassed.

When Peng Jun saw the emperor's gaze, he hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Your Majesty, there is no surplus food in the household department, and the budget for the eight years of recovery has basically been arranged."

"It doesn't matter, this railway can't be repaired in a while, and if it can be built in ten years, it's good, or even twenty years."

Emperor Zhu said.

The current Ming Empire, in the words of later generations, is in an era of great infrastructure.

Especially the railway.

After the railway transportation capacity was fully demonstrated, the entire Ming Empire began to invest heavily in the railway.

The great development of labor employment, steel, timber, machinery and other industries driven by investment in infrastructure has also become another huge driving force for the industrialization of the Ming Empire.

"This railway connecting the Central Plains and the Western Regions will be profitable in the future, the Western Regions, Central Asia and other places, rich in minerals, especially oil and gas resources! This is a way to return to the capital without worrying, for the time being, first issue bonds, and then attract investment, and first take out 3% of the shares for sale. ”

Thanks to the development of the financial industry, although the current Emperor Zhu basically has a place to go for the money of the household, how can the financial income of the Ming Empire basically be stored in the treasury like the former Qing Dynasty and the former Ming Dynasty, but will be spent.

Moreover, the financial tools of the Ming Empire are very rich, although the war has not stopped in these years, but it has not caused the domestic industry to wither, the people are not living and other tragic situations.

Even because of the war boom caused by several wars, the orders of the domestic steel, chemical, cotton textile, and pharmaceutical industries have exploded.

In conjunction with the reform of the imperial examination system, the Ming and Qing dynasties continued to flow into the country through international trade, and the silver buried in the cellar was pried out and turned into real capital and put into the furnace of industrialization.

The industrialization of the Ming Empire has been completely turned with a bang.

And Zhu Daohua, the initiator who promoted the start of this behemoth, did not know where this largest industrial machine in human history would go in the future!

There's not much more he can do now.

Land, education, imperial examination reform, constitutionalism (rites), parliamentary politics.

Although every change.

None of them have been able to really "get to the roots".

But then again.

in this world.

And how many of them have actually touched on fundamental change?

Reform.

Isn't it the process of peeling off the old skin little by little and growing new skin?

If they come up, they will be hacked to death.

That's not reform.

It's a revolution.

Zhu Daohua's current role is the regulator of this huge empire.

As the founding emperor, as long as he is still alive for one day, even if there will be some twists and turns in the behemoth of the Ming Empire, there will not be much change.

It's just that.

What about when he's gone?

"Your Majesty, we can't let the Europeans integrate so easily, maybe we can support the Ottoman Turks to find trouble with them."

Lin Dagong suggested.

Ottoman Turkey?

The sick man of West Asia?

Can they?

Zhu Daohua waved his hand and said: "We can give them limited support, but Europe is too far away from us, and our territorial claims are limited to Central Asia, and we can't control any further away." ”

"The next thing is to consolidate the newly occupied land. If you swallow it, of course, you have to digest it well! ”

(End of chapter)