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Chapter 424: Malacca Swallowing Martial Arts: Skin Tone is Free, and Height is Rising

Malacca Province, the most prosperous area, is along the strait, outside Kuala Lumpur, there are also Malacca, Seremban, Muar, Wenlu and other cities, with a population of about 10 million.

And with the imperial court upgraded Singapore to Xinjing.

The population of cities along the route was siphoned away from Xinjing, and the permanent population fell below 10 million.

As of the 66th year of Jingtai, the permanent population of Xinjing has reached 53 million, and the registered population is only 21 million.

The flow of people is mainly after the upgrade to Beijing, siphoning the flow of people attracted by nearby cities.

The new capital of the Ming Dynasty is a good opportunity for the development of industry, agriculture and commerce, and it will naturally siphon a large number of people.

Singapore, which includes three large islands on the other side of the river, many small islands, and includes Johor in the province of Malacca into Singapore.

After being upgraded to Xinjing, the big city Wenlu was also assigned to Xinjing, becoming a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Xinjing.

Because the imperial court did not establish Xinzhili, then it was necessary to divide more cities into it to provide sufficient resources for Xinjing.

Therefore, Xinjing assigned the southeast corner of Malacca Province to Xinjing, including Xiaoxi's Li, Xinglou, and Zamei.

On the sea, all the islands around Xinjing were assigned to Xinjing, the closest island to Shenguo, a distance of more than ten kilometers in a straight line.

The Xinjing Navy, distributed on all the islands and reefs, surrounds and guards Xinjing.

Fortunately, King Shen had no desires, and he didn't dare to covet the land of the Ming Dynasty, and he didn't dare to oppose the garrison under his nose, after all, there had always been a garrison.

However, now Xinjing is still expanding, this city that arose in the fourteenth year of Jingtai, after more than 50 years of wind and rain, has appeared ancient vicissitudes.

After it was decided to upgrade to Jingshi, the old city should be renovated and then expanded on the basis of the old city.

The architectural style of Xinjing is modeled after Fuzhou, because when Liang Heng was stationed here, he invited Fujian craftsmen to build the city, so it continued the Fujian architectural style and integrated the Guangxi architectural style.

Because the first batch of immigrants came from Guangxi.

Later, some European craftsmen moved in, and they settled here, and they integrated European architectural styles, and the city of Xinjing is very mixed and matched.

But it is an eclectic city, where there are very different races, including indigenous people, Southeast Asian fugitives, Indian slaves, European craftsmen, and black Africans, plus Chinese ethnic groups, can be seen here.

The first city of ethnic integration is Xinjing.

After 50 years of integration of three generations, it has been completely integrated into China.

The skin of the Xinjing people is obviously fairer than that of the Kuala Lumpur people, because there are about 100,000 shipwrights in Northern Europe, which are located here, and attract 350,000 European stowaways.

But in terms of the degree of fairness of skin, it is still not as good as the northerners of the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, the skin color of the northerners was already white, and the blood of the white skin color was integrated, so the skin color was naturally whiter, and the geographical environment determined that the people in these areas would be whiter.

But the whitest areas in the Ming Dynasty are Sichuan and Chongqing.

The people in the Sichuan Basin are originally white because of the cloudy days and the sun and the humidity, and then integrate into the European blood, they are even whiter, the skin color is a little more yellow than the whites, but they are more delicate than the whites, less hairless and no fox smell, which is more in line with the aesthetics of the Chinese people, so Sichuan and Chongqing are the most abundant beauties.

Followed by Jilin and Heilongjiang, because of the cold climate, the two places have a pale-skinned complexion, although the northeast was developed by the Jingtai Dynasty, and the immigrants have only been more than 50 years.

However, drinking the water of Heilongjiang and Songhua River, one side of the water and soil will support the other side, and the complexion will naturally be pale.

In addition, the development of the Northeast used Ottoman and Timurid slaves, about 2 million slaves became Ming people because of merit, and integrated the Huerha, Sauron, etc., Northeast China in recent years, and successively moved in hundreds of thousands of Arab merchants and millions of Moscow slaves, which created a further whitening of the complexion.

In recent years, it has become whiter and whiter, and it is the kind of cold white, a little whiter than the people of Sichuan and Chongqing.

According to the national skin color statistics, Chongqing, Sichuan, Jilin, and Heilongjiang are firmly in the top four, and the fifth is Beizhili.

There are about 70 million registered people in Beizhili, and the main reason is that the world's powerful people gather here, the world's beauties gather here, and the world's fair-skinned beauties also gather in Beizhili, and after more than 50 years of mixed blood, the complexion will become white.

In addition, the water of the Lena River in Beizhili has changed the water quality of Beizhili, which naturally creates a pale complexion.

In terms of appearance, the appearance of people in Beizhili can be called the first, and this will siphon the world's beauties into Beijing every year.

Ranking sixth is Shanghai, Shanghai is among all the cities and counties in the south of the Yangtze River, the only one with a white complexion, because Shanghai is one of the two major transit stations of Ming slaves, and the white slaves transit more in Shanghai, which has created a Shanghainese near the water, and it is also the city with the most mixed races.

Ranked seventh, I'm afraid no one would have imagined, is Guangxi.

Guangxi natives are very dark, because the sun in Guangxi is scorching, and the complexion must be darker, but the Guangxi soldiers are the treasures of the old emperor, they are the first to mix with white women, and Guangxi soldiers are not only white women, Southeast Asian natives, Indian slave girls, are the first Guangxi people to eat crabs.

This resulted in Guangxi and Jiaozhi, ranking seventh and eighth.

In the area directly exposed by the scorching sun, the skin color becomes white, which is directly related to the mixed race, and the next Guangdong, as one of the most developed provinces in the Ming Dynasty, has the darkest skin color.

Because Cantonese people are xenophobic and superstitious, they hate white women, think that white women are unknown, and few people are willing to marry white women.

However, Guangdong is also divided into localities, Hong Kong, which is famous for its slave transfer station, has a white complexion, but Hong Kong people are discriminated against by Cantonese people, Guangdong does not regard white as beauty, they regard healthy skin color as beauty, and natural color as beauty.

They also ridiculed the Guangxi people, forgetting their ancestors, and actually mixed with slave women, tarnishing the Yanhuang bloodline.

Guizhou and Yunnan people share the same sentiment as Guangxi people, who don't like white skin and think that health is beauty.

Daming is all-encompassing, and there is a problem with a unified aesthetic, everyone should have their own ideas, and people are easy to be coerced by capital.

It's good to have a healthy complexion, there is no need to pursue too much, but also to pursue the beauty of human nature, no matter how beautiful a person is, a snake and scorpion is a bad guy, no matter how ugly a person is, he has a beautiful heart, and they are also beautiful.

In ninth place is Ferghana.

Don't think that all the ethnic groups in Central Asia with white blood are white, on the contrary, they are all dark-skinned, and skin color is closely related to the climate.

The Ming occupation of this richest basin was to clean up the natives, and most of the people who moved there were people from the northwest, whose complexion was neither black nor white, and their complexion became white, mainly because they bought a large number of Moscow slaves from the Shang countries, and these slaves brought white skin.

The same is true of the tenth-ranked Western Regions, the 36 countries of the Western Regions themselves, which are transitional races in East Asia and Central Asia, are actually not in the Han cultural circle, but were forcibly divided by the old emperor according to the territory of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

As an important transit point of the Silk Road, it was invaded by various ethnic groups in history, which created a complex source of population in the Western Regions.

The Ming Dynasty defeated the Mongols and rescued the population of the Western Regions from the clutches of the Mongols, and the old emperor regarded the people of the Western Regions as his own son.

The reason why the skin color has become black is because when the Zhonghua River was built, millions of slaves of all colors became people from the Western Regions, and their skin color became black after merging with each other, so they ranked tenth.

Otherwise, you can go up.

A few years ago, some Moscow slave girls moved in, and their complexion was indeed turning whiter, and they are expected to rise in the rankings in the future.

In 11th place is Singapore.

Zhu Houlang walked on the streets of Singapore and found that Singaporeans are really white, and their appearance is different from that of traditional Ming people, but Zhu Houlang, who likes mixed race, is really a beauty in three steps and a handsome guy in five steps, which is very eye-catching.

The city of Singapore is still expanding.

After a long discussion in the court, it was finally decided to build half of the expansion drawings after Chang'an in the Western Han Dynasty, and the other half to build after the Spanish royal capital, and then build an Alhambra Palace as a new Beijing Museum.

Half central and half western, attracting tourists to travel to Xinjing.

The Alhamla Palace, half of which is open to the public, and half of which is used as the emperor's palace, is used as the emperor's residence when he visits Xinjing.

Zhu Jianyu was not interested in the palace, so he simply used it half as a museum and half as a tour.

Allowing the people to enter the palace to visit definitely shows Zhu Jianxi's great courage, which will be the people above the imperial power, even the old emperor is cautious.

Zhu Jianyu doesn't care, whether the imperial power is in hand or not, whether the palace is visited or not, whether his words are effective or not, whether he wants the inside or not, and it doesn't matter if he wants face.

The new Beijing in the drawings will be the size of two Beijing cities, and it will become the largest Beijing division in the Ming Dynasty, which is expected to be completed in 30 years, with a total investment of more than 3 billion.

At present, the construction of Spanish City has begun, and there is a shortage of stone in Daming, but there is a lot of stone in Malacca Province.

Some people will ask, castles all over Europe, in the 6,000-year history of China, but have always been built with wood, why?

Some stupid birds will say that the stone castle can withstand the wind and rain, and can withstand the siege, and Huaxia does not build a castle because Huaxia is backward.

Those who think this are brain-dead.

Six thousand years ago, China left the Stone Age and entered slavery, and 1,500 years ago it entered feudalism.

Of course, we don't need to build a city with stones, because we can burn bricks! Because we can build wooden buildings.

Is brick or stone better?

If you look at the current buildings, it's obvious.

It must be a good brick.

If the stone is that good, why not now? Because stones are expensive? Hehe!

You haven't seen the stone town in the Stone Age, so you think that Chinese architecture is backward, which is not pure brain-dead.

The fortress is powerful, but the city wall is bad?

In the era of cold weapons, how many fortified cities were defeated? They all ran out of ammunition and food, and even in the era of thermal weapons, it was not easy to attack the city.

And!

There is a huge problem here, the brick wall falls, the soldiers defending the city can quickly build the wall, the stone falls, you use a fart to build it, and if it falls, the city will be destroyed.

As for the architectural style.

Some people will say that Chinese buildings are also wooden buildings, and wooden buildings are easy to catch fire, have high maintenance costs, and will rot after a long period of disrepair.

But haven't you thought about it? The wood building is comfortable, and the practical problem of being warm in winter and cool in summer has not been considered?

It's been in disrepair for a long time, and the people are gone, what's the use of not repairing it? The purpose of the ancient man-made house is not for people to see after 2,000 years.

The stone house is cold in winter and hot in summer, and it is very uncomfortable to live in.

And the style is ugly!

The pursuit of beauty of the Chinese scholars, their aesthetics are very advanced, the Western Han Dynasty has the Silk Road, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty does not know the architectural style of Central Asia? Why didn't you learn? Because it's ugly! Because it does not conform to the aesthetics of China, otherwise China would have been a European-style building a long time ago.

Modern people are accustomed to Chinese architecture, so they think that European-style architecture is good-looking.

In the same way, Europeans also think that Chinese architecture is good-looking, which is aesthetic fatigue, which is normal.

The most important thing is that the wooden building tests the level of carpentry, and the level of carpentry should be extremely high.

Why do later generations always underestimate the wisdom of their ancestors, don't forget, before the early Qing Dynasty, the world hegemon has always been China, and it is leading the world in all aspects.

Throughout the history of the world, they are all learning good things, and the good things imported are localized little by little, becoming their own accustomed aesthetics, and finally becoming their own things.

The same is true of Huaxia, Huaxia's strength lies in learning, and if you don't learn, it proves that you are not suitable for this land.

Moreover, don't use the aesthetics of the fart people to evaluate the aesthetics of the scholars, the scholars have been pampered since childhood, except for playing is playing, and they are not social animals, what good things have not been seen? There are also top circles, how can their aesthetics be lower than those of the fart?

Indeed, after the middle of the Qing Dynasty and the Western Renaissance, the level of architecture did surpass that of China, and it surpassed China in terms of material selection, geometric composition, architectural style and other aspects.

Why do you suddenly overtake in a corner?

Because science and technology, architecture and science and technology are closely related, people's science and technology are leading, all kinds of advanced tools are manufactured, and some boldly conceived buildings can also be built, so they are naturally ahead, and they are naturally leading in all aspects.

Then again.

The architectural style of Xinjing is a combination of Chinese and Western, ancient and modern.

After circling in Xinjing for three days, Zhu Houlang went north to Siam.

Siam was split into two provinces by the Ming Dynasty, the two provinces of Xinjing and Xinyang.

In the 65th year of Jingtai, Xinjing Province was renamed Thonbu Province, referred to as Thai, and the province is still governed by Thonburi, with a population of 170 million.

In the early days, the name was Chao Phraya, because the largest river in Thonbu Province is the Chao Phraya River, and Bangkok is the plain washed out by the Chao Phraya River, that is, the Bangkok Plain.

However, Chao Nam and Mekong are easy to confuse, and it is better to use the name of the city as the name of the province, if you use Siam, it may awaken the memory of some people.

Therefore, from Thonburi, Chonburi, Saraburi, Lopburi, Sinburi and other places, pick the name of the province and use it as the name of the province.

The big city of the Ayutthaya Dynasty is the Bianjing of the Ming Dynasty, the third Beijing division, Bianjing has been expanding in recent years, and Bangkok has been completely expanded into Bianjing.

Ayutthaya is very close to Bangkok.

When Bianjing set up Zhili, including Bangkok, Chonburi, Phetchaburi, Yekorn, Pattaya, Prachin Buri, Saraburi, Nakhon Pathom and other wealthy places, it can be said that the entire Bangkok Bay is in Bianzhili.

Bian Zhili has been sucking blood and swallowing martial arts.

In the sixty-fifth year of Jingtai, the Bianzhili area was withdrawn and the Bianzhili area was returned to Tunwu Province.

But keep Bangkok.

Bianjing's population peaked at 39 million, and after cutting these cities, only 26 million remained, while the permanent population was 31 million.

Because Bianjing is the third capital of the Ming Dynasty and the capital division by the sea, all the good policies of the imperial court will be inclined to Bianjing.

Moreover, Bianjing is an important place to stabilize the Baiyue region.

The imperial court set up a Bianjing camp here, set up a governor's office and a minister of military aircraft, and had more than 800,000 standing water and land troops.

It can be said that Bianjing is the political center of the entire land of Baiyue.

Before the rise of the train, the imperial court wanted to set up a cabinet minister to work in Bianjing.

Although the central government abolished the Nanjing court, there was a small court in Bianjing, which could deal with some military affairs at any time.

With the rise of the train, some officials were gradually reinstated.

However, there must be an important minister of the cabinet to sit in Bianjing and deal with all the affairs in Bianjing, even if the telephone and telegram have appeared today, the imperial court has not abolished it.

After the Industrial Revolution, Bianjing added a Minister of Industry to be responsible for building factories in Bianjing.

That's why Bianjing has attracted so many migrant workers.

With the abolition of Bianzhili, the surrounding talents are gathering in Bianjing, and it is estimated that it will not be long before Bianjing will exceed 30 million people.

With such a large population, it is difficult to manage.

The imperial court has a city and county system, with many districts in the city, and the districts and counties are at the same level, and Bianjing has 14 districts.

In the next 10 years, Bangkok will become the largest district in Bianjing.

Bianjing is the original big city, the atmosphere of Buddhism is extremely strong, here the Yijiao and the Christianity, there is almost no foothold, only a few Mazu believers, because Bangkok is by the sea, to rely on the sea to eat.

People who basically rely on the sea to eat believe in Mazu.

According to statistics, there are 600 million Mazu believers in the Ming Dynasty, more than the followers of the Yellow Sect, and almost squeezed out the Yellow Sect and became the fifth largest sect.

Bianjing was established very early, and it was built on the basis of the big city, which itself has a strong Buddhist atmosphere.

After years of expansion, the temple was not destroyed, the original Ayutthaya became an inner city, and the Ayutthaya Imperial Palace was also changed to the Bianjing Museum, with few things from the Ayutthaya Dynasty on display, and more treasures from the country.

But the Dacheng Dynasty built a lot of temples, these temples, all of which were enshrined by the old emperor one by one, have now become popular tourist attractions, and incense is hot every day.

Bianjing is not the capital of Buddhism, and the capital of Buddhism is in Liaoning.

The old emperor moved everything good to the country, like Bianjing, although it was under construction, it was built on the basis of ensuring that the country was not divided.

Just like Bianjing set up officials, the fundamental purpose is to control the entire Baiyue Land and will not be split.

The imperial court will indeed spend money on the construction of Bianjing, and it is also promoting the industrialization of Bianjing, but it will not put the core technology in Bianjing.

Look at where the Ming Dynasty's military factory is located, and you can see the thoughts of the imperial court.

There is only one small military factory in the land of Baiyue, which is in Jiaozhi.

The supply of the military factory in Baiyue mainly depends on Qiongzhou Mansion, which has the most complete military industry chain, and Jiaozhi is just eating the leftovers of Qiongzhou Mansion.

The imperial court did not set up a military factory in the land of Baiyue, because it was worried that Baiyue would rebel, and by the time the imperial army arrived, Baiyue was gone.

The Beijing-Bian Railway, when the railway technology was just mature, was put on the agenda, and it took only three years to build it.

Connecting the Jingbian Railway, it connects the entire Baiyue land, because the railway is built at the same time in the whole country, and all parts of the country are repaired together, and the speed is naturally fast.

With electricity, Bianjing is also the third to connect to the telephone, which shows how much the imperial court attaches importance to this place.

If you don't pay attention to it, how can you not pay attention to the entire land of Baiyue, including Cochin and Borneo, with a population of more than one billion people and a permanent population of about 1.5 billion?

Moreover, this is the most important grain production base of the Ming Dynasty, the strategic location is equivalent to the northeast, too much grain is produced, and they are all rich coastal areas, after the arrival of the maritime era, this place will contribute about one billion taxes to the imperial court every year.

As a tax-paying land, the imperial court cannot pay too much attention to it.

Zhu Houlang found that the people of Bianjing are very dark, they do not pursue white skin, but pursue healthy complexion, it is too hot here, but they all like outdoor sports, and it is strange not to tan.

The girls here are different from the girls in Beijing, the girls in Beijing pursue white skin and beauty, the girls here pursue healthy nature, yellow skin is yellow skin, there is no need to change their bloodline for the so-called white.

From this point of view, Bianjing people are more culturally confident.

In fact, in the dispute over the color of the people, the imperial court also issued a holy decree, believing that a healthy color is the best-looking, and excessive pursuit of white skin is a pathological behavior.

Han people are originally yellow-skinned, with delicate skin and less odorless hair, which is normal.

The so-called white skin is also a healthy white, not a sick white.

In order to make themselves white, some people are hungry and refuse to eat, and they have a sick whiteness, and they only harm themselves.

On the contrary, it is very good that Bianjing people do not pursue whiteness excessively.

Zhu Houlang didn't know that Bianjing was a big cosmetics consumption market.

Xinjing's cosmetics consumption ranks low.

There are two Daming cosmetics production bases, one is Seoul, North Korea, and the other is Shenzhen, Guangdong, all cosmetics in the world are basically from these two places.

Housing prices in Bianjing are very high.

Because the climate here is good, suitable for northerners to come over for the winter, the imperial court has built hundreds of sanatoriums here, and the old officials of the imperial court will run here to spend the winter.

In the summer, there are very few people here.

The migratory birds are gone, and the locals are working in factories to make money, and the weather is too hot to come out and wander around.

The local wealthy people went to the north to escape the summer.

Because of the unusually hot weather, the average life expectancy of the entire Baiyue region, including Guangxi, Guangdong, and Yunnan, is very low.

The average life expectancy of the Ming Dynasty is about 67 years old, while the average life expectancy of Baiyue Land is 61 years old.

What is most lacking here is ice.

In winter, there are merchants from the north who come to sell ice, and it is not easy to store, so the price of ice is relatively high.

Saltpeter ice can indeed be made, but saltpeter is not allowed to be sold by the private sector for military products.

The imperial court subsidizes the use of ice in these hot areas every year, and every family has it, called ice supplement, and the northern region has winter heat supplement, which is the heating subsidy, and the old emperor treats everyone in the world equally.

This money has been distributed since Jingtai was forty-five years old, and it has been distributed for twenty years.

It would be nice to wait for the electrical revolution to develop.

It is estimated that in the sixty-seventh year of Jingtai, refrigerators will be sold in batches.

Within ten years, refrigerators will be able to enter thousands of households.

The largest air-conditioning plant in Daming is located in Bianzhili, the main plant is in Bianjing, and now Bianzhili is merged into Tunwu Province, which means that Tunwu Province and Bianjing will become the pillar industrial chain of the region in the future.

Zhu Houlang came out of Bianjing to see entertainment projects in Pattaya.

Pattaya is an entertainment city, originally wanted to build a gambling city, but the license court did not approve it, but because the Ming soldiers were stationed here, there were many Fengyue places left by history, and after years of development, it has become an entertainment capital.

Zhu Houlang didn't dare to mess around outside, once something happened, his imperial grandfather would not get used to him.

He just came to see the show.

The most famous here are song and dance shows and music shows, with many classic repertoire, and the actors gathered are also the top stage actors in the country.

Often big names come, and it's hard to get a ticket.

There are also fireworks shows, light shows, iron flower shows and other big shows in the evening, and almost everyone who comes to Thonbu Province for tourism will come to Pattaya to dive and watch the show.

In addition to watching the stage show, Bianzhili's basketball team and baseball team are in Pattaya.

There are also basketball and baseball games every day.

A few years ago, a literary street was also built, which will sell some figures, peripherals, commemorative albums, T-shirts or something, this street is very popular, and it is crowded with people every day.

After the split of Bianzhili, Tunwu Province attached great importance to Pattaya, and put comedy, cross talk, sketches, talk shows and other entertainment activities on the Pattaya stage.

The two most famous big stages of the Ming Dynasty, one in Pattaya and the other in Nanjing.

Nanjing is known as the capital of music, mainly musicals.

Pattaya is the theatre capital.

In addition to no gambling, Pattaya has everything, there must be food when there is a show, the world's food gathers here, next to the literature and art, is the largest night market in the country.

Zhu had a great time, departing from Pattaya and taking a train to Chiang Mai, the largest city in Thonbu Province.

Thonburi is not the largest city in Thonburi Province.

The population of the province is only 12 million, but Chiang Mai has a population of 15 million, because it is the junction of the four provinces, Yunnan, Dali, Nanzhao, Lancang, and the goods to and from the four provinces will pass through Chiang Mai.

In the sixty-third year of Jingtai, the political envoy of Tunwu Province wanted to move the administrative office to Chiang Mai.

But it was rejected by the center.

Because Chiang Mai is an inland city that cannot accommodate more people, 15 million people have already severely damaged the local natural environment, and if the government is relocated, the natural environment around Chiang Mai will be completely destroyed.

As an inland city, the population reaches 15 million people, which is a terrifying number.

Now is the era of shipping, the great era of globalization.

Trade by the sea is the core of urban development.

Daming is the world's manufacturing factory, transportation and manufacturing industry, and is the pillar industry of many provinces.

As one of the most important coastal provinces in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Houlang didn't see too much bullshit, not to mention that he was still under investigation at this time, and many old cases were able to be revealed.

From Thonbu province to the east, take the train to Vientiane province.

Vientiane Province is the new Yangzhou, Jingtai 65 years to change the name, originally wanted to be called Jinxi Province, because the province runs horizontally through a tin river, there is Jinsha in the tin river, so I want to call Jinxi Province.

A lot of opinions were collected, and they all felt that Vientiane was more memorable than Jinxi, and Vientiane, as the capital of Laos, was also regarded as a historical lineage, and Vientiane, Laos was assigned to Vientiane Province.

It was designated as Vientiane Province, referred to as Siam.

and Thonbu Province is bounded by the Dompanafe Mountains and the Basai River, and to the south Mekong Province is bounded by the Biandan Mountains.

The permanent population is only 30 million, the registered population is 72 million, and the actual permanent population does not exceed 20 million, and most of them are elderly.

The young labor force was sucked into Thonbu Province.

At the beginning of the establishment of Vientiane Province, there was also a piece of ocean, but the geographical isolation factor, the entire Vientiane Province is surrounded by mountains, and if you have to draw into a piece of the sea, it will derail Mekong Province and Thonbu Province, as well as Bianjing, and later simply Vientiane Province will become an inland province, and it will not be near the sea.

After all, the important provinces of the Ming Dynasty are the three coastal provinces of Tunwu, Bianzhili, and Mekong, and it is also appropriate for Vientiane to suffer some losses.

What Zhu Houlang saw was not peaceful, but a lot of problems.

He went to several cities, the city is very dilapidated, or the city that was repaired at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it has not been repaired for many years, many asphalt roads have been rotten, and even cooked dirt roads can be seen.

This can't be seen in other provinces of Daming at all, no matter how poor Dali is, there are no dirt roads.

In the entire province of Vientiane, there is not a single city with a population of more than 5 million, and it is basically a very small city with a population of more than 1 million, which is not very competitive.

Reduced to this, it shows that even the imperial court does not pay attention to it.

The officials who came to Vientiane Province to serve as officials felt that they had been exiled, and when they came, they didn't work anymore, they all stayed up day by day, and worked until they retired.

Jingtai has been sixty-six years, and Daming still has such a poor province.

This is something Zhu Houlang didn't expect at all.

Vientiane Province has not only a net outflow of population, but also a female population, especially the female population, who have basically gone to work in the neighboring provinces of Thonbu and Mekong.

The divorce rate in the province is also high, and now the rest are basically elderly people with grandchildren, sons and daughters-in-law are divorced, and the relationship is good, and the couple also went to work in the province next door.

The most strange thing is that in the sixty-third year of Jingtai, in Khon Kaen City, the provincial governor of Vientiane Province, a junior high school closed down, because the entire junior high school recruited three students, and it closed down in desperation.

Like the junior high school in Bianjing, it is overcrowded and there are not enough teachers.

With a population of 4 billion, Vientiane Middle School could not recruit students, which is also a miracle of Daming.

Vientiane belongs to one rotten, rotten everywhere.

Population loss, economic recession, education naturally declined, good teachers and good doctors have gone to work in Bianjing, and the rest are bastards.

Educational resources are definitely getting worse and worse.

If the family has the ability, they will definitely send their children to study in Bianjing, and if the family does not have the conditions, they must also choose a good school.

Vientiane Province was the first region in Daming to be forced into educational reform.

The merger of elementary, junior high, and high schools has closed down more than half of the schools.

Walking on the streets of Khon Kaen, Zhu Houlang couldn't see a few young people, and even people were rare.

Vientiane Province has a population of only 1.2 million.

Vientiane, the largest city, has a population of only 2.1 million.

Vientiane province, which covers a vast area, has completely fallen behind in the national provincial rankings, struggling in the last few places.

Zhu Houlang also found a problem, that is, the people in Vientiane Province are very short.

There is no special feeling in Kuala Lumpur, Sinjing, Bianjing, and Pattaya, but in Khon Kaen, Vientiane Province, I really feel short.

Zhu Houlang is not tall, only 178, wearing a horse-faced skirt, he doesn't look tall.

But when he walked on the streets of Khon Kaen, how could he feel like a giant walking into Lilliputia.

When Daming was in Jingtai for 65 years, he conducted height statistics, and the average height of men in Daming is 173, while the average height in the north is about 175, the average height in the south is about 165, and the average height of Baiyue is about 160.

The provinces with the highest average height in the country are Jilin and Heilongjiang, with an average height of more than 183.

Across the North, those below 175 are considered third-degree disabilities.

Today's children are well nourished, nutritionally balanced, and grow taller from generation to generation.

The average height of Beizhili is around 176.

The height in the northwest is about 174, the height in Rehe and Mongolia is also about 175, and Liaoning and North Korea are not short.

Throughout the north, the height is relatively tall.

As for women, the average height in the north is about 165, the average height of women in the south is about 158, and the average height of women in the land of Baiyue is about 150.

Eight years before Jingtai, it was estimated that the average height of men in the country was around 155.

The north is taller, the average height is about 162, and the average height in the south is about 150.

The average height of the land of Baiyue is even shorter, and when the Ming army came, they saw groups of 140 dwarfs, and the country of Wa was also this height.

The average height of women in the country is also around 146.

Really short.

is so short, Da Ming is definitely the tallest in the world at the same time.

Those white slaves are more than 1.60 meters tall, and they are really not as tall as the Ming people.

For more than 50 years, the last three generations of Daming have kept up with nutrition, and their height has risen wildly, and now fourteen-year-old children are almost one meter eight tall, regardless of the north and south, they have grown taller.

The Han people themselves have the genes to grow taller, and the height of the Ming Dynasty is already a downgraded height, and it is even higher during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period of the Qin and Han Dynasties.

It's too normal to grow tall now, and the ancestors of the Han people are tall.

But the land of Baiyue is still short.

The main reason is that it is too hot, people live in such a hot area all year round, it is easy to be anorexic, and the food is mainly sour and spicy, which is not conducive to growing taller.

When you grow taller, you eat more meat and drink more milk.

In areas with a hot climate, it is impossible to eat greasy food, and it is normal for the human body to have insufficient nutritional intake and not grow tall.

But.

Zhu Houlang found that the people in Vientiane Province seemed to be shorter than other provinces.

Vientiane province is poor.

But all the people of the Ming Dynasty must be free to eat meat, meat, eggs and milk must be available, and the price is not expensive, and people who eat subsistence allowance can also afford to eat meat and eggs.

Why can't it grow taller?

Vientiane Province also lives in Han people, although there is a little bit of indigenous genes, but more Han genes, and European genes, how can it not grow tall?

Zhu found that the local food was too spicy.

The imperial court also has big statistics on spicy food.

The most spicy areas in the country are Vientiane Province in the first, Guizhou Province in the second, Chongqing Province in the third, Sichuan Province in the fourth, Yunnan Province in the fifth, Guangxi Province in the sixth, Dali Province in the seventh, Jiangxi Province in the eighth, and Jiaozhi Province in the ninth.

Bianzhili, Tunwu Province, and Malacca Province do not eat spicy food.

These provinces are dominated by sweets, and their tastes are similar to those of Jiangnan people, light and sweet, so there are many diabetess.

Vientiane Province, like the people of Guizhou, are particularly spicy, and the people of Vientiane Province are even better.

This statistic is calculated based on the sales volume of local chili peppers.

And the anorectal hospitals in these spicy areas open the most.

I have to admit that spicy things taste fragrant, but if you eat too much, it will not only hurt the skin but also hurt the stomach, the incidence of stomach diseases is high, and the incidence of stomach cancer is extremely high.

Zhu Houlang bought a few meals casually, and put a little spicy food, but he drank water all afternoon, but it didn't get spicy.

He can't eat spicy, not spicy at all.

He saw that when the locals were eating, they put a lot of chili peppers, and he thought it was not spicy, but who knew that he almost vomited blood.

The chili peppers here are all planted with particularly spicy chili peppers, and no one likes spicy chili peppers, they all like super spicy, and devil spicy can't be eaten.

Devil's spicy is mainly used in industry to make chili pepper essence, or to be applied to the bottom of a ship, so that marine life cannot parasitize on the bottom of the ship.

And the devil's spicy is planted in Vientiane Province.

Vientiane province is the industrial base of devil chili peppers.

It is still a rubber, sugarcane, and tea base, and a plantation, but it is still outrageously poor.

As a poor province, with mountains and rivers, it should become a tourist city, but as a result, the officials of Vientiane Province were rotten, resulting in the complete scrapping of the whole province.

Zhu Houlang recorded in detail in his travelogue that after returning to Beijing, he would report to the emperor's grandfather and send a capable official to Vientiane Province.

But don't you want to think about it, can't the old emperor think of such a simple truth?

Because of the net outflow of population.

If you want to attract local people to return, you must at least provide job opportunities, and if you rush to get people back, but there are no job opportunities, wouldn't it be a hooligan?

The problem is that the development of tourism also needs a corresponding industrial chain.

These industrial chains need to be built with investment.

Let's just say that Jingtai eight years ago, why didn't the Ming Dynasty develop the north, but instead smashed all the resources in the south of the Yangtze River?

Because you can earn two cents by voting in the south of the Yangtze River, and you will lose two points by voting in the north.

The same thing.

Investing in Vientiane Province is purely losing money, and there is no way.

Even if the old emperor wanted to vote, no one followed, and in the end, it was just the center that subsidized the place, and the place still couldn't develop.

Therefore, Vientiane Province is rotten like this, and the imperial court can't do anything about it.

Vientiane Province is rich in mineral resources and the like, but the imperial court does not need it, and there are few human resources and high mining costs, so they would rather buy from abroad than mine themselves.

This is the dilemma of Vientiane Province.

The court is not in a rut.

So the officials from the imperial court are also unabashedly rotten, people don't want to be promoted, they have no desires, who can do anything to them?

So, Vientiane Province is getting worse and worse.

(End of chapter)