The first industrial revolution took place in England, why not France, and Italy, why not the great ancient civilization of the East, many scholars have studied and have their own opinions.

Some scholars work backwards from the seven aspects of cause and effect.

The first is the British constitutional monarchy, which limits the power of the monarchy, and in this regard, Confucianism also limits the power of the monarchy, and the emperor's management of government affairs has fallen into the hands of the bureaucracy.

Of course, there are some differences between the two.

The second is the primitive accumulation of capital, but the regional merchant gangs that emerged in the middle and late Ming Dynasty also proved the accumulation of capital, and there were many wealthy businessmen among the people, and even had the power to violate the laws of the Ming Dynasty.

The third is foreign trade.

The Ming Dynasty has always been the largest trading market, and goods are exported to the world.

The fourth is the maturity of production technology, that is, the development of handicrafts, the accumulation of a large number of technologies, these traditional application technologies, the Ming Dynasty is also not lacking, on the contrary, the Ming Dynasty has a large number of artisan groups, as well as a highly developed agricultural and industrial system, food production is more stable.

The fifth is to break away from the control of religious thought, and the control of religious thought has not formed a system in the eastern land, and scholars have also given birth to the idea of questioning Confucius, such as Wang Yangming's "Although his words come from Confucius, he dare not think it is true." ”

The sixth is the birth of the capitalist class.

The seventh is the emergence of new industries.

But whether it is the former or the latter, there is no shortage in the Daming Jianghuai region.

India, which has one of the world's oldest histories of private property, has been taking over the British cotton textile industry since the 18th century, and has observed, learned, and emulated British society.

It is also intriguing that many later researchers have tended to ask why in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, China, which still surpassed the world level, had excellent textile and iron-making technology, and a thriving economy in the Yangtze River Delta region, did not have an industrial revolution.

Therefore, simply attributing the failure of industrialization to the vested interests of the elite and the exploitative system, which these institutional schools believe in, so they argue that Eastern civilization has been backward since ancient times, and so on, has gained a lot of believers.

But these inferences are not convincing, and even misleading.

Therefore, after Zhu Gaochi came to the Ming Dynasty, he did not adopt the theories advocated by those institutional scholars, but on the contrary, a group of new scholars were born in the new century as a result of great achievements, and various ideological theories were put forward that were more in line with reality.

Compared to the former, the latter is more down-to-earth and no longer sounds so unreal.

And it can make people suddenly realize.

Because the truth must be in line with reality, thousands of false transmissions, true transmission of a sentence, often a true transmission, can make people wake up.

Therefore, all kinds of propaganda slogans about the West that were very popular among the people before the new century were gradually not convinced, and they began to get tired of these empty things in their hearts and began to think about themselves.

Spring and Palace.

Den.

The shelves are full of books, a large number of scholars' papers, and various data reports, with eye-catching labels, so that Zhu Gaochi can find exactly what he wants.

The Ming Dynasty is a unified society.

In the original history, on the basis of the development of grain production, the population has actually exploded, but the system of the Ming Dynasty took households as the object of collection, so it did not pursue population statistics.

Today's Ming Dynasty, especially in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty, has a large population of women and children in the Wa Kingdom and Goryeo, which has led to a surge in the population of the north, and with the surplus of grain, it has brought about a new concept.

For example, in the Northern Parallel Province, the latest population statistics have probably exceeded 8 million.

This number stunned many.

In fact, compared to the future in history, it is not so outrageous.

For example, between 1734 and 1753, in a period of nineteen years, the population of the country increased fourfold.

This is certainly not due to fertility rates, but to changes caused by new policies.

The explosive growth that began in the fifties of the twentieth century, directly on a straight line map, is an unbelievable fact caused by the fertility rate.

Population represents the potential of a country.

Meantime.

If social development cannot catch up with the increase in the number of people, then the good medicine will become poison, and China's unified traditional agricultural society since ancient times can be said to have died in this poison.

It is not a policy that can be reconciled, what is needed is a drastic change in productivity.

Since ancient times, the land for production has been developed, and the ancestors tried their best to solve this difficult problem, but no amount of change could make the productivity keep up with the growth of the population.

The Ming Dynasty died in socio-economic bankruptcy.

The rest of the phenomena, such as official corruption, the annexation of land by the gentry, etc., were not lacking even in the heyday of the dynasty, so they were not the main cause of the Ming Dynasty's demise.

Even if the politics are clear, if you can't eat enough, you can't eat enough, and you still can't avoid the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Gaochi tapped on the table.

It has always been Zhu Gaochi's work to change the Ming Dynasty from a traditional agricultural society into an industrial society, and the results are very gratifying, but the size of the Ming Dynasty is too large, and the current social phenomenon has brought a large number of new people, which has become a big problem.

Without solving these problems, the Ming Dynasty is still a traditional agricultural society.

Especially in the moment.

Daming's market is too prosperous, Daming's goods have no competitors, and businessmen do not need to go through hardships to be middlemen, and they don't have to worry about finding door-to-door orders directly at home.

The business houses that emerged in Haojing were very prosperous, but they didn't stop there.

Only a few trading houses are willing to leave their comfort zone and venture to the countries of the South Seas.

The volume of Daming is too large, and if you want to make a qualitative leap, the current stage has entered the bottleneck area, and beyond this stage, Daming's society can continue to develop at a high level.

Otherwise, we will be stagnant and face all sorts of new problems.

In a nutshell.

Let the development of science catch up with the needs of applied technology, that is, the society of machine production of machines, when it comes to this step, the industrialized society of the Ming Dynasty can be regarded as a real success.

Demand.

Demand is the biggest challenge.

Creating demand, promoting social development, and jumping over the Malthusian poverty trap social theory were the success of the fourth attempt at industrialization in later generations, and finally jumped out of the strange circle since ancient times and solved problems that had not been solved for thousands of years.

At the beginning of the fifteenth century, the actual population accounted for a quarter of the world, which was not the highlight moment, and the highest light time was not the Han and Tang dynasties in the world's one-third of the world, but the Song Dynasty's forty percent.

In other words, four out of ten people are Han Chinese.

Since the Yuan Dynasty, the proportion of Han people in the world has been declining with each dynasty.

So the Yuan Dynasty was a dividing ridge.

Before the Yuan Dynasty, the proportion of Han people in the world's population has been increasing, after the Yuan Dynasty, it has been declining, the Ming Dynasty was an inflection point, the highest proportion recovered to 35 percent, but soon declined again.

Although the population increased dramatically during the Qing Dynasty, the world's population also soared.

Because the world has access to high-yielding crops from the Americas.

Many people say that the high-yielding crops of the Americas were not the main reason for the population increase of the Qing Dynasty, which is a disregard for the facts.

Because of the popularity of high-yield crops in the Americas, the population of the Qing Dynasty and the world began to increase dramatically, and the world population increased from 560 million to 1 billion in 1800 and 1.7 billion in 1900, and the world population also more than tripled.

The biggest shortcoming of the Qing Dynasty was that it did not keep up with the development of the world, resulting in the Eastern civilization lagging behind the Western civilization, and even the Chinese nation still had to pay for this in later generations.

Otherwise, there is a famous saying in the West that the victor is not blamed, and there is also a saying in the East that the king is a king and a loser, and the Qing Dynasty will not become the object of hatred by many people.

Zhu Gaochi went through the research reports sent by the scholars.

In addition to the conflicts between industries in various places, the most thrilling thing is the proportion of new people.

The schools in Beiping are in short supply, not to mention other areas, to solve the problem of schools, not only the Ming Dynasty's taxes can't afford it, even if the Ming Dynasty can get this amount of money, there are not so many teachings.

Not to mention the consumption of resources needed to meet the needs of these new populations, as well as the impact on social industries and new livelihood needs when the new population grows up.

If these phenomena cannot be solved, when the problems erupt in a concentrated manner ten years later, it will not be a problem that the imperial court can solve, that is, it will fall into a dead circle again.

With the population size of the Ming Dynasty, the Western colonial road is impassable.

Only production.

Colonization made the West rich, but what made Western civilization strong was the production they established in the colonies, especially in the Americas, where a large number of Western people sprung up one city after another through production, which was their foundation.

Thinking of the path of development in the future, Zhu Gaochi had a new plan for the future of the Ming Dynasty in his mind.

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"The officers led by Polondo Raja imitated the army of my Ming Dynasty and trained a new army, but the scale was not large, about two thousand people, but this person had a high prestige in Siam, and even the king supported him."

Yang Shiqi said.

The biggest problem in the South Seas, apart from Myanmar, is Siam.

The Ming Dynasty forbade Siam to annex the Sukhothai Kingdom, but Siam took advantage of the Ming Dynasty's Western Expedition to completely annex this country, which greatly lost the prestige of the Ming Dynasty in Nanyang and brought a lot of impact.

The voice of the imperial court was not small in response to the call for Siam to move troops.

Opposite.

In the face of the rising will to war, it was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who tried his best to delay, if it weren't for His Royal Highness the Prince, the army of the Ming Dynasty would have set foot on the Kingdom of Siam, even if the Kingdom of Siam behaved very respectfully.

Including the southern king of Goryeo, and even the Wa kingdom.

There were not many generals who advocated war within the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Di was a little embarrassed.

Not only in the South Seas, but also in the Timurid Khanate, the old forces began to make a comeback, harassing the Mashhad region from the regions of Gazvin and Isfahan, and the scale was increasing.

It seems that over the years, these forces have not only not died out, but have also been well supplied in the West, daring to test the rule of the Ming army.

In addition, the Ming army carried out new indoctrination in the local area, and there were not many local contradictions.

Whether to go west again, Zhu Di has been thinking about it, but some things have been delayed, especially the death of the queen, which made Zhu Di very sad and walked out recently.

If you want to use troops against the South Seas, Siam is not a small country, and you need to invest a lot of energy to prevent the danger of defeat.

Especially post-war governance.

The eldest son is very different, he pays attention to governance, rather than blind conquest, which causes Zhu Di to have many scruples.

There must be a harvest in the war.

Even in the west, the water must be squeezed out.

Therefore, over the years, the mobilization of troops of the Ming Dynasty has occurred every year, especially the expedition to the northern part of the country, the battle to recover Cochin, and the western expedition thousands of miles away, not to mention the "small-scale" wars, such as sending troops to assist the Ouchi clan of the Wa Kingdom, sending troops to the Ryukyus to support the royal family, and so on.

But the development of the Ming Dynasty not only did not stop because of this, but also ensured the production of the common people.

In fact, Zhu Di is already very satisfied with the current situation of the Ming Dynasty.

Not sure why.

The boss seems to be troubled by some unknown trouble, and in Zhu Di's opinion, it is really a bit unfounded.

However, Zhu Di sometimes thinks about it, is it because the boss sees farther and sees the worries of the future, so he has today's anxiety, anyway, the boss's thoughts, Zhu Di can't guess.

Just like in the time of Beiping, no one was aware of the hidden dangers of the military household system, but the boss saw it and thought that the military household system was already showing signs of bankruptcy, so he started with the military household system and changed the living conditions of the military households.

The geographical environment of Laos is more complicated, but the Lao Propaganda Department generally obeys the management of the Ming Dynasty and does not have much trouble, while Laos is not under the management of Yang Shiqi.

Yang Shiqi wanted to return to the center as soon as possible, he had been away from the imperial court for too long.

But the matter of Siam, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince dragged on and on, and Yang Shiqi was at a loss in his heart, looking at His Majesty the Emperor expectantly.

Zhu Di was noncommittal.

Day 2.

The two fathers and sons meet in the Imperial Garden.

"If my father wants to conquer in person, let's go to the west." After listening to this, Zhu Gaochi said slowly.

Zhu Di was stunned.

I haven't decided to go to the army myself.

The conquest of the west is not a thing to enjoy, the hardships and monotony of those years made Zhu Di a little unbearable, but it was also boring to stay in the capital, and he didn't want to compete with his son for the right to govern the country.

I'm embarrassed to fight, my son did too well.

But so.

Zhu Di felt a little itchy in his heart, in addition to his desires, he also considered that the western region needed him, and he could get the greatest benefits from all aspects by going on his own expedition.

"Aren't you not supportive of the Western Expedition?"

Zhu Di couldn't help but ask curiously.

Zhu Gaochi smiled: "This time and that time. ”

In the past, the western region was desolate and disorderly, and it was difficult for the Ming army to get the harvest, but in recent years, the Ming Dynasty has invested a lot of financial and material resources in the western region, as well as the migration of the population to the local area.

Otherwise, all the hard work over the years will be in vain, so on the contrary, it is necessary to ensure the stability of the western capitals, prevent the local people from being affected by the war, and keep the war out of the country.

Moreover, Zhu Neng, Zhang Fu and other generals have stayed there for too long, and it is easy to form a mountain, which is not conducive to the stability of the imperial court, and they also need to be transferred back.

But the current situation can't transfer them, so it is the best policy for the emperor of the Ming Dynasty to go to the town in person.

But it's also because of Zhu Di.

Zhu Di's talent, as well as the advantages brought by his identity, it is a pity not to abandon it.

Looked at.

Zhu Di knew that he was leaving the capital again, but this time the movement was far worse than the last time, Zhu Gaochi recruited officials from various ministries and the Daming Industry Bureau, as well as various scholars at the same time.

The west should be small, and the south should be produced.

Zhu Gaochi proposed a new policy means, the Ming Dynasty's 10-year plan. (End of chapter)