Capital.

Zhu Gaochi, who was born on his 40th birthday, did not let go, and stopped the demands of the virtuous people from all walks of life, represented by the Daming Industry Bureau, and launched activities to congratulate His Royal Highness the Crown Prince on his birthday.

After having a sumptier breakfast with his family, Zhu Gaochi walked to the Wenhua Palace.

Leaving the Chunhe Palace, he nodded to the eunuchs and female officials at the Chunhe Gate, His Royal Highness the Prince, who is approachable, is the person loved by the entire imperial city, Zhu Gaochi smiled and was very kind to everyone he met.

People are complex.

As a history buff, Zhu Gaochi does not dare to say that he is flawless, he also has his own private desires, but there is no obstacle to the great love of the nation, and the two do not conflict.

Just as an offender can save a child who has fallen into the water.

The former is selfish desires, and the latter is human nature.

Including the end of the Ming Dynasty in history.

Liaodong was behind the hands of Jin, and the clever old slaves killed the poor households first, and then the rich households, not only robbed the property of Liaodong to feed the Eight Banners, but also solved the hidden dangers brought by the displaced people, and broke the circle first.

And the mainland is still struggling with how to settle the displaced people, and to raise the materials needed to appease the displaced army.

So much so that Yang Sichang, who finally solved many things, learned that Zhang Xianzhong rebelled again, and he was so angry that he almost vomited blood. Coming and going to Chu and Shu was rampant, and there was no way to make soldiers. Yuntun rain and sudden divisions, snakes and pigs rush to hide? Xu Er's soldiers and civilians were tied up and surrendered, and the knight was rewarded for his merits.

Finally, in the book "Ripple Bag" written by Li Furong, a talented man at the time of the change of the Ming and Qing dynasties, he became a praying mantis who did not starve for An An and served his arms.

Under the layout of the old slave, the people of Liaodong actually resisted.

A squire, with his four sons, led the villagers to confront the heavily armed bandits, and finally the clan perished.

Liaodong has today's situation, which is inseparable from the reason of the squire, but the squire did resist desperately at the last moment, but some things are not decided by manpower, just like the conflict of later generations.

Weakness is original sin.

Liaodong, which has lost its order, is weak in the face of the Houjin with developed organizational power.

At the level of meeting the basic material conditions, Zhu Gaochi, who was responsible for his family in his previous life and worked hard all his life, did not think that he would be so bad, and over the years, he was also very satisfied, and he did not do a good job.

It's just a pity.

After all, the genes of the body are genes, even if they control a lot, the body is still fat, and they can get fat when they drink water, and Zhu Gaochi has no choice.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, no one cares, and there is only respect in people's eyes.

All the way.

The harmony in the palace may also be the reason for the lack of people.

Most of Zhu Yuanzhang's concubines died, Zhu Di did not establish a queen, Goryeo no longer paid tribute to beauties, there were fewer royal families, fewer eunuchs, fewer people, and political clarity, and there were fewer contradictions.

The cabinet ministers sent the recitals compiled yesterday to the Mandarin Hall, except for the particularly urgent official documents.

Most of Zhu Gaochi agreed.

After working all morning, I returned to Chunhe Palace at noon to have dinner with my family, rested for a while at noon, and began to meet with groups of ministers in the afternoon.

"The imperial examination system is the main way to select officials, and it selects talents through examinations, breaking the monopoly of the family on official positions, so that more people have the opportunity to enter the bureaucracy."

"There is no problem with the imperial examination system, of course, the imperial examination system also has limitations, and we need to improve it."

Zhu Gaochi, Yang Shiqi and others said.

Yang Shiqi ended the road of exile, returned to the cabinet, and was soon reused. Fifty-year-old Yang Shiqi has traveled all over the world of the Ming Dynasty, studied industrialization theory in Beiping, held important positions in the imperial court, and was responsible for Nanyang, Laos and other places, which can be described as rich experience.

Today's Daming has many voices about the national management system.

Especially with the sudden illness of Hu Guang, the governor of the seven western provinces, the imperial court was worried for a long time, until Huanghuai arrived in Samarkand, the imperial court was relieved, the emperor went south, and the main energy of the imperial court was put into Nanyang.

Some people not only proposed the abolition of the imperial examination, but also proposed that important posts such as governors in remote areas should be filled by ministers who are in the prime of life and in good health, so as to avoid the recurrence of similar things like Hu Guang.

Zhu Gaochi disagreed.

A country definitely has the idea of governance, otherwise it is not a country. These ideas are often influenced by their historical, cultural, social, and economic factors.

Including Greece, where Western accounts are foggy.

For example, the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle put forward the theory of the four peoples, believing that these four classes have their own responsibilities and roles and together constitute a harmonious society.

Among them, "shi" refers to the samurai who defend the country, "nong" refers to the peasants who provide food, "ko" refers to the craftsmen who make goods, and "shang" refers to the merchants who carry out trade.

The first aristocracy in China was actually a soldier, belonging to the military class, but with the development of the country, the destruction of the sergeant class was too great, so there was a separation of civil and military, each performing its own duties.

The idea of national governance, whether ancient or modern, Chinese or foreign, is a path that philosophers have diligently explored. Even the emerging country, the United States, has adopted the idea of the state put forward by modern Western thinkers as its foundation.

"The stability of agricultural society and the great development of industrial society are two completely different models, but the core of the essence is stability, and only the premise of stability can there be development."

"Through the development of industrialization, the improvement of the economy, and the prosperity of the common people, I have strengthened the popularization of schools to meet the needs of society and cultivate more talents."

"How to select talents and put them in suitable positions, the imperial examination system is the threshold, and the practice of participating in the society after the completion of schools at all levels is training and assessment."

"The imperial court needs talented people, in fact, the local area needs talented people, the local is the cornerstone of the country, only the local governance by smart people, so that the comprehensive development of all places, then the imperial court can be at ease, and there is rice in the pot."

"In the future, not only will the imperial examination not be abolished, but the assessment will be strengthened, I admit that the imperial examination has some shortcomings, but the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, and it is the most appropriate method at the moment." Zhu Gaochi set the tone.

The crowd was silent.

Zhu Gaochi left Yang Shiqi, "Come with me." ”

Yang Shiqi smiled.

The garden is still the usual garden, the fountain does not spray water, and on the rockery in the pool, the finger-sized fake monkeys seem to be real, and the carved turtle at the bottom of the pool is exposed.

Yang Shiqi talked about some customs and customs of the South Seas, Zhu Gaochi listened carefully, and finally talked about Polondo Luoja.

Zhu Gaochi thought of Goryeo again.

The events of Goryeo, Siam, and Boni Tusi were transmitted back to China through people's mouths, and the frequent exchange of news aroused the curiosity and discussion of some scholars.

The Ming Dynasty is very strong and rich, how can other countries reach the level of the Ming Dynasty?

Zhu Gaochi has read a lot of such articles, but in fact, Zhu Gaochi doesn't approve of it very much.

What is a backward country.

Backwardness is not only economic backwardness, if you want to catch up with the Ming Dynasty, you must pay a price, and this price needs to be sacrificed.

The southern king of Goryeo semi-closed the southern part of Goryeo, although he maintained trade with the Ming merchants and controlled the expansion of the Ming merchants in the southern part of Goryeo, the king of Goryeo ran his own factory, which was inferior to the Ming trading houses in any respect, but it did belong to the southern part of Goryeo.

In the later generations, there was a great explosion of information, and there were many aspects of discussion, and Zhu Gaochi still remembered an article called that domestic enterprises were inferior to foreign enterprises, and that they treated workers poorly, and there was nothing to do if they were down.

Zhu Gaochi did not approve of it.

For example, although it is a coarse grain, it is a little moldy, but there is no other food, so in order not to starve to death, you can only pinch your nose and eat.

Zhu Gaochi knows very well that his cousins and sisters in later generations, they do not need to be separated from their children, his mother has seven sisters and brothers, and his father has eight brothers and sisters.

And before the Year of Double Happiness.

More than seventy percent of myself and my cousins are separated from their parents and can only see each other once a year, and my little cousin only sees her parents once in ten years.

Developing countries.

What is a developing country? It's not that they're poorer than others, but they're lagging behind in all aspects, and there are a lot of people who need to catch up.

Why are you catching up with others?

What are your abilities to catch up with others?

No ordinary person can do it, let alone a country.

If you want to become a developed country, you need to pay a price, and if you don't want to pay a price, and you want to become a developed country, then you have to be lucky, there is nothing, except to bury your head in struggle, is there any other way?

Let's take an analogy.

Apple has its own 100,000 employees, and there may be 900,000 workers up and down the production chain behind it, or millions of jobs.

There may be 100,000 or 200,000 of these million jobs in China, and they can be moved out at any time, depending on the needs of American interests.

Far ahead of its own 50,000 employees, behind the production chain of 450,000 people, that is, 500,000 jobs.

At least 400,000 jobs are in China, and it is difficult to leave the country, and it can only change according to national demand.

Many domestic companies are very garbage, and there are too many deficiencies compared to foreign companies.

But who made you Chinese?

At least, among his cousins, only two cousins, one cousin is in a coastal city, and the rest have returned to their hometowns to work.

Developing countries.

It is not a complaint that can become a developed country.

What is this kind of person called if he doesn't have that life, he doesn't have luck, he doesn't want to work hard, he doesn't want to fight, he just wants to live a rich life by complaining?

Under the size and advantages of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Gaochi relied on his advanced vision and status, and through decades of persistence, he had today's Ming Dynasty, not to mention a country like Siam, even if it was Goryeo, he wanted to reach the level of the Ming Dynasty without paying the price.

Why?

By virtue of the Koreans, they are one level higher than the people of other countries?

What's more, Daming will not allow other countries to catch up with Daming, unless they defeat Daming first, use force to gain their own development confidence, and let Daming interfere powerlessly, which is the first level.

Zhu Gaochi also doesn't believe that in the current world, there is any country that can defeat the Ming Dynasty.

The biggest threat to the Timurid Khanate is gone, Goryeo is controlled by the Ming Dynasty, and the Japanese are in turmoil, so looking at the world, the West is still in the ignorant Middle Ages, which is really the best era of the Ming Dynasty.

As for Siam, Zhu Gaochi recognized the person of Polondo Raja, but the national strength of the Ming Dynasty was different.

That's it.

The lion fighting the rabbit has always been Zhu Yuanzhang's strategic idea, and it has also been inherited by Zhu Di, and Zhu Gaochi also recognizes this idea, and Zhu Gaochi does not want to pay too much price.

After all, sighed.

Zhu Gaochi couldn't help but pat his stomach, there are too many things that Zhu Gaochi is dissatisfied with in the Ming Dynasty, and he hopes to pave the way as soon as possible and let Chinese civilization evolve to a real height.

What he wants is not the enthusiasm of the officials, but the transformation of the people at the bottom.

Only when the civilization of the people progresses can it be a great progress in civilization.

Otherwise, it is just the death of people.

Just as Zhu Gaochi said to the workers in front of the steam engine factory in Daxing Village in the spring of the 25th year of Hongwu, grasp both material civilization and spiritual civilization.

Can it be done?

Zhu Gaochi is a little lacking in confidence, this is a career that great men have pursued all their lives.

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"From today onwards, strengthen the drills of the whole battalion."

"Head, there's going to be a war?"

The sentinel asked curiously around Li Jian.

Li Jian has an old scar on his face, this scar was shot by a stray arrow of horse bandits in the Senan area, the horse bandits' weapons are not as good as the Ming army, but the bow is accurate; The left hand is not very flexible because of the old disease, which was ambushed when the city was occupied to exterminate the remnants of the bandits, and the sequelae were left after being cured.

Li Jian touched his chin, "The atmosphere is not quite right. ”

The general nose is very smart, and the general said this, the sentry officers below moved, Li Jian grew from a soldier to a general, and his prestige was very high, and the soldiers were willing to listen to it.

A few months later, Li Jian received a military order to pull out the camp.

When he arrived at the main camp and held a meeting, Li Jian received definite news that the army was indeed going to war.

"Click, click."

The train on the railway went all the way to Guangxi, entered Cochin, and from Cochin to Champang, the troop carrier at the port, a group of soldiers waited to board the big ship, and finally it took only three days from Champa to Gechang Island.

This is the benefit of the Ming Dynasty's reconquest of Cochin, which can be taken by land by boat at the southernmost tip of the peninsula.

It only takes a few days at most to reach the countries of the South Seas. Otherwise, it will take several months to go back and forth from Guangxi because of the distance, as well as the problem of the supply port, and the influence of the monsoon.

Not only is it inefficient, but it's also unreliable.

The soldiers and horses did not move the grain and grass first.

The strength of the traditional Ming Dynasty is not deep enough to control the islands, not to mention Siam, the junction of Siam and Chenla, there is an island overseas, and there is no clear belonging, and it was included as the territory of Siam in later generations.

Now it is unmanaged, there are only a few indigenous people, the standard of living is very low, stay in slash-and-burn, in the middle and late period of the Ming Dynasty in history, it became a supply point for the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, and later was taken away by the Portuguese Spanish Dutch.

Such an island, the local natives treat foreign forces, as long as they have a good start, such as sending some goods, and then propose trade, it is easy to get the right to govern.

It is thought that the local indigenous people also need the integration of outsiders, and it is also the ecological needs of a few tribes, including the northern region of the Ming Dynasty, which treats strangers very hospitable, and leaves the blood of outsiders.

Otherwise, if the natives on each island are unable to communicate, they can only sneak attack and confront without hesitation, not to mention the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, even the armed merchant ships of Spain and the Netherlands will not be able to sustain it.

However, where there is contact, there is contradiction.

The Ming merchants were the first to come into contact with each other, leaving the most contradictions, without the interference of external forces, and they could maintain overall stability, but when the new Spanish Dutch forces arrived, they quickly attracted the local natives and launched an attack on the Ming merchants.

The same thing.

Later, the Japanese invaders arrived in Nanyang and replaced the Western forces with Chinese merchants, and the contradictions with the local natives accumulated deeply, resulting in the Japanese robbers receiving the support of the natives again.

There are two sides to everything.

The defeat of the Japanese invaders made them retreat back to their own land, and caused them to stay in the land of Nanyang for too short a time, and the contradictions with the natives were not deep, which was the advantage, which gained a lot of convenience for them to deal with Nanyang in the future, and also made the goods of the Japanese invaders flood the South Seas.

However, these are not unsolvable problems, as long as you can recognize the problem clearly and make targeted responses to break the situation, it belongs to the wisdom contest of the upper level.

With this in mind, Zhu Di stayed in Champa, and Xie Jin, as a cabinet minister, went to Siam Ayutthaya, the capital of Siam, to meet with the king of Siam and discuss the issue of Polondo Raja.

"Polondoraja is an unstable factor, not only destroying the stability of the South Seas, but also bringing danger to the Siamese royal family, if you don't solve Polondoraja, I am afraid that this person will lead the army to rebel."

Is Polondo Raja going to rebel?

I don't know.

Up in the air.

However, the Ming Dynasty bit Polondoraja to rebel and formed public opinion, so the royal family of Siam will be worried, and the royal family of Siam will be worried, so they will take measures to suppress and test Polondoraja.

Polondoraja either surrendered power to gain the trust of the Siamese royal family, or he confronted and deepened the contradictions with the Siamese royal family.

This is a conspiracy.

This is called using the advantage of public opinion to expand contradictions.

If there is no problem, it is very simple, then create a problem through public opinion.

The difference is that Polondoraja is indeed a bit of a problem, his strength is very strong, which has made the Siamese royal family jealous, with the Ming Dynasty in charge and stimulation, the Siamese royal family has enough confidence.

First of all, he asked Polondoraja to return to the capital to explain.

Only this one, Polondoraja could not agree, and Polondoraja could not return to the capital, which proved that the public opinion of the Ming Dynasty, Siam, which had been stable for many years, appeared overnight.

The Siamese royal family prepared for war, and Xie Jin promised that the Ming Dynasty would protect the Siamese royal family, and communicated with the Siamese royal family many contradictions.

For example, in the bilateral trade agreement between the suzerainty and the vassal state, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty could go to Siam to do business without hindrance without collecting taxes, and the merchants of the Ming Dynasty could buy land in Siam, establish ports, etc., which was a set of methods in Goryeo.

In the same way, Siamese merchants could also go to Daming to do business without collecting taxes, they could also buy land in Daming, and even build a port in Daming.

It's just that.

The land of the Ming Dynasty is expensive, the goods are cheap, and the endless quantity is unlimited, and the merchants of Siam are still small workshops, and self-sufficiency cannot be satisfied.

In the face of pressure from the north, Polondoraja sent an envoy to Champa to meet Zhu Di, but Zhu Di had no other requirements, and the Siamese royal family agreed to the conditions, as long as Polondoraja agreed.

Naturally, Polondoraja would not agree, and if he did, he would not have done much, so he sent people to the capital to meet the king, trying to convince the king.

The king and the local powerful generals are naturally not to deal with, the two have an essential conflict of interest, in the face of their own rights, the king of Siam trusts the Ming more, because Polondo Raja will want his life, and the Ming only needs interests.

Ming warships roamed the southern coast of Siam, protecting the emerging cities of Cha Am and Hua Hin.

Hua Hin was a seaside town in central Thailand, 500 miles away from Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, which is now Siam Ayutthaya. It is across the coast from Koh Samet.

Xie Jin, who returned from Siam, introduced the situation in Siam to Zhu Di.

Zhu Di was a little uncomfortable.

In the past, where the enemy was, he led the army to fight over, and he had always done this, but now, his son does not let him do this, and the army is easy to move, taking advantage of the internal contradictions of other countries.

This kind of delicate work like threading a needle made Zhu Di a little breathless.

"In short, we want to convey our attitude to Polondoraja, we don't fight with him, and he doesn't want to harm the interests of our Daming, as for their internal contradictions, they can't affect our Daming."

Zhu Di couldn't help but touch his chin again.

Zhu Di's habits were learned by many generals, and people were imitating the emperor.

"How fucking unreasonable this is."

"I'll beat you, and you can't fight back yet."

That is, his son can come up with it, ordinary people really can't do such a shameless thing, Zhu Di was a little emotional.

Hearing the emperor's words, Xie Jin showed a shy smile.

How good is this kind of thinking, it is in line with the intentions of their civilian officials, fighting and killing, not to mention that the efficiency is too low, and if you hurt the enemy for a thousand, you will lose a hundred, right?

From the southern province of Sainan to the northern part of the country, from Hami to Yili Rangli, from Yili to the seven western provinces, from Goryeo to Nanyang, under the guidance of Zhu Gaochi, the Ming Dynasty has undergone many changes and summed up more experience.

In the face of Daming's new model and means, not only did the Siamese royal family not react, but Polondo Raja was also so angry that he almost vomited blood. In front of him, like invisible cotton, he didn't know which direction to fight, and the punches that came out were still not strong.

Now it has become an internal struggle in Siam, and the Ming only needs to be a fisherman.

The newspapers reported again and again that the whole Nanyang knew that Siam was going to war, that Polondoraja was going to rebel, that if the royal family lost, it would be killed by Polondoraja, and if Polondoraja lost, the royal family's power would be secured.

Historically, there has been no civil war in Siam, at least during this period.

But history is history after all, the newspapers of the Ming Dynasty were brought to all parts of Nanyang through the merchants, even the old newspapers also represented the right of public opinion, and the people everywhere understood the situation in the world through the newspapers of the Ming Dynasty.

That's what the newspapers say, and that's what people think.

"The Siamese royal family will not lose."

"Not necessarily, that Polondoraja who has secretly accumulated power for many years and is arrogant in ambition must have the confidence to rebel now."

Under the propaganda in the newspapers, Polondoraja is a martial artist who conspires and rebels for power, has an eccentric temper, kills people at every turn, and does not understand benevolence and morality, everyone sees it this way.

(End of chapter)