Wuying Palace.

Wu Yingmen.

Zhu Gaochi looked out from the platform, below was the inland river of the imperial city, three arch bridges, and then an empty square, opposite the square was a building complex, six corridors, and officials worked in it.

Different from the Wenhua Palace, when Zhu Gaochi was still the prince, he underwent several repairs in the Wenhua Palace, established a garden park, and even built a bus system.

Maybe it's because of his age, to be precise, because of his body, Zhu Gaochi began to like quiet again.

The Imperial Palace Bureau's plan to renovate the Martial Hall has been suspended.

Although it is not as functional as the daily affairs of the Wenhua Palace, it retains the solemn atmosphere of the royal family, which is also unique.

Zhu Gaochi in history died of illness at the age of forty-five, and now he is forty-nine years old, and he is about to reach the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, and it is cost-effective for him to live, and the corners of Zhu Gaochi's mouth can't help but curl.

I have made great contributions to the rejuvenation of Chinese civilization.

Zhu Gaochi couldn't help but think.

At the beginning of the fifteenth century, according to various accounts, the world's population was estimated to be between 250 million and 420 million.

At the beginning of the fifteenth century, that is, the Yongle Dynasty, the official data was close to 70 million, but many scholars deny this statement, because the data of the Ming Dynasty is very inaccurate, and the statistics of hidden households and military households are very complicated.

Even according to the statement of 420 million people, the current population of the Ming Dynasty has reached more than 190 million.

The population of its own childbirth, the population absorbed by the recovery of Jiaozhi, and the small number of craftsmen, scholars and other groups absorbed by foreign countries led to the rapid population of the Ming Dynasty in Yongle.

However, the rate of population growth has begun to "slow down" compared with previous years, mainly because the proportion of foreign population absorbed has gradually decreased, and there is no longer such an area as Cochin Province that has increased its population by several million at once.

Even the Goryeo maids, the Wa maids, etc., were absorbed, and because of the "depletion" of the Goryeo and Wa kingdoms, the number of them gradually decreased.

Of course, with the increase of the population of the Ming Dynasty, the number of people in the world will inevitably increase, but it can be believed that among the two people in the world, close to one person is the Ming people.

It was restored to the level of the Song Dynasty.

So in Zhu Gaochi's heart, since one of the two people in the world is a Ming person, then at least half of the land in the world also belongs to the Ming Dynasty.

Later, the British invaded the Americas, Australia and other lands, established states in these places, carried out genocide, and obtained a very small population to occupy a huge amount of land, which is unfair.

They were invaders, but because of their strength, no one dared to oppose them.

If world civilization and fairness and justice are pursued, the British need to pay reparations, apologize, and withdraw from these lands they invaded and return them to the people of the world, which will be distributed by the population ratio of each country as compensation.

It is a pity that the truth of the world is built on cannons.

Whoever has strong artillery fire will be able to establish a world order and claim to be a civilization.

Therefore, the robbers, who are rich in resources per capita, still dominate the world order, not because they are civilized, but because they are rich and powerful because of their abundant resources.

People envy their wealth and want to live their lives, but they claim to be civilized.

If these rich countries decay and become impoverished, these people will be the first to flee, except that they will no longer talk about civilization.

This is also in line with the principle that the economic base determines the superpolitical structure.

The overall morality of society is inevitably based on material satisfaction.

Those backward and poor countries are really inhumane even if they can't even fill their stomachs, but they are required to pay attention to benevolence, righteousness and morality, even if those who have not eaten enough for a long time can hardly have humanity, and those who have eaten enough to sneer at them are even more inhumane.

Then with the continuous prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, the long-term development of the economy, and the strong foundation of civilization, there will be more and more thinkers like Cao Duan and Tao Jun, which is also an inevitable phenomenon of the development of things.

There will be more and more contradictions, and economic development will always be a means of easing the contradictions.

How to ensure economic development, per capita resources are abundant.

In short, the larger the land area, the more land area per capita, or the more resources at your disposal, the easier it is for economic development and the longer you can maintain the momentum of economic development.

It was now the fifteenth century, and the Ming Dynasty did not need the means to master the resources, and the best way was to get more land.

The British have a population of several million, and they can't absorb the confidence of the rest of the races, so they can only carry out genocide, but the Ming people are not afraid, the Ming people are close to 200 million, and they have the foundation of embracing the world.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty can achieve common prosperity and development with the world, which the British cannot put forward and are very resistant.

Zhu Zhanji looked at his father's back, his eyes full of admiration.

When he inspected Daming for the first time, the young Zhu Zhanji saw the swallow pictures hanging in the halls of the people, and his pride and admiration were ready to come out.

In Zhu Zhanji's heart, his father is the greatest monarch, and he must not let down his father, live up to the great rivers and mountains, be a qualified successor, and continue to shine the Ming Dynasty.

Even if there were some untimely "cockroaches" in this process, through the previous suppression, Zhu Zhanji had the confidence to find a way to deal with these people.

"Prince."

"The son is here."

Zhu Zhanji stepped forward and responded respectfully.

"You have to understand what the essence of rights is, and what you want, and only by figuring out what you want can you think about how to treat rights."

Zhu Gaochi did not veto his son strongly.

Whether it is in his previous life or in this life, Zhu Gaochi will never forcibly reverse other people's thoughts, but will only say his thoughts and communicate with each other.

If you think you are right and others are wrong, then this is not communication, but coercion.

It is difficult to change people's character, Zhu Gaochi does not want to change, because this is his code of doing things, he does not want to force others, and others do not force himself, under the premise of morality and conscience, to achieve the unity of knowledge and action.

Morality and conscience are the consensus of human society, and it is already against morality and conscience to interpret the rest of the standards in a maverick way, and it can change the level of social morality through development and the improvement of the economic base.

For example, in a society that has been poor and hungry for a long time, what the people want most is to have a full stomach, but you have to let the people pursue education and the style of a gentleman, which is against morality and conscience.

Zhu Zhanji heard his father's teachings and fell into deep thought.

Zhu Gaochi patted his son on the shoulder, people need to keep learning, and then through the enrichment of social experience, understand deeper social logic, understand some truths, and see through some things.

The son is still young, and Zhu Gaochi did not expect Zhu Zhanji to be a genius.

Everyone is an ordinary person, and expecting ordinary people to be geniuses is not perverse, and the son can maintain his morality and conscience, and he is already a good heir. Then Zhu Gaochi looked at Yang Pu.

Fifty-seven-year-old Yang Pu sank his shoulders.

When he was still the crown prince, the emperor handed over his eldest son to himself to study, smart people don't need to say much, Yang Pu felt that he was not doing very well and lived up to the emperor's expectations.

Because it is too difficult to cultivate a monarch as great as the emperor in front of him.

After teaching the crown prince, Zhu Gaochi returned to Wulou and began to reply to Zhu Neng's recital, agreeing with Zhu Neng's opinion, with the help of the complex internal affairs of the Delhi Sultanate, with politics as the main and military as the auxiliary, to end the local war as soon as possible.

The grain produced by the seven western provinces can only be self-sufficient and cannot supply the army.

The supplies and food and grass of the army came from the interior.

The short-lived prosperity of the seven western provinces was due to the fact that after the arrival of the army, it brought with them consumption, grain and commodities, which were completely supported by the hinterland, and did not form an orderly cycle with the hinterland's economy.

If the agriculture of the seven western provinces can be self-sufficient, then there will be a certain basis for resource exchange, at least the Ming soldiers can use food stamps to trade with the local people, instead of using their own military rations.

However, if the seven western provinces can achieve self-sufficiency in agriculture, there will be no long-term chaos, although there are some areas of plains, but on the whole can not be satisfied, poverty is a local characteristic.

In the beginning, relying on transit trade with the Chinese to obtain profits and materials, developed for many years, and gave birth to a certain civilization, and later with the civil strife in China and the rise of the Mongols, the local trade was completely cut off, and the economy of these places also completely declined.

These places have risen and fallen with China.

The most glorious period, and also the most prosperous and powerful period in China, was the Tang Dynasty, and the economic policies of the Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions, as well as frequent trade, provided abundant commodities, and played a fundamental leading role in the economic prosperity of Central Asia.

But Zhu Gaochi didn't want to learn Datang.

The Tang Dynasty was too open, open to the point that there was no restriction at all, the rapid development of the frontier tribes, the leap and sublimation of the system, etc., were all formed during the Tang Dynasty, it can be said that the external pressure of the Northern Song Dynasty, in addition to the rise in climate and temperature to increase the grain rate in the border areas, there were also border areas to inherit the "legacy" of the Tang system, giving the Central Plains great pressure.

The Great Liao State inherited part of the Tang system and absorbed part of the Tang Dynasty heritage.

The Northern Song Dynasty was not weak, and at the beginning of the founding of the country, it was also under the pressure of the Great Liao State, and under the situation of hostile forces on all sides, it defeated the surrounding separatist forces one by one.

The economy and culture of the Northern Song Dynasty have always led the world, and the prosperity of Kaifeng is a swan song for the ages.

The Northern Song Dynasty had great developments and achievements in science and technology, culture, and art. At the same time, the economic development of the Northern Song Dynasty also reached its peak, and the treasury revenue was very considerable.

However, it was mainly due to the loss of the sixteen states of Yanyun, the loss of the natural Macheng grassland, and even the strength of the Great Liao State, which was a fatal blow to the military of the Song Dynasty.

Of course, the Northern Song Dynasty must have had its own reasons, and the policy of emphasizing literature over military force also limited the development and improvement of the military aspect.

In any case, in Zhu Gaochi's eyes, Datang was too open and completely defenseless.

You can't have the heart to hurt others, and you can't have the heart to defend people.

The eagle of later generations is a strong opponent, he will not give competitors a chance, and he must definitely go all out to suppress it, and the eagle will do better than Datang in this regard.

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The second year of Hongxi.

After receiving His Majesty's reply from the Emperor, Zhu Neng held many consultations and communications with the civil and military governors and governors of the seven western provinces, and formally changed his initial practice and no longer sought to take over the localities.

The Ming people pay attention to benevolence, righteousness and morality, and after taking over the place, they have an obligation to everything in the place.

The governance of the seven western provinces over the years has exhausted the efforts of the imperial court, even the seven western provinces, not to mention the Bari black region, which was notoriously barren in later generations.

The terrain is dominated by mountains and plateaus, and the climate is arid, which dooms the region to be barren.

The imperial court is unwilling to waste any more energy to govern the region, and for the sake of the land of the subcontinent, it will pay dozens of times more effort to support the construction of the Barihei region, which too many people cannot accept.

The local military aristocracy was eliminated, replaced by the Ming people's local officials and flow officials, but the climate and geographical conditions have not changed, to develop agricultural production, the Ming need to build an agricultural irrigation system in the local area, as well as the popularization of agricultural technology, no matter which is for the Ming is a project with greater investment than return, and it is a continuous payment.

After more than 20 years of investment in the seven western provinces, it can be regarded as self-sufficient, and there is no confidence in the more barren Bari region, neither the court officials nor the technicians.

Therefore, although the head has changed, the people in the Barihei region are still living in hardship, and they still do not have enough to eat, and since they do not have enough to eat, of course, they still have to rebel and plunder.

It has only been stabilized for less than half a year, and the Bari Hei region has begun to return to its original appearance, and even the Ming army is powerless, which is not something that can be decided by war.

More than 30,000 Ming troops fought a decisive battle with the 100,000 governors in the Multan region north of the Sutlej River, which was a gambling act, because the Ming army's supporting army did not arrive as scheduled because of the judgment of the Barihei region.

After thinking about the difference in strength between the Delhi Sultanate's satrapy and his own, Ren Li questioned the decisive battle.

Several times the size of the Ming army, Governor Hrul Lodi was very confident that he would completely annihilate the 30,000 Ming army here, destroy the main force of the Ming army that invaded the Delhi Sultanate, and then recapture the city of Lahore.

In addition to the army soldiers who stayed in various places, Ren Li did not let the prince and the county king avoid it, and the hundreds of guards in the hands of the county king were the elite of the elite, whether it was equipment or morale.

Zhu Zhanyong, who was pinned on high hopes, did not fear, but was enthusiastic, and when the military horn sounded, according to the prior agreement, Zhu Zhanyong led more than 400 of the most elite Ming soldiers to charge.

Zhu Gaosui looked at the arrow-like team, his eyes couldn't help but moisten, he seemed to see the shadow of his second brother.

When his father was on the expedition, he took care of his father by his side, and the second brother was so rampage, and there was no place where he passed, destroying all the resistance forces like a torrent of steel.

(End of chapter)