When Zhao Ming heard that Wu Sangui was called emperor, he was really angry in his heart.Obviously, Zhao Ming has always looked down on Wu Sangui, a family slave with three surnames, but now that Wu Sangui has become an emperor, one level higher than him, it makes Zhao Ming feel quite disgusting.However, anger is anger, disgusting is disgusting, and Zhao Ming is beyond the reach of this subordinate at this time.Obviously, Wu Sangui also realized that Zhao Ming had no choice but to take him, so he dared to be the emperor in India.If it was under Zhao Ming's nose, Zhao Ming would definitely raise troops to beat him to death.Zhao Ming was surprised that Wu Sangui actually went to India, but his anger was not only because Wu Sangui was the emperor, but also because he moved Zhao Ming's cake.India, rich and vast, with a large population and easy to rule, has been repeatedly colonized by foreigners for thousands of years, and the locals have become accustomed to being ruled by others, and have creatively developed a caste system to cooperate, making this phenomenon not only reasonable, but also a divine directive.India is a big market, and after the British colonization, it was called the jewel in the queen's crown, and this pearl, Zhao Ming undoubtedly wanted.After Wu Sangui fled into the Western Regions, Zhao Ming's original plan was to integrate and develop the Western Regions with the help of Wu Sangui's hands, and wait for them to work for a few years, and then drive Wu Sangui into Central Asia as a pawn of the Ming Dynasty to open up its territory.As for India, a fertile and easy-to-rule region, Zhao Ming had already prepared to launch colonization by sea, before the British, to control India, and use the caste system to control India, turning it into a market for the Ming Dynasty and a production base for raw materials.Now that Wu Sangui did not enter the relatively inhospitable Central Asia, but chose to enter the rich India, he broke away from Zhao Ming's expectations and disrupted Zhao Ming's plan.If Wu Sangui is proclaimed emperor in India, with the pitiful combat power of the third brother, Wu Sangui may occupy the whole of India in a very short period of time.After all, the combat effectiveness of the army of the Ming and Zhou dynasties is already relative to the combat strength of the Western colonists in the mid-to-late eighteenth century, and even close to the strength of the Napoleonic Wars.Therefore, tens of thousands of Zhou troops entered India, not like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, crushing the Indian army.If Wu Sangui occupies India, with India's population and resources, it will be a very troublesome threat to Zhao Ming.Zhao Ming listened to Hu Weizong's words, and was not in the mood to continue the inspection, and said in a deep voice: "Go back to Nanjing!"
”When the group left the workshop, came to the Shanghai dock, boarded a wheel, and returned to Nanjing along the land and water.A wheelboat is a type of river vessel with two large wheels on either side of the hull, which are paddled forward by sailors in the cabin.The wheels on both sides of this kind of wheel boat are like waterwheels stepped on by manpower, and the wheels are driven by manpower.If this kind of wheel ship is equipped with a steam engine, it can immediately be changed from human power to steam power, and evolve into a steam paddle steamer.After the first generation of steam engines came out, Zhao Ming had already ordered the Ministry of Industry to study the project of putting the steam engine on the ship and the steam engine on the car, and allocated two million silver dollars for it.With the centralized government's investment regardless of the cost, Zhao Ming believes that it will not be long before he will be able to see trains and paddle steamers.Speaking of which, maybe the paddle steamer is a little simpler than the train.On the way back to Nanjing, Zhao Ming did not choose to ride a horse, but chose to take a boat, not because it was more comfortable to ride a boat than on a horse, but because Zhao Ming wanted to sort out his thoughts.The 1663 New Year is approaching, which is the first New Year after the unification of the Ming Dynasty, and it is obviously a very important year for Zhao Ming.Therefore, Zhao Ming needs to think about the plan of the imperial court after the New Year, and the challenges that the empire will face next year and in the future, he also needs to go through it in his heart.At this time, Zhao Ming stood at the bow of the boat, looking at the Yangtze River, the waves were vast, the boat was like weaving, and he fell into deep thought.During this visit to Jiangnan, Zhao Ming found many problems, the most serious of which was the problem of reverse urbanization.Urbanization and industrialization occur at the same time, and the process of industrialization is inevitably accompanied by urbanization.In the past few years, Zhao Ming encouraged industry and commerce, resulting in the rapid expansion of the handicraft industry in Jiangnan, attracting a large number of people to work in the city, and starting the urbanization of Jiangnan.However, capitalist commerce has a certain inertia, businessmen see that textiles make money, workshops desperately recruit workers to increase production, and the people see cotton making money, and they also vigorously expand cotton planting, resulting in overcapacity of the entire industry.Now that the cloth cannot be sold, the production of the workshops has been reduced, the price of grain has risen, and many unemployed workers have no choice but to leave the cities and return to the countryside to farm.But Zhao Ming knew that most of the people who entered the city couldn't go back.Because when the people entered the city before, the local government set off the planting model of large farms and large estates, replacing the original small farmer model of tenant cultivation and improving the planting efficiency.In this way, the land that used to take a hundred people to cultivate may now be cultivated by only twenty or thirty people.Therefore, when the people return to their hometowns, they will not have land to cultivate, and they will become beggars and outcasts.This will be a very serious problem and even lead to a huge crisis.Therefore, Zhao Ming had to find a market for the cotton cloth and get the loom running again, which required a larger overseas market.However, now the textile industry in the West has also begun to rise, and the handicraft industry of the Ming Dynasty has competitors, and it is not easy to gain a market.From this point of view, after the unification of the Ming Dynasty, Zhao Ming's next main goal was to defeat the handicraft industry that arose in the West, curb the development of Western commerce in trade, and ensure the position of the center of the world in the Ming Dynasty.If this is the goal, then India will be the key, and Wu Sangui cannot be allowed to occupy India.The textile industry of the Ming Dynasty wanted to defeat its opponents in the competition and occupy a larger share.There are two main ways, one is to carry out a technological revolution, reduce production costs, make goods of good quality and cheap, and occupy the market with price advantages, crush the handicraft industry of the West, and curb the possibility of their industrial revolution.Another way is to rely on force to open up the market, and establish its own sphere of influence and trade barriers, to keep Western products out of the Ming sphere of influence, and to dump its own products in the sphere of influence.Today's world is mainly divided into two cores, one is East Asia led by the Ming Dynasty, which is the center of the traditional world, and it can also be said to be the center of the old world.The other is the rising Western nations, which are the center of the new world.In the original trend, the new world is rising, the old world is declining, and Zhao Ming now needs to reverse the decline of the old world.Then the vast region, including the Arab, Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal, as well as Africa and the Americas, will become important regions and markets for East Asia and Western Europe to compete for.Among them, a large market like India, with a population of more than 100 million, will undoubtedly determine whose business can win and who can evolve into the industrial revolution.Zhao Ming stood at the bow of the ship, opened his eyes, and probably knew the next strategy.()