Chapter 874 The Habitual Operation of the Ming Dynasty The current Ming Dynasty is not the Ming Dynasty with a stuffy nose in the past, in the Zhu Ming Dynasty, although it has long been known that such a continent exists, no one has ever been there.Europe has long been shrouded in mystery over China.However, since Chang'an became a prosperous metropolis, many Roman and Persian merchants crossed the desert of the Middle East, crossed the Pamir Plateau to the Western Regions, and then arrived in Chang'an through the Western Regions.Watching the Roman Empire turn from prosperity to decline, watching Byzantium's thousand-year-old imperial dream finally disappear under the cold blade of the full moon scimitar, watching the Vikings wreak havoc on Europe, watching the Germans and Gauls fight against each other, watching the Anglo-Saxons turn from weak to strong, all this seems to be a matter of another planet for China......
It's just that since Quan Xu became the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty began to appear in all corners of the world, and Europa was naturally in this corner.In fact, the Ming had already extended its tentacles to Europe, and ten months after the occupation of Suez, the Ming expeditionary force of the Ottoman Empire occupied Alexandria and Alexandria.This historic city was named after its founder, Alexander the Great, as the seat of the governor of the Egyptian province of the Macedonian Empire.After the death of Alexander the Great, the Egyptian governor Ptolemy established the Ptolemaic dynasty here and was crowned Ptolemy I (Savior).Alexandria became the capital of the Kingdom of Egypt.and soon became the largest city in ancient Greek culture.In the ancient history of the West, it was second only to Rome in size and wealth.But after Egypt's religious rulers established Cairo as Egypt's new capital, Alexandria's status declined, and by the end of the Ottoman Empire it had been reduced to almost a small fishing village.After the Ming Dynasty occupied Alexander, it was changed to Hanzhou City and Hanzhou Port, and as the station of the North African naval ship fleet, the Ming Dynasty got Alexander, and carried out a large-scale reconstruction of Alexander, according to Quan Xu's meaning, that is, to eradicate all traces that do not belong to the Ming Dynasty.The original narrow wharf has been expanded dozens of times, at this time Hanzhou Port has more than 1,000 berths, has become the Ming Dynasty in Europe in the forefront of the material distribution place, if it is not for the whole Xu press, Suzhou to Hanzhou will build a railway, the formation of traffic on the road, so as to save tens of thousands of miles of freight distance.Of course, the development of Hanzhou is not important, the important thing is that through the existence of this tentacle, Daming has a more detailed understanding of Europe, and the Government Council has even set up a special agency to analyze and deal with European affairs, which is subordinate to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Europa Affairs Analysis Office.Regarding the matter of sending troops to support the Republic of Venice, Quan Xu did not make a direct decision, but handed over the problem to the cabinet of the Government Council for the cabinet ministers to discuss.Quan Xu has the final decision, but this is just a passing motion.The cabinet of the Daming State Council headed by Shen Mingze held an emergency meeting, and dozens of high-ranking officials and officials engaged in extremely heated debates on the issue of using troops in Europe.The vast majority of people think that there is no need to use troops for Venice to Europe thousands of miles away, and that the labor expedition is not a joke, the consumption is huge, and the benefits are very small, so why bother?
However, there are also some people who think that the Europeans are aggressive in nature, and the conflict with the Ming is continuous, in South America, the Ming and France have fought for a few years, in the East Indies, the Ming and the Netherlands have torn their faces, for Europe, sooner or later there will be a war, must give them a fatal blow when they are in a state of chaos, and beat them back for decades or even hundreds of years, so as to buy enough time for the Ming to develop the Americas and Oceania.The people with these two views have a very resolute attitude, and no one can convince anyone, and even quarreled with each other, almost staging the most common martial arts fight in the Ming Dynasty of the Zhu family.Quan Xu finally made a statement, he looked at the huge world map in the council hall of the main council, pointed to the huge map and said, "Do you really think that Daming is the center of the world?"
In fact, no, the Ming Dynasty is only a part of Asia, and now it seems that there is a lot of land in the Ming Dynasty, and it is more than enough for each person to share hundreds of thousands of acres. ”Speaking of this, Quan Xu's tone became a little solemn: "But, the people are going to have children after all, and their children will eventually start a family, since they have a family and a business, they must have a field, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, you can tell me how many children a family has to have now?"
”Liu Tiren, the new secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, stood up and said: "Back to Your Majesty, the rank of minister, since the first year of the new dynasty, the number of household registrations has increased from four to five .7 now, which means that each couple has at least four children. ”The most basic system of the Ming Dynasty is the town, which is also a thousand households for the town, when Quanxu first established the town, almost no town can exceed 2,000 people, and now more than 10,000 towns abound, this is the problem.Through Liu Tiren's data bombardment, everyone understood the seriousness of the problem."
Let's follow each four children, more than a dozen children, these four children grow up, get married and have children, then it becomes four pairs of families, and then give birth to four children, that is, sixteen children, these sixteen children grow up, it will become eight families, and then give birth to thirty-two children......"
Quan Xu continued: "The people can rest assured that they can reproduce, so the population is growing rapidly."
But the population needs land as support, and the land of the Ming Dynasty is limited, and the limited population supports the infinitely growing population, and everyone knows what will happen.Therefore, when the number of people exceeds the limit of what the land can hold, the prosperous era will become a thing of the past, and the chaotic times will follow.More and more people are fighting openly and secretly for less and less land, and they can't do it if they don't want to, even if the land has the largest province, at most five generations, our Ming land will not be enough, and the people have no land to plant, what do you know......
"The theory of land and population has a more detailed and thorough study than Quan Xu, and there is also a more in-depth investigation, and these questions are placed in the newspapers and periodicals for the internal affairs of the imperial court, which are specially read by officials."
Some people may say that we still have Tianshan Province, Hanhai Province, especially around the Hanhai (Belga Lake) seaside more and more towns, the degree of development is getting higher and higher, along the lake are all high-quality farms that have just been developed for a few years, the soil conditions here are very good, crops do not even need to be fertilized, do not need to be watered, every year is a bumper harvest......"
Quan Xu's voice raised an octave: "But......
No matter how much land there is, there will be a day when it will run out, so our eyes should look out......"
Quan Xu's attitude is placed here, which also shows the correctness of expansion."
There is only so much land that can be developed, and we are not the only ones who will develop it, the Europeans are already one step ahead of us.Quan Xu said: "I must remind everyone, if you have time, you might as well think about a few years ago, as early as fifty or sixty years ago, the Portuguese were expanding to Macao, more than twenty years ago, they expanded to Taiwan, Luzon, and the Europeans have expanded to our borders!"
Now that we are strong, they dare not do anything to us, and once we are weakened, they will immediately pounce on us like a pack of hungry wolves and tear us fiercely, trampling us into the mud!
In the past few years, you have all understood, they have great potential, they are only better than us in many places, they are only worse than us in size, such a dangerous opponent let them continue to develop, you can sleep?
”The expansionist faction was greatly encouraged by Quan Xu, who raised their arms and shouted: "How can others be allowed to sleep soundly on the side of the couch?"
”There are also officials who have gained huge benefits from this abduction of India and shouted: "An India, the wealth plundered is equivalent to the financial income of the Ming Dynasty for five years, and if you don't eat such a big fat meat, you will be punished by God!"
”Subsequently, Zhu Zhaoyi explained the benefits that can be obtained by fighting Europe: "There are a bunch of poor ghosts around Asia, and India is worth grabbing, and there is nothing to play elsewhere with."
But Europe is different, they have plundered countless gold and silver in the more than two hundred years of colonizing the Americas, as long as they can defeat Europe, the war reparations alone are enough for the Ming Dynasty to squander for decades" Zhu Zhaoyi's words were extremely inflammatory, and the cabinet collectively made his blood boil, shouting: "Go to war!"
War!
”The proposal for the use of troops in Europe was adopted by an overwhelming majority, and a collision between the eastern and western ends of the continent was inevitable.At the same time as the adoption of the proposal for the use of troops in Europe, the cabinet also approved a proposal for arms sales to the Republic of Venice, to which 200 132-mm front-loading smoothbore guns and 80,000 shells were sold.Of course, the Ming Dynasty is not equipped with a 132 mm naval gun, this naval gun is also a very famous foreign trade version in later generations, the barrel of this artillery, are retired from the Ming Royal Navy warship, the service life is exhausted, the rifling is basically smoothed, after the grinding of the boring machine, the rifling is polished smooth, after heat treatment, and then used.Although the service life of the barrel is not long, the power is not small.This is a product of the industrial environment, for the shells for the Ming, there is no difficulty in production, just slightly change a few parameters, Helena is very happy, but at the same time there is a little regret, have to spend money to rent a few more transport ships, there are too many shells, not to rent some ships can not be transported at all.Of course, the issue of sending troops also requires long-term preparation, unlike the Ming army, the Ming Royal Navy is either fighting or deploying overseas, and the officers and men of the army are very tired and need to be rotated.At the same time, the Royal Army continues to transfer experienced soldiers back to rotate the land of other units, and the Royal Army of the Ming Dynasty also takes sea training as a regular training subject, and every year each army organizes soldiers to take a boat to go around and enjoy the magnificent waves of the sea.Hong Chengchou in the North African Governor's Mansion drank wine and ate the roasted camel carefully roasted by the chef, and sighed with some emotion: "Who would have thought that this place is so wonderful?"
”Hong Chengchou's third brother, Hong Chengzhuan sighed: "Everything is good in North Africa, but it is too far away from the Ming Dynasty and too close to the Ottoman Empire!"
”In Hong Chengji's words, this is indeed the biggest hidden danger in North Africa.The whole of North Africa has a complex environment and a large population, and the key is that it is not surrounded by friendly neighbors."
It doesn't matter, the military is confident in protecting the interests of North Africa."
Hong Chengchou is not worried, if it were not for this reason, the Ministry of Defense would have no reason to maintain so many troops, and now the entire Ming Dynasty is tied up by the interests of the Ministry of Defense, who dares to reduce the military spending of the Ministry of Defense, then he will be responsible for the future of the Ming Dynasty.At the same time, the Ming Dynasty adopted a policy of all people overseas, and the weapons eliminated by the army were sold to the people at a low price, and the people would take the initiative to purchase weapons in order to protect their own interests.Although the army eliminated backward weapons, these weapons depended on who they were compared with, and compared with the Ottomans, the weapons in the hands of the North African immigrants were much better than the regular army of the Ottoman Empire.Almost every town now has thousands or tens of thousands of grenades, or incendiary bombs, which are the best weapons for defense, as long as they dare to attack, they will taste the iron fist of the Ming people.While Britain, France, and the Netherlands were attacking the Venice city-state republic, the Spanish Empire was also under pressure from the Swedish infantry, and the Spanish phalanx had an inexplicable sense of powerlessness against the Swedish army.As the saying goes, the Ming Dynasty was too far away from Spain, and the Duke of Morales, the envoy of the Spanish Empire, returned to Spain before he could sit on the buttocks, and was sent to North Africa to seek the help of the governor of North Africa.In pursuit of speed, Duke Morales docked from Alexandria, then changed horses, and he rode in a four-wheeled carriage all the way to Suzhou."
Qingshan Town, it's this name again, this is the first Qingshan Town along the way?"
The dissatisfaction in Morales's heart is accumulating, so that he, a Spaniard, now knows the square word."
The fifth, or the sixth, who knows!"
Translator Zeng Dezhao pointed to the hill next to Qingshan Town: "Daming's habit of taking place names is like this, there are mountains called Qingshan, and there is water called Qingxi, we met three towns called Qingxi along the way, two called Guojia Town, one Chenjia Town, in short, this is the habitual operation of Daming!"
”The habitual operation of the Ming Dynasty, that is, copying, almost every town is exactly the same, south, south, north, west, four city gates, surrounding the castle, there are moats, moats, arrow towers, enemy towers, the same layout of the streets, exactly the same houses.If it weren't for the change of name, there would be almost no difference between Qingshan Town and Guojia Town, with huge liquor characters hanging in wine shops and huge "dang" characters hanging in pawnshops.The courtyard structure of the house is a small castle, and there are small castles in the big castle, which are all habitual operations of the Ming Dynasty, once a war breaks out, the Ming people can resist to the end.