"My grandson pays homage to Grandpa Huang."

"Hehehe, no gifts, no gifts, get up quickly. Come here, let grandpa take a look. Oh, my grandson is so handsome."

Time passed very quickly, and in the blink of an eye, four years passed. According to the practice of this era, qualified children of officials and officials were enlightened at the age of about three or four. Therefore, when Zhu Youdong turned four years old, Wanli sent him to

Received from the palace.

A lot has happened in these four years.

The first is the follow-up and finishing work of the Guobin War. After Emperor Wanli made up his mind, it was quickly completed.

In the 28th year of Wanli, when Zhu Changluo was named the prince, the third son of the emperor, Zhu Changxun, was named Prince Fu. In the 31st year (1603), King Fu, who turned eighteen years old, was ordered by Wanli to leave Beijing and join the feudal vassal, which basically cut off all ties.

But in the end, Concubine Zheng is his beloved woman - after all, the emperor is also a human being, and he also longs for relatively equal spiritual exchanges and flirting behavioral interactions with his lover. These, deeply

There were so many concubines in the palace, but only Concubine Zheng could give it to Wanli. So in order to compensate the other party, Wanli not only sealed Zhu Changxun in a place in the heart of the Central Plains like Luoyang. The allocated royal land and various rewards were far beyond those of ordinary princes.

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Secondly, his biological mother in this life, Crown Princess Guo, gave birth to another child to Zhu Changluo in the 32nd year of Wanli, but this child was a girl. Emperor Wanli named her Zhu Huijuan.

Then, due to the clarification of the prince's status, Zhu Changluo's treatment obviously improved. He moved to Ciqing, the residence of the prince in the East Palace. Not to mention, regardless of the configuration of maids, eunuchs, guards, teachers, and various daily functions

The speed is much better than before.

The most important thing is that people are snobbish. The clear status of the prince has significantly improved Zhu Changluo's status in the Ming Dynasty's power field. This feeling is the most pleasant.

Of course, some things happened and some things didn't happen.

Because Zhu Youdong was born with such great fanfare that after Emperor Wanli made the decision to establish Zhu Changluo as the crown prince. Although Concubine Zheng had a big fight with Wanli, after all, people in this era still have a basic understanding of the visions of heaven and earth.

A sense of fear. Therefore, unlike in the historical plane, although Zhu Changluo was established as the prince, he was still shaky. In this plane, the position of the East Palace is very stable.

Not only that, due to the stability of the crown prince's position, even the second demon book case did not happen as scheduled in the original plane of history. As a result, Zhu Changluo's teacher Guo Zhengyu did not go to jail because of it. The famous firearms expert Zhao Shizhen did not die of depression because of it...

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In short, due to the birth of Zhu Youdong, the situation of Zhu Changluo and many people around him has improved a lot.

Moreover, from the day he was canonized as the crown prince, Wanli had consciously made Zhu Changluo familiar with and understand various government affairs. After all, the Ming Dynasty had been running for more than two hundred years, and various problems had emerged in endlessly. It would not take a few years, but more than ten years to slowly resolve

Train the prince. If you hand over this country to him in the future, I'm afraid the empire will collapse soon.

Unfortunately, the longer this cultivation lasted, the more annoyed Emperor Wanli became!

This son doesn't understand the fundamental purpose of me creating the dispute over the country in the first place. Instead, he keeps talking about Jiang Yinglin, Shen? These bastards are good. Hey, how can you see clearly? On the surface, these ministers are not fighting for you.

The position of the prince actually contains great evil intentions!

Therefore, this prince is really hopeless.

So, what about this grandson?

"Dong'er, how old are you this year?"

"Returning to Grandpa Huang, my grandson is four years old this year."

"Well, did you learn anything at home?"

"My grandson started his enlightenment education last year. In one year, he has read through three hundred thousand books. He is now studying the Analects of Confucius."

"Huh? Ah! You are indeed my good grandson!"

Four years ago, the infant's body was filled with the soul of an adult, and this soul knew from the moment he was born how much momentum the ancestor had created for his birth. Therefore, Zhu Youdong himself had no idea from the beginning.

Tao Guang's obscure thoughts: The B level of the vision of heaven and earth is so high, how can you keep people low-key? Besides, the mission of this time travel is to defeat the whole world within a hundred years! One hundred years is a long time

How long?

Moreover, Daming was already ill at this time, very seriously ill.

In terms of gdp, the Ming Dynasty in this era cannot be said to be the best in the world.

In terms of population, it goes without saying that it is still the largest in the world.

However, the problem in this country is that wealth is too concentrated in the hands of officials and wealthy businessmen, and the country's finances have been unable to make ends meet. At the same time, a large number of farmers are going bankrupt. This has led to an already poor and weak country.

Finance revenue is getting less and less year by year.

If the country has less money, it will be unable to effectively support officials, which will aggravate the overall corruption of officials. The inability to support the army will accelerate the privatization of the army by the generals. Mass bankruptcy of the people will quickly increase the possibility of large-scale peasant uprisings.

A country is still a country if its official morale, military morale, and people's morale are all gone.

Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of this country, experienced long years of war when he founded the country. Therefore, business in the early Ming Dynasty was extremely depressed. In addition, Zhu Yuanzhang always disliked businessmen. Therefore, the tax he set for farmers at that time was about 100,000 yuan per year.

One-twentieth to one-tenth of the annual output. The business tax for merchants is one-thirtieth. At the same time, it is stipulated that the children of farmers can participate in the imperial examination, but the children of businessmen cannot participate in the imperial examination, which reflects the suppression of agriculture.

business.

This arrangement...well...

If a businessman cannot take the imperial examination, he cannot become an official and cannot control the court? How do you use the word agent?

In short, over the past two hundred years, due to almost no commercial taxes, the wealth of merchants has accumulated to an extremely astonishing level. However, due to the limitations of the system and political status, the wealth of merchants has not been transformed into funds for expanding production, but has become

It became the deposits in the cellar, the unlimited expansion of the manor, and more bribes to officials at all levels, investment to unofficial scholars, etc.

More and more agents of businessmen are becoming officials. Especially the agents of wealthy businessmen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas have gradually formed in the court and among the people - this group is the Donglin Party. Especially these guys have occupied the territory through the struggle over national origin.

After reaching the highest point of morality, in the following political disputes, if you just quarrel, you will be in an invincible position. If any minister who really wants to do things wants to increase the court's income and collect commercial taxes, he will definitely be impeached by the Donglin Party.

Bury the whole family alive!

Therefore, being born into the Zhu family in 1600 was really not a good thing.

Hey, my ancestor, the gods actually chose such an era as a result of their deliberation? If it could be arranged to the Wenjing period of the Western Han Dynasty or the prosperous period of the Tang Dynasty, wouldn't my task be much easier?

However, it seems that no matter how bad my situation is, it is still better than that of my neighbor to the east.

Over the past four years, Zhu Youdong has initially understood the meaning of the Big Dipper map hidden behind him.

My natal star is Kaiyang, the sixth star of the Big Dipper.

Outside Kaiyang, he could clearly feel that the seventh star was not far from him in the east.

Thirdly, further south, Yuheng's induction is also very strong.

Again, the influence of Tianquan in the southwest direction was obviously weakened.

As for the remaining Tianji, Tianxuan, and Tianshu Samsung, they can only sense that the other party is still alive, and even the specific positioning is difficult.

Before Zhu Youdong participated in this "game", as a history buff, he had a certain understanding of the Ming Empire in this era. Because he liked various Anrong games in his early years, he also learned a little about Japanese history. Others,

It's more confusing.

In his opinion, after the Battle of Sekigahara, the entire political structure of Japan has stabilized. Whether it is the various daimyo or ordinary Japanese people, they are all tired of the chaos of the Warring States Period that lasted for hundreds of years—

- Generally speaking, except for a few ronin who lost their territory in troubled times, no one else wants to fight.

Especially in the war between China, Japan and South Korea from 1592 to 1598, the Japanese great names were really beaten and frightened. It is not ordinary to mobilize an army to conquer Korea again in a short period of time.

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Moreover, compared with the Ming Dynasty, Japan's national power in this era is really a scumbag.

However, that's all. Although I didn't graduate in world history before traveling, and I wasn't very familiar with the global situation of this era. But in any case, the Spanish Empire in Christendom was extremely powerful at this time, the Netherlands was fighting for independence, and the United Kingdom passed the rule of Elizabeth I.

Governance is also gradually rising. What about the Middle East? The power of the Ottoman Empire is still on the rise, and it is still some distance from its peak.

Therefore, my time is really very tight. I can't help but pretend to be low-key now. The only choice is to do things in a high-profile way! Integrate into the core power circle of Ming Dynasty as soon as possible!
Chapter completed!