Chapter 161 The Ming Empire, the mission ends

In 1645 AD, Master Luban came to the Ming Dynasty. He had an identity card and chose the identity of one of Xu Guangqi's grandsons, who was eighteen years old and unmarried.

Zhu Youjian married a beautiful 16-year-old daughter to Lu Ban and appointed Lu Ban as the doctor of the Ministry of War, specifically responsible for the research on new firearms.

At present, what Master Luban wants to study most are rifles and artillery, as well as oil refining technology.

In this life, Master Luban has the confidence to complete it.

The foundation of the Ming Dynasty is no less than that of the Tang Dynasty. As long as the Luban master is short, he can devote himself to formal work.

In this year, the Ming Dynasty had a conflict with Saudi Arabia in the Western Regions.

This is the first time that it has officially come into contact with this country. Saudi Arabia is now expanding heavily, mainly to Central Asia.

In the first confrontation, facing the Ming Dynasty's advanced firearms, Sha`Russia was defeated.

But the other party will definitely not give up.

The news quickly came back to the capital, and Zhu Youjian, Zhang Hao and others attached great importance to it.

He asked Cao Wenzhao, the governor of the Western Military Region, to be on guard against the enemy. Once the enemy attacks again, he will be hit head-on and beat the enemy to fear pain.

Various combat preparation supplies began to be transported to the Western Military Region.

Several months have passed.

Sure enough, Sha Russia came with more than 10,000 troops this time, mainly cavalry.

The Ming Dynasty was prepared for a long time, but it did not use any conspiracy and intrigues to set up ambush. It was just hard to get the steel.

Taking advantage of the firearms, the Russian army on the front was defeated.

Then Sha Russia sent an envoy to discuss peace and redeem the prisoners.

Losing money, ceding part of the land, redeeming prisoners with food, etc. are all necessary.

At the same time, the two sides formally established diplomatic relations and began to trade in a large amount.

The defeat of Saudi-Russia by the Ming army gave Central Asian countries hope. Many Central Asian countries demanded to rely on the Ming Dynasty and let the Ming Dynasty protect them from annexation by Saudi-Russia.

It is impossible for anyone to help the Ming Dynasty. Those who border the Ming Dynasty can help, and those who have rich conditions can help.

Help them, on the one hand, deter other countries, and on the other hand, exchange for objective resources, such as food, coal, etc.

"Oh? The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain went to the Ming Dynasty from the sea and was defeated?"

After being defeated by the Ming Dynasty, Saudi Arabia began to focus on it. She obtained a lot of news about the Ming Dynasty from Western countries. She learned that the three Western powers were defeated by the Ming Dynasty, and Saudi Arabia had a lot of balance in her heart.

"The powerful firearms of the Ming Dynasty are indeed stronger than those of the Netherlands, which is what we need. There is more news about the Ming Dynasty, and we need to inquire about it ourselves."

In order to understand the Ming Dynasty and to gain benefits from the Ming Dynasty, Saudi and Russia entered the Ming Dynasty through merchants, envoys, scholars, etc.

Currently, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Britain, France, Japan, Chaoyu, Southeast Asian countries and other countries have offices in the Ming Dynasty, but the scale is not large.

The Ming Dynasty also sent envoys to these countries and set up offices.

They and the Ming Dynasty not only do business, but also have cultural exchanges with each other.

When the Ming Dynasty became stronger, some other countries were willing to come to study. Of course, what we came to study now is basically two purposes: to understand the Ming Dynasty and obtain the advanced technology of the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty rejected international students from other countries, but there were many restrictions and supervision to strictly prevent spies.

The Ming Dynasty will also arrange for students to study in these countries, especially Western scientific theories. There are many worth learning and reference.

Communication can be conducted, but it is unlikely to steal confidentiality and technology.

Today, Dongchang and Jinyiwei have more responsibilities, which is to supervise people from these countries. In this way, the two institutions need talents who understand the languages ​​of various countries.

Some of them are almost ordinary technology, but other countries lack it, can be sold to them. If they don’t sell it now, their people will be easily obtained in the Ming Dynasty in the future.

The Ming Dynasty was in the industrial revolution, and some technologies would be popularized and some technologies would be innovative. Advanced and high-end technologies are easy to protect, but ordinary technologies after popularization will not be easy to protect.

You can sell ready-made production lines so that they are available, and you won’t invest too much energy in researching technical issues.

Let other countries develop ready-made production equipment and production lines. Once they get used to it, they will not be willing to invest a lot of money and time in research.

1648.

The Ming Dynasty bought a large piece of land in North and South America from Spain and Portugal, and the most expensive one was to sell it to them the most advanced flintlock manufacturing technology and steel artillery manufacturing technology.

It was also because of the rise of the Netherlands and wanted to compete with them for America's interests, and they brought the Ming Dynasty in to check and balance the Netherlands.

In this way, the Ming Dynasty officially involved in the interests of the Americans.

Navy, caravan, migrant workers, etc. arrange for development in the past, and at the same time, they can acquire resources from American and Western countries nearby and transport them back to the country.

After obtaining advanced firearm technology, the military strength of Portugal and Spain has been improved, and they can wrestle the Netherlands again.

But in a few years, the technology they bought may be acquired by spies from Western countries.

Western countries have learned some principles of steam machine production over the years and have been studying and experimenting. I believe it is only a matter of time before manufacturing it.

This kind of thing is hard to stop.

Only after someone imitated it, the Ming Dynasty began to sell general steam engine manufacturing technology.

The steel steam engine warship made by the Ming Dynasty has been successfully launched and has begun to be equipped for the Navy.

Generators are not sold at present, and various motors are not allowed to be exported and can only be used domestically. Other countries cannot open companies in the Ming Dynasty, but can only conduct foreign trade and be a second-hand dealer.

Western countries hope that the Ming Dynasty opened a company and built a factory there so that it could quickly obtain technology.

There are not many technologies that the Ming Dynasty does not restrict. These technologies allow Ming merchants to open factories in other countries.

In the whole world, most industries are currently labor-intensive. Western countries have many colonies and slaves, and there is no shortage of labor.

After several years of development, Australia has formed dozens of cities, mainly from the Ming Dynasty, as well as local Australian residents, and different ethnic groups from many parts of the world work here.

The treatment is much better than that of Western colonies, and they are not slaves, but workers, and they can solve the problem of food and clothing. The better their abilities, the longer they work, the better their treatment, and their children have the opportunity to go to school.

Compared with slaves from Western colonies, workers. Workers in Australia live in heaven.

The Ming Dynasty had a new labor law to protect workers' basic survival rights, and it was illegal for merchants in the Ming Dynasty to do whatever they wanted.

In their eyes, the Ming Dynasty was a powerful and civilized existence, which made them worship.

Two more years have passed, 1650 AD.

After nearly ten years, the top-down industrial revolution, the industrial foundation of the Ming Dynasty was established.

Master Luban made a single-shot rifle, shells, and extracted oil and made kerosene.

Now the Ming Dynasty has a strong comprehensive national strength and is the best in the world today!

The Ming Empire!

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[Congratulations to Zhang Hao, Liu Bei, Wu Zetian, Chongzhen, Li Shimin, Xiang Yu, and Lu Ban for completing the task!]
Chapter completed!