"Brothers, I'll take my leave now. We'll meet again when we have time!"
At the entrance of Wangyue Tower, Liu Jin, slightly drunk, said goodbye to Wen Zhengming, Zhu Yunming, Da Vinci and others.
I enjoyed my meal today. Listening carefully to Wen Zhengming, Zhu Yunming, Da Vinci and others discussing the differences and subtleties of Eastern and Western paintings was also very satisfying for Liu Jin, who knew nothing about calligraphy and painting.
I will benefit a lot from understanding some Eastern and Western painting arts.
Let's listen to Leonardo da Vinci talk about some things in Europe during this period. It's quite interesting, and he will have a clearer understanding of the situation in Europe.
In the European countries where this happened, capitalism was already sprouting and developing to a certain extent, and a large number of workshops appeared in some cities with prosperous commerce and trade.
But compared to the Ming Dynasty, their capital developed very slowly, and their power was not strong. The dark rule of the medieval church began to be pierced by the light of the Renaissance.
Under the Renaissance movement, European art, literature, mathematics, astronomy, science, etc. have all achieved certain development, but overall, they still did not pose any threat to the Ming Dynasty.
Moreover, due to the huge impact of Daming Capital in recent years, the capital development in Europe has suffered an unprecedented heavy blow.
The worst among them is the textile industry.
The textile industry in the Ming Dynasty has been extremely developed. A large number of textile factories are located all over the Ming Dynasty. Cotton and wool are the main raw materials. A large number of new textile machines driven by steam power are used.
The woven cloth is not only of very good quality, but also very cheap. Even if it is shipped to Europe, the price is much cheaper than the local hand-woven cloth.
Moreover, with the competition and development within the textile industry of the Ming Dynasty, various technologies such as cloth dyeing and patterns have also made great progress. The cloth from the Ming Dynasty also has bright colors, complex and beautiful patterns, etc.
This is undoubtedly a blow from a high latitude to European capitalism, which is still in its infancy and initial stage.
According to Leonardo da Vinci, Florence has always been the most important trading city in Northern Italy. The textile industry is very developed, with a large number of textile workshops and a large number of textile women working as a family unit.
More than ten years ago, Florentine cloth was sold all over Europe and was one of the most popular products, as famous as cheese.
However, in recent years, with the massive influx of cloth from the Ming Dynasty into the European market, it has brought a devastating blow to the textile industry in Florence.
Countless textile workshops have closed down, and the cloth they spun cannot be sold at all.
The Ming Dynasty cloth that came across the ocean was even cheaper than yours. The key was that it had better quality, better colors, and better patterns. It was so popular that it instantly destroyed the local textile workshops.
As for women spinning cloth as a family unit, it cannot be sold. As a result, a large number of women have lost an important income and their lives have become even more difficult.
At the same time, because the demand for white slaves in the Ming Dynasty was very large and the price was high, a large number of human trafficking phenomena occurred in various European countries, especially the trafficking of women and children.
In addition, there were some people who specifically used the guise of recruiting workers to defraud people and eventually sold them to the Ming Dynasty as slaves, from which they made huge profits.
These all impressed Liu Jin deeply.
Liu Jin recalled some of the content he had learned in history classes before time travel, including content specifically about the impact of the capital market.
One of them mentioned that at the end of the Qing Dynasty, as the country was opened, a large amount of foreign cloth entered the domestic market, which had a huge impact on domestic cloth.
Among them, the cloth industry in the Jiangnan region was completely impacted almost in the blink of an eye. The feudal small-scale peasant economy, which mainly focused on home textiles, had almost no resistance to the impact of industrial products.
The original household textile industry exploded in an instant, and a large number of people lost an important source of income. At the same time, a large amount of wealth continued to flow into the hands of foreign capitalists.
In coastal areas, there are also people who lure people to go abroad under the guise of recruiting workers. They are eventually sold as piglets. After experiencing countless difficulties, every inch of railway is a corpse.
Now it's the other way around.
The products of the Ming Dynasty had a huge impact on European countries, and the textile industry, which was the most important in the embryonic stage of capitalism, suffered a devastating blow.
The result was the opposite. European hand-weavers lost their jobs in large numbers, lost important sources of income, and became even more poor and miserable. At the same time, the Ming Dynasty's demand for slaves also led to a large number of their people being sold into slavery.
Sure enough, the capital is the same.
Facing the strong capital impact of the Ming Dynasty, the performance of the Europeans may not be much better. It can even be said that their fate has become more tragic.
The country itself is torn apart, the country is small and weak, and its ability to resist risks is small, so its fate will be even more tragic, and it can only be intertwined with each other internally.
Among them, the wars in Europe are not only the wars between Spain and France, but also the wars between various small countries. Like the Republic of Venice, although the country is small, its ambition and strength are still okay, and it always wants to annex the surrounding countries.
area.
During this period, Italy was divided into many small countries. The north was composed of many small countries, such as Florence and Venice. The central part was controlled by the Holy See, and the south and Sicily belonged to Spain.
Not only Italy, but also Spain, was actually formed by the merger of many kingdoms. It was also because of the intermarriage between the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of Aragon that Spain was unified. This is also the reason why Spain has two kings, because if
Without this marriage, Spain would still have many independent kingdoms.
The same is true for England. A larger island is divided into England, Scotland, and Ireland. There are also many counties under England. These counties were actually independent kingdoms in the past.
The situation across Europe is actually the same, divided and difficult to unify.
Therefore, when the barbarians attacked the capital of the Ming Empire, they became even more unbearable and their fate became even more tragic.
On the other hand, if Ming Dynasty first embarked on the path of capitalism, colonialism, and industrial revolution, the power and speed it would unleash would far exceed that of Europe in history.
It took the Europeans hundreds of years to colonize the world and unleash the power of industry and capital, but for the Ming Dynasty, it only took more than ten years.
However, the Ming Dynasty has now colonized the world, occupying the largest and most extensive land. The power of capital is rapidly expanding, and the power of industry is getting stronger and stronger.
This is doomed, the Ming Dynasty's status will be unshakable, and it will be difficult for the Europeans to stand up.
After thinking about this clearly, Liu Jin felt that everything he had done over the years was worthwhile.
At this time, not only the Renaissance was rising in Europe, but everything from the Ming Dynasty was beginning to become popular in Europe.
In their eyes, the Ming Dynasty was synonymous with heaven, extremely wealthy, and filled with gold, because no matter from every aspect, the Ming Dynasty was going to crush Europe in this period.
The language and writing of the Ming Dynasty, the art, thought and philosophy of the Ming Dynasty, and even the religion of the Ming Dynasty all show signs of spreading in Europe.
Leonardo da Vinci, an outstanding person, traveled thousands of miles to study in Ming Dynasty. This is a good example.
"Brother Liu, walk slowly~"
Wen Zhengming, Zhu Yunming, Cai Yu and others watched Liu Jin leave in a four-wheeled carriage.
"Brother Liu is not simple!"
After Liu Jin walked away, Zhu Yunming thought for a while and said.
"He is not simple. He has extraordinary bearing and elegant conversation. He is already an official in the Ministry of Personnel in his thirties. He has a bright future."
Wen Zhengming also sighed.
This person is really infuriating. He himself is in his thirties, but he has taken the provincial examination five times, and he can't even pass the examination. Even if the court now needs a lot of officials, he can become a small county magistrate.
But if you are not even a civil servant and are just a scholar, you will not be able to become an official even if you want to.
As for the other party, he was already an official in the civil service department of the imperial court. He passed the imperial examination at the age of eighteen, became a Jinshi at the age of nineteen, and was already a high-ranking official in the civil service department at the age of more than thirty. This is really incomparable.
"It's just that I've never heard of him before."
"Do you want to find someone to inquire later?"
Tang Zhen thought for a while and said.
"It's better to forget it. If people know about it, it won't be good."
"Although we got along for a short time, I think he is sincere and aboveboard. He doesn't seem to be cheating on me."
Wen Zhengming shook his head and said.
On the other side, Liu Jin, who was slightly drunk, returned to his house and went directly into the study room, where he habitually read and rested for a while.
Since time travel, Liu Jin has also developed this habit. As his official position grows bigger and bigger, Liu Jin also feels that his ability is becoming more and more inadequate, that is, he relies on some knowledge from later generations to hold on, but this is not the way. After all,
Generally speaking, you need to be strong in blacksmithing, and you can never go wrong by learning more.
"Sir, this is the telegram that was just sent."
At this time, the housekeeper of the house hurriedly delivered a telegram.
"Hmm~"
Liu Jin picked it up and took a quick look, then he laughed.
"Zhu Houzhao is finally willing to come back. Now he is afraid, and he asked me to figure out something for him."