With Liu Jin resigning as the chief assistant of the cabinet, Wang Shouren was appointed as the new chief assistant of the cabinet, Zhong Fan as the second assistant, and Li Kun entered the cabinet as the new cabinet elder.
The changes in the government and the opposition are still very stable, and the world is still dominated by officials of the practical school. Of course, there are now very few officials who are mainly from the conservative school. Almost all officials in the government and the opposition are officials from the practical school.
Almost all of the large number of officials have resumes in local provinces and have relatively rich experience in local administration. They are also officials who pay attention to doing practical things, because officials who do not do things have long gone home to retire, or have been sent to other places.
I went to Nanjing to retire.
Liu Jin's departure did not affect the existing national policies of the Ming Dynasty. Wang Shouren, Zhong Fan, Li Kun and others still continued the same routine formulated by Liu Jin.
This also made Liu Jin more reassured that the Ming Dynasty would not have its people take over the government and ruin the results of decades of hard work.
Of course, after Liu Jin resigned, he almost completely let go of everything and stopped being active in government and opposition affairs.
This is Liu Jin's consistent principle. If you are not in your position, don't seek to govern. Don't mess around when you don't care about things. If you really want to take care of things, you should work hard, do it well, and do it decently.
So when the government and the public were undergoing some personnel changes, and when all the officials were congratulating Wang Shouren, the new chief minister of the cabinet, Liu Jin had already brought his two wives and several concubines with him.
A journey around the world.
Kaifeng Railway Station, Henan.
Accompanied by bursts of whistle sound, a train slowly drove into the platform.
Soon, a large number of passengers walked out of the station, and Liu Jin, who was wearing ordinary clothes, and his family were among them.
Henan is Liu Jin's first stop. Liu Jin plans to have a good time in Henan when he is staying in Henan for a few months.
Liu Jin's family had just left the station, and his servants had already arrived here early. They had prepared vehicles, arranged accommodation and other places, making Liu Jin's trip and trip extremely comfortable.
The reason why Liu Jin chose Henan as his first stop was mainly because he wanted to come and see this place where Chinese civilization originated.
In later generations, Henan Province had a large population, outstanding people, and talented people. It produced many celebrities and talented people. It also had a large number of historical buildings and places to visit.
For example, Liu Jin is going to see the underground river in Kaifeng, go to Songshan Shaolin Temple to see the Eighteen Bronze Figures, go to Longmen Grottoes to see the stones, etc. One month is enough to see all the famous places in Henan.
Saw it.
The car Liu Jin was riding in was driving slowly on the streets of Kaifeng.
Different from later generations, the provincial capital of Henan was Zhengzhou. Zhengzhou is actually a new city. In fact, the city with the longest history in Henan should be Kaifeng. Kaifeng has always been the main city and provincial capital of Henan.
At this time, Kaifeng was the largest city in Henan and the seat of the provincial capital.
Because Henan is located in the middle, there are many major railway lines in Daming that meet in Kaifeng, forming an extremely convenient transportation system in Kaifeng.
The railway from the capital of Ming Dynasty to the western provinces passed here, and the railways to Chengdu, Guizhou, and Yunnan in the southwest also passed here; the railway to Huguang in the south also passed here, and the railway to Shandong in the east and South Zhili also passed here.
All.
The railway transportation hub and center makes the railway transportation here extremely convenient and developed. At the same time, the main highways of Ming Dynasty also connect to Henan.
Convenient transportation and developed transportation helped Kaifeng quickly become an important industrial and commercial city in the interior of the Ming Empire.
Henan's textile industry is extremely developed, which is due to Henan's own cotton planting industry.
The local provinces of the Ming Dynasty, especially the northern provinces, have no longer grown food. Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Gansu, Shandong, and North Zhili provinces are mainly dedicated to the cultivation of special cash crops. The most important of these is
cotton.
Because of its flat terrain and open land, Henan is very favorable for cotton cultivation, so it is a major province for cotton cultivation.
And unlike later generations, the land of the Ming Empire is still highly concentrated in the hands of a few people. Especially the land in the Ming Dynasty is almost concentrated in the hands of gentry, landlords, and big families.
When they were together, these gentry and landowners could still make a good living by renting out land. However, as the Ming Empire continued to migrate a large number of people from the mainland to overseas, it resulted in the loss of a large amount of labor force.
The most important immigrant population among them is the landless peasants at the bottom. They migrate continuously from the mainland, directly leaving the land of these landlords and gentry to become deserted and uncultivated.
However, these gentry and landowners obviously would not really let their land become deserted. At first, they naturally supported the conservative officials in opposing foreign expansion, colonization and immigration, and wanted to continue living the good life before.
But the result was obviously a failure. There was no other way. These gentry landlords could only learn from Liaodong, Hebei and other regions and adopt large-scale mechanized farming methods and use machines to cultivate the land.
In this way, only a small amount of labor is needed to cultivate a large amount of land, which is also in the interests of these landowning gentry.
They themselves have a large amount of land that no one cultivates, so mechanization is naturally the most appropriate. Moreover, these gentry landowners have the funds to engage in mechanized farming. They are not pauper farmers.
In addition, the gentry and landowners are often more knowledgeable and educated people, and they know exactly what to plant to maximize their value.
Growing food is obviously the stupidest thing. The smart ones are growing cotton, flowers, trees, fruits, etc. The returns from these are much higher than growing food.
Naturally, in the northern provinces of the Ming Dynasty, the scale of cotton planting became larger and larger, especially in plain areas like Henan, where cotton planting was very large.
Many gentry and landowners have invested in textile factories, and the cotton produced can also be used in their own textile factories to ensure the supply of raw materials for their own textile factories.
You must know that when cotton is most popular, it is not only expensive, but also often difficult to buy, causing your own textile mills to shut down.
If you have land, why not just grow cotton on your own land to meet your own needs?
You must know that in order to stabilize their supply of raw materials, many large-scale textile factories will develop large-scale land overseas, establish cotton plantations, and plant cotton on a large scale to ensure their own cotton supply.
These factors have stimulated cotton planting in Henan, and also stimulated the rapid development of Henan's textile industry.
There are countless large and small textile factories in Kaifeng, Henan, and the scale of its textile industry has exceeded that of the Beijing-Tianjin area.
Of course, the main reason is that the textile factories in the Beijing-Tianjin area are constantly migrating out. Because the wages in the Beijing-Tianjin area are high and the land use costs are expensive, the textile factories in the Beijing-Tianjin area are gradually unable to produce, and they are gradually migrating to Kaifeng and Chang'an.
, the Western Regions, Henan and other areas.
Kaifeng has become the choice of many people. This is also related to Fang Yongliang, who was in charge of Henan Province at the time. Fang Yongliang was a practical official who vigorously attracted investment at that time, especially seizing the opportunity of the textile industry to move to inland areas.
A large number of textile factories were relocated.
In addition, the convenient transportation here in Kaifeng is also very important.
The cloth produced in this way is very convenient whether it is sold to the Ming Dynasty or transported by train to Europe, the Ottoman Empire, the Persian Empire and other regions.
Almost all the cloth produced here is mainly exported to Europe, Persia, the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire and other places. The Ming Dynasty mainly sells ready-made clothes, and few people make their own clothes anymore, so the cloth
The sales are all large-scale sales to garment factories.
In addition to the developed clothing industry, another important industry here in Henan is the automobile manufacturing industry.
Because there is a locally born car brand here in Henan called Dafeng Automobile. Although Dafeng Automobile cannot compare with luxury car brands such as Mercedes-Benz and BMW in the Ming Dynasty.
Dafeng Automobile is a low-end car. The price of the cars it produces basically does not exceed 1,000 taels of silver. Such a price is very close to the people. It also makes the sales volume of Dafeng Automobile become higher and higher, and gradually derives a
The huge automobile industry can produce and sell hundreds of thousands of cars a year, which is extremely remarkable in this period.
The textile industry and automobile manufacturing industry are the two major industries in Henan, and they also contribute to the prosperity and hustle and bustle of Kaifeng.
Liu Jin drove slowly on the road in a car. The road was well planned and very spacious. There were many high-rise buildings and shops on both sides of the road, and cars were coming and going, making it a very busy scene.
Look at the people here in Kaifeng. They are all fashionable and well-dressed. There are many people driving cars to and from get off work, and motorcycles and bicycles can be seen everywhere. It can be seen that the living standards of people here are not better than those in the Beijing-Tianjin area. How different people are.
Thinking about future generations, Henan has a large population, with a population of over 100 million. Such a huge population is crowded on this land, resulting in extremely fierce competition.
From the beginning of school, the college entrance examination here in Henan has been a hell mode. There are many candidates, few admissions, and an extremely low admission rate. After employment, the competition pressure becomes even greater, so that a large number of Henan people are distributed to work all over the world, leaving their hometowns, resulting in many
People are prejudiced against Henan people.
Liu Jin, who traveled through time, paid special attention to the balanced development of various places.
The extremely unbalanced development of the east, middle and west in later generations led to many problems. Liu Jin fully absorbed this lesson and paid more attention to balance in development.
For example, the purpose of building a railway to Chengdu was to promote the development of the southwest region. Now the southwest region has gradually caught up with the development pace of the Ming Dynasty. Chengdu's automobile manufacturing, motorcycle manufacturing, and steel industries are all very developed.
There are also dredging the Yangtze River and raising the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge. These are all for the development of Huguang and Jiangxi. With the Yangtze River as a golden river, Huguang and Jiangxi are not much different from coastal areas.
Over the years, the development of these places has been extremely rapid, gradually catching up with the pace of development in the Ming Dynasty, and there will not be huge differences between the east, middle and west like in later generations.
A large number of people from the west and central areas have to leave their homes to work in the east. The developed areas in the east are comparable to developed countries, while the backward areas in the west can be compared with Africa. This is very unbalanced and can easily lead to many problems.
Today's Ming Dynasty is different. Not only Kaifeng, Henan, has developed, but Chengdu in the southwest, Huguang and Jiangxi in the Yangtze River Basin, Guangdong, Fujian, Ryukyu, Lusong in the south, Xiyu in the west, Hezhong
, places like Nanyun have developed.
The gap between them will not be too big. If the economy is fully developed and the development is balanced, the development of the Ming Empire will be very stable and can continue to develop, and there will be few problems.
Apart from anything else, the problem of discrimination in hell alone is very small.
It will not appear that people here look down on people from other places, are discriminatory against people from certain places, have colored glasses, etc.
After driving around Kaifeng City for several times, Liu Jin had a good overall feeling.
In the following days, Liu Jin lived here in Kaifeng, and went out every day to visit, see the scenery, and taste delicious food from various places.
Compared with the Kaifeng of later generations, Kaifeng at this time not only retained a large number of traditional elements, such as the old city, city walls, houses, etc., but also continuously incorporated a large number of new elements.
The new urban area is full of high-rise buildings, commercial streets, football fields, racetracks, theaters, cinemas, etc. These new elements and old elements are perfectly integrated, putting people in the unique environment of this era.
In the land of China in later generations, there are fewer and fewer ancient elements. Long-term lack of confidence has led to many excellent traditions and things being gradually eliminated and slowly buried in history. Instead, they are Western things and elements.
More and more intense.
Especially Western festivals are becoming more and more lively, while traditional festivals are becoming less and less interesting and less and less flavorful than before.
Looking at Kaifeng now, you can see many blond and blue-eyed people here. Although these people look different from the people of the Ming Dynasty, they all wear Ming Dynasty clothes and speak fluently in Ming Dynasty.
These people are basically female slaves bought from the West. As for the men, they are basically mixed-race, the offspring of Ming people and these female slaves. Although they look like foreigners, they are actually products made in Ming Dynasty.
, grew up in Daming, ate Daming cuisine, wore Daming clothes, and spoke Daming dialect.
“It’s better to live in this era!”
Liu Jin couldn't help but sigh, and also showed a happy smile. Sometimes this is what Liu Jin likes to see the most.
PS: I moved to a new house today. I kept everyone waiting for a long time. I took the time to code a big chapter. Today is the chapter~~
