Liu Jin couldn't help but smile when he saw the latest news sent back from the capital.
"The collision between old and new forces has just begun."
"Traditional private schools and academies cannot monopolize political power forever. Sooner or later, these people who are rising in new academies will inevitably attack political power."
"Maybe by then the original political parties of the Ming Dynasty will be formed. As for whether they are the sweet party and the salty party, or conservatives and radicals, it depends on how the history of the Ming Dynasty develops in the future."
The development of history has its inevitability. With the rise and development of capitalism, Ming Dynasty will gradually enter an industrialized society and gradually develop from the feudal era to the capitalist era.
This process will inevitably be accompanied by changes in the political system. Political systems are consistent with productivity, and the development of productivity will inevitably lead to changes in production relations.
The feudal system was suitable for feudal society. Once the Ming Dynasty completed the transformation and development of capitalism, this system would inevitably change accordingly.
As for whether it will be revolutionized and the imperial power will be removed, or whether it will become an honorary constitutional monarchy like the Empire on which the sun never sets, it depends on the historical development of the Ming Dynasty.
These are no longer headaches for Liu Jin.
After thinking about this clearly, Liu Jin couldn't help but laugh.
Traveling to this era, so many things have been done without realizing it, and such huge changes have taken place. Liu Jinzhen, this is just the beginning.
The opening of a large number of new-style schools and the acceptance of new-style schools and education by more and more people will inevitably be accompanied by the emancipation of the mind. It will take another few decades for the confrontation between old and new forces and old and new ideas to begin.
When the impact is the most severe and severe.
Of course, this is what Liu Jin wants to see.
There was no difference between the original Ming Dynasty and the Tang and Song dynasties in history, and there was no substantial progress. Confucianism was the dominant one and controlled the entire huge empire ideologically. The constraints of feudal ideas on people were too great.
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Without ideological liberation and independence, there will inevitably be no social progress, technological progress, and confrontation between old and new forces and new and old ideas. Perhaps the Ming Dynasty will become precarious because of this, and there may even be civil war, or even
Torn apart.
However, without the confrontation between old and new ideas and new forces, the Ming Dynasty would not have progressed, nor would it have truly leap-forward development. It would have always been under the cycle of chaos in feudal society, just like in history.
In the end, it would only be the emergence of one more dynasty and the feudal era that lasted for hundreds of years. Finally, the European capitalists opened the country with strong ships and cannons, so that even the backbone was broken.
It would be sad if it really came to that point.
I didn’t think too much about this aspect. Anyway, it has just begun. The feudal power and feudal ideas of the Ming Dynasty are still very strong, while the emerging capitalism and new ideas are still very weak and cannot reach the peak of feudal power.
Of course, looking at it now, they have not yet reached the point where they are in sharp opposition to each other and have to fight to the death. The Ming Dynasty was a feudal dynasty, but it was also nurturing the development of capitalism.
Today, the distinguished ministers of the DPRK and China are important components of the emerging capitalism. They all have very large industries, factories, workshops, plantations, ships, trading houses, etc.
"Perhaps Ming Dynasty can take a different capitalist path in the future!"
Liu Jin thought so.
Historically, capitalism developed in Europe, and eventually spread to the world with its powerful power. Western European countries have one thing in common, that is, they are all relatively small countries.
A country is small, which means that its own market and capital power are very weak, so in the process of capitalist development, they are extremely dependent on external markets and wealth.
This was the beginning of the colonial era, the connection between the capitalist eras, and the primitive accumulation of capitalism was completed with the wealth accumulated during the colonial era.
But even so, the European countries that have developed capitalism have small territories and small populations, and their own markets are very small and the supply of raw materials is insufficient, which makes them dependent on the global market.
And these all determine some things in Western European countries' foreign relations and their own development.
The Ming Dynasty was different. If the Ming Dynasty entered the capitalist era, even without overseas colonization, the Ming Dynasty itself would have sufficient capital power, sufficient markets, raw materials, etc.
The huge land and population determine that Ming's own internal motivation is strong enough.
Liu Jin predicts that the development speed of capitalism in the Ming Dynasty may be many times faster than the development speed of capitalism in Europe. It may take Europeans hundreds of years to complete the accumulation of wealth from the colonial era to the capitalist era, and it will take another one
It took two hundred years for capitalism to truly develop.
It is very likely that Ming Dynasty did not need it.
Its own strong territory and population mean that Ming Dynasty has extremely powerful power.
In the colonial era, European colonization of the world was a very long process. Because of their insufficient population, European colonial activities always started from a point.
First, they occupied key colonial strongholds and plundered the trading rights of the colonies through the colonial strongholds, thereby earning huge wealth and gradually completing the primitive accumulation of capitalism.
At the same time, along with this process, points slowly turned into lines, and lines turned into planes, and then the colonies around the world were slowly and gradually carved up.
The 16th century was the era when the European colonial era began to rise. Taking the Americas as an example, the number of Europeans immigrating to the Americas throughout the 16th century was actually not large, and they mainly settled in one stronghold.
Their population was too small, which determined that they were unable to immigrate to new colonies on a large scale, and also determined that they were unable to quickly occupy larger and more colonies.
But the Ming Dynasty was different.
When the Ming Dynasty carried out colonial activities, even if there was no official power, the people of the Ming Dynasty spontaneously immigrated, migrated, and casually moved to the colonies. The population was calculated in the tens of thousands.
Like the Golden Continent, many merchants went to the Golden Continent to look for gold. In the first wave alone, thousands of large ships and more than 100,000 people went to the Golden Continent.
Such a large-scale migration of ships and people requires a huge national strength and population base to support it, which is something that no country in Europe can easily accomplish.
But the Ming Dynasty could not only continue to emigrate on a large scale.
Liaodong, several provinces in Nanyang, the Western Regions, and the private colonies that are now emerging, etc., are all accompanied by the migration of large numbers of people, often hundreds of thousands or millions of people. This is unimaginable in Europe.
But it was a normal thing in Ming Dynasty.
At the same time, the Ming Dynasty was not limited to individual strongholds in terms of colonies from the beginning.
The first wave of 100,000 people who went to the Golden Continent to search for gold occupied the west coast of the Golden Continent in a short period of time, established hundreds of strongholds, and at the same time conquered the Aztec Kingdom and the Inca Empire, extending their power to the Golden Continent.
Expanded to the east coast.
For such rapid colonial activities, on the European side, they could barely achieve this scale and extent only in the seventeenth century.
On the Nanyang side, the Ming army swept away, and a large number of people entered Nanyang, built a large number of plantations, and quickly occupied various parts of Nanyang. In a short period of time, the population structure, land structure, etc. of a region were changed.
In addition, in terms of influence, European influence mainly relies on their own force, using force to force colonial people to believe in their religion and learn their culture and ideas.
Although the Ming Dynasty is also like this now, it relies on powerful force to clear the way.
But the influence of the Ming Dynasty goes far beyond that. Even without strong force, the influence of the Ming Dynasty is still very powerful. The strong attraction of Chinese civilization naturally attracts the surrounding countries to learn from the Ming Dynasty.
All this shows that the capitalist road of Ming Dynasty will be completely different from the capitalist roads of European countries. The biggest feature is that the development of capitalism in Ming Dynasty will be very rapid.
With its extremely powerful power, once the Ming Dynasty's capitalism develops, it may return to the top of the world and rise again in just a few decades, just as it did after the reform and opening up in later generations.
Whether it is the development of overseas colonies or the development of its own capitalism, Ming Dynasty will be very fast.
Liu Jin pondered carefully. Thinking of this, Liu Jin couldn't help laughing and shook his head.
Overseas colonization and capitalism are developing too fast, and I don’t know whether they are good or bad.
Maybe in a few decades, the rapidly developing capitalism will most likely overthrow the Ming Dynasty.
Perhaps with the rapid development of the Ming Dynasty's colonial era, the Indians in America, the Aztec Kingdom and the Inca Empire may not disappear as they did in history. Instead, they may slowly develop and become independent.
Indian country, this is something that has never happened in the world before I traveled.
In short, there are too many, too many possibilities.
Perhaps these countries in the East, which had great influence in the Ming Dynasty, quickly embarked on the path of capitalism, and it is hard to say that they all embarked on the path of global colonization, and then divided up the colonies around the world.
Of course, it is also possible that the extremely powerful Ming Dynasty covered the entire earth and occupied 99% of the land and resources on the earth. It is hard to say.
There are many, many possibilities. The history of the earth in the future will definitely be different from the history of the earth before Liu Jin crossed over. Many, many countries and races that were exterminated by Europeans will most likely shine in this era.
"There's no point in thinking too much, just take it step by step."