There has been some turmoil in the capital because of Emperor Hongzhi's health, but everything is still under control. Emperor Hongzhi's body can still support himself, and it is not that he will not be able to do it all of a sudden. He is just recuperating and preparing for the surgery in three months.
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Secondly, Emperor Hongzhi only had one son, so even if the throne changed, there would be no turmoil. What's more, Emperor Hongzhi had summoned important ministers in advance to explain the relevant matters clearly.
The turmoil was just a matter of concern for Emperor Hongzhi's health.
Emperor Hongzhi was a good emperor. He loved the people like his son, won the hearts of the people, was very kind, tolerant and generous, and was kind to his ministers and even his enemies.
Everyone likes this kind of emperor.
But what really made everyone recognize Emperor Hongzhi was that in recent years Emperor Hongzhi led Ming Dynasty to gradually move towards the road of capitalism and colonialism.
With the development of colonization and capitalism, Ming Dynasty ushered in unprecedented good times.
Overseas wealth continued to flow into the Ming Dynasty, which made the Ming Dynasty become rich rapidly; the development of capitalism also allowed the Ming Dynasty's productivity to gradually develop, and materials became abundant.
Coupled with persistent immigration, a large number of people moved overseas, outside the customs and other places, which greatly reduced the pressure and burden on the two traditional spiritual areas of the Ming Dynasty, and also promoted the promotion of overseas high-yielding crops.
The people throughout the Ming Dynasty were finally able to have enough to eat.
The people at the bottom can have enough to eat, and if they are willing to move out, they can quickly become rich in just one or two years.
Landowners, gentry, bureaucrats, nobles, etc. are also well-fed and their wealth is rapidly expanding by investing in factories, workshops, overseas trade, etc.
It can be said that the entire Ming Dynasty has enjoyed the fruits of the colonial era and the capitalist era, allowing the Ming Dynasty to enter the best era.
Secondly, in terms of external affairs, with the military reform and the promotion and popularization of the Ming Dynasty's compulsory military service system, the Ming Dynasty's military strength became more and more powerful, and it went on foreign campaigns for several consecutive years.
Not only did the Ming Dynasty not be brought down by successive wars, but because of the continuous foreign campaigns, it wiped out the barbarians from all directions who threatened the Ming Dynasty, acquired a large amount of land and wealth from overseas, greatly expanded the influence of the Ming Dynasty, and expanded the influence of the Ming Dynasty people.
living space.
In the past, it was only limited to two Beijing and thirteen provinces, with a population of hundreds of millions confined to such a small land. In Henan, Beizhili, Shaanxi, Anhui and other places, there were many people and little land, and the per capita cultivated land was even
There are not even three acres of land.
In an era without pesticides and fertilizers, it was really impossible to feed a family on this small amount of land, not to mention being exploited by landlords, gentry, and the court. It is easy to imagine how hard the life would be.
Unable to eat a full meal.
Things are different now. Through successive foreign wars and colonization, the Ming Dynasty successfully acquired the Golden Continent, Australia, Nanyang, the entire Liaodong, and the northern grasslands, restored the Western Regions, and captured the Hezhong area.
The Ming Dynasty's land area suddenly increased dozens of times, and it owned a large amount of high-quality land. Not to mention Golden Continent and Australia, they are too far away and not many people have immigrated there yet.
In the Liaodong region alone, due to the elimination of the threat of the Jurchen tribes and the stability of the grasslands in the west, the vast and fertile Liaodong region was developed with the arrival of a large number of immigrants. In the fourteenth year of Hongzhi alone, the grain produced in Liaodong Province was
Enough to supply the entire northern region of Ming Dynasty.
The potential of Liaodong Province has not yet been fully developed. This is just the beginning. Going north to Heilongjiang, there are still large tracts of vast and fertile black land. In places that have been developed, there is still a large amount of land that has not been reclaimed. In the future, Liaodong
Ten times or dozens of times as much fertile black land can be reclaimed.
In addition to Liaodong, the Ryukyu Island and Nanyang provinces are all very fertile areas with abundant rain and heat. They are very suitable for growing rice and sugar cane. The arrival of a large number of plantations and immigrants also allowed the food from these places to be continuously imported to the Ming Dynasty.
, causing the price of food in Ming Dynasty to fall again and again.
Official immigration has been going on, and the scale of spontaneous private immigration is also getting bigger and bigger. A large number of people are starting to go overseas to live a simpler and easier life.
This is the current Ming Dynasty.
It is prosperous internally, and its internal conflicts are gradually easing and becoming smaller and smaller. Externally, it is extremely powerful, fighting all powerful enemies in the southeast, northwest, and still continuing to expand externally, acquiring more land and living space.
All this is accompanied by the propaganda of the Ming Dynasty Morning Post and has spread to every corner of the Ming Dynasty. Now even in the remote Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan areas, the Ming Dynasty Morning Post is sent here regularly, bringing all aspects of information so that everyone can know what the Ming Dynasty is now.
, under the governance of Emperor Hongzhi, it has become extremely powerful.
For such an emperor, everyone in the Ming Dynasty loved him very much.
The common people naturally hope that Emperor Hongzhi can live longer so that everyone's good life can continue.
As for the bureaucrats, nobles, landowners, gentry, businessmen, emerging capitalists, etc., they also hope that Emperor Hongzhi can live longer. They have just tasted the benefits of such a good era, so naturally they hope it can continue.
So when the news came out that Emperor Hongzhi was suffering from intestinal carbuncle, the people in the entire Beijing and Tianjin areas became worried. These good days had just begun. How could it not be worrying that Emperor Hongzhi had such a disease?
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Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty Morning Post also reported in detail in a timely manner. Intestinal carbuncle is a minor disease. It can be cured by surgical removal of rotten intestinal carbuncle. Emperor Hongzhi can cure it, so everyone does not have to worry.
Now the emperor has handed over the state affairs to the prince and the princes in the court. He is recuperating his body and preparing for the operation. He will definitely be cured by then, so there is no need to worry.
Through such publicity, the people in the Beijing-Tianjin area felt at ease, but many people still had Emperor Hongzhi's longevity tablets in their homes, and many elderly people prayed for Emperor Hongzhi every day.
Such a good emperor, everyone hopes that he can live a long life.
Wen can be compared to the ancestors of the Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty, and the martial arts can be compared to the emperors of Qin and Han Dynasty. Internally, the people can live a life without worries about food and clothing. Externally, successive victories have not only greatly enhanced the national self-confidence and pride of the Ming Dynasty people.
Nowadays, the people of Ming Dynasty hold their heads high when they are outside. They look at people from other countries with a condescending attitude and eyes.
This punch to the Japanese country in the east not only wiped out the Japanese pirates, but also made the Japanese country surrender to the Ming Dynasty and became a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty; it kicked the Nanyang countries in the south, sweeping away from north to south, and destroyed more than a dozen countries.
The two countries pressed Siam, the most powerful country in Southeast Asia, to the ground and rubbed it together, signing an alliance under the city walls.
The northern sweep of the northern grasslands and Jurchens killed seven or eighty-eight Jurchens and drove them to the colder areas further north. The grassland people were herding cattle, sheep and horses for the Ming Dynasty;
tribes and khanates, and captured the area in the middle of the river.
It can be said that almost all the neighbors around Daming were severely punished by Daming, even as far away as the east coast of Golden Continent.
Tian Erniu also joined forces with the Spanish to sweep away the strongholds of European countries on the east coast and included the entire Golden Continent into the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
Here in the Indian Ocean, just a vassal king of the Ming Dynasty, King Ning's fleet swept away the Portuguese, seized their colonies, and cut off Portugal's claws into the Indian Ocean.
All this shows that Ming Dynasty is powerful at this moment, and the people of Ming Dynasty have the capital of pride and self-confidence.
Victory in foreign wars is the most powerful thing that can enhance the self-confidence of a country or a nation.
The people of Ming Dynasty were very confident themselves, and now they are naturally more confident.
Not only in military matters, but also in many fields such as science and technology, economy, culture, etc., Ming Dynasty is at the forefront of the planet in this era.
During the Ming Dynasty, not only were industrial products continuously exported to the outside world, cloth, cane sugar, steel products, glass products, etc. were continuously transported to the West and even to Europe through sea ships, and were sold all over the world.
Moreover, the traditional porcelain, tea, silk, etc. of the Ming Dynasty were also constantly sold overseas, in exchange for a steady stream of wealth being imported into the Ming Dynasty.
All these are the reasons why Ming people are confident.
Not only is the country powerful, but more importantly, the people of Ming Dynasty themselves are rich and wealthy. Growing up in such a country, they are naturally extremely confident and proud.
In the Beijing-Tianjin area, the beggars of the Ming Dynasty will not beg from foreigners; in the Western and Southeast Asian regions, the Ming Dynasty people are superior. They are slave owners, planters, sailors, and businessmen. They themselves are rich, and the Ming Dynasty behind them
They are also extremely powerful. If they dare to attack the Ming people, they must be prepared to meet the Ming army.
In Korea and Japan, the people of the Ming Dynasty were guests of the local nobles. They were learning from the Ming Dynasty from top to bottom. Everyone changed their surnames to Chinese, adopted Han people, and spoke Chinese. Even when they were outside, they naturally regarded themselves as themselves.
He is also a noble Ming Dynasty man.
In the Golden Continent, the Ming people are the descendants of the Sun God and the people of God. These descendants of the Yin and Shang Dynasties are all sinners and have blasphemed the gods. They must atone for the sins they have committed. Only after the atonement is completed, they
Only then can you become a noble Ming Dynasty man.
This is why Ming people are confident and proud.
If it was my previous self-confidence and pride, it was because of my own excellent culture and my long-standing belief that places outside the Ming Dynasty were barbaric lands, and that people outside the Ming Dynasty were satisfied.
So now, the people of the Ming Dynasty have truly seen clearly all over the world. The places outside the Ming Dynasty are not barren lands. They are also very rich, with gold, silver, and fertile land.
But people outside the Ming Dynasty are still barbarians. The Ming Dynasty will crush these barbarians in every aspect. This is the reason for real confidence and pride now.