Four hundred and twentieth chapters draw the border to be king
It's just that no matter how difficult things are, they still have to be handled, one after another. As more and more officials are transferred by the court to fill the vacancies, Zhu Biao becomes more and more able to do things with ease, and the young victims also begin to work for work.
Endow.
After discovering that they could eat more and get copper coins at the end of the month, their enthusiasm for work became much more obvious, and they were quite diligent in doing hard work such as building water conservancy canals and the like.
Quan Xu had already returned to the Jinyiwei base with one hundred thousand taels of silver and the suitable orphans. Zhu Binbin planned to return to Beijing as soon as possible. After all, his father, emperor, mother, queen, and wife had written to urge him.
It's just that he can't get out of the family, and too many affairs have not been settled. Zhu Biao can't bear the suffering of the people of Shaanxi and Gansu who have suffered for a long time. After all, they are already in trouble. Perhaps it is the natural compassion of the strong for the weak. Zhu Biao
He stayed in Pingliang Mansion for more than a month.
Seeing that summer turned to autumn, and it rained heavily for two consecutive days in Shaanxi and Gansu, Zhu Biao finally prepared to leave for Beijing. Only half of the imperial guards and the soldiers transferred by Cao Liangchen accompanied him.
The guards of several major prefectures were wiped out, so Zhu Biao naturally had to arrange for his confidants to replace them. The prefectural army guards Tang Shizhong and others were naturally the most suitable ones. After all, it was the Zhu family's personal guards and close troops who were worthy of trust.
What's more, these state capitals are located on the strategic routes of the Silk Road, and the current shipping risks are too high. It is still necessary to connect Central Asia and India by restarting the Silk Road.
The Silk Road began in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in the Tang Dynasty. The actual territory of the Silk Road was greatly reduced until the Northern Song Dynasty. The imperial court failed to control the Hexi Corridor. By the Southern Song Dynasty, it was even less able to set foot in the northwest region. The decline of the Silk Road became increasingly obvious.
However, during the Mongol and Yuan Dynasties, Mongolia launched three western expeditions and southern expeditions, greatly expanding its territory, coupled with the establishment of post roads and the restoration of the Eurasian transportation network, which made long-distance trafficking by international caravans flourish again across the vast territory of Eurasia.
Zhu Biao had consulted the records of the Yuan Dynasty in his early years. At that time, there were European merchants, merchants from West Asia and Central Asia, and Chinese merchants who were engaged in caravan trafficking on the long east-west land trade route.
The undisputed status of the trade center.
European, Central and West Asian merchants generally bring large quantities of gold, silver, jewelry, medicines, exotic animals, spices, bamboo cloth and other commodities to China or sell them along the way. What they buy are mainly Chinese satin, embroidery, gold
Brocade, silk, tea, porcelain, medicinal materials and other commodities.
Until the end of the Yuan Dynasty, wars were raging. At the same time, riots occurred frequently in the Western Regions, Central Asia and other places, and commerce was severely hit. Therefore, there were very few caravans coming and going in recent years. Lao Zhu did not attach much importance to these, and could even be said to reject everything.
Alien races.
But Zhu Biao knows that blindly closing the country is not enough. The benefits of economic prosperity to the country are self-evident. Calculating time, the Renaissance has already begun in Italy. What is the Renaissance? It is the reaction of the bourgeoisie.
Feudal New Culture Movement.
Time waits for no one. The barbarians in the Han and Tang dynasties have now begun to move forward. The Ming Dynasty cannot lag behind. Now more than half of the four years of Hongwu have passed. Zhu Biao has been single-minded and stable in the past four years, and now the results can be said to be outstanding.
Northern Mongolia is now in a state of civil strife and fragmentation, with Li Wenzhong and Chang Yuchun interfering in the situation. At least for a few years, they have no intention of going south to invade the country.
The Western imperial court adopted a policy of multiple feudalism and establishment to suppress the Pazhu regime, making it unable to fully integrate the political and religious forces of Uzbekistan. Amid internal and external troubles, they could only live in peace and stability. It was too poor and had a plateau climate.
, there is really no need to attack the Ming Dynasty, as the gains outweigh the losses.
The same is true for Yunnan and Guizhou in the south. Unlike the prosperous Bashu, it now consumes a lot of resources to conquer and still needs to be managed. The benefits are far outweighed by the effort. What's more, Yunnan and Guizhou are also full of internal conflicts. The struggle between the King of Liang in the former Yuan Dynasty and the Duan family in Dali is also
So that Ming Dynasty does not need to be anxious.
The control of Japanese pirates along the eastern coast is also going very smoothly. Last time I received news from Tang Ding that they had established a great reputation in the East China Sea, and had also recruited many Japanese rogues, preparing to plunder Iyo Island in Japan...
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After the Kingdom of Bashu and Tianfu was recovered, the last piece of the puzzle for the development of the Ming Dynasty has been assembled. Four years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, people's livelihood in Jiangnan and other places has recovered, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yangzhou and other places have returned to the appearance of paradise on earth, and the economy has developed rapidly.
Zhu Biao will also start to promote economic development after returning to Beijing. As his direct descendants, the Jiangnan gentry will naturally have to bear more. Zhu Biao has discovered after this trip that there is no need to worry about capital being out of control.
Because of the different national conditions, China has been official-oriented since ancient times, or its perception of assets is different from other countries. Being rich in China does not mean that you have a noble status, it can only mean that you are a fat sheep.
In Rome and Athens, if you could pay enough taxes, you would be a noble citizen with all rights. However, in China, if you paid enough taxes, you would still be a merchant and a lowly businessman, with strict restrictions on food, drink, and clothing.
Fan Li restored the country and destroyed Wu for King Gou Jian of Yue. After he became famous, he resigned and went into business. Although many businessmen now regard him as the founder, his historical achievements are almost ignored by official history just because of his status as a merchant.
Another example is Lu Buwei. Although he was as rich as the enemy, he still had to invest in Qin's protégé Ying Yiren in order to enter the gentry circle.
China has never lacked wealthy merchants since ancient times, but they have never been the protagonists of history, not even supporting roles. They cannot stand upright.
Therefore, the pursuit of merchants after getting rich is not to seek more wealth, but to complete the class transformation, from merchants to gentry, from gentry to officials. The Jiangnan gentry is an obvious example. They are rich all over the world, but they are still willing to disperse.
He spent all his wealth and worshiped at the gate of the East Palace.
Coupled with Zhu Biao's understanding of future generations, capitalism could not prevail in China and was inconsistent with national conditions. This was a unified dynasty, accustomed to central leadership of local areas, and the imperial court occupied the best parts of all walks of life. Scholars
Agriculture, industry and commerce are only part of Him.
What's more, Zhu Biao will not let them be unscrupulous, let alone let them interfere in industries that are related to the lifeblood of the country. Salt, iron, gunboats, etc. will be managed by special departments of the court, and merchants are not allowed to interfere. They can get rich, but they
Unable to master power.
It doesn't matter whether it's silk, tea, porcelain, medicinal materials, jade, silk brocade, etc. Of course, if you have the ability to occupy territory outside the Ming Dynasty, you can do whatever you want, but developing a country is not that easy.
In the future, with the opening of the Age of Discovery, the imperial court will inevitably take the most juicy bites to ensure the necessary resources for future development. The rest will be a hunting ground for careerists. Whoever has the ability, go ahead and plan.
