Chapter 466 The Ming Dynasty version breaks into Guandong
Author: East Zhejiang Pifu
Chapter 466 The Ming Dynasty version breaks into Guandong
After breaking up the treasonous words and crushing them into pieces, Zhu Shuren's aboveboard attitude was completely understood by his father-in-law.
Therefore, Zhu Changzi basically continued to have 100% unconditional trust in the subsequent governance and expansion rhythm of the Ming Dynasty, leaving it to his son-in-law to control the situation, and he could advance at whatever pace he felt was necessary.
Even if Zhu Shuren's behavior looks like "opening up the map", Zhu Changzi will not doubt it.
What's more, Zhu Shuren is still very stable. He knows very well that unifying the world and opening up new territories has never been the goal. The goal is to make the world stable and the people live and work in peace and contentment.
All the "instrumental rationality of opening up territory and expanding territory" that goes against the "value rationality" of "defining the world" is to ignore the fundamental and pursue the last.
The conversation between Mencius and King Hui of Liang two thousand years ago has already explained everything: "Is there any evil in the world? It is all one. Who can do it? Those who are not fond of killing can do it."
It can be seen that what the people of the world want, King Hui of Liang's pursuit is to "fix the world" rather than "one world". One world is just a means for Mencius to answer King Hui of Liang and achieve the goal of "settling the world".
Because after unification, the people no longer have to fight civil war, and they can do less military service, less corvee service, and less military rations.
The threat to people's life and safety will be reduced, and the degree of being squeezed for labor and material resources will be reduced. That is why the people look forward to the unification of the world and hope to be a peace dog rather than a man in troubled times.
If a ruler dominates the world but continues to be militaristic and unrestrained, he regards "one" as the end in itself and forgets that "determination" is the end in itself.
That is, abandoning the fundamental in favor of the weak, being swallowed up by "instrumental rationality" and "value rationality", and being swallowed up by means to achieve goals. Such single-minded thieves will eventually be punished by the judgment of history.
Zhu Shuren knew very well that after Manchuria and Mongolia were destroyed, everything else was not a top priority for the Ming Dynasty. It could completely recuperate and recuperate, even if it did not expand for ten or eight years, it would be no problem.
As long as we don't waste the soldiers trained in these two decades of bloody battles, and don't let this generation of troops die in vain without being able to exert their remaining energy, that's enough.
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Since the winter of the 10th year of Longwu, when the Manchu and Mongolian issues were resolved, the Ming Dynasty entered a five-year period of peaceful rest.
From the 11th to the 15th year of Longwu, the Ming Dynasty never launched any foreign wars. It just focused on farming, recuperating, restoring people's strength, and restoring production and population in the north.
During this period, there was only some gradual infrastructure restoration construction, and the road projects and farmland water conservancy projects that had been in disrepair for a long time were restored. These investments will pay off quickly, and they are not blind investments. As long as they do what they can, they will be successful.
Harmless.
In remote Mongolia and the Northeast, we only need to deal with a small number of recalcitrant thieves who fled, and they can't cause any trouble.
Five years later, the remnants of Haug and Eastern Mongolia were basically extinct.
The scale of agricultural reclamation in the Songnen Plain has basically grown steadily at a rate of more than 30% per year in the past five years. Five years later, the population of the Northeast Plain has tripled, and the scale of farmland has reached the original level.
five times.
When the Jilin area was taken over from Hauge, there were about 600,000 Han people and 200,000 Manchu and Mongolian people there. Moreover, the Manchus were basically women and children, and there were no adult men serving in the military.
Five years later, the total local population reached two million, and most of the increase was Han Chinese. Manchu women were gradually assimilated by the Han people as concubines, and their culture gradually became integrated and recognized. Moreover, women did not have the problem of shaving their heads and whipping them.
, it can be blended just by changing your hairstyle, which is very convenient.
The planting area of Sakhalin rye and Hokkaido's cold-resistant rice is also increasing year by year. The field soil that has no time for intensive cultivation can also be extensively cultivated. After burning the wasteland, first plant a broad and thin harvest with soybeans. After the soybeans gradually mature the land, we can then think of a solution.
Grow other grains, even corn and potatoes.
Anyway, there is a lot of open space in the Northeast, so it is not a waste to plant soybeans with lower yields. In later generations, the Northeast region was also famous for growing soybeans.
Within five years, the soybean surplus in the Northeast was obvious, and the Ming Dynasty began to expand the soybean oil trade with the promotion of the imperial court. A large amount of soybean oil was trafficked into the customs. The excess corn in good years could also be pressed for oil.
The people of the Ming Dynasty could barely eat enough grains and occasionally get some vegetable oil to supplement their nutrition. Although most people still couldn't eat meat, they could still be considered well-off if they had oil.
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With the arduous development of the Northeast region and the influx of surplus grain from the Northeast, while the quality of life of the original Han people in Guan Nei continued to improve, the occupational structure of the people in Guan Nei also faced a major impact.
In just five years, the population within the pass has increased by millions due to peaceful recuperation. Although from a macro perspective, there are still fewer people and more land, there is no fear of an excess number of farmers.
However, considering the uneven local development in various places, in some wealthy areas, especially Jiangnan and Guangdong and Guangxi, which have not been affected by the war and massacres before, the growth in these years has still led to the crowding out of the population.
The Jiangnan region was only affected by the war in Nanjing, Zhenjiang, and Changzhou. Wuxi, Suzhou, Songjiang, and even Zhejiang as a whole, during the Ming and Qing wars in this time and space, they never fought a single battle.
There were only small-scale internal rebellions in the Guangdong and Guangxi regions and the Zhu Shu people sent troops to quell the rebellion, so the Pearl River Delta around Guangzhou was also well preserved.
Therefore, after the restoration of prosperity, these two places first encountered the problem of "everyone with a growing population will lose their job, and there is no land to farm at all."
However, the land reclamation construction in the Northeast is preferred, and large-scale infrastructure investment has brought countless business opportunities. Therefore, the remaining growing population in Guangdong and Zhejiang has no choice but to invest in the handicraft industry that provides supporting land reclamation in the Northeast.
Reclamation in the Northeast is not a smooth sailing process as laymen imagine, and requires a very large amount of investment.
First of all, in the past five years, due to the population migrating northward, people traveling to Guandong could not tolerate the local cold, which created a huge demand for cotton-padded jackets. It was no longer enough to just stuff reed catkins and straw into clothes to keep them warm.
Therefore, the Ming Dynasty had to find new cotton planting areas, and the cotton grown was no longer used to weave cotton cloth, but was used directly as filler for cotton-padded jackets.
The textile industry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is developed, but it does not produce cotton. In the Ming Dynasty, local officials from Shaanxi and Gansu further developed and expanded the Hexi Corridor and expanded cotton planting in areas close to the Western Regions. The governor of Shandong also expanded cotton planting to a certain extent in areas such as Rizhao in later generations.
Cotton was continuously transported to the Zhejiang area with high industrial added value, and the local textile industry's organizational efficiency and labor intensity were used to mass-produce cotton-padded jackets, which were purchased by the government and handed over to Huang Degong, who had similar powers as the "Jilin General".
Distributed to military garrison troops.
In such an economic cycle, Huang Degong's ministry gradually developed a set of management methods similar to later generations' use of military corps to develop and construct border areas by relying on the government's overall planning and military settlement experience. It used centralized procurement to uniformly and efficiently solve the inability of individual immigrant households.
something to solve.
For example, the Yamen of the Reclamation Army uniformly provided cotton-padded jackets and heating fuel in winter in exchange for the Reclamation Army receiving 20% more grain harvest than those in the customs.
Later, Huang Degong's subordinates naturally developed the idea that even the residents of the settlements and even their houses could be centrally built by the government. A military household in the settlement would connect the houses together, and at least one wall would be adjacent to the neighbor's house.
You can dig a flue together and burn the kang for warmth.
The Northeastern region could not be developed on a large scale before the Ming Dynasty. After all, it still couldn't bear the cold, and heating and keeping warm were problematic. Cotton-padded jackets could be purchased collectively, and now "central heating" is implemented, and a row of houses share a common flue for the kang.
, the heat utilization rate is much higher, and the workload of people cutting firewood and collecting fuel is also greatly reduced.
In the end, it even developed that the people further slightly increased the proportion of agricultural harvests in exchange for the unified supply of fuel by the government. Once the government unified the supply of fuel, it would not rely on cutting firewood. Instead, they could directly use the Northeast coal mines in Anshan and other places to dig coal and burn it.
Kang central heating.
As a result, the Ming Dynasty's construction industry, mining industry, coal logging industry, cotton-padded jacket garment industry... these economic categories that had not developed much under the natural economy have all developed vigorously.
Although it was impossible to enter the industrial era because there was no steam engine, it at least reached the peak of "large-scale handicraft industry." In just a few years, the level of commodity economy was approaching the peak of the Southern Song Dynasty.
I believe that as long as this commodity economy continues to prosper and cooperates with the natural growth of the Ming Academy of Sciences, more advanced industrial power will be spontaneously produced sooner or later. As for whether it was Zhu Shuren himself during his lifetime, it does not matter.
Moreover, the Ming Dynasty's development of the Northeast not only greatly promoted and promoted the above-mentioned bulk and pillar industries, but also promoted many scattered new technologies and new things that had a silent impact on people's lives.
For example, due to the coldness of the Northeast, in addition to burning kang and wearing cotton-padded jackets, it has also given rise to some other detailed lifestyle requirements, such as dependence on high-quality liquor.
With the development of science in the second half of the 17th century, the technology of distilling wine is of course no longer a problem. It is simply whether the distillation efficiency can be further optimized, the waste of raw materials in the production process can be reduced, and the wine yield can be increased.
Due to the needs of the development of the Northeast, liquor distillation technology has been industrialized on a large scale, and Daming's distillation and purification technology has been growing step by step in almost several years.
Not only did it create more high-strength liquor for direct drinking, but it also promoted medical alcohol, iodine and other chemical materials that needed to be distilled and purified, benefiting Daming's chemical science.
It's just that the war has not ended for a long time, and although the people can have enough to eat, if a large amount of wheat, rice and other rations are used to make wine, there will still be a certain food gap.
Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty has begun to cultivate rye extensively in the Northeast, and potatoes have been cultivated for many years in the vast semi-arid and rugged areas north and south of the Yangtze River.
As for grain crops such as rye, the starch conversion efficiency for direct consumption is lower than that of wheat. However, if it is used to make wine, the dietary fiber that is not easily absorbed by humans can also be saccharified into alcohols.
Therefore, brewing with rye is definitely less wasteful than brewing with wheat, and the utilization efficiency of raw materials is obviously cost-effective. Of course, in the 21st century, rye is more expensive than wheat. People generally like to eat high dietary fiber after suffering from the disease of affluence.
If we just want to absorb less sugar and starch and gain less fat, then rye brewing will be at a disadvantage compared to wheat.
However, in the 17th century, the problem of "overnutrition, obesity, and the need to find dietary fiber that is not easily absorbed" obviously did not exist in Da Ming, so rye brewing was very suitable.
In addition to rye, potatoes are also very suitable for making wine, because although the yield of potatoes is much higher than that of rice and wheat, long-term storage is much more difficult than that of rice and wheat, so they are not suitable for use as a country's strategic reserve grain surplus.
Zhu Shuren guided the people of the Ming Dynasty to plant potatoes extensively, which has a history of nearly 20 years. Before, there was only a shortage of food rations, and potatoes were also used to eat, so brewing was strictly controlled. Now that the war is over, there is a grain surplus, and brewing can be made to a certain extent.
, then of course priority should be given to encouraging potatoes to make wine and to reserve rice and wheat.
Under the obvious urgency of private production, the Ming Academy of Sciences certainly needs to let a bunch of "academicians" find ways to perfect the technology of potato and rye brewing.
In this context of the times, if there can be a few "Moutai Academicians", it will definitely benefit the country and the people, and they should be highly rewarded and leave their names in history.
Unfortunately, relying solely on self-development of technology will obviously lead to many detours, the cycle is too long, and it is easy to waste money by "reinventing wheels".
So when this matter reached Zhu Shuren's ears, Zhu Shuren had the idea of "using it" again. When he recalled, it seemed that the vodka in Rakshasa country was made from rye and potatoes.
So he foresighted and ordered Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong from Jiubian to pay attention to their contacts with Mobei Rakshasa fur merchants and colonial caravans, find ways to find out the source of their high-altitude wine, buy some samples, and it would be best to look for technology.
God really pays off. In fact, vodka was first created by accident on a small scale in a monastery in Moscow about a hundred years ago. After more than half a century of development and promotion, in the 17th century, Vodka
Charen already has mature rye and potato vodka craftsmanship.
Zhu Shuren directly asked Huang Degong to copy the technology of the Rakshasa people, and then asked the brewing academicians of the Ming Academy of Sciences to combine Chinese and Western research and optimize it. By the fifteenth year of Longwu, Ming Dynasty finally produced vodka brewing and distillation suitable for its own technical conditions.
, and then mass-produced and sold to the Juntun Reclamation Area in the Northeast.
It's just that the vodka brewed by the Han people will definitely not be called that unpronounceable name. It is simply called "rye roast" or "sweet potato roast".
With the supply of high-quality liquor that is low-cost and does not occupy the staple food reserves, the Ming Dynasty's development of the Northeast is basically unobstructed - anyway, the N-piece sets used by the Rakshasa people to develop Siberia during the same period in history, Zhu Shuren all learned from the foreigners.
Wouldn't it be enough to control the barbarians and equip the Eastern Han people who invaded the Guan during the Ming Dynasty?
Even though there are physical differences between people, as long as the material conditions are good enough, Han people can naturally do what Rakshasa people can do.
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PS: The above is already 4,000 words. Let me briefly answer the questions raised by some book friends yesterday about why I believe that "national integration is a new reincarnation, and the new ruler will not be implicated by the previous historical records of internal strife."
You can imagine that in the 1950s, the Japanese emperor puppeted Nambang. At that time, the Japanese emperor would be worried that "in the ancient times of Nanbang, Li Chenggui usurped the Kingdom of Koryo. Will this period of history cause us to puppet the queen of Nanbang?"
To the method of generating our own great leader?”
Obviously not, because Nanbang is just a small country with a booger and is being puppeted. How can the Emperor of the United States worry about the historical baggage of one organ affecting the whole body?
This example is more extreme, but the principle is the same. Qin Suiyuan appeared as a conqueror. When the integration was completed, Qin Suiyuan's original core territory and culture played the role of the brain, and the conquered civilization played the role of other organs.
Characters, those organs were transplanted to the torso controlled by the three brains of Qin Suiyuan, and it was the brain that made the decision.
If a woman is getting married for the first time, and she transplants the heart and heart of a woman who was married three, four, five, or six years ago into herself, then she is still married for the first time, and her loyalty and outlook on marriage are still those of a woman who was married for the first time.
Therefore, Qin did not worry at all whether the historical lessons of "Tian clan replaced Qi" and "three families were divided into Jin" would be transplanted. Those are the failures of some losers. This is what I call "after national integration,
It is equivalent to the physical body being reincarnated."