As the quality of development in Ming Dynasty continues to improve, industry and science and technology education continue to advance, and scientific and technological achievements bloom like a hundred flowers, at the same time,
On the other hand, the size of the Ming Dynasty's national power has also continued to expand in these years. The advancement of science and technology, and the improvement of the efficiency of officialdom and the rule of law have all had an immediate acceleration effect on national construction. (Due to caching reasons, users are asked to visit directly with a browser.
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As early as the fifteenth year of Xiaokang, when Zhu Shuren decided to abolish the old "Da Ming Law" reform, statistics at that time showed that the Han population in the eighteen provinces of Han Dynasty had increased from 60 million during the war to destroy the Qing Dynasty to 90 million.
Now another twenty years have passed. Except for two consecutive years of drought and an earthquake, the Yellow River burst, which resulted in about five years of no population growth, the other fifteen years have been normal growth.
Therefore, the proportion is slightly lower. Today, the total population of the eighteen provinces of Han Dynasty has reached more than 120 million. In addition, the population of the newly annexed barbarian territories at that time was 20 million. Now, with the destruction of the country by Junggar, they have been gradually incorporated.
Ten million people, including local natural growth, the total number over the years has reached nearly ten million.
Therefore, the total population of the newly conquered territories in the Ming Dynasty has reached more than 40 million. Especially in these more than 40 million miles, the proportion of the population with Han ancestry is also rising. Most of the Han immigrants are singles who move out, and when they arrive locally, they will be given
The native women were used as wives, concubines, and maids, so among the 40 million people today, there are at least five to six million pure Han people, and at least tens of thousands of people with mixed Han ancestry.
The population of the Ming Dynasty reached 160 million, including about 130 million Han people, more than 1,000 mixed Han people, and others totaling more than 10 million. After these years of development, the industrial population has further increased from the original more than 10 million.
to more than 20 million.
In the future, if steam engines are popularized, the population grows to the point where the per capita cultivated land cannot use so much labor, and new labor squeezes out, the industrial population will definitely usher in a wave of rapid growth.
It is a pity that Ming Emperor Zhu Ciyu was unable to see all this with his own eyes.
In the thirty-fifth year of the well-off period, the Junggar tribe was completely destroyed, and in the third year after the Rakshasa completely escaped, the fifty-one-year-old Zhu Ciyu finally passed away, perhaps because of excessive lust.
In fact, this is not a short life. It is similar to his grandfather, Emperor Longwu. In recent years, only Wanli has lived longer than him.
On the contrary, his father, Zhu Shuren, was more health-conscious, and it was also because Zhu Shuren had seen too many beauties in his previous life and had no feelings for them. In this life, when he was young, he had Zhu Yuchan, Fang Ziling, and Qin Huai's four beauties following him wholeheartedly, plus there were some
As a beauty who cherishes the fragrance and cherishes the jade, the threshold of Zhu Shuren's attraction is greatly raised.
Ever since, when Chen Yuanyuan, Dong Xiaowan, Li Xiangjun, and Bian Yu in Kyoto became old and beautiful, and after reaching forty, Zhu Shuren began to have a wide range of interests and hobbies, and rarely approached women anymore, feeling that there was nothing new.
He became healthy just like Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of Liang Dynasty.
The main difference between him and Xiao Yan in their health-preserving models is that Xiao Yan can avoid eating meat, while Zhu Shuren only avoids eating fatty meat at most, and will not even eat pork and mutton after the age of fifty. But he still eats fish and shrimp, and saves crabs.
It’s not necessary, you can also eat a little bit of shellfish, beef and chicken.
In addition, Emperor Wu of Liang Dynasty, Xiao Yan, liked to sit quietly and meditate, and did not exercise. Zhu Shuren would also exercise appropriately and scientifically, but only to enhance cardiopulmonary function. What he wanted was longevity, not muscles, so he would not do it without oxygen.
Unexpectedly, this kind of health care actually caused him to live longer than his son.
Fortunately, as early as the twenty-fifth year of Xiaokang's reign, that is, the year when the main force of the Ming Dynasty had just attacked Qinghai-Tibet and harassed Luntai, Zhu Ciyu was already over forty years old, and the infertile queen he had established in his early years did not live to be four years old.
Ten, died at the age of thirty-eight.
At that time, Zhu Shuren had already inspected his three potential grandsons. Taking advantage of more than a year after his daughter-in-law's death, he asked his son to make a new queen, and made Zhu Hetan's mother-in-law the new queen. Then he automatically
He became the third son of the emperor, but also the eldest legitimate son.
Zhu Hetan was fifteen years old at that time, almost the same age as his father when he ascended the throne. He later became the prince for ten years. Now that his father has passed away, he ascended the throne at the age of twenty-five. There is also his seventy-five-year-old
My grandfather is still alive.
However, at this age, Zhu Shuren has long since stopped taking care of things. He is only responsible for providing a certain degree of stability for the succession of the throne, and occasionally shows his face when he comes out.
Five years later, as his grandson reached the age of 18, he himself also turned 80. Then he was similar to Qianlong in history when he was the Supreme Emperor, completely retreating into seclusion.
Although Zhu Shuren later lived longer than Qianlong and Xiao Yan, setting a new longevity record for the health-preserving sect of Chinese rulers, that had nothing to do with the country. In the last ten years of his life, he did not participate in any red tape activities outside.
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After Zhu Hetan became the emperor, he changed the Yuan Dynasty to Union and took the "Common People Ming Ming, All Nations Harmony" from "Yao Dian".
(Actually, the Fusang people also used this allusion later, but that would have resulted in Zhaoming and Xiehe each having one word each. Zhu Shuren was still there at that time, but he didn’t like it, so he decided to just use “Xiehe”. Anyway, the Ming Dynasty was already Zhaoming, so there was no need to add another word.
Specially emphasized.
This is also in line with the line of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty fought defensively and counterattacked. It was a legitimate defense that benefited the people of Asia. It would not take the initiative to invade others. Therefore, it is enough to just be in harmony. There is no need for "Manifest Destiny" to go for barbaric conquest. That was done by the American and Japanese barbarians.
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Zhu Hetan's genes seem to be a little better than his father's. Who knows, his grandfather did not receive eugenics and education in his father's generation. At that time, other sons could not adopt and become the emperor's grandson.
Zhu Hetan had no personality flaws since he was a child. He was selected and received a comprehensive education.
Zhu Shuren has observed that although this grandson has no great ability, his greatest advantage is that he knows how much he weighs. As a prince, he can humbly recognize himself, know the boundaries of his abilities, know what he can and cannot do, and professional things.
You need to ask professional people for advice. This is already the quality that a monarch needs most.
Because according to Chinese tradition, what the monarch wants is "a gentleman without weapons." He cannot be arrogant and think that he is awesome in any aspect. As long as he finds outstanding talents, appoints them well, and makes the best use of their talents, then it doesn't matter if he doesn't understand any specific professional matters.
With the current national strength of the Ming Dynasty, as long as the emperor is not arrogant, humble, and listens to advice, this is enough.
Later, Zhu Hetan was indeed in good health for a long time, and his life span was much longer than that of his father, and only slightly shorter than that of his grandfather.
It seems that during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, this kind of situation where the ancestors and grandchildren all lived long, and the middle generation was relatively short-lived, would happen many times. This was the case with Jiajing and Wanli. They both reigned for more than 40 years, but Longqing was not long in the middle. The same happened with Kangxi and Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty.
They were all over sixty years old, and Yongzheng was only ten years old in the middle.
Zhu Shuren and Zhu Hetan seem to have been perfectly stuck and missed the trajectory of Kangqian in another time and space.
Zhu Hetan finally lived to be ninety years old before his death, and his life span exceeded Qianlong's life by one year. However, he did not reign for sixty-six years until the last moment of his life.
Because he listened to a piece of advice given to him by his grandfather, saying: "Since ancient times, there have been too many heroes, such as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. If they had abdicated a few years before they became old and faint, they would not have caused great disaster to the people of the world." .
In addition, the research of the Daming Academy of Sciences has been very comprehensive in recent years, and it has also been involved in a lot of medicine. Although it has not advanced to the level of modern medicine, with the support of Zhu Shuren's personal research direction, the academicians of the Daming Academy of Sciences have still made clinical comparisons. The existence of "Alzheimer's disease" was confirmed.
In addition, Zhu Shuren himself also set an example. After his eightieth birthday, he completely retreated into seclusion, completely ignored political affairs, and did not even listen to daily advisory reports.
This role model also made Zhu Hetan respect him very much, and finally established the iron rule that "when the emperor reaches the age of seventy, he must supervise the country and assist in the affairs of the state, and when he reaches the age of eighty, he must abdicate and become the emperor."
Obviously, what Zhu Hetan did was quite similar to Qianlong in parallel time and space who felt that "the reign time should not exceed that of the Holy Ancestor". His grandfather Zhu Shuren completely handed over power when he was eighty years old, and he must also completely hand over power.
But this can be regarded as a mistake, because later the Ming Dynasty avoided the problem of "many heroes have unclear minds in their later years, and the harm in a few years is greater than the accumulation of smart and heroic weapons in the previous decades", which can be regarded as a benefit to all generations.
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In the hands of a heroic emperor who knew how to advance and retreat, and who could delegate power, Zhu Hetan obviously brought about further colonial expansion of the Ming Dynasty during his years of reign, and completed the industrial destiny.
After all, three years before his father's death, Robert Hooke had already built a complete Watt steam engine, and also selected two technical routes: "partially water-saving type" and "partially coal-saving type". Newton also developed Established Leton bottles and lightning rods, and used lightning rods to mass-produce permanent magnets.
With so many preliminary scientific research results, it is simply too easy to induce subsequent scholars to develop how to put steam engines on locomotives or seagoing ships.
Historically, it took 20 years from Watt to move the steam engine onto a sea ship and build the first experimental steamship. It took 27 years to build the first steam engine locomotive.
But now in the Ming Dynasty, due to the tendency of induction and integration, the funding and promotion of the imperial research and development funds can greatly shorten the wasted time of scientists looking for money, investments and laboratories.
Therefore, these tasks can actually be completed within more than ten years.
In the first ten years after Zhu Hetan ascended the throne, while his grandfather was still alive at the time, Ming Dynasty built the first prototype test machine of steam ship and steam locomotive.
Of course, in history, it would take another twenty or thirty years from the birth of the prototype to the final promotion and application. This is because the performance of the original steamship was really bad, and the original steamship was not as good as the peak clipper sailboat. At the same time, In the early days of science and technology, steam locomotives were not as fast as horse-drawn carriages.
This is normal. After any new generation of technology appears, its original baby model will not be as good as the pinnacle of the old era technology.
Just like in later World War II, some people said that the P51 Mustang, the pinnacle of piston fighters, could defeat the German ME262, the pioneering jet fighter, in combat battles.
Therefore, it was only in the 20s to 30s of Concordia that the performance of steamships and steam locomotives developed to the point where they could equal that of sailing ships and horse-drawn carriages.
But in any case, Zhu Hetan was lucky. During his reign, he completely caught up with the take-off period of the industrial revolution.
The sourness can be compared to the British Victorian era in Western history - Victoria's tenure, but it happened to coincide with the period when the British's industrial prosperity was soaring at full speed to the first half of the second industrial revolution.
He ascended the throne at the age of eighteen and lived to be eighty-two years old, reigning for a total of sixty-four years.
Now Zhu Hetan ascended the throne at the age of twenty-five and reigned for sixty-six years until he was ninety. Moreover, the development of science and technology and industry has become more concentrated and brilliant.
The huge explosion of productivity caused the total population of the Ming Dynasty to quadruple in sixty-six years from 167 million when Zhu Hetan came to the throne, which is terrifying.
By the end of the Union, the population of the Ming Dynasty reached a terrifying 650 million. Fortunately, the population absorbed by industry reached more than 250 million, and the peasant population was controlled within 400 million, so that the Qing Dynasty did not suffer the consequences of the same period in history.
In that case, there will be trouble because there is too little cultivated land.
During Zhu Hetan's reign, the only external use of troops was to completely destroy the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam, which was treacherous. This was mainly because the Vietnamese were ignorant and kept using their own reign titles internally, which was tantamount to conspiracy.
In the tributary system of ancient China, it was okay for neighboring countries to call themselves kings, but they could not use their own reign names. If they used reign names, they would not recognize Zhengshuo of the Central Plains, and would destroy them by treason and fighting for Zhengshuo.
The Vietnamese actually had their own dynasty as early as the Le Dynasty. When the Nguyen Dynasty was first established, they tolerated it for a while, but it may be that the Vietnamese have always regarded themselves as "Little China" and "the continuing successor of Chinese orthodoxy after the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty."
, if you insist on being orthodox, then there is nothing to say. This contradiction is more irreconcilable than the Fuso people, and can only be completely eliminated.
Therefore, the Mekong Delta and other fertile fields in Southeast Asia were taken directly to you. There was no Laos or Cambodia in this era, so all the places conquered by Vietnam were conquered for the second time.
However, Eastern Myanmar in Southeast Asia did not survive and had a conflict with Siam. Later, it was destroyed and swallowed up by the Ming army. Only Western Myanmar in the Arakan Mountains and Siam around the Bangkok Basin still existed. They were all against
The vassal states that became vassals of the Ming Dynasty would never dare to commit the crime of using their own reign names again.
After Vietnam was completely destroyed, there was no need to use troops in other parts of Southeast Asia.
The Lanfang Kingdom in Borneo was directly founded by the survivors of Fujian and Chaoshan to escape the wars during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. When the Ming Dynasty became stronger, these Han countries directly surrendered.
Wen Lai is a country with an ancient civilization, and there is nothing wrong with it. Let them stay and let them find some more mountainous areas on the island of Borneo to exist and pay tribute every year.
After all, the Ming Dynasty is not a demon, and it will not destroy and annex its subordinate states, which have always been timid and respectful, for no reason.
In the Sumatra region that was rich in Palembang oil fields in later generations, there were small city-states established by Dutch colonists and Fujian pirate survivors. Since the Ming Dynasty needed to open an east-west sea route, it directly accepted Sumatra and Malacca.
If there are any extra farmers who have no land and need to colonize other countries, then throw them to Australia.
Finally, during the sixty-six years of Zhu Hetan's reign, Australia alone had more than 10 million peasants who had lost their land and refused to work, and the court gave them a ship ticket. New Zealand also had 200
Come to ten thousand.
Many other unclaimed lands in the Pacific have also been developed on their own in a commercial manner based on the principle of private voluntary action.
There were even poor people who went to California, Oregon, Seattle and other West Coast areas of the Americas in later generations, north of Mexico on the other side of the ocean, to pioneer gold mining. These were also private business activities and had nothing to do with the decision-making of the Ming Dynasty court.
Fortunately, due to the pressure of the industrialization process and the progress of science and education in the Ming Dynasty, the people's literacy was quite good, and women were more or less literate and could add, subtract, multiply and divide.
In Zhu Hetan's sixty-six years, the Ming Dynasty's education and national quality have made leaps and bounds, and they are not at all faster than the progress of industry. After urbanization, industrialization, and women's literacy, the population will not grow so fast.
, don’t worry that after there are 600 million people on the East Asian continent, it will continue to expand and explode. Occasionally, if there are more people, then spontaneously encourage emigration.