Ming Dynasty: Traveling through the harem, Zhu Yuanzhang was dumbfounded

Chapter 225: Tenfold Gain from Ming Dynasty National Debt

The West had to spare the minorities in the Sichuan-Tibet region because the Ming soldiers could not withstand the altitude sickness for the time being. However, Zhu Yuanzhang had already sent a troop to the high-altitude areas of Sichuan to adapt to the altitude sickness.

Once this force is trained, it will be time for them to take over the Sichuan-Tibet region.

As for the eastern region, it goes without saying that the entire Japan became their territory.

Japan completely became the blood bank of the Ming Dynasty. Whenever the Ming Dynasty was short of money, it would continuously transport refined rare metal ores from this place.

Zhu Biao stood in front of all the ministers and directly ordered Yang Siyi to come out and speak.

"Minister Yang, I don't know how much money the Ming Dynasty treasury has now. As the direct manager of the treasury, why don't you come out and tell us directly?"

How much money a country has in its treasury determines how long the dynasty can manage its officials and people.

Yang Siyi put on a smile and hurriedly walked out of the crowd.

He was accompanied by two subordinates who were there to settle accounts.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! According to the gold and silver General Lan brought back from Japan this time, the Ming Dynasty treasury currently has a total of nearly 300 million taels of silver in stock.

These silver revenues can support the Ming Dynasty for the next ten years! Even if the Ming Dynasty does nothing and has no income, these silver reserves are enough for us to use for ten years without any harm.

Your Majesty! Prince! It can be said that this is the most prosperous period that the Ming Dynasty has ever experienced.

If we can have more and more silver in the future, then the Ming Dynasty will become the strongest in the Hongwu era!"

hiss!
"Long live the Ming Dynasty! Long live the Ming Dynasty!"

"Great! I said at the beginning that buying Ming Dynasty bonds was the right choice. Look, I bought Ming Dynasty bonds with 100 taels of silver, and now it has increased tenfold! Ten times!"

"Tsk! It was you who said that buying Ming Dynasty bonds was useless, and I almost believed you. Fortunately, I also spent money to buy Ming Dynasty bonds worth 500 taels of silver, and now I have earned 5,000 taels of silver!"

"What! You want to buy five hundred taels? You are really cruel!"

The ministers were discussing the matter heatedly, and all of them were thankful that they had spent money to buy so many Ming Dynasty bonds a year ago. The rate of return they were getting now was at a level they had never dared to imagine.

"Your Majesty! According to my calculations, it will only take another half a year for the Ming Dynasty's money shortage and silver banknote depreciation to completely disappear. In addition, Korea, Japan, and Mongolia have added a lot of territory to the Ming Dynasty. Now, all of these locations can be converted into cultivated land. As long as the Ming Dynasty's excellent seeds are spread there, there will be no more food shortages in the future."

Yang Siyi continued to speak.

According to his prediction, the Ming Dynasty is now very powerful and can support a military force of nearly five million people.

It would definitely be impossible to rely solely on the Han people of the Ming Dynasty.

But now, there are still nomadic peoples in many Mongolian areas. They see modern houses built on the border that can shelter them from wind and rain, which are many times better than the felt houses they live in.

Moreover, many times, these nomadic peoples could even see that the walls built by the Ming Dynasty on the border were very strong, so they did not need to worry about their harassment at all.

From this point, we can judge that the national strength of the Ming Dynasty has become much stronger.

Although most nomadic peoples have reverted to their original roots over the years and have forgotten the civilization that the Han people once brought to them, there are still many smart people who have judged that the Ming Dynasty had already been reborn.

As a result, many Mongols began to take the initiative to join the Ming Dynasty.

They were called traitors among the Mongols.

Just like Kublai Khan did in the past, he led the Han people to the Mongolian territory to massacre his own Anda.

However, they had no idea that the Ming Dynasty not only did not discriminate against these refugees from Mongolia, but even gave them enough face.

The children were given free education, and houses and food for the winter were distributed.

Zhenjiang Prefecture has now officially become the only special city of the future in Ming Dynasty.

The emergence of the steam engine caused many people in the society who had already had this idea to voluntarily go to Zhenjiang Prefecture.

So Yang Chen forced the Ming Dynasty, which was supposed to have no steam engines, to build several large steam engines.

Why large?

Because there was no such thing as rubber, the small steam engine was not airtight enough and started to leak air while running.

All in all, the current national strength of the Ming Dynasty is so strong.

Far beyond any previous feudal dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang took off happily amid the cheers of his ministers.

Lan Yu was directly awarded several titles and honors. Although his titles were already very high at the moment, no one would hate having many titles.

"Good! Minister Yang is absolutely right. Now the Ming Dynasty is getting stronger and stronger. I heard that there is a country called Moscow in the extremely cold land in the north. This place contains very fertile minerals. I think that the territory of the Ming Dynasty should be expanded indefinitely. If such a perfect territory is not under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty, it will be a great loss.

We have decided to launch a general attack on this place. What do you think? "

The Far North is the Soviet Union that later made the whole of Europe tremble.

Of course, this place is not called the Soviet Union now, but is occupied by Nordic countries such as Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and the Bolshoi Moscow Park. The Bolshoi Moscow Park is just north of the Ming Dynasty.

The king who ruled this land was called Dmitri Donskoy.

The entire Moscow Park was under his control, and according to the latest news, Dmitry Donskoy led an army of 100,000 and successfully defeated a Mongolian army in Kulikovo in the far north.

It was the victory of this battle that allowed Dmitry Donskoy to successfully marry the former king's daughter Yevdokia as a general.

At present, the Great Moscow Park owns a lot of territory, because many small countries in Northern Europe live in castles and have no ambition to fight for the world.

Ever since Dmitry Donskoy, the former king who succeeded the current king, defeated the Mongolian army, which was known as the Scourge of God and could not be defeated, his ambition began to expand extremely.

Nowadays, Moscow has begun to have conflicts with many small countries in Europe. It is precisely because of this that the Ming Dynasty has the opportunity to take over the Russian primeval forest.

I believe that before long, the Grand Dukes and Kings of Moscow and St. Petersburg will discover that the Ming Dynasty has taken advantage of their inattention to encroach on their territories in the east.

As for why the primeval forest had to be taken over, it was entirely because the North Sea in the Shanhaijing, which is also the deepest inland lake in the world, Lake Baikal, returned to the control of the Han people.

Now, in addition to a few Mongolians in the Ming army, there are also many white people. These people are all Caucasians living near Lake Baikal.

The main characteristics of this race are light skin, soft wavy hair, well-developed beards and body hair on men, narrow and high nose, thin lips, straight jaw, and clear facial contours.

The current state of civilization of these people is just beginning, from the tribal civilization of eating raw meat and blood to the united civilization of knowing how to build castles.

All this is due to the appearance of Dmitry Donskoy.

Why was he able to rely on the castle to defeat the Mongols who were defeated by the Ming army from the Mongolian grasslands? It was because he knew how to make the wooden walls at the border of the city and the stone walls of the century-old city.

Through this discovery, Yang Chen made a judgment to Zhu Biao that Europe’s overall strength was very weak and it was no match for the Ming Dynasty at all. As long as the Ming Dynasty took action, this piece of land would definitely be taken over by the Ming Dynasty.

That's why Zhu Yuanzhang made this suggestion.

Of course, the main reason is the pristine steppe timber near Lake Baikal.

Since the invention of the steam engine in Zhenjiang Prefecture, the evolution of horse-drawn carriages into steam-powered trains has become a matter of course.

Then the consumption rate of natural resources such as coal will naturally increase by several levels.

Originally, he was thinking of cutting down all the wood in the wilderness of the Ming Dynasty, using coal kilns to prevent the wood from burning completely, and finally forming artificial coal.

However, once they start to attack the wood in the Ming Dynasty itself, the Ming Dynasty will not be able to survive any disasters in the future.

According to the current productivity of the Ming Dynasty, the coal underground was not enough to support the use of steam engines, not to mention how inefficient manual coal mining was before the emergence of some equipment.

For this reason, Yang Chen turned his attention to the primeval forest around Lake Baikal in the north.

The Europeans in the Ming army were also discovered at that time.

Originally, Zhu Di wanted to kill all these people at once, but Yang Chen repeatedly reminded him that if they encountered these strange races, they did not need to kill them all for the time being.

The resistance of a few people does not mean that everyone is a rebel.

So Zhu Di did as Yang Chen said and killed all those who wanted to resist. The remaining people were basically men, who were in the minority, and women, who were in the majority. Most of the men were minors, and were babies in swaddling clothes.

Zhu Yuanzhang's proposal quickly gained the support of many people.

"Your Majesty! I believe that as the Ming Dynasty grows stronger, the descendants will surely have many children and be blessed. At present, the Ming Dynasty has a population of 50 million. If there are 50 million people in the future, the current small territory will definitely not be enough to support so many descendants.

Therefore, I believe that the Ming Dynasty cannot afford to delay the expansion of its territory and must conquer foreign countries as quickly as possible! "

"That's right! I also think that the Ming Dynasty must show its fangs.

In the past, the Ming Dynasty was not strong enough and was bullied by the Mongols. Now that the Ming Dynasty has enough strength, if we do not expand our territory, our descendants will definitely blame us! "

"Biao'er, what do you think?" Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Biao and finally gave the decision to him.

"I think he should be killed! The Ming army is strong now, with railroad carriages, and can transport troops to Xinjiang and the vicinity of Lake Baikal.

Taking this opportunity, the Ming Dynasty could dispatch a large number of military forces to launch a blitzkrieg towards the heartland of European countries, and kill the Golden Horde, the Timurid Khanate, and various small Mongolian tribal khanates as quickly as possible.

By fighting to support the war, the military strength of the younger generation of the Ming Dynasty will increase rapidly, and combined with actual combat, the strength of the Ming Dynasty will be taken to a higher level! "

Zhu Biao's decision excited all the officials in the morning court.

Taichang, Guanglu Xun, Weiwei, Taipu, Tingwei, Dahonglu, Zongzheng, Da Si Nong, Shaofu, the six ministries and three officials, as well as all the officials present knew that the opportunity to make a fortune had come again!

That's right!

Ever since Zhu Biao discovered that issuing treasury bonds was a good way to recover the previous treasure notes, every time the Ming Dynasty launched a war, he would spread the news throughout the Ming Dynasty, telling everyone that the people's opportunity to make a fortune was coming again.

As long as you are willing to spend a lot of money to buy Ming Dynasty bonds.

After the war, people can get real money. It is such a good opportunity to make money that people are unwilling to miss it.

Not only the officials, but also the common people and even the businessmen wanted to express their attitude to the court.

They united at all costs to form a union and spent huge sums of money to buy the bonds in the hands of the people.

All in all, this not only reduced the rate of depreciation of the Ming Dynasty's treasure notes, but also made everyone make money.

There is only one way to make this situation collapse, and that is for the Ming Dynasty to lose the war it launched outside.

Unfortunately, given the current situation, it is completely impossible to make the Ming Dynasty lose the war.

Mortars and cannons with a range of five kilometers have been developed and deployed in the navy and the army. Unless other countries can also possess so many technological weapons, it is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to lose.

"What do you think, gentlemen, of what the prince said?" Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and asked for the opinions of all the officials.

"I believe that what the Crown Prince said is extremely true! It's time for the Ming Dynasty to show its fangs!"

"That's right! All other countries are barbaric. Some time ago, the Europeans in our Ming army were still living a life of eating raw meat and eating blood. If it weren't for the Ming Dynasty bringing them civilization, I'm afraid these people would still be living a miserable life. They should be grateful to us for this.

In the future, when the Ming Dynasty goes on foreign expeditions, there will be many casualties, but the sins are committed in this era, and the merits will last for generations to come. Moreover, everything the Ming Dynasty does is for the sake of civilization, and there is nothing wrong with what we do!"

"Long live the Ming Dynasty! The Ming Dynasty is mighty! The Ming Dynasty will be passed down through the ages!"

The ministers below were howling in joy, but Zhu Biao was filled with joy and relief.

Seeing that all the officials were so excited, he seemed to have seen how far the Ming Dynasty could go in the future?
"Where is the Minister of War?" Zhu Biao's voice was loud and clear.

A middle-aged man soon came out from among the officials below.

"I'm here!" In the 13th year of Hongwu, Chen Ning was the Minister of War of the Ming Dynasty.

Chen Ning is also an old official.

When Zhu Yuanzhang was still the king, he had already followed Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the world.

Those turbulent years made Chen Ning very loyal to Zhu Yuanzhang, and he was also one of the few ministers of the Ming Dynasty who had a good end.

"Minister Chen, I, the Crown Prince, will discuss with the Five Military Commands Office and produce a combat report on the Northern Expedition within three days. Send it to my office on the fourth morning."

"I understand!" Chen Ning bowed and nodded, knowing what his next task was.

As for why Zhu Biao said "combat report" and "office" and other words that do not belong to this era, that was all Yang Chen's doing.

Living in Zhenjiang Prefecture, Yang Chen has begun to implement the institutional custom of cutting hair short, and at the same time has incorporated many modern things into his life.

For example, in his opinion, an office is an office and a study is a study, and the two cannot be confused.

As a result, many incomprehensible words were brought to the Ming Dynasty by him.

Zhu Biao thought it was very reasonable and used it directly.

(End of this chapter)