Dimensional Invasion of the Real Earth

1419. Conquest of Japan

Zhang Liang's letter of proposal also means that the Ming Empire began to change from the initial industrial experiment to the deep-seated social system of the Ming Empire.

Here, we have to be thankful that Liu Hao evolved many future histories in Zhu Di's mind, otherwise he would not have been able to convince Zhu Di so smoothly.

You must know that a business system that has lasted for thousands of years is not easy to change. How can the vested interests be willing to cut off their flesh and blood? Isn’t thirty taxes a good idea? Zhu Yuanzhang personally nodded this, and he has an absolute excuse, right?

This battle is destined not to be easy, but it is also destined to be carried out, and Zhu Di will never choose to compromise.

Liu Hao does not pay attention to these. He is now focusing more on Zheng He. This guy has now brought the fleet into the Malacca area. In two months, it will be time to log into the Ming Empire. This also means that the Ming Dynasty The empire's foreign policy is about to undergo a complete change, which will inevitably make the Ming Empire become more aggressive.

The emergence of the Industrial Revolution originally meant the great liberation of productivity, and it also meant that countless commodities were about to come onto the stage. The Ming Empire had a vast territory, but there would always be an end. When the time comes, there will inevitably be a backlog of commodities, and there will be a backlog of commodities. We must find a way out, which is just the difference between active and passive.

Instead of waiting until you have to make a choice in the future, it is better to embark on this path from the beginning. Once you taste the sweetness of this path, the entire Ming Empire will become accustomed to it, and it will completely change the original 'Outer Saint and Inner King' 's thinking has completely transformed towards 'the outer king and the inner sage'.

The latter is Liu Hao's firm thought from beginning to end, and it is also the fundamental reason why he is willing to continue to stay in the glorious world of Ming Dynasty to this day.

Liu Hao still looked down upon Zhu Di. He had been on the throne of the emperor for so long, how could he not know the emperor's intentions?

He knew that the commercial and tax reform would inevitably be opposed by the entire court. Strong suppression was not impossible, but that would inevitably interrupt the good situation that had finally emerged. He thought for a long time and finally thought of the best solution. plan.

To put it bluntly, it's just a compromise.

To be more straightforward, Zhu Di wants to get this piece of fat, but he must also throw another piece of fat for the ministers to enjoy.

This piece of fat thrown out was also fatal to the ministers of the Ming Empire.

One is a large-scale salary increase, and the other is a large-scale introduction of officials.

There is no need to say much about the former, but the latter is to set up more departments and increase the number of officials from the capital to the localities.

Even in order to make the ministers of the DPRK more excited, Zhu Di directly increased the number of cabinet ministers from the original three to seven. In addition, he set up a military aircraft that would only appear in the Qing Dynasty. at.

I have to say that the temptation is big enough.

In fact, Zhu Di knew best that even if he did not sell this piece of fat today, he would have to add more court departments in the future, because with the emergence of the industrial revolution, these officials in the capital of the Ming Empire were no longer enough.

Zhu Di wanted to learn from the institutional structure of the future modern world, but he could only think about it. He also knew that it was not suitable for his current Ming Empire, but it did not prevent him from choosing some departments to establish in the Ming Empire.

For example, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Construction, or the original Ministry of Household Affairs was split and the Ministry of Agriculture was listed separately.

At the local level, he knew more clearly that he had to make large-scale changes, and to put everything on one county magistrate, that is, to completely entrust the land of a county to one county magistrate himself;

No matter how good the county magistrate is, it is impossible to cover everything. If the county magistrate is unqualified, such as corruption, then the disaster brought to this county must be terrible, and it is definitely not something that the Ming Empire can bear. of.

Therefore, Zhu Di directly introduced the courts and the police department at the local level, and then selected some of the Jinyi guards who were originally sent to the local areas to select some of the personnel who were about to retire or needed to retire, and established a real supervisory department. Overtly and covertly, the local officials of the Ming Empire were monitored in a true sense.

He decided to set up real subordinate officials for county magistrates, truly incorporate these subordinate officials into the ranks of officials and achieve their grades;

For example, Zhu Di decided to add additional county magistrates to the original county magistrates, which meant that these county magistrates would have their own names and the additional county magistrates would each be responsible for a set of things, such as agriculture in a county, commerce in a county, etc., so as to be more able to Check and balance the original county magistrate.

Did he know that once he truly has power in his hands, even if these county magistrates and magistrates were already one and the same, they will inevitably go into opposition due to the sharing of power to achieve the balance that Zhu Di really wants.

A county is like this, a prefecture is like this, and a province is also like this.

In addition, Zhu Di also wanted to continue this "compromise" with court officials to separate the military and political affairs in a true sense and lay a solid foundation for the subsequent reform of military commanders.

Having seen the military structure of the modern world in the future, Zhu Di now finds the military generals of his own Ming Empire distasteful. There are various generals who sound like they want to be, but most of them can only live up to their name.

More importantly, Zhu Di still had to guard against these generals, that is, he wanted to maximize the combat effectiveness of these generals in the future, but he also had to worry about whether they would rebel if they had soldiers and horses in the future. Once the system was reorganized, this situation would It may still exist, but it will definitely be reduced by countless amounts. I don’t have to worry about it all, but it’s not much different.

Zhu Di felt that as long as he completed this matter, his Ming Empire would truly have a foundation for development, and he would no longer have to worry about those silly things, and would give his Ming Empire wings to fly in the future.

Liu Hao, who realized later, only got the news after Zhu Di consulted with Liu Bang and Zhang Liang, and had to give Zhu Di a thumbs up in his heart.

"It's hard for the emperor to sit down!"

Liu Hao only gave this description: It is even more difficult to be a good emperor, and it is not easy to be alone;

If Liu Bang and Zhang Liang hadn't arrived, Zhu Di wouldn't have even one person to discuss it with, because even if he discussed it with his three sons, the news would probably have reached the ears of hundreds of officials that day, and by then, all the calculations would probably have come true. Empty.

In fact, Zhu Di brought these matters to Liu Bang and Zhang Liang for discussion. Wasn't this a spur to Liu Bang and Zhang Liang?

It is rare to participate in a country's political affairs, let alone to designate a country's future national policy. Isn't this an experiment for Liu Bang and Zhang Liang to establish their own powerful men in the future?

They know better what the future of the Ming Empire will be like once Zhu Di implements this national policy.

Don't think that Liu Bang and Zhang Liang are helping Zhu Di's Ming Empire at this time. In the future, the Han Empire they established will not compete with Zhu Di's Ming Empire. How is that possible?

They are all proud people. Why would Liu Bang want the Han Empire he established to lag behind Zhu Di's Ming Empire in the future?

In Liu Bang's view, he would have to compete with Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Empire, in the future;

But now it seems that even Zhu Yuanzhang's son Zhu Di has far surpassed him. This heavy pressure is quite a lot, and it also makes Liu Bang and Zhang Liang secretly determined to make the Han Empire they established surpass them in the future. .

The two of them also believe that with this experiment in the Ming Dynasty, when they establish the Han Empire in the future, it will only be better, because they have also explored what they need to explore, and they are more confident in their hearts.

In February, Zheng He's fleet landed at Quanzhou Port. But as soon as he logged in, he got the news about the construction of Tianjin Wei Port. This news made Zheng He extremely happy. He felt that this was a big signal, and it was also his. The greatest support for the pioneers of great voyages.

This prevented Zheng He from staying in Quanzhou Port for long. After continuing north, he discovered that the entire Ming Empire had completely changed.

His Zheng He treasure ship used to be the absolute top ship in the Ming Empire and in the entire world, but now, he found that the further north he walked, the more frequent he encountered behemoths.

What Zheng He saw was naturally a thousand-ton fishing boat produced by Tianjin Wei Shipyard. As an expert, what Zheng He valued more was speed and a power system that did not require human operation. He did not know that Tianjin Wei had already prepared it for him at this time. The new ship is waiting for his return to conduct sea trials, and the direction is naturally towards the Japanese country.

Zhu Di has been thinking about "Shi Jian Yin Shan" for a long time. Ji Gang has already given Zhu Di accurate information, and the excuse is ready. The Ming Empire has suffered from these Japanese pirates along the coast for a long time, and now is the time to establish its power.

Moreover, the scale of this expedition even exceeded Liu Hao's expectations, and it felt like killing a chicken with a knife.

Zhu Di's plan, Liu Hao could more or less guess, was nothing more than to completely eliminate the hidden danger of Japanese pirates with the power of thunder, freeing up his hands to conquer the larger outer sea. In addition, there was also a thought of training troops hidden in it.

Zhu Di naturally saw a lot of naval battles among the many information Liu Hao gave in the demonstration, but there was almost no one in the entire Ming Empire who truly participated intuitively. In the past, the Ming Empire was more of a navy than a navy. Suitable for some.

But it has to be said that Zhu Di is also lucky. He has Zheng He, a true navigation expert, who already knows the temperament of the sea very well, and it is nothing more than spending a little effort to get familiar with it.

Even Liu Bang and Zhang Liang were very jealous of these. During this period of time, they knew very well that training in the navy was not easy, and they knew even more that the training of talents was not achieved overnight. It took countless time to truly participate in it, then become familiar with it, and finally Only then can one truly become a qualified seaman.

The two of them don't know what kind of world Liu Hao will let them take over in the future, but one thing they can guess is that the world they will take over is probably a chaotic era, and they need to personally clean up the mess. In such an era, Maybe talent will explode, but it will definitely take a lot of time to recover.

This is why they are very envious of Zhu Di. As long as you pacify him, the key is that there is no shortage of talents. How can this be true?

It's just that Liu Bang and Zhang Liang still don't know the nature of the entanglement of cause and effect. They spent a lot of time helping Zhu Di today. Even if their starting point was just to verify what they had learned in the past, they brought real benefits to Zhu Di and the Ming Empire. .

Zhu Di will also need to repay this benefit in the future, and the Ming Empire will also need to repay it.

It's just that it's hard to determine the period of repayment, and it's hard to decide whether it's a timely help.

Maybe that day, after Zhu Di learned about the world controlled by Liu Bang, he would also send Zheng He to train their navy?

Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty, personally helped Zhu Di's Ming Empire. If the Ming Empire in any future world knows about it, it must recognize this favor and give it full respect.

In other words, the Ming Empire in the future is likely to have an even more irreconcilable relationship with the Han Empire.

For example, promoting common development, signing fewer tariffs, technical support, etc.

If they are helping Zhu Di, why not help themselves in the future?

Of course, this is something to talk about later, let’s not mention it for now, just talk about it now. When Zheng He returned to Tianjin Wei, there were naturally loud gongs and drums and firecrackers. Zhu Di even led hundreds of officials to personally welcome him. Any officials in the entire Ming Empire knew that Next, the first naval commander-in-chief of the Ming Empire could only be Zheng Heye.

During this period of time, among the officials, many senior officials saw the power of the new firearms and saw the artillery installed on the battleships. How could they not understand Zhu Di's mood?

This was even more true in the cabinet. Zhu Di also appropriately revealed a bit of information, such as showing a map of the world, pointing at the Australian continent and shouting that it was a no-owner's land, which was almost the same area as the Ming Empire. In mainland China, any smart person knows how to choose.

The unity of the cabinet also means that officials will not show signs of lagging behind in the next national policy.

Furthermore, the Ming Empire is really rich now. Commercial taxes have been raised. In the past few months, the tax revenue contributed by the light workshop cluster to the Ming Empire has exceeded ten million taels of silver dollars. They can't wait to start a big fight. .

When the people of the capital were still immersed in the capital zoo established by Zhu Di, they did not know that Zheng He, the chief official who contributed these animals, had gone to sea again;

But this time, it was very low-key, and the number of people it could carry far exceeded the previous times. Among the casual people, there was even a living king of hell like Ji Gang.

Zhu Di is definitely a ruthless person. When he saw that one of the four major islands of Japan actually used "Kyushu" as its place name, he already had an idea. Since you are willing to call it that, it can only be the inherent land of Kyushu. Can.

He also had to be anxious, because the newly minted silver coins in the Ming Empire were so popular that the entire Ming Empire was short of silver, and he could no longer wait any longer.