My Daming New Empire

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If you don't obey, you will be beaten, and even the country will be destroyed. Even the Papal Kingdom dare not say a word in front of Daming.

In July, after reaching a preliminary agreement, all the participants boarded the large cruise ship prepared by Daming and embarked on a pilgrimage to Daming.

There are more than 300 kingdoms, grand duchies, and city-states that have sent representatives. These [-], [-] people are all representatives of various countries, and even the ruler himself.

However, even the ruler is regarded as an ordinary guest in Daming, and even if the king visits in person, he cannot bring more than ten people.

Therefore, after compression, only 300 people came to Daming.

They set off from Crete, passed through the Suez Canal dug by Ming Dynasty, and came to the Red Sea.Then along the coast, past Horumos, to India.

When they arrived in India, Europe was already shocked by the prosperity here.

Countries in India, including Ceylon, have participated in the development of Ming Dynasty in recent years, which has driven the local economy to take off.

Moreover, the areas that the fleet passed through were also carefully selected typical.

Kochi has developed into a famous trade center in South Asia, Goa is a mining center, and Ceylon is a country of gems. Rice cultivation here is also very developed, with three crops a year.

And when they came to the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra, which were included in the mainland of Ming Dynasty, they felt the gap between Europe and Ming even more.

The Malay Peninsula and Sumatra are Daming’s rubber plantation bases, and Sumatra is also Daming’s oil center. It has been found that 20 Japanese and Korean laborers contributed to Daming here.

On both sides of the Strait of Malacca, ports can be seen everywhere, especially those chemical plants, which stunned Europeans who had never seen the scale of modern industrial clusters.

The tall towers and pipelines of the refinery that stretched for several miles made this place a future world.

Sumatra Island and Borneo are the oil centers of Daming. In Daming itself, there is no oil development and exploration at all. Even minerals are gradually starting to use imported raw materials.

Copper from Dongzhou, iron from Nanzhou, large factories were built by the sea, and the finished products were shipped to Daming.

Like Kuwait in the later generations, it is already the naval station of Ming Dynasty. In the future, after the oil development in Sumatra is completed, there will be oil in Kuwait that can be developed.

And the further back, the more prosperous the area the fleet arrived at. When the fleet arrived in Annan, they saw that the grain was transported to the north, and the size of any fleet far exceeded all fleets in Europe. In sum, they fully realized the gap between themselves and Daming.

In their country, it takes only a few days to walk, but in Da Ming, it takes several months to sail at full speed.

This is not only the size of the site, but also the huge gap in overall development.

When the fleet arrived in Quanzhou, these high-ranking officials and nobles in Europe saw the real prosperity. Those tall buildings rising tens of meters made them astonished beyond words.

Glass, which is priceless in Europe, is just a common material for building houses in Daming.

Historically, the inventors of glass mirrors, the Dal Carlo brothers, once sold a book-sized mirror for 15 francs.

Now that the two brothers have not been born yet, naturally there will be no such story.

Daming has already sold a large number of mirrors in Europe, but in Europe, mirrors are still considered a luxury.

Seeing this scene in front of them, these Europeans have already begun to become numb.

A little behind can still catch up, but now, this gap is so big that they doubt life.

When the fleet finally arrived at Yingtianfu, they were shocked once again when they saw the scale of the city stretching for dozens of miles and passing the huge water bridge.

Zhu Zhanji, who came from later generations, paid great attention to reserving the navigation capacity of the Yangtze River, so he requested that the area below Yingtianfu not be allowed to build a permanent bridge. In the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, only Yingtianfu built a huge bridge.

How big is this bridge?

The concrete used for the bridge piers alone reached 200 million square meters, each of which is huge, and more than 30 tons of steel were used.

The water surface height of the bridge has reached 40 meters. The lower floor can pass trains, and the upper floor is a two-way six-lane car and carriage lane.

The construction of the entire bridge took more than ten years, starting from the second year of Zhengtong, and it was not fully completed until the 14th year of Zhengtong.

In order to build this bridge, Maanshang Iron and Steel Works, including several cement plants around Yingtianfu, started construction for this bridge.

Over the past ten years, more than 300 workers have started work, and when the piers were cast, more than [-] people died.

All the ministries of the imperial court were very opposed to this project at the beginning, and even the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry believed that it was completely unnecessary to build the bridge so high and so large.

But this time is the first time that Zhu Zhanji has insisted on going his own way and insisted on implementing the whole plan, requiring that the height of the lower deck of the bridge must be higher than 40 meters from the water surface.

In order to achieve this goal, when the technical level is not as good as that of later generations, it can only be filled with more materials.The concrete and steel used in this bridge are more than five times that of the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge in later generations, so it meets Zhu Zhanji's requirements.

Such a large project is 40 meters above the water surface, not to mention the current [-]-ton giant ship, or the [-]-ton giant ship of later generations, there is no problem in passing.

Of course, it will not be bridges that will limit the tonnage of ships, but the depth of the Yangtze River.

Such a huge project, when the bridge was first built, many people did not dare to go on the bridge.These little Europeans, seeing this bridge, the only feeling is shock.

On the contrary, because the books introducing Daming frequently included introductions of cars and trains, they were not so shocked when they saw Daming's trains.

These people were arranged by Honglu Temple to live in the State Guesthouse under Xuanwu Lake and Zijin Mountain. This is the largest hotel built by the Ming Dynasty, with more than 500 rooms, and can accommodate more than [-] people at the same time.

They will receive the audience training at Honglu Temple here, and they will be summoned by Zhu Zhanji after the training is over.

Of course, Yang Zhihe and Yongheng didn't need to wait. After they disembarked, they were taken to the palace by a convoy.

Although he didn't feel very good about Yang Shiqi, Zhu Zhanji admired Yang Dao, Yang Zhihe and his father and son very much.

Yang Dao acted prudently and never got involved in any power struggles, and he never compromised regardless of any prince's wooing.

So Zhu Zhanji has always let him governor Dongzhou Navy, never doubting.

Compared with Yang Dao, Yang Zhihe is better than blue.His mother, Xie Zhenfang, is a famous talented woman. He was taught by her mother since he was a child, and he has always performed outstandingly in the young army.

After he graduated, he was directly arranged by Zhu Zhanji to join the staff of the Ministry of National Defense. He showed unparalleled talent in military strategy, national policy, and tactics.

After several years of polishing, Zhu Zhanji assigned him to his young army. He built the young army into the strongest army in Ming Dynasty, and then Zhu Zhanji sent him to Gibraltar to be responsible for curbing the expansion of Europe's oceans.

In Gibraltar, he has been very good at completing all aspects of Ming's strategic arrangements.

If it weren't for the fact that his father, Yang Dao, was still in the position of governor of the Dongzhou Navy, Zhu Zhanji would have promoted him to be governor a long time ago.

Calling him back to Daming this time, Zhu Zhanji planned to keep him by his side for a few years, and arranged to go to Dongzhou when Yang Dao was not in good health.

The official position Zhu Zhanji also helped him consider it, the admiral of the Beijing Army, and the commander of the Yulin Guard.

This position actually allows him to rest for a few years, make a transition, and take over his father's duties later.

Yang Zhihe is also very aware of this, so he has no objection to this arrangement.

He happily accepted the appointment, and then just went to Habayashi Wei to order a job, and met a few subordinates.Then he returned to the mansion to thank the guests behind closed doors, and enjoyed teaching his children.

In contrast, Yongheng made a lot of publicity.She may also know that this is her last chance to stay in the capital, so she behaves very high-profile, so as not to let others forget the prestige of Donghai Duke's Mansion.

Less than ten days after she came back, Zhu Zhanji hadn't received envoys from European countries, so she sent out invitations and invited everyone to the banquet held by Donghai Gongfu.