My Daming New Empire

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He asked again: "You just watched the monkey show and didn't think about it. Why can you be well-clothed and well-fed, while the little lady who is about your age can only perform on the street?"

"Great-grandfather, it's because of different origins."

"Looking up, what the Zhu family needs are children and grandchildren who face problems, not children and grandchildren who avoid problems."

Zhu Youtang raised his head, stretched out his hand to hold Zhu Zhanji's skirt, and said coquettishly, "Great-grandfather, I will be obedient."

Zhu Zhanji squatted down, lifted the cover of the hood, looked straight into his eyes and said, "It's not that you are obedient or not, but that you have to learn to observe and solve problems. No matter how much you like monkey shows, you can You can't put all your heart into it just because you like it. It's like eating, you can only eat seven or eight percent full, and you can't eat enough."

He nodded like a grown-up, and said, "The grandson will only focus on watching it with seven or eight percent of his mind, leaving two distractions to think about it."

Zhu Zhanji nodded and put down Mi Li. "When you go back to write an article on this matter, you must rewrite it. You must think more about the suffering of the people and not just look at the surface."

Having said that, when Zhu Youtang, an eight-year-old child, saw those little monkeys opening the clothes boxes by themselves, and then putting on their small clothes one by one, sitting in a row like officials and prisoners, he felt very excited. All of his mind was attracted again.

A big man in Jinyiwei reported a few words to Li Yuan in a low voice, and Li Yuan took him to Zhu Zhanji's side. "Emperor... my lord, just now my subordinates went down to ask my colleagues in the Baihu Institute. This monkey artist came from Henan not long after he came to Yingtian Mansion. It seems that the family has no money left, so he hasn't sent his child to school yet."

All the performers in Yingtianfu had to register in Yingtianfu and get approval before they could come out to perform.So it is very simple to find out their origins.

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "You stay here, wait for them to close the stall, and explain the relationship with him clearly. If the child is not allowed to go to school, he will be sent to the Northwest to serve in the military next year."

"Yes!"

Zhu Zhanji looked at Zhu Youtang again, and he was fascinated by it.Zhu Zhanji said: "Tian'er, you can't see enough at once, let's go."

Zhu Youtang was reluctant to leave, took out his pocket watch and looked at it, and said, "Great-grandfather, can you watch it for another quarter of an hour?"

Zhu Zhanji nodded and turned his attention elsewhere.

The time was up, this time Zhu Youtang did not delay any longer, but when he left, he was still a little bit reluctant. "Great-grandfather, I also raise a monkey in the palace, okay?"

"No. Aren't there monkeys in the palace zoo?"

"But they are not obedient..."

Going south along the Gongyuan is the brothel area. Zhu Zhanji has no interest in ancient brothels, and Zhu Youtang doesn't understand.

The grandfather and grandson continued west along the Confucius Temple, admiring the night market culture.

History has been changed into a mess by Zhu Zhanji, and under his influence, Ying Tianfu has not changed like an ancient city at all, and has some rudimentary forms of a modern city.

Such changes are definitely better than in history, and the functions of the city are more complete.

Although there are still many shortcomings, it still gives Zhu Zhanji a sense of satisfaction in changing history.

The only pity is that maybe the management of the city is too strict. Not only did he not meet any bad guys, he didn't even meet a dude during his trip.

No one offended him, he didn't even have a chance to pretend to be compared.

(Going to Zhengzhou for a temporary trip, today’s update is [-], see if there is a chance to make up when I come back, cover my face...)

Chapter 47 Detour

In November of the 44th year of Zhengtong, the grandson Zhu Jianshen finally completed his trip to Dongzhou, from the east coast of Dongzhou, around the southernmost corner, and returned to the west coast.

In Tangzhou City, he will set sail back to Central Continent together with the fleet carrying gold, brass, and saltpeter.

The location of Tangzhou City is the later Antofagasta City in Chile. This is a desert city located by the sea, which is extremely desolate.

However, this is Daming's largest resource base.At the beginning, many princes competed for this fiefdom for a long time, and it was only then that Tang Wang Zhu Qigang, who had the same father and mother as the prince, won this area.

This land with a desert on one side and a desert on the other looks extremely desolate, but it has the richest gold and copper mines in the world, and, in this area, there is also the largest natural saltpeter mine in the world.

Although due to the development of the chemical industry in Daming, saltpeter can also be synthesized by chemical synthesis, the demand for saltpeter is no longer unique.

However, the cost of synthetic saltpeter is still not high compared to natural saltpeter.At present, more than 90.00% of the saltpeter ore needed by Daming is still natural saltpeter.

In Tangzhou Prefecture, two open-pit copper-gold mines and one saltpeter mine have been developed. These three super mines alone can feed hundreds of thousands of people in the territory.

The three super large mines also brought huge returns to the Tang Palace. If they hadn't invested a lot of money to develop local agricultural self-sufficiency, their life would have been easier.

Here, Zhu Jianshen also felt a warmer welcome than other state capitals, and Tang Wangshu made no secret of his closeness to his nephew.

Tang state capital is the force that Zhu Jianshen really wants to win over. Unlike other state capitals, there are a large number of civilians here.

In Tangzhou Prefecture, there are only three port cities, three open-pit mines, and three railway lines.

Because of the geographical relationship, there is very little arable land here, and there are very few natives, who mainly rely on trade to obtain food.

The local people are mainly naval soldiers, Tang Palace guards, as well as the Ministry of Internal Affairs, soldiers of the Transit Department, and their families.

There are also aboriginals working in the three mines, almost all of them are soldiers.

For this reason, the local government was almost useless, and the imperial court only let the admiral's office of Dongzhou Southern Continent take charge of local civil affairs.

Tang Palace has greater autonomy and a stronger army than other palaces.

But to Zhu Jianshen's pity, Tangzhou Mansion is too far away from Daming, almost exactly on the other side of the earth.

Even if the king of Tang kept saying that he would support his nephew no matter what, it was beyond his reach.

Of course, Zhu Jianshen did not expect to be able to ascend to the throne relying on the support of the Tang king. The only one who could decide this matter was the emperor's grandfather.

After walking a long circle to Dongzhou, and passing through more than half of the prince's fiefs, Zhu Jianshen really knew the background of Daming in Dongzhou.

The strength and stability of Dongzhou is based on the sparse population and strong force here. This is a paradox that Zhu Jianshen didn't understand at first, but now he really understands it.

Although a small population is not a good thing, because in today's society, population is the foundation of a strong.

However, due to the sparse population of Dongzhou, all the people who came to Dongzhou at the beginning were soldiers, forming a strong ruling structure here.

And Daming did not lack manpower at the beginning, because there were 3000 million aborigines here, and under the organization of Daming, they made great contributions to the development of Dongzhou.

40 years have passed, due to the virus brought by the increase of foreign population, coupled with mining and natural old age, the number of native aborigines has decreased by nearly one-third.

As for the newly added aborigines, most of them already have the blood of the Ming Dynasty under the advantage of the status of the princes and soldiers.

Their number has already accounted for one-third of the 3000 million aborigines.

If the current trend continues, in another 40 years, newborns with Ming blood will account for more than half of the total population.

At that time, Zhu Zhanji's goal was truly achieved.

Compared with Central Continent, Eastern Continent has a huge gap in culture, economy, and technology.

But at the political level, East Continent and Central Continent are the same.On the military front, the control of the army is also stronger.

Whether a country is strong or not is mainly concentrated in these five aspects.