In a blink of an eye, it was the 23rd year of the revelation of the Ming Dynasty. Due to the success of the opium trade, Zhu Youxiao's blind expansion of productivity and the imbalance in the expansion rate of production scale and market demand was curbed. The economic development of the entire Ming Dynasty continued to maintain a healthy and steady growth trend.

Especially since the 20th year of the Apocalypse, the happiness of life in all classes of the Ming Dynasty has increased significantly.

This is due to the huge income brought by the opium trade that has led to the increase in investment in various large-scale projects and welfare benefits, and the improvement of employment rate, wage benefits, and living security, as well as encouragement for cultural and entertainment industries, which naturally allowed the people of the Ming Dynasty, who were busy with life but could not improve their purchasing power, to have more spare money to pursue fashion and quality of life.

The Engel coefficient also decreased accordingly. Once the consumption level of various non-living necessities such as food, clothing, housing and transportation increased, it also made the business in the Ming Dynasty more prosperous and colorful.

Many later historians believed that the most prosperous period of the true Apocalypse was from the 20th year of the Apocalypse. Although the more than ten years from the 20th year of the Apocalypse to the 20th year of the Apocalypse was prosperous, the huge amount of war expenses, huge investment in various constructions, and the incomplete opening of foreign markets did not allow many people to escape poverty. It was not until the 20th year of the Apocalypse that the prosperous period of the elderly had a place to support and the young were truly realized.

Zhu Youxiao was the emperor for sixteen years. On the surface, he should have been in power for twenty-three years.

There were not many emperors in the Ming Dynasty who reigned for more than 20 years. Now Zhu Youxiao can be compared with Chenghua. Although he is almost forty years old, he is still very active. The establishment of the Ministry of Health has established a preliminary set of medical examination science. Although it cannot perform more complex quantitative analysis of the internal components of blood and digestive fluids, it can also do some simple biochemical phenomenon tests and use color comparisons to define health conditions.

In addition, the development of evidence-based medicine in traditional Chinese medicine has made Zhu You proofread his physical indicators more accurately and timely. In addition, he is good at exercising and practicing health preservation. Although he still has the phenomenon of controlling three or four women in one day, he has not seen any signs of loss.

On this day, it was the day when Meisheng Company transferred the one-year profit from Ningbo, Jiangnan to Taicang. Zhu Youxiao also left the Forbidden City and came to Taicang in person to check. Seeing the boxes of silver dollars that had been exchanged through the Royal Bank of China piled up the entire Taicang warehouse with golden gold. Zhu Youxiao nodded with relief.

"Your Majesty, from your feet, you will continue to miles ahead. There are hundreds of new warehouses that can hold these silver dollars. These are just the first batch of silver dollars just transported from Tianjin. There are several batches one after another. Not only are they transported to Tianjin by sea, but also to Tongzhou, and those who go on land via Liangjing Avenue. It will take two months to deport. From the time of Europa's return to China, the transportation cost alone has already consumed millions of silver dollars. Now the total inventory can be reduced to the national treasury in recent years. Your Majesty, please see the specific details." Wu Lailiang, the warehouse minister, said a large string of words to Zhu Youxiao.

The implication is just that, Your Majesty, you have made a fortune now, and you have made a fortune. Now there are more than that money in front of you, and there are still many that are still on the way back. Because you have made too much money, you have millions of losses alone.

After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao nodded with satisfaction. Looking at the flashing silver dollars, the only thing he wants to do now is to distribute them in various ways as soon as possible to stimulate consumption, enhance the purchasing power of the people of the Ming Dynasty, and allow the entire Ming Dynasty to continue to enter the highly developed process of social life. As long as these people have money to spend, they can have food, food, clothing, and leisure to talk about their children's personal relationships, and not think about any ideas such as restricting the monarchy or freedom and equality.

As for the huge profits brought by the opium trade, not only Zhu Youxiao, the emperor, realized the huge benefits. Even the ministers in the court believed that the court controlled opium, banned smoking in the country, and earned foreign wealth to enrich the people of all classes of the country. Naturally, the conservative party believed that this was the best way. They also submitted a memorial in their New Year's greetings to Zhu Youxiao that His Majesty had achieved benefits for the people and was indeed a wise monarch for eternity.

A European-level Western fan who worked hard in England or Flangji for a year or worked in a factory for a year did not know that most of the labor value he created had flowed into the Ming Dynasty, and they hated only those in power, and those in power would hate the Western fan who could not satisfy their exploitation.

In short, because the opium trade in the Ming Dynasty greatly defeated the class nature of the development of all classes in Europe, people would care more about social issues such as how to eat and wear well and have no energy to pursue their interest in natural sciences, and therefore lag even further behind the level of scientific and technological development in the Ming Dynasty.

A few months later, Zhu Youxiao also received a return from the Europa Uniform Guard, saying that Britain and Flangji had already had so-called "knowledgeable people" that had begun to propose sanctions or ban the Ming opium trade, and mentioned that Cromwell had been alarmist about the Ming opium trade, etc.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help laughing. According to the original historical trend, it should have been two centuries later. Some more enlightened Han bureaucrats in the Qing government that dominated China at that time began to realize the crisis brought by the opium trade in England and Geely and tried their best to ban smoking. However, it has become the Ming Dynasty's opium trade for Western countries, and some enlightened officials in Western countries realized the phenomenon of crisis.

Everything turned around!

"Tell me my will and tell the Jinyiwei to support these Western countries as much as possible, and to express the friendship of the Ming Dynasty, and to find ways to aggravate its domestic corruption and depravity, and to provide military assistance to some diehard forces if necessary;

But at the same time, domestic navy, land and other armies should also speed up training and expansion, and should not be taken lightly, especially to take the elite military route. If you have nothing to do, the Ministry of War can transfer a few more troops to various maritime inspections and patrols, thinking that in the future, the opium trade in the Ming Dynasty will fundamentally violate the national interests of these Western countries, so it is impossible to avoid solving trade problems by force, it is just a matter of time."

Zhu Youxiao gave such instructions to cabinet chief Lu Xiangsheng and Yang Sichang. Although he prepared Lu Xiangsheng and others, he was not worried about how big a challenge these Western parliaments would pose to the opium trade in the Ming Dynasty.
Chapter completed!