Time has entered the 27th year of the revelation of the Ming Dynasty.

According to Western history, it is in 1647 AD.

In the original history, the Ming Dynasty had been destroyed for three years, and the Hongguang Dynasty of the Southern Ming Dynasty had also been destroyed.

But in this time and space, the Ming Dynasty not only did not perish, but had already broken out of the shackles that were dragged down by civil servants and gentry.

Military, the Ming Dynasty no longer had the garrison system at this time, and the military craftsmanship system was abolished. Since the 21st year of the Apocalypse, His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty promulgated the conscript system.

Any adult man from the Ming Dynasty is obliged to serve in the Ming Dynasty for more than three years. Of course, because the Ming Dynasty has a large population, it does not strictly require everyone to obey military service in peaceful times.

In other words, on the surface, it is almost equivalent to the recruitment system, that is, obeying personal volunteers to serve in the military.

But unlike the traditional recruitment system, once you join the army, you are not always a soldier. Grassroots officers and soldiers have years of service, which can effectively ensure that there is no phenomenon of holding troops or becoming a soldier.

And because once you serve, you will be free from full-time production and conduct military training, you can always ensure combat effectiveness.

The continuous entry of new soldiers into the military system and the continuous retirement of veterans can keep the number of standing troops at a constant value, so that there will be no financial difficulties due to the increasing number of troops, and the need to implement the garrison system to cultivate the army. This will only turn the soldiers into farmers who can farm.

At the same time, although the number of standing troops is a constant value, basically the officers and soldiers who have served can still maintain basic combat effectiveness after they are discharged from the army, and at least they can operate basic military operations such as guns and grenades.

In this way, the potential military power of the Ming Dynasty will become a force that cannot be underestimated, which can be described as the whole nation is full of soldiers.

Because once a large-scale war occurs, these people can go back to the battlefield after short-term training.

For example, that is, the Ming Dynasty could turn one million regular troops into ten million in a short period of time.

In short, under the new combat mode and new military system, the military power of the Ming Dynasty was no longer comparable to that of any country in the world.

According to the calculations of the Ministry of War, the Ming Dynasty could support local wars with a scale of more than 500,000 troops for three years. After the roads and railways were fully laid, the Ming Dynasty could deploy more than one million total troops outside the pass within one month.

This means that the Ming Dynasty could continue to expand the occupied areas.

Of course, in order to make fiscal revenue most effectively use, there is naturally no need to maintain a large number of conventional army existence in today's peace period.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty now stated that the standing army was only about 600,000, and the military system, such as military academies, field hospitals, propaganda department art troupes, etc., had only more than 700,000 non-front combatants.

This allowed the Ming Dynasty to invest a large amount of funds in the research and development of military weapons and the training of military personnel.

However, during the peace period, not only was the number of conventional troops in a tightening state, but a large number of military-industrial enterprises under the Ordnance Department also began to convert into civilian enterprises, and began to focus on shifting productivity to the production of civilian machines or locomotives.

In order to pursue profits, they even turn losses into profits, and before there are large orders, they directly switch to pure locomotive factories or ship manufacturers.

But once a large-scale military war breaks out, all kinds of civilian machine manufacturing plants will sprout like mushrooms after a rain. As long as Zhu Youxiao and his orders will turn into tank manufacturers and gun manufacturers in a blink of an eye.

Even as long as the court allows, workers can directly build chariots in civil machinery manufacturing plants and drive them out to fight the enemy themselves.

The national strength is fought in battle, and the Ming Dynasty is not weak, and now it can directly convert all its strongest national strength into military strength. In other words, no country in the world dares to challenge the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the Ming Dynasty not only enriched its fangs, but also stretched its claws and laid its own blood transfusion road (traffic trunk line).

In terms of colonial plunder and traffic control lines, in addition to the farthest colony that had arrived at Hongkong Island, Europe (the Ming Dynasty had renamed the Isle of Wight to Hongkong Island), colonies were established in the Suez River Basin, the Cape of Good Hope, the eastern side of the Indian Peninsula, Luzon Java, and Hawaii.

According to statistics from the newly established Colonial Department of the Ministry of War, the Ming Dynasty now has 103 non-local colonies, the largest of which is about the Zhejiang Provincial Administration and the smallest is less than the size of a Shanghai County, and this number is still growing.

Because His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty stipulated that the navy's merits were assessed based on the two standards of colonial occupation and plundering wealth value, and companies that mainly engage in overseas trade, such as Meisheng Company, can also mortgage the tax ratio based on the colonial occupation, and even the Ming Dynasty court would give it the dividend qualification for output value in the colonial region.

This greatly promoted the enthusiasm of the navy and civilian merchants to expand their colonies overseas. Because the plunder of wealth in the colonies is also an important assessment indicator and is linked to their own income, they cannot find a piece of land to colonize casually, and have to consider various values.

The construction of roads and railways is not just the progress mentioned in the previous chapter. In the south, north and Siberia, it is also preparing to build more control lines that run through the city's city, and in overseas colonies such as Java Island and Fusang, it is also building bridges and roads.

However, the construction of roads and bridges in China was basically hired as laborers. Because of the high welfare benefits and legal protection of the court, the people of the Ming Dynasty could not be treated like slaves. Since the 24th year of the Apocalypse, His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty issued the citizenship law, it was confirmed that as long as a person of the Ming Dynasty was of the Ming Dynasty, he would enjoy all the rights and obligations of the Ming citizens. No matter whether it is an official, a scholar, a businessman or a civilian, or whatever profession or political identity, his life and property safety was protected by His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty (not the law).

That is, these people only engage in different professions and have different lives because of their different personal interests and abilities, but they are all the people of His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. No one has this right except for His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who is his father, who has the right to live and kill them.

Therefore, these Ming citizens must enjoy eight hours of work benefits. If they want to increase their working hours, they must pay double compensation according to the corresponding regulations. If they are injured due to work, they must also receive compensation. If they are employed, they must also give them the benefits that match the family and their families.

The Ming government will also give them a lot of welfare subsidies. In addition, the improvement of their own quality of life, the citizens of the Ming Dynasty naturally have high requirements for various welfare benefits for wage income, which makes the construction cost in China very high.

However, in colonial areas, all kinds of non-Ming people plundered from indigenous people or from other areas (the crime of trafficking in Ming citizens is Lingchi, and no one dares to do this), so there is no need to consider any treatment or treatment, and just use it as a beast.

In this way, the cost of colony construction and resource plundering is much lower than that of domestic construction and much faster. Basically, people who go abroad make money. In China, except for Royal Capital doing losses in order to ensure that core productivity is controlled in China, almost no one is willing to open a production base in China.

However, in recent years, even major domestic enterprises have begun to use colonial slaves to complete the hardest grassroots work, after all, this can make the cost very low.

This has also promoted the trafficking trade with foreign populations. Many Ming enterprises that used to only trade opium have now also traded populations.

For example, the Yang Sichang family's Yang family relied on the relationship of Yang Sichang, an internal member of the family, to establish a white human trafficking base in Hongkongdao (Isle of Wight, a British colony in the Ming Dynasty).

These white people who were sold to the Ming Dynasty as coolies will be habitually called "white pigs" by the Ming Dynasty!

Many "white pigs" collected from various countries in Europe will basically be concentrated here, and then numbers will be sent to the uniforms and transported to the Ming Dynasty and its Ming colonies for work.

However, these non-Ming citizens cannot enjoy educational support in the Ming Dynasty, so important positions must be citizens of the Ming Dynasty, so there will be no big impact on the employment of their own citizens.

Because of the court's increasingly generous welfare benefits and wealth subsidies, easy high income and low-cost living without worrying about food and clothing, many people in their country chose to retire early and were unwilling to be producers. Many of them directly became parasites and enjoyed their fruits.

It can be summarized in this way. What is most tiring about the Ming Dynasty now is the helmsman of the imperial center and the lowest-level foreign slaves. Instead, the middle-level people of the Ming Dynasty are the most carefree.

But ordinary Ming citizens, who had become an exploitative class, cursed the officials who drank the blood of their taxpayers, and also hated these foreign slave workers who were drinking blood by them.

Many stores opened by local Ming citizens will write "White pigs and dogs are not allowed to enter". It seems that if they do not do this, they will not look high-end.

However, many foreigners who come to the Ming Dynasty to do business or learn Chinese culture are not angry because their kind of humiliation were suffered by such humiliation. As the rulers in the country, they also hate these people in the Ming Dynasty, just like the citizens of the Ming Dynasty. They even have to be cruel.

After all, the citizens of our country are people who have been deeply cultivated by the five thousand years of Chinese civilization. They have no nature of barbarism and killing, and at most they are disgusting and exploitation. However, these people who show gentlemen but actually have many violent hairy people will even enjoy killing or **.

However, whether it is a white pig or a white man, foreigners from all walks of life are extremely longing for the Ming Dynasty, praising the Ming Dynasty, and hoping that they can become Han people of the Ming Dynasty, because in their opinion, only becoming a Ming Dynasty talent means that they are a civilized, a quality person, and an elegant person.

The clothes of ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty could become a fashion trend among some European aristocrats. The phenomenon of learning Chinese as honored to learn English as a national, and the phenomenon of being more and more serious in the UK.

There are even many foreign countries, especially those in Europa, who are willing to spend a lot of money and abandon their own noble political status and become ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty.

But the Ming Dynasty was very strict with immigration cards. Unless you are a genius like Galileo who can immigrate skillfully, ordinary Europa people who want to immigrate must either have a lofty political status or can invest millions of silver dollars in the Ming Dynasty at one time.

But this does not prevent them from becoming the people of the Ming Dynasty. In the next few decades, many noble ladies of Europa actively wanted to marry ordinary men of the Ming Dynasty, even willing to be concubines, or more to dye their hair black and wear Hanfu in order to become a Ming Dynasty person, at least like a Ming Dynasty person.

After the Opium War in Britain, the Ming Dynasty began to change its attitude towards Britain, and then supported the Stuart dynasty to suppress its domestic bourgeoisie and gradually eased its relationship with Britain. The middle class who were dissatisfied with the Stuart dynasty of the United Kingdom or were eager to gain more political voice also showed the Ming Dynasty's urgent desire, yearning for the Ming Dynasty to take care of merchants, and yearning for civilians to obtain fair education and pass fair selection exams to enter the court to take charge of the government affairs.

This made many British bourgeoisie not realize that their suppression was the result of the suppression of the Ming Dynasty they yearned for, but instead worshiped the Ming Dynasty more and more.

The Ming Dynasty naturally accepted the friendship of these people. While selling weapons to the Stuart Dynasty to support it in suppressing domestic rebellion, it secretly instigated these British self-cultivators, handicraftsmen and lower-level merchants not to be content with the status quo. In short, it is best to keep Britain in a state of chaos. No one has time to care about political reform.

What's more, the Ming Dynasty also sent some cultural figures from time to time to promote the profoundness of the Ming Dynasty's Chinese culture, as well as cherishing peace, respecting ethics, and promoting civilian politics, which made foreigners feel that the Ming Dynasty was an ideal country.

What they didn't know, however, was that the Ming Dynasty was now desperately using their blind worship to make their money and split their country.

In terms of economy, the treasury income of the Ming Dynasty did show a geometric increase. During the Southern Song Dynasty, it could occupy most of the world's income by relying on the development of commerce and trade. Now, after the Ming Dynasty has fully launched overseas trade for more than ten years, its income will naturally not be small.

Zhu Youxiao didn't know how much money he had now. Anyway, the investment plans of various departments of the Ming Dynasty had been written to the fifty years of the apocalypse, and even directly stated that all taxes from farmers were abolished and free compulsory education would be extended for nine years.

All of this has not consumed the Ming Dynasty's financial surplus. Of course, the Ming Dynasty could not learn from the Southern Song Dynasty to pay a portion of this wealth every year, and now it can only be used for military expansion.

Coincidentally, the two bigwigs in the cabinet are now in power, Lu Xiangsheng and Yang Sichang, so they naturally hope that the Ming Dynasty will continue to expand its territory so that people in the military system can get more benefits.

Li Mingrui is now over 60 years old and is a little tired of the officialdom, and the same is true for Cheng Jiming. As the reformists and hawks make more and more profits overseas, many traditional gentry classes in the conservative schools who have become more and more jealous and eager to join the commodity activities.

Therefore, these two factions did not oppose the political purpose of the newly emerging hawks to expand their territory, not to mention that both force and peaceful expansion are beneficial to them.

So, a memorial to recover the Jiaozhi Prefecture was placed on Zhu Youxiao's desk.
Chapter completed!