Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 535 Nine Years of Restoration
In the 23rd year of the Restoration (1687), the Ming Dynasty flourished.

The word "prosperous age" is probably enough to sum up everything that Daming has experienced since Guangfu Nianhao began to be used.Relying on its incomparable national power, Daming has expanded its territory to areas unimaginable in previous dynasties. The entire land area exceeds 3000 million square kilometers, and the core Chinese population is 2.2 million. Such a super big empire.

Neither Alexander nor Genghis Khan in history can compare with such a huge empire and powerful ruling power.What makes the great emperors throughout the ages even more ashamed is that in the land of Ming Dynasty, most people's lives are very good, especially in the local provinces. People have lived peacefully for more than 20 years without any wars and conflicts. People's lives Levels have changed dramatically.

In just 20 years, the Ming Dynasty has achieved basic food and clothing for all the people in the local provinces and even most of the Xuanwei Division.The literacy rate of the common people has been increasing year after year. The literacy rate of the new generation of schoolchildren in various provinces in the Mainland has exceeded [-]%, and the literacy campaign has also achieved considerable results.

A prosperous empire that the world had never seen stood like this between heaven and earth.

Naturally, Ming Dynasty was still facing various problems. From the beginning of the Third Five-Year Plan, the Ming Dynasty Lizhengyuan put forward the slogan that solving the internal affairs of Ming Dynasty, maintaining social stability and promoting social development were the priority tasks that overwhelmed all external problems.

At this time, Ming people are more concerned about their own well-being, such as whether they have raised their salaries, how about housing prices, how about their children's education, the administrative efficiency and cleanliness of the government office, environmental health and other things.As for things outside of Ming Dynasty, the Department of Publicity and Welfare is a little better. Everyone pays attention to it. After all, it is also a part of Ming Dynasty, but other countries are not interested.

This kind of change is also a bit unexpected for Bai Mingxiu. Due to the great Ming ZTE and the Industrial Revolution, it has encouraged the arrogance and self-consciousness of Ming people. Therefore, except for the elite who are still understanding the global trend and Europa Universalis, ordinary people are already very Entertained.They pay attention to what delicious restaurants are opened in their cities, what new movies are released in theaters recently, what good performances are in teahouse theaters, and even public welfare activities.As for foreigners, most people would wave their hands and say, what is there to talk about about barbarians.

The Ming Dynasty is a very big country. When people live a better life, there will naturally be various activities, so the lives of the people of the Ming Dynasty are rich and colorful.

People also feel that this empire often does not see the emperor, and even the various affairs of the Legislative Yuan, and the emperor rarely comes out to express his opinion.Obviously, His Majesty the Emperor is only 39 this year, which is considered to be the right year.There are even occasional rumors among the people that His Majesty the Emperor Guangfu is dead, or that someone is coercing the Emperor to command the princes, but rumors are rumors, and His Majesty the Emperor will attend events every now and then, showing himself on the newspaper page or on the TV screen. face.

At least now people all over the country know what the emperor looks like.

In a resort hotel in Xiangshan, Bai Mingxiu was walking on the wooden platform in a very Chinese-style big bathrobe.This resort hotel has the atmosphere of the Song Dynasty. Compared with the modern and avant-garde buildings in Daming, it looks much more primitive. The wooden things make people feel more textured and easy to get close to.

Bai Mingxiu sat leisurely on the deck chair on the terrace, picked up the fruit on the small table and stuffed it into his mouth, feeling contented.

A woman's voice came.

"It's amazing. While my wife is on a business trip and the children are being taken care of by the Supreme Emperor and the Supreme Empress, I went to Xiangshan by myself to relax. Your Majesty, your life is really comfortable."

Bai Mingxiu felt dizzy when he heard this, he was not very good at dealing with this woman.

Sister Lion.

Bai Mingxiu no longer looks like the thin and thin boy he used to be in the jungles of Myanmar. He now looks like an uncle who looks as gentle as jade.Even at this time, he no longer had long hair, but returned to a neat short hair, just like most men in the Ming Dynasty.

"Are you a ghost? Why did you show up all of a sudden? Didn't you say you had classes at the Naval University?"

Sister Lion snorted twice and said, "I've already gone to practice, what class do I take? Speaking of which, I want to scold Zhang Huangyan with you. This old man is not at all as good as Tang Xiang before. We downsized our fleet."

Bai Mingxiu weakly defended: "Obviously it's your navy who did an unrealistic face-saving project, okay? Do we have so many enemies at sea in Ming Dynasty? Besides, haven't we already built an aircraft carrier? You have compiled so many large-scale battleships. What are you doing with your budget? A hotel?”

It’s fine if he doesn’t talk about it, but when he talks about this lady lion’s face is white, she is furious: “Okay, you are heartless, you think our battleships should be eliminated, don’t you think we are old and useless, don’t you? "

Bai Mingxiu slapped his head, and really forgot that his face hadn't changed in the past 20 years. He was still a sexy and beautiful lady in her twenties, and her body was still a battleship.

"Uh, just pretend I didn't say it."

"Hmph." Miss Lion still has the temper of a little girl.

Bai Mingxiu could only add an explanation: "You also know that our current economic situation in Ming Dynasty is not good. The cabinet has held many meetings to discuss our economic problems. In 20 years, we have developed too fast, and many problems have been exposed. , Now the market competition is very fierce, we have also created too much useless production capacity, the employment situation is relatively severe, and the more this happens, the more serious the outflow of our native population to the colonies will be, exacerbating the current embarrassing situation."

What Bai Mingxiu said was not a lie. Daming experienced a period of rapid development that turned the world upside down. It directly jumped from a feudal agricultural country to an advanced industrial country. A large number of urbanization processes began, and there were many infrastructure constructions. There was also a series of income from the colonies. , making Daming's economy develop considerably.However, after more than 20 years of rising like a rocket, the economy of Ming Dynasty finally showed some weakness.

In fact, to put it simply, the era of making money by simply producing something has passed, and the market has sufficient competition.Public and private enterprises have blindly expanded their scale and production capacity, hoping to gain advantages, resulting in relatively serious overcapacity.There are still a lot of levers in society. Although Bai Mingxiu has been fighting against these things since the day he became emperor, capital does have such power to demonize people's hearts.

The local GDP of Ming Dynasty is still growing at an annual rate of 6%-10%, but no new technological breakthroughs have emerged.Ming's technical level and technological form are basically similar to the United States at the level of 1945 in another plane.

Just no harmony.

(End of this chapter)