Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 594 The Aggressive Ming Dynasty

Ten hours after the Ming Dynasty evacuated the last group of expatriates stranded in Germany, Cheng Lin, commander of the Western Qing Army, led more than 10 Qing troops into East Prussia and occupied Königsberg, the capital of the Principality of Prussia.Grand Duke Frederick William of Prussia and his son, Frederick I, who historically founded the Kingdom of Prussia, fled the fallen city by plane together.

Due to the lack of reliable air defense capabilities, the Daming Air Force dispatched escort aircraft to cover the retreat of the aircraft carrying the Grand Duke of Prussia and members of the office to the Netherlands.

It is impossible for ordinary German people to have an airplane. Facing the brutal Xiqing, a large number of Germans fled westward, abandoned their homes and became refugees.Both the Netherlands and France opened their borders to allow German refugees to enter and set up temporary refugee camps to accommodate them.

In less than fifteen days, Xiqing destroyed Prussia and several small states in North Germany.

In fact, this speed was already expected by Daming.

"The Xiqing Army, which has completed the initial mechanization, is not at all an object that the armies of European countries can compete with at this stage. This is actually a gap between the two eras. The Xiqing Army has shown amazing organization and efficiency, and it is worthy of our vigilance .” At the Ming Security Conference, Chief of the General Staff Su Shuhuan said so.

The prime minister, Zhang Huangyan, had a serious expression on his face. In fact, Ge Kui, who is known for his integrity, is also facing many challenges now.During the period of Tang Beilu, the first prime minister of the Guangfu Dynasty, who served for more than ten years, Ming Dynasty developed rapidly, and everything was peaceful at home and abroad. Both the government and the opposition praised the emperor and prime ministers at that time as models of monarchs and ministers.Later, Tang Beilu retired bravely, and Zhang Huangyan took office. At that time, the middle school scholars praised him. However, not long after Zhang Huangyan took office, a series of problems appeared, such as the overheating of the domestic manufacturing industry, the weak economy, and the high unemployment rate. It has never stopped, and some people even suggested that Prime Minister Tang be asked to come out of the mountain again.

It can be said that Zhang Huangyan is under a lot of pressure.

"How's the preparation of our ministries?" Zhang Huangyan asked.

Hou Xiaoqun, Minister of the Ministry of War, said: "Our military industry system has basically begun to produce at full capacity, and the recruitment work is progressing relatively smoothly. It is expected that the recruitment of all 20 group armies will be completed before June this year."

Liu Fujie, Minister of Industry followed suit: "As our Council of Government has adopted an expansionary fiscal policy and launched large-scale purchases in almost every industry in the whole society, we can basically see that there has been an obvious change in the social prosperity. Unemployment is coming down."

This is probably the statistic that Zhang Huangyan is most concerned about. The troublesome unemployment rate in the past three years has caused a large outflow of local people. Daming is no longer full of energy and life has improved rapidly in the early years.The present citizens of Ming Dynasty have gradually stabilized their social composition.Ordinary urban residents and rural residents have achieved food and clothing, and lived a low-level well-off life.They often own their own homes, own their jobs, and have some family savings.Further up is the "middle class" of Ming Dynasty. Although this part of the population is slightly smaller than the ordinary class, the population is also quite large. They often live above the well-off level, have more enjoyment consumption, have big houses, and small houses. Cars, relatively high level of education.Another notable feature is that the middle class of Ming Dynasty is relatively young and has higher labor skills.As for the wealthy class, the population is smaller, and they are almost invisible in the political spectrum of Ming Dynasty, which is also determined by the state system of Ming Dynasty.

Now it is the ordinary class that has a greater impact on Ming Dynasty. The vast number of young and educated laborers will be allocated cleanly as soon as they enter the labor market.This is true from state-owned enterprises to private enterprises, and from the primary industry to the tertiary industry.Young workers are knowledgeable, highly malleable, and capable of working, so many employers are terminating labor contracts with low-skilled middle-aged workers while signing new contracts with young workers.Facts have also proven that the new generation of workers are better.This has resulted in the emergence of a large group of very confused elderly workers in Ming Dynasty in recent years, who only have basic literacy skills and lack scalable and transferable labor skills.

State-owned enterprises are good, and they will basically hire these middle-aged and low-skilled workers until their retirement age, but a large number of private enterprises will not be like this.In order to avoid the labor law of the Ming Dynasty, after 15 years of employment, the labor contract cannot be terminated for specific reasons, so a large number of private companies use layoffs as an excuse to lay off a large number of employees who have worked for them for 40 or 20 years.And these workers in their [-]s, after entering the labor market, find it difficult to compete with young people in their [-]s who have at least a technical secondary school, junior college, or even a bachelor's degree.

With the help of this war, Zhang Huangyan implemented a radical fiscal policy. Although it could not be flooded, he did invest a large amount of state orders in an already exhausted industry.Even in line with the needs of the war, Zhang Huangyan also asked the provinces to launch a second round of infrastructure construction. New development zones have appeared in various places, such as new ports, new airports, new railways, and new residential areas. Zhang Xiang adopted such methods Absorbing a large amount of labor is also promoting the construction of Daming.

According to his thinking, the development of Ming Dynasty is far from over. One of the main reasons for the overheating of the manufacturing industry is the lack of good macro-control, and the country of Ming Dynasty, which is the primary economic demand, has been too Buddha-like in the last five to seven years, and Somewhat slack.

This is an inevitable situation in the development of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty is too large, and both the mainland and the colonies are developing, and egalitarianism may appear when the distribution is made.

The plan to expand the army by launching twenty armies will naturally require a large number of civilian industries, workers, and farmers to support it. The Ming Dynasty has always had this ability, but it has not fully utilized it.

Behind all of this, in fact, Daming has gradually begun to give up the gold and silver standard system that is very inflexible and even a bit delayed in its own development.

Just when Zhang Huangyan felt relieved that everyone was doing well, a special voice appeared.

Navy Commander Wang Kai said: "Our navy still has a big and small problem. If the main ship is dispatched to Europe, it will have an impact on our Indian Ocean escort force. Recently, it is very obvious that piracy in the Indian Ocean is changing. It became more and more rampant, and we saw the intervention of Western Qing and even European forces later on."

(End of this chapter)