Daming One Piece

Chapter 241

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Daming, 13 years after the apocalypse, has finally set his sights on the South China Sea, whether active or passive.

The victories of Siam and Zhila, which easily destroyed their countries without firing a single shot, made Ming realize the weakness of the South China Sea.

Of course, what is more important?
There is food in the South China Sea!

Three crops a year, such a unique weather, vast land and docile people, is there any better place than here?

Wealth is moving!
In this era of famine, millions of stones of grain every year are enough to drive Daming to the sea.

So the navy is expanding its territory crazily, from Siam to Chenla, and from Chenla to Manila.As long as it is a place that is suitable for planting, it will be followed by the Daming Navy, only some deep mountains and old forests in the hinterland will not go in for the time being.

In fact, not only Daming is like this, but also the South China Sea Xuanweisi is like this. From Java to Sumatra, to the South China Sea Peninsula and the Mekong River Delta, as long as it is a place suitable for planting, it has become a land that stretches thousands of miles under the efforts of Daming immigrants. Paddy fields, in less than 20 years, the South China Sea has become a real land of fish and rice.

Facing the drought in the Little Ice Age and various other disasters, Daming, which was plagued by famine, had no other choice at all. It could either take the initiative to emigrate, or let the refugees starve to death, or turn into rogues.

On both sides of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, thousands of official and non-governmental ships transported millions of immigrants to various parts of the South China Sea. The once dense rainforests on the South China Sea islands and peninsula shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the number of immigrants also exploded. increase.

Overall, the population output of the Ming Dynasty at this time is like the Irish during the Irish Famine 200 years later. The scale of immigration is far beyond the imagination of the world, and it is even expanding.

Unfortunately, even so, compared to the huge disaster-affected population, the problem of refugees in the mainland of Ming Dynasty became more and more serious as the disaster worsened.Of course, the ensuing land annexation problem is also becoming more and more serious. After all, the time of famine is always the best time for land annexation.

Of course, when those big families wantonly annexed the land, their life was not much better. Every time the refugees from all over the country went to a place, they only targeted the big families. All of a sudden, the refugees turned into bandits.

Afraid of being slaughtered as pigs, the big households set up group training one after another.It's just that Daming's regiment training can't go out of the county. For the rich and squires of Daming, their only idea is to drive the bandits to other places and save their own family property.

At the same time, the administration of officials in the Ming Dynasty is also becoming increasingly corrupt. Even Tianqi has nothing to do about it. Maybe he can use Wei Zhongxian's knife to tame the civil officials, but he is unable to implement reforms.

In fact, after Zhang Juzheng, it is impossible to carry out any reforms of Ming Dynasty, and no one will be the Zhang Juzheng who worked so hard but whipped the corpse after death.

Twenty years after the apocalypse, although there were no border troubles in Ming Dynasty, the natural and man-made disasters brought about by the Little Ice Age still brought Daming to a path similar to that in history—that is, bandits and peasant uprisings.

Of course, the current Ming Dynasty must last longer than the Ming Dynasty in history, because the court has no border troubles, and it is no longer like in history. It was as impoverished as it was then, and there were constant blood transfusions of food from overseas.

Even in the face of rogues everywhere, even King Gao Chuang today, King Zhang tomorrow, and King Li Chuang the day after tomorrow, the court is capable of calmly deploying to calm the chaos.Even if the rogues were running around, the frontier troops transferred from Liaodong and other places could still follow closely behind, chasing and intercepting them. Under such circumstances, the chances of those trespassing kings wanting to change the world and rebuild the mountains and rivers were almost zero.

As long as it can survive these ten years, with the improvement of the climate, of course, more importantly, with the export of a large number of immigrants.

There will be no problem for Daming to last another 100 years, or even another 200 years, as long as Daming can survive the Little Ice River.If you can meet a wise king and a wise minister in the middle, you might be able to rejuvenate.

In fact, even if there is no Mingjun Xianxiang, it will not decline step by step...

After all, the Industrial Revolution was inevitable.

The industrial revolution in Ming Dynasty was inevitable. It did not originate in Beigang, but in Ming Dynasty itself. The germination of capitalism in the south—whether it was handicraft workshops, mines, and the corresponding manual machinery manufacturing industry—far surpassed England.

This is the fundamental premise for the Ming Dynasty to take the initiative to enter the industrial revolution.

Once the Ming Dynasty completes the industrial revolution, it will definitely be revitalized.By that time, it is inevitable that officials representing the interests of the Jiangnan bourgeoisie will take power. In fact, even now, the so-called Jiangnan civil official group itself represents the interests of the southern bourgeoisie.

As long as there are rogues, there is no change, as long as Daming can survive the most critical decades now.

All of this was destined to happen.

It is also because of this that after taking the initiative to move to the South China Sea, Shi Yiwen paid attention to the situation in Ming Dynasty and tried his best to introduce immigrants. At the same time, in the 18th year of Tianqi, he took the initiative to send a fleet to the other side of the ocean.Opened the Seattle Colony - a colony named after a local indigenous tribe.

It was also from this year, under Shi Yiwen's intentional arrangement, in just six years, more than 50 Ming people came to the North American continent through the Pacific Ocean route. Tens of thousands of immigrants crossed the Rocky Mountains and headed east, just like the "Oregon Trail" blazed by Americans from another world, and they blazed a similar trail.People migrated along one path to the middle of the North American continent.

From the 20th year of the Apocalypse to the 24th year of the Apocalypse, thousands of people traveled eastward along this road. They drove large covered carriages to transport their items, and dragged their children to open up settlements in the New World. For these immigrants, the New World meant life.

For the Nanhai Shi family, the New World meant the way out.This is the way Shi Yiwen deliberately arranged for himself. For this reason, he even sent his eldest son to Seattle. Of course, many officials and rich families of the South China Sea Propaganda Department also sent their sons to the New World.

After all, everyone knows very well that the reason why Daming turns a blind eye to the South China Sea Xuanweisi, which has a population of tens of millions, is not because they have not discovered its threat, but more importantly, they are unable to look south.As long as they pull away one day, the so-called peaceful years will end accordingly.

(End of this chapter)