My Daming New Empire

Everyone is looking at the emperor in the Forbidden City, wondering how long he will live.

Zhu Youtang, who was born in the 36th year of Zhengtong, is already a 34-year-old middle-aged man. Even his son Zhu Houzhao is 15 years old, but the great-great-grandfather sitting on the throne is still full of energy, which is beyond the reach of ordinary people.

In the same year, his good friend Zhang Rui also died of illness, which made him feel that he could not wait for the day when he would not be able to ascend the throne.

In the 71st year of Zhengtong, when Zhu Youtang was inspecting military affairs in the Northwest, he fell from his horse due to heat stroke and died young.

Zhu Zhanji, who is already 96 years old in the Forbidden City, received the news and thought of abdicating for the first time.

However, the great-great-grandson Zhu Houzhao is only 17 years old this year, which made Zhu Zhanji put aside his thoughts of abdicating for the time being and began to train this great-great-grandson with all his strength.

Although history has changed, Zhu Houzhao in this life is still a witty, intelligent, resolute and decisive person.

Of course, because he is already the fourth generation emperor's grandson, he has been spoiled since he was a child, and he likes luxury.

In small things, he muddled along a bit, but was never ambiguous in big things.

During the year of keeping his filial piety, Zhu Zhanji imprisoned him in the palace, and only let him read his own manuscript every day, and he was burned immediately after reading it.

This year has been a painful and fulfilling year for Zhu Houzhao.The painful thing is that his little beauties can't be lucky, those fun entertainments can no longer be played, even the football games can't be watched live.

But the rewards are huge!

Only then did he realize that his great ancestor was not a mortal, but a god who descended from the mortal world.

Gao Zu not only knew astronomy from above, geography from below, and harmony from people, but also 500 years later.

He has learned during this year that a country's political system is no better, and it suits the best.

Moreover, Gaozu also took out different political systems and analyzed them with him one by one, letting him know the advantages and disadvantages of various political systems and their differences.

During this year, he learned that the economy is the lifeblood of a country.

Economy is to create, transform, and realize value to meet the needs of human material and cultural life.

For individuals, the creation, transformation and realization of value is the embodiment of personal life value.

The national economy is the management of materials; it is the unified arrangement of the overall dynamic phenomenon of people's production, use, processing, and distribution of all materials.

Production is the basis of this dynamic, distribution is the end of this dynamic.

And mastering the management power and distribution power means the stability of the government.

Only when the common people live and work in peace and contentment can the rule of Ming Dynasty be stable forever.

During this year, he understood why Gao Zu always had the royal family directly control the military power, and did not allow any nobles to have the right to deploy troops.

Only by mastering the army can the authority of the royal family be maintained and consolidated, and the maintenance of the rules can be formed.

Mastering military power is not to bully others, but to maintain the stability of the rules.

During this year, he also knew why Gao Zu paid so much attention to the research and development and leadership of science and technology, because this is the most effective means of utilizing productivity.

Leading technology means leading technology, reducing costs, and being able to always stand at the top of the supply chain in economic activities.

He also knew why Ming had the ability to occupy the whole world, but still allowed some small countries to exist.

This is not only to enrich the cultural existence of human beings, but also to increase some profits and competitiveness for a world without crisis.

Only when there is competition and pressure can there be progress.

In the end, he understood why Gao Zu paid so much attention to the spread of culture, why he supported the three religions, but took the truth religion as the state religion, and tried his best to suppress the existence of Green religion and Christianity.

This is not only to make the whole world agree with Daming's ethics, values, and worldview, but also to make everyone spontaneously move closer to Daming.

The power of culture is invisible, but it is the most stable, more powerful than the massacre and deterrence of the army.

From the age of 17 to the present, Zhu Houzhao matured rapidly in this year.

He originally liked to practice martial arts since he was a child, and Gao Zu said more than once that he is the most like himself among his descendants.

During this year, he also changed from being competitive at the beginning to liking to study Jinggong.

And he does have talent, after a year, he has already achieved a small amount of inner strength.

Seeing that Zhu Houzhao's internal strength has been achieved, Zhu Zhanji is really relieved. He no longer worries that he will die young in the future, leaving behind young princes and grandchildren who will be played and applauded by the ministers

In the 73rd year of Zhengtong, Zhu Houzhao got married, and was later arranged by Zhu Zhanji to enter the young army as an intern.

In the 74th year of Zhengtong, Zhu Houzhao's three concubines each gave birth to a child for him, two of whom were boys.

In the 75th year of Zhengtong, the emperor Zhu Zhanji was a hundred years old, and all parts of Ming Dynasty celebrated the centenary emperor.

But this year, Zhu Zhanji no longer knew how many descendants he had. He only knew that the number of people in Ming Dynasty had exceeded [-] million.

Except for Ming Dynasty, the total population of the whole world is just about one billion. That is to say, Chinese occupy 90.00% of the territory and 80.00% of the world's population.

This is mainly India. The population of Japan is a little larger. Like the whole of Europe, the current population is less than 2000 million.

Therefore, at this time, Zhu Zhanji is not worried that other countries will become a threat to Ming Dynasty.

In the 76th year of Zhengtong, Zhu Zhanji held a grand abdication ceremony, passing the throne to Zhu Houzhao, who was already 22 years old, and personally chose the year name Zhengde for him.

However, although Zhu Houzhao ascended the throne as the emperor, he insisted on resigning from the year name and announced to the world that although the new year name will be counted from now on, it will not be implemented until the death of Gaozu.

Therefore, starting from the 76th year of Zhengtong, Ming Dynasty experienced a period of chaos in the reign name. Although the emperor was Zhengde, the reign name was still orthodox.

And Zhu Zhanji, who is already [-] years old, is still active in every corner of Daming, and still controls all aspects of Daming, even though he has been crowned the Supreme Emperor.

The only difference is that he has become more free.

In the 77th year of orthodoxy, one year after Zhu Houzhao took the throne, he handled the affairs of the country with ease, and Zhu Zhanji was completely at ease with him.

Beginning in 77, Zhu Zhanji started his own tour of the Ming Dynasty.

A special train will travel to Star City (Singapore), the southernmost point of the Central Continent in winter, and may travel to Beihai Port (St. Petersburg), the westernmost point of the Ming Empire in summer.

Although Zhu Zhanji is no longer on the throne, he has a better understanding of the development of this country.

In the 80th year of Zhengtong, the [-]-year-old Zhu Zhanji, regardless of everyone's opposition, took the train from Yingtianfu and arrived at the northernmost Beihai Gulf (Bering Strait) in the Ming Dynasty.

After arriving at Laizhou Prefecture (Alaska) by boat from here, he changed to a train and started his own trip to Dongzhou.

All the major palaces in Dongzhou are ready to take out the best things to entertain their ancestor.

This trip to Dongzhou lasted for four full years, and Zhu Zhanji visited almost every palace.

Finally, in November of the 84th year of Zhengtong, his footsteps reached the southernmost tip of the Eastern Continent.