Lord of Ming Dynasty

The first thousand and thirty-seven chapters export ideas and culture

As time drifted, the Chinese Empire became stronger and stronger, so strong that it made the Russians tremble.

The Russians were not without resistance. They used a Western method to preach, and sent many priests to the Qing Dynasty to preach, and then used the Qing Dynasty to corrupt the businessmen who went to the Chinese Empire.

After Zhang Qiang knew about this sign, he ordered the Ministry of Supervision and the Ministry of People's Affairs to arrest missionaries from Russia or the Qing Dynasty as the first choice, because he knew that the future generations of China were harmed by these missionaries.

They brought bad habits from the West, and the pure-minded people of the Chinese Empire, just like ancient germs that cannot resist modern antibiotics, are likely to be corroded, eventually causing turmoil in the Chinese Empire.

Of course, the Russians will not do useless work. They also use gold and fur trade while preaching. It is said that the Russians have no less demand for fur than the Chinese Empire. The Chinese Empire actually does not have much desire for fur, because China has cotton clothes, and there are as many animal furs. During the Ming Dynasty and the Chinese Empire, there were actually many virgin forests in many places. Many animals and plants were not as close to extinction as Zhang Qiang and his later generations.

Therefore, there are a lot of resources, and it is definitely not the time to import a large amount of Russian furs, and many Russian furs are actually obtained from Siberia.

For Russian businessmen and adventurers, when the expedition team enters Siberia, the Chinese Empire has regulations. They must not exceed the train line or horse-drawn carriage, and the horse-drawn line should not exceed five kilometers.

Zhang Qiang was afraid that they would stop poaching.

When was fur the most important resource and wealth in Siberia, if it was obtained by the Russians and then sold to businessmen from the Qing Dynasty or the Huaxia Kingdom, it would be tantamount to a thief selling something to the owner, isn’t it ridiculous?

Siberia now belongs to the Chinese Empire.

When the Russians did not get out of the war for hegemony in the West, the Russians' soft aggression was easy to resist. Zhang Qiang and the cabinet took countermeasures and exported Buddhism and Taoism to Russia. , and even export Confucianism, teach the bears, let the dogs learn morality, ethics, and shame, and let the Confucianism that has plagued China for thousands of years harm Russia.

The Chinese Empire only learns the positive part of Confucianism, which is beneficial to improving the blood and strategy, vision, and actions of the Chinese people. As for surprising allies, it is not good. Foreigners are our ancestors, and foreigner things are good. , We are just not good, this kind of Japanese inferiority complex should not be learned.

While exporting ideas, a large number of commodities are also exported. After ensuring that the domestic supply is sufficient, tea, silk, and ceramics from Huaxia Kingdom are exported to Russia as luxury goods, and they are well received by the upper Russian nobles. Centuries ago it was a commodity that the West was very fond of.

The Russians need food very much now, because they have a population of nearly tens of millions, most of whom are serfs. These serfs planted cotton and food for them to feed them, but all of them died or were captured during the more than ten years of war. This makes them not have enough population to grow food, and because of the war, they have to recruit strong labor to the front line to fight with three hostile countries on the border or stare at each other. These people will consume a lot of concentration food.

There are very few people who grow food in Russia. Most of them are barbarian tribes gathered by countless nomads. After centuries of assimilation and teaching, there are still many people who are actually difficult to manage and are in a state of autonomy. For example, the former Huns Fleeing to the Volga River Basin, after the Qing Dynasty, some people returned to the Qing Dynasty one after another, but some people were unwilling to leave and stayed, but the living habits still maintained the habits of the Han people and Mongolians, and their faces were also the national characteristics of the Han people and Mongolians. Such a face, there are many good tribes of such people.

The more prominent ones are the Cossacks, who have made great contributions to the expansion of Russia, and have always been the largest candidate for the Russian mobile cavalry and the main force and source of troops.

Russia had to take out more gold, dyes, crops, or iron, copper and other materials to deal with it. The most they could get was food, the most abundant commodity in China.

It speeds up the speed of pedestrians running on the road, which is much faster and cleaner than the dirt road, because Daming does not have the cars that weigh tens of tons like later generations, and even if there is a carriage, it will definitely not exceed a few tons. The weight of tons is more than enough for this kind of low-level road. This is the change that Zhang Qiang brought to this era.

It can't be said how advanced or advanced it is, but it is absolutely convenient.

And with the increase of R&D personnel, it is mainly because the Huaxia Army has added other industry exams on the basis of the imperial examinations, 360 lines, and there are exams for all walks of life. Low-level personnel can get a government-certified industry qualification certificate. With these certificates, you can engage in research in related industries, and sell the research results to the government, and the government pays a certain amount of money to buy the research results.

This is the qualification certificate for all people in the industry. It is an honor to have this certificate, just like a scholar who has been admitted to Tongsheng. In the village, you can also get the reception of the village head, the head of the security, or the head of the township, and let everyone look at you highly. In these low-level administrative positions, you can also get a good income and a basic monthly salary.

People in the village read a letter, recognize a character, or build something, find an authority to authenticate it, and they will come to you, or the price of what you come up with is higher than the price of other people who have not been authenticated. I have to find you when dealing with the government.

Zhang Huangyan walked all the way, passing through the countryside, and learned about these things through the mouth of the young guide who led the way.

Low-level certification does not require you to be literate or have read books, as long as you can get something in the industry and get government approval.

And can get the qualification to go to adult night school for free. If you graduate from the night school, that is to say, you know ten Arabic numerals and more than one hundred characters, you can take the qualification certification level two examination.

These exams are all focused on industry leaders. If you can speak clearly about farm work and record it with the help of others, and if you can understand it yourself, you will be able to obtain a second-level qualification certification.

Let the society promote its own development. Zhang Qiang is only a bystander and a guide. Otherwise, with his knowledge structure, insight, and historical knowledge, he will not be able to reach the level of other traversers in 100 years. years of development.

Chapter 38 Difficult Road to Western Exploration

And Moscow has also become economically prosperous because of this railway line, and its population has increased to 60, and it has attracted many Western businessmen to come and settle around. Russia's economy is also developing rapidly. At the same time as the development, the Confucianism of the Chinese Empire was slowly corroded. Many Russian nobles and businessmen who did business in the Chinese Empire unconsciously began to learn Mandarin and simplified characters that Zhang Qiang promoted throughout the country, and learned Confucianism in a serious manner.

Although the Qing Dynasty won the world on horseback and came from barbarism, they actively learned the traditions of the Han people of the Ming Dynasty. Over the past few decades, they have gradually Sinicized and merged. However, unlike China, they maintained the Han people of the Ming Dynasty or Since the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the culture and characteristics of the integration of the Hu people and the Han people have also integrated some advanced ideas and some enlightened styles of the Chinese Empire, and some pragmatic but polite changes of the Han people.

They subtly transmitted this change to the Russian businessmen and nobles who did business with them and had close ties.

They also absorbed some Tatars and Cossack civilians and down-and-out nobles who were conquered by Russia. Now the Qing Dynasty is affecting Russia, and Russia is also affecting the Qing Dynasty. Because of the short time, Russia's influence on the Chinese Empire The influence has not yet spread to the Huaxia Empire, but because the Huaxia Empire took the initiative and worked hard to spread it, they were influenced by the Huaxia Empire.

Losing the possibility of going east and south, the Russians could only compete with their old enemy for the western territory. They eliminated the Kiev Principality, the Tver Principality, the Kazan Khanate, and the Alaskan Tatar Khanate. At the same time, they are advancing towards the Baltic Sea, the Caspian Sea, and the Black Sea. This side is blocked by the Western Regions Legion and the Governor-General of the Chinese Empire in Central Asia, so they can only continue to attack west and north, and attack Europe.

In previous wars, Russia mainly eliminated the small countries and hostile forces around them, consolidated its own strength, and expanded its strategic depth. Originally, they could not defeat the Khanates left by the Mongols on the grasslands, and they also came from Asia Minor. When Russia was under the influence of Poland, they chose to march to the Far East, but more than ten years of war had exhausted Russia's manpower and material resources. With the support of Western countries, they achieved a defeat. At the same time, because they did not give their hostile neighbor Poland And Sweden, the benefits that Turkey should obtain, were besieged by three families.

After withstood the siege of the three families and weakened the strength of Sweden and Poland, Sweden and Poland, the two relatively strong powers since the sixteenth century, declined, and their enemies were only Turkey and Poland. The countries of the Arab forces in Asia Minor, these countries are in the Near East, that is, around Russia, there are two neighbors that Russia does not want to mess with, the Kingdom of Crimea and the Kingdom of Ukraine.

The Kingdom of Ukraine, which is located on the edge of the great forest and the prairie, is supported by all the forces that oppose Russia, some Russian nobles, and some nobles who were subjugated by Russia. This is a troublesome country, and every Russian attack must In the face of harassment from all directions, even if it can occupy a few strategic points, it cannot be maintained for a long time.

And when the war with the Qing Dynasty in the Far East ended, and when Grove brought back the Lianzhu gun that was more advanced than the West, Russia successfully defeated its old enemies Poland and Sweden, and deterred Turkey. Now Russia We are trying our best to solve the threat of Ukraine and Kiev. Basically, we can achieve our goal, but it is still a little bit short, but it is not important. What is important is that Russia can now spare troops to deal with the Kingdom of Crimea.

When the Kingdom of Crimea was taken down, they basically occupied the northern shore of the Black Sea, and then it went smoothly, and they will definitely be able to conquer the Kingdom of Ukraine in the next time.

Even if this requires a large-scale battle that is basically similar to the battle against the Qing Dynasty, a battle with a battle boundary of thousands of kilometers.

But without the threat of the Chinese Empire, and without the threat of war from the Qing Dynasty, Russia still feels that it can quickly solve the problems of the West.

Because of these wars, Russia is not afraid of having no money to pay the Chinese Empire. If there is no money, you can go to these places to rob. The gold you rob is used to buy furs and food, guns, ammunition, livestock, etc. from the Chinese Empire. Slaves and prisoners of war can be exchanged for gold and the supplies and food of the Chinese Empire in the Qing Dynasty, food and so on.

It can be said that Russia has turned to the Chinese Empire and the Qing Dynasty as its logistics material procurement base.

It's just that the transportation distance of this material is a bit longer, tens of thousands of kilometers, even if it is a coal train, it will take three months to travel from Yanjing to Moscow. Fortunately, these materials were transported to Yekater very early Linnaburg, and then transferred to Xinshengjing, the distance from Xinshengjing to Moscow is only more than 1000 and less than [-] kilometers.

Most of the time, Russia only needs to get goods or trade from Xinshengjing. If you run farther, you can only run more than 1000 kilometers, and the total mileage is less than [-] kilometers. You can get supplies in Yekaterinburg.

If in the past, it took four to five months or even half a year to turn over [-] kilometers of materials, now it only takes two and a half months. The materials are transported from Yanjing to Yekaterinburg, and then transferred When arriving in Xinshengjing, one up and one down, as long as it is finalized, and a few days of communication will be made quickly, the materials can be quickly set off from Xinshengjing, and arrive in Moscow in one and a half months, and then receive, unload, and distribute in Moscow. It takes less than two months. able to reach the Ukrainian front.

The total turnaround period is no more than seven months.

And the war between Russia and Ukraine is obviously impossible to finish in seven months or two seven months. A material transportation can support soldiers and horses for a year.

This is the case with wars in this era. It takes several years, or even decades, to fight a large-scale battle. The Anglo-Dutch war lasted 30 years.

The main reason is that the distance between the two sides is too far. It will take a long time to mobilize troops and supplies, and it will take a long time for the two sides to contact each other. It will take a long time to fight once and then rest, and it will take a long time to fight again. This is a battle that consumes materials and time. Even in the battle against the Qing Dynasty, there were a total of three decisive battles on the Wanli battlefield. The scale was only 200 million people, but it took 15 years. It took 25 years to end the war with the Qing Dynasty.

The monarchs of Russia need to spend their entire lives fighting and expanding. Peter the Great fought for 80 years, and indeed spent his whole life.

The first thousand and thirty-nine chapters suddenly look back, the pace is still difficult

The period from 1600 to 1699 was the seventeenth century in Western history. The West was prosperous and a link between the past and the future. Although Russia was affected by the war, Britain, France, Germany, Poland, Sweden, and Turkey also participated in it, and even Italians participated in it. These waves did not cause much waves in the Western world at all, and affected the upper class, the nobles, the lower class civilians, or other walks of life in the West, and they still continued to advance and develop step by step.

And it has developed fruitful results: "The 17th century was a century of the development of colonialism. Voltaire called the 17th century "the century of Louis XIV."In the history of science, Whitehead called it "the century of genius". At the beginning of the 17th century, the main subjects of elementary mathematics (arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry) were basically formed, but the development of mathematics was just in the ascendant, and it entered the next stage of the history of mathematics at an accelerated pace: the period of variable mathematics. The difference from the previous period (often referred to as the elementary mathematics period) is that the previous period mainly studied the individual elements of the objective world with a static method, while this period explored the process of change and development of things from the perspective of movement.

浪漫主义、印象主义以至20世纪的野兽派和表现派；17世纪的学院派古典主义影响了后来的新古典主义和立体派美术等；17世纪的现实主义艺术倾向，对后来的18世纪市民艺术、19世纪的现实主义也都有着明显的影响。”

These are unheard of and unseen to the Chinese Empire. It seems that the Chinese Empire is a primitive society, and the West in the 17th century is the high-tech era of later generations. The gap is so big that it is desperate.

Ordinary people are nothing, but when Zhang Qiang thinks about it, it sounds extremely sad and desperate.

They have just climbed out of the primitive era of slash-and-burn farming, and just replaced the cold weapons in their hands with matchlock guns and flintlock guns, while their neighbors and enemies are already wearing doctor's caps, wearing doctor's black robes, and driving Ford The car is swimming among the high-sulfur buildings. The machines in the factory are semi-automated. The workers wear hygienic and safe laboratory hats and walk in the clean factory. The products go down the assembly line like dumplings. The Huaxia Empire had just peeled a piece of corn with its hands, its face was speckled with blackberries and gray spots, and beads of sweat glistened on its forehead.

From a distance, the combine harvester hurriedly swept across the corn stalks that were taller than a person, and then a large space appeared.

Yes, what an astonishing thing this is. For thousands of years in China, these technologies that can change life and improve production have been regarded as miraculous skills, or obscene, and they were not taken seriously. Only half before the Han Dynasty, Qin The dynasty and other dynasties that established the foundation of China will pay attention to these things and have great respect for them. After Dong Zhongshu in the Han Dynasty, Confucianism and pseudo-Confucianism gained power, these became strange skills, and then they were carried forward in the Ming Dynasty. , was forced to change, but when they arrived in the Qing Dynasty, they were also forced to change. Between development and rule, progress and foundation, all Chinese rulers, after the Great Qin Dynasty, regarded rulers and reading as extremely important. While struggling to find a good life, they have not systematically reformed or summarized the knowledge system of thousands of years.