[Comprehensive History] Clothes are all over the world

In this world, probably only Zhu Gaochi would sincerely say that his family is so poor.Even if raising Dabai did cost a little money (cough, the frugal Mu Xiaobai has already replaced most of the fabrics in the room with cotton and linen products), but it will never cause Yan Wangfu to worry about it. In fact, today's Among the vassal kings, King Yan's wealth is completely ranked among the top five in the team, and the only one who can compete with him is the King of Shu, whose fiefdom is in the Land of Abundance.

However, considering the time when the child arrived in Yingtian Mansion, Mu Bai felt that he might really not know his family's current situation.

This is not possible. As the future heir of the family, I don't know how to deal with the situation of the fiefdom. You must know that according to the current situation, most of the eldest sons of these vassal kings return to their hometowns when their old father dies and they need to go to the vassal. If there is an emergency, wouldn't it be safe to be deceived?

Don't think it's impossible, that's the case with the father of Prince Lu's son whose candy was robbed by Dabai before.

Prince Lu's son was born in Hongwu 21. His father Zhu Tan was the tenth son of Emperor Hongwu, and his grandmother was the famous Concubine Guo Ning. Guo Ningfei's experience with Emperor Hongwu was also very legendary.

It is said that her father was good at face-to-face. When he saw Emperor Hongwu for the first time, he was astonished. He immediately recognized Emperor Hongwu's noble spirit, so he called his two sons to follow him without hesitation. At the side of Emperor Hongwu, he also asked his daughter to serve Emperor Hongwu.

His two sons are Guo Xing and Guo Ying. These two followed Emperor Hongwu to raise troops and became the Duke of the country from personal guards all the way. Guo Ying was unscathed in the precarious end of Hongwu. In the later period, he followed Geng Bingwen to crusade against Zhu Di , Although he returned without success, he was only dismissed from office, which shows how successful he is in life.

It is precisely because this family is quite humble and cautious that they do not hold back, and because their son was young, in history, after the death of Empress Ma, Emperor Hongwu's harem was entrusted to the imperial concubine Ning, which shows that she was favored.

Under the circumstances that his uncle’s family was reliable and his wife was favored, King Lu naturally had a good life when he was young. His main concubine was the daughter of Xin Guogong Tang He. The younger sister of Princess Lu was chosen as the second concubine, which shows how much she values ​​it.

Of course, this is also because the King of Lu was fighting for his own strength. Before he became a feudal clan, apart from the prince Zhu Biao, this son was the favorite of Emperor Hongwu.

"Tan'er was clever when he was young, and he could understand the meaning of the poems at a glance. He could understand the meaning after reading it three times. He was quick-witted and knowledgeable, which is really rare." He will not be named king of Lu."

The fiefdom of the King of Lu is Shandong, which is also the hometown of Confucius. According to the regulations, the vassal kings are the symbols of the emperor in the local area. They have the responsibility to replace the emperor in the local sacrifices. Talented people are sent to Shandong.

——The main thing is to write sacrificial texts during the sacrificial ceremony. According to regulations, this must be written by the chief priest himself. If people with poor literary talent read their own humble works in the hometown of Confucius and Mencius, wouldn’t it be a shame, even if they sent their sons with the best Chinese skills This, Emperor Hongwu wrote a small composition to be modest and said that his son's level is not good enough but his sincerity is commendable, so let everyone take care of it.

But King Lu failed Emperor Hongwu's expectations.

This vassal king got married at the age of 14 and went to the fiefdom at the age of 15. A few years ago, he was indeed as diligent in government and loving the people as Emperor Hongwu imagined. Usually he is not challenging and wants to seek excitement, but when he was in the rebellious youth period, His Royal Highness King Lu was led astray - he began to believe in Taoism, and even started to practice immortality.

Although Emperor Hongwu was born in Buddhism, and the Red Scarf Army was a variant of Mingjiao, strictly speaking, he belonged to the atheist sect. Rather than saying that he believed in Buddhism, it is better to say that he believed in himself.

But in the eyes of most people, his origin determines that he is a pro-Buddhist. It can be seen from the reconstruction of the Buddhist temple in Yingtian Mansion after he ascended the throne. It may be because his behavior is misunderstood. He is a Taoist priest who is afraid that his status will be affected. They tried to influence the second and third generations of the emperor, so the king of Lu, who was greatly expected by Emperor Hongwu, embarked on a road that no one thought of.

In fact, it doesn't matter if the cultivation of immortality is purely from the heart, but what he was tempted was the shortcut to cultivation.

Yes, His Royal Highness King Lu embarked on the road of taking drugs and killed himself a few years later. He was only 20 years old when he died, and his only son was only two years old at the time. After hearing the news, Hong Wudi suddenly became furious Furious, he gave his once favorite son "Huang" as a posthumous title.

Among the posthumous titles, Huang belongs to the lower posthumous title, which is at the same level as "You" and "Yang". It is said that he is obsessed with vocal music and neglects political affairs.

According to Mu Bai's understanding of his imperial grandfather, if it was only his son who ate himself to death because of taking the pill, then Emperor Hongwu would not be so angry. There must have been something unknown to everyone, but the old father He kept a secret about it.

However, from his father's attitude, Mu Bai guessed that there must be some tricks in it, and this probably belongs to those things that the Ming royal family can't say.

Because of the early death of King Lu Huang, the eldest son of King Lu, who was only two years old, was established as the eldest son. However, judging from Emperor Hongwu's attitude, it may not be so easy for the son of King Lu to become a vassal. This child should be brought up well to prevent him from following in his father's footsteps, but with Emperor Hongwu abdicating to farm, now the Zhunlu King has become Zhu Biao's responsibility.

Well, thinking of the bad things that this unlucky uncle did, Mu Bai immediately became clever, and now he didn't care about the dog at home, and under Dabai's joyful gaze, he took the little cousin to the side room, where the The most important thing is a large number of maps of Ming Dynasty, and there are several categories just for classification.

In the entire Ming Dynasty, there is no place with more maps than the ear chamber of Chunhe Palace. Even if Zhu Biao sometimes wants to see maps, he has to ask his son for them.What kind of population migration map, what kind of local product map, what kind of wind direction map and water direction map, in short, there are only things that people can't think of here, there is nothing that it doesn't have, because there are too many things, and there are no obvious labels for the sake of confidentiality. After looking for it, I found a drawing with many arcs.

This picture is a schematic diagram of the business lifeline of Ming Dynasty today. Mu Bai conveniently fastened it to the hidden button on the wall, and began to explain the current business situation of Ming Dynasty to his little cousin.

Simply put, Daming now has three major arteries.

One is the ocean trade line from Quanzhou, Fujian all the way north to Liujiagang. With the gradual relaxation of policies over the years, the economic and taxation situation in the coastal areas has reached [-]% of that in the former Song Dynasty.

This is an achievement to be proud of.

Regardless of the fact that the coastline and land area of ​​the Song Dynasty were far inferior to that of Daming today, and in the Southern Song Dynasty, there were only half of the mountains and rivers. However, the maritime trade at that time had become the pillar industry of the Song Dynasty, and even supported the huge military expenditure of the Song Dynasty. In people's impression, the extremely weak Song Dynasty fought against Mongolia, the world's largest combat power at that time, for more than half a century, and even killed several "generational talents". From this, one can imagine how huge the Song Dynasty's shipping base was.

The reason why the Ming Dynasty has not been able to catch up with the tax revenue of the Song Dynasty in the era of longer coastline and more developed world trade is entirely because the Ming Dynasty has much more exclusive goods than the Song Dynasty.

These goods can only be traded officially, not in private circulation, and naturally they are not included in taxes, but small money is still earned.

The other road looks very inconspicuous, and it is the overland trade route connecting South Asia and Tibet with Yunnan as the center.

In the former Song Dynasty, this road provided the last source of horses for the Song army who lost almost all the pastures at that time. At that time, the trade of exchanging tea for horses was also inherited by the Ming Dynasty, but the scale continued to expand.

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has a high altitude and a cold climate. Its natural environment predestined that except for a few areas where wheat can be grown, most places can only use highland barley as the staple food. Regardless of the fact that this crop is very popular in modern times. Fat girls love it, and it was even added to milk tea, which became a placebo for drinking milk tea without getting fat, but its taste...is actually very bad.

Just like wheat was found to be ground into flour before it developed edible value, Tibet has no other choice, and they can only eat highland barley without the invention of grinding tools, and wait until the cooking of the Central Plains After the culture was introduced, people here also tried to make barley into pasta, but unfortunately, like buckwheat, barley cannot produce bran, so it cannot be pulled into noodles like wheat, but can only be rolled out and cut with a knife .

But this kind of production is too troublesome, and the stickiness of highland barley flour is too weak. Without adding sticky substances, it is not easy to roll it into noodle cakes. Therefore, the local people finally invented a special way of eating - tsampa.

This way of eating is to wash, grind and fry the highland barley to make flour, mix it with various ingredients, knead it into small dough and eat it directly.This way of eating is mainly because it is convenient to eat. When Tibetans go out, they just need to bring some water and powder. To some extent, it is similar to the way of eating milk powder invented by the Mongolians.

But this does not mean that Tibetans really like to eat this way!

It is human instinct to eat food that is more refined and more direct in obtaining nutrition. Tibetans' demand for rice and wheat is no less than that of tea, which they use as medicine.

But in the past, Tibet’s neighbor was Yunnan, where I couldn’t even get enough to eat, let alone support the next door—no matter how much gold you have.

But things are different now.

A large number of immigrants from the Ming Dynasty came to Yunnan, and the first thing they did was to open up wasteland and farm. In recent years, officials sent to help the border have brought advanced planting technology and food processing technology here. The purchased food, the post station and road connected to Sichuan opened by the two wives Shexiang and Shuzhen, now more and more Tibetans can purchase popular materials in the Central Plains through this trade route.

Following this path, Daming not only obtained Tibetan horses that grew on the plateau with better stamina, but also precious and mysterious Tibetan medicines entered the ranks of doctors' research. There is a power of Tibetan medicine in the medicine juice.

(Squealing children: No! It’s even worse!)

If the first two roads were followed by the Ming Dynasty along the route of the Song Dynasty, then the third business road is a completely new road.

It was a commercial circle centered in Beiping, radiating the entire Northeast and even reaching into the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

Nowadays, selling coal and iron in the territory to Daming has become the wealth code of many nomads.

Yes, with the help of the ground drilling machine, the nomads in the north still discovered iron ore. This was originally an opportunity for the rise of the nomads, and it was also Mu Bai’s most worried problem before, but what everyone expected was that the iron ore was discovered The tribe of the mine did not take the opportunity to build ironware to develop military industry, but chose to load the ore into a carriage and transport it to Daming with a rumble.

When someone quietly asked why they didn't smelt iron by themselves, the tribe leader said very calmly that they had actually thought about trying it themselves, but there was really no way.

Without professional furnaces and catalysts, they would have no way to melt iron ore into molten iron!

Not to mention the molten iron, it took a lot of effort to beat it into iron, and under this most primitive smelting method, the quality of the finished product was of course not satisfactory.

After calculating the cost and effort, this tribe finally gave up. The people on the grassland did not have enough agricultural output to support the development of other industries like the Central Plains dynasty. For the herdsmen, they are really a carrot A pit, dispatching people to make iron stoves means that his life will be covered by others.

Now almost one-third of an ordinary family is busy mining. If they continue to expand blindly, the cattle and sheep they depend on will not be taken care of. It is better to give up earlier. Using these may drag the tribe to death. output in exchange for basic items.

Although the herdsmen are mostly straightforward, they also have their own set of survival rules.

And they also have their own little plans. It is difficult to smelt this thing in the forward direction, but it is easy in the opposite direction. It is a difficult problem for most tribes to smelt iron ore from iron ore, but to re-smelt iron from iron Ingots are much simpler.

Instead of working so hard to smash the ore, it is better to use the money from selling these things to buy ironware directly, and then melt the ironware directly.

However, considering that ironware was also on the banned list before, the leaders of these tribes actually didn't have much hope, but what they didn't expect was that their request was actually met, and they really bought the iron pot.

Isn't Daming afraid of their armed forces?

Daming is afraid of shit.

Among the Japanese craftsmen brought back by Emperor Hongwu this time, there are two craftsmen who worked as swordsmiths when they were young. Restricted by Japan's geographical environment, they began to study alloy weapons made of two or three materials. But one difficulty in the manufacture of alloys is that its ratio must be very precise, which is basically impossible in today's era without measuring instruments.

It is inevitable that the content of iron in iron ores from different origins is different. These irons cannot be used directly at all. Even after they are hammered into iron ingots, craftsmen have to sieve them. It can be said that today's For Daming, it is best to directly mine a brand new iron ore. The material properties in the same mine are similar, and even if there are errors, it is within an acceptable range.

But the problem is that in the territory of Ming Dynasty, such new mines do not exist at all, so these tribes are just sending carbon in a timely manner?

Compared with the minor troubles that may arise in the future, the key point is to quickly upgrade the equipment of the soldiers.

And... ahem, I'm not afraid of you coming, but I'm afraid you won't come. It's been too peaceful recently, and there's no place for the soldiers' record.

All in all, when Daming began to collect iron ore, there were more and more caravans transporting goods to the south, and at the same time, the conflict between the small tribes and the gold family intensified.

Small tribes will weigh iron ore against ironware, and so will the central government.

Their choice is to keep the iron ore. If the small tribe can’t do it, they can. So at the moment, the gold family sent a letter to all the tribes, requesting not to export the iron ore, but to send all the iron ore found to the central government. This pissed everyone off.

It is true that the Golden Family did not ask for such a thing, but their purchase price is not comparable to that of Ming Dynasty, but it is better than nothing, and the cost and difficulty of the journey to the north are also taken into account, so a fool would do it.

So there was a forced request, and a forced refusal. Over the years, there have been several civil strife on the grassland, and more and more tribes chose to enclose.

But none of these disputes on the prairie affected Mubai's fourth uncle, Zhu Di, who was the one who made a lot of money and could sleep on coins.

The main fiscal revenue of the vassal king is linked to local taxation. Of course, there is also Lumi as a subsidy, but Zhu Di can already pat his shoulders and say that we will not accept Lumi. The time for checking these Lumi has affected the speed at which he makes money.

Cough cough, of course, he didn't have the guts to say these words, the trick to survive in front of his father is - not revealing his wealth.Because his son grew up in the capital for a long time, Zhu Di even hid the child from him. The whole family looked bitter and haha.

And now, my family is so rich!Zhu Gaochi opened his mouth wide, feeling that his three views were not good.

He looked at the area where his fiefdom was located. His Highness the Crown Prince had drawn a strangely shaped mark there, and the surrounding arcs gathered all the way here. There was no more lively place on the entire map than this place.

It turns out that the father is so powerful!

Zhu Gaochi had a string of star eyes, and he really wanted to go home and take a look.

But the old father who was missed by his son was not doing well at the moment.

Zhu Di's hobby is studying Buddhism, and he was fortunate enough to hire an eminent monk to give him lectures.

This eminent monk has no personal knowledge, the only shortcoming... is that he always wants to encourage him to go to sea, which makes Zhu Di feel a little troublesome.

What's more troublesome is that he was really tempted.