Chapter 802: The Damage Is Not Great, but the Insult Is Extremely Strong

Yin Zongxin stayed in the capital for fifteen days. He also went to the Western Mountain Mausoleum to sacrifice to the ancestors of the Great Ming dynasty. The Imperial Sons-in-Law have to sacrifice every year, but Yin Zongxin, this Imperial Son-in-Law, had never been here once because of the long distance.

This sacrifice was considered to have completely completed the ritual and law of Yin Zongxin as an Imperial Son-in-Law. Ritual and law are very important. Once the ritual and law are completed, no one can pick out any faults. Even if the whole world knows that Princess Yingjia is an adopted daughter picked up by the Emperor, she is still the Great Princess of the Great Ming.

Yin Zongxin is the Imperial Son-in-Law.

"No, isn't this a bit too much?" When Yin Zongxin arrived at Tanggugang in Tianjin Prefecture and was preparing to take a ship back to Luzon, he looked at the goods piled up like mountains on the pier and said sluggishly.

The imperial grace is too vast.

These goods piled up like mountains were all firearms of the Great Ming, specifically the bird guns and tiger-crouching cannons phased out by the Beijing Camp.

The Great Ming is changing to flintlock guns. These bird guns produced in the past are being gradually phased out. Originally, they planned to melt them all down and rebuild them, but because of the situation in Nanyang, these firearms had a use.

Xu Jue held the account book and said: "100,000 bird guns, and tens of thousands more every year in the future. 3,000 tiger-crouching cannons. The Great Ming didn't make many of these things in the first place. If you want them, there are only new goods. To buy new tiger-crouching cannons, you have to submit a memorial and wait for the meeting to decide."

"There are 200,000 catties of gunpowder here. This is what the Emperor gave to the Viceroy. The Viceroy said there was a shortage of people, but the Emperor didn't have any good solutions, so he could only give some firearms and gunpowder."

Yin Zongxin said in a low voice: "It's a bit too much; it can't be used up."

Xu Jue looked left and right and whispered: "The Emperor said, only when everyone holds a gun will it not be chaotic! The Emperor has exhorted that only Han people can hold fire guns. When purchasing firearms and gunpowder, you must confirm the identity."

"Everyone holds a gun and it won't be chaotic" is a false proposition. If it were really like this, why would the Great Ming still ban crossbows, ban armor, and ban firearms? Just issue a fire gun to everyone, wouldn't that be peace under heaven?

Issuing fire guns is actually a means of vertical cutting, forcing the bottom layer to harm each other and affecting the formation of consensus.

But in the gun-holding order of Nanyang, only Han people can hold fire guns. It is still a horizontal cut, which is an artificial division of classes.

This is a very common practice. For example, in Guizhou and Yunnan, it is all done like this. If military power is not in one's own hands, it is handing one's life to others.

The Great Ming is always like this, having its own whole set of ways of thinking. Even if it is a vertical cut, it is first a horizontal cut and then a vertical cut.

"Everyone holds a gun and it won't be chaotic" refers to the Han community, not the barbarians. The Great Ming Emperor doesn't care about the life and death of the barbarians.

The Great Ming hinterland is not suitable for everyone to hold a gun, because in the Great Ming, it is a society cut horizontally. If everyone has a gun, they will point their guns at the meat-eaters together.

But in the colonies, everyone can hold a gun, and the guns will be pointed at enemies who directly threaten their own lives and property safety.

Only when the colonizers have weapons in their hands can they protect their own interests in complex contradictions and conflicts, especially on the premise that Han people mostly identify with the Great Brightness Sect and barbarians mostly identify with the Bliss Sect. According to the estimation of the Great Ming officials, the conflict between these two religions will become increasingly fierce.

Both the Great Brightness Sect and the Bliss Sect have not undergone harmless treatment, and harmless treatment requires very fierce games, or even repeated elimination movements, to complete.

So explosive conflicts will soon spread to the entire Nanyang. The Great Ming imperial court and the Emperor hope that the Han people can win.

To make the Great Ming great again, there must always be people who become bottom fertilizer and fuel, burning themselves to inject power into making it great again. The Emperor and the imperial court chose the barbarians as this bottom fertilizer and fuel.

"The imperial grace cannot be repaid." Yin Zongxin looked at the boxes of fire guns and gunpowder being pulled onto the big ship, feeling deeply moved.

The fundamental reason why the imperial grace narrative can succeed is that there is truly imperial grace.

Yin Zongxin was a bit deeply moved. Perhaps in the Emperor's eyes, the Han people who went to sea were all pioneers who "cleared the mountains and forests with difficulty and pacified the barbarians to belong to China."

This sentence comes from the "Zuo Zhuan," saying that the ancestor of the Chu State, Xiong Yi, drove a simple cart, drove on the wilderness without roads, wore tattered clothes to open up mountains and forests, or pacified, or transformed, or drove away barbarians, striving for enough living space to make the land under his feet belong to China.

But actually, most of the Emperor's views are correct.

But the composition of these pioneers is relatively complex, and not all of them are thinking of the Great Ming. There are also quite a few rebels. For example, the Yuanxu Islands have several rebel nests, living by deceiving Great Ming Han people and engaging in the opium trade that the imperial court strictly prohibits.

Various promises are sky-high. If you really go to sea and enter these rebel nests, it is simply worse than slaves. Buying Japanese slaves and black barbarian slaves costs silver, but cheating people doesn't.

"Fellow villagers see fellow villagers, and two shots in the back" happens from time to time. All the means are used on compatriots.

Yin Zongxin decided that this time when he went back, he would wipe out all these rebel nests, sink most of the rebels into the sea, and send the rebel leaders to the capital to offer captives before the palace. This is also offering auspicious omens, which can make the Emperor happy, which is repaying the imperial grace.

Mainly because the waterway to Juezhou has to pass through the Yuanxu Islands. After key cleaning, protecting the smoothness of the shipping route, and by the way, he can also seize more plantations.

These rebel nests, the Luzon Viceroyalty had already figured out their situation two or three years ago. The reason they didn't take action was mainly to let the plantations become regular fields, and then the Luzon Viceroyalty would go to pick the peaches.

Yin Zhengmao has never been a good person with high morality. He is a villain who will not stop until he achieves his goal and will stop at nothing.

On August 16th of the 15th year of Wanli, Yin Zongxin, who had finished the Mid-Autumn Festival in the capital, brought...

... the firearms bestowed by the Emperor and left Tanggugang in Tianjin Prefecture. Together with him was Chen Dazhuang.

The Emperor bestowed him twelve beauties from all nations and also found him a wife, requiring him to give birth to thirteen children in three years in Coconut Sea City, serve as the mine guard of the Great Iron Ridge in Juezhou, and the 1 million tael promissory note was also in his hands. He could use these silver notes in the Old Port Viceroyalty to summon pioneers to mine and buy slaves.

The daily life of Great Ming Emperor Zhu Yijun seems a bit too boring. He gets up early to preside over the court meeting in the Zhao Wenhua Hall, leaves the ministers to continue the small meeting after the court meeting, goes to the North Camp to inspect the military horses after lunch, and after returning to the Tonghe Palace, handles memorials until the moon is on the willow tips.

Boring, uninteresting, and repetitive life, in the eyes of Lu Wang Zhu Yijun, is like grinding a mill. A noble person born in heaven tossing himself like this is just shouldering the sun and moon and tying the fate of the country, forcing the Emperor to be so diligent and so determined to govern.

After all, the fate of the two capitals, fifteen provinces, four major viceroyalties, and 130 million people is all on the Emperor's shoulders, so he must lift this sky.

Zhu Yijun opposed the flowers and brocades of the court ministers. For any memorial that flattered him, he would stamp it with the seal of "fart." He was afraid that he would lose himself in the sound of "Holy Monarch" and forget that the Great Ming still had many contradictions that had not been solved.

On August 16th, in the Zhao Wenhua Hall, the Great Ming Grand Secretariat led by Zhang Juzheng presented the compiled "Great Ming Collected Statutes of the Wanli Period" to the imperial front.

Of course, it was just a congratulatory memorial. The "Great Ming Collected Statutes" has 228 volumes in total. If they were all piled up in front of His Majesty, the court meeting could not be held.

The "Great Ming Collected Statutes of the Wanli Period" is Zhang Juzheng's biggest regret. He is the president of the "Great Ming Collected Statutes." He hopes that the "Great Ming Collected Statutes" can be well-compiled and become a written law generally observed and recognized by the Great Ming, giving the reform a legal basis.

Written law is very important. This is the social consensus itself. Although it has such and such compromises, it is still the legal basis of the Wanli Reform.

It was completely revised at the beginning of the 15th year of Wanli, but it was not presented for preview for a long time, waiting for the appendix of the tax law to be revised.

Zhu Yijun held the congratulatory memorial in his hand and said to the people below the moon terrace: "I started to personally engage in agriculture and mulberry in the early years of Wanli, in order to let the people fill their stomachs. This is the first priority. The people regard food as heaven."

"Secondly, starting this year, the Great Ming dynasty has set the Dinghai School System. The Nine Dragons University and the Normal School have begun to be built. We must continuously promote universal education. Even if we lose a lot of money, we must do it, and do it well."

"No matter how poor, we cannot be poor in education. Only with a large number of talents can productivity continuously develop."

"Finally, I am indulging the people to resist the injustice they suffer. If the Southern Yamen is not useful, like the people in Luomu Camp in Hangzhou, the tenant farmers in Taizhou, the instructor Shen Shiqing, and the people in the three counties of Ningdu, Ruijin, and Ninghua, just make a big scene."

"These three things are the most important work I will do in the future. Write these three things into the Wanli edition of the 'Great Ming Collected Statutes'."

Zhu Yijun talked about three very specific tasks.

The first is eating, which is ensuring food supply. This matter seems very difficult, but it is actually relatively simple, because the Great Ming only has 130 million people. As long as the Great Ming land is not abandoned, there will be no large-scale famine;

The people have the right to eat, food rights.

The second thing is that the people have the right to receive education, the right to education, which has a universal consensus. Xiong Tingbing, a cowherd boy, knew characters. In good years, Xiong Tingbing also read books for a few years and knew characters; Shen Shiqing was fostered in his uncle's house and only changed back to the Shen surname after becoming a top scholar.

Let the children read books, because there is jade in the books and gold houses in the books. Even if they don't pass the imperial examination, reading books makes them understand principles. Confucianism talks about self-cultivation, which is actually living clearly.

The time of passing the imperial examination and the night of the bridal chamber are the two most important things for the Great Ming people.

The third thing is that resistance is reasonable. If you suffer injustice, you can resist in various ways, especially the oppression of one collective by another. This kind of resistance is naturally just, but at the same time, it seriously violates the traditional narrative of Confucianism, that is, the order of noble and humble, respect and inferiority, and old and young.

For example, Zhu Yijun has great recognition for the resistance of the Northern Alliance in the Netherlands against injustice. Of course, recognition is recognition. If you want to get help from the Great Ming, take out real gold and silver.

Business is business, and recognition is recognition. They cannot be confused.

Confucian scholars are actually very disgusted with this natural justice of resistance, but there is no good way, because the people's right to resist and the right to education are forcibly bound together.

Zhu Yijun scolds treacherous scholars, just like the Confucian sage Xunzi scolded treacherous scholars. It is a part of Confucian scholars. Another part of Confucian scholars is actively embracing change, or even change itself.

In fact, throughout the dynasties, when farmers rose up, there were often shadows of scholars, and they were heavy-colored. For example, the first meritorious ministers under Zhu Yuanzhang, Li Shanzhang, Liu Bowen, etc. Without Li Shanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang would just be a warlord, and he couldn't accomplish great things.

For example, the instructor of the Nanhu Academy in Taizhou Prefecture, Shen Shiqing, saw that tenant farmers suffered injustice and chose to help.

Farmers' resistance generally has limitations, but these farmers have the help of scholars, and the limitations will be gradually corrected in the movement.

Scholars can often make the resistance of the poor more effective and easier to succeed. The poor have the strongest power in the world, but they don't know how to release it.

Therefore, the universal right to education and the right to resist are completely bound together. As long as universal education is still being promoted, then concessions must be made to the bottom layer in the game, otherwise, the scholars who can correctly guide the power of the people are the life-taking charms of the Great Ming dynasty.

Promoting universal education is guaranteeing the rationality of distribution.

Once universal education is no longer valued one day, or even becomes an object that everyone shouts to beat, then we must be vigilant. The clans, local gentry, powerful families, and production relations of strong personal attachment that have been gradually eliminated by the torrent of history are borrowing corpses to return to life in this way.

"I actually can't do much. I just hope that people live like a person. Just like a person is already very difficult, but I still want to do it. Writing it into the 'Great Ming Collected Statutes' is my promise to the people. This is part of human rights." Zhu Yijun emphasized again that this is human rights.

Human rights are: people should have power when they are alive.

The "Wanli Collected Statutes" lacks human rights. Eating, education, and resistance are the human rights that Zhu Yijun thinks are important. Of course, he wants the people to have the right to medical treatment, but Zhu Yijun doesn't know if this can be achieved, so he didn't write it into the "Wanli Collected Statutes."

If the production of drugs like penicillin and quinine increases further in the future, Zhu Yijun will write the fourth basic human right into the "Collected Statutes." He hopes he can do it.

If possible, he wants to write food, clothing, housing, and transportation into it, but in the end, he chose the most important food. The others only have realistic significance after eating enough.

The court ministers are all battle-tested warriors of the feudal empire. They have passed the hospital examination, provincial examination, metropolitan examination, and palace examination through thousands of troops and horses, and climbed to the high position of the Zhao Wenhua Hall in complex and ever-changing struggles.

The subtext that the Emperor didn't finish speaking is actually very clear to the court ministers.

Doing these things, people are just like people, not living people. Then the Emperor's definition of people, the standard is actually very, very high, that is, free people.

The Emperor is not satisfied with the achievements made by the Wanli Reform, and even thinks that these achievements are just the beginning. The five-room big tiled house described by Zhang Juzheng is excellent, but the five-room big tiled house pursued by the Emperor is very, very difficult to achieve.

Thirty years, fifty years, it will take about that long to get on the right track. The repetitiveness of history determines that it will be difficult to achieve for hundreds of years.

The Emperor perfectly fulfilled the original promise: "Young people carry strong energy, and there is a time for struggle; when strong, there will be changes."

"Your servant obeys the decree." Zhang Juzheng took a deep breath, shook his sleeves, took out a volume of books, and handed it to Feng Bao to present to the Emperor.

This move by Zhang Juzheng shocked the court ministers very much!

The "Great Ming Collected Statutes of the Wanli Period" was edited by Zhang Juzheng as the president, with multiple official offices together. Obviously, Zhang Juzheng added a volume temporarily! And it was prepared long ago.

Zhu Yijun opened this volume, looked at it for a while, and said with a smile: "The one who knows me is the Master."

Zhang Juzheng had long written it. He knew the Emperor too well. What the Emperor wanted to do in these fifteen years was written on his face. He never hid his intentions. If you are willing to follow, then walk together; if you are not willing, you can retreat bravely.

Zhang Juzheng wrote this volume and hesitated for a long time. If the Emperor didn't mention it, he wouldn't take it out, but since the Emperor said it, he had to present it.

"Good, then publish it to the world." Zhu Yijun finished reading the last volume of "Heaven and Man Volume" presented by Zhang Juzheng and approved the publication of the "Great Ming Collected Statutes of the Wanli Period."

This 229th volume, "Heaven and Man Volume," is actually natural human rights. Heaven is the heaven of the old heaven, the heaven of the infinite truth of all things, natural, born, the power that people should have when they are born.

Zhang Juzheng wrote eating, education, and resistance into the "Heaven and Man Volume."

To publish it to the world is the role of the "Great Ming Collected Statutes." It is a book that must be read by all officials of the hundred offices, and it is the consensus itself. All officials of the Great Ming must read it, and it will even become the compulsory content of the imperial examination and rule of law.

The moral narrative did not disintegrate in the Wanli Reform, but the reform with constant and complex contradictions needs more rule of law to achieve relative fairness.

"Your Majesty, I think that letting the officials of all levels go to the vegetable market, coal market, and grain market every month to record the prices of rice, flour, grain, oil, vegetables, and meat, and record what is missing, what is less, and what is too expensive compared to the previous month, and include it in the assessment." Zhang Juzheng said with a solemn face about the specific execution.

"Your Majesty, even if the officials of all levels are busy, they still have time to go shopping for one day a month."

It is not required that the prices of rice, flour, grain, oil, vegetables, and meat in all places be as stable as Mount Tai, which is not very realistic and does not conform to objective laws.

But, local officials must at least have a number in their hearts. Don't be at a loss and panic when the civil unrest breaks out, like Wu Shanyan, asking others, "What happened? Why is my head no longer on my neck?!"

The price of goods in towns is the barometer of people's livelihood, and the Sun Shangli Index can reflect the growth rate and changes in prices. This is a tool. It is necessary to decide the amount of treasure notes to be issued around the Sun Shangli Index to ensure that the currency needs are met, but not excessively over-issued.

The Jinchi Viceroyalty has already begun to be built. In the process of the gold narrative gradually becoming complete, before issuing notes, the preparatory work must be done well.

"Do officials of all levels have to go in person?" Zhu Yijun asked.

Zhang Juzheng bowed his head and said: "Must go in person, check in person, no fraud is allowed, and copying is dismissed."

"Then let's start with me. On the 23rd of every month, I will go to these places to see. I know that it is very troublesome for me to travel once. I have to clear the streets and search, but if I don't do it because of trouble, how can these officials of our Great Ming be willing?" Zhu Yijun expressed that he would personally support the promotion of the political decree of Zhang Taiyue.

And his meaning is very clear: this political decree that must be inspected every month will definitely become a superficial article.

But superficial articles must be done, just like the foundation is not solid, the earth moves and the mountains shake, the fire hydrant must have water, and to win the game, you must first play the game—these are correct nonsense.

All superficial articles and formalistic working methods are indeed a very backward system compared to higher-level methods, that is, exerting subjective initiative to work.

But completely ignoring it, engaging in formalism, and doing superficial articles is actually very advanced.

At least you still want face, right?

Any bad order is still an order. Formalism and superficial articles are cheap means to maintain the minimum existence of order.

"Following good is like climbing a mountain; following evil is like a landslide."

Learning good qualities is as difficult as climbing a mountain, but learning bad is like a slide.

If even the most basic formalism and superficial articles cannot be done, then the speed at which this organization slides downward is as rapid as a landslide.

Formalism cannot raise the upper limit—that requires exerting subjective initiative—but formalism can hold the lower limit.

For example, the "New Five Affairs Memorial" requires that the Emperor must personally preside over the court, see the ministers, court ministers, and foreign officials every day. These are all using the frames of ritual and law to hold the Emperor's lower limit, so as not to let the Emperor be too slack, leading to things like the collapse of heaven and earth.

The ministers in the early years of Wanli really couldn't imagine the terrible scene where half of the court officials were missing and the Emperor didn't see their faces for thirty years.

Appropriately retaining some formalism and superficial articles is the style of the conservative faction. Zhu Yijun is a young and vigorous faction, but he recognizes part of the conservative faction's views.

"Your Majesty is wise." Zhang Juzheng led the group of ministers to shout and applaud. The Emperor has done it, so there will basically be no resistance to the promotion of this political decree.

The Emperor goes to inspect. It must be that after arriving at places like the Coal Market, Vegetable Market, and Grain Market, he summons the supervising officials, randomly selects some peddlers to ask questions, and will not run around on the street, which is too influential to the people's lives. After getting the price, he sends the Embroidered Uniform Guard to check the accounts with the people.

Just like the Emperor farming, it is a little useful, but it is mainly to make a political statement and play an exemplary role.

The Minister of Revenue, Zhang Xueyan, stood out and bowed his head, saying: "Your Majesty, the Jinchi Viceroyalty has discovered a large amount of gold, and the enthusiasm for going to sea is high. It is necessary to restrict the people from going to sea."

Zhu Yijun shook his head and said: "Little Minister, you cannot support free migration only when Nanyang needs coolies. When you see gold, you don't let people go? There is no such reason."

"I know, people have all run out to pan for gold, so there are not so many people farming, and not so many people working as cattle and horses in workshops."

"But the labor-capital contradictions in town workshops, the imperial court is just mediating in the middle, and the role played is also limited."

"People have left. If the imperial court doesn't force the local gentry to reduce rent, the local gentry will have to reduce rent to keep the tenant farmers; if the imperial court doesn't force the workshop owners to sign contracts to guarantee labor remuneration and production safety, the workshop owners will also spontaneously do it."

"Because they have to find ways to keep people."

"Go out. As long as you are willing to go out, you can go out. Go to the Viceroyalty, go to the pioneering land, go to pioneer!"

"Your Majesty, letting the people leave like this, how can the Great Ming production be guaranteed?" Zhang Xueyan said with some urgency. The flow of the Great Ming population to Nanyang has truly affected the Great Ming's production.

Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Xueyan and made a simple judgment: this is a collective decision of the court ministers, not a proposal by Zhang Xueyan alone.

The Emperor sat up straight and said with a serious face: "Great Ming people have always been settled and don't want to move. Even if they are not so comfortable in the Great Ming, as long as they can guarantee the basic stability of life, who is willing to go to sea? Since they are willing to go to sea, it means that life is already difficult to maintain."

"Going to sea to fight against the manic waves, fierce natives, and diseases that kill without blood is bravery, but it is also a helpless choice."

"I will not stop it, nor will I set limits, because the Wanli Reform wants to change production relations and get rid of the small-scale peasant economy."

"Your servant obeys the decree." Zhang Xueyan saw that he could not persuade the Emperor and could only receive the order. Actually, the court ministers basically recognized that personnel flow should be restricted, but the Emperor did not recognize it, so the ministers had to remonstrate.

Allowing people to migrate freely has big problems, that is, agricultural production is insufficient. Everyone knows that the city is good, so who is willing to live in the countryside?

The siphon effect of towns on the countryside will cause a high concentration and enrichment of the population, which in turn will cause the labor-capital contradictions in towns to become more acute.

The logic of "if you don't do it, there are plenty of people who will" will be established. These workshop owners will try their best to squeeze all human costs that can be squeezed, and the anger will continue to pile up and finally erupt.

In the 10th year of Wanli, the dye workers of the Hongyuan Dyeing Workshop in Chongyi Square, Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture, chose to rise up because they were dissatisfied with the unlimited bullying of the workshop owner.

Moreover, excessive population concentration brings demographic dividends, but it also infinitely raises the cost of town governance. Shen Shiqing has repeatedly shouted this in his memorial.

Once labor-capital contradictions are acute and town governance costs are unbalanced, and the economy has not developed, the crime rate in towns will grow like a dry land pulling onions, falling into a vicious cycle, eventually leading to the overall collapse of towns.

Besides this, there is another old problem of the Great Ming: population growth.

Urbanization and education are the best contraceptives. Once urbanization and education are promoted, population growth will immediately slide.

The Grand Secretariat's method is to restrict personnel flow and delay the outbreak of these problems, but the Great Ming Emperor just doesn't agree.

Zhang Juzheng, Wang Chonggu, Wang Guoguang, and even the late Wan Shihe have all persuaded the Emperor, but the Emperor just refuses to promote the political decree to restrict population flow.

And he is constantly relaxing the population flow decree. For example...

... abolishing the slave registration system.

Zhu Yijun looked at the court ministers who were eager to try and wanted to continue to persuade, stretched out his hand, pressed it down, and said: "Ministers, this is the Age of Discovery. This is a nice way to say it. To put it bluntly, it is grabbing territory. If we don't grab it, others will grab it, and finally, they will grab it to the Great Ming's door."

"There is no perfect method in the world. I must make a choice, and that is that going to sea is a big matter."

"My intention is decided."

"We obey the decree." Zhang Juzheng looked left and right and led the group of ministers to receive the imperial decree.

The Westerners have already fought several battles with the Great Ming in Shuangyu, Haojing, and Luzon, and the Great Ming won all of them. But can the Great Ming keep winning? The Westerners have already fought to the door!

Continuing to immerse in the old dream of the Heavenly Dynasty is self-binding!

The Age of Discovery is an era of surging waves and an era of global trade. The Great Ming originally occupied all the opportunities, but later cut itself off and handed over the opportunities to others, giving them to the West. After complex and long struggles, the Great Ming finally seized the opportunities in opening the seas. How can there be any reason to hand them over to others again?

The Great Ming finally walked on the road of armed going to sea and armed colonization. Since the words have reached this point, if we continue to haggle, it will not be polite.

As for the lack of internal productivity, it can also force productivity to progress. If there is a shortage of people, just add more machines.

The Emperor has already given the answer. ===== CHAPTER 803 =====

The Westerners have already fought several battles with the Great Ming in Shuangyu, Haojing, and Luzon, and the Great Ming has won them all, but can the Great Ming keep winning? The Westerners have already fought to our doorstep!

Continuing to immerse oneself in the old dream of the Celestial Empire is self-imprisonment!

The Age of Discovery is an era of surging waves and global trade. The Great Ming originally occupied all the opportunities, but later cut itself off, handing over the opportunities to others and sending them to the Westerners. After a complex and long struggle, the Great Ming finally seized the opportunity in opening the seas. How can there be any reason to hand it over to others again?

The Great Ming has finally embarked on the road of armed sailing and armed colonization. Since things have been said to this point, if we continue to haggle, it would be impolite.

As for the lack of internal productivity, it can also force productivity to improve. If there is a shortage of people, just use more machines.

His Majesty has already given the answer.