In the summer of the fourth year of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Jianguo.

When the weather gradually gets hotter, in the capital city of Nanjing, people walking on the streets take off their cotton-linen robes, and the more fashionable people put on brightly colored silk clothes to swagger through the city.

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In this summer, the most popular color in Nanjing is noble and gorgeous purple... aniline purple!

The Weaver Palace, privately owned by Zhu Heji, has been launching silk and cotton fabrics dyed with the synthetic dye aniline purple since last winter - before that, the Weaver Palace had already launched two synthetic fabrics using sulfur black and sulfide blue.

Satin and cotton dyed with dyes are very popular because they are not easy to fade and the color is thick and uniform.

However, because purple natural dyes are too rare, the popularity of sulfide black and sulfide blue cannot be compared with aniline purple...

Under the promotion of Zhu Heji, the Ming Dynasty king, the large-scale demolition and construction that had lasted for several years finally brought a new look to Nanjing. Open roads were opened and paved, and the city's drainage system

Extensive renovations were also carried out.

At Longjiang Estuary, Yifeng Gate, Sanshan Gate, and on the streets outside Nanjing Imperial City, many tall and tall enclosed buildings have been built, and they are becoming more and more beautiful. Many buildings with red brick exteriors have appeared.

The new-style enclosed buildings with glass windows on the walls have gradually acquired the style of a modern metropolis.

By the way, there are many four-wheeled carriages and three-wheeled bicycles on the streets of Nanjing today, and the latter is particularly eye-catching.

This kind of tricycle is divided into two categories: cargo type and transportation type. Among them, the freight tricycle has a trailer mounted on the two rear wheels, which can be filled with miscellaneous things. It is the favorite of urban vendors.

The transportation type small three-wheel is the favorite transportation tool used by officials in Nanjing.

Nanjing is a city that occupies a huge area. Even if the eastern part of the outer city is not huge and empty, the inner city of Nanjing and the prosperous western part of the outer city alone are still an incredible city. And the Imperial City of Nanjing and the Nanjing Imperial Court Those yamen are all concentrated in the eastern part of the inner city of Nanjing, which is a little far away from the bustling living areas of Nanjing. Without a means of transportation, commuting to and from get off work every day would be a bit tiring.

Of course, high-ranking officials can afford carriages or simply ride horses, but middle- and low-level officials do not have this condition. How big must the house be to keep horses and also accommodate carriages?

Therefore, before and after work every day, you can see huge traffic on several major roads leading to the Imperial City of Nanjing.

Countless officials wearing Confucius uniforms, with big beards (some with no beards), carrying big swords and hollow grenade hammers on their waists, were riding small tricycles back and forth.

Well, the original Confucian warriors who once made the world famous have now begun their daily life of clocking in and clocking in from nine to five.

And these officials riding small three-wheelers to work give the city an air of a political center.

It was in this spring that King Zhu Tianwang and Zhao Zhongyi returned to Nanjing after a long absence.

They have stayed in Dengzhou City for more than three years. It is also a metropolis that is developing extremely rapidly and even a little abnormally prosperous... What is different from the balanced development of handicrafts, commerce, and finance is that

There is almost no handicraft industry in Dengzhou. Although there is some trade, there is no way to compare it with Nanjing. However, Dengzhou's financial industry is extremely prosperous!

In the Dengzhou commercial port, which occupies not a large area within the outer wall of Dengzhou, there are at least hundreds of banks and banks. Tens of thousands of funds come in and out every day!

In addition to the developed financial industry, Dengzhou's real estate market is also very prosperous. To the south of Dengzhou's commercial port, there is a secluded neighborhood surrounded by tall fences. Hundreds of large and small courtyard houses have been built within the fence circle.

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Regardless of their size, these courtyard houses all have tall, solid exterior walls and thick wooden gates. Moreover, their gates seem to be always closed, and there are very few noises coming from within the high walls. It seems that no one lives in them.

However, these seemingly vacant properties are all worth a lot of money. The cheapest ones cost two thousand silver dollars, and the most expensive ones are even worth over ten thousand...

But whoever thinks that Dengzhou Prefecture under the rule of King Zhu Cijiong only has a developed financial industry, expensive real estate industry, and tepid import and export trade, is totally wrong!

Because the Dengzhou territory under Zhu Tianwang not only included Penglai County, but also three large prefectures and counties, including Fushan, Ninghai, and Rongcheng. These three prefectures and counties are all along the Bohai Sea, and the most important thing is the relatively closed peninsula.

and offshore islands.

It is not difficult to train troops on these peninsulas and offshore islands without telling the Qing Dynasty's ears and eyes.

In fact, Daming Dengzhou Town spends nearly four million silver dollars a year, almost all of which is spent on recruiting soldiers, equipment training, hoarding supplies and building military camps.

By the end of the third year of the Ming Dynasty's supervision of the country, four "town-level camps" including Zhifu Island Camp, Yangma Island Camp, Weihaiwei Camp and Chengshanjiao Camp had appeared in Fushan County, Ninghai Prefecture, and Rongcheng County.

camp"!

With the cover of Dengzhou, the "City of Freedom", four Ming Army field towns with full personnel were established under the eyes of the Qing Dynasty without anyone noticing.

If you include the men and horses of the Dengzhou Battalion on the table, the Ming Dynasty's Army Division garrisoned in Dengzhou has exceeded 75,000 elite troops!

This number is enough to support a cross-sea expedition!

Just as the preparations for the war in Dengzhou were coming to an end, Zhu Heji's "three-year no-war" agreement had almost expired.

Five years of Ping Liao are about to begin!

King Zhu Tian and Zhao Zhongyi, the general manager of the Dengzhou camp, naturally wanted to go back to Nanjing to discuss the war in person with Zhu Heji, the king of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the two of them also wanted to witness with their own eyes the current prosperity of Nanjing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty... It is said that the prosperity of the capital of the Ming Dynasty has exceeded the level before the demise of the previous Ming Dynasty!

When Zhu Tianwang and Zhao Zhongyi heard about how prosperous Nanjing was in Dengzhou, they didn't believe it. After all, Nanjing in the late Ming Dynasty was a metropolis with a population of one million!

At that time, the population of China was over 100 million!

However, the current population of the world is estimated to be between 50 and 60 million, and the population under the new Ming Dynasty will never reach 30 million.

Can such a small total population really support a prosperous city with a population of one million?

In addition, does Yuan Ru, who lives in a wealthy and gentle village, still have the same drive that "you will win only if you love to fight"? Can they still fight?

However, when Zhu Tianwang and Zhao Zhongyi returned to Nanjing, accompanied by Zhu Heji, Da Boling, Zhuge Military Advisor, Mr. Yu, Su Yong and others, they climbed up to the newly built Yuejiang Tower. From the top, it looked like a busy building.

When looking at the large construction site in Nanjing City, he seemed to have returned to thirty years ago...the summer when the two of them followed the unlucky Emperor Longwu into exile in Nanjing City.

Although the city of Nanjing at that time was more prosperous than Nanjing now, King Zhu Tian felt two completely different atmospheres.

In Nanjing in the first year of Hongguang's reign, it was impossible to feel the vigorous and upward atmosphere that Nanjing had during the four years of the Ming Dynasty's supervision.

Look at those bearded scholars who rushed out from the Imperial City of Nanjing on tricycles with long swords and empty hammers... This kind of momentum, this turbulent energy, how could there be such a scene in Hongguangnian?

King Zhu Tian put away the telescope, turned around, and said to Zhu Heji with a smile: "Those original Confucians riding small cars look very energetic! Sure enough, they still have the energy to do business in Guangzhou and Chaozhou! Yes, very good

Not bad...it’s time for a fight!”

Zhu Heji also nodded, thinking: "It would be great if they could be so energetic when they go to work!"

Thinking of this, Zhu Heji smiled and said to King Zhu Tian: "Abba, now the land clearing and land equalization in the country has been basically completed... The farmland controlled by the imperial court exceeds 300 million acres, and the total population has been checked
Chapter completed!