Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, October of the sixth year of Longwu (1649).

It has been three years since the destruction of the bandits. In the past three years, the Ming Empire has undergone earth-shaking changes, and its changes can only be described in one word, that is, changing with each passing day! Whether it is politics, economy, military or culture, the current Ming Empire is completely different from the previous Ming Empire.

Politically, the current Ming Empire has officially established the cabinet parliamentary system. The so-called cabinet parliamentary system is actually a constitutional monarchy. From then on, the emperor was only the nominal supreme head of state. The real ruler was the cabinet chief, and the first real constitution in history was formulated.

The Constitution stipulates the sacred and legitimacy of the cabinet parliamentary system in the form of legal provisions. Now even the peddlers and pawns already know that the emperor is just a symbol of this empire, and it is no longer the dominant of this empire. Now the real dominant of the empire is the cabinet chief, and this cabinet chief is still elected through parliament.

Gone are the times when the king is powered by heaven, the nine five supreme, and the world is dominant!

Of course, due to the weakness of the domestic bourgeois power, the current cabinet parliamentary system is still very imperfect, especially the parliament. The current parliament is not only small in scale, but also has no real power. It is actually just a puppet in the hands of Wang Pu. In a sense, the current cabinet parliamentary system is actually a military dictatorial government based on force.

But Wang Pu believes that with the strength of the bourgeois power, the parliament will play an increasingly important role and eventually become the ruling force of the Ming Empire. What Wang Pu has to do now is to spare no effort to support these national capitalists, help them become stronger, and eventually take over the rule of the country from him...

Wang Pu cannot live forever, and he cannot always control the real power of the empire. One day, he will hand over the dominance of this country. There is no doubt that if the emperor is allowed to regain his dominance, the end of the Wang family will be extremely tragic. No matter how glorious Wang Pu was during his lifetime, the emperor who regained power after his death will definitely settle the accounts after the autumn.

Therefore, whether for the individual, for the Wang family, or for the entire Han nationality, Wang Pu must help the bourgeoisie become stronger during his lifetime, fundamentally overwhelm the feudal landlords, and become the ruling force of the empire. Only in this way can history not regress after Wang Pu's death and the Wang family not be cleaned.

Economically, with the full support of the government and the dual support of a large amount of private surplus funds in Jiangnan, Jiangnan's industry and commerce ushered in a great opportunity for development. The silk industry, textile industry, military industry, shipbuilding industry, porcelain industry, salt industry, paper industry, printing industry, tobacco industry, transportation industry and other industries have grown rapidly from scratch, and their output value has almost doubled in two years!

Foreign trade also developed rapidly. The Ming Empire successively opened up trading ports such as Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Wenzhou, Ningbo, Hangzhou, Songjiang, Nanjing, etc. The Ming Empire's opening-up attitude won warm welcome from merchants from all over the country such as the Netherlands, Xizhengya, England, and Portugal. In just three years, the total trade volume between the Ming Empire and the West expanded from less than 20 million taels to more than 50 million taels. Almost all the silver plundered from Western countries from America and Africa flowed into the Ming Dynasty every year!

Military, the total strength of the Central Army of the Ming Dynasty has expanded to 200,000 people, and all have been replaced with new rifles. This new rifle is all breech-loaded, and four bullets can be filled in the barrel. After each firing, you only need to pull the bolt and shoot again. The shooting speed is many times faster than the bore gun.

What's even more terrifying is that the barrels of the new type of rifle have been rifled, and the effective range has exceeded 400 meters!

At this time, the Thirty Years' War had just ended. Although all the European military powers had realized the power of muskets and increased the proportion of musketeers in the army, they installed the most primitive flintlock rifles and used paper shells. They had been lagging behind the Ming Empire in musket technology for more than a century!

In addition to 200,000 infantry, there are twenty artillery battalions in the Central Army, equipped with two thousand general artillery!

The lethality and range of the general cannon far exceed that of the Red Barbarian cannons in Europe in the same period. This general cannon can be called the original howitzer. It can be loaded with grenades or solid iron bullets. When loading flowering bullets, it is a howitzer, and when loading solid iron bullets, it is a cannon, and its maximum range reaches a terrifying ten kilometers!

The most advanced artillery in Europe during the same period had a range of less than five kilometers, and its shooting accuracy was even more incomparable to that of the General's artillery.

If the Central Army of the Ming Dynasty was allowed to fight an encounter with the French army, the most powerful army in Europe at that time, in terms of firepower alone, the Central Army only needed two infantry battalions and one artillery battalion to defeat the 100,000 French troops! If the Ming Dynasty was adjacent to Europe and the logistics supply was unimpeded, the Central Army only needed four infantry battalions and two artillery battalions to sweep the entire Europe.

Culturally, after Yangming University, Wang Pu founded the Imperial University. Since Wang Pu introduced pagans to become professors from the Western world, the Renaissance that took place in the West was also brought to the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty's ideological circle was in the intersection and fierce confrontation between East and West cultures, but overall, the old Confucian culture still occupied an absolute influence, and the impact of modern culture based on the two universities on Confucian culture is still quite limited.

However, emerging modern culture has an unparalleled advantage, that is, the strong support of the government!

The cabinet with Wang Pu as the backstage unconditionally supports emerging modern culture on one hand. The old Confucian culture has been ruthlessly transformed, which is directly reflected in the Confucian scholars' choice of future prospects. If Confucian scholars want to go to politics, they must go to college to undergo ideological transformation. Otherwise, even if they are familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, proficient in various schools of thought, and are well versed in astronomy and geography, they will still be able to die in the forest.

It is also worth mentioning that the provinces have also established a large number of free junior and senior schools. These junior and senior schools not only shoulder the responsibility of delivering top students to Yangming University and Imperial University, but also shoulder the important task of achieving universal education. Wang Pu’s ultimate goal is to achieve free universal education.

As a future person who has traveled through time, Wang Pu knows the importance of education to a nation!

Think about Japan in later generations and you will know how important education is. Japan was originally just a semi-civilized small country. With the hundreds of millions of compensation received from the Qing Dynasty, it was a big deal to carry out universal education. It ended up being out of control. In less than half a century, it quickly rose to become a world-class power!

There may be many factors in the rise of Japan in later generations, but the improvement of its national education level is definitely a decisive factor!

Although education seems to be an "industry" with only input but no output, from the perspective of the nation and the country, no matter how huge the investment is, the ruling government must bear it. This is their unshirkable responsibility. No matter how hard it is, the children cannot be miserable, and no matter how poor it is, education cannot be poor!

Jingnan Prince's Mansion.

The eight-year-old Wang Fa and the six-year-old Sun Chengzu were pestering Wang Pu to tell stories. Wang Pu seemed very tolerant of the two brothers. He did not force the children to recite the Four Books and Five Classics like other parents, or get up early to practice brush calligraphy every day before dawn. Most of the time, Wang Pu asked the two brothers to play and live their childhood carefree and carefree.

Wang Pu has been growing in recent years.

Just in the year when the thieves were pacified, that is, the month after Ban Shi returned to Beijing, Wang Pu and Princess Changping got married.

Wang Pu also fulfilled his promise to Chen Yuanyuan. While carrying the sedan chair to marry Princess Changping through the door, he also carried the sedan chair to raise his head in the city of Nanjing with the sixteenth. The treatment of the rest, like Dong Xiaowan, was slightly worse, and he could only ride in the sedan chair to the eighth. Emperor Chongzhen Ruoquan knew that Wang Pu married Princess Changping, his most cherished and famous prostitutes at the same time, and he had to live a life of anger.

After Chen Yuanyuan and Dong Xiaowan, the other princesses Changping, Liu Rushi, Gu Mei, Kou Baimen, Li Shiniang, and Neng Niang all gave birth to sons or daughters for Wang Pu. The most interesting thing was Aunt Li, a young lady in Huaxin who was just in her thirties. Wang Pu stole the slap with her, but she had a twin daughter.

However, most of these children were born after the world was pacified. They were several years apart from Wang Fa and Sun Chengzu.

"Dad, tell me the story of the King Kong Calabash."

"Dad, I want to listen to the story of Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf."

The two young men were pulling Wang Pu's left arm and the other was pulling his right arm. Just as Wang Pu was making his head look big, light footsteps suddenly sounded outside. A pretty shadow flashed. State Secretary Li Xiangjun had already walked in pretty, holding two strings of candied haws in his hand. The two young men immediately changed their target.

"Fa'er, Chengzu's good." Li Xiangjun handed the candied haws to the two guys and said in a sweet voice, "Aunt Xiang has something to discuss with his father. You can go to the yard to play by yourself, okay?"

The two guys agreed, took the candied haws and jumped around.

Wang Pu breathed a sigh of relief, shook his head and smiled bitterly at Li Xiangjun, "You still have a way."

Li Xiangjun smiled sweetly, walked behind Wang Pu and stood still. Her jade fingers gently poked into Wang Pu's hair, and gently rubbed it while saying in a charming voice: "This is only Fa'er and Chengzu. When Lu'er, Zhi'er, Yu'er, Zhen'er and others grow up, you can run away or make trouble, which is enough for you to bear."

"Yes." Wang Pu shook his head and smiled bitterly, "It's really hard for me to be the father of so many children alone."

"Go." Li Xiangjunjiao spat and said angrily, "Who asked you to marry so many wives and concubines? Besides, isn't encouragement of childbirth a national policy? According to the national policy, giving birth to five children can be rewarded with ten children, and giving birth to ten children can be rewarded with a hundred taels a national standard, and giving birth to twenty children can be rewarded with a thousand taels a national standard. According to this standard, the prince can go to Shuntian Mansion to receive a thousand taels a silver reward, hehe."

"Yes, yes." Wang Pu smiled with a saliva, "Xiangxiang, when you give birth to a son for me, you will be able to get twenty."

"Tu." Li Xiangjun said shyly, "I won't give birth to a son for you. I'm not your wife and concubine."

"Ah, you are not my wife?" Wang Pu said in shock, "Who are you me?"

Li Xiangjun twisted her slender waist, and her light body had already fallen into Wang Pu's arms, and she said in a charming voice: "Xiang Fanzhuer just wants to be the prince's lover for the rest of her life."

Wang Pu hugged Li Xiangjun's buttocks hard and said with a lewd smile: "Lovers also want to have children. Why not sow seeds now?"

Li Xiangjun gently beat Wang Pu twice and said coquettishly: "No, I have important state affairs to report to you."

"What's the important state affairs?" Wang Pu's hands kept kneading Li Xiangjun's buttocks and asked with a low panting, "What's the matter?"

"Two things." Li Xiangjun said gasping, "The first thing is that the governor of Beizhi, Qu Shisi, sent an urgent delivery, saying that several pastures in the Erguna River Basin were attacked by unknown cavalry a few months ago. After investigation, I learned that these cavalry were Cossack cavalry from Russia. Qu Shisi asked for instructions, can we take secret action against Cossacks?"

Wang Pu's fingers that had just reached into Li Xiangjun's buttocks suddenly stopped.

The Cossack cavalry attacked the ranch of the Ergun River, but it reminded Wang Pu. Calculated the time, at this time, Russia should have crossed the Ural Mountains and expanded to the far east. The vanguard of its expansion eastward expansion was the Cossack cavalry in Ukraine and Poland. In fact, Russia was far from being a powerful country at this time, and it could only be considered a second-rate country at most, and its strength was far less than Sweden at that time!

"Tell Qu Shixi to tell him not to have any scruples."

Wang Pu's right hand began to move again, and his two fingers of food had already cleverly penetrated into Li Xiangjun's deep crotch and gently twisted the tender stamen, "Let him organize local cavalry to destroy these Cossack cavalry immediately. If the conditions are ripe, he can completely cross the Ural Mountains and teach the Russians a lesson."

Li Xiangjun twisted her waist unbearably and said panting: "There is another thing. The warehouse in Osaka of Dahua Trading Company was attacked by ronin. Tens of thousands of cigarettes, thousands of pieces of silk, and a large amount of goods were burned. There were more than 20 guards responsible for protecting the warehouse.

"Haha." Wang Pu was overjoyed when he heard this, "This is good news, and he was worried that he could not find an excuse to do it."

Li Xiangjun was stunned for a moment and said in surprise: "Prince, you can still laugh when you have so much goods burned?"

"Silly girl." Wang Pu couldn't help but shave Li Xiangjun's pretty nose and smiled, "What's the point of burning some goods? I'll just get it back ten times a hundred times in the future, hehe."

"Then..." Li Xiangjun's beautiful eyes rolled and asked, "Is the prince going to attack Japan?"

"Yes." Wang Puzhong pointed his head and said ruthlessly, "Tokugawa Ikawa is becoming more and more disobedient. If you don't teach him a lesson, he still doesn't know how high the sky is and how thick the ground is, hum."

Speaking of which, the trade friction between the Ming Dynasty and Japan has been around for more than two years.

More than three years ago, just when Wang Pu led his army to pacify the bandits in Dingshan, Shaanxi and Sichuan, Zhang Yanlin and Li Ang knocked on the gates of Japan with 60 warships from the two battalions of naval commanders and forced the Tokugawa shogunate to sign the Nagasaki Treaty. The treaty stipulated that Japan opened Nagasaki and Osaka were the trading port. The Ming Empire could freely set up cargo warehouses in Nagasaki and Osaka and enjoy the right to free trade.

In the following three years, Ming Dynasty goods continued to flow into Japan, especially cigarettes, which became popular in Japan in just two years, and at least one million Japanese men were crazy about cigarettes produced by the Ming Empire.

It is not surprising that Japanese men are crazy about the Ming Dynasty cigarettes, because the cigarettes sold and exported in the Ming Empire are completely different. The cigarettes sold domestically are pure tobacco, while the cigarettes exported are made of ingredients, and opium is mixed in the tobacco! What is opium? Drugs, once this person becomes addicted to drugs, how can he not go crazy?

Over the past three years, the Ming Dynasty cigarettes were dumped in large quantities, and the Japanese silver flowed into the Ming Dynasty. The Tokugawa Shogunate quickly realized that the situation was not good. If this situation continued, all the existing silver in Japan would flow into the Ming Dynasty in ten years! Therefore, the Tokugawa Shogunate submitted notes to the Ming Empire several times, demanding that the import volume of cigarettes be restricted, but without exception, the Ming Empire was sternly rejected. After several negotiations failed, the ronin attacked the Osaka warehouse.

It is obvious that the attack was planned by the Tokugawa shogunate, and its purpose was nothing more than to put pressure on the Ming Empire.

Unfortunately, Tokugawa Iemitsu obviously made a mistake in his calculations. He overestimated Japan's national strength and underestimated the ambition and determination of the Ming Empire. In fact, even if the Osaka Warehouse arson case was not planned by the Tokugawa shogunate, Wang Pu would pour this basin of dirty water on the Tokugawa Ie's bald head, because the Osaka Warehouse arson case was the best excuse for the Ming Empire to send troops to Japan.

As early as half a year ago, the General Staff had submitted a detailed combat plan to conquer Japan to Wang Pu's desk.
Chapter completed!