Zhao Ming was really angry when he heard that Wu Sangui was elected as emperor.

It is obvious that Zhao Ming has always looked down on Wu Sangui, a slave of the three surnames, but now Wu Sangui has become an emperor, one level higher than him, which makes Zhao Ming feel quite disgusting.

However, no matter how angry the anger is, no matter how disgusting the disgusting Zhao Ming is, at this time, it is beyond the reach of this defeated general.

Obviously, Wu Sangui also realized that Zhao Ming had no choice but to be the emperor in India.

If it were under Zhao Ming's nose, Zhao Ming would definitely raise an army and beat him to death.

Zhao Ming was surprised that Wu Sangui actually ran to India, but his anger was not only because Wu Sangui became emperor, but also because he touched Zhao Ming's cake.

The land of India is rich and vast, with a large population and easy to rule. It has been repeatedly colonized by foreigners for thousands of years. The locals have become accustomed to being ruled and have creatively developed a caste system to cooperate, making this phenomenon not only reasonable, but also a God's instruction.

India is a large market. After the British colonization, it was called the pearl on the crown of the queen, and Zhao Ming undoubtedly wanted this pearl.

After Wu Sangui escaped into the Western Regions, Zhao Ming's original plan was to use Wu Sangui's hands to integrate and develop the Western Regions. After they worked for a few years, they would drive Wu Sangui into Central Asia as a front pawn for the Ming Dynasty to broaden its territory.

As for India, this fertile and easy-to-rule area, Zhao Ming had long been preparing to initiate colonization from sea to control India before Britain, and used the caste system to control India, turning it into a market for the Ming Dynasty and a raw material production base.

Now Wu Sangui did not enter the relatively desolate Central Asia, but chose to enter the rich India, so he broke away from Zhao Ming's expectations and disrupted Zhao Ming's plan.

If Wu Sangui became emperor in India and had his poor combat power as his third brother, Wu Sangui might have occupied the entire India in a very short time.

After all, the combat effectiveness of the Ming Zhou army is now relative to the combat effectiveness of Western colonists in the mid-to-late 18th century, and even close to that of the Napoleonic Wars.

Therefore, tens of thousands of Zhou troops entered India, but they did not defeat the Indian army like the autumn wind swept away the fallen leaves.

If Wu Sangui occupied India, with India's population and resources, it would be a very troublesome threat to Zhao Ming.

After hearing Hu Weizong's words, Zhao Ming was in a bad mood to continue inspecting and said in a deep voice: "Go back to Nanjing!"

The group left the workshop, came to the Shanghai Wharf, boarded a steamer, and returned to Nanjing along the water and land.

A steamer is a kind of inland boat with two large wheels on both sides of the hull. It is stomped in the cabin by sailors and paddling forward.

This kind of wheels rotate on both sides are like waterwheels trampled by humans, relying on humans to drive the wheels to rotate.

If this kind of steam ship is installed with a steam engine, it can immediately turn human-powered into steam-powered and evolve into a steam paddle.

After the first generation of steam engines came out, Zhao Ming had ordered the Ministry of Industry to study the project of steam engines on board and steam engines on board, and allocated two million silver dollars for this.

With the centralized government's investment at all costs, Zhao Ming believes that it will not take long before he will be able to see the train and paddle ship.

Speaking of which, perhaps paddle steamers are simpler than trains.

On the way back to Nanjing, Zhao Ming did not choose to ride a horse, but chose to ride a boat. It was not that it was more comfortable to ride a boat than riding a horse, but that Zhao Ming had to sort out his thoughts.

The 1663 New Year is about to come. This is the first New Year after the Ming Dynasty achieved unification. It is obviously a very important year for Zhao Ming.

Therefore, Zhao Ming needs to think about the court's plan after the New Year and the challenges the empire will face next year and in the future.

At this time, Zhao Ming stood at the bow of the boat and looked at the Yangtze River. The waves were vast and the ship was weaving, falling into deep thought.

During this inspection of Jiangnan, Zhao Ming discovered many problems, the most serious of which was the problem of anti-urbanization.

Urbanization and industrialization occur simultaneously, and the process of industrialization will inevitably be accompanied by urbanization.

Over the years, Zhao Ming encouraged industry and commerce, which led to the rapid expansion of handicrafts in Jiangnan, attracted a large number of people to work in cities, and started the urbanization of Jiangnan.

However, capitalist commerce has a certain inertia. When merchants see textiles make money, workshops try hard to recruit workers to increase production. When the people see cotton make money, they also expand cotton planting, which has caused overcapacity in the entire industry.

Now the cloth cannot be sold, the workshops have reduced production, grain prices have risen, and many unemployed workers have to leave the city and return to the countryside to farm.

But Zhao Ming knew that most of the people who entered the city could not go back.

Because when the people entered the city before, the planting model of large farms and large manors was launched in the local area, replacing the original small-scale farming model of tenants farming and improving the planting efficiency.

In this way, the land that originally required 100 people to be cultivated may only be twenty or thirty people.

Therefore, people will not have land to farm when they return home, and they will become beggars and refugees.

This will be a very serious problem and may even cause a huge crisis.

Therefore, Zhao Ming must find a sales channel for cotton cloth and let the loom run again, which requires a larger overseas market.

However, now the Western textile industry has begun to rise. The handicraft industry in the Ming Dynasty had competitors, and it was not easy to gain a market.

From this point of view, after the Ming Dynasty completed its unification, Zhao Ming's next main goal was to defeat the rise of handicrafts in the West, curb the development of Western commerce in trade, and ensure the position of the Ming Dynasty's world center.

If this is the goal, then India will be the key, so Wu Sangui cannot occupy India.

The textile industry in the Ming Dynasty had to defeat its opponents and occupy a larger share in the competition.

There are two main ways: one is to carry out a technological revolution, reduce production costs, make goods of high quality and low price, and use their price advantages to occupy the market, defeat Western handicrafts, and curb their possibility of industrial revolution.

Another way is to rely on force to open up the market, establish one's own sphere of influence and trade barriers, keep Western products out of the sphere of influence of the Ming Dynasty, and dump their own products within the sphere of influence.

Today, the world is mainly divided into two cores, one is East Asia headed by the Ming Dynasty, which is the center of the traditional world and can also be said to be the center of the old world.

The other is the rising Western countries, who are the center of the new world.

In the original trend, the new world is rising and the old world is declining, and Zhao Ming now needs to reverse the decline of the old world.

Then a large number of regions including Arabia, Ottoman, Safi, Mughal, as well as Africa and the Americas will become important regions and markets for East Asia and Western Europe.

Among them, a large market like India with a population of more than 100 million will undoubtedly determine whose business can win and who can evolve into the industrial revolution.
Chapter completed!