European Universalist Historical School —— Looking at Daming from the Concept

I have been playing a game called Europa Save 4, which was developed by Paradox Interactive and is commonly known as one of the four cute players in P Club. In this game, you can choose to play any country between 1444-182 1 year.

To control a country's diplomacy, economy, military and other aspects, in order to make players better simulate and get started, everything is simulated and promoted by money and points, so this game was also called integral storm when it first came out.

As mentioned above, you can choose any country to start the game at any time, and the P club in each country has given them some unique national ideas according to their situation. As long as you open some concept groups (administrative concepts, diplomatic concepts, military concepts), you can light up accordingly.

I think this is quite interesting. I will start with the ideas of various countries and say some countries. I dare not say that great history is too big and complicated. First, it may not be finished. Secondly, chatting can easily become a serious historical introduction. Therefore, according to the concept of each country given by P Society, we can simply expand it for everyone to understand and communicate.

With the update of Europa universalis 4 version, Daming has jumped from the previous country to the country of all nations. As the saying goes, "It's my pleasure to be Daming's dog." (After Destiny DLC, Daming added a tribute system, which can ask tribute countries for money, points or manpower every year, and the corresponding reward is the ability to protect these countries. Whoever dares to hit my brother, I'll hit him! )

So, let's talk about Daming in the first issue. According to the default script of 1444, at the beginning, it has the highest degree of development (a city has tax, production and manpower, and the sum of the three is the degree of development of a city, and the sum of all cities is the degree of development of a country) and a large number of provincial cities, which is definitely the existence of the parent. In the hands of players, Daming can go all the way south and explore the East.

However, the real history is not so optimistic. For the Ming Dynasty, the tribute system may only gain prestige, but pay a lot of rewards to show the atmosphere of China going to the country.

Zheng He's voyages to the Western Seas during Yongle period stopped as early as Zhu Gaochi's accession to the throne, on the grounds of saving people's resources, encouraging production, saving prisons leniently and practicing economy.

1444, the reigning emperor was Zhu Qizhen. Although it is still peaceful, the north is already gearing up. In another five years, it will usher in the change of the civil fort invaded by Vala Mongols, which is the turning point of Daming from prosperity to decline.

Next, let's start with Daming's idea.

Jiubian town

+5% fortress defense

+25% number of troops

In the early Ming Dynasty, Yuan fled to his hometown in the north, but he still came to tease and harass from time to time. Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, couldn't do it, so he sent people to defeat them in the Northern Expedition many times, and also enfeoffed his two sons Judy and Zhu Quan, and heavily stationed them in the northern fortress.

At first, there were only four towns, Liaodong, Fu Xuan, Datong and Yansui (also known as Yulin Town), but later they felt that it was not enough. Then it went to Ningxia, Gansu and Jizhou, and finally added Shanxi (also known as Taiyuan Town) and Guyuan Town, so it was called Nine Towns.

As a product of the Ming Taizu period, it is regarded as a lighted national concept in the game, and the order is correct. It can be seen that these nine towns were basically set up to defend the nomadic people in the north. Among them, there are Jianzhou Jurchen in the east of Liaodong Town and Mongolia in the north. Basically, this is to guard against Mongolian tribes and nuzhen.

At this point, the three parts of Jurchen have not yet been unified, and Ming Taizu has no ability to predict the future. However, nomadic people, as the deadly enemies of the farming people in the Central Plains, need to be on guard at all times.

The effect of the game is to increase the defense capability and the number of garrisons, which can be said to be a good summary of the role of the nine frontier military regions.

Revive 3rd battalion.

+5% training level

These three battalions are five, three thousand and Ji Shen. Everyone has heard the most, and the most powerful one is Ji Shen Camp, which mainly uses firearms, that is, muskets, ware and matchlock guns.

Our great Ming Yingzong (that is, the aforementioned Zhu Qizhen), egged on by eunuch Wang Zhen's efforts, ignored the dissuasion of ministers, directly appointed Prince Zhu Jianshen, who was two years younger than him, as the Crown Prince, left his half-brother Zhu Qiyu behind, and went to war with his head in his hand, thinking about his personal expedition. How can we make each other invincible?

However, what happened later was the change of the civil fort, the Ming elite in name only. Until the 29th year of Jiajing (1550), the regiment battalion and the two official halls were abolished, and the old system of Yongle 3rd battalion was restored again. The difference is that the 3,000-camp was renamed as the camp of making trees. This is the revitalization of the 3rd Battalion. Although the name has been restored this time, the strength of the 3rd Battalion is far less than before.

Empire of China

? 10% stability cost

Needless to say, since the Han Dynasty, every unified Central Plains dynasty basically regarded itself as the kingdom of China, which is naturally a natural buff to improve national stability.

In the game, improving stability depends not only on the events, but also on administrative points. After this concept is lit, for example, the administrative integral that originally required 100 points actually only required 90 points.

Repair the yellow river levee

+10% production efficiency

Although the Yellow River is the mother river of China civilization, it has always been unstable, so I want to come out and do something every once in a while. From 6 ~17 (1578 ~1589) in the Wanli period of Ming Dynasty, Zhang ordered Pan Jixun to control the Yellow River flood. Although it has a short-term effect, with the deposition of sediment, the riverbed is constantly too high, resulting in the Yellow River breaking many times.

Pan Jixun adopted the policy of "storing clear water, brushing the Yellow River and transporting grain economically", and constantly built dikes on both sides of the Yellow River, and at the same time built Gaojiayan (namely Hongze Lake levee) to force Huai water into the Yellow River to attack sand.

Therefore, in the game, it is reasonable to light up the concept of repairing the Yellow River levee and improve the production efficiency of 10%.

Salt specialty

+10% trade efficiency

In ancient times, salt was monopolized by the state in many countries. China can be traced back to the State of Qi in the Spring and Autumn Period. In order to help dominate the world, Guan Zhong created "Guan Shan Hai" (Guan means "Guan", and "Shan Hai" means mining cast iron and cooking salt. ) policy.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the government carried out the French policy of opening to China. Later, because the ruling class was too comfortable and increasingly corrupt, eunuchs, nobles and bureaucrats saw that holding salt was profitable, so they talked about salt and sold it to salt merchants for profit. Since then, it has destroyed the open system and seriously affected the government's fiscal revenue. The people are miserable, and the government can't do this. How to play in the future?

We can only start the reform, introduce the "residual salt to buy and make up", treat the symptoms rather than the root cause, and this area is still a huge place of corruption.

However, in the early days, the most exclusive income of the country was a large amount of income.

A whip

+10% national tax

We are familiar with this point, and the history textbook focuses on Zhang's whipping method. In the early years of Wanli, Ming Shenzong Zhu Yijun was still young. I have absolute trust in Zhang, appointed him as the record, and completely delegated power to him. Zhang started a series of executive orders, which led to a brief resurgence.

One whip method is to unify the various taxes that were already numerous at that time economically. One is to simplify the tax system, the other is to increase taxes, and the third is to reduce the burden on the people and facilitate the collection of taxes.

Hongyi cannon

+1 Army General Firepower

/kloc-the artillery made in Europe in the 6th century. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, a small amount of hongyi artillery was purchased from the Netherlands. Later, due to the problem of Taiwan Province Province, relations with the Netherlands broke down and a large number of artillery were purchased from Portugal.

Because of the great demand for cannons in the Ming Dynasty, the Portuguese may have limited productivity, and they also started from second-hand dealers and middlemen between Britain and Daming.

Because of the Netherlands and Portugal, this kind of gun is called the Red Yi Gun.

Daming's, I told the real history conceptually. This question is similar. Follow-up attention This column will be updated continuously.