Oh, for the Great Ming, this is the catastrophe at all!
Extremely low development, according to PDS's calculation method, Ming in 1444AD scenario shall have 5000 base development, and the much lower base manpower! In Hongwu Period, the Ming had an army with 2 million manpower, just in 1600s, this seriously ill dynasty to feed 680K border guards.
I can endure the overly weak economy and the extremely weak military, and also the further strike from the new state-maintance system, which made it impossible to hire three 2-star advices in the 1444AD scanario for only 11 ducats total balance one month, though even 11 ducats /month is the greatest advanage of this paper tiger at all.
I would not like to compare the income of countries with other means, I just use the weight of the grain converted from tax:
(Agriculture) Land Tax=20802000 liang silver
Business Tax+Salt Tax=2238000 liang silver
(other income)=3487000 liang silver
In total, the income of Ming in 1550s is 26,527,000 liang silver, the price of rice in common age is 0.57 liang silver=one dan rice=94.4kg rice, thus the income of Ming can buy 4,393,244 ton rice.In unfortuate age, 2.65 liang silver= one dan rice, on avearge, one liang silver=one dan rice, thus the income could buy 2,504,149 ton rice.
I do not know the finance status of West European centralized countries, while I believe 4,393,244 ton rice is a huge value which could support the feed of over 800K army.The financial crysis of Ming was valued too higher than the really situation, and the biggest issue of finance in Ming is the difficulty to maintain a balanced central finance, which is the real question why the Ming dead, not for the crisis of the finance of the whole country.
Nowadays, it is basically sad that the Ming has little possibility to get out the crazy strict of the awful Celestial Empire before 1750s, it is obvious that the Eastern Asia will become the most underdeveloped region in technology aspect, it will become very easy for a western country to become the master of China even it has only 100 development especially when the Ming had not crush down.
In fact, I am not agree at the recent and the following design(nerf way) of China at all, the s**t mandate system make the Ming even contolled by players crush down like the cripsy china, the system in M&T should be better than this way. And I still not agree with the magic power of three points in improving provinces, it is magical at all, I still believe the development system shall be replaced with population system or other magic system with no transition in the value of provinces.
This is my complain in this magical game, and I still do not understand why the lands in China is thus too big and weak at all,I believe my discontent started from Art of War dlc, the provinces in Far East could get an expansion again for the new ugly nerf.
I'm a little indignation of the igorence and the nerf of Far East, so my word sounds much bad for these working for this interesting and rigorous(?) game and these waiting for this exciting new expansion, I feel sorry for this and hope you can read my article, and express your suggestion about what I said.
