Brother Zhu Youxiao

"Hoohoo!"

"Ugh-"

"shooting!"

"Clap clap clap..."

At the end of October in the 21st year of the Apocalypse, when the internal political turmoil in Ming Dynasty, the world was not stable.

A national uprising broke out in Ireland, and Charles I sent troops across the sea to suppress it.

The Battle of Nuremberg broke out between the Catholic Allied Forces and the Protestant Allied Forces in Nuremberg. The two sides invested a total of 15 troops. This may be the battle with the largest number of people participating in the battle since the 30 Years War.

At the same time, Monaco signed a treaty with France to drive out the Spaniards stationed in Monaco.

On October [-], after the Irish National Uprising was suppressed, the British Parliament strongly demanded that Charles I no longer implement autocratic rule, opposed his feudal rule, and drafted the "Great Protest" to resist Charles I.

With the backing of Ming Dynasty and the tax revenue of the imperial store, Charles I did not submit to the parliament.

On October 26, Charles I sacrificed the flag in Nottingham, firing the first shot of the English Civil War.

In the same month, the French troops divided into three groups and drove to Italy, Switzerland, Alsace and other battlefields in an attempt to cut off the land communication line between Spain and the Holy Roman Empire.

Due to Spain's diplomatic difficulties, the decline in trade volume with Ming Dynasty, and the treasure ships at sea were constantly attacked by the Dutch and French navies, so the country began to fall into a crisis of bankruptcy.

The internal crisis in Spain changed the situation of the French army. In just one month, the French army recovered Arras in the north and captured Turin in Italy.

The line of communication between Spain and the Holy Roman Empire was cut off, and the 23-year war seemed to be a foregone conclusion.

However, as the archbishop of France, Richelieu was not determined to negotiate a peace, because he thought it would be more beneficial to France to wait for the situation.

Moreover, France can also continue to weaken Spain through Ming's trade support, so France is currently waiting to see the situation.

However, compared with their actions with the United Kingdom and Sweden, the actions of the Netherlands are even more jaw-dropping.

On October 21, the Dutch navy wiped out the Spanish fleet. Although this result was a year later than in history, the damage caused to Spain was far greater than the historical result.

Spain and the Americas were completely disconnected, and the route to the New World was occupied by the navies of the Netherlands, France, and the United Kingdom.

While the whole of Western Europe, Southern Europe, and Northern Europe were fighting together, a war quietly broke out in Eastern Europe.

The Mongols from the East made a comeback. Under the leadership of Lin Dan Khan, they annexed the Kazakh Khanate, crossed the Ural River in autumn, burned, killed and looted the plains and hills between the Volga River and the Ural River.

On October [-], Lin Dan Khan led [-] cavalry to try to cross the Volga River, where he encountered the [-] Shooting Corps of Tsarist Russia and [-] Don Cossack cavalry.

"shooting!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

On the battlefield, people turned their backs on their backs, and a series of artillery rang on the west bank of the Volga River, beating the Mongols who had already gained a foothold on the west bank of the Volga River.

The [-] shooting regiments were lined up in front of the formation, with big axes on the ground, and the large matchlock guns in their hands were clamped on the axes to shoot.

The sound of "cracking" sounded like fried beans, and many Mongolian cavalrymen fell off their horses, but tens of thousands of cavalrymen followed up.

For just a moment, the Shooting Corps had to move out its spears, and the [-] Don Cossack cavalry under the command of Commander Morozov surrounded them from both wings.

"Beep!"

When the Mongols blew the wooden whistle seized from the Ming army, tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry scattered immediately, and what appeared in front of the [-] Don River Cossack cavalry was a hundred crudely made artillery pieces.

"Let go! (Mongolian)"

"Boom bang bang-"

The sudden appearance of the artillery beat the [-] Don Cossack cavalry upside down. When the artillery ended, Lindan Khan's eldest son Ezhe led the [-] armored heavy cavalry and rushed towards the Don Cossack cavalry.

"retreat!"

When seeing [-] armored Mongolian cavalry charging towards their own side, the Cossack cavalry immediately retreated quickly under the command of the commander.

Such a rapid retreat immediately exposed the shooting army to the front of [-] Mongolian cavalry.

"We have spears, they can't break through!"

Although Morozov was very angry by the Cossack cavalry, he still shouted loudly to encourage the morale of his own army.

Since Tsarist Russia has not yet carried out military reforms, when Western Europe has learned the line tactics of the Ming army, they still only rely on carriages to carry out musket counterattacks.

For the Mongols, this kind of musket counterattack is the "Ming Army" decades ago.

To Morozov's astonishment, [-] heavy armored cavalry stopped, [-] rangers pressed on, and began to turn back and forth in front of the formation.

Arrow's face-to-face tactics made the Shooting Corps miserable, and Morozov could only order to retreat and fight.

"Boom bang bang-"

Tsarist Russia's artillery troops were intercepted by Mongolian cavalry, and the artillery fled frantically by abandoning their artillery, while the Mongols' artillery suddenly exploded at this moment.

"Boom bang bang-"

The flying stone bullets caused heavy casualties to the firing corps attempting to retreat. As a last resort, Morozov could only order the whole army to break through.

The infantry without cavalry can only appear very weak in the face of the Mongol rangers.

At dusk, after leaving more than 2000 corpses, Morozov led the shooting army to successfully retreat, and Lin Dan Khan successfully led [-] Mongolian cavalry to gain a foothold west of the Volga River.

"drive!"

"drive!"

On the blood-stained land, when Lin Danhan came galloping on his horse, his son E Zhe also waved to him:
"Abu (father)! We grabbed 32 cannons, more than 600 bird guns, and more than 700 catties of gunpowder."

Er Zhe told Lin Danhan about the results of his battle. Lin Danhan also rushed over after hearing the words, and then looked at the piles of seizures.

At this moment, he was in high spirits, and he pointed at the matchlock guns and artillery, as well as the captured armor with his horsewhip: "Half of these things belong to you, and let Subudi share the rest equally with them!"

After all, Lin Danhan rode his horse and continued to drive forward. He was going to rest in the tent ahead.

As for E Zhe, he began to distribute all kinds of materials seized in this battle.

When Lin Dan Khan arrived in front of the tent, he skillfully dismounted and walked into the army's tent.

Entering it, the aroma of the roasted lamb inside makes people salivate, and the other ministries who are busy eating meat seem to be expressing their satisfaction with this battle.

"Sweaty..."

Seeing Lin Danhan entering the big tent, Subudi and others got up and saluted one after another, and Lin Danhan also responded, then walked to his seat, sat down with a big horse golden knife and said:

"The Raksha people resisted tenaciously. More than 3000 of us were injured, and more than 1000 of us fell on this land."

"However, I'm not going to fight against the Raksha people. I'll follow the original plan. After we finish grabbing this piece of land, we will continue to move westward and chop off Bahadu's head!"

After Lin Danhan moved to the west, facing the siege of surrounding religions, he had no choice but to give up the Red Sect he supported, and continued to support the spread of the Yellow Sect among the Mongolians.

The Mongols who believed in the yellow religion broke into the Central Asia and Caucasus regions occupied by the Muslims in this way, and the Mongols of the Crimean Khanate who believed in the Muslims were traitors in the eyes of Lin Danhan and others.

They want to snatch the pastures of the Crimean Khanate so that they can feed their current 10,000+ tribes.

"Great Khan..." As the current think tank of Mongolia, Subudi opened his mouth without any surprise, and Lin Danhan put down his airs and listened.

"We now only have eight 10,000+ tribes and more than 8 soldiers and horses. Besides, six of the 10,000+ tribes and [-] soldiers and horses are in the river area, and Bahadu has [-] string-controlling soldiers and horses."

"My suggestion is to move the people here to nomad first, and at the same time annex the Khiva people in the river, so that our army strength reaches 10, and then wait for the opportunity to send troops to Bahadu."

"Anyway, Daming doesn't have the capital to send troops right now, so we don't need to be so anxious."

Subudi's words were heard, especially for Lin Danhan. Although the river was barren, he was not willing to give up the river, but it was caused by too much pressure from the Ming army.

If there is no sign of the Ming army sending troops, then it is nothing for them to rest and recuperate.

Thinking of this, Lin Danhan stroked his beard: "In this case, first move the tribes of Chahar and Karaqin over here."

"I will lead the troops to recover the Khivas in the river, and my son Ezhe will be in command here."

"Yes!" Many Taiji breathed a sigh of relief when they heard that Lin Danhan had changed his mind.

In fact, they also want to continue to invade the Eastern European Plains. After all, compared to Mobei, Western Regions, and Hezhong, the Eastern European Plains are simply their paradise.

It's just that the strength of the Crimean Khanate should not be underestimated, so they still need to consider it.

Besides, Eastern Europe is no better than other places. The grass here is rich and beautiful, and there are many forces. No one can guarantee that when they go to war with the Crimean Khanate, other countries will take advantage of it and loot it.

"That's it, I'll go back and rest first..."

As if there was no pressure, Lin Danhan quickly remembered the Eastern European women who were dedicated to him by the following people.

Thinking of this, his stomach became angry, and after hastily saying goodbye to everyone, he immediately ran to his sweat tent.

At the same time that he was in trouble, Tsarist Russia in the north also knew that Mongolia had won the Western Expedition and that the Shooting Corps had returned to Kazan.

This news was originally nothing, but the problem is that after they occupied the lower reaches of the Volga River, it was difficult for Tsarist Russia to communicate with Golovin in West Siberia.

Now they had to wait until winter had passed before taking the Ural trails to Western Siberia.

As Tsar Mikhail, he was very unhappy about Morozov's defeat, but because of his weak temper, he didn't know how to deal with Morozov for a while.

Tsarist Russia seems to be in trouble now. As the tsar, Mikhail can only prepare for war, but financial problems doomed that Tsarist Russia in his hands could not support too many troops.

Tsarist Russia is in a predicament. Fortunately, Europe is now in a mess, and even Poland has no intention of caring about it.

Of course, compared to Europe, the Ming Dynasty whose suzerainty territory covers almost the entire world is the focus of this era.

"Guiyou, the two capitals, Shandong, Henan, and Zhejiang suffered severe drought, and the provinces encountered locusts, and there were many hungry and robbers among the people."

"A severe epidemic broke out in Taiyuan, Shanxi, and the sick vomited blood like watermelon water and died immediately. The death pillow was full, ten rooms were empty, and even the households were completely wiped out, and there was no one to restrain them."

"When the epidemic was discovered, not only Xing County, but Datong also suffered from the plague. Nine out of ten households were infected, and the infected died one after another. Once a family with several members was infected with the epidemic, one out of ten would not even be able to close the door."

"Currently, the entire province of Shanxi has been banned, and the Jingjia Railway and Jingxi Railway have been suspended."

"On the ninth day of the lunar new year, Imperial Physician Wu took more than a thousand imperial physicians from the Epidemiology Department to Shanxi. They arrived yesterday, but the details are still unknown."

"Preliminary estimates... the number of people who died of the epidemic may have exceeded [-]..."

In the Chengyun Hall, when Li Changgeng, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, was reporting to Zhu Youjian, Zhu Youjian was nervous the whole time.

The great plague in the late Ming Dynasty, the culprit who directly or indirectly took the lives of tens of millions of people in the late Ming Dynasty, finally appeared.

"Have you found out the source of this plague?"

Zhu Youjian asked Li Changgeng, but Li Changgeng shook his head repeatedly.

In fact, it's normal to think about it carefully. As the Great Ming Dynasty, Wu Youxing, who was good at controlling epidemics, had just arrived in Shanxi, so naturally no one dared to investigate the source of the plague.

"The Huangdian distributed 300 bolts of white cloth and [-] million catties of alcohol, and ordered people to spray alcohol in various cities in Shanxi. There must be no mistakes."

"The next official takes orders..." Hearing Zhu Youjian's words, Li Changgeng quickly responded, and Cao Huachun, who was not far away, also stood up and bowed to Li Changgeng.

He meant to ask Li Changgeng to follow him to do the paperwork, but Li Changgeng turned around and bowed to Zhu Youjian without hesitation:
"Your Highness, although the epidemic has not yet spread in the capital, just in case, please go to Fangshan Zhongxia Palace to rest."

Li Changgeng was worried about Zhu Youjian's safety, but Zhu Youjian knew very well that, given the situation of the plague, the most likely thing for it to spread right now was the train.

As long as the train is stopped and checkpoints are set up along the way, many people carrying the virus can only die of illness on the way, and it is impossible to come to the capital.

In history, the plague in Beijing was caused by the plague appearing in Beijing. Now Beijing has been designed by Zhu Youjian and built by the Ministry of Industry.

There was no need for him to leave the capital, and he could even use the matter of the plague to write an article for the Association.

"If the plague is really coming, it doesn't matter where I go."

Zhu Youjian first responded to Li Changgeng, and then said to Wang Chengen who was sitting in the corner processing the documents:
"Cheng En, published the "Epidemic Prevention Handbook" of Suncheon Medical College in "National Daily News", telling the people how to prevent epidemics in the face of epidemics."

"In addition, remember to publish "Plague Theory" written by Imperial Physician Wu in the next issue, telling the people not to panic, and at the same time, beware of someone hyping up the price of white cloth and coarse cloth."

Zhu Youjian explained to Wang Chengen, Wang Chengen took notes and then ordered someone to do it.

When Zhu Youjian turned around, he found that Li Changgeng hadn't left yet, but hesitated: "Your Highness, now on the temple..."

Li Changgeng wanted to talk about the Qi Palace and the Yanshan faction, but Zhu Youjian raised his hand to stop him.

"You just need to take care of the household department, and I will handle the affairs of the temple."

"Go down..."

Zhu Youjian opened his mouth to see off the guests, but Li Changgeng had no choice but to leave after hearing the words.

After he left, Wang Chengen, who had finished everything, got up and walked to Zhu Youjian's desk, and said curiously while adding tea to his cup:

"Your Highness, this plague is coming fiercely, do you think it can be prevented?"

"Naturally..." Zhu Youjian was very confident, he explained:
"Shanxi is sparsely populated at the moment. As of September, there are only 460 million people in the province, and they are spread over tens of thousands of miles. As long as Datong and Taiyuan are guarded, the plague will basically not be able to travel too far."

With that said, Zhu Youjian was also more fortunate.

He knew in the early years that a plague would break out in the late Ming Dynasty. Although he didn't know the reason, at least he used Wu Youxing again, and let Wu Youxing and Wang Kentang study the plague.

In the 12th year of Tianqi, after the microscope was freshly released, Wu Youxing and the others began to study cells and bacteria under the guidance of Zhu Youjian.

In the 16th year of Tianqi, with the development of industrial production, Daming Microscope Manufacturing has overcome the shortcomings of lens blur and chromatic aberration, and the resolution has been increased to one micron. Microscopes have gradually become popular in local Huimin pharmacies and government schools.

With the improved microscope, cells and their contents can be observed more clearly, which is also more convenient for experiments.

Right now, the School of Medicine has started to research penicillin, artemisinin, and various medicines. Although the results have not yet been seen, but with the popularization of government and education, I believe that after the precipitation of Ming Dynasty, basic science will usher in an explosive growth.

But when it came to government studies, Zhu Youjian couldn't help asking Wang Chengen: "How many students graduated from government schools this year, how many of them are officials, and do they all have jobs?"

"Go back to Your Highness, the servant needs to check, please wait a moment, Your Highness..."

Wang Chengen didn't expect His Royal Highness to ask about this, so he could only apologize, then returned to his place, rummaged through the shelf where the documents were placed, and finally found the official documents handed in by the Ministry of Rites last month.

"Apocalypse 21 years, there are more than 370 graduates from government schools."

"Among them, more than 340 million people participated in Enke, and the rest continued to study in government schools."

"In addition, less than 3 people have participated in Enke and have been admitted."

"Most of the remaining students were recruited by major industrial zones to work."

"Others were hired by government schools to teach. Your Highness ordered you to do so. However, I feel that their knowledge is not good enough."

Wang Chengen told the situation of the students from government schools. As the cornerstone of the Ming Dynasty, although there are a large number of them, there is no need to worry about not having a job.

After all, a place like an industrial zone needs educated workers.

With the passage of so many years, many workers have reached the age of retirement, and it is normal for young people to be on top.

However, according to the current trend, maybe in two or three years, many students who graduated from government schools will have nowhere to go, and everyone can only continue to study in government schools.

This is a good thing for Daming, but not for the lives of the common people.

To support a prefectural school student, at least four acres of arable land are required, and these four acres of arable land are beyond the reach of many families.

If they couldn't arrange their whereabouts, Daming would only usher in a large group of unemployed people in the future, and many educated people could only go home to farm.

There is no way around this, because the entire world right now cannot afford to support so many workers.

Even Daming, with continuous technological innovations, can only support about 800 million workers.

Overcapacity and increasing unemployment are all things that Daming will have to face in the future.

It's not that students can't go back to farming, but they can't be allowed to engage in small-scale agricultural production.

Their insight and knowledge, as long as they have the matching hands-on ability, can completely adapt to the middle peasant production economy of Ming Dynasty.

Middle peasants, this means that each household must have at least 900 mu of land, and there are more than 39 million households in Ming Dynasty. It may be difficult to get the [-] billion mu of cultivated land in a short time.

Draining the population to the vassal state is the only way for Ming Dynasty to solve the unemployment of the population at this stage.

Among them, the state of Qi must be an important link, but Zhu Youjian has to check this part of the state of Qi by himself.

If he wants to check, the premise is that Da Ming is stable, and if Da Ming wants to be stable, he needs to get rid of the biggest uneasy factor inside...

"How many students will graduate from the government school next year?"

Zhu Youjian asked again, and Wang Chengen quickly replied: "About [-] people."

"Hmm..." After pondering for a moment, Zhu Youjian thought about something, and continued to ask:
"How many people are there at Jin Xuan's side? How long will it take for Yan Yinshao to arrive in Tianjin?"

Zhu Youjian leaned on the chair and asked Wang Chengen in the distance, Wang Chengen said without hesitation:
"There are no less than [-] officials in Beijing and other places who contributed posts. Yan Youqian's capital censor has already arrived at the old port, and he can take a ship there. It will take more than half a month to reach Tianjin."

Wang Chengen brought good news to Zhu Youjian. Judging from the greetings received by Jin Xuan, there are still a lot of officials who are dissatisfied with and opposed to Yanshan.

Ninth-rank officials of the Ming Dynasty basically did not participate in the contribution of posts, only officials of the ninth rank and above were eligible to contribute posts, and there were only more than [-] officials of the eighth rank and above in the Ming Dynasty.

In other words, at present, one-eighth of the mid-level and lower-level officials in the Ming Dynasty support Jin Xuan, and only supporting Jin Xuan means opposing Yanshan.

Judging from the current situation, their number will continue to increase.

In the end, as long as they can fight against the Yanshan faction in the temple, then their third step plan can be implemented.

"Tell Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou not to act in a hurry, wait for my order before doing anything."

Zhu Youjian picked up the tea and took a sip, and Wang Chengen who was not far away also nodded in response.

Regarding Yanshan, Zhu Youjian never worried that he would not be able to deal with them. Although they entered the officialdom early, they mainly relied on themselves.

Even if the tails are too big to fall off right now, as long as Zhu Youjian wants to cut them off, he doesn't need much effort.

What Zhu Youjian considered was whether there would be someone to replace them after they were cut off.

Now there are more than 7 people in the government school. If officials from Donggong and other places are added, it will not be difficult to replace officials from the three provinces in the south of the Yangtze River.

As long as Jiangnan, Jiugang, and Yingzhou are under good control, Yanshan is the fish on the chopping board and can only be slaughtered by oneself.

only……

Zhu Youjian was silent, he was thinking whether it was Daming's dye vat that was too much, or it was just human nature.

In any case, those students of the Yanshan School were also his students.

In just ten years, his group of students completed the transformation from a group of aspiring young people to a group of egoists.

Sure enough, in the face of power, no one can escape the word humanity.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian rubbed his brows, and at this moment there were hurried footsteps outside the hall...

"father!"

Zhu Cihong, who was carrying a schoolbag, trotted all the way into the Chengyun Hall, and Zhu Youjian couldn't help laughing when he looked at him.

"At least, I'm not alone..."