Brother Zhu Youxiao

In October, Ezhe's carefully prepared gifts were sent to Taixi Province.

Along with it, more than 7 Mongolian students and gold and silver worth 72 taels were sent together. These are the primary school tuition fees for the students in the next five years.

Calculated, the average is two taels of silver per year, not too much, but not too little.

Due to the large number of students sent this time, staying in Taixi Province to teach may expose some military problems in Taixi Province, so the Department of Justice assigned them to Anxi, Beiting, and Hezhong provinces.

At the same time, the gift prepared by E Zhe also arrived in the capital by train half a month later.

Gifts such as this kind of tribute to the emperor are generally received from the emperor's private money, and the gifts sent by E Zhe are indeed generous, with a value of no less than 30 taels of silver.

While Zhu Youxiao accepted the gift with joy, King Felipe IV of Spain died due to untimely appendicitis surgery.

Five months before his death, Zhang Chi, head of Daming's Royal Store in Madrid, had entered the palace to persuade him to invite doctors from Daming or Qi to perform surgery on him.

However, Felipe IV was upset because Daming and Qi had snatched Spain's colonies in the Americas and the Far East, and rejected Zhang Chi's suggestion.

Since Felipe IV died, he only had Carlos, a regular male heir who was nearly five years old, so Carlos inherited the throne, and his mother, Maria Anna of Austria, governed Spain as regent.

However, at this time Felipe IV also had an eldest daughter who had married King Louis XIV of France five years earlier.

Therefore, after the death of Felipe IV, Louis XIV made use of the issue of Felipe's inheritance and secretly actively prepared for the war.

As of the 45th of the twelfth lunar month in 12, the strength of the French standing army had reached [-].

Ma Ying, head of the Imperial Store of the Ming Dynasty in Paris, recorded the strength of France and sent the letter to Beijing.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao, who didn't know it, was still worrying about Tiange and the capital. On the second day of the first lunar month, he ordered the northern part of the capital to expand the North City to cope with the future growth of Beijing's population.

At the same time, he personally paid 60 taels of silver from internal funds to build a "Tiange" on the top of Harawen Mountain.

Tiange, this is a work prepared by Zhu Youxiao nine years ago.

The work is a tall pavilion with a plane in all directions, with twelve doors and 36 windows on each floor, covering an area of ​​580 mu, 55 feet high, and eleven floors.

Every floor of the Tiange is decorated very gorgeously, the pillars are surrounded by brocade, the doors and windows are painted with red paint, there are five rows of gold nails on the door, and there are golden rings on the head.

The eaves of the roof extend outwards, with golden bells hanging from the eaves, and above them are copper-plated ridge beasts. Whenever the wind blows, the golden bells will jingle, which can be heard from more than ten miles away.

The pavilion is mainly used to worship the emperors who have made meritorious service in the Ming Dynasty, as well as the famous officials and generals of the same period.

The emperors selected by Zhu Youxiao were Ming Taizu Gao Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, Ming Chengzu Wen Emperor Zhu Di, and Ming Xianzong Pure Emperor Zhu Jianshen.

The reason for choosing these three people is because he has set quite strict standards for himself.

Wen needs to be safe, military needs to expand the soil, this is the standard for entering the Tiange.

Such a standard made many officials dissatisfied, and believed that Renzong Zhu Gaochi, Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji, and Xiaozong Zhu Youtang should all be included.

However, their thoughts were rejected by Zhu Youxiao, just because the three of them failed to expand the soil and failed to settle down completely.

In addition, Zhu Youxiao also arranged positions for the three ancestors, among which Zhu Yuanzhang was on the highest floor, Zhu Di was on the tenth floor, and Zhu Jian was on the eighth floor.

Seeing the emperor's arrangement, the officials probably understood what the emperor meant.

Co-authoring this Tiange seems to have been built for the former emperors, but it was actually built to show your own merits...

After understanding the true meaning, the officials stopped talking. After all, everyone knew that the emperor was 60 years old this year, far exceeding the average life expectancy of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, and no one knew how long he had left...

The construction of the Tiange started smoothly, and the workers opened up a site for the construction of the Tiange behind the Bell Tower of King Qi on the top of Harawin Mountain.

They transported cement, gravel, pig iron rods, river sand, etc. to the foot of the mountain, and then pieced together wooden boards to form crawlers, and then used ten tractors to pull the goods to the top of the mountain.

Fortunately, the road to the top of the mountain is not steep, so a lot of manpower is saved.

Just as the Tiange was being built, Shen Tingyang, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, handed over the year-end summary.

Since various policies of the Ming Dynasty were linked to the household registration book, with the multi-party cooperation of the army, soldiers and horses, government servants and officials, the annual household registration and the number of acres of land would not vary too much.

However, due to the "Northern Japanese and Southern Burmese" incident that broke out last year, Daming's population and the amount of cultivated land rarely increased too much.

As of the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month in the 45th year of Apocalypse, Daming had a population of more than 120 million, an increase of only [-] million new population.

In terms of the number of acres, the arable land area of ​​Daming exceeded 15 billion mu, but it only increased by more than [-] million mu compared with last year.

The only thing worth mentioning is that after the turmoil last year and this year, the proportion of Han people in the Ming Dynasty reached [-]%, and in the three provinces of Yingzhou, Luchuan, and Ganges, the proportion of Han people also reached [-]%. [-]%, [-]%, [-]%...

On the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, Sun Chuanting, a veteran of three dynasties, died of illness at home at the age of 73.

After the emperor heard the news, he stopped the court for three days, and was buried according to the gift of the prince.

His eldest son, Sun Bingwen, the chief envoy of Taixi, succeeded the Duke of Dai, and his second son, Sun Yinzhi, the commander-in-chief of Jiugang, was granted the title of Uncle Zhenwu.

After the news spread to the vassals, it was recorded in the history that "the king of Qi mourned, wept at night, and fasted in the palace for ten days".

On the eighteenth day of the first lunar month in the 46th year of Tianqi, Yingyuan, the grandson of Dingxing Marquis of the Qi State, died at home at the age of 72. King Qi stopped court for three days and was buried with the official ceremony of the state. His posthumous title was "Wu Mu".

After the news came back to Ming Dynasty, the emperor Zhu Youxiao was named Sun Yingyuan, and Man and Gui, who had died before, were posthumously named King Dingxing and King Xuanhua.

On February [-]th, Qi Wang Zhu Youjian handwritten and Emperor Zhu Youxiao raised the issues of the people and the nation in detail.

In view of the fact that the number of minorities in the Ming Dynasty had dropped to more than [-] million, Emperor Zhu Youxiao decreed that they be naturalized as Han people, and their treatment was also changed.

It is worth mentioning that most of the young people at this time were unable to speak their own national language proficiently, and Jianghuai Mandarin became a common language for daily communication among Ming people.

In March, Jin Fushangshu, Minister of the Ministry of Industry of Nanzhili, said that the embankment on the south bank of Taoyuan on the Yellow River was damaged, and Zhu Ciran, Prince Jian Guo, ordered to allocate 20 taels of state treasury and ordered him to repair it quickly.

On March 25, the Qi State Zhongdu Canal (Panama Canal) was finally completed, which lasted 24 years.

After the canal was completed, the time from the Daming Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean was shortened from one and a half months to three days.

On the fifth day of April, Qi State chemist Ron accidentally soaked cotton in a mixture of nitric acid and sulfuric acid in an experiment at the Academy of Sciences. He discovered nitrocellulose after tentatively washing off the excess acid.

After the event was played, Qi Wang Zhu Youjian personally met Ron in the Qi Palace, and awarded him the pure gold "National Scholars Medal" and awarded him the third grade of Wen San rank as a doctor.

With this loose order alone, Ron can receive an additional salary of 600 taels a year, but the news was blocked.

Afterwards, Zhu Youjian wrote this invention in a letter and sent it to Daming.

On April [-]th, doctor Zong Wei of Qiguo Medical College invented the "hypodermic syringe". Thanks to this invention, many medicines can be administered quickly and safely.

On the third day of May, the State of Qi promulgated the "Patent Law". All patents belong to the state and individuals. The state has the unconditional right to use, but still needs to pay patent fees.

The emergence of the "Patent Law" and patent fees has greatly stimulated the inventions and creations of folk scholars.

On July [-]th, Ming followed the example of Qi State and promulgated the "Patent Law", and ordered the suzerain and vassal states to include it in the laws of each country.

On July 29, Shi Xia Yunyi, the governor of Qi State, died of illness at home at the age of 70.

After Qi Wang Zhu Youjian heard the news, he stopped court for one day and ordered Wang Taisun Zhu Hexuan to mourn for him for three days.

On the first day of September, Emperor Zhu Youxiao posthumously bestowed upon Qi State Minister Shi Xia Yunyi the title of Duke of Yue. His son Xia Wanchun succeeded Huating Marquis, and ordered the emperor's grandson Zhu Heyin to go to Qi State to express his condolences.

On the fifth day of September, Qi Wang Zhu Youjian appointed the 46-year-old household servant Zhang Huangyan as the chief historian of Qi.

In October, the natives of Zhulin Mansion rebelled again, and Zhu Cihuang, king of Langya County, led an army of [-] to put down the rebellion of the natives of Zhulin Mansion.

On October 25, Zhu Heyin, the grandson of the emperor, arrived in Xijing City to mourn Xia Yunyi, the Duke of Yue, and returned on the tenth day of the winter month.

On the seventeenth day of the winter month, a plague broke out in the Branden area. Denmark and Sweden signed the "Malmö Treaty", and the two sides ended the war. Sweden acquired Skåne from Denmark, and Denmark lost control of Norway.

Denmark's withdrawal increased the pressure on the Holy Roman Empire and Tsarist Russia. The two countries negotiated peace with Sweden on the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, recognizing Sweden's sovereignty over Brandon and Poland.

On the seventeenth day of the twelfth lunar month, the three countries signed the "Contract of Gdansk" in Gdansk, and the first Northern War ended.

On the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month, King Li Wei of North Korea went to Beijing to pay homage to the Son of Heaven.

On the first day of the first lunar month in the 47th year of Tianqi, Emperor Zhu Youxiao and Li Wei met in Huagai Palace. As an elder, Zhu Youxiao taught Li Wei to be tolerant of the people, and Li Wei nodded repeatedly.

That night, Li Wei recorded the body of the emperor Zhu Youxiao in his diary, saying, "The emperor is thin and can't eat. As a subject, I am especially worried."

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Li Wei returned to North Korea and built the "Tiansheng Temple" in Nanshan, Seoul, where a portrait of Emperor Wanli was hung.

On the 25th day of the first lunar month, King Qi sent his son Zhu Cihong, his grandson Zhu Hexuan, and [-] imperial doctors from Qi State Medical Center to Beijing to treat the emperor Zhu Youxiao.

On the first day of March, Qi Shizi Zhu Cihong arrived in Beijing and had a heart-to-heart talk with the emperor while the imperial physician of the Qi State was diagnosing the emperor Zhu Youxiao.

Yuan Shiqi, the envoy of the National Medical Center of Qi State, judged that the condition was due to aging of the body, and personally infused the emperor with fluids.

In the evening, Qi Shizi Zhu Cihong and grandson Zhu Hexuan left the palace.

After they left, Zhu Ciran, the crown prince of Jianguo, went to Qianqing Palace to see the emperor. The emperor said: "I am very happy to see your son today, and I feel a little better physically."

Hearing this, Zhu Ciran breathed a sigh of relief, then chatted with Zhu Youxiao, and then left Qianqing Palace.

In late March, under the joint treatment of Qi State and the imperial physician of Ming Dynasty, Emperor Zhu Youxiao's health improved a lot.

On the second day of April, Qi Shizi Zhu Cihong returned to Qi State and left thirty imperial doctors in the National Medical Center to take care of the emperor Zhu Youxiao's body.

Emperor Zhu Youxiao was pleased, and immediately rewarded Qi Shizi Zhu Cihong with more than ten boxes of jewelry.

On the fifth day of April, Qi Shizi Zhu Cihong returned to Qi State, and grandson Zhu Hexuan stayed in the capital to study.

During Taisun's stay in Beijing, the emperor continued to reward him.

According to the "Miscellaneous Notes on Leftovers" written by Li Chaofeng, a stay-at-home eunuch of the Qi Palace many years later, in the 48th year of the Apocalypse, the emperor rewarded Zhu Hexuan with gold and silver jewels worth 3 taels, and sent an imperial chef to cook for him in the Qi Palace. , Summoned him many times into the palace to play chess with the emperor.

On the [-]th day of June, Zhu Shenqi, grandson of Shu Tai, and Zhu Huifan, grandson of Zhou Tai, had a quarrel in Shuntian University. The children of the two sides got into a fight in Shuntian University, and there were as many as a thousand descendants of the clan.

Although the yamen servants took control of the situation in time, Zhu Jinhou, the eldest son of the King of Deyang County in Shu Fan, died in the fight.

Deyang Kingdom has a mansion in the feudal country of India, with a population of one million and more than ten thousand soldiers.

Therefore, after the matter fermented, the emperor Zhu Youxiao immediately ordered Zhou Taisun Zhu Huifan to be reprimanded. At the same time, he ordered Zhu Fuxi, the prince of Zhou, to go to Deyang State to apologize to the King of Deyang County.

Zhou King Zhu Lunkui who heard the news immediately ordered his son Zhu Fuxi to go to Deyang Kingdom to make amends, but something unexpected happened.

When Zhu Maokun, king of Deyang County, saw Zhu Fuxi, the eldest son of the Zhou Dynasty, he shot and killed Zhu Fuxi's horse before Zhu Fuxi got off his horse, causing Zhu Fuxi to fall down with his horse and man. Break the leg bone.

At the same time that Zhu Fuxi fell down, Zhu Maokun, the king of Deyang County, left a sentence "a life for a life" and rode away.

Seeing this, Zhou Guo's guards hurriedly escorted his eldest son Zhu Fuxi to the Huimin Pharmacy in Deyang City. Who would have thought that Zhu Maokun had notified the city's Traditional Chinese Medicine Bureau early on that Zhu Fuxi would not be treated.

Zhou Guo's guards had no choice but to send Zhu Fuxi out of Deyang Kingdom to the neighboring Yiyang Kingdom for treatment.

Fortunately, the treatment was timely, otherwise Zhu Fuxi might become a cripple.

After the news was sent back to the state of Zhou, King Zhu Lunkui of Zhou was furious, and immediately ordered Zhu Lun, king of the county, to send [-] troops, and the army pressed against Deyang State.

Fortunately, Zhang Mengming, the inspector of Xiaoxiyang, was patrolling near the state of Zhou at this moment, so he stopped Zhu Lunkui in time, otherwise the first civil strife among the feudal lords in the Ming Dynasty would erupt before his eyes.

Afterwards, Zhang Mengming reported the matter to the cabinet. Emperor Zhu Youxiao was furious when he learned about it, and ordered to relocate the department, removing Deyang and Zhou from the relocation list in Apocalypse 47, and reinstating it the next year.

This kind of treatment made Deyang Kingdom and Zhou Kingdom dare not speak out. Although the matter came to an end, the two countries had accumulated grievances, not to mention, even the two neighboring countries, Shu Fan and Zhou Fan, also had grievances.

It seems to be to resolve the conflict between the two countries, and it seems to be to avenge the Mughals for plundering the Ganges River. Therefore, in October of the same year, Emperor Zhu Youxiao rewarded Wang Fuchen for his meritorious service in suppressing the rebellion last time, and promoted Wang Fuchen as the deputy governor of the Eastern Army. , Li Dingguo is the Marquis of Yanshan.

On October [-], the emperor ordered Li Dingguo to lead the four guards from the top straight to the south of the Ganges River to control the Northern Army, Western Army, and Indians as vassals and crusade against the Mughals.

At the same time, on the other side of the ocean, Louis XIV claimed the right to inherit the Spanish throne on the pretext that his wife was the sister of the current Spanish king, so as to claim the Pyrenees region from Spain as the inheritance of Felipe IV.

Since this request had been rejected by Spain for the past two and a half years, Louis XIV declared war on Spain.

After two and a half years of military expansion, the number of French troops has reached 20, while Spain has only 24, of which [-] are responsible for defense in North Kunlun.

Therefore, when the war broke out, the Pyrenees region fell quickly, and only a few hundred of the [-] local troops fled back.

At this time, King Carlos II of Spain was only seven years old, and the state affairs were basically handled by his mother Anna.

Knowing the news that France declared war on Spain, Anna immediately sent to her hometown...the Holy Roman Empire for help.

She believed that as a member of the Habsburg family, Leopold I would send troops to support Spain. After all, the war between the Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Sweden had ended for half a year.

However, the result of the facts was extremely embarrassing. Leopold I ruthlessly rejected Anna's request for help, so the Kingdom of Spain needed to face the French attack alone.

Helpless, Anna can only send the domestic army to the north to compete with France for the Pyrenees region.

The two sides invested a total of 30 troops on the border, enough to attract the attention of European countries.

However, compared with them, a more grand war also kicked off at the same time.

Contrary to what Emperor Zhu Youxiao thought, Li Dingguo summoned the 14th Battalion of the Northern Army, the [-]th Battalion of the Western Army, and the [-]th Battalion of the Fans to form a crusade army of more than [-] people.

From the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month until Li Dingguo arrived at Ganges City in the Ganges Province, various countries sent troops to the frontier one after another. At the same time, the [-] troops of the Northern Army also gathered in Kandahar.

It seemed that he was worried that Li Dingguo would destroy the country in one fell swoop, so on the twelfth day of the first lunar month in the 48th year of Tianqi, Emperor Zhu Youxiao sent Dingwang Zhu Cijiong, Taisun Zhu Heyin to supervise the army in the south.

The assembled armies of various countries put tremendous pressure on Mughal, and Emperor Aurangzeb asked Persia and Ottoman for help.

Due to the Three Kingdoms Covenant and the fear that Ming would target itself after defeating the Mughals, Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV and Persian Shah Suleiman I responded to the call.

The Jinyiwei stationed there learned the news and sent it back to the capital in time.

Emperor Zhu Youxiao fell ill again at this time, and the government was handled by Zhu Ciran, the Prince of the Supervisory Kingdom.

Facing the alliance counterattack of the Three Kingdoms, Zhu Ciran calmly ordered Li Dingguo to lead the Shangzhi Four Guards back to Beijing, and was appointed General Zhenxi.

Later, Zhu Ciran ordered Li Dingguo, who had returned to Beijing, to lead the [-] guards from Shangzhi to support the Hezhong area and jointly defend with the Northern Army.

At the same time, Qi Wulong, the governor of the southern army, was appointed as the general of Zhennan to control the western and southern armies and attack the Mughals.

However, it is not difficult to see from the two characters "town" that Zhu Ciran does not want to destroy the Three Kingdoms at this time, because the economy in Daming has not yet fully recovered.

He is more inclined to attack the main forces of the Three Kingdoms and keep the Three Kingdoms weak, so as to facilitate the future development of Ming Dynasty after its domestic stability.

Li Dingguo and Qi Wulong naturally knew his deep meaning, so after they arrived at Hezhong and Ganges respectively, they were not in a hurry to attack, but were busy storing supplies for the war.

The army in the south is not bad, and [-]% of the supplies in the army are provided by the feudal vassals, but the situation in the army in the north is not so good.

In view of Mongolia's national strength is not strong, and is the first line of resistance to the Ottoman Empire, so Li Dingguo can not ask for supplies from Mongolia, but can only be sent to the capital.

Due to the emptiness of the national treasury, helpless Zhu Ciran could only issue 3000 million taels of national debt to deal with the war.

The preparations of the two parties started from the first month of the 48th year of the Apocalypse, and until May, the Ming army had 14 soldiers on the two fronts, plus the 12 of the feudal clans, the total was 26.

At the same time, Jin Yiwei, who was lurking in the Three Kingdoms, also sent back news.

In response to the war, the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet IV assembled 20 troops of [-] cavalry, [-] musketeers, and [-] light infantry to defend the Caucasus.

Persian Shah Suleiman I also assembled [-] Musketeers, [-] Cavalry, and [-] Chen Bing in the border areas.

As for the last Mughal Empire, it mobilized the power of the whole country. Aurangzeb deployed 15 troops at the Khyber Pass and [-] troops in the Lahore area.

As of June 80th, the total number of troops assembled by the two camps on the borders of various countries has exceeded [-].

This kind of war intensity instantly eclipsed the legacy wars in Europe.

Not only Asian countries have noticed this, but even Sweden in Northern Europe and Britain on the sea have also noticed this war.

Everyone is waiting for the outbreak of war, but it turns out that accidents always come sooner than tomorrow...