Brother Zhu Youxiao

"Dang...dang...dang..."

In the early morning, as the continuous bells rang in various cities of Daming, and it continued until dusk, many people guessed one thing.

On September 25th, 74th year of Yongchang, Zhu Heyin, the emperor of Yongchang, died in Qianqing Palace at the age of [-].

During his reign, there were few wars at home and abroad. Some people said that he was weak to the outside world, but it is undeniable that his recuperation gave Daming the capital to conquer the world.

At the beginning of his accession to the throne, the treasury left by Emperor Qiansheng contained more than 500 million taels of banknotes, [-] million taels of gold, and [-] million shichangping granaries.

When he arrived, there were more than 22 million taels of banknotes in the treasury of the Ming Dynasty, more than [-] million taels of gold, and [-] billion shi of Changping grain in the world, enough for the people of the Ming Dynasty to eat for two years.

At the same time, during his reign, the per capita amount of meat, eggs and milk for Ming people exceeded 920 catties, the per capita grain was 52 catties, and the average life expectancy increased from 62 years during the Qiansheng period to [-] years.

There are countless books that record the prosperity of the people during the Yongchang period, among which "Yongchang Experience Record" by the writer Zhang Yaoshun is the most.

Zhang Yaoshun recorded in the vernacular in the book: "I was born in the first year of Yongchang... At that time, there was a scene of peace, and the people in all directions were very happy. A stone of rice is less than three hundred Wen, a catty of fish is only one or two Wen, and ten betel nuts are two. A catty of meat costs only six pennies, a duck only costs seven pennies, and a bucket of salt costs three pennies, it’s as easy as nothing.”

"What I saw during my study tour is that even the local people live well, with little tax, and most of the crops in the fields are abundant. Which farmer is not big and round?"

"Even elementary school students in the countryside like rhetoric and play with words."

"Business people, all three religions and nine streams are comfortable and at ease, what a paradise this is."

"It's a remote area. Don't talk about other benefits, just talk about food, rice, oil, salt, chicken, duck, fish, etc. Which one is not cheap?"

"If a family of several eats a lot of fish and meat every day, it can be regarded as extremely rich if it costs no more than fifty or sixty renminbi."

"Ordinary market towns don't have to worry about living problems. If you sell some physical strength, you can get forty letters a day, and you can live happily."

"At the end of the day, some gluttonous people will still eat meat and drink, everyone is so happy..."

In addition to written records, many painters of the same period also recorded the scenes of the Yongchang period one by one. The folk life at that time was the envy of all nations.

When such a king passed away, the common people hung white cloths on the door of their house and burned paper money at the door to see him off.

All the vassals in the country went to Beijing in person, weeping and sighing before the spirit.

Zhu Heyin's kindness is not only reflected in his treatment of the common people, but also in his tolerance of the various vassals.

During his 25 years in power, more than [-] million people immigrated from the Ming Dynasty, which greatly enriched the strength of overseas vassal states and further expanded the footprint of the Han people.

He opened up the apocalyptic rifle trade, allowing the feudal clans to continue to suppress foreign enemies, and the people of the feudal clans could live a peaceful life.

Such a king was buried in Tianshou Mountain after 47 days of inactivity, and the mausoleum he built was also very cheap compared to other emperors, only less than 80 taels.

On the third day of the first winter month, Zhu Yixuan, the new emperor, went to Minglou on the mausoleum in the presence of all officials and vassals to honor the soon-to-be-buried Yongchang Emperor. It is "Xiangling".

Afterwards, the coffin was buried. Zhu Yixuan returned to the capital with all the officials and feudal vassals.

After the year name was drawn up, Zhu Yixuan held the "Princes' Conference" in the Taimiao under the witness of the cabinet, officials of the six ministries, and the governors of the five armies.

Zhu Yixuan said some comforting words at the meeting, but all the kings of the vassals can see the new emperor's attitude from the "Xianjia" reign title.

It seems that the new emperor is ready to fight again.

But thinking about it carefully, Daming has been at peace for more than 20 years, and it's time to show off his martial arts.

However, if Ming Dynasty conquered the country, immigrants would be needed to enrich the place.

If Daming needs to immigrate, then the feudal vassals should not think that there will be too many immigrants to relocate their feudal states in the coming days.

Aware of this intention, some vassal states with still a small population sighed, and then returned to the vassal states one after another within a month after the end of the feudal dynasty meeting.

In the twelfth lunar month, ordnance bureaus in Xi’an, Taiyuan, Beijing, Jinling, Kunming, and Wuchang in the Ming Dynasty successively mass-produced ammunition and transported it to Hezhong and Ganges provinces by train.

On New Year's Eve, when the new year was over, according to the estimates of the generals of the five armies, the ammunition stockpiled in the two provinces was no less than tens of millions.

"Dang...dang...dang..."

"put!"

"Bang bang bang-"

When the New Year's bell rang at midnight, the year name Xianjia officially entered people's lives. At the same time, when the people were celebrating the New Year, the Ming army in Hezhong and Ganges provinces launched an attack on the Mughals who were entrenched in India. Offensive.

On the first day of the first lunar month in the first year of Xianjia, at four o'clock at midnight, the governor's office of the Western Army of the Great Ming Dynasty, the Governor's Office of the Southern Army, and the Xiaoxiyang Supervision Department assembled 12 troops to attack the Mughals.

Despite the Mughals' preparations, when the day came they looked weak.

[-] "Qiansheng-style howitzers" appeared on the battlefield. In just one night, the frontier city defenses that the Mughals had strengthened for more than half a century were completely destroyed, and many cities were turned into ruins.

According to the recollections of officials from Shu, Zhou, Qin and other vassal states who watched the battle:

"Our army fired a lot of artillery fire, so the entire army was wiped out without any reaction from the southern captives. The so-called fortified city collapsed in just an instant.

The power of the dry holy howitzer opened the eyes of all feudal lords, and the shock in their hearts inevitably aroused fear.

In addition, what surprised them even more was that the general who commanded this battle was actually the 24-year-old grandson of Qi Zhu Bomu.

When Zhu Bomu was ten years old, he and his prince Zhu Bohai returned to Beijing to study at the Beijing Central Government School. At the age of 17, he was admitted to the Shuntian Military Academy as the number one scholar in the national examination.

After graduating at the age of 22, he was awarded the official position of general and entered the Western Army to hone his skills.

In the imagination of the feudal vassals, he would return to Qi State after two years of simple training, but they did not expect that Zhu Bomu not only did not return to Qi State, but became the "Governor of the Three Armies".

The 24-year-old governor of the three armies can't help but think of King Qi Wen who dared to lead an army to suppress rebellion at the age of 12.

The Mughals at this time were led by Bahadur, and his performance in this war was disappointing.

Facing the attack of the Ming army on three sides, he did not choose to support the cities, but gathered the troops scattered around to Lahore, and called on the people of the whole country to resist the atrocities of the Ming army.

However, the people who were originally untouchables ignored his words at all, and a small number of Persians and Mongols were killed and injured in the war, so the Mughal defense line was about to collapse.

On March [-]th of the first year of Xianjia, the Ming army had regained most of the lost ground, and Zhu Bomu, the governor of the three armies, led [-] soldiers and horses to the city of Lahore.

On March [-], the Ming army captured Lahore, and the Mughal emperor Bahadur burned himself to death in despair.

Zhu Bomu used his strength to show the world his "little Qi Wenwang" ability, and used "March to destroy a country" to hand over the first answer sheet of his war career.

On the fifth day of April, when the news of the Mughal's demise reached Beijing, Emperor Xianjia Zhu Yixuan couldn't wait to reward his outstanding nephew, and awarded him the official position of the Ming Shangzhi Governor.

On the sixth day of the lunar new year, Zhu Yixuan designated parts of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, and Uttar Pradesh in the Mughal Empire as the Sui Kingdom, entrusted his second brother Sui King Zhu Yijin to the place, and rewarded some areas to Qin , Jin, Zhou, Shu, Fu and other five vassals.

On the fifth day of June, Zhu Bomu led some generals back to Beijing to receive awards, and some generals who performed well in this battle were rewarded.

In July, Pu Songling, Minister of Rites, died.

In August, King Louis XIV of France died, and Emperor Xianjia ordered the Finance Department to cut half the interest on French loans in the same year.

In March of the second year of Xianjia, after nearly a year of investigation and arrest, a large number of Mughal officials and their families were classified as labor reform workers.

In May, Emperor Xianjia divided the Mughal territory into three provinces: Xikang, Shannan, and Nanyuan, and set up a chief envoy and a supervisory envoy.

In July, after discussing with the cabinet, Emperor Xianjia decided to redefine the military area.

On July [-], after negotiating with the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, Emperor Xianjia moved the Governor's Office of the Western Army to the Hezhong area to control Hezhong, Anxi, Xikang, Xiaoxiyang Supervisory Division, Middle East Supervisory Division, and Kunlun Supervisory Division Wait for three provinces and three divisions.

The Governor's Mansion of the Southern Army increased the four provinces of Sichuan, Uzang, Shannan, and Nanyuan, and cut Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong.

The Shangzhi Dudufu added six provinces including Shaanxi, Hexi, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong and Guangxi.

On August [-]th, Newton analyzed that the shortage of gold in Europe had become a fact, and that the Ming Dynasty vassal system still held a large amount of silver. He suggested that Britain use the same banknotes as the "Mingliang" to resist currency invasion.

In September, Qi State took the lead in developing a [-]-kilowatt-hour generator, but there was no rush to produce it.

Such a move dissatisfied many nobles in China who had been to Daming and enjoyed the convenience of electric lights.

The nobles said that the Academy of Sciences has occupied a large amount of financial expenditures for a long time, but has been hiding some technologies and not using them for the people. This is an act of "betrayal" to King Wen of Qi.

The speeches of the nobles were reprimanded by Qi Wang Zhu Hexuan, and they increased their investment in the Academy of Sciences.

In October of the same year, Daming introduced the technology of [-] kWh generators from Qi State and upgraded the generator factory.

In February of the third year of Xianjia, the cost price of Daming Automobile has been reduced by about one-third compared with that of Yongchang in 25 years after repeated research and development.

In the same month, Emperor Xianjia felt that the automobile technology had matured and ordered the Armament Academy to build factories in North Zhili, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hexi, Liaodong, Yunnan, South Zhili, Huguang and other places.

In June, the Fangshan Thermal Power Plant underwent an upgrade, and at this time it was able to generate [-] kWh per day.

After hearing the news, Emperor Xianjia ordered to build ten more thermal power plants around the capital, and to build power plants in the eight major industrial provinces of Ming Dynasty.

In September, after two years of on-the-spot surveys, the Ministry of Industry finally finalized the blueprint of the Sindang railway network in India.

India's Sidang railway network not only needs to pass through the four provinces of Ganges, Nanyuan, Shannan, and Xikang in the Tianzhu area, but also needs to travel in more than 15 feudal states, with a total mileage of more than [-] miles and an estimated expenditure of more than [-] million taels , and the construction period is [-] years.

The reason why the cost of the railway network is cheap is that the Ming army captured a large number of nobles, their families, and servants after the war.

They were sentenced to reform-through-labour labor and needed 20 years of reform-through-labour to end.

Therefore, in the construction of the railway network, they will work together with the reformed laborers under the rule of the feudal clans to shine for India.

In the twelfth lunar month, after two years and eight months of household registration by the Qi people, the population files of the four provinces of Tianzhu were handed over to Emperor Xianjia's desk.

Excluding Ganges Province, which has been recovered for many years, the total population of the three provinces in Shannan is more than 850 million, and the number of reformed laborers is more than [-] million.

Compared with the more than [-] million people before the war, the local population has dropped by about [-]% due to the famine caused by the war.

In March of the fourth year of Xianjia, officials from the three provinces of Tianzhu delivered the "Fish Scale Atlas" to the capital. The cultivated land in the three provinces of Tianzhu totaled more than [-] million mu.

In May of the same year, Wang Dang, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, said that "the population of the country has exceeded 30 million, and the cultivated land has exceeded [-] billion mu."

In June, an earthquake occurred in Tongwei County, Hexi. The epicenter intensity was 7.5 degrees, and the magnitude reached [-]. Numerous houses and walls collapsed, and more than [-] people were affected.

In July, Shuncheon Depot produced the first civilian car and military truck.

Upon hearing the news, Prince Zhu Bohai and Qi Taisun Zhu Bomu visited the folks, and together with Shangshu, they believed that it is most appropriate to set the price of civilian cars at 300 taels.

In addition, Qi Taisun Zhu Bomu Shangshu believes that it is not the best time to equip military trucks. He believes that military trucks should continue to be researched and improved to ensure that the failure rate is low enough before they are loaded into the army.

At the same time, he also proposed to set up a university of "auto repair" so that there would not be too many cars and too few people in the future.

Regarding the suggestions of the two, Emperor Xianjia adopted them one by one.

On July [-], flash floods broke out in the three counties of Shexian, Xiuning, and Jixi, as well as Taiping, Nanling, Xuancheng, Jingxian, and Jingde. , the emperor issued a decree to exempt the local tax for three years and sent troops to relieve the disaster.

In October, the Qi State Military Academy developed a "dry battery" and used it in miner's lamps, flashlights and other livelihood inventions.

In the winter month, Qi Wang Zhu Hexuan ordered the construction of ten flashlight and miner's lamp factories in Qi.

In the same month, the United Kingdom issued 300 million banknotes, and the banknotes were settled in "pound sterling".

In the first month of the fifth year of Xianjia, a large number of "counterfeit coins" of better quality than "pound sterling" appeared in the British market. The British currency system was chaotic, and the parliament put the suspects on Qi and Ming.

In July of the same year, the Daming Military Academy invented the world's first practical daguerreotype camera.

It is composed of two wooden boxes, inserting one wooden box into the other for focusing, and using the lens cover as a shutter to control the exposure time of up to 10 minutes, which can take clear images.

In October, on the basis of the daguerreotype camera, the Qi Academy of Sciences further invented the first camera with an all-metal body.

The camera is equipped with the world's first photographic lens designed by mathematical calculation with a maximum phase aperture of [-]:[-].

In the twelfth lunar month, the Qi National Academy of Sciences developed a generator with a power of [-] kWh, and proposed to build a generator factory in Shangshu, and use the generator to generate electricity in the "Qishui Power Station".

At the same time, the Academy of Sciences also suggested that thermal power plants can be built on a large scale.

After being admitted to the Academy of Sciences, Qi Wang Zhu Hexuan ordered the Ministry of Industry to build [-] large and small thermal power plants across the country.

In the first month of the seventh year of Xianjia, the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs of the State of Qi stated that "the population of the country has exceeded 5000 million."

In order to better govern Qi, Qi Wang Zhu Hexuan decreed to upgrade 25 prefectures to provinces, 160 counties to prefectures, 820 seven towns to county seats, and the rest of the villages were also set up towns, and the newly established places were relocated. It is set as a village.

In April, "Qi State" cars, trucks, and buses appeared one after another in the Qi Palace in Xijing City, along with two-wheeled motorcycles, three-wheeled motorcycles, and wheeled tractors.

Compared with Ming Dynasty, Qi State has more types of vehicles and more complete varieties, which can meet the different needs of different people.

In terms of performance, Qi's cars and motorcycles are also about 10% to 20% faster than Daming's.

Also, gasoline is not that expensive since it uses ethanol gasoline.

Seeing the appearance of Qi State's automobiles, Qi Wang Zhu Hexuan immediately allocated 500 million taels of silver to build factories for various types of different vehicles.

After the news reached Daming, the Daming Military Academy sent a 200-member inspection team to Qi and arrived in June.

In September, the inspection team of the Academy of Armaments returned to Daming, and imitated various types of vehicles in April of the eighth year of Xianjia.

Among them, what everyone cares most about is the wheeled tractor that can cultivate [-] mu of land a day.

Many private factories controlled by Xungui took the opportunity to imitate, which aroused the dissatisfaction of civil servants.

In May of the eighth year of Xianjia, after the cabinet minister Chen Tingjing died in office, the conflict between civil servants and nobles was even more difficult to reconcile.

Emperor Xianjia elected the cabinet minister Tian Wenjing as the first assistant, and Zhang Tingyu as the second assistant, but neither of them was able to resolve the struggle between the two factions.

Since the land is all state-owned, the interests of the Ming Dynasty have long since shifted from agriculture to commerce.

Because of the hereditary nobility system, the nobles are eager to grab a lot of benefits before the family title disappears, and conflicts with the civil servants broke out.

Huangdian has now become a huge existence that many civil servants rely on to suck blood. Any market opponent who dares to fight with Huangdian will be targeted by this interest group, so the struggle between the two factions has become a deadly struggle.

After the time entered September, the two sides were even more tense, and there were countless impeachment memorials.

Under the strife, not only the temple was full of smog, but also the military academy, which was regarded as an important place by the emperors of all dynasties, was also intriguing.

In order to divert the conflict, Emperor Xianjia secretly decreed in the twelfth lunar month that Zhu Bomu, the governor of Shangzhi, was appointed as the general who conquered the West, to control Shangzhi, the Western Army, the navy, recover Persia, and crusade against Ottomans.

Seeing this situation, Zhu Bomu secretly transported a large amount of supplies to Hezhong and Yongguo.

In June of the ninth year of Xianjia, after more than half a year of deployment, Zhu Bomu led [-] battalions of soldiers from Shangzhi to the Hezhong area, and sent Yue Zhongqi and Shi Shibiao to lead [-] soldiers from the navy to station troops in Yongyi, Yongguo.

An unusual atmosphere began to spread in the Middle East, and the Persian and Ottoman empires moved their troops to the frontier.

On the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month in the ninth year of Xianjia, accompanied by the sound of mules and carriages moving, Zhu Bomu led 20 troops to launch a war, which was known as the "Xianjia Western Expedition" in history.

Some book lovers want to read modern times, uh...

According to this speed is actually very fast.

If you want to see modern times, you can wait a few days.

I still prefer to write a timeline instead of skipping the 200-year "history" in the book.

If you are not happy watching, then I have no choice but to apologize...