Brother Zhu Youxiao

"Woo rumbling—"

In the 14th year of Shaoqing, along with the sound of the train passing by swiftly on the land of Shannan Province, the Tianzhu Railway, which was built by the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years, was finally completed.

During the construction of this railway, Daming's train technology improved again, so the train at this time has reached a speed of 120 miles per hour.

It only takes eight days to take the Jinglong Railway from Beijing, transfer to the Luchuan Railway, and the Xihai Railway, and enter the Shannan Province on the Indian Sidang Railway.

The advancement of train technology has once again strengthened Daming's control over India's servants.

At the same time, the railways in the three provinces of Persia are also under construction. It is estimated that Shaoqing will be completed in 22 years. By then, it will only take ten days to travel from Beijing to the Persian provinces.

In the current system, the Ming court can relatively firmly rule the territory within a month.

Therefore, since the completion of the Sidang Railway in India, local rebellions have often been suppressed within a few days.

However, because the Ming army never tolerated the rebellion of the indigenous people, whether it was the four provinces of India or the three provinces of Persia, a large number of people died during the rebellion.

In March of the 15th year of Shaoqing, Zhou Dong, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, went to the elucidation, saying that in the past ten years, the number of local people in India had decreased to [-]% to remind Zhu Bohai.

However, Zhu Bohai ignored his evasion.

Since the tenth year of Shaoqing, Zhu Bohai has been obsessed with listening to music and watching operas.

At this time, the four cities of Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Nanyang were the places where opera was most developed, so Zhu Bohai often stopped his court to go to the local area to listen to opera, and the state affairs were handled by Prince Zhu Zhongbing.

In July of the 15th year of Shaoqing, he seemed to feel that the trips between the two capitals were too frequent. Shaoqing Emperor Zhu Bohai allocated 50 taels of internal funds to repair the Nanjing Imperial Palace, and he often lived in Nanjing.

In the first month of the 16th year of Shaoqing, Zhou Dong, Minister of the Ministry of household affairs, played the state treasury revenue last year.

As a large number of moths have been cleaned up in both parties, the revenue of the imperial store has increased every year.

In 15, Shaoqing handed over a total of more than 3000 million taels of income and business taxes, and more than [-] million taels of private business taxes. The private business tax alone was close to [-] million taels.

Counting the agricultural tax and the income of the migration bank and the four divisions, the annual income is more than [-] million taels, an annual increase of nearly [-] million taels in the past eight years.

The main reason for this is the increase in population and the increase in employment in new industries such as automobiles, electricity, and refrigerators.

A large number of rural people flowed into cities and towns, and the proportion of workers further increased to 4000 million.

In February, the Academy of Armaments made a report, in which it was estimated that the global population is about 12 billion, and the population of Europe and Ottomans is about [-] million.

Among them, the Armament Academy proposed to mention the reasons why the European and Ottoman populations grew so fast.

From the perspective of the Military Armament Academy, the main reason is that Qi and Daming sold a large amount of canned food and grain to Europe every year, which caused the cost of living of Europeans to drop and the reproductive environment to improve.

The Academy of Military Armaments simply put forward their own opinions, but after the memorial was seen by the officials of the Sixth Division, many officials of the Sixth Division believed that troops should be sent to Europe to wipe out the European countries.

But in the face of their agitation, Emperor Shaoqing Zhu Bohai was not willing to deal with this weak opponent.

Although judging from Ming's national strength, Ming only needs to dispatch [-] troops to pacify Europe, but Zhu Bohai worried that without this external force, Ming would fall into internal struggle, so he insisted on importing culture and food to Europe.

Unless there are some irreconcilable contradictions within Daming again, he doesn't want to play the last card of Europe at this time.

In July, Shaoqing Emperor Zhu Bohai decreed to reduce the agricultural tax to [-]%.

After this policy was issued to the Ministry of Household Affairs, Zhou Dong, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, rejected it.

Zhou Dong thought that the current time for Guochao to promote electricity would require a lot of finances for local construction.

Although the agricultural tax was only reduced by 1.3%, behind it was nearly 800 million taels of income.

This amount of money can completely carry out power construction in a province, so that the people of a province can enjoy the convenience of electricity from the city to the countryside.

Therefore, Emperor Shaoqing was not angry when the tax reduction policy was suspended, because what Zhou Dong said was indeed reasonable.

In October, the Ministry of Industry announced plans to build 3000 thermal power plants, with a construction period of ten years and an estimated expenditure of [-] million taels.

After the construction of these batches of thermal power plants is completed, the power generation capacity of Daming will reach 15 billion kwh.

If the Armament Academy can upgrade the generator during this period, then Daming's power generation may be doubled.

In the same month, Zhu Zhongbing, the crown prince of Jianguo, agreed to build power plants in various places.

In the twelfth lunar month, Zhu Zhongbing sent a handwritten letter to the State of Qi, hoping that the Daming Academy of Armaments and the State Academy of Science and Technology of the State of Qi could conduct joint research on electric power.

At this time, it is not yet possible to lay cables in the Daming Ocean between Qi and Daming, so they can only communicate through ships.

On the second day of the first month of the 17th year of Shaoqing, Qi Guo wrote back and agreed.

In April, many places south of the Yellow River received continuous rainfall, so that the mountains and rivers broke out, and the Yellow River and Huai River rose.

Lakes such as Hongze Lake and Dongting Lake overflowed and rivers burst, resulting in disaster-affected areas in South Zhili, Huguang, Guizhou, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Shandong and other provinces, among which the floods in South Zhili were particularly serious.

Nineteen prefectures and counties belonging to Fengyang, Yingzhou, and Sizhou in the central capital were affected by the flood of the Huai River. The people's farms and houses were flooded, and there was no harvest of summer wheat and autumn crops.

In June, the Yellow River swelled by Zhang Xu, causing the embankment of Hongze Lake to burst. The flood destroyed tens of thousands of houses and killed more than [-] people.

Emperor Shaoqing was anxious and went to the front line to appease the people. At the same time, he ordered the army and soldiers to fight the flood and rescue the disaster.

In August, according to the statistics of provincial officials, there were no less than 2000 million victims in the whole country.

When Emperor Shaoqing heard the news, he was very anxious, and instructed the household department and provincial officials to try their best to save the people without sticking to the usual rules.

In early September, Emperor Shaoqing summoned the Beijing cabinet and officials from six ministries to Nanjing.

At this time, in the treasury of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the gold used for reserves, there were still more than [-] million taels of banknotes, and more than [-] million shi of grain in the Changping warehouse.

Emperor Shaoqing issued a decree to restrict the circulation of the people in each province for one month, and asked the officials of the provinces to directly distribute relief silver and relief food to the people affected by the disaster during this month.

The specific standard for disaster relief is that one person will be given ten taels of silver and three stones of grain.

In addition, the Ministry of Industry should use work as relief afterwards, repair houses for free for the people, and pay wages at the same time.

After the disaster, the Ministry of Industry was in charge of repairing the Yellow River and the Huaihe River, and the Military Armament Academy was in charge of studying floods, so as to completely prevent the Yellow River from breaking its banks.

In October, when the floods subsided, officials from various provinces persuaded the people to clean up the flooded areas.

In the same month, after field inspections of the Yellow River, Huaihe River, and Yangtze River, the Academy of Armaments proposed to build the dam in stages according to the letter left by King Qi Wen, so as to allow the dam to obtain water storage capacity.

During the Tianqi period, due to the substandard technology, it could not be realized, but now more than 70 years have passed, and Daming has already had the ability to build dams on the Yellow River and Huaihe River.

However, for the Yangtze River, which has a huge runoff, the Armament Academy is still helpless at the moment.

Upon hearing the suggestion of the Armament Academy, Emperor Shaoqing immediately ordered the Ministry of Industry to inspect and build a dam on the upper reaches of the Yellow River.

In April of the 18th year of Shaoqing, the population of Tokyo City and Zhongdu City in Qi State exceeded one million successively. Before them, the only city in Qi State with a population exceeding one million was Xijing City with a population of 2806 million.

During the same period, there were 72 cities in the Ming Dynasty with a population exceeding one million, and Beijing, the most populous city, even had a population of 460 million.

The huge population has brought huge demand for water, so that many rivers in Suntian Prefecture have been cut off.

During the same period, the population of North Zhili also exceeded 2000 million, and the area of ​​the Triangle Lake was reduced by a quarter compared with the Tianqi period.

Such examples of lake shrinkage due to population growth do not only exist in Beizhili, but the more serious ones are Juyan Lake in Hexi and Puchang Lake (Lop Nur) in Anxi.

During the reign of Emperor Tianqi, Puchanghai was a hundred and twenty miles long from east to west, and six or seven miles wide from north to south.

In the 18th year of Shaoqing, since the population of Anxi exceeded 1000 million, the length of Puchang Sea was only sixty or seventy miles from east to west, and three to four miles wide from north to south.

According to the estimation of the Bachelor of Water Conservancy of Anxi University, if the population of Anxi continues to grow, the Puchang Sea may completely disappear within 50 years.

The Academy of Armaments also published an article on the greenhouse effect in Shaoqing 18, and it was published in the "Science and Technology News".

据军备院在过去100年的记录中，从天启23年到绍庆18年的这100年间，全球地表气温上升了0.8℃—1.19℃。

Among them, in the 23 years after the Little Ice Age subsided, the global temperature increased by 0.6°C-1°C, and the remaining 0.19-0.2°C was due to the use of steam engines and internal combustion engines.

The greenhouse effect is both good and bad. The bad thing is that the sea level has risen by three inches compared to the Tianqi period. The good thing is that the "Wen Wang rainfall line" has moved about [-] miles to the northwest, and the rainfall in the north has begun to increase.

In this regard, most officials do not care, after all, the greenhouse effect has not yet reached the point where it can affect them.

In the 19th year of Shaoqing, the sales volume of refrigerators in Qi State exceeded 870 units, and the number of electrified households nationwide reached [-] million, basically covering the urban population.

In the 20th year of Shaoqing, with the help of Feng Cheng, an abandoned man of Ming Dynasty, the British Royal Academy finally solved most of the problems of the steam engine after 20 years.

The new version of the steam engine turned the original machine that could only lift water into a universally applicable prime mover, doubled the thermal efficiency of the steam engine, and greatly reduced coal consumption.

Due to the existence of Daming and Qi, the United Kingdom has avoided many detours. After verifying the performance of the steam engine, George II immediately ordered the mass production of the steam engine.

His order made the steam engine widely used not only in the mining industry, but also in smelting, textile, machine manufacturing and other industries.

At the same time, European countries also went to Britain to learn from the past. In the following years, steam engines sprung up on the land of Europe.

It's just that their steam engines are very inefficient compared to larger steam engines and internal combustion engines.

But even so, the news of the steam engine in Europe inevitably spread among the feudal lords.

In March of the 21st year of Shaoqing, Zhu Zhaowei, king of Zhou, went to Shu alone, asking Guochao to release the restrictions on steam engines during the Qiansheng period, so that all feudal clans could use steam engines.

In April, Emperor Shaoqing relaxed the restrictions and built ten lines for the production of old steam engines for the feudal clans. Each steam engine sold for 1000 taels.

In October, the steam engine trade in the suzerainty and vassal system of the Ming Dynasty was opened, and the teaching materials of the various vassals were also updated with the guidance of the Guochao.

When the materials are released, it is no longer difficult to manufacture old steam engines.

Although this steam engine is an old model in the Qiansheng period, its efficiency is still far superior to that of European steam engines.

In June of the 22nd year of Shaoqing, the grandson of Qi, Zhu Zhongzhu, calculated the distance between the earth and Jupiter (Jupiter) at the observatory in Hejianfu, and discovered the star (Uranus) recorded in the Handbook of King Wen of Qi.

In August, Ming Taisun Zhu Jianhuan spent 500 taels to build an off-road racing track in Changping, and drove his own car around the track.

However, only three days later, the site was reported by the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate as "forced buying and selling". Emperor Shaoqing ordered people to investigate and sent troops to destroy the site.

In October, he built a hot air balloon by himself and tried to go to Beijing in a hot air balloon, but was stopped by Jin Yiwei who worried about him.

In the first month of the 23rd year of Shaoqing, an earthquake of magnitude [-] occurred in Wenchuan. Local houses collapsed, bridges were destroyed, roads were blocked, and more than [-] people were killed or injured.

In August, Zhu Zhongji, king of Yue, saw the records about lottery tickets in "Wen Wang Handbook", and he set up the first lottery shop in Beijing with his annual salary.

Lottery tickets are filled and sold in the form of stamped digital paper. Each ticket costs one penny. On the next day, a hair dryer is used to blow digital balls into the ticket bucket at the door of the store to redeem the prize. Each winning number needs to reach three to exchange for the lowest ten-coin bonus. For eight words, 500 taels of silver will be redeemed.

In the first month of sales at the lottery shop, Zhu Zhongji made a profit of more than [-] taels.

In the winter of the same year, Su Hui, a bachelor of the Daming Military Academy, discovered the existence of radio waves and reported it to the Military Academy.

On the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, there was an old man in Yang Yi, the magistrate of Dali, Yunnan, who turned 120 this month.

Emperor Shaoqing was amazed, so he drove to Dali himself, and arrived in Taihe County, Dali Prefecture on the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, where he met the old man.

According to the old man, he was born in the eighth year of Tianqi. When he was a teenager, he saw King Wen of Qi and the local Dean Yang Lian Yang working in the local farms.

After returning home, he became a yamen servant in the local area, and then lived an ordinary life until now.

Although it was plain, the fact that he had met "King Wen of Qi" was enough for him to brag about it.

For Zhu Bohai, these topics were very new, so he lived in Dali for more than half a month, and then left Dali reluctantly.

As for the oral experiences of the old man these days, they were also compiled into a biography by the accompanying officials, also known as "Five Dynasties".

At the end of the twelfth lunar month, Zhu Bohai returned to Nanjing, and went to some of the more famous local theaters to listen to plays every day.

In the same month, Qin Ke of the Qi State Academy of Sciences developed a sulfonamide drug, which can cure a variety of diseases caused by bacteria.

In March of the 24th year of Shaoqing, the British successfully installed the steam engine on the four-wheeled vehicle and ran it on the rails. However, after traveling for more than ten miles, the steam engine broke down and the experiment failed.

In May, Zhu Helei, the king of Ding, passed away and was given the posthumous title of King Dingzhao.

In the same month, Zhu Yiqian went to the Shu, requesting that the number of guns held by the feudal clans be relaxed.

In June, Emperor Shaoqing loosened the rifle establishment of the feudal clans to three battalions per country, and the feudal clans successively placed orders with the Ordnance Bureau.

In October, Zhang Tingyu, the first assistant, and Li Fu, the second assistant, became officials. Emperor Zhu approved, and at the same time appointed the cabinet minister Li Ziren as the first assistant, Liu Tongxun as the second assistant, and called Yu Minzhong, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, to join the cabinet.

In Dongyue, Emperor Shaoqing reorganized his cabinet again, summoning Li Muxian, the Duke of Qin, and Yan Changxun, the Duke of Lu, to join the cabinet.

In March of the 25th year of Shaoqing (1750), Li Fu died at home at the age of 76. Emperor Shaoqing gave him the posthumous title "Wenzheng".

In May, the resident population of Beijing exceeded 500 million. Zhu Yigui, the magistrate of Shuntian, went to expand the Beijing city. The emperor adopted it and ordered the Ministry of Households to allocate 300 million taels of money to expand the Beijing city. made a request.

In September, the population of Nanjing City exceeded 800 million, and Jiangning, Longtan and other towns were merged into the urban area.

In October, E Wang Zhu Jianjiong modified the version of Yesa, tucking the hem to the base of the thigh, and updated the version to look like sloping shoulders, wide waist, and small hem.

After the appearance of Xinyesa, the army, factories, and schools have purchased it as work and sportswear, and the folks also call it "work clothes".

However, for most people living in this era, the round neck robe is still the favorite of the people.

It’s just that compared to the days of the apocalypse, people like to wear hats and net towels when traveling, and people now pay more attention to simplicity, so an ordinary wooden hair crown or a hairpin has become the choice of ordinary people when traveling.

On the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, 58-year-old Ding Wang Zhu Yiqian decided to lead his troops to the west after receiving rifle equipment from two battalions.

Due to the heavy casualties in Mongolia's civil strife, Zhu Yiqian did not invite Chakor.

In April of the 26th year of Shaoqing, Dingguo sent 9000 troops to Tsarist Russia, of which [-] were Dingguo sharp men holding apocalyptic rifles.

Knowing that Dingguo was invading, Sweden and Tsarist Russia asked for help from the Holy Roman Empire and Denmark, and at the same time organized a defense line of 8 people in St. Petersburg.

It's just that facing Dingguo Ruishi, the fortifications they rely on are so ridiculous.

On April 28, the fixed army broke through St. Petersburg, and the last Tsar Elizabeth I fled to Helsinki in Sweden.

On May [-], [-] Danish reinforcements arrived in Helsinki, but at this time the entire territory of Tsarist Russia had been captured by Dingguo.

Due to supply problems, Dingguo stopped the attack and allowed a large number of Tsarist Russians to flee to Sweden.

In August of the same year, the University Special Management Committee of the Divinity School of Oxford University issued a warning: "Some parts of the courses taught by Zhao Quan, a Han Chinese bachelor, violate religious teachings, and these speeches and courses must be cancelled."

However, in the face of the seminary's warning, Zhao Quan found King George II of England and explained to him how unoptimistic the current situation in Britain and the whole of Europe was.

Reminded by Zhao Quan, George II was determined to separate theology from science, and he ordered the seminary not to interfere with the personnel of the Academy of Sciences.

Such a move caused an uproar throughout Europe, but at the same time, it also gave hope to most Han Chinese scientists who stayed in Europe but were counterbalanced by seminaries, and left Britain one after another.

In October, Congressman Benjamin Franklin created eight and sixteen magic squares, and wrote the economic book "Europe and Ming Dynasty".

In the book, he compared the economic size and approximate population size of the current European and Ming vassals.

Since there is no specific data, he estimates in the book that the population of Europe is 5000 million, and the fiscal revenue is equivalent to about 400 million taels.

In contrast, the population of the Ming dynasty vassal was misjudged to be 4000 million, and the fiscal revenue was converted to about [-] million taels in the Ming Dynasty.

Franklin believed that if Ming Dynasty raised its tax rate to the same tax rate as European countries, they would get about 12 billion Ming taels of fiscal revenue every year.

Once a war broke out between the Ming Dynasty and Europe, the Ming Dynasty could mobilize more than 300 million troops equipped with breech-loading guns to attack Europe, and Europe would be attacked by two sides in less than a month, and finally perish.

Among them, Britain and Portugal will be the first two countries to fall, because the cruisers of Ming and Qi will wipe out the European navy in less than half a month and carry out landing operations.

Under the threat of naval guns, Europe will lose its coastline without any resistance, and Britain and Portugal, whose land is too shallow, will perish first.

After the book was put on the shelves, it was snapped up by the aristocrats throughout Europe, and most Europeans believed that his language in the book would become a reality.

The French economist Turgot even suggested to Louis XV that European countries must cooperate in an all-round way and set up a parliament composed of many countries to help each other, so that they will not be broken one by one by Ming in the next 50 years.

But even so, a pessimistic and anxious mood is still spreading among the European aristocracy...

There are about five chapters in the postscript, three chapters are modern, and two chapters are modern.