Brother Zhu Youxiao

"One, two, three... that's it!"

In the early morning, when the sound of the camera sounded in a busy port, more than a dozen young men and women behind the viewfinder also relaxed.

They all gathered around, trying to see what they looked like in the camera.

After confirming that the photo was okay, they got into the car with laughter and laughter, and the bus started to take them out of the port. On the left and right of the port, there were two tall bronze statues.

The two bronze statues with a height of [-] meters are respectively a middle-aged statue of the Son of Heaven, dressed in the crown of the Son of Heaven, with a solemn expression and a long sword in his hand.

The opposite is a young man, wearing an armor and cloak, unsmiling, and bowing to the emperor like a general.

Looking at the two statues on the harbor, the group of young men and women in round-neck gowns and horse-faced skirts in the car could not help but ask:
"Cao Jiaoxi, why does King Wen bow to him?"

"Yes! Why does King Wen bow to Emperor Wu?"

"Didn't the book say that the world was governed by King Wen and Emperor Wu? They should be equal?"

In the car, the group of students from Qi State were very dissatisfied, and before the teacher could speak, the driver on the car laughed and said:

"His Royal Highness King Wen is very remarkable, but he is a courtier after all, and it is normal to bow to Emperor Wu."

As soon as the driver's words came out, many young men and women in the car became a little unnatural, and the professor also smiled awkwardly:

"This...Although His Royal Highness King Wen has meritorious service, he is also Emperor Wu's younger brother, so it's nothing to bow to his elder brother."

Obviously, Jiao Xi was not satisfied with the driver's so-called "monarch and minister", so he gave a saying that "an elder brother is like a father".

But even so, the Qi Guo student in the car was still dissatisfied, and the driver took a look and didn't say anything.

He sped up and drove away from the harbor, and at one end of the road was painted the words "Celebrating the 15th Anniversary of Longwu".

Today is the 15th year of Longwu, and 150 years have passed since the former Wushou.

This group of students from the Qi State was arranged by the school to come to Daming to complete their middle school graduation trip.

Soon the car arrived at a scenic spot and stopped. The students of Qi State in the car got off one after another and came to a stone tablet at the entrance of the scenic spot.

There were not many tourists in the past, and those who came and went were all wearing round-neck gowns or dragging clothes, only a small number of people wore more avant-garde, "full-style" trousers and narrow clothes.

A tour guide of the scenic spot explained the history of this stele to the passers-by here, and the teacher of Qi State also led the students of Qi State to listen quietly here.

"This stele was erected by Wushou in the 15th year for the expeditionary army of the Qi State who died in battle and buried here. In the 20th year of Wushou's reign, after King Qi Xian visited the state, Xuanzong repaired it."

"In the 17th year of Shaowu, Emperor Zhezong allocated a radius of more than [-] miles to the mausoleum area, and rebuilt the martyr's tomb here."

"After that, Pingzong and Kangzong also made more repairs during their reign, so now there are [-] well-preserved martyrs' cemeteries in China."

The explanation of the tour guide told the students of Qi State the history of this scenic spot, and the students of Qi State also walked into the scenic spot with a solemn attitude, offering a glass of wine from their hometown to more than 100 expeditionary army martyrs in the cemetery .

Walking out of the scenic spot, they took a bus to the light rail station in Tianjin Prefecture.

Compared with Qi State, which is full of compound courtyards everywhere, Daming is a little more impetuous, and there are many tall buildings in the city.

The professor told the students the history of Ming Dynasty on the light rail, from Ming Taizu Emperor Gao to Shizu Emperor Wu, and then to Emperor Xuanzong Xiao.

Since the end of Wushou's rebellion, the Qi State Expeditionary Force boarded a ship from Songjiang Mansion and returned to Qi State as agreed, while Emperor Wushou, who was named "Xuanzong" by the temple, moved back to Beijing.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty was waiting to be rejuvenated, but Emperor Wushou didn't trust anyone because of the sentence of his eldest son, and even had more doubts about the prince Zhu Jianhuang.

He has to check the new policies promulgated by Zhu Jianzheng overseeing the country repeatedly, for fear that his son will be as unfavorable to him as his elder son.

Such doubts continued until the 30th year of Wushou, when the emperor died in Qianqing Palace at the age of 77, with the temple name Xuanzong and posthumous title Emperor Xiao.

Many people were not sad about his death, because over [-] million people were killed or injured in Ming Dynasty because of his struggle with his son.

Hundreds of millions of national treasuries and billions of stones of grain accumulated by the five emperors of "Tianqi, Qiansheng, Yongchang, Xianjia, and Shaoqing" were exhausted.

Of the factories north of the Huaihe River in the Qinling Mountains, only Shaanxi, Shaanxi, Hexi, and Anxi provinces survived, and North China, Qilu, and Northeast China were smashed into ruins.

During the Ming Civil War, the Kingdom of Prussia rose and annexed Denmark and the Silesia region of the Holy Roman Empire.

In the later period of his reign, under Frederick's reforms, the Kingdom of Prussia had high patriotic sentiments and defeated the invasion of Mongolia and Dingguo many times.

It wasn't until the first year of Yixing (1782), when Ming Zhezong Zhu Jianzhen came to the throne, that Ming began to support Dingguo, and Mongolia began to attack the Kingdom of Prussia.

Later, Zhezong sent a large army to conquer Sweden and set up a European supervisory envoy, which kept Europe honest for decades.

During this period, Zhezong appointed Liu Yong as the chief assistant to vigorously restore the economy. At the same time, a large number of equipment beneficial to the people's livelihood and the military were displayed in the General Military Academy.

Although these are all scientific and technological products of Tianqi, Qiansheng, Yongchang, and Xianjia years, they still brought the productivity of Daming and the entire suzerain-vassal system to a new level.

He was so enlightened that after his death in the 33rd year of Yixing, all the kings in the country went to Beijing to mourn, and the king of North Korea, Li Yi, even cried and said that he would be buried with him.

Of course, the most commendable thing during his tenure is that as the emperor, he gave up a lot of power and at the same time strengthened the emperor's supervisory power and military power.

In terms of cultural governance, he relied on the cabinet to govern the world, but at the same time he also firmly grasped the Jinyiwei, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the later established Overwatch Council.

Their power is that after submitting a series of evidence of official corruption, they can bring people to Beijing for trial by the emperor and prince without the need for trial by Dali Temple and the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

At the beginning of this system, it was inevitable that there would be some unjust, false and wrong cases, but as the system became more and more perfect, a large number of corrupt officials began to have nowhere to hide.

Later, Emperor Pingzong Zhu Jingyao came to the throne, reign name Hongguang, even though he maintained the policies of Zhezong years, it was only because of his obsession with mountains and rivers that he neglected to govern for several years, which resulted in the lack of timely restrictions on the power of officials.

At the same time, because of his slack in politics, European countries formed the "European Mutual Aid Alliance" during the Hongguang period, which reduced Ming's advantage over Europe by a few points.

Fortunately, in the 20th year of Hongguang, the prince Zhu Dilu did a good job after becoming an adult and supervising the country.

Politically, he appointed Lin Zexu as the chief assistant, wooing Portugal and the United Kingdom into the vassal system of the Ming Dynasty, and curbing the rise of the European Union in time.

In the 35th year of Hongguang, Lin Zexu, the first assistant, died of illness. When Jingjiang County rebelled, Zhu Di aluminum went out on behalf of the emperor to put down the rebellion of Jingjiang County.

In the 40th year of Hongguang, Zhu Dilu was vacant again as the chief assistant and second assistant. Dispute with the Southwest faction.

In Hongguang's 43 years, the inner court vote was drafted. Seeing that the Jiangnan faction was about to win, Zhu Dilu immediately added all the vassals to the vote and expanded the scale of the vote.

Officials of the third grade or above, nobles and feudal vassals inside and outside Beijing can vote for it.

This reform directly increased the number of voters proposed to vote to more than [-] people.

Among the vassals, Qi Wang Zhu Jingcheng voted for Yang Xiuqing of the Southwest faction.

Qi Fan can be regarded as the weathervane among all the feudal clans, so when Qi Fan voted, all 250 votes from the feudal clans went to Yang Xiuqing.

In this way, the Southwest faction won, and Yang Xiuqing was selected as the chief assistant.

In order to balance the two parties, Zhu Di also chose Zuo Zongtang as his second assistant.

In the 44th year of Hongguang, when the power struggle between the two factions was intensified, Zhu Di aluminum ordered that the whole country be exempted from taxes in the same year. At the same time, Jin Yiwei, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Supervisory Yuan were used to clarify the taxes in the south, and more than 27 corrupt officials were arrested. The whole family was exiled In the European Oversight Division, the strength of the two factions has been greatly reduced.

In the 45th year of Hongguang, Hongguang Emperor Zhu Jingyao died of illness, the temple name was "Pingzong" and the posthumous title was "Emperor Kuang". The 45-year-old prince Zhu Dial took the throne and the reign name was "Wuning" and promulgated a new policy.

In the first year of Wuning (1861), the Wuning New Deal was promulgated, and a large number of social welfare policies in the "Wen Wang Handbook" were promulgated.

In the same year, the population of Daming exceeded 14 billion, with fiscal revenue of 32 billion taels, and the population of Qi State exceeded 18 million, with fiscal revenue of [-] billion taels.

During the Wuning period, social construction, social welfare, and social education accounted for more than 55% of the fiscal share, and the rest was shared equally by the military and administrative systems.

During the Wuning period, new technologies and new constructions such as high-speed railways, subways, passenger planes and expressways emerged one after another.

By the 32nd year of Wuning (1892), the average life expectancy in Ming Dynasty was 78 years old, the median annual family income was 200 taels, the minimum annual family income was 120 taels, the total value of the country’s workers and peasants was 6000 trillion, and the annual fiscal revenue reached 470 billion taels.

In comparison, the average life expectancy in Qi is also 78 years old, the median annual family income is 340 taels, the minimum annual family income is 200 taels, the total value of national workers and peasants is 8000 trillion taels, and the annual fiscal revenue is 220 billion taels.

Ranked third after the two countries is Tang State, followed by Ji State, Huai State, Chen State, Sui State, Yong State, Ding State, and Zhou State.

In the 35th year of Wuning, 80-year-old Zhu Dial died in Dading Palace in Yanshan.

Today is the 15th year of Longwu (1910). Whether it is Daming or Qi, high-speed rail and airplanes have become people's daily life, and the Internet and mobile phones have also become the main way for people to communicate.

"No internet again..."

Looking at the 5G displayed in his hand, one of the Qi students frowned.

He is very handsome, and his figure is much taller than the people next to him.

In Daming, where the average male is five feet six inches (179.2), young people are still half a head taller than the people next to them, and they may not be less than six feet tall (192).

There are many people looking at him around, including men and women.

"Zhu Guanlou, look at the people around you are looking at you."

Among the students, a young man next to the young man smiled and communicated with him, but Zhu Guanlou smiled helplessly after hearing this.

"Okay, we've arrived in Beijing, you can get off the bus."

While Zhu Guanlou was laughing, the instructor began to call them to get off the car, and Zhu Guanlou followed the students out of the car, and the people in the car reluctantly looked away from Zhu Guanlou.

After getting off the bus, Zhu Guanlou and the others transferred to the high-speed train to Tianshou Mountain in Changping.

On the high-speed rail, the young man next to him couldn't help but enviously said to Zhu Guanlou:
"Hey, it's better for you, you have clan status, you can go wandering in the Forbidden City."

"It's not so exaggerated, it's only the fifth server." Zhu Guanlou didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and explained:
"Besides, isn't the Forbidden City open to the outside world for 180 days every year, so you can come back after you graduate from university?"

"Come on, I won't come. Daming's life is too stressful. Haven't you seen their own complaints on the Internet?" The young man shook his head, took out his mobile phone, and swiped out a website to ask Zhu Guanlou to check it out.

In the comments of a video, many people are complaining about the unfairness of Daming, and some of them yearn for Qi, saying how good Qi is.

However, Zhu Guanlou sneered after seeing it: "This group of people thought it would be good to go to Qi State, but they don't know that Qi State is also under great pressure."

"That's true..." The young man wanted to put away his phone, but he swiped down and found a very interesting video.

"Then, did King Qi Wen help Emperor Shizu Wu, or did Emperor Shizu Wu give King Qi Wen a stage to show off his abilities? I think it was Emperor Shizuwu who knew the pearl..."

Hearing the voice from the video, Zhu Guanlou frowned, and couldn't help turning his head to look: "What are you talking about?"

"This guy is just kidding himself." The young man curled his lips and handed over the phone as he spoke, letting Zhu Guanlou look at the comment section.

[Jing nonsense, with the strength of King Wen of Qi, as long as he wants, he can be the emperor himself from the 12th year of Tianqi. 】

【Hehe... Returning to the stage, without King Wen of Qi helping him ascend the throne, he might have been killed by that shrew who served Li Xuan. 】

[Brothers and friends?Brothers and friends respectfully seal people to the other side of the sea? 】

[How much has Qi State wiped Guochao's ass, how many national debts are held in their hands, and it is hard to tell the big and small kings? 】

[The comment area is really funny, no matter what you say, it’s useless, if you have the ability to straighten the bronze statue of King Wen in Tianjin Port]

[The Internet has proved with facts that there is no such person as Qi Wenwang in this era. 】

"Boring..." Watching the quarrel in the video comment area, Zhu Guanlou returned the phone to the young man next to him, but the young man couldn't help but said:

"If King Wen had been the emperor back then, where would the Wushou civil war and the Tang clan's nuclear threat to the world happen?"

Tang Fan said that the incident mentioned by the youth happened 60 years ago.

At that time, Qi State took the lead in developing a nuclear bomb, and then exchanged technology with Daming, and Daming also possessed a nuclear bomb immediately after.

Originally, this was nothing, but Tang Fan, who had been pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, suddenly announced that he had nuclear weapons 15 years after the two countries announced their nuclear weapons, and believed that the suzerain should destroy Europe.

At this time, the proportion of Han people in Europe had reached 25%, so Emperor Wu Ning, who was still in charge of the country, disagreed. He believed that in the long run, the Ming suzerain-vassal system would be able to occupy the entire Europe without war.

However, Tang Fan insisted on launching a nuclear bomb, and was finally intercepted by Qi's missiles in advance.

In order to compromise, Emperor Wu Ning, who supervised the country, decided to promote Tang Fan to the right clan of the clan mansion, which made Tang Fan honest for a long time.

In reality, as Emperor Wu Ning thought, Europe was quickly assimilated by Ming Dynasty.

Up to now, Han Chinese account for 50% of the European population, and nearly [-]% of the officials in the European Union are Han Chinese.

Although they are not part of the suzerain-vassal system, their relationship with Daming is not much different from that of suzerain-vassals.

Although they were not the experiencers of the incident, Zhu Guanlou and the others visited many air-raid shelters built at that time during the Qi Dynasty, and these air-raid shelters are still being strengthened and repaired until today.

"In the final analysis, it is all caused by insufficient resources. Now there are 45 billion people in the world, of which there are 22 billion in Guangda Ming, 15 million in Qi, and [-] billion in Zhufan and Europe."

"Although the "Apocalypse" of the Suzerain Aviation Administration has landed on Yinghuoxing (Mars) some time ago, it is a complicated and long-term process to establish a sustainable ecosystem on Yinghuoxing. I estimate that it will not be possible in the next 30 years It must be successful."

Zhu Guanlou talked about the "Daming Suzerain Aviation Bureau" sending people to Mars some time ago, but he is still conservative about the development of Mars by humans.

"According to the communiqué of the Joint Research Institute last year, the current global affluent life can only be maintained up to 60 billion people. Once it exceeds, there will be a huge problem of national wealth and poverty."

"It sounds like a long time for the population to exceed 60 billion, but it will only be about 20 years at most."

When it came to this point, the high-speed train that Zhu Guanlou and the others took had stopped.

When getting off the bus, the young man complained: "Our maglev high-speed rail is faster, but Guochao's high-speed rail is too slow after all, and it takes two quarters of an hour to travel more than 400 miles."

"Guochao is also promoting the maglev high-speed rail with a speed of one thousand miles per hour. It may catch up with us in a few years. Next time you come here, you can also take the maglev high-speed rail here." Zhu Guanlou teased with a smile .

Afterwards, they got off the bus and took a sightseeing bus, and arrived at the Tianshou Mountain Imperial Mausoleum a quarter of an hour later.

There are many tourists here, from all over the world, but without exception, they all speak the Jianghuai official dialect of Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Guanlou is in the third service of Qi Fan, so he was exempted from the procedure of buying tickets, and just stayed quietly in the scenic spot waiting for the students to line up.

The Ming Dynasty’s attitude and reforms towards the clan changed from the Hongguang period. All the clan’s children who were born in Wufu were deleted from the jade plates, but even so, there are still more than [-] children of Wufu enjoying the benefits of the clan.

Fortunately, the welfare of the clan's children comes from the internal funds of the kings of various countries, and the kings of various countries have long begun to loosen their governance rights, so the people are not hostile to the clan's children.

Perhaps even Zhu Youjian, the founder of this system, never imagined that the suzerain-vassal system could survive into this era by virtue of the liberalization of governance rights and the productivity brought by technology.

The release of governance power shifted the people's attention to the cabinet and the six ministries, and the emperor became a public representative with supervisory power. The difference was that this representative still had military power in his hands.

Over the years, there have been many people who wanted to overthrow this system, but they were all crushed by the court's technological and military strength.

It will be very difficult to overthrow the system unless something goes wrong in the military.

It's just that as the population increases and the resources per capita decrease, the problem of distribution will be magnified day by day.

Whether the future world will be as stable as it is today remains to be seen.

Thinking of this, Zhu Guanlou looked up at an imperial tomb.

Next to that imperial tomb, there is also a smaller circle of imperial tombs.

Looking at the small imperial tomb, Zhu Guanlou couldn't help but sigh in his heart:

"His Royal Highness King Wen, if you saw the situation today, what would you think..."