Daming Jingtai: I am the eternal benevolent king

Chapter 400: Xia Kingdom: Daxia tries to get rid of the shackles of the Ming Dynasty

Zhou Guo's impression of Zhu Youxuan was that he was simple, efficient, and united as one.

Prince Zhou Zhu Youpeng was very arrogant and pursued efficiency.

Raising the plateau and preventing land desertification has always been Prince Zhou's main project.

Western Australia is dominated by mountains and hills, with rugged terrain and little soil, making it difficult to cultivate crops. Prince Zhou developed animal husbandry while filling in the soil to create plains.

If rice cannot be developed, low value-added crops such as corn and wheat should be planted.

Zhu Youpeng has several chemistry laboratories, mainly studying artificial soil, how to create soil out of thin air and turn hills into rice fields.

Because the Zhou Kingdom was short of soil, it could only find ways to make artificial soil, such as coconut soil and nutritious soil, which are all artificial soil and are made from excrement and have nothing to do with soil.

People in the Zhou Dynasty loved to eat rice, but the domestic food supply was insufficient, so they were forced to eat corn and wheat.

Northeastern big ballast porridge was eaten in a variety of ways by the Zhou people. They cooked it with polished rice and big ballast porridge, paying attention to meal matching.

And this money has basically been invested in infrastructure construction.

Therefore, the coffee beans exported by Zhou State are also a large-scale domestic export product and are a leading product.

In the fiftieth year of Jingtai, the Zhou State introduced one hundred tea trees from the Ming Dynasty and began to cultivate tea gardens. However, the climate of the Zhou State was not suitable for the growth of tea, and the tea grown was very unpalatable.

Therefore, Zhou State has very strict tobacco control, which is equivalent to drug control. This is the only country in the world that bans smoking.

In order to earn money for timber, Zhou State cut down all the rainforests in its territory and sold them to the mainland. The Ming Dynasty had a huge demand for timber.

Because Zhou’s glass is the cheapest in the world!

Some national basketball leagues lose money.

Because Zhou State is a country that prohibits smoking, it is difficult to eat. Where is the land to grow tobacco? Tobacco is grown simply for export in exchange for food.

Because the people of Wu State had the best food, they grew taller.

Zhou Guo’s basketball and football leagues are running particularly well.

The animal husbandry of the Zhou Dynasty could not develop because people had to eat coarse grains and animals could only eat grass.

In the 8nd year of Jingtai's reign, Zhou Guo's tobacco exports accounted for about 3700% of the annual fiscal revenue, and Zhou Guo's total fiscal revenue in the nd year of Jingtai's nd year was million.

In the last Ming Dynasty Games, Zhou Guo’s basketball national team defeated the Ming Dynasty national team and won the gold medal, and also won the football championship. It was Zhou Guo’s glorious moment in the history of sports.

For desert areas, carry out large-scale afforestation and plant Elaeagnus and other trees in the desert to make rational use of the desert.

Speaking of deserts, Zhou is the country with the most glass products in the world.

Only tea is not suitable for Zhou's climate. However, the coffee grown in Zhou has a very good taste and ranks among the best in the world.

In the past two years, with the development of electric power, coal is needed for power generation, and the price of coal has increased every year. The sale of wood and coal by Zhou State is the main source of finance for the country.

It is closely related to the staple food being corn.

The Zhou State also purchased frozen soil from North American countries, mixed it and filled the barren mountains, utilized the barren mountains, and even went to the Ming Dynasty to steal frozen soil.

In the past two years, Prince Zhou purchased a large amount of guano from Chu State to fertilize the soil.

Whole grains have no nutrition and affect people's growth.

The average height of Zhou people is only 171cm, making it the shortest country among the countries.

The country of Tan is mainly engaged in animal husbandry and planting, with an average height of about 174cm. The people of Wu country are the tallest, with an average height of 176cm, which is the highest among the countries in Oceania.

After more than ten years of cultivation, Zhou State has used domestically produced rubber, sugar, coffee, and tobacco and no longer relies on imports.

King Zhou, like the old man, likes sports.

It also exported oil to the country of Xi and imported grain from the country of Wu.

The glass forging process is also the world leader. Many glass products in the world are produced by Zhou State.

In the past two years, many Zhou Guo basketball talents have emerged in the Ming Dynasty NBA draft.

The coffee grown in the country of Ning is also loved by people all over the world, but the people of the country don't like to drink it, and they just run coffee factories.

Tobacco is not Zhou's pillar industry.

In order to tide over the difficulties with the country, the Zhou people did not import tea, so they replaced it with coffee. They gradually fell in love with coffee, and as a result, the coffee drinking rate reached a terrifying 98%.

In order to encourage births, Zhou State collected no penny from agricultural taxes, and commercial taxes were also very low. Light taxes, light labor, and rest with the people.

There are only 500 million smokers in Zhou State, accounting for 5% of the total population.

In recent years, Zhou State began to extend the length of rivers, smoothen the rapid rivers, build artificial rivers, etc.

According to statistics, the number of people drinking tea in the world is as high as 47 billion, the number of people drinking coffee is about 20 billion, and the number of people drinking cola is as high as 60 billion.

Zhou's fiscal revenue was all invested in improving the terrain, and it was unable to increase investment in people's livelihood.

Moreover, with the popularity of coffee shops, the coffee-drinking population is crowding out the tea-drinking population, and the coffee-drinking population is rising.

Therefore, Zhou people don’t drink much tea, and basically drink coffee.

Later, coffee trees, cola trees and tobacco were introduced from China.

After the rainforest was eradicated, it was replaced by rubber, sugar cane, and spice plantations.

King Zhou attached great importance to domestic construction, with railways and highways extending in all directions, and the protection of water sources was the best among other countries.

This is not the case in Zhou State. The domestic sports atmosphere in Zhou State is very good. People like it and are willing to spend money to buy tickets. The sports industry is a rare money-making project.

Prince Zhou liked stage plays, so he called the Tiwi Islands above Fengjing, Dazhou, Chengkang Island, and built entertainment projects.

This island is the best place for stage plays in the world. World-famous stage troupes come here to perform. This island has become an important symbol in the history of stage plays.

Zhou State is indeed short of water and food, but it also has a heart for entertainment.

However, Chengkang Island has attracted too many foreign audiences in the past two years. Prince Zhou was worried about threatening the security of the northern capital, so he gradually transferred the entertainment industry to Angulugu.

This island is called Yu Ding Island because a bronze tripod was found on this island. It was probably one of the nine tripods of Dayu, so it was named after it.

Chengkang Island is gradually becoming a military-heavy island, but this has caused the decline of the entertainment industry, especially the stage drama mecca, which has eventually become just a viewing spectacle, and the stage drama mecca will be transferred to other countries.

Zhu Youxu's mission was basically completed, so he returned the same way and reported to the court.

Time goes back to March of the 64th year of Jingtai.

Zhu Youxu had just gone on a mission.

The fifth son of the crown prince, Zhu Youyang, also set out from Tianjin.

His first stop was Tsushima Island. He crossed the Tsushima Strait to Ezo Island and left the country from Ezo Island.

At this moment, Zhu Youyang's fleet docked on Tsushima Island.

Tsushima Island is an important town for fighting Japanese troops. At this moment, Yang Xin is commanding troops on Tsushima Island and can go south at any time.

Since the recovery of North Korea, Tsushima Island has been mentioned as the most important strategic position against Japan, and Gong Yongji has laid a solid foundation here.

The Japanese country should have entered the Warring States Period.

The process of life and death was interrupted by the Ming Dynasty. Millions of warriors were conscripted into the army and buried in foreign lands. Millions of women married Han people and became Han women.

The emperor and the shogunate have ceased to exist in name only.

The Japanese people only knew how to be loyal to His Majesty the Ming Emperor, but they forgot to be loyal to the Emperor. The Ming Emperor's status had replaced the Emperor.

In the final analysis, the Ming Emperor was too kind to them.

Forty-seven years after Jingtai, the Japanese state has adopted Chinese characters, and all textbooks compiled by the imperial court have been used to educate the Japanese people in a military state. They are proud of the Ming Dynasty for sacrificing their lives for righteousness, proud of the dedication of the Ming Dynasty, and proud of the emperor's devotion to the emperor.

As of the fifty-fifth year of Jingtai, the Ming Dynasty had penetrated the Japanese country pervasively, and the emperor and shogunate had become puppets manipulated by the Ming Dynasty.

Over the years, the Japanese warriors dedicated their lives to the Ming Dynasty and died. Countless warriors buried their bones in foreign lands, and then the Ming Dynasty took over all new territories and the vassal state ruled the world. It was all the credit of the Japanese army.

According to statistics, the Ming Dynasty recruited as many as 370 million Japanese soldiers, and the number of people killed by the Japanese soldiers was as high as 2.7 million.

The war in the world is coming to an end, and the total number of Japanese troops is only 47, all of which are the best of the best. Due to the losses of hundreds of thousands in successive years of war, there are now less than left, and they have all become Ming people.

Nearly 400 million women have married Ming people and become Ming people.

Japanese concubines were once the most sought-after objects in brothels. Even now, Japanese concubines are very popular in the Ming Dynasty.

In the women's marriage market, the number is the same as that of Ming women, or even slightly higher than that of Ming women.

Because the Japanese concubine has a sweet mouth and knows how to be considerate, except for being short, she is good in everything. Among the concubines of high-ranking officials and dignitaries, there must be a Japanese concubine.

There were three Japanese concubines in the old emperor's palace, and they gave birth to two sons and two daughters.

There are them in the harem of the prince and grandson.

As of the 64th year of Jingtai, there were no pure-blooded Japanese in the Japanese country, and almost all of them had been assimilated by the Ming people.

Even in the fifty-seventh year of Jingtai, the old emperor instigated the shogunate to burn books and harass Confucians, destroying the culture of the Japanese country and opening the way for Hanization.

The population of Japan is still around 7 million.

Replaced by Akito.

The imperial court transferred all heavily polluting enterprises to Japan, which naturally attracted Ming people to work there, resulting in a large population in Japan.

The emperor and the shogunate could control the Japanese, but not the Ming people.

The Ming Dynasty is managed by the Honglu Temple branch.

In the fifty-ninth year of Jingtai's reign, the central government simply established the Japanese state as three prefectures and sent three chief envoys to manage it. The emperor had strong opinions, but no one listened to his opinions.

The people of Ming Dynasty were originally under the control of Ming Dynasty, but the mixed-race Japanese people did not admit that they were Japanese people. They also thought that they were people of Ming Dynasty, let alone women, they all became people of Ming Dynasty.

In the 27st year of Jingtai, the Japanese state conducted a census and found that the domestic population was only .

Most of these people were slaves of major wealthy families, and they did not dare to say that they were Mingren, otherwise they would have defected long ago.

The common people have become enlightened people.

The emperor went to court and requested that the Japanese state be incorporated into the imperial dynasty.

But the old emperor refused.

It was not until the 64th year of Jingtai that the old emperor decided to recover the Japanese country. This recovery would involve bloodshed.

As soon as the decision was made, all the Japanese princes and princes were willing to go to war.

How about saying that the Japanese are the biological sons of the old emperor? The Duke of Japanese has sealed a lot of them, and the Japanese army is also the old emperor's favorite army.

People are indeed dead, but their achievements will always be remembered and worth it.

Even Zhu Youyang felt that the old emperor was stingy.

The Emperor of Japan just wants a title, so just give it to him. There is no need to fight at all, just accept it.

But the old emperor would rather give Yang the title of king than give the Japanese emperor a title.

There is no suspense about the Japanese war.

It is estimated that wherever the army went, they just heard the wind and descended.

Nonsense, there are only 27 people in Japan, and they are all slaves. These slaves dream of becoming Ming citizens. As soon as the Ming army comes, they will be the first to rebel.

But Zhu Youyang is a useless snack. He doesn't understand the meaning, he only knows how to eat, drink and have fun.

Zhu Youyang left Tsushima Island. The ocean between Korea and Japan is called Jingtai Sea. It has always been regarded as an inland sea by the old emperor.

The boat sailed on the Jingtai Sea for two days and one night before arriving at Ezo Island.

Ezo Island is Gushe Island.

Together with Sakhalin, it is in Heilongjiang Province.

As a province with major agriculture and resources, Heilongjiang has a total population of 1.4 million. It is relatively low in the population ranking of the Ming Dynasty provinces and is also a province with a net population outflow.

We are now in the industrial age, and it is a generally accepted view among the people that farming is useless. Workers earn more than farmers and have a higher quality of life.

Therefore, the sons of farmers give up on the profession of farmers.

Every family works hard to provide for college students, hoping that their children will no longer have to endure the hardship of farming and become masters.

Among the six northeastern provinces, not counting the two northern provinces, the two poorest ones are precisely the bread basket of the whole country, Jilin and Heilongjiang.

North Korea is richer than these two provinces.

As of the 1.9th year of Jingtai's reign, the population of Liaoning was 2.1 million, that of Jilin was 1.4 million, that of Heilongjiang was 1.6 million, and that of North Korea was million.

The total population of Northeast China is 620 million, while the population of Tatar and Turkic provinces is only 20 million.

But it supports the food consumed by the whole country.

It just so happens that Heilongjiang and Kyrgyzstan are the poorest provinces because of poor industrial development.

Either the imperial court did not invest resources, and the two provinces fell into a food cycle, or they could not develop industry. Liaoning was better, with a strong industrial foundation.

However, as the reclamation of the Bohai Bay became a national policy, Liaoning's industrial backbone was directly broken.

Liaoning is no longer close to the sea.

The industrial center of gravity should be shifted to Heiji, Jilin, but unfortunately, these industries have been sucked away by Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. It is also a big food province, and the Northeast also occupies a vast land and rich resources. As a result, it cannot develop in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. Everyone is close to the sea. Why are you so strong? ah.

The Bohai Bay reclamation plan has begun.

Liaoning declined instantly, with net population outflow ranking first in the country.

In the early years, North Korea still had the support of the clothing industry. In the past two years, the heavy industry was transferred to the Japanese country. Baozhou Prefecture seized the opportunity and directly destroyed the Korean clothing.

North Korea has also become a province with a net population outflow.

The six northeastern provinces have entered an extreme weird circle. They grow food well but do not do well in industry. They have many natural ports, but there is no foreign trade.

As a result, Northeasterners are scattered all over the country, and even all over the world. There are Northeasterners everywhere, but there are no Northeasterners in the Northeast.

For example, Ezo Island had a population of 700 million at its peak. However, as Japan became a heavy industrial base and discharged large amounts of sewage, fish became extinct in droves. Ezo Island's unique wild fish fishing base led to the strange phenomenon of a decrease in marine fish. Ezo Island also declined.

In the past two years, a large number of people from Ezo Island have emigrated, and most of them have gone to work in Japanese factories.

The fishing industry has suffered a devastating blow.

The central government has issued policies to reduce pollution and restore the balance of marine ecology.

In Zhu Youwang's eyes, Ezo Island has countless vacant houses and few people on the streets. As a sea fishing base in Heilongjiang Province, it has completely declined.

Sakhalin Island above Ezo Island has a population of about 300 million, mainly employees and their families engaged in the mining industry.

In the 63rd year of Jingtai, Ming Dynasty successfully built the world's first cross-sea railway, crossing the Tatar Strait and connecting the mainland of Heilongjiang and Sakhalin Island.

In the past two years, experts have been in and out of the strait, and the central plan to fill the strait and connect to Sakhalin is still in the experimental stage.

Kamchatka Peninsula - the four Japanese islands - Baozhou Prefecture - Luzon Province - Borneo - Malacca form the most complete island chain in the Ming Dynasty.

The entire mainland will never be invaded by external wars.

Beginning in the 60th year of Jingtai, the old emperor began to lay out the first layer of the island chain, establishing naval bases on several important islands to protect the Ming Dynasty.

Sakhalin Island-North Korea-Jeju Island-Baozhou Prefecture-Sansha Islands-Qiongzhou Prefecture formed the second island chain of the Ming Dynasty.

Defend the Ming Dynasty never to be interfered by foreign enemies.

On the ocean of the Tang Dynasty, the old emperor was also building an island chain to protect the land of Baiyue.

The war of the future will come from the sea.

Building a perfect island chain is crucial.

For example, the Kamchatka Peninsula is obviously not suitable for living, but it has 34 army troops and 16 navy troops stationed in it, ready for war at any time.

The extended chain of islands and reefs has troops stationed on them.

These islands are basically mainly for tourism, but some islands and reefs are not open to the public. Those are military bases.

Like Jeju Island.

This small island seems to have little value. After the Japanese country is recovered, this island will become an important island to hold North Korea and the Japanese country hostage. It will also be the most important maritime defense line to defend Beijing after filling up the two bays. Its strategic status will be improved several times in the future. grade.

The inland sea between Kamchatka Peninsula and Sakhalin is not called the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, but the Yongle Sea, which was also the inland sea of ​​the Ming Dynasty.

When Zhu Youyang went from Ezo Island to North America, he had to pass through the outermost island chain of the Ming Dynasty, go through the Soya Strait, which the Ming Dynasty called Gushe Strait, and enter the Da Ming Ocean (Pacific Ocean).

Then came the long, long-distance voyage.

The next stop is Hawaii, the richest country on the Great Ocean.

After passing Hawaii, we arrived in America.

It takes about one and a half months for the ship to sail to reach Xia Kingdom.

Xia Kingdom.

Located in the Rocky Mountains, after a change of soil, it has a large piece of frozen soil that reaches directly to the Arctic Ocean. Its land area reaches 700 million square kilometers, but its population is only 2.1 million.

Because the Xia Kingdom is not livable, 65% of the country is mountains, 34% is prairie, and very few are plains.

The terrain is comparable to that of Zhou State.

But Xia Kingdom is not short of water, it can be short of everything except plains, and even has plenty of gold.

Inspired by Wei's example, the Xia State also began to dig soil from the permafrost and artificially create cultivated land in the middle of the mountains.

Among the vassal states in the world, Xia State is the richest.

The Xia Kingdom has the most gold veins in the world, with five proven large gold mines!
It was joked in the court that the gold in the world came from the Xia Kingdom, and the Xia Kingdom was a country sitting on gold.

That's right.

There were not many natives in the Americas. With the efficiency of the Ming Dynasty, they were quickly cleared out and a lot of gold was found in the native nests.

The Ming Dynasty used gold mining as a selling point to attract people to immigrate to the Americas.

The result of this investigation was remarkable.

Thousands of small gold mines were discovered, and there were three large gold mines. After the soil was replaced, two more mines were replaced, which irritated all the feudal countries in the world.

Not only are there many gold mines, there are also more oil mines.

Especially in Canada, there are all oil deposits, but it is difficult to extract them. After all, they are all in permafrost. There are also non-permafrost areas, and there are quite a lot of reserves. In addition to being able to use them yourself, they also have to export them to the Ming Dynasty.

It can be said that Xia State can become the richest country in the world without farming, relying on mining and exporting resources. With its entire western coastline, stretching from Mexico to the Arctic Ocean, the country is in perfect shape.

Only large-scale iron ore was not found.

But small iron mines can also support expenses, but they cannot be exported.

The Xia Kingdom established its capital on the inner side of the Coast Mountains, next to Mount Whitney. This mountain was changed to Purple Mountain and its capital was Yangjing.

Next to it are the largest cities in Xia Kingdom, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Of course, Xia Kingdom is called Yangzhai and Diqiu.

This is also a rare plain area in the entire Xia Kingdom.

The important cities of Xia Kingdom are all on the coastline. This is a maritime country.

In the past few years, Xia State has transported frozen soil to artificially create plains, and the creation has been very successful.

In the large basin in the Eastern Cordillera Mountains, trying to artificially create a Sichuan Basin turned out to be a bit natural. This seemingly low plateau was not particularly suitable for creating a Sichuan Basin.

Moreover, volcanoes and earthquakes occur frequently here, with minor earthquakes occurring almost every year and major earthquakes occurring every few years.

As a result, the Xia Kingdom was forced to abandon this large basin and develop the Missouri River Basin.

The Missouri River is the dividing line between the Xia Kingdom and the Qi Kingdom. The west bank of the Missouri River is the prairie. Both sides of the Missouri River and the Mississippi River are all grassland.

For Xia Guo, he does not need grassland, he needs a large plain.

We don’t need pasture, we need food fields to feed people.

There is no shortage of frozen soil in the Xia Kingdom. A large amount of frozen soil was transported from the north, and the shallow soil layer of the grassland was dug up to increase the depth of the soil to more than one meter.

The Xia State has a lot of money. As long as it is willing to spend money, the grasslands can be turned into plains. As for the climate problem, it will slowly change. Anyway, the Xia State has the money.

The Xia Kingdom has two large rivers, the Missouri River and the Arkansas River.

In the 60th year of Jingtai, the Xia State connected the Colorado River to the Arkansas River and named it the Zhuxia River, which became the southern boundary of the Xia State and the national boundary of the Song State.

After more than ten years of filling, the grasslands in the two river basins were artificially transformed into a great plain and became the food base of the Xia Kingdom.

In recent years, Xia's population has continued to grow, which is directly related to the transformation of grasslands into plains.

Xia Kingdom also has pastures, but they are scattered near the mountains.

The scale is relatively small.

In fact, it doesn't matter if Xia Country doesn't have pastures. It can just import meat from South American countries. Those countries are all natural pastures and it's cheaper than raising them yourself.

North America is a new, new land.

There is no need to worry about climate issues, and the Americas are particularly suitable for living, with thousands of miles of fertile land, a chosen place.

Xia Guo just lay on the gold mine, closing his eyes and making the country prosperous and the people strong.

Fortunately, Zhu Jianmo was a wise king. He invested his fiscal revenue in plain construction and transformed the grassland into a plain.

In the 62nd year of Jingtai, the Xiaguo Ring Railway was built, passing through the Great Rockies and surrounding the entire plateau.

The Xia Kingdom is a bit like a country built around Wushen.

It's just that the Wushen Plateau is too high, and the Xiaguo Plateau is a little better. The plateau is relatively low, but there are frequent volcanic eruptions and frequent earthquakes. Other than that, everything is fine.

Volcanic eruptions will bring massive amounts of sulfur, which is very valuable.

At the foot of every active volcano, there are many workers who collect sulfur. Every time a volcano erupts, it is the moment when they make a fortune.

These workers risk their lives to collect sulfur.

Xia Kingdom also has a vast ocean, and there is no shortage of marine fish resources.

The north-south coastline is long and has multiple natural landscapes. It has also been built as a tourist attraction in recent years.

When it comes to tourism, there is no shortage of natural landscapes in Xia Kingdom, but what is missing is cultural landscapes and history.

Zhu Jianmo was one of the more outstanding sons of the old emperor.

He was keenly aware that creating history could increase the cohesion of Xia State, but he could not fake it like Zheng Guo did.

Zheng Guo played early and received benefits. Other countries followed suit, but they were all cracked down.

Looking for culture in Chinese history is a road that has been traveled by too many people.

The country of Wu became famous thanks to its Poison Museum.

To be honest, it has to be combined with local characteristics and organically combined with history and culture.

Why are Guan Yu, Zhuge Liang, and Yue Fei loved by the world?

Because everyone has a heroic dream and likes heroes who are loyal, courageous, trustworthy and righteous. So can the Xia Kingdom create a group of heroes that the people like?
The martial arts novels in the palace became popular all over the country.

What is the reason?

Because the virtual characters created by Zhi Shu Bureau are all heroic characters.

So can Xia Guo learn any experience from this?

Create a hero!
Zhu Jianmo planned to create a group of heroes who would become the history of Xia Kingdom.

Why romance novels are so popular.

Because Ming people have the traditional concept of reverence for their ancestors and attach great importance to their own history, it is best to combine this hero with a traditional character. It is really difficult to create an overhead IP like Sun Wukong.

But virtual characters like Yue Lei and Guan Suo are more popular.

Ordinary people must directly combine history, select a few historical figures, write a few novels, and create a hero.

Zhu Jianmo would not do this.

Why not create a big fantasy IP?
The heroes of the Xia Kingdom should be distinguished from the heroes of the Ming Dynasty.

In Zhu Jianmo's heart, since the Xia Kingdom had established its own country, it must gradually get rid of the control of the Ming Dynasty and become independent in all aspects of culture and economy to achieve true independence.

But how difficult is it to get rid of the shackles of the Ming Dynasty?

A few years ago, Zhu Jianmo once issued an edict to create a new writing system, but was criticized by the public and the Xia Kingdom's New Culture Movement was brought to an abrupt end.

This matter was also brought to the center.

The old emperor sent an eunuch to whip Zhu Jianmo thirty times and punish him to kneel in the Ancestral Temple for three days and three nights before the matter was over.

This incident made Zhu Jianmo deeply understand that the old emperor did not rule the world by military politics, but by Han culture!

As long as we don't get rid of Han culture for a day, we will never be able to get rid of the shackles of the Ming Dynasty, and we will never be truly independent, let alone become a real emperor.

Of course, he didn't think so when his father was around, but his father was so old that he would die one day. After the prince ascended the throne, he had no intention of becoming a minister, and Zhu Jianqi was not qualified yet.

In this vassal state, it seems that the Ming Dynasty did not interfere in anything and everything was free.

In fact, they are all the shadow of Ming Dynasty.

From top to bottom, it is the same as the Ming Dynasty. Even if he wants to abolish the cabinet, there will be huge resistance from the people, and it is estimated that the country will not agree.

Zhu Jianmo believed that if the old emperor had not whipped him, he might not have been able to keep his throne.

He had to thank his father for this.

The government and the public were originally very satisfied with him as the King of Xia. After this incident, King Xia had a huge stain and he forgot his ancestors!
From then on, King Xia became honest and never dared to challenge the authority of Han culture again.

However, as the cohesion of the Xia Kingdom declined, he came up with the idea that he must get rid of the Han culture and establish his own Xia culture.

No, the king's title of Xia Kingdom was also entrusted by the Ming Dynasty. He wanted to change the country's name, how about calling it the United States?
This time he wanted to create a new culture.

Folks love fantasy novels very much, and relying on ghost novels and upgrading them to fantasy novels will definitely have unique charm.

He wants to create a Hongmeng universe.

Relying on the Hongmeng thought of Taoism, we created Hongmeng heroes unique to the Xia Kingdom.

However, it is relatively difficult to become a household name through traditional paper media alone. We must find new ways to improve the communication media and create unique heroes.

After Zhu Jianmo had a brainstorm.

Thinking of Ming Dynasty's latest technology camera, if the photos taken by the camera are projected at high speed, can they be turned into movies?
In Jingtai's 63rd year, the world's first movie was born.

To be precise, this movie has nothing to do with electricity. It is played at artificial speed, but it is a historical innovation. It can be said to be the first movie in the world and is extremely valuable.

Novels, comics, movies, figures, and amusement parks all cover the lives of the people of Xia Kingdom and brainwash them crazily.

The unique Hongmeng hero of Xia Kingdom has a really well-established character.

Soon it became popular throughout North America and then South America.

Zhu Jianmo knew that as long as time accumulated, Hongmeng Heroes would become a symbol in the hearts of Xia people.

The stories of heroes also need to be constantly filled in. The power of an IP lies in its originality. It cannot be created, and it is the vitality of a good IP to introduce new ones.

With the power of the imperial court in the creation and promotion, it is not difficult to win the hearts of the people.

Just like a garbage song, as long as it is played repeatedly on the TV station, it will become a classic, because the audience has no choice. There are only two TV stations, and the other station is full of advertisements. Which one will the audience watch?

Zhu Jianmo played a trick and banned the books published by the imperial court on a small scale to make way for books published by Xia Guo himself.

Since the Chinese culture cannot be touched.

Zhu Jianmo thought of another bad idea, simplifying the text.

If I don’t change the Chinese culture, can I change the traditional Chinese characters?
It's so difficult to write traditional Chinese characters, how about changing it to simplified characters? I feel uncomfortable using a brush. Is it better to use a fountain pen?

In order to discourage private use of writing brushes and increase the price of rice paper, notebooks that should be expensive are sold at reduced prices to facilitate private use of pens.

At the same time, without a notebook for writing vertically, the brush has nowhere to go.

It is too troublesome to write traditional Chinese characters with a pen, so simplified characters came into being.

Xia Guo began to improve Chinese characters silently.

By improving Chinese characters, we can create a culture that distinguishes Chinese culture.

Languages ​​such as Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese all start by modifying Chinese characters. After changing the Chinese characters, the pronunciation can be changed.

In the 57th year of the Ming Dynasty since Jingtai, Mandarin was designated as the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty.

However, there are many dialects in Ming Dynasty.

Xia Guo can completely choose a dialect as the official language, and then change the dialect. This is the case with Korean, which is very similar to Hubei dialect.

Just like English, English is used in many countries around the world, but the intonation and grammar are different in each country. What is the difference between this and dialect Mandarin, and simplified and traditional Chinese characters?
Zhu Jianmo is very smart.

Under his promotion, the entire Xia Kingdom was silently moving away from the Ming Dynasty.

When Zhu Youyang came, Xia Guo happened to be simplifying traditional Chinese characters.

Zhu Jianmo was worried that his nephew would notice, but in the end his worries were in vain. This guy was good at eating, drinking, gambling, and was proficient in everything, but not proficient in business.

The other sons of the prince all wanted to acquire a fiefdom.

He just doesn't want to, he wants to stay in the capital and be a happy prince.

Even with the old man watching over him, he lived a very comfortable life. This guy was a famous idiot in the prince's family.

Zhu Jianmo breathed a sigh of relief.

He has seven sons, and Prince Xia makes him very satisfied. He believes that after his death, the prince will fulfill his last wish.

After breaking away from the Ming Dynasty, Xia became independent, fought for hegemony in North America, and changed its name to the United States.

This is his lifelong wish.

A few years ago, Zhu Jianmo wanted to buy a piece of Asian frozen soil from Ming Dynasty, but Ming Dynasty refused. Every piece of territory in Ming Dynasty would not be sold, and no one would be allowed to steal it.

Zhu Jianmo was testing the old emperor to see if he would alienate him because he exposed his ambition.

should not.

This time Zhu Youyang was sent as an envoy, which was actually out of sight and out of mind.

The Xia Kingdom not only valued planting, but also valued technology.

After the Ming Dynasty built the railway around the country for him, Xia State was now able to build the railway independently. However, Zhu Jianmo was not satisfied with building the railway independently. Xia State was studying to improve the speed of the railway.

Xia State independently built a railway to the plateau.

Such as camera technology.

Other countries didn't care much about it, but Xia State paid great attention to it. Xia State followed up on all the technologies that Ming Dynasty had.

For example, the Ming Dynasty wanted to conduct scientific expeditions to the North and South Pole, and Xia Guo also actively participated.

Xia Guo is also studying the electricity that was born in the Ming Dynasty. He even wants to overtake in a corner, master this electricity in advance, and start the electrical revolution in advance. He has already gained some insights in the research.

New technologies have a ten-year protection period.

But Xia Guo doesn't have to worry, he can buy it with money. There is nothing in this world that money can't buy. If there is, it means there is not enough money.

Xia Guo has nothing but money.

There must be someone inside Daming who can't bear the money and will steal the technology.

This country is sitting on a gold mine.

Being able to transform hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of prairie shows its formidable financial resources.

Daxia was also the main trading country of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition to food, they are all actively exporting in exchange for technology and food.

In terms of industry, Xia's oil extraction technology is not much worse than that of Ming Dynasty. Steam engines have been used in all walks of life in Daxia.

The steam revolution was also the most thoroughgoing in the world.

It has a population of 2.1 million and an industrial population of 9000 million, the highest among all countries.

The three major cities in the Xia Kingdom are shaped like a pin, with a total population of more than 6000 million. There are no more than fifty first-tier cities in the world, and the Xia Kingdom has three of them.

The Xia Kingdom’s trade objects cover all vassal states.

In terms of diplomacy, Daxia has established friendly relations with all vassal states.

Even the six kings of North America have a good relationship with the Xia Kingdom. It seems that North America is the land of Xia, but in fact the Xia King has no intention of competing for hegemony.

The bottom line is that the time is not ripe.

It's not that King Xia doesn't want to fight for hegemony, but it's just that the time has not come.

It has been developing itself for more than 20 years, and has only entered a period of stable development in the past two years. Looking at the terrain, you know that with only two large rivers as national borders and a vast plain, war is bound to break out.

War is inevitable, but the old emperor is still alive and the time for war is not ripe.

The Xia Kingdom did not discover the giant iron ore, which was the only regret.

Therefore, over the years, Xia State has been deliberately purchasing steel and importing large quantities of steel from various countries. It seems to be developing heavy industry, but in fact it is developing military industry.

The idea of ​​fighting for hegemony has never been extinguished in Xia State.

There are two military industrial bases in Daxia, one is Vancouver and the other is Seattle.

These two cities are permanently closed cities and no one is allowed to enter.

No country knows how the military industry in Daxia is developing.

Anyway, Daxia's army is still equipped with relatively backward flintlock guns, which look very weak.

The Ming Dynasty called on all vassal states to fight, and Daxia also actively participated, but the strength displayed was not strong.

I don't know if Zhu Jianmo is hiding his clumsiness, or if Daxia's military strength is really weak.

Zhu Jianmo was indeed ambitious and wanted to get rid of the shackles of the Ming Dynasty, but he was still very filial to his biological father, greeting him every month and never failing once.

When his mother was still alive, he would collect all the good things from Xia Kingdom and send them to the Forbidden City.

His mother was a strong girl. When he grew up, he served as the chief envoy to Guangxi for two years. There were many strong people in his Xia Kingdom.

But he did not pursue the policy of superiority to the strong people. All Han people were equal. This was a national policy.

He hates mixed blood, so there are very few mixed blood women in Xia. Like those white women, he almost does not allow private sales in the country, and does not encourage concubinage.

In his heart, he has always been worried about one thing. He believed that his mother's death was related to being his father's concubine, so his mother was depressed and eventually died early.

Her mother passed away at the age of fifty-six, which was regarded as the end of her life.

But Zhu Jianmo didn't think so.

The Xia Kingdom has a concubine-free system. Non-monarchs are not allowed to have concubines, and monarchs can only have one wife and two concubines.

He encouraged monogamy and opposed concubinage.

As the king of the Xia Kingdom, he had no choice but to take a concubine. If he could, he would choose not to take a concubine, just like his other six sons, who only have one wife and no concubines.

In the few years after his mother passed away from illness, he resented his father. But as he grew older, he became upset that he could not be the one to marry him, so he sent famous doctors to the palace every day to check on the old emperor's health.

He believed that every day when he offered incense, he would pray for his father.

Speaking of filial piety.

Xia Guofan is the only country that does not govern the country with filial piety and law, but simply governs the country with law!

In Daxia, filial piety was not included in official assessments. It was only used as a moral standard and was not included in official records.

Daxia governed the country according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, attaching the most importance to law and not etiquette. In recent years, it has increasingly deviated from etiquette.

King Xia no longer even wears royal robes, instead he wears a suit.

Only the hair was not cut.

King Xia was unique in challenging etiquette.

The King of Xia was trying his best to get rid of the Confucian orthodoxy, which was the same as getting rid of the Ming etiquette system.

The reason is that he hates people named Kong.

As many vassal states grew vigorously, the Kong family continued to communicate with the central government, requesting the Kong family to send branches to the major vassal states, and asking the major vassal states to also make the Kong family public, etc.

Zhu Jianmo had no interest in raising such borers, and he was the first to speak out against it.

(End of this chapter)