I, Zhu Houzhao, join the US imperialist chat group

Chapter 41 Zhu Houzhao: The meaning of the chat group, here I come! See you! I conquer!

1506 6 Month 27 Day.

In the Jinling Palace at night, Zhu Houzhao wrote today's date on rice paper using the Western chronology method.

This is his big gain!

According to the calendar calculation method taught by the priest just now, he calculated the accurate date of the Ming Dynasty in the Western calendar.

Looking at this string of numbers, Zhu Houzhao felt an inexplicable sense of fate, as if there was an invisible barrier that was finally broken at this moment.

He knew what he was breaking, the cultural channel between East and West!

This date also broke the fog of confusing perceptions between the East and the West in his mind!
Everything can finally be traced.

"If based on this calculation, my father died on June 1505, 6..."

"Our Ming Dynasty was established on January 1368, 1..."

"The date of Taizong's accession to the throne is..."

After obtaining this algorithm, Zhu Houzhao drew inferences and calculated the time when the Ming Dynasty was established, as well as the time when Zhu Di, Zhu Gaochi, and Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne.

"Also, we can not only count the Ming Dynasty, but also the Yuan Dynasty...the two Song Dynasties..."

Zhu Houzhao quickly stopped. He discovered that as long as he mastered the calculation method, the approximate accurate time points of the previous historical context could also be calculated.

"Actually, according to the Yellow Emperor's chronology, you can get a more accurate time than this... But the Yellow Emperor's chronology, no, this method of chronology is mostly just symbolic... We are more accustomed to using year numbers to record dates."

"Otherwise, it would also record more than four thousand years..."

Zhu Houzhao also quickly discovered that this Western dating method was not an advanced or excellent invention. They also had a correspondingly accurate Huangdi dating method.

"Hanshu Lu Li Zhi Shang" records the six ancient calendars of the previous dynasties, namely the Huangdi calendar, the Zhuanxu calendar, the Xia calendar, the Yin calendar, the Zhou calendar and the Lu calendar.

These dating methods were relatively complete during the Han Dynasty. The beginning of the specific date record was the creation of the year record after the Yellow Emperor defeated Chi You.

However, recording is too troublesome, and people are not used to using it in daily life, so they give up... Moreover, the emperor is supreme, and as long as the emperor has ideas, he will have his own reign name to highlight his influence.

The Yellow Emperor's chronology is only used during major sacrifices or to highlight the traditions of the Central Plains.

"This is regarded as a difference in time records... It is only convenient for me to understand the correspondence, and it has little meaning to other people."

Zhu Houzhao quickly felt that he only understood this way of counting dates because he needed it.

For Ming Dynasty, it didn't mean much.

On the contrary, to put it exaggeratedly, if he can be compared with the Yellow Emperor, or even great enough, in the future everyone will use Zhengde to record the two or three hundred years of Zhengde, which is just a recording method.

Let this point go down for now, and then when you have time, let someone slowly deduce it, sort it out, and make it available for him to use!

In a simple way, by subtracting the Yellow Emperor's year, all historical nodes of both sides can be synchronized instantly!

"The biggest gain from today's exchange is that I finally know about Louis XVI's country..."

"There is really France in the West now...The king is Louis XII...The names of their emperors are easy to remember, Louis XII, Louis XIV, Louis XVI...If I pretend to be Louis XII, wouldn't it be American? ...Sage Ancestor Mei?”

After some calculations and calmness, Zhu Houzhao once again focused on another major gain from today's conversation.

He probably knew the general outline of countries in the Western world through the descriptions of several Portuguese people, especially France and the United Kingdom, the suzerainty of the United States.

However, when he learned that the current king of France was Louis XII, Zhu Houzhao felt that France was so sloppy.

Let him know this way of naming kings, wouldn't he be able to casually use Louis XII, Louis VIII, Louis VI, wouldn't this be casually Mei Sheng Zu, Mei Xian Zu, Mei Wei Zu...

"Not only are the kings of France named randomly, but the current suzerainty of the United States, the United Kingdom, is also called Henry VII, Henry VI, Henry V...King Henry?"

"In this analogy, we should not call Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty Liu Heng Taizong of the Han Dynasty. He should also be called Liu Bang III, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty should be called Liu Bang V..."

Naturally, the current reigning king of the United Kingdom, Zhu Houzhao, also understood the general idea. He also felt sloppy and even uncomfortable... By analogy, he can even be called Hongwu VIII now because he is the eighth grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang.

Such a name is very strange.

Naturally, this highlights the important influence of the founder of the country. The first emperor was responsible for Qin I and Qin II.

It's just that if you think about the death of the second generation, they are taboo about this thing, so they don't scream.

Later generations in the West called it this, probably because they died without experiencing the second life?

Zhu Houzhao didn't understand, but he respected him.

"And the current Portugal...Alfonso is also a great emperor like Taizu, but the dynasty has changed..."

"In addition, there is Italy over there...the Roman Empire, the Gothic Empire..."

chaos!
Zhu Houzhao was completely washed away by Western culture today. If he hadn't been smart and automatically filtered out some useless information, it would have been even more chaotic.

"And Caesar the Great... a great emperor of the Roman Empire fifteen or six hundred years ago, he was actually equivalent to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, but... he was just a consul, equivalent to a prime minister. By analogy, it is... …Huo Guang during the period of Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty?”

Zhu Houzhao gave up on the trumpet's plan to impersonate Louis XVI and his ancestors.

Because he is still not sure of Caesar's position in the West, he can only use the currently known information to compare Caesar to a figure like the powerful minister Huo Guang... No, it can be a collection of great Roman figures like Huo Guang + Wei Qing.

But I am still not sure, and there are no more detailed historical facts.

Because, although these people are very famous, their high reputation... means that they have many loopholes in their impersonation and are easy to get through.

Of course, for him, the meaning is enough. He understands this, which is equivalent to most ordinary people in the West. If he wants to understand the West better, unless Ming has a full-scale contact with the West, then it can be politically All-round exchanges in the field of military culture. No...that's not possible.

The Ming Dynasty was a large country with its own arrogance. Zhu Houzhao understood the pedantry and stubbornness of those Confucian scholars. Only when he suffered defeat at the hands of these Western countries could he take the trouble to understand them.

Otherwise, they are too lazy to understand.

Just like, are they themselves the ones who know the Liao and Jin countries best? It must be the Song Dynasty!
If he had to create a trumpet, wouldn't it be enough for him to choose an emperor he was more familiar with?
"By the way, when Zhang Qian went on his mission to the Western Regions... why didn't he find anything about Rome? Did he not go far enough?"

"Also, when all the kingdoms of the Tang Dynasty came to court... there is no record of the Roman Empire..."

"That's it...when Zheng He went to the West, why didn't he discover these British and French things?"

“Is the world too big?”

Zhu Houzhao's world view expanded again. Because of the chat in the group, he preconceived the idea that Britain and France were also powerful countries, and they were even powerful countries that had been inherited for hundreds of years.

There was no record of these powerful countries in the past dynasties, which made Zhu Houzhao realize again that the world was far bigger than he imagined!

(ps: Although there was contact between the Han Dynasty and Rome, the historical data from Zhu Houzhao's period may not be as thoroughly studied as now, so this is from Zhu Houzhao's perspective.)
It was so big that there was originally a mysterious dividing line that completely isolated the East and the West, which made it possible for both the East and the West to have great dynasties, but neither side knew about it.

But now he knows.

So, the ancestors and ancestors gave themselves this chat group to let themselves——

I come, I see, I conquer?

Zhu Houzhao once again thought of this famous saying of Caesar during the previous chat.

He looked inside the chat group in his mind and seemed to understand the meaning of having this chat group!
Is it because he had this chat group that guided him to understand the West, broke the cognitive boundaries between the East and the West, expanded his horizons, and made him an emperor like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, once again opening up and expanding the territory of the Central Plains?

How virtuous and capable he is!
Vaguely feeling this mission, Zhu Houzhao clenched his fists, feeling a little excited, but more of a pressure.

There are so many powerful countries!
They haven't even solved the Tatars yet, and the little Mongolian prince is still at large.

The national conditions of the Ming Dynasty brought Zhu Houzhao back to reality. The heaviness of reality frustrated his newly rising ambitions.

"No! I'm still young!"

However, newborn calves are not afraid of tigers.

Zhu Houzhao quickly regained his fighting spirit and found the case.

"Emperor Wu! When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne, could he have imagined that he would bring so much territory to the Han family?"

"Li Zhi, Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, also succeeded to the throne at a young age. When he succeeded to the throne, he did not expect that the territory of the Tang Dynasty could be so vast..."

"Even the Great Yuan... during Temujin's reign, he certainly did not expect that the Great Yuan would have such a vast territory..."

"These are all created by one generation. They can do it...why can't I?"

Zhu Houzhao thought of great emperors one after another, and he knew very clearly that as long as his imperial skills were full, as long as he truly exerted the power of the Ming Dynasty, he would definitely be able to touch the same level as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, and Emperor Shizu of the Yuan Dynasty in his lifetime. merit.

This is a clearly visible path and a goal that can be achieved with hard work and dedication.

"I now have such a magical chat group..."

"As long as you give me thirty years..."

"Yes...since they are the successors for the next two hundred years...they must know how long I have lived. As long as I know how long I have lived, I can make huge plans based on my lifespan..."

And now, add to that, the chat group!

A chat group from the future, as long as he guides these Western emperors a little bit, he can find out what will happen in the East in the next two hundred years.

He will predict the future!

The right time, the right place, the right people, and the right people are all here for him. If he still can't accomplish this small goal, he will really come to this world for a while.

Zhu Houzhao took a deep breath, his blood boiling with the longing in his mind, and he wished he could start the chat group again now...

【Ding! The chat group has been charged! 】

It just so happened that at this moment, the chat group that had been silent for eight days was recharged.

"Your Majesty...the map of Western Kunming you asked those people to draw has been roughly completed..."

At the same time, Liu Jin knocked on the door and respectfully brought in a rather scrawled map.

Zhu Houzhao glanced at it and matched the Western empires on the map one by one.

"I'm coming!"

"See you!"

"I conquer!"

He picked up the brush and wrote these three lines of famous quotes again on the rice paper next to the map.

"Da Ming Yongchang!"

Then, he added four words.

This was the creed of his Ming Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao for the rest of his life!
Everything that dares to hinder him from completing his great hegemony will be crushed!
October 1506, 6!
Zhu Houzhao, a young man who opened his eyes to see the world, completed his spiritual sublimation.

(End of this chapter)