174 Great Unification

There is a cloud in the "Historical Records - Tianguan Book", "Fu Tianyun has a small change at the age of thirty, a small change in a hundred years, a big change in five hundred years, three major changes in one era, three eras and great preparation, and this is a large number." Since Taizong Yuan Bei unveiled the rod and established the country, Dayu has been nearly 100 years old. Many dynasties have shown signs of turning from prosperity to decline in the first hundred years or so, but in the hands of Shenzong, they show unprecedented auspicious signs of prosperity. Although his martial ambitions and exclusive favor of the queen were criticized by the corrupt Confucians, the territory he laid down was really an immortal feat that was difficult for the emperors of the past dynasties to achieve. It is conceivable how many envoys and merchants from the Western countries will be brought back by this large-scale mission, and it will certainly be a scene of prosperity and glory for all nations. Seeing that the "Shengyu Grand Canon" led by King Xi Chuan is about to be completed, including the classics and translations of foreign countries, the literati who are waiting for the sycophants to start gearing up to praise and praise the brilliant achievements of Emperor Shenzong. It's just that this trend was quickly reversed, and the newspaper devoted a lot of space to a long article summarizing the history of Europe, and the hot spot of public opinion between the government and the opposition was skillfully guided to why the Westerners' 'statecraft' was so 'failed', so that it often caused huge social ****.

The alliance of city-states within European countries is called the 'League', and it is a long-term cooperation formed by signing a binding peace treaty or agreement with each other to defend against a common enemy, so they will elect their own representatives to form a parliament and vote on decisions, but only for the more superficial decisions such as taking common military, economic or political actions, coordinating relations with each other, etc., and the real governing power, such as the military, judicial, administrative and other institutions, belongs to the independent control of each member state. Although we can do a lot of great things when we work together, our covenants are too fragile to break them. Not only independent or semi-independent city-states such as forests, but even some coastal cities are self-contained, thousands of feet inland, which is a completely different mode of political power. Europeans, on the other hand, often travel to different city-states to make a living or settle down because of wars or trade, and the city-states are more like hotels for them, with only interests and no loyalty.

This kind of topic simply contributes to the cultural superiority of the civil officials and scholars, and the scribes who like to 'rule the world' generally believe that this kind of Confederation is simply vulnerable, and that as long as the Great Yu learns from Britain, he can lightly divide them and let them fall into pieces. But there are also discerning people who see that regions like Gaul and Germania, which have been fighting for many years, may gather strong cohesion because they have been facing a common enemy for a long time. An independent geographical location like Britain, or based on the foundations of the Celestial Religion, would naturally lead to the formation of a unified interest and defense needs of many nations, and perhaps a unified consciousness of the European nations would soon emerge.

After such an argument, several editors-in-chief selected good articles, which should be published, and Zhao Mengxuan turned his pen and commented on it, believing that even if Dayu could watch the great brawl in Europe with a cold eye, the country's 'great unification' should be put on the agenda, and it would be convenient to occupy the right to speak in terms of culture and technology as soon as possible, and it would also be convenient to standardize the newly incorporated areas so that they could be studied and promoted.

Professors and mountain chiefs from the two universities and well-known universities such as Lingde and Heming responded positively and initiated a joint name to unify the Chinese chronology to simplify daily application. In short, it is to determine the www.biquge.info of the first year of the Biqu Pavilion of Chinese history, to unify the rebuilding of ancient history and modern history, and to call the date in the future will also use this, and the conventional 'X Zong XX year' is only remarked in the official temple or history books, so as to facilitate the popularization of national history. In fact, this is the concept of the A.D. era in Gu Ci's impression, but the expression of 20XX A.D. that she is accustomed to is the first year determined according to the concept of Western Christianity.

So these old people who are rich and talented suddenly rejuvenated and began to dig graves and study evidence, and the Hanlin and female clerks who were immersed in compiling the canon also raised their heads from the pile of old papers to participate in the debate, not to mention the hot-blooded little fresh meat students who love to join in the fun. The matter of "Imperial Calendar Dingyuan" has aroused a great discussion in the academic circles, and the number of submissions is simply the largest in history, and you can feel the splashing stars in your face through the paper. The debate centers on which year is the first year. Take the first year of the Western Zhou Republic at the beginning of the era as the starting era, or the three emperors and five emperors, the ancestors of the Chinese nation, as the source? Was it the year when the Qin Dynasty, the first emperor to reign, began to dominate the world, or was it the beginning of the first hereditary dynasty, the Xia Dynasty? Or is it the founding of the Han Dynasty based on the origin of the 'Han people'www.biquge.info?

The concept of 'great unification' comes from the "Legend of the Ram" in "Spring and Autumn", "What is Wang Zhengyue? The Great Unification is also', the annotation of the "Book of Han" on the "Unification" is that "all the princes of the world are all under the Zhou Tianzi", after the boiling tracing of the source, the first year of the Chinese imperial calendar is set as the founding year of the Zhou Dynasty, and the fifteenth year of Shenzong will be officially called 'the year 2754 of the imperial calendar'.

Then, public opinion magically shifted to the issue of assigning the 'national flag' and 'national emblem' to the dignified Yu, so that it could be hung and engraved in the embassy or on the Yu ship to mark the national identity. The well-educated people who had been beaten with chicken blood continued to respond positively, and even a handful of people 'collected editorials and commented' and wrote books to study why the Chinese and Han clans were able to maintain the idea of 'great unification' for thousands of years. From Fuxi's hexagram painting, Cangjie's character creation, to Qin Shi Huang's 'Shu Tongwen', they have verified that it is the unique and stable recognition of Chinese characters, which is much better than the simple and confusing bean sprout scripts such as Europe and Dashi, so it is easy for people to recognize the oracle bone inscriptions thousands of years ago today, so they can be passed on. Although the accents of the north and the south are like chickens and ducks, everyone can understand what is written, and this alone can greatly enhance the sense of mutual identity. Moreover, the Chinese culture is eclectic but strong, and many teachings inevitably follow the habits of the Han people in order to spread in the Han region, and there are no religious problems that love to make trouble. There are also people who compare Western sources and discuss that the reason why the Chinese kingdom produced a unified system was to build and manage large-scale water conservancy projects, and that the monarch of the 'water control empire' needed to regulate the human and material resources of the whole country to completely conquer the great project of the heavens, so as to gather the collective strength, and this monarch must have been the brain-dead fan of the emperor of the Ji Dynasty. However, looking at the flat steppes of Europe, the Don and Wowa rivers are so close that no canal has been built, and this argument is not entirely unreasonable.

Following the trend, the Emperor Shen decreed to announce the latest Dayu territory and national borders, and the Nanyang countries were named after their cities, and the islands under their jurisdiction were divided into species that were planted according to the regulations, mainly rubber and cinchona trees. Australia was renamed 'Nanzhou' and included in the South Seas, and the Indochina Peninsula took grain production as its primary task. North America was also renamed 'East Continent' and South America was called 'Lower East Continent'. It was determined that the north of the Xianbei Wilderness is still called the 'Arctic Ocean', and the ocean between Dongying and Dongzhou is still called the 'Pacific Ocean'. The port leading to Jinshan on the west bank of Dongzhou is called 'Ningyi City' (San Francisco), the transit route on the isthmus, the port on the west bank is called 'Wending City', Lake Nicaragua is renamed 'Bin Lake', the estuary on the east bank is 'Wuding City', and the narrow isthmus connecting South America is called 'Guomen Gorge'.

After the name of one's own country is determined, it is also necessary to standardize the names of neighbors, the north of the line of the Mountains-Zhuozhanghai-Damascus Sea is still Europe, and the west of the Suez Canal and the Red Sea is Africa. The places between Europe and the border of Dayu, such as Bactria and the Persian Plateau, the Kangju steppe, the Levant, and the Tianfang Peninsula, are collectively referred to as 'Middle Continent'. In the future, the so-called 'Eurasia' will be called 'Central Continent', and there will be no distinction between East Asia, South Asia, West Asia, Central Asia, and the Middle East, only 'China' and others.

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In the midst of these heated discussions that swept the country, according to the strategy of the Privy Council, Shenzong quietly adjusted the deployment of the four armies.

Gu Chong and his wife guarded Kulun, Agdi returned to Baicheng, Hai Lincha was stationed in Lubin, and Zhong Nai took Zhai Jun, Zhang Fu and others to solve the Tuva Department. In the areas occupied by the Zhenbei Army, the Ministry of Public Opinion recruited students from the Kanyu Department to conduct field investigations and demarcate pastoral areas according to the direction of large rivers, that is, 'river pastoral areas'. If there are fishing and hunting peoples around the large lake, the 'league house' will be set aside for it, and if there are no fishermen and hunters, the league will also be used as a base to shelter the old, weak, sick and disabled, and at the same time, it will be used as a place for business, administration, judgment, opening temples, running schools, and meeting alliances. When the Tuva Department was pacified, all the attached khans were divided according to the number of people and horses under their subordinates, and they were divided into feudal divisions and unified treatment by the subordinate feudal divisions of Honglu Temple.

Rong Lin has already contacted the people in the forest, and he can concentrate on preparing to set up camp in Henggan Mountain with Guan Sancai, as for Fang Liangzhi, his opponent is the Mugyu people of the Qinqin Khanate.

In addition to defending Sakharu and Tianzhu in Pulan, Zada, Yadong and other places, the Pingnan army cooperated with Gu Mao in the Indochina Peninsula to encroach on Shan State and Chenla, and the rest entered the nine islands of Nanyang to protect the rubber estate, but there were rebels and exiled to Dongzhou to build roads.

Before the Anton Army could occupy maritime superiority on the east coast of Dongzhou, it had to rely on land to advance and ensure that the territory was not lost. As for the indigenous Incas above, the number is so small that it is completely possible to send something away. At present, in addition to controlling Dongying on Tsushima Island in the East China Sea, the Anton Army only retains two large strongholds in Cam Ranh Bay and Magong, and retains a certain number of ships in small strongholds such as Daguang and Baguio, mainly relying on the Pingnan Army to garrison, and the rest are all sent to Longmen and Dongzhou for pre-war preparations.

The overall situation is set, and the energy of the Divine Sect will be focused on internal affairs. The magnitude of the 'Great Unification' movement also presents a great challenge for the imperial court to smoothly enforce the administrative decree within such a large territory and ensure that the results are accurate. The ancients once said that 'the imperial power is not lower than the county', the information gap between the central and local governments is very large, the uneven situation of each city has too high requirements for the officials' ability to 'adapt measures to local conditions', and the effect of the same policy implemented in different places often appears to be in the opposite direction. There is also a 10,000-year-old disease, which is born again and again in the spring breeze at every turn, and can only be 'investigated, punished, and replaced', and there is no other way to cure it. No matter how good the system is, if it runs for a period of time, it will still form unique screening criteria due to complex interest relationships, which will affect or replace a reasonable assessment mechanism. The quality of the work of the officials is assessed by the examination law, the government affairs information is transmitted by the newspaper, and the Jinyi Wei and the Metropolitan Procuratorate restrain the behavior of hundreds of officials, these are all tight mantras on the heads of officials, but long-distance control must be delegated, and the best way is nothing more than to seal the king and become a vassal.

In view of such a vast territory at the moment, what the Divine Sect needs to consider is how to lay a good foundation for his sons. For this reason, his main focus was on the adjustment of internal affairs, and the workload of the Chongzheng Yuan was greatly increased, and in response to all kinds of games and compromises, he not only expanded the number of Jinyi guards, but also began to start a trial audit of officials above the fourth grade next year.

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The Andong fleet reached Jinshan on the west coast of Dongzhou, where the discovery of golden sands attracted the China Mining Company with tens of thousands of miners. Ship parts that were calculated to be able to pass through the Guò Ping'an River were shipped ashore in Wending City, assembled in Bin Lake, and dozens of small boats carried soldiers, merchants, and officials to Pingyi City on the east bank of Dongzhou, that is, New York, where they had left their previous lives. It is the best port on the entire East Coast and the first place where Europeans landed. The Britons 'bought' the land from the local Incas for less than sixty silver coins, and before they could cross the mountains and forests to discover the Great Lakes, Dayu took a complete and detailed map and drove a fleet of powerful firepower to smash the people. Now, the Chinese bring the necessary items such as chrysanthemum and oriental mosquito coils and go inland along the river.

As the first commander of the Dongzhou Fleet of the Anton Army, Shan Gui was very happy to get rid of Gu Wenkai, a dazzling female madman, and his mission was not only to stop the Europeans, but also to find the cinchona. It's a pity that Dongzhou doesn't grow this thing, but when the prison army Mingting went around Dongzhou on a big fortune boat to Pingyi City, he found this big treasure in the territory of the Iberians. He rescued an Inca chieftain from the Iberians, and out of gratitude, the other party gave the bark as a gift, and he hurriedly bought a hundred adult trees from the chief with a set of sweet white porcelain tea sets and a glass pot, and according to Shenzong's previous explanation, most of them were sent to Java Island, leaving some to be taken to Pingyi City for trial planting. Lu Quhai also came, and with the support of the army, he took a map from the hands of the Incas, scraped a large area of land with all kinds of gadgets, and 'kindly' invited them to graze cattle in the south-central plains, and carved out a territory for their autonomous region. Of course, whether the Incas, who do not understand the language, cannot read the map, and have no concept of national territory, will not recognize this autonomous region in the future, is not in his consideration, if the autonomous region discovers good things such as gold and silver mines, and does not let the family be autonomous, he will not mention it, in short, he has done it. Guo Siruo's younger brother Xu Youzhen gained the most, his original intention was to investigate whether there was a feasibility of opening a canal, and to have a PK with his senior brother, and accidentally found a gold vein in the mountains north of the Bay Area.

A country's land expansion must be motivated by population pressures that require new arable land, either for economic gain or for strategic reasons. At this point, no matter what the future Dayu needs, the Divine Sect has already got it first, and next, it is time for the Chinese nation, where most of the attribute points are allocated to the farm, to show their talents.