Chapter 184: The Finale

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In September of the second year of Chongzhen, a month earlier than in history, Huang Taiji personally led 80,000 Manchu and Mongolian troops, broke through the Bauhinia Pass and entered the Kou, and was surrounded and suppressed by Zhu Youzhen, who had been waiting there, led by 100,000 troops, of which 15,000 new troops played a strong role, hundreds of three-pounder and six-pounder cannons fired in unison, coupled with the power of Mini rifles, killing and wounding more than 30,000 Manchurian and Mongolian troops on the spot, and capturing more than 20,000 people.

Huang Taiji led 30,000 remnants of the army to flee back to Liaodong, and was killed by Dai Shan's conspiracy with Amin on the way, and later generations succeeded him as the Great Khan, leading 30,000 remnants of the army to suppress the remnants of Huang Taiji.

In that year, the first official newspaper of the Ming Dynasty was printed, and the first bank jointly funded by Zhu Youzhen and the Ministry of Households, Mingxia Bank, was established.

In the fourth year of Chongzhen, Zhu Youzhen led 30,000 new troops and 100,000 Ming troops to the east to conquer the Jurchens, won a battle in Songshan, and then marched to Liaodong, destroying the Jin State, Lu Xiangsheng chased the north until the shore of Sakhalin Island, so far, the last resistance force of the Jurchens was also buried in the sea.

In the same year, the Ming Dynasty reformed the system of officials, approved the scale of officials in each county and province and the central ministry, and filed it in the Ministry of Officials, which was issued by the Ministry of Household according to the local living standards.

In the sixth year of Chongzhen, Sun Chuanting won a great victory in the conquest and set up a political envoy in Guangnan.

In the seventh year of Chongzhen, Yu Shigao led the North Sea Fleet in the Zheng Group in the Tongshan off the coast of Fujian, the battle lasted for three days, and the victory was complete, and the remnants of the Zheng army surrendered, and the Five Tiger guerrilla generals were still sealed.

In the eighth year of Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty reformed the official selection system, stipulating that 20% of the official seals could be qualified by officials every year, and at the same time, the assessment of criminal names, money and food, and administrative abilities was increased in the imperial examination.

In that year, the North Sea Fleet took 100,000 new troops to the east to conquer the Wa Kingdom, occupied most of the Wa Kingdom in three months, and destroyed the Wa Kingdom in half a year.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty carried out the reform of the monetary system, and the Bank of Ming Xia issued the first set of silver standard currency in the modern sense, and the main currency values were: cents, jiao, yuan, and ten yuan. Among them, the currency of the cents and corners is mainly made of copper, while the yuan and ten yuan coins are mainly made of silver.

The new currency is beautifully crafted and has sufficient portions, and is deeply loved by the people.

In the tenth year of Chongzhen, the Ming navy and the Spanish fleet fought fiercely off the coast of Java for several days, and won a great victory, so far the Ming Dynasty grasped the maritime control of Southeast Asia and seized the Strait of Malacca.

In the 11th year of Chongzhen, the governor of Guangdong, Yamen, sent troops to attack Haojingao, and won, and recovered Haojingao, renamed Macau, and the South China Sea Fleet fought fiercely with the Portuguese fleet in the South China Sea at the same time, and won a great victory.

In the same year, the Ming Dynasty selected 12 ports along the coast to open the sea, including: Lushun, Tianjin, Jiaozhou, Liujiagang, Suzhou, Songjiang, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Quanzhou, Guangzhou, Shenglongfu, and Dayuan.

In the same year, the construction of the first modern railway in the Ming Dynasty began, connecting Beijing and Tongzhou.

In the twelfth year of Chongzhen, potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes and other things were all over the north of the Ming Dynasty, among which the potatoes in Liaodong and other places were the most famous, and of course, the rice in Liaodong was also particularly loved by the people.

In the same year, the northern Mongolian tribes requested to revoke the title of kingdom, and the Ming Dynasty set up the Eastern Monbu Political Envoy and the Simonbu Political Envoy, and formed an armed pioneer group to carry out colonization to Lake Baikal and other places.

This year, the Jingtong Railway was completed in its entirety.

In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the first steam engine in the practical sense of the Ming Dynasty was successfully developed, and was used on the railway for the first time.

Subsequently, the construction of the Tongzhou-Tianjin Port and Beijing-Nanjing railways was started at the same time.

In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty abolished the system of military households and artisan households, increased the flow of population, and the Tiantong Railway was fully connected.

At that time, Zhu Youzhen advocated literacy education and established a four-year primary school in every township in Daming, so that every boy between the ages of six and ten could go to school.

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the two Beijing railways were completed in their entirety, and the population of the Ming Dynasty had exceeded 100 million.

This year, Zhu Youzhen was thirty-three years old, and he wanted to spend the rest of his life transforming Daming into the country in his heart.