Every Guo Jia, every colonial expansion, is actually synonymous with blood.

Da Zhou is no exception.

As the Great Zhou continued to expand, the burgeoning slave trade industry began to flourish.

In Tianzhu and Fusang, the nobles in the territory turned into executioners and began to secretly capture the young and strong in the country, and transported them to Anzhou, South America and other places by sea ships to build bridges and pave roads, and mine production.

According to incomplete statistics, during Zhang Lingyang's reign, a total of more than 5 million people from Fusang and Tianzhu were arrested in Anzhou. South America served as slaves.

And that's not counting those who died during the voyage.

But fortunately, the people of the Great Zhou are kinder and do not harshly treat these purchased slaves, on the contrary, they sometimes work with them.

During the New Year's holidays, they were also given newly made clothes and abundant food.

Sometimes, some female slaves were even bought to marry and have children.

Although the Great Zhou abolished slavery, it was only for the people of the Great Zhou.

For the slaves bought by these vassal states, the imperial court actually turned a blind eye.

As of the 40th year of Tai'an, the population of Dazhou at home and abroad has reached nearly 60,000, whether it is military, political, economic, cultural, scientific and technological, it has been far ahead of Europe.

By this time, Zhang Lingyang had already planned to abdicate.

But before that, Zhang Lingyang still did a big thing.

Because since 20 years after Tai'an, Zhang Lingyang has given birth to more than 20 princes, and Zhang Lingyang canonized all these young princes overseas, and only after they are officially adults, they can go to the fiefdom to become a vassal.

Of course, the vassal kings of the Great Zhou were different from others.

According to the new laws of the Great Zhou, the feudal kings of the Great Zhou had the right to administer and lead troops within their fiefdoms.

However, the power to lead troops has been limited to a certain extent.

According to the laws of the imperial court, the number of guards of the feudal king should not exceed 10,000, and the imperial court also had the power to station troops in each feudal state.

If that's all there is to it, then there is no need to say more.

The imperial court also stipulated that each vassal state must pay 5 percent of the annual tax as the military expenses of the imperial court garrisoning troops in various places.

In addition, the laws of the vassal states were also the same as those of the Great Zhou, and they could not be changed without permission.

In addition, no tariffs were levied on the merchants of the Great Zhou Dynasty or the merchants of the vassal states.

In this way, the mutual exchange between various places has been greatly promoted.

After that, Zhang Lingyang also canonized some islands of little value in the Pacific Ocean to his daughter as a dowry, and also rewarded some islands to meritorious soldiers.

They are all islands of little value, and Zhang Lingyang is not distressed when rewarded.

Besides, even if some islands are discovered in the future, it is a big deal for the imperial court to take them back, anyway, it is just a matter of the emperor's words.

Not only that, Zhang Lingyang also further refined the functions of the imperial court departments, and further reformed the imperial examination system and education system, which officially announced his abdication.

To say that although Zhang Lingyang is over sixty years old, he may be able to eat and drink, just three months ago, he made a concubine pregnant, and it can be said that his body is still very strong.

But at this time, Zhang Lingyang resolutely issued an edict of abdication and passed the throne to the second prince Zhao Han.

However, after the abdication, Zhang Lingyang was not idle, in the southern suburbs of Luoyang City, near the Longmen Grottoes, Zhang Lingyang personally built a palace for himself.

After the completion of the palace, Zhang Lingyang moved there with his concubines and minor children, and completely gave the palace to Zhao Han to live.

Since then, Zhang Lingyang has rarely returned to the palace, not even Luoyang City a few times.

Every day, he took his concubines and a group of underage children to steal chickens and walk dogs.

If there is that kind of kung fu, and a few younger concubines will make villains together, and life will be very comfortable.

However, at this time, there was still a lot of turmoil in the court.

As for the reason, it's simple.

It is said that Zhang Lingyang is now the emperor, but who should be named the queen mother makes Zhao Han distressed.

The courtiers naturally advocated canonizing Queen Wang as the Queen Mother, after all, Queen Wang was Zhang Lingyang's wife.

But Zhao Han wanted to crown his mother, the noble concubine, as the queen mother.

For a time, there was a stalemate within the imperial court.

After learning about this incident, Zhang Lingyang summoned Zhao Han over, and scolded him with a scolding on his head and face: "You said that you are also the emperor now, why are you still so stupid?"

Since the courtiers want you to canonize the queen as the queen mother, you can't just canonize it. ”

"What about my mother?" Zhao Han said aggrievedly.

"Canonized as the queen mother together, won't everything be solved?" glared at Zhao Han angrily, and after reminding him, he drove Zhao Han out of the palace.

After returning to the palace and pondering for a long time, Zhao Han smiled bitterly and said to himself: "It's still my father's clever trick, and at the same time canonized as the queen mother, so that there is neither violation of etiquette nor filial piety, it is really the best of both worlds!" ”

Just do it, the next morning, Zhao Han directly issued an edict to crown the queen as the queen of the virgin, and canonize his mother and concubine Gao Guifei as the queen mother of Xiao'an.

As soon as the ministers saw Zhao Han's compromise, they gave up and did not continue to pursue it.

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"Now that Emperor Tai'an of the Great Zhou has succeeded to the throne, the little emperor has just ascended the throne, and he is not very sensible, this is a golden opportunity to counterattack the Great Zhou."

In Europe, after the French Emperor Louis XIX learned of Zhang Lingyang's abdication, he began to write books to the kings of various countries, and sent envoys to lobby the governments of various countries in an attempt to unite against the hegemony of the Great Zhou.

Because of her special status, Queen Victoria of England, after receiving the letter from Louis XIX, neither said against nor supported, but only let the English government negotiate on its own.

What else is there to negotiate about this?

Nowadays, Asia is a Great Zhou, Anzhou is a Great Zhou, South America is a Great Zhou, and half of North America is also a Great Zhou.

If you want to say that the Great Zhou has not touched the place, except for Europe itself, there is only Africa left.

Moreover, in recent years, the economic growth of England, like that of France, has become more and more slow, and there are even signs of a halt in the past two years.

In addition, all kinds of goods of the Great Zhou Dynasty are now flooding the European market, and European countries, whether they are the children of nobles or commoners, are proud to learn Chinese and move to the Great Zhou.

This has made European countries feel a strong threat.

Needless to say, more than seventy percent of the members of the English Parliament supported war with the Great Zhou.

When the news reached France, Louis XIX was overjoyed.

After England promised to send troops, other European countries naturally no longer had any scruples, and they also agreed to declare war on the Great Zhou.

This time, the European countries formed a coalition of more than a million troops, intending to enter Asia through southeastern Europe, first pulling out the nail of the Jewish state, and then attacking the vassal states of the Great Zhou in Central Asia.

When the news reached Da Zhou, the ministers immediately panicked.

But fortunately, Sun Qicheng, who has been promoted to the first assistant of the cabinet, turned the tide and suppressed the dissenting opinions of the ministers with iron-blooded means, and advocated the war against Europe.

Zhao Han was a little hesitant, and finally asked Zhang Lingyang to hear Zhang Lingyang's opinion.

This time, Zhang Lingyang didn't give Zhao Han face again, and scolded him repeatedly: "You bastard, what's the point of hesitation?" Just it! ”

Covering his swollen forehead and returning to the palace, Zhao Han directly issued an order the next day to officially fight against Europe, and Sun Qicheng, the first assistant of the cabinet, was fully responsible.

But this time, there's another spoiler.

Zhao Xu, who was about to take up the domain, suddenly jumped out and shouted that he wanted to be a pioneer.

Originally, Zhao Han was angry with Zhang Lingyang yesterday, and he didn't know where to go?

Now seeing Zhao Xu jumping out, he directly beat Zhao Xu with a blue skin and swollen face, and scolded him again, which can be regarded as a relief from the sullenness in his heart.

Zhao Xu felt that he was aggrieved, he originally wanted to help with good intentions, but he didn't want to be beaten, so he could only leave the palace aggrieved and didn't show up again for several days.

Under Sun Qicheng's planning, Da Zhou sent 800,000 troops to West Asia this time, and appointed a veteran, that is, Sun Qicheng's own uncle Sun Dingzong, as the commander, and led his troops to set off a month later, along the Hexi Corridor and Central Asia to the Persian Gulf region.

At the same time, Sun Qicheng also ordered the Great Zhou troops stationed in North America to attack the English colonists there from Mexico and Canada in the north and south, in an attempt to completely bring the entire America into the bag of the Great Zhou.

The war in the Americas went extremely well.

In less than half a year, the Great Zhou army in North America completely drove the English colonists out of North America.

However, on the West Asian side, the war is a little tighter.

After half a year of fierce fighting, both sides suffered casualties.

However, every time the critical time comes, European countries will increase their troops to West Asia.

At one point, the number of European troops exceeded two million.

The Great Zhou side fought extremely hard, and after holding out for a year, the total number of troops transferred to West Asia by the Great Zhou exceeded 1.5 million.

This protracted war broke out not only in West Asia, but also in North America, and the Great Zhou also sent its navy to attack the European colonies on the east coast of Africa.

The European powers also retaliated by sending their combined fleets to attack the territory of the Great Zhou in the Americas.

The war was fought very closely, and neither side took advantage of the other.

And the greatest loss in this war is undoubtedly the Jewish state, which has only been established in the Middle East for 20 years.

As the first target of the European coalition, the war killed and wounded more than three million civilians in the Jewish State, almost one-third of the Jewish population.

However, no matter how big the war is, there will be an end to it one day.

In the third year of the war, the European Union finally lost its breath.

The Great Zhou army was also weak at this time, and it was only chased to the territory of Greece, and it was no longer able to chase.

In the end, there can only be peace negotiations again.

Although the Great Zhou has little stamina, the European coalition forces are the losing side, so it is inevitable to pay compensation for land cession.

Within the territory of the Rus' state, all the territories east of the Ural Mountains were ceded to the Great Zhou, and all southern and eastern Africa were also ceded to the Great Zhou, and the compensation was given to the Great Zhou for ten million taels of gold.

However, in exchange, the Great Zhou army withdrew from Greece and retreated to Asia, and the war was completely over.

The Second West Asian War once again ended with the victory of the Great Zhou.

After this series of victories, the Great Zhou Dynasty seized most of the colonies of the European powers, and its national strength once again reached a new level, and its position as the world hegemon was further consolidated.

In the hundreds of years since then, no country in this world has dared to challenge the majesty of the Great Zhou again......

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