In the sixty-ninth year of orthodoxy, Zhu Jianshen, who had been the grandson for fifty years, failed to ascend to that position and passed away.

Suddenly, in addition to the emperor and Prince Ke, the people had the saying that Prince Ke was grandson.

Of course, this is not because the people are tired of having the emperor sitting in that position all the time, in fact, it is precisely because of that person sitting there that the people of the Ming Dynasty have never been worried in their hearts.

It's just that the vast majority of the Ming people have been this Wei Emperor since they were born, and until they die of old age, this emperor still sits there well.

The day of the Ming Dynasty has not changed, and the development of the Ming Dynasty has never been interrupted.

Everyone was looking at the emperor in the Forbidden City, not knowing how long he would live.

Zhu Youzhang, who was born in the thirty-sixth year of orthodoxy, is already a thirty-four-year-old middle-aged man, and even his son Zhu Houzhao is already fifteen years old, but the emperor's great-ancestor who sits on the throne is still a hundred times more energetic, and it is difficult for ordinary people to reach.

It was also in this year that his good friend Zhang Rui also died of illness, which made him feel that he couldn't wait for the day when he couldn't ascend the throne.

In the seventy-first year of orthodoxy, when Zhu Youzhu was inspecting military affairs in the northwest, he fell from his horse due to heat stroke and died young.

Zhu Zhanji, who was 96 years old in the Forbidden City, received the news and thought of abdicating for the first time.

However, great-grandson Zhu Houzhao is only seventeen years old this year, so Zhu Zhanji temporarily put aside the idea of abdicating and began to cultivate this great-grandson with all his might.

Although history has changed, Zhu Houzhao in this life is still a witty, intelligent, resolute and decisive person.

Of course, because he is already the fourth generation of the imperial grandson, he has been pampered since he was a child, and his sex is luxurious.

In small things, he is somewhat passable, and he is never ambiguous in big things.

During the year of filial piety, Zhu Zhanji confined him in the palace, only letting him see his manuscript every day, and burning him after reading it.

This year has been a painful and fulfilling year for Zhu Houzhao. The pain is that his little beauties can't be lucky, those fun entertainment can't be played anymore, and even the ball game can't go to the scene to watch.

But the gains are huge!

Only then did he realize that his ancestor was really not a mortal, but thought that he was an immortal.

Gaozu not only knew astronomy, geography, and people, but also knew five hundred years later.

He learned during the year that a country's political system is not better and best suited.

Moreover, Gaozu also took out different political systems and analyzed them with him one by one, so that he knew the advantages and disadvantages of various political systems and the differences.

In this year, he learned that the economy is the lifeblood of a country.

Economy is to create, transform, and realize value to meet the needs of human material and cultural life.

For individuals, the creation, transformation and realization of value is the embodiment of the value of personal life.

And the national economy is the management of materials; It is a unified arrangement for the overall dynamic phenomenon of people producing, using, processing and distributing all materials.

Production is the basis of this dynamic, and distribution is the end point of this dynamic.

And having the right to manage and distribute means the stability of the government.

The people live and work in peace and contentment, and the rule of the Ming Dynasty can be stable forever.

During this year, he learned why Gaozu had always had direct control of the military by the royal family, and no nobles were allowed to have the right to transfer troops.

Only by mastering the army can we ensure that the authority of the royal family is maintained and consolidated, and can the maintenance of rules be formed.

Holding military power is not about bullying others, but about maintaining the stability of the rules.

During this year, he also learned why Gaozu attached so much importance to the research and development and leadership of science and technology, because it was the most effective means of using productivity.

The leadership of science and technology means the leadership of technology, the reduction of costs, and the ability to stand at the top of the supply chain in economic activities.

He also knew why the Ming Dynasty had the ability to occupy the whole world, but he still had to let some small countries exist.

This is not only to enrich the cultural existence of mankind, but also to add some profit and competitiveness to a world without crisis.

There is competition, there is pressure, in order to have progress.

In the end, he understood why Gaozu attached so much importance to the spread of culture, why he supported the three religions, but took Shinrikyo as the state religion and tried his best to suppress the existence of the Green Religion and Christianity.

This is not only to let the whole world agree with the ethics, values, and worldview of the Ming Dynasty, but also to let everyone spontaneously move closer to the Ming Dynasty.

The power of culture is invisible, but it is the most stable, more powerful than the slaughter and deterrence of armies.

From the age of seventeen to eighteen, Zhu Houzhao matured rapidly in this year.

He originally liked to practice martial arts since he was a child, and Gao Zu said more than once that he was the most like himself among his descendants.

In the past year, he has also changed from being competitive at the beginning to liking the study of Jinggong.

And he does have talent, and after a year, he has become a small success.

Seeing Zhu Houzhao's internal strength, Zhu Zhanji really put his mind at ease, he was no longer worried that he would die young in the future, leaving behind young princes and grandchildren, who would be toyed with by the ministers in applause

In the seventy-third year of orthodoxy, Zhu Houzhao got married, and then was arranged by Zhu Zhanji to enter the Young Army for internship.

In the seventy-fourth year of orthodoxy, Zhu Houzhao's three concubines each gave birth to a child for him, two of whom were boys.

In the seventy-fifth year of orthodoxy, Emperor Zhu Zhanji was 100 years old, and all parts of the Ming Dynasty celebrated the 100-year-old emperor.

And this year, Zhu Zhanji no longer knows how many children and grandchildren he has, he only knows that the number of people in the Ming Dynasty has exceeded 800 million.

In addition to the Ming Dynasty, the total population of the world is just about one billion, that is to say, the Chinese occupy 90% of the world's territory, and the population has reached 80%.

This is mainly India, which has a little more population, like the whole of Europe, and now has a population of less than 20 million.

Therefore, at this time, Zhu Zhanji was not worried at all that other countries could become a threat to the Ming Dynasty.

In the seventy-sixth year of orthodoxy, Zhu Zhanji held a grand ceremony of Zen concession, passed the throne to Zhu Houzhao, who was already 22 years old, and personally chose the era name Zhengde for him.

However, although Zhu Houzhao ascended the throne as the emperor, he insisted on resigning the era name and announcing to the world that although the new year name will be counted from now on, it will not be implemented until after the return of Gaozu to heaven.

Therefore, from the seventy-sixth year of orthodoxy, the Ming Dynasty experienced a period of confusion in the era name, although the emperor is Zhengde, but the era name is still orthodox.

And although Zhu Zhanji, who is one hundred and one years old, is the emperor, he is still active in all corners of the Ming Dynasty and still controls all aspects of the Ming Dynasty.

The only difference is that he's freer.

In the 77th year of orthodoxy, one year after Zhu Houzhao ascended the throne, he handled all the affairs of the country with ease, and Zhu Zhanji was completely relieved of him.

At the beginning of the 77th year of orthodoxy, Zhu Zhanji began his journey to the Ming Dynasty.

A special train will travel all the way to the southernmost Star City (Singapore) of the Central Continent in winter, and in summer, it may travel to the westernmost point of the Ming Empire, Beihai Port (St. Petersburg).

Although Zhu Zhanji is no longer on the throne, he has a clearer understanding of the country's development.

In the 80th year of orthodoxy, Zhu Zhanji, who was already 105 years old, ignored everyone's opposition, took a train from Yingtianfu to the northernmost bay (Bering Strait) of the Ming Dynasty.

From here, I took a boat to Laizhou (Alaska) and then changed to a train to start my journey to Dongzhou.

The major royal palaces in Dongzhou are all ready to come up with the best things to entertain their old ancestor.

This trip to Dongzhou lasted for four years, and Zhu Zhanji visited almost every palace.

Finally, in November of the eighty-fourth year of Orthodoxy, his footsteps reached the southernmost point of the southern continent of Dongzhou.

However, he did not stop and led the fleet to continue south.

Soon after the voyage, the fleet discovered a continent covered in ice and snow, and only a few scientific expeditions landed on this cold continent, and the fleet continued to sail around this continent.

In May of the 85th year of Orthodoxy, the fleet completed this difficult voyage, and then sent back a telegram announcing that the Ming had discovered another continent with an area of 15 million square kilometers.

It's just that this continent is not suitable for habitation because of its cold climate.

The news spread all over the world, and the entire Ming Dynasty cheered, and Zhu Houzhao in Yingtianfu officially announced that this ice-covered continent was named Gaozu Island without consulting Zhu Zhanji's opinion.

Because it is not suitable for living, there will be no immigrants here, only for research and application. It is also listed as a forbidden area of the Ming Dynasty, and it is strictly forbidden for anyone to land.

For this purpose, the Ming Dynasty specially set up two fleets, one stationed in the Xuanwang Mansion and the other stationed in the North and South Islands to protect this ice and snow continent.

The discovery of Gaozu Island means that the last piece of land in the world has also become the land of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Zhanji at this time already has a feeling of contentment.

In July of the eighty-fifth year of Orthodoxy, the fleet arrived on the North and South Islands (New Zealand).

It is also known as Yazhou Mansion and is the fief of Zhu Zhanji's seventh son, King Ya.

After Zhu Zhanji arrived here, he recuperated in this beautiful place for two months before setting off for Lanfei Island.

In the sixty years of orthodoxy, the eighty-two-year-old Lan Guifei drove to the west, and because of her last wishes, she was buried on the island named after her.

Lanfei Island is the later French Polynesia, also known as Tahiti.

Bora Bora has been voted the most beautiful island in the world in many travel magazines.

And the tomb of Lan Guifei was built on the island of Bora Bora.

Here, Zhu Zhanji completely put aside the world and lived for two whole years.

Zhu Zhanji, who is already 114 years old, has completely become an old man, and many times he falls asleep unconsciously, and now when he travels, he no longer insists on walking by himself, but sits in a wheelchair.

It was not until September of the 89th year of orthodoxy that under the urging of telegrams from the imperial court, he set off to return to the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Houzhao, who has been on the throne for thirteen years, is worried about his health, for fear that if he dies outside, his reputation will be ruined.

But Zhu Zhanji still knows very well that he can last a few years.

In November of the 89th year of orthodoxy, Zhu Zhanji returned to the Ming Dynasty, which had been away for more than nine years, and as soon as he returned, he encountered a major dispute with the Shinrikyo religion.

The first Pope of Shinrito was Blue Smoke, the second was Madi, and the third was Madian, and they were all highly respected and took office without dissent.

But Ma Dian died in the summer of this year, and the Shinrikyo religion has been in a stalemate for four months over the position of Pope, and a new Pope has still not been elected.

When he knew the importance of Shinrikyo, at present, because of the contradictions in the choice of the pope, Zhu Houzhao did not dare to arbitrarily suppress one side and appoint a new pope.

It was also for this reason that he urged Zhu Zhanji to come back and solve this problem.

In the entire Ming Dynasty, there is only one person who can solve this big contradiction with one sentence, Zhu Zhanji.

At present, the contradictions of Shinrikyo are mainly concentrated in two candidates, one is Wang Wensu, a local mathematician in the Ming Dynasty, and the other is Leonardo da Vinci, a foreign truth-teller with a name in the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Wensu is just 40 years old this year, and he belongs to the younger generation in the Shinrikyo in terms of age, but he is involved in the history of books, and he knows everything from hundreds of schools.

In particular, he is good at algorithms, and his mathematical theories have played a foundational role in physics, chemistry and other aspects.

The reason why Shinrikyo brought him in was also to snipe Da Vinci, who was too famous, because if he changed people, he would not be Da Vinci's opponent at all.

Leonardo da Vinci is 51 years old this year, he became famous at the age of 16, and his creation of the "Ming Centennial Celebration Map" shocked the world as soon as it was published, and his work is known as the "Qingming Riverside Picture" of the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, his oil paintings are more realistic, and they are even better than Zhang Zeduan in terms of artistic influence.

This work was quickly favored by Zhu Zhanji and collected as a contemporary treasure of the Daming Museum.

Subsequently, Leonardo da Vinci successively created works such as "Blue Guifei", "My Mother - Princess Yongheng Garden Paintings", "The Emperor of the World" and so on.

However, after Leonardo da Vinci obtained a degree in six subjects from the Polytechnic Institute in six years, he stopped painting and entered the Institute of Mechanical Research and became a researcher.

In the fifty-fifth year of orthodoxy, Yongheng disregarded the opposition of others and married his second daughter, the county lord of Yongqing, to the twenty-four-year-old Leonardo da Vinci, which was the first time that a member of the Ming royal family married a foreigner.

But Yongqing is much happier than most county lords, because Leonardo da Vinci is not an ordinary person.

In the past 30 years, he has made countless research and inventions, and is currently the scholar with the most patents and one of the richest scholars.

For example, he developed a new generation of heavy-duty aircraft engines, which made the load capacity of the aircraft jump from less than 10 tons to more than 50 tons.

There are also new electronic telescopes, which for the first time guide scholars to look beyond the solar system and towards the Milky Way.

These are just two of his many contributions, and you can see his great contribution to the Ming Dynasty.

Although his contribution is huge, although he is also a member of the royal family, the position of the Pope of Truth can be said to be the most powerful position in the entire Ming Dynasty, and the vast majority of local Shinrikyo members are unwilling to let a foreigner become the Pope.

In terms of achievements, he far surpasses others, but the point is that his identity is somewhat awkward.

Although his supporters are not as powerful as the other party's forces, they are all industry elites, so they must not be treated lightly.

On the other hand, there are many people, representing the conservative forces of the Ming academic community, and they cannot be offended.

However, after Zhu Zhanji returned to Yingtianfu, he only said one sentence at the Shinrikyo Congress, which made the vast majority of people change their minds, and Leonardo da Vinci became the fourth pope of the Ming Shinrikyo Sect.

"All men are equal before the truth. Shinrikyo's position is never determined by seniority or age, but by contribution to society. ”

This sentence has also become the selection criterion for Shinrikyo personnel in the future. Because any other position may be debated, but if it is judged in terms of social contribution, there is a clear quantitative criterion.

The Ming Dynasty is thriving in all aspects, Zhu Houzhao is also qualified as the emperor, and even after Zhu Zhanji returned to the Ming Dynasty, he lived in seclusion in the palace and rarely asked about the world again.

But everyone has not forgotten Zhu Zhanji, as long as he is in one day, it seems that everyone has a backbone.

However, in the winter of the ninetieth year of orthodoxy, Zhu Zhanji finally died of illness one year after returning to the Ming Dynasty.

He died at the age of one hundred and fifteen, not only the longest-living emperor of all dynasties, but also the longest-serving emperor with the longest reign.