After blowing a handful of cowhides and creating an ambitious or unrealistic image for himself in Kebel's shocked gaze, Yang Qing sent him away contentedly.

The rest doesn't need Yang Qingguan.

At present, Daming is open to welcome all businessmen from foreign countries.

Including the Ottomans.

Although the Lord Protector said that he wanted to burn all the people of the Ottoman Empire at the stake to purify the world, he still showed tolerance for those who sent money to his door. At this time, there were already merchants from the Middle East who came to the ports of Daming to trade, but their trade volume was not large, and the export volume of the Mediterranean coast continued to decline as more and more European countries joined the eastern route. The ongoing war between the Ottomans and Venetians in the Mediterranean also seriously contributed to the decline, culminating in the complete marginalization of the Ottoman Empire and the lands they controlled after the Turning War of 1683.

And they have to face the rise of Russia.

At this time, Russia was not yet Peter's time, and it was his father Alexei I who ruled Russia, who would soon accept the Cossacks of Eastern Ukraine and start a war with Poland......

There is no Ukraine as a country.

There has never been a Ukrainian state, on the contrary, Kievan Rus' is of Russian origin, and the land is currently ruled by two families, Poland and the Ottomans, but the Cossacks in the eastern Ukrainian region are already making the Poles rebel. Note that it was the Cossacks, the Cossacks were not nationalities, they were Cossacks, and three years later they invited the Russian tsar to rule the eastern Ukraine they controlled, so that the land of modern Ukraine became three. For the next century, Russia fought a scuffle with all sides here, eventually becoming the victor and owning the entire land of modern Ukraine. But Ukraine did not exist in Tsarist Russia either, and the Tsar ruled Eastern Ukraine as Tsar and Monopoly of Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir, Novgorod, Western Ukraine as Grand Duke of Volhynia, and Central Ukraine as Grand Duke of Podolia.

Eastern Ukraine was directly under Russia, and Western and Central Ukraine were conquered territories, and the Tsar ruled the land with three crowns.

He has many more such crowns.

This is also the theoretical basis for Poland, Finland and other countries to separate from the Soviet Union after the tsar was shot, the Soviet Union shot the Russian tsar has nothing to do with them, but the Soviet Union shot the Polish tsar, the Grand Duke of Finland, the Grand Duke of Lithuania, etc., including the ruler of Western Ukraine, the Grand Duke of Volhynia, and the ruler of Central Ukraine, Grand Duke Podolia.

They do not belong to Russia, they belong only to their monarch.

Although their monarch was still the Russian Tsar.

This is how the monarchy system in Europe was, and so is the pattern of modern Europe.

Yang Qing's goal is to squeeze into the wolves that carve up the Ottoman Empire in the future, and if the Europeans are really lured by interests to engage in a new round of crusades, he will vigorously support them, and even send the Ming army there to cooperate. If both the crescent moon and the lilies can form a blasphemous alliance, why can't the Empress of the East join hands with the Vatican and fight for a canal that will bring endless wealth to the countries of the Mediterranean?

The Vatican will not object.

They can't wait to revive the old faith.

The bankers of Venice and Genoa would have gone crazy for the canal, they had had enough of the Dutch bankers, and they were supporting the war between Spain and the Netherlands.

The Habsburgs will rejoice.

Having never been able to take advantage of the dividends of maritime trade, they finally have their own trade routes.

As for the rest......

Who cares about those?

That's how crazy the world is.

On the contrary, Yang Qing did not have much interest in India.

After completing the control of Southeast Asia, colonizing India to the west is far less suitable than colonizing the Middle East, the former is suitable for exploitation, the latter is suitable for occupation, India will become the jewel in the British crown, but it will only become a heavy iron ball in China's crown. To rule such a ghost place, it is better to cultivate a group of obedient princes, and everyone will exploit the Indian people together, anyway, they are just like that, and no matter how they develop, it is impossible to pose any threat to the Ming Dynasty.

On the contrary, the establishment of colonies in the Middle East, with absolute control over the future oil fields through immigration and purge, is for the benefit of future generations.

Digging a canal is just a gimmick.

It was only used to attract the attention of the country and to lure the people into marching there, of course, if possible, to dig a canal that did not need locks. Since the French could dig the canal with a whip on the Egyptian coolies with hardly any engineering machinery, this era certainly did the same.

What's more, even if it is really dug up, it will be twenty years later.

It's just an ambitious goal.

As Yang Qing said, the next Ming Dynasty spent the Spring Festival calmly in singing, dancing, dancing, and dancing, ending the five years of Longxing and officially entering the era of the empress......

The new era name is Kunxing.

As for the harmony proposed by the protector, it was vetoed by Her Majesty the Empress, since the Empress was the princess Kunxing before, then use the title as the era name, which was unanimously supported by a group of women, and it was obvious that feminist ideas began to rise. As for the ministers who don't care about this, Kun Xing is not bad, which means the prosperity of the era of the Empress of the Ming Dynasty, anyway, this thing is good, and the monarch likes whatever it is, but it is exactly the right match with the year name of the ten perfect old dogs.

In short, the Ming Dynasty officially entered the first year of Kunxing.

As for Li Zicheng's threat of war, it did not cause any panic in the slightest.

Everyone knows the strength of the Ming army at this time.

It is indeed not easy to explain that the army takes the initiative to attack and completely annex Guanzhong, and Li Zicheng's whole army is not easy to mess with, but it is also hopeless for Li Zicheng to take the initiative to attack the Ming Dynasty.

The Shun army can't cross the Huai River!

The people of Daming have this self-confidence!

Since you are so afraid of a bird, just sing and dance and dance!

Relative to the upcoming war, there is another thing that is more concerned......

Imperial examination.

"This southern capital has become a city that never sleeps!"

In the fireworks on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Fang Yizhi walked through the bustling royal street, looked at the gas lampposts on both sides and sighed.

After several years of trials, gas street lighting began to be promoted in earnest with the commissioning of a larger coking plant outside the city, and the first street to be installed was naturally the iconic Royal Street, followed by the transformation of all main streets such as Sanshan Street. Moreover, Yan Yingyuan, who had just been promoted to Ying Tianfu Yin, also announced a new urban plan, and in the next ten years, Nanjing City was connected by various city gates to straighten all streets in the inner city. At the same time, all straightened streets except for the Royal Street are built according to the national highway standard, but the road surface after construction is not gravel, but directly paved with asphalt as a by-product of oil refining.

The royal street is the imperial city, and it is not under the management of Tianfu, in order to retain the traditional style, it is better to keep the stone slabs here!

But even if the plan has not yet been launched, relying on the development of the past seven years, Nanjing City has already completely changed its appearance, especially this royal street as a landscape commercial street. Because the imperial city itself belongs to the private property of the imperial family, the buildings here have been gradually replaced with all new styles, that is, various Chinese style buildings, in the past seven years......

Buildings are already a must.

At present, the population of permanent residents and migrants in the inner city of Nanjing is approaching the 3 million mark.

So many people can't really live without building a building.

This is also due to the fact that almost all of the originally closed imperial city has been turned into schools, which house a large part of the population, and the royal street has built countless commercial and residential buildings according to the unified plan. Then these buildings were rented out to merchants, and the annual rent was a huge amount of money, and the city wall, which was originally only left and right to enter and exit the three gates of Chang'an and Hongwu, was opened up to five pairs of gates, so as to solve the problem of traffic congestion.

Instead, Hongwu Gate was closed.

Unless there are some special circumstances, the Hongwu Gate is no longer easy to open, and the bronze statue of Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty is being cast in the Hongwu Gate.

Certainly not a shoehorn face.

Zhu Yuanzhang can't be too ugly, Queen Ma is Guo Zixing's adopted daughter, how can he be looked at if he is too ugly, when he married Queen Ma, he was just an inconspicuous low-level officer. If he was really ugly, when Guo Zixing wanted to kill him, Queen Ma would be worthy of him if she didn't clap her hands and said that she would be worthy of him.

The bronze statue cast by Yang Qing is based on the portrait hidden in the palace, this bronze statue is designed as a seated statue, in the middle of the Hongwu Gate, facing all those who enter the Hongwu Gate.

"It's just that the copper smell is getting heavier and heavier!"

Mao Bijiang, who traveled with him, said.

A splendid four-wheeled carriage drove slowly in front of him, and in the open window, a merchant dressed as a merchant could be seen swaggering by with an exotic girl in his arms, who snuggled into his arms and turned his head to look at Mao Bijiang.

At this time, there were more and more Hu women.

Li Zicheng's attack in the Western Regions, in less than two years, sent more than 10,000 female slaves to Jiangnan, and their influx greatly compensated for the impact of the slave release order, and now these Hu girls are the most sought after among the wealthy people in Jiangnan. However, Hu Nu is still not the most expensive at present, the most expensive is the authentic white slave, which was also brought by Li Zicheng, and it is unknown how it came about. In any case, the merchants of the Qin Domain were as far as the Black Sea, and it was perfectly possible to buy some Eastern European slaves from the Ottomans in the Crimea, but the number was scarce, which also led to their extremely high prices.

The one passing by in front of him obviously looks like an authentic white slave.

Eastern European girls are full of charm.

For a while, he couldn't help but stay even if he ventured into the frontier.

Dong Xiaowan turned his head with a smile.

Fang Yizhi didn't answer this question either, he was different from Mao Bijiang, the latter had been completely abandoned by this era, and what he was good at was nothing more than poetry, but now poetry is not valuable, and those who write and script are the most popular. Although calligraphy and painting are still sought after, the calligraphy and painting that are really sought after are still a little far away, and they are not even as popular as Dong Xiaowan's paintings, which at least have a package......

She's a friend of the protector's good sister.

Therefore, although the life of risking Xinjiang over the years cannot be said to be downward, it can be regarded as depressed.

But Fang Yizhi has a bright future.

As a test solution in Nanzhili Medical Township, he even has a good relationship with Shangshu Fushan of the Medical and Epidemic Prevention Department, as long as he is in this scientific examination, he will directly enter the Medical and Epidemic Prevention Department. And even if he passes the liberal arts examination, he can only be a second official in the end, and whether he can get ahead depends on his father's ability. But his father has retired due to illness, and the post of political envoy of Huguangbu was taken over by Ding Qirui, in fact, his father is also from the Donglin department, and this time the Donglin department has withdrawn, which can be regarded as being retired.

After all, it's hard to get out of this liberal arts!

Although Mao Bijiang is a son of a family, a father who is from the second grade to the master is still a little worse, and there is no practical talent in these years, so it will be more difficult to come out after all.

Fang Yizhi sighed for his friend's wasted years, but after all, he still put this little thing aside......

It's all about the!

His future is already bright!

"The east wind blooms thousands of trees at night, blows down, the stars are like rain, and the BMW carved cars are full of fragrance ......"

He chanted with excitement.

Suddenly, there was a sharp hiss ahead, followed by a cheer from the pedestrians around them, surging past the three of them like a tide across the reef. Fang Yizhi and the three of them walked forward in amazement, and soon in the light of the gas street lamp in the distance, a strangely shaped machine appeared in their field of vision. The object then spewed out a cloud of white smoke and a sharp hiss.

"This is the steam car of the Lord Protector?"

Dong Xiaowan said with some surprise.

Then the smoke dispersed, and a majestic figure appeared in her field of vision, like an immortal in the smoke......

Uh, the protector came out and pretended to be forced again!

The steam car, which has been improved to the third generation, starts slowly in the crowd, although it is still as slow as a turtle crawling, but its reliability has increased significantly, and it does not need to be forced to run away at all. Driven by a steam engine, two sets of iron-clad wooden wheels, one large and one small, slowly drove through the crowd on the long stone street, illuminated by gas street lamps and accompanied by fireworks rising on both sides.

The protector who was standing in the car kept handfuls of toffee out.

White rabbit toffee.

Milk powder, sugar, edible gum, cream, maltose, etc., in short, a lot of mixtures, anyway, it is milky and sweet, which is not willing to add cocoa powder, Her Majesty's exclusive cocoa powder, except for Princess Zhaoren, you can eat it casually, and everyone else has to be rewarded to eat it.

"Long live the Empress!"

"Nine thousand years old!"

……

The excited people shouted, and then kept taking the White Rabbit toffee from the Protector.

Soon, the steam car passed by Dong Xiaowan's side.

The Protector didn't pay attention to her, he still grabbed a few pieces of candy and handed them to her, Dong Xiaowan subconsciously raised his hand, and a person next to him still wanted to grab it, but when he saw that it was a beautiful young woman, he was not embarrassed. Dong Xiaowan took it immediately, and then the huge wheel slowly turned in front of her, and at this time, the protector of the car suddenly looked back as if he had just seen it, and showed a warm smile at her. And behind the Protector of the Kingdom, steam erupted again, making his figure seem to be shrouded in clouds, and fireworks in the sky continued to explode......

Dong Xiaowan's face turned red for no reason.

Mao Bijiang beside him looked at her with a gloomy face.

(Thank you to the second leader of the book, this book friend is really powerful, three chapters today.) ）()

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