The emperor's personal conquest should have been extremely grand, but Emperor Longwu's personal conquest was simple.

In fact, the entire Chu army is centered on Wang Kefan, even if Emperor Longwu is in person, it is more of a mascot, but after stepping on the north bank of the Yangtze River, Emperor Longwu is still very excited, the army went all the way north, to the ancestral hometown of the old Zhu family, Fengyang, Anhui, after Emperor Longwu worshiped the Ming Emperor's mausoleum, he talked with Wang Kefan all night that night until dawn.

Wang Kefan originally thought that Emperor Longwu still wanted to retain the succession of the Ming Dynasty, but Emperor Longwu was about to die, but he saw everything very thoroughly, and only asked Wang Kefan to follow Cao Pi and Zhao Kuangyin, and give preferential treatment to the crown prince Zhu Linyuan and his descendants, and there was nothing else to ask for, in fact, Emperor Longwu desperately asked for the imperial conquest, most of them were also for his son, as an emperor who sacrificed his life for the country, he would win the sympathy of most people in public opinion, if Wang Kefan wanted to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, there would always be some scruples.

"If Your Majesty returns to the sky, the crown prince should ascend the throne, and if there are other changes in the future, I will also ensure that he is rich and prosperous for the rest of his life." Wang Kefan said calmly: "Forced by the times, there are some things that have to be done, but please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will treat Zhu Linyuan as my own in the future, and I will never let him be bullied." ”

Wang Kefan directly regarded himself as Zhu Linyuan's stepfather and ended the conversation.

There are some things that are useless to talk about too much, and what you do in the future is more important.

Emperor Longwu is on the extremely weak side, Wang Kefan can say such a thing, he can already be satisfied, the next few days, Zhu Yujian shook his spirits, dressed in military uniform and went north with the army, every time he attracted the cheers of the onlookers, Wang Kefan did not interfere with his behavior, although it is impossible to surpass the imperial system in this era, but at least in three or five years, Wang Kefan has no intention of usurping the throne and becoming the emperor, the brand of the Ming Dynasty still has use value, and there is no need to rush to live the emperor's addiction.

Look ahead, time, will change everything.

He ordered Wang Sheng, the main force of the Chu army to continue to march north, attack Nanzhili and Shandong on all fronts, force and squeeze Wu Sangui and the Manchu Qing to start a war as soon as possible, and if Wu Sangui hesitated, destroy them on the spot.

Wu Sangui's reaction was extremely fast, and without waiting for the Chu army to approach, he led his army north, and defeated the last Qing army defending Beijing in the Baoding area, and the Qing court fled from Shanhaiguan in a hurry.

The Chu army crossed the Yellow River, and Emperor Longwu could no longer support it, and fell in the army that night.

When the news spread, some of Wu Sangui's subordinates still wanted to fish in troubled waters and wait and see the situation, but the Chu army was not affected by the emperor's death at all, but suddenly accelerated its speed, with Li Laiheng and Ti Zhaorong's cavalry troops as the vanguard, and Wu Sangui clashed in the area of Gu'an and Zhuozhou, defeating his thousands of vanguard troops, and at the same time solemnly warned Wu Sangui not to compete for the credit of recovering Beijing, and immediately led his troops out of the customs to pursue the Manchu Qing.

Wu Sangui suffered a dumb loss, did not dare to turn his face with the Chu army, had to lead the troops around Beijing, launched an attack on Shanhaiguan, which used to be his old nest, familiar in all aspects, do not want it, the main force of the Qing army also withdrew to Shenyang, leaving only some green battalions to guard Shanhaiguan, was easily defeated by Wu Sangui, and led the army out of Shanhaiguan.

In the following year, Wu Sangui and the Qing army fought fiercely outside the pass, winning more and losing less, pushing the battle line north step by step, and finally attacked the city of Shenyang, and then suffered setbacks under the city, and could not break the city for several months.

The main force of the Chu army immediately marched out of the pass, thundered, and conquered Shenyang in a battle.

Wu Sangui did not hesitate, immediately led the troops to the north, pursued the remnants of Jiannu, chased them to the sky, into the ground seamlessly, had to flee westward into Mongolia, the Chu army launched a large-scale northern expedition, swept the Mongolian tribes, and cooperated with Wu Sangui to drive Jiannu all the way to the north of Lake Baikal.

Wu Sangui took a short rest and continued to go north, chasing in the footsteps of Jiannu's escape, all the way to the depths of Siberia......

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Ten years later.

Zhu Linyuan, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, abdicated, and Wang Kefan, the 36-year-old prime minister of the Ming Dynasty, ascended the throne as emperor, changed the name of the country to Hua, and at the same time carried out drastic reforms to the country.

The six ministries of the imperial court have become more than 20 ministries, the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Commerce or something, everyone can still understand what it means, and the people of the Ministry of Science and Technology don't understand it at all, but I heard that Wang Kefan likes this Ministry of Science and Technology the most, and even disregarded the etiquette system, and personally served as the minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and often soaked in his newly built university all day.

It doesn't matter if you don't do your job, there was a carpenter emperor in the previous dynasty, but Wang Kefan's most shocking move was to take the lead in cutting his hair, as an emperor, he kept a short haircut.

Fortunately, he did not issue a shaving order like the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but only influenced others with his own behavior, the king of Chu had a thin waist, and the harem starved to death, with the passage of time, gradually more and more people accepted short hair, Wang Kefan immediately ordered that all public officials and military personnel should cut their hair, but ordinary people can do it at will, overnight, the land of China is full of short hair, which is spectacular.

At this time, Zheng Chenggong has passed away, and the Zheng family still regards Zhu Ming as orthodox and refuses to give in to Wang Kefan, Wang Kefan is not in a hurry to negotiate against Taiwan Bay, but only vigorously develops shipping and navy, and constantly grabs the share of the Zheng family's maritime trade.

Li Dingguo in the southwest has returned to the Ming Dynasty two years ago, and handed over the military power, and returned to his hometown in northern Shaanxi to be an idle prince, to everyone's surprise, Wang Kefan treated Li Dingguo extremely favorably, and the treatment given to him was basically the same as that of Zhu Linyuan, who abdicated, many people did not understand why Wang Kefan did this, and Wang Kefan never explained.

Many years later, Li Dingguo died peacefully.

Wu Sangui was old and strong, invincible in Siberia, and defeated a huge vassal state, and finally clashed with Russia, which was expanding eastward, and the two sides fought fiercely for several years, winning and losing each other.

After the Manchu Qing was driven out of Mongolia, they were exiled to Central Asia, after the death of Shunzhi, Kangxi succeeded to the throne with the support of Xiaozhuang, after more than ten years of development, the population recovered slightly, but they never dared to return to Jianzhou, they stayed in Central Asia to develop, and then were defeated by Tsar Peter, and gradually disappeared in the long river of history.

"Let's go out and see, this world is very big, this world is also very small, only when you go out and see it with your own eyes, will you understand some truths that cannot be learned in books."

At the dock in Shanghai, Wang Kefan personally sent his eldest son to the ship, accompanied by the sons and nephews of Wang Sheng, Zhou Guodong, Tan Xiao, Jin Shenghuan, Li Dingguo and others: "A new era is coming, we still have a lot to do, I believe that you young people will do better than us in the future." ”

The next 100 years were the peak of the Age of Discovery.

The next few hundred years were the peak of the Industrial Revolution.

In another time and space, Russia produced a Peter the Great at this time, developing an old serf country into one of the emerging powers, and at the same time, Kangxi, the "Emperor of the Ages", was still immersed in the dream of a great power in the Celestial Empire, relying on the promotion of miscellaneous grains to create the so-called prosperous Kangqian era, but step by step became the object of backwardness and beating, all of which were reversed by Wang Kefan in this time and space.

The ship left the port and gradually moved away, Wang Kefan stood on the shore for a long time, watching the waves repeatedly crash against the reef on the shore, his eyes were deep.

(End of book)