The 11th year of Chengtian was a peaceful year, and wars all over the world were coming to an end.

Emperor Chen of China signed his name at the Treaty of Madrid and the Peace of Paris between China and the Netherlands, which had previously been signed by the King of Spain and the Dutch rulers, thus ending the war between China and the two Western countries.

The French had already announced the resumption of diplomatic relations between China and France at the ambassadorial level, and François-Philippe Perrier had officially become France's ambassador to China, but Paris still insisted on punishing Pierre, who had previously turned his back on France, for treason.

By the second half of the year, the North American War was completely over, and the American Republic was formed, which was recognized by the Western world.

The British signed armistice agreements with France, Spain, and the United States, and the Fourth War between Britain and the Netherlands ended. While the Dutch enjoyed victory in the war against Britain in France, the United States and Spain, they suffered the worst defeat in a century.

The British withdrew from New York, but they managed to retain their roots in India.

Because of the armistice between Britain and France, the British on the Indian continent, who were desperately trapped, won a chance to breathe. The British, who were no longer under pressure on the sea, did not seem to have much problem dealing with Tiepu's Mysore army alone.

All of this does not seem to have changed much from the results in the history of the original space-time, but the financial burden of countries such as Britain and France will definitely be heavier than the pressure on the plane of the original space-time.

The naval fleet that the British had ordered from China had already been engaged in naval battles in the Indian Ocean, which had never happened in previous history.

The Spaniards re-established themselves in the West Indies and consolidated their rule in Havana, but the crushing defeat in the war against China cost them not only a large amount of land, but also a large sum of money.

Although this also allowed a large number of Spanish prisoners of war to return to the Iberian Peninsula one after another in the next two or three years.

In any case, the whole outcome of the war, which did not seem to have changed much, was a deeper attrition on Europe itself.

In that year Russia formed its own Black Sea Fleet, and the Montego Fee brothers of France made a large hot air balloon with a diameter of about 30 meters out of linen and paper, which rose to 1,800 meters in the sky and flew in the air for 2,300 meters. The brothers then flew for 25 minutes in a hot air balloon of their own making, the first hot air balloon trip in Europe.

The large eruption of Mount Asama volcano in Japan cooled and solidified the lava flow to form a zone of 6.8 square kilometers with a maximum width of 2 kilometers and a length of 5.5 kilometers.

Then it was Madame de Sepierre of France who took to the skies in a hot air balloon and became the first woman in the world to take to the skies.

The great utility of hot air balloons during the Sino-Spanish War made this novelty popular with Europeans, especially the French. Not only the French people, but also the French military showed a high level of interest in this.

It was also the year that the Americans, who had just won their independence, hurriedly began their journey to the East. They did not travel overland to the west coast of North America, nor did they sail to the northern part of the Gulf of Mexico, which already belonged to China, but sailed directly to China itself.

The 360-ton ocean-going sailing ship "Chinese Emperor", jointly equipped by Philadelphia businessmen Robert Morris and Daniel Pike and the New York company, was led by Captain Green, carrying more than 40 tons of American ginseng and more than 3,000 bison skins, leaving New York Harbor and sailing to China via the Cape of Good Hope.

Americans at this time were not as ignorant as they were historically.

In the original space-time plane, historical Americans believed that Britain had a queen, so it was likely that China at this time was also ruled by a queen. So in order to curry favor with this "Queen of China", the ship was named "Emperor of China".

And now, Americans know not only that the ruler of China is a man, but also that this ruler is a great monarch in the style of the Sun King. The Chinese soldiers under him were invincible.

Half a year later, the "Emperor of China", which had sailed tens of thousands of miles on the sea, arrived in Jinghai. Excited Americans fired cannons to salute the city. A month later, the "Emperor of China" arrived at the final destination of their trip, Guangzhou.

According to the report of the Guangzhou customs officials, these Americans are quite knowledgeable about abiding by the law, and most of the American seafarers are also well-behaved, so the Guangzhou customs has a good impression of the Americans. The cost of the trip was about $140,000, and the net profit of the trip was only $47,700. Although the profit is not large, the significance is very significant.

It has also added a new country to China's foreign trade record.

But none of this is important, including the many achievements of economic development in China and the new development of overseas immigration, which are not the most important.

In Chen Ming's eyes, the most important thing in the eleven years of Chengtian is the emergence of a new invention.

In July, the Zhongshan Academy of Natural Sciences successfully piloted the world's first steam engine ship "Feilong" in the Yangtze River.

It was a paddle steamer, 55 feet long, 12 feet, 11 miles per hour, and a total of 25 miles.

Although this ship is still an experimental ship that cannot be put into actual operation, and the kinetic energy of the steam engine is still not strong enough, no one knows better than Chen Ming what the significance of this steam ship is.

Chen Ming doesn't know whether the Frenchman Lova Taiba is dead or alive, the first steamship in history was made by Lova Taiba in 1783 in the Western calendar, but in 1783 in the Western calendar, Lova Taiba can't see a single hair.

On the contrary, it was the Zhongshan Academy of Natural Sciences that grabbed the first prize.

Chen Ming also didn't know which of the performance of the Flying Dragon and the steamship built by Lova Taiba in history was higher or lower, anyway, at this time, Lova Taiba had no possibility of leaving a name in history. Historically, Fulton was more likely to be the first to use steamships for transportation.

But that's how history can be joked. Fulton is remembered by many as the inventor of the steamship, just as Watt was the inventor of the steam engine, rather than a more accurate definition – Fulton built the first steamship powered by a steam engine!

It's a pity that when this flying dragon was on trial, Chen Ming didn't see it with his own eyes. Because as early as May, Chen Ming traveled to Beijing with great fanfare.

When he arrived in Beijing, it was June, Chen Ming didn't go to the Forbidden City at all, and went directly to the Old Summer Palace, because he was a little tired from the hard work on the road, so he went to the Old Summer Palace to rest first, so that the imperial doctor could diagnose one or two and recuperate.

The Old Summer Palace is cool and pleasant, and it is a great place to recuperate.

Your Majesty wants to have a good rest, it's too hard to go on the northern tour, isn't it?

The emperor opened his mouth like this, so naturally there was nothing to come over and block him again. In the Old Summer Palace, he still sees people every day, no different from usual. However, after this trip to the north, others are indeed a little tired.

When the emperor received officials and squires whenever he met with them, he had to be neatly dressed and hated, and he was so hot that he couldn't wait to be born with prickly heat.

However, all the way from Nanjing to Beijing, Chen Ming really received a lot of good things, just like the chocolate advertisements in later generations, every bite of chocolate is a surprise, and this place is also like this.

Yangzhou donated several fragments of "Taiping Yulan", Huai'an donated several fragments of Yuangui in the book, Shandong donated a complete set of bronze bells, and Beizhili made a few bronze swords with extraordinary specifications.

Anyway, it's all comparable.

Outside the Yuanmingyuan Diligent and Virtuous Palace, the officials of Beizhili were waiting to be summoned with sweat on their heads, and no one knew if these people were thinking about complaining in their hearts. On a hot day, it is uncomfortable to travel hundreds of miles to meet you.

This emperor is different from the Emperor Taishang, I know that you are in good health, but the body of the people below is really not as strong as the emperor.

When the Emperor Taishang came to Beijing, he didn't let people disturb him every time, and if it wasn't for the underground officials who asked him to see him again and again, he couldn't enter the gate of the Old Summer Palace, and even if the Emperor Taishang received people with grace, he would choose to send another ride at the end of September and early October, that is, when the Emperor Taishang was going south. At that time, the weather was already a little cold, and it was comfortable to wear thick clothes, which was more than the dog days now, and the heat was fatal.

There are no icebergs in the waiting room, it would be nice to have a fan, and of course, mung bean soup to relieve the heat is a must. This is much stronger than the pseudo-Qing period. Some old people who came over in the anti-counterfeiting and Qing officialdom have confirmed this.

At that time, not to mention that there was mung bean soup to drink when I met the emperor, even when I met the central minister, there was not necessarily a cup of tea. I'm afraid that I will be indecent when I hold my pee, and I will be disrespectful to my boss.

After Chen Ming finished approving the book in his hand, it was handed over by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It was a request from the French to send a group of students to China to study military affairs.

A list of personnel is attached below.

Gao Yanming reached this agreement with the French when he was in Europe.

The total number was about twenty men, with infantry, cavalry, artillery, and logistics, and there were no sailors, and even the cavalry was only a few of two people.

Henri René Abel

Guy de Maupassant

Rançois Ponge

Giuseppe Maria Palavicini

Napoleon Bwanaba

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A series of names, none of which made Chen Ming have the slightest impression. Except for the three words 'Napoleon'. It's a pity that the suffix is not 'Bonaparte', but the unfamiliar 'Buwanaba'.

Chen Ming waved his pen and sent it to the cabinet for processing, stood up and walked around the room. The hall is shady, and the sun outside the hall shines on the front steps of the hall and is white, making people seem to be able to see the rolling heat wave.

He took a sip of the sour plum soup, the mellow taste, quenching his thirst.

Chen Ming likes to drink these things in the summer, such as chilled sour plum soup, fruit juice, chilled yogurt, shaved ice, and ice porridge.

He also relied on his good health, how to come refreshed.

Li Xiaomei used to drink a lot of tea in the summer, and she always had Biluochun, Longjing, Maojian, Yunwu, etc. around her. But after eating and drinking with the emperor for a long time, his good habits have been crooked. The iced sour plum soup is very refreshing when I drink it now.

It's just that Li Xiaomei's body can't be compared with Chen Ming, the former can eat and drink openly, but the latter has to be leisurely, otherwise it will be indecent if she brightens her stomach.

On this northern tour, Chen Ming has erased the official hats of forty or fifty people, some of whom are big and some are small, the big ones can go to the province to participate in politics and discussions, and the small ones may not be in the county.

Although Chen Ming is not a pure political animal, but what he saw along the way, he hugged the queen and the concubine with warmth, and began to complain about local officials as he spoke.

It's either spraying people's corpses and vegetarian meals, or scolding people for being stupid and incompetent. Anyway, there are few officials who satisfy him.

Some of the forty or fifty officials who had been stripped of their official hats were sent home and told to go to the official headquarters to defend themselves or go home to wait for the examination of the Supervision Yuan and the internal affairs department, while the other part was directly taken into custody.

The renovation project in the south of Tianjin was the focus of Chen Ming's northern tour, but the accounts were found to be unclear, and the Tianjin prefect, who should have been rewarded, was sent to prison, and Xiao Lou himself was also fished.

Of course, it may also be that Chen Ming is a little nitpicky.

But in any case, in the past month or two, the strings of the entire Chen Han officialdom have all been tightened.

In the next time, Chen Ming will go to places further north, the Northeast, the Outer Northeast, and North Korea are not the focus, and even he will not go to North Korea and the Outer Northeast.

Chen Ming's center of gravity is Mongolia in the north.

Chen Han has been established for eleven years, and it is time for a showdown.

The future of the Mongols lies in the west, where the Kazakh steppes and the Ural River basin will have their pastures. And for other places, then all the land has to be drawn in the county.

Chen Ming won't learn from the rabbits of his previous life, what kind of flag and that flag he plays on the prairie, and all the place names will be sinicized. Those things left over from the puppet Qing era will be forever annihilated in the long river of history with the puppet Qing Dynasty.

On this northern tour, Chen Ming also deliberately brought Zhang Jia III. And when he left Beijing, he had already ventilated Zhang Jia III, and on the way north, Zhang Jia III kept sending letters to Mongolia, and kept receiving replies from Mongolia, and Chen Ming never asked.

Because he believes that the general trend of the world is mighty; Those who go along with it prosper, and those who go against it die.

Chen Han, who he single-handedly established, already has enough strength to eradicate all dissenting opinions, and North America, thousands of miles away, will bow down, and what is the calculation of Mongolia that is close at hand?

There will be no Mongol princes in Chen Han, and there will be no foreign autonomous regions, and no one can stop the overall sinicization.

If there is no accident next year, Chen Ming will attack Annan, he doesn't want Annan to take it, and there is still a wave of feudal princes in Mongolia who maintain a certain degree of independence and autonomy.

Chen Ming stayed in the Old Summer Palace until August, and in early August, he drove north to Shenyang, and in September he entered Mongolia. Now one by one the Mongolian princes have gathered in Xilinhot.

At noon that day, the saint drove to Shanhaiguan, Chen Ming was walking around the wall, and Liu Wu suddenly came with a secret report. "Your Majesty, the Military Intelligence Bureau is urgent."

What exactly is the news on the secret report, not even many people around him know. But in the next few days, Zhang Dayong always heard Chen Ming muttering the word Annan......