That's the end of this book.

I would like to thank my fellow book friends, especially Xfairy, for their encouragement.

To be honest, I wrote it because it was fun, and I had some interesting ideas that I wanted to express. Later, I wrote all the way and looked up the information, and the more I felt that I wanted to say more and more.

It's a pity that I can't say a lot. I thought that the Ming Dynasty was far away from us, but I suddenly found that it was actually too close to us.

If I take a break for a while, I decide to continue writing and open another book. I have thought about the title of the book: "The Revival of the Long River in the Year of the Monkey and the Horse Moon", but I don't know if I will still have that enthusiasm by then.

If you keep writing, you won't be so tired of writing again. If you can bypass many topics, you can avoid them, but if you can't avoid them, you rush up and stab them, and then immediately turn around and run. The main thing is storytelling, in other words, nonsense.

Spoiler the idea, in case "The Year of the Monkey: The Revival of the Long River" doesn't come out, these ideas are unknown to anyone.

"The Revival of the Long River in the Year of the Monkey" will unfold the imagination mode, but it will be deduced in a complex logic.

First of all, the protagonist becomes an international peacekeeping force by virtue of his military superiority, forcing the two countries to abide by the armistice agreement. And then history changed forever.

The main manifestations of the protagonist's military superiority:

1. Potassium hypochlorite produced by electrolytic salts becomes a cheap, stable and stable explosive after confluence with castor oil.

Yes, that's right, it's castor oil.

If you look up the English information on the Internet, you will know that this recipe is easy to implement.

The recipe of electrolytic salt and castor oil was adopted on a large scale by both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in the latter part of World War II and the Cold War, but both sides tacitly agreed not to promote it. Rather, public opinion is guided by castor oil, which is a special lubricant used in aircraft.

Do you have that many planes? It takes so many castor beans.

2. With stable explosives, the protagonist develops a stable one-pound bomb and a five-pound bomb.

The five-pound bomb protagonist was fired with primitive cannons and stone throwers. Or used as mines, mines.

In addition to using the hand, a pound of bombs can also be fired with a cicada or grenadier canister.

At this point, the protagonist in military equipment has become invincible in the world.

3. In order to enjoy and reduce casualties, the protagonist's sailors are equipped with "armored rafts" and the rapid reaction force is equipped with "armored carriages", both equipped with invincible bomb launching equipment.

4. Because of the "armored raft", along the Yellow River, the Huai River all the way to the mouth of the Yangtze River, it is within the reach of the protagonist's sphere.

5. Because of the "armored carriage" plus the Mongolian cavalry, the Eight Banners no longer had an advantage in the field.

Then the protagonist began to gradually relieve all kinds of internal and external troubles at that time: the Jurchens in the northeast, the civil unrest in the northwest, the Li people in the southwest, the remnants of Dongjiang Town, the Netherlands on the southeast coast, and the settlement of the Northern Yuan, Wara, and Huihui.

Of course, the Ming Dynasty was the main one. I think that the Ming Dynasty at that time had accumulated a lot of institutional difficulties, so I chose the marginal areas of iron, gold, and Jiuyuan to attack it. It is to understand the time and the present from the perspective of a bystander.

I have a few thoughts:

1. The conflict between the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty's Three Principles and Five Constants and the law of the grassland jungle.

Why did the military generals of the Ming Kingdom live like dogs in the south and be as fierce as wolves in the north?

The rebellion and non-cooperation of the literati ministers against the emperor at the end of the Ming Dynasty can actually be seen as a challenge to the Three Platforms and Five Constants. For example, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Gu Yanwu and his faction were the people who valued the monarch and neglected the ideology.

The division between good and bad people in the late Ming Dynasty in the traditional text is actually from the position of the Ming emperor, what if you look at it from another angle?

If you were Qian Qianyi, would you go to martyrdom for Chongzhen?

At that time, Manchu and Mongolia had actually produced the practice of a hypocrisy republic.

2. The idea of great unification and self-government.

3. The rule of the people and the quality of the people, different modes of governance. For example, I imagine that the parliamentary representatives of the Iron or the Golden Kingdom are chosen by lot. The leadership of the Nine Plains Kingdom was born out of party struggle. and traditional Chinese methods of civil self-government, such as village covenants, ancestral halls, favors, faces, and beliefs.

4. Religion. I want to complain about reincarnation and tantra. I would like to complain about the exclusivity of the religions of God, Tibetan Buddha, Mani, and Tianfang at that time, especially the treatment of apostasy. This involves the history of the Heavenly Sect, the Great Landmine.

5. The war death and humanitarianism of the time. For example, everyone kills civilians and eats people. What criteria are used to judge?

6. Taxes and protection fees, service fees. The high taxes of the Ming Dynasty in the Central Plains and the low taxes of the Yuan Dynasty in the grasslands are irrefutable in history, and the two produce irreconcilable conceptual conflicts. How is the federal tax collected? What is the origin of tax collection? Is there a difference between protection money and gangsters? Is there a difference between business taxes, customs duties, and robbers' road money? Collect by head? Or is it harvested by acres? Can the people refuse high taxes, high welfare and rapid development?

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In terms of plot, Manchukuo was intercepted and killed by Chahar on the way back (this is a historical fact), and then split due to the conflict between dictatorship and republic. One is called Manchukuo, and the other is called the Great Qing Dynasty. One of these countries continued to advance northward, working with the Far East expeditions of the Rus' and receiving arms support from the Federation.

After Lin Dan returned, he was brainwashed by Buddhism and led his people to India to find their roots. There was a Mughal kingdom, which means "Mongolia" in Turkic, so the Chahar of Lindan Khan developed a Buddhist "silver kingdom" there.

With trade with the Federation, Warat made it all the way to the Black Sea.

Shandong's Kong Youde rebel army went to Jeju Island and Lushun as a local warlord and powerful faction, mediated between the north and the south, actively demanded salaries, did not actively resist the war, and only cared about developing themselves, which was called the 18th Route Army. Its slogan was: "Our iron-blooded 18th Route Army: no - eat - eat!" ”。 In the end, it may be that they usurped the Ming Dynasty.

Civil unrest in the northwest continues to escalate. Chongzhen produced the strategy of "borrowing Kou to level thieves", and used river robbers to suppress thieves. This was the honeymoon period between the Ming Dynasty and the Federation, and the Federation transferred refugees to the Iron Country on a large scale, and Chen Qiyu quickly pacified Shaanxi with the help of the Federation. Later, due to differences in humane concepts, the Federation and the Ming Dynasty collapsed. The remaining bandits Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong took the opportunity to run into Henan and Hubei, away from the Yellow River.

The Ming Dynasty retreated south of the Yangtze River, producing change and turmoil under the pressure of the evil capitalists.

The Li ethnic group in southwest China seized the opportunity to establish the "Dali State" and actively asked to join the federation to seek asylum. Dali extended its scope to Myanmar and Annam, and had its own seaport.

Of course, I didn't think about the final ending, I was thinking while writing, and the principles and characters of Tianxian in the book would push the plot by themselves. The general principle is that the protagonist is militarily strong, but not iron-blooded and not warlike. Because the people are not interested in territorial expansion, the people and the army do not want to fight, and he can't help it. The ever-expanding Confederation is a historical coincidence.

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In terms of culture and technology, the protagonist uses ice to make a large astronomical telescope in the cold winter of Jiuyuan, attracting Wang Hui and other Catholic disciples and folk astronomers of the Five Elements Theory to debate in Jiuyuan.

Then Confucianism intervened, various religious ideas intervened, and the grassland school intervened to stimulate all kinds of brain holes.

For example, one faction said that the Xia Dynasty was Donghu, the other faction said that the Shang Dynasty was Xirong, and there was also a faction that advocated that the Zhou Dynasty was a Jew from the west, and the orthodox ideology of the Central Plains began to fight back. The protagonist teaches logic and mathematics to the literati of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty people begin to study things; The people of the Ming Dynasty enlightened the morality and sense of responsibility of the protagonist, and looked back at how many good things we lost.

The protagonist uses electrolysis to train pure copper and pure iron, and the electric furnace method allows the protagonist to practice a small amount of tool steel, special steel, stainless steel, constantan, and optical glass.

The protagonist uses primitive methods to figure out diodes, transistors, headphones, and radio communications.

Other industries are not ready to go big.

The woodworking machinery was restored to the height of the Song and Yuan dynasties.

A large number of lost literati of the Ming Dynasty came to the Federation, including Zhang Tinggong (an economic master, who saw through the red dust, developed the smuggling industry and the female industry, took the road of the rise of the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta in later generations, and built Jiuyuan into the economic and cultural center of the north), Xiong Mingyu (the Ming Dynasty's military department Shangshu, Donglin Party, was dismissed because of Sun Yuanhua and Shen Yishi, and his works have geocentric theory, world latitude and longitude maps, frost formation mechanisms and other scientific articles, responsible for the education of the Federation), Wang Hui (Dengzhou supervised the military Taoism Catholic, was confiscated because of Sun Yuanhua, astronomer), The revival of ancient studies, such as Gu Yanwu and Huang Zongxi, brought humanist ideas and hypocritical republican ideas back to Jiangnan, causing turmoil in Jiangnan. Dahai, Sanang and others created East Asian pinyin, which spread to Korea, Japan, Ryukyu, Annam, Luzon, Malacca, Lake Baikal, Altai Mountains, and Western Regions, preserving local cultural heritage and promoting cultural exchanges.

Of course, a group of traditional literati closely rallied around Chongzhen, such as Chen Qiyu, Lu Xiangsheng, Qin Liangyu, Shi Kefa, Sun Fengqi, .......

After the Catholics Sun Yuanhua and Zhang Tao sacrificed their loyalty to the monarch, Chinese Catholics suddenly discovered that Catholicism was not allowed to worship ancestors, and the so-called God was not China's God or Haotian God, but a god called "Dousi", and "Dousi" actually had a son.

The old man Hui Ma launched a counterattack against the "Tianfang Protestantism", which was also not allowed to worship his ancestors. Drive the Blood Neck Sect out of the Central Plains.

Inspired by Tibetan Tantra, the Gou brothers became masters of sexuality, invented condoms, and won the professional female ** wear. (This is not possible in the Central Plains culture)

The wealthy man of the Ming Dynasty settled down and immigrated to the federation.

Agrarian culture conflicts with the overexploitation of the land and the protection of the environment by nomadic culture.

The conflict between the small-footed women of the Ming Kingdom and the women in charge of the grassland. and even the development of the service industry under the federal space.

Witchcraft, medicine, art, and women's industry were intertwined, combined with the environment at that time to develop a logical agriculture, animal husbandry, genetics, reproduction, breeding, microbiology (starting from winemaking), found that the grassland yellow rat was the source of the plague at that time, combined with traditional Chinese medicine, Mongolian medicine, Tibetan medicine, naïve chemistry and microbiology, mathematics began to fight against the plague and save all mankind.

There was no medical plan to invent penicillin and plague vaccines, and the precision of that process was too high. The level of medicine can be developed to the stage of Chinese patent medicine represented by "osteopathin". It is mainly to disseminate the comparative experimental ideas of modern medicine and the concept of health and epidemic prevention.

In May of 1644, the next month of the Monkey, the protagonist has the opportunity to return to the afterlife.

After writing this list, I think that "The Revival of the Long River in the Year of the Monkey" is unlikely to come out, and it is better to go swimming if you have time.

……

Big Jane

Sincerely

On October 22, 2017