Chapter 235: The First Year of Xinghua

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When 1889 came, everything was so different. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The name of the Chinese Empire resounded all over the world, and the white people who originally thought that they were the center of the world and the Western world were the civilized world, found that there was a powerful yellow country in the East, and this powerful yellow country even defeated the world's top two powers, Britain and France, and forced Britain and France to sign the armistice agreement, and the entire white world trembled under the deterrence of the Chinese Empire's airship.

The Caucasians were extremely stunned, and the people who were citizens of the Chinese Empire were also stunned by what was happening around them.

The common people have lived under the rule of the Manchu Dynasty for generations, and in the face of the exploitation of all strata of the Manchu Dynasty, the common people can only accept it obediently, and they dare not resist easily, because resistance is death, that is, the destruction of the family, whether it is in the hands of the Manchu Dynasty.

Ordinary people can only grit their teeth and persevere, but for those people of insight, the Manchu Dynasty is really rotten, in the past few decades, the Manchu Qing has been defeated by the Western powers many times, reparations have been paid everywhere, and the Manchu has become a barbaric land in the eyes of the white race, and even the small island country dares to give the Manchu Qing a little, you can imagine the extent of the Manchu weakness.

A series of characters represented by Li Hongzhang continued to make all kinds of efforts in order to make the Manchu Dynasty strong, but the ridiculous thing is that the internal disputes within the Manchu Dynasty have never stopped, and other officials have been dragging their feet.

Even so, the Manchu Dynasty, which had existed for hundreds of years, was still holding strong.

However, a few years passed, and the great Manchu Qing Dynasty actually perished, and was replaced by the original Han Kingdom and the current Chinese Empire.

For ordinary people, everything in the Chinese Empire was so novel, and the most important point was that the Chinese Empire confiscated the land from the landlords of the whole country and distributed it to the landless people.

Throughout the ages, land has always been the lifeblood of the common people, and without their own land, it is like a rootless grass, with no guarantee of life, and they may starve to death at any time.

Now the common people actually own their own land, which is simply a pie in the sky good thing, the common people are more and more supportive of the government, and the government decrees at all levels are compliant.

1889 was the year of the emergence of the Chinese Empire, and although Yan Xueyi had not yet become emperor, everything was changing.

In the history of China, the names of the great unified dynasties are often the same character, Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing.

However, the change has already begun.

We all live on the land of China and belong to different nationalities, which is a national concept in a narrow sense, but in fact we all belong to the Chinese nation.

The Chinese nation is based on the inheritance of the Han culture, whether it is the Han nationality, the Mongolian nationality, the Tibetan nationality, or the Miao nationality, they are all part of the Chinese nation, and in the future we will no longer have the Han nationality, the Mongolian nationality, the Tibetan nationality, and the Miao nationality, we all belong to one nation, that is, the Chinese nation.

When Yan Xueyi was determining the name of the new country, a minister said: "We were originally the Great Han Kingdom, and now we should be promoted to the Great Han Empire." โ€

Yan Xueyi rejected this proposal, the Han Empire and the Han Dynasty in history have the same name, and there are no two dynasties in Chinese history whose names will be the same, and finally Yan Xueyi decided to take the nation as the name of the country - the Chinese Empire, China represents a country and a nation.

The country name is the Chinese Empire, and the year name is Xinghua, reviving China, and 1889 is the first year of Xinghua.

When it came to choosing the imperial calendar, there was no small amount of controversy, with some ministers choosing the traditional lunar calendar and others choosing the Western calendar.

The lunar calendar is a tradition of the Chinese Empire, and all kinds of festivals are based on the lunar calendar time, but the lunar calendar is more complicated, such as the rules of leap months, etc., and the length of the lunar calendar year changes a lot.

The lunar calendar is a problem, following tradition, the lunar calendar cannot be abandoned, and there are many people who have opinions on the use of the Western calendar, so the calendar of the Chinese Empire will be different.

The time of the year is 365 days plus a quarter of a day, and the Chinese imperial calendar divides these 365 days into twelve months, with the first month being the standard thirty days, and the last December counting all the remaining days, so that December has thirty-five or thirty-six days.

There is no Western week rule in the calendar of the Chinese Empire, but instead of the traditional Chinese rules of the month, the month is divided into the first, middle, and second months, each decade is the standard ten days, and the last five or six days of December are taken out separately, called the end of the year, which means the end of the year, this is the solar calendar, as for the lunar calendar, it becomes the lunar calendar, and the solar calendar is fused together, and the solar calendar and the lunar calendar together form a unique calendar of the Chinese Empire, collectively known as the imperial calendar.

The year 1889 of the Western calendar is the first year of the prosperity of the Chinese Empire, and it is also the first year of the imperial calendar.

The Spring Festival of the first year of Xinghua is coming, the Chinese people are less exploited from all strata of the Manchu Dynasty, and the landless people have been allocated land, and this year's Spring Festival will be a festival for the whole country to celebrate.

This is just the beginning, today's Chinese Empire is in ruins, the people have just obtained the land, there is not much money in their hands, some people even need the help of the government to barely fill their stomachs, such a Spring Festival, although the people seem happy, but not comfortable, if so the people can everyone wear new clothes, every family has big fish and meat on the table, that is the real comfort.

However, the people who already own their own land are already full of infinite yearning for the future life in their hearts.

With your own land, at least your future life is guaranteed, and even at the end of the year, you will have a lot of money in your hands.

The first year of Xinghua is the real beginning, and the people spend this lively but somewhat imperfect Spring Festival with smiles to welcome the arrival of the new year.

The first year of Xinghua was the year of the formal development of the Chinese Empire, and the "Five-Year Development Plan of the Chinese Empire" will also be officially implemented.

The common people who own their own land will have a rapid increase in income, and when the people have money in their hands, they can buy the goods produced in the factories, and when the factory owners make money, they will continue to invest in the factories and even build new factories, and the industry of the Chinese Empire is developing rapidly.

The transaction between the two also led to the development of commerce, where there is commerce, there is taxation, and the government of the Chinese Empire will also receive a large amount of financial revenue, and the whole country is on the right track, a behemoth, constantly moving forward!