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This is a large, wide and thick hand, with thick fingers and protruding knuckles, and it can be seen that there is also a strong strength in it, and the owner of this hand is still strong despite his old age.

The edge of the cover of the book in the hand has been worn a little, obviously it is often looked at, and there are many notes on the pages of the book, which are the experience of the reader. This book is a philosophical book, and the title of the book is printed on the cover - "The Theory of Great Harmony".

"Your Majesty......"

Hearing the voice, the hand holding the book did not move, and the owner of the hand only answered in a low voice.

"What's the matter?"

"Telegraph from Mexico City, Caesar Mathilde I died of a stroke."

"Marty is dead...... Go and ask the Empress to come over. ”

"The slave knows."

A maid in a skirt retreated in response and hurriedly left the hot spring palace to nourish the heart.

Zhu Jishi quietly closed the book, revealing a deep sadness on his already old face.

This is not the first woman to leave him. The first to leave was the Lady Queen, who died more than thirty years ago. Then there was the first woman Zhu Jishi to reach this world, Madame Duran, and when she left, Zhu Jishi was very sad and depressed for a week. After Mrs. Turan, Empress Luo Xiangmei also suffered from a heart attack, and if it was left decades later, she might have been able to prolong her life with bypass surgery, but in 1894 there was nothing she could do. The Empress Taishang still failed to become the Queen Mother and left this world......

According to Luo Xiangmei's suicide note, Zhu Jishi canonized Maria 3 months after her death. Clementina is the empress. made the woman who had followed her for half a century an official wife. Of course, Maria. Clementina became the empress and did not pose any threat to Zhu Guoxiong, who had been emperor for more than 20 years. The current Ming Empire has long been a modern capitalist constitutional state with great wisdom of the people, and the inheritance of the imperial throne is based on the "Imperial Model", which is not at all coveted by Zhu Guoxiong's brothers.

Moreover, Zhu Heng, who has been the king of Beihua for more than 20 years, has not shown much political and military talent, but has become more and more like a shrewd businessman. He devoted most of his energy to the operation of the North China Petroleum Company, and spent more than 20 years to build an oil empire no less than a royal consortium, and its private assets are said to have exceeded 2oo billion Chinese dollars. is really rich and rivals the country, and his life is much more generous than that of Zhu Guoxiong, the emperor. Why bother trying to get a crown that you can't get your hands on?

Besides, the current Emperor Ming is becoming more and more difficult to be. Half a century of capitalism not only transformed China from a feudal agrarian country into an imperialist industrial country, but also dramatically changed China's social and economic structure. And this kind of change is not beneficial to every Ming citizen - at least not necessarily in their short-term interests.

Because of the cheap agricultural products from the countries of Greater China and the new territory of the Ming Dynasty (referring to the territory outside the 18 provinces of Han Dynasty). It is constantly impacting the small-scale peasant economy of the Ming and Han dynasties. Especially in the 22 years since the end of the First World War, cheap agricultural products from North America and Australia have poured in, and under the principle of trade liberalization in Greater China, the Ming court has not been able to compete with tariffs.

As a result, there were rounds of bankruptcies among the small Han peasants -- the bankrupt peasants either moved to the cities and became poor people living in terraced housing areas, or they went overseas to become citizens of the countries of Greater China. And these former Han farmers who emigrated overseas will reclaim their allocated land into fertile land in a few years, and then another wave of low-priced agricultural products will rush to the Ming Dynasty...... It's almost a vicious circle!

The arable land area (excluding grassland) of Donghua, Nanhua, Beihua, and Xihua alone is as high as more than 250,000,000,000 square kilometers, which is converted into more than 400 million mu of China, which is almost three times the total cultivated land area of the 18 provinces of Han -- the cultivated land area of the 18 provinces of Han in this time and space is not as large as that of the same period in history. It has always been around 1.2 billion acres, and a large number of slopes and terraces have been abandoned because of the high cost of cultivation.

Every immigrant can get 1oo acres of land for free in the above areas! Therefore, the family farms in Sihua are all large farms of 4 or 5oo acres connected together, and the rotation method of horse farming and agriculture and animal husbandry is commonly used for agricultural production. Low cost of doing business. The efficiency of operation is so high that the small agriculture of the Han region is simply unimaginable!

In just over 20 years, the rural areas of 18 provinces in Handi have experienced 5 waves of large-scale bankruptcies! Most of the middle peasants and poor peasant families went bankrupt in this round of bankruptcies, and even many farmers of "100-acre farms" could not withstand the impact of the cheap agricultural products produced by Sihua's "5oo-mu farms" and went bankrupt, leaving the countryside with heavy debts.

The population of rural Han has also dropped sharply from about 280 million before World War I to about 140 million! And of the more than 220 million (taking into account population growth) people who have left the countryside. About 120 million people moved to other countries and new lands, and the remaining nearly 100 million people all poured into the towns. It also made the urbanization rate of the Ming and Han Dynasty (the standard of the urban population of the Ming Empire is the population living in cities or towns with a population of more than 1ooo, and not directly engaged in agriculture, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry production) The urbanization rate of the Ming and Han dynasties exceeded 6o% in one fell swoop from about 32% before the war!

This ultra-high rate of urbanization has not only brought sufficient and cheap labor to the major cities of the Ming and Han dynasties, but also made poverty an unsolvable problem for a period of time. According to the statistics of the Ministry of the Interior of the Ming Cabinet, as of June 1899, there were nearly 180 million people living in less than 2oo large and medium-sized cities in the 18 provinces of the Ming Dynasty alone.

&nb% or more of the inhabitants...... It is a pity that they all belong to the glorious members of the proletariat! As in the early years of the United Kingdom, employment did not grow with the urban population because the rate of population influx into cities was much faster than the rate of business growth.

From about 188o onwards, there was a surplus of labor in the cities of the Ming Empire, and the consequences of the surplus were naturally the long-term stagnation of wages and the high unemployment rate - although the pockets of the Ming capitalists were increasingly abundant under the combination of cheap labor, abundant natural resources and vast overseas markets, the wages they paid to their workers were zero growth for twenty years.

In the last years of the 19th century, slums (terraced houses) became larger and larger in the large cities of the Ming and Han dynasties, such as Shanghai, Yingtian, Guangzhou, and Wuhan, where countless poor people were crowded, without the means of production or much property, and struggled to live on less than half a Chinese yuan a day.

To make matters worse, the fertile land available for distribution in the countries of Donghua, Beihua, Nanhua, and Xihua has been depleted, so that the countries have greatly reduced their efforts to attract immigrants, and although the doors are still open to every Chinese, there is no more free fertile land. Now the Ming Empire has no way to transfer the social contradictions to the outside world...... The red tide of socialism has also begun to spread in the slums of the cities of the Ming and Han dynasties!

The book "Datong Theory" in Zhu Jishi's hand is a "red book" to promote socialism, and the name of the author of this book, Zhu Jishi, has been like thunder 7o years ago.

Nanhai Kang is promising!

In this time and space, Kang Youwei is no longer the leader of the scholars who wrote on the bus, but a member of the lower house of the Ming Parliament and the new chairman of the Chinese Socialist Party!

My era is coming to an end, and the people of the new era are beginning to emerge one by one! I really don't know what will become of Greater China in the future......' Zhu Jishi put down the scroll in his hand with some emotion, closed his eyes and began to imagine what the world would become after his death.

It didn't take long for Maria. Clementina's old voice rang out along with Kusumoto Takako's voice.

"Concubine Maria see the Emperor."

"The concubine's height is the emperor."

Zhu Jishi opened his eyes and looked at Maria, who was also dying, and Takako Kusumoto, who was middle-aged.

"Sit down...... Gaozi, why are you back? S.H.I.E.L.D. is there okay with the Department of Hidden Science? ”

"Emperor Taishang, the concubine wants to accompany you more." Nanben Takako walked behind Zhu Jishi and gently massaged his shoulders, "There are not many things to do in the Department of Diving Science, just have Huang Feihong and Wang Wu watching." ”

In fact, the Hidden Science Division doesn't have much to do, and it is about the most idle yamen in the Aegis Guard. There are only two cases in these years - the Truss case and the Xu Yifan case.

The former has been found out the details and ruled out the possibility of "stowaways", and is now an academician of the Donghua Academy of Sciences, and also owns a large electrical equipment company. The latter was discovered in Suiyuan by Wang Wu, an investigator from the Department of Hidden Science, who claimed to be a lama at first, but he couldn't recite scriptures, and he didn't have any identification, and there were some very strange clothes and belongings, which was very suspicious. He is now being held in a secret detention center in the Department of Hidden Science for investigation, but after several years of investigation, there has been no progress except for knowing that this person's name is Xu Yifan - because this suspicious person claims to meet Zhu Jishi before he can confess everything......

"There is nothing in the Department of Latent Science that cannot be taken lightly, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable." After giving a word of advice, Zhu Jishi set his eyes on Maria, "Mathilde is gone, and the Dinghai Divine Needle of the Roman Empire is gone!" The current situation reminds me of the time when Napoleon III died! I already smell gunpowder. (To be continued)