"Your Majesty, Xuanzang Port Emergency Electricity!"

Generally not an important thing, it will not interrupt Zhou Quan's rest in the middle of the night, after entering the age of forty, Zhou Quan pays great attention to the way of health preservation. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info But today is different, after seeing the word urgent on the telegram, the rotating secretary of the secretary's office still woke up Zhou Quan as soon as possible.

Zhou Quan squinted his eyes and didn't get up immediately, and after lying on the bed for a while, he said, "Nian." ”

"On the 14th of July, our troops conquered the ...... of Bosalo"

The telegram was sent jointly by Wei Min, Li Erbao and Zhou Yu, and when Zhou Quan heard Zhou Yu's name from it, he knew that the situation was wrong, and under normal circumstances, Zhou Yu would never put his name alongside Wei Min.

"Plague!"

Zhou Quan Huo Ran sat up, and his drowsiness disappeared without a trace in an instant.

He is very aware of the terrible plague of this era, although Huaxia has established a set of medical epidemic prevention system with his efforts, and the Ministry of Health has been specially set up in the center to manage the world's hospitals and clinics and health epidemic prevention and population growth, but because of the limited conditions, penicillin is still under development, and a team headed by the famous doctor Liu Wansu is studying new pathological theories, if the plague really breaks out, even if it is a big food thousands of miles away, it is a serious threat to the Chinese Empire.

After all, this is no longer a closed era, and on the Western Ocean (Indian Ocean), a large number of people migrate by boat every day, and they are very likely to bring the plague of Great Eclipse to Tianzhu, and then from Tianzhu to Luzon and even mainland China.

"Call back to Wei Min, approve their order to withdraw their troops, order them to rest and quarantine in Xuanzang Port, order the East and West Tianzhu Governor's Mansion, the Lion Prefecture Governor's Mansion, and the Western Regions Governor's Mansion to make preparations for epidemic prevention, order the central reserve depot, transfer all medicinal materials and epidemic prevention materials, and prepare them at any time, and order the major ports to suspend unlicensed merchant ships going to Persia, Dashi and any port west of it......"

Zhou Quan's series of orders were issued, and at the same time, he became more and more satisfied with his eldest son Zhou Yu in his heart.

Obviously, the eldest son, in his maturity, although he does not have the same vision as he has over history, can also distinguish what is important and what is not.

With Zhou Quan's order, the entire empire suddenly took action.

This was no longer a regime like the former Song Dynasty, a country that had completed industrialization and was beginning to be electrified, and Zhou Quan's orders, turned into electricity, soon spread to all parts of the empire.

Doctors were called up, teams of people were mobilized, truckloads of supplies were gathered, and truckloads of goods were suspended......

Half a month later, the exact news came, just as Zhou Yu guessed, there was a plague in the area of Dashi and Persia!

The reason why Wan Yanliang advanced the action originally planned for autumn was that the plague had already shown signs.

This plague helped Wan Yan Liang unify the minds of the people of the Jin Kingdom - whether it was the Jurchens or other tribes, many people did not want to move west, but after the plague broke out, they couldn't leave if they wanted to. Beginning in July of the twelfth year of Huaxia Yuanxian, the Jin State officially moved westward, Wan Yanliang called it "the westward pilgrimage", he rushed to the border of his former ally Byzantium with a large army, and the Byzantium tried to intercept it, but it was only equipped with a small number of artillery and was still in the cold weapon time, how could it stop the Jin army?

Even in terms of numbers, Byzantium could not be compared with the Jin State, but in a battle, the Byzantine king "beautiful man" John II became a prisoner, and his important ministers and generals were either killed or captured, and almost no one was spared. This battle opened the borders of Byzantium, after which hundreds of thousands of Jin troops drove millions of people and livestock into Byzantium territory through six passages.

They didn't stop there, Wan Yanliang also knew the news of the loss of Bosalo, and he realized that although Byzantium was far away, it was still under the threat of China, and it was difficult to obtain a quiet environment to recuperate. And it is still very close to the Great Eclipse, Persia, and is also facing the threat of plague.

So after bombarding the Byzantine city with heavy artillery, he did not stop, and only rested here for three months, plundered enough food and wealth, and then began his expedition westward again.

This time, the target was the Balkans, the Kingdom of Hungary, the maiden home of John II's wife. The 40,000-strong allied forces of the Balkan countries with the remnants of Hungary and Byzantium fought a battle in Kosovo in April of the 13th year of the Chinese Yuanxian Dynasty against the Jin army that had come from the expedition. Under the aggressive offensive of the Jin Kingdom, they used the trick of assassins to try to assassinate the gold lord Wan Yan Liang. But because of a misunderstanding, they mistakenly hit the passenger car and assassinated Wan Yan Liang, who supported Wan Yan Liang, so that Wan Yan Agu's last surviving son also died.

In a fit of rage, Wan Yan Liang raised the butcher knife again.

As a result, the nobles of various countries who were captured by him were slaughtered. After the killing, Wan Yan Liang did not stop doing two things, and used Wu Jialiang's strategy to announce the liberation of serfs and the distribution of aristocratic land.

Pope Ingrossen II, who originally supported Yan Liang to the west, was also shocked by his boldness, and more importantly, the emancipation of serfs and the distribution of land was also a big blow to the church, so Ying Ruosen II declared Wan Yan Liang an enemy of God and called for the formation of a crusade, under his strong mediation, the German Hohenstaufen family and the Wilf family reached a reconciliation and jointly announced their participation in the crusade in the name of the Holy Roman Empire.

But at this time, the feudal lords of various European countries were not subordinate to each other, even if they were entangled into an army in the name of the Pope, they could only be regarded as a rabble, and in the face of the menacing Jin State, the more than 100,000 people who were pieced together were almost collapsed at the touch of a button.

Muskets, artillery, balloons...... For the Europa people who were addicted to the spiritual rule of the church's theocracy, the weapons of war brought by the Jin Kingdom were more terrible than the illusory divine punishment.

They also knew that such a terrible golden soldier was actually driven by the Chinese people, which made them even more awe of the far east, and called the legendary Chinese army "God Punishment Destroying the World Army".

Seeing that all European countries were about to face the rule of the Jin State, the plague brought by the Jin State and the plague in Western Europe and Southern Europe broke out at the same time to save them, and the large-scale plague caused heavy losses on both sides, especially the Jin State, because of the great food, the plague carried by the army almost collapsed, there were originally 300,000 troops, only less than 60,000 remained, and the weapons in reserve also lost a lot in the successive wars, because there was no stable rear, it was difficult to replenish, so the national strength suffered a large loss.

In this case, although Wan Yanliang had the intention of annexing the whole of Europa in one fell swoop, he still had to stop and began to recuperate in Eastern Europe and Southern Europe. He brought the Chinese way of rule to this side: centralization, the county system, and the imperial examination...... Although he was plagued by the plague and forced him to give up and continue to move forward, this series of advanced systems allowed Jin to still have an advantage in the face of the League of Nations in Western Europe.

In the Crusaders, a young man named Fredet made a name for himself in the war, and he was the first to change the way knights fought and made cannons and arquebuses through captured craftsmen from the Kingdom of Jin. He also promoted centralization in his small territory, imitated the Jin kingdom to develop industry, quickly stood out from the German states, and then defeated all his opponents and became the king of Germany and the Holy Roman Emperor.

While the plague swept through Europe and claimed more than two-thirds of the population, it also had a huge impact in the East.

Previously, Da Shi was an important trade object in China, and they sold a large number of surplus industrial products from China to Byzantium and Europa by changing hands, but now, in order to prevent the spread of the plague, all trade to Da Shi was stopped, in addition, the newly opened trade in Kunlun (Africa) was also affected, almost reduced by more than half.

This directly led to the outbreak of the first economic crisis within the Chinese Empire, and the wealthy merchants were originally optimistic about the overseas market, and desperately expanded the scale of production in order to obtain more profits.

The wealthy merchants dared to trample on everything for the sake of profit, and they did not want the workers who had lost their livelihood to turn their anger on themselves, so they secretly instigated, and the anger of the workers was directed at the imperial court. All of a sudden, riots continued in various parts of China, where the country was originally peaceful and peaceful, especially those old doctrines that had been eliminated, and took this opportunity to make a comeback.

The economic crisis also affected the financial revenues of the empire, and for the first time, the Chinese empire was unable to make ends meet. Under these circumstances, the newly appointed Prime Minister Le Thanh was initially conservative, but after three secret discussions with Zhou Quan, he came up with a stimulus package with four cores: first, to encourage immigration, to emigrate those unemployed workers; the second is deficit finance, and the imperial court increases expenditure through deficits; the third is to set up projects in China, such as railways, telegraphs, power stations, water conservancy, etc.; The fourth is to eliminate and close down old factories and mines, and take this opportunity to be subsidized by the imperial court to promote the application of electricity.

These four strategies were initially opposed, especially the deficit finance, which made Lai Thanh Bao even more attacked. However, when the riots in various places subsided, the voices of criticism decreased, and two years later, the results appeared, and the voices of praise increased.

In addition, the money that was originally intended to be used to fight a war to destroy the country was also saved, although Zhou Quan did not cut the expenditure on national defense technology research despite public opinion, but the military expenditure did not increase for several years, which made the plan of the expedition to the country temporarily frozen.

Although the plague and economic crisis stalled the momentum of the Chinese Empire's outward expansion, it was a good thing to some extent, allowing Zhou Quan to focus on solving domestic problems.

Three years later, when the plague had subsided and the Chinese Empire's revenues had improved, another piece of good news had arrived.