"The most emerging countries in the world at this time are the Netherlands, the United Provinces, the Republic and Sweden, and England and France. But they were all nowhere near as young as the Han Empire, a much younger emerging empire in the East. With the weakening and demise of Spain in Europe and the Holy Roman Empire and the Ming Empire in the East, the Han Empire, an emerging state, rose to become the most powerful power of today. ”

In Beijing, John Tang, an official of the Qin Heavenly Prison, wrote this passage in his diary.

John Tong, who is in his fifties, is a Catholic priest, born in the Holy Roman Empire, who has been in China for more than 20 years and in Beijing for more than 10 years. Not only was he a missionary priest, but he also joined the Ming Dynasty's Qin Tianjian to translate almanacs, promote astronomy, and make instruments. He also cast artillery for the Ming Dynasty and actively sought the legal status of Catholicism in the Ming Dynasty.

The Han Dynasty was Ming, and Liu Jun was called the emperor.

The new emperor was more tolerant of foreigners, and there were thousands of people from all over the world in the army of the Han Empire. The young emperor was also very tolerant of Catholicism, and even more tolerant of not only Catholicism, but also all other religions. However, this tolerance is accompanied by strict administrative restrictions, and Dahan has a special religious administration bureau, which manages the religious affairs of the whole country, and even has restrictions on the dissemination of the teachings of various religions.

However, this situation, John Tang prefers it.

Although he has been in China for more than 20 years and in Beijing for more than 10 years, he is still keenly aware of the openness and tolerance of the new dynasty. There is less of a lot of rigid and rotten taste, and everywhere is thriving and full of vitality.

After the establishment of the new dynasty, John Tang was retained, and even was personally summoned by the emperor, after interviewing the young emperor, John Tang was very shocked, this emperor was not just a military general in his original impression. First of all, he was young, too young. Only in his twenties, it is hard to believe that he actually started from scratch and single-handedly seized the world, replacing the huge Ming Empire and establishing the Han Empire.

What amazed him even more was the young emperor's profound knowledge. He has a wide range of knowledge, astronomy and geography. Even for Europe, for the Holy Roman Empire, for the Habsburgs, etc., for the great wars in Europe today, they are well aware.

When talking to the emperor, the emperor always has a smile on his face, which makes people feel like a spring breeze. I can't feel the emperor's kind of high shelf, and the emperor is also generous. After the meeting. In particular, 100,000 silver dollars were given to John Tang to be used for the revision of the Longhan Emperor's calendar.

He also allocated a sum of money for him to build several Catholic churches in Beijing for the use of European religious soldiers in the Ming Dynasty.

Compared with the war-torn Europe, cold and famine, the current Han Empire is undoubtedly a paradise place. John Tong received a lot of news from the church after Liu Jiye signed peace treaties with Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal, Britain and other countries. Nowadays, many Europeans come to Nanyang and Daming on merchant ships every year.

Now Europe is telling the story of the richness and tranquility of the Eastern Empire. Countless poor people in Europe began to seek to come to the East. Their first choice is no longer to go to the New World, no longer to the Americas, but to come to the East Indies, to the Ming Dynasty in the East.

Especially those mercenaries, when they heard about some of the good lives of the Eastern Empire in the Han Empire. I couldn't bear it anymore, so I sold my family business one after another, bought a ticket to the East with my wife and children, and traveled thousands of miles to the paradise of the East.

Even in the Catholic Church, he came to the Han Empire in the East to preach. have become a sought-after beauty grab.

John Tang went on to write in his diary, "According to official statistics, the number of people in the Han Empire may have exceeded 200 million. God, what a huge number, 20,000 people. It is estimated to be more than the total population of the entire European countries. As far as I know, after the Black Death, which took away nearly half of Europe's population in the fourteenth century, the population of Europe today is only 70 or 80 million, less than 100 million. Before the Great War, the population of the Holy Roman Empire was just over 20 million. Once the largest empire in Europe, the population was only one-tenth that of the Han Empire. ”

"And it is believed that within ten years, the territory of the Han Empire will expand a lot. The emperor of the Han Empire had just taken a personal expedition and defeated more than 100,000 troops of the Qing Dynasty, a barbarian kingdom in the northeast. The Qing Kingdom is a powerful kingdom that has risen in this century, and once almost destroyed the Han Empire, in fact, many people once believed that the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the barbarian kingdom outside the Guan, is likely to invade Guanzhong, destroy the Ming Empire, and become the new master of the East, as happened in this eastern land, in history, the Han dynasty in the Central Plains has been invaded by barbarians from outside the Guanxi many times, the more famous ones are the Khitans, Jurchens, Mongols, and now the Manchu Qing, They are also the descendants of the Jurchens who founded the Jin Dynasty in history. ”

"However, this emerging barbarian kingdom outside the border encountered Liu Jun, the founder of the Han Empire, when it rose. Liu Jun was once a general of the Ming Empire, the righteous son of the emperor of the Ming Empire, and when he was in the Ming Empire, he defeated the Manchu Qing many times, and even killed the previous emperor of the Manchu Qing on the battlefield and besieged their national capital. ”

John Tang paused and continued, "After this great defeat, I can firmly believe that the Manchu Qing will never recover, let alone rise. They had the opportunity to attack the Guannai and win the Central Plains like their ancestors. Now, however, it was impossible for their revival to continue, even though the Han Empire had just re-concluded a peace treaty with the Qing Dynasty that had redrawn its borders. But I know the emperor of the Han Empire, and I know that this matter is not over, and the current peace treaty is just a temporary truce. When the Han Empire cleared out its southern regions, it must be the time for the Han Empire's army to really counterattack the Manchus. ”

In fact, the current territory of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was part of the former Ming Empire. And Liu Jun, the emperor of the Han Empire, publicly declared that the Han Empire was inherited from the Ming Empire, so the territory of the Ming Empire was the property of the Han Empire. Even if the Ming Empire briefly possessed the northern steppe regions that it had to give up, the emperor had declared that the Mongolian steppes in the north, as well as the Mongol tribes in the steppes, were the territory of the empire and belonged to the subjects of the empire. ”

"The emperor has dispatched the former Manchu emperor's eldest son, the later auxiliary king, the current Han general, who has surrendered to the empire, with one of his Jurchen legions, to attack the Mongol Chahar tribe outside the Guan."

"Perhaps within twenty years, the young emperor of the Han Empire will conquer the entire Manchu Qing in the northeast, and even the entire Mongolian steppe, and officially include them in the territory of the Han Empire."

Luoyang.

In Luoyang, Li Zicheng's name is known to everyone, and he even has the ability to stop crying.

In the streets and alleys, there are various legends of the army and the king, and there are even many poor and hungry people who look forward to the army entering the city as soon as possible.

But for the gentlemen and merchants in the city, they were the last thing they wanted to hear Li Chuang's name, and that name alone would make them feel frightened and worried.

Lu Weiqi once served as the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, and later after returning to his hometown, he was briefly appointed as the governor of the Central Plains. However, as soon as he became the governor, the thieves besieged Luoyang, and the court dismissed him from the post of governor and appointed others.

Since then, although he is no longer the governor, in Luoyang City, Lu Weiqi is still the most famous and highest-ranking among the gentry.

In the past few years since he returned to Luoyang from Nanjing, he has mostly lectured at the Yiluo Academy he founded. However, whenever there was any important matter in the local area, the gentry would go to him for advice or ask him to preside over it.

During the period when the thieves besieged Luoyang, he, an official of Zhishi, had actually been the presiding officer of Luoyang's defense.

Since the thieves withdrew from Luoyang City, Lu Weiqi also resumed his old life, giving lectures at the academy every day.

On this day, he chatted with his protégés and disciples in the academy, many of whom had made a name for themselves, some had already become officials, some had been dismissed from office, and some had taken the initiative to resign and return to their hometowns. Everyone talked about Cheng Zhu Lixue, about thieves, and about the New Han Dynasty.

Everyone was overwhelmed with emotion.

One of the disciples said, "Compared with the thieves running around, Liu Jiye took the opportunity to steal the country and seek to usurp the throne is more despicable." The teacher respects the country, can you think of a way to save the world? As a scholar of the national dynasty, do we want to sit and watch Liu Jiye be arrogant? ”

Lu Weiqi sighed, "Today's situation in Luoyang is critical, and the overall situation in the world is the same. Liu Jiye is strong and strong, and he is not the most terrifying. Although he is strong in soldiers and horses, there are always loyal subjects among the hundreds of millions of people in the world. What is terrible is that Liu Jiye has good military discipline, and after taking control of the government, he implemented all kinds of new policies, although it is a robbery for us officials and gentry, but for ordinary people and ordinary people, it is a great good government. ”

Liu Jiye implemented a new policy, reduced rent and interest, cleaned up the tuntian, raised the salaries of officials, increased the salaries of soldiers, and created public opinion through newspapers. Although the old man was loyal to the Ming Dynasty, he was just at home, and finally worked together with Luoyang to repel the thieves, but in the face of Liu Jiye, although he was worried, he was helpless and helpless. ”

"Teacher, I heard that the prince of Qianguo in Yunnan has the heart to raise troops and Qin Wang, and the governor of Jiangbei, Shi Kefa, is also loyal to the Ming Dynasty, there are countless loyal people like this in all parts of the world, and there are countless of them, why don't we contact the king of the Quartet and restore the king's business?"

The old family members of the Lu family hurriedly came in and bowed to Lu Qiqi, "My lord, Lord Dao Wang, Lord Feng, the prefect, and many other local gentry have come to meet and see you outside." ”

When Lu Weiqi heard that so many people had come to visit, he hurriedly ordered, "Please." Then he got up and straightened his clothes. While saying to his disciples, "Your Excellency has come here, there must be something important, please wait here, I will have something to discuss with you later." With that, he went out to greet the guests.

The guests who came were headed by Wang Yinchang, the Henan Branch Inspector, followed by several civil and military officials and famous local eunuchs.

Lu Weiqi asked the servant to serve tea.

"Duke Lu, I took the liberty to come here, because I have a big and important matter, and I want to discuss with Duke Lu." (To be continued.) )

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