Chapter 372 Ten Thousand Years of Life Domain

The news of the fall of the Mughal Empire reached Beijing, and the whole dynasty was filled with music.

The huge wealth looted from the Mughal Empire has brought the gold and silver reserves in the state treasury of the Chinese Imperial Government to more than 230 million silver dollars.

With such huge financial reserves, the Imperial Government can do everything with ease, at least without any problems in terms of financial support.

Once upon a time, the military attachés had been looked down upon by the civil and military officials of the government, but now seeing the huge wealth that the imperial military attaches had obtained overseas, this discrimination was suddenly reduced a lot.

Of course, there are still some civilian officials who still laugh at the barbarism of the military attachés, and all they get is ill-gotten gains. However, they are their lips, but in their hearts they are already jealous. They all ran to the ministry to ask for the release of their official positions to the Indian colonies, and almost kicked through the threshold of the ministry.

However, the situation in South Asia is not encouraging.

Although the Mughal Empire fell, the Chinese Empire occupied only two-thirds of the Mughal Empire, and the other third was occupied by the feudal lords of South Asia, Britain, France, and the Netherlands, as well as Persia and Afghanistan in Western Asia.

The Mughal Empire did not represent the entire Indian subcontinent, it was only a country in the north of India, with only half of the continent and large areas of wealth under the control of other feudal lords.

The Indian subcontinent was missing a Mughal Empire, but it created a situation where the princes were divided. Therefore, the vassal armies of the vassal states of the Chinese Empire and the vassal armies of the colonies did not retreat, but were assembled and trained in the areas under their actual control to prepare for the next war.

Within the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, there is a dispute over the division of the South Asian subcontinent. Britain and France were members of the Central Powers, and at this time in the Indian Subcontinental War, the East India Company was still very weak and could only rely on the Chinese Empire. The Dutch East India Company did not dare to provoke the Chinese Empire, fearing that the Chinese Empire would once again raise the idea of the Dutch East Indies, so the Dutch East India Company only claimed a port in the Bay of Bengal as a trading base.

However, the other South Asian feudal lords were not easy to deal with. Don't look at them as weak, but their temper is not small, not to mention occupying a large area of land, and asking the Chinese Empire to give them some more land.

At the same time, Persia and Afghanistan also annexed large swathes of territory along the western coast of the Mughal Empire through the Rajput feudal lords they had fostered.

Originally, the Chinese Empire was ready to lead the army of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, continue the war against Persia and Afghanistan, and recapture the territories of the West Indies. Unexpectedly, there was discord within the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia because of the division of land, and the director could no longer carry out joint operations.

The interests of the countries of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia were unevenly distributed, so they had no intention of continuing the war, and instead sat down together to discuss and negotiate.

The South Asia Dispatch Command of the Imperial Chinese Army had no choice but to negotiate with the countries when they did not cooperate, and at the same time, the empire took the opportunity to consolidate its rule over the occupied territories.

At this time, the Chinese Imperial Government had less than 50,000 troops, and could only control the area around Delhi. The rest of the region was temporarily handed over to the vassal and colonial servants, so it was inevitable that they would have to be sweetened, so the South Asian Dispatch Command allowed them to plunder, but they still had to pay looting income tax to the Imperial government. The vassal state servant army paid 10%, while the colonial servant army paid 30% as looting income tax.

The term looting income tax is limited to the term used by foreigners in the colonial war against the Chinese Empire, and the imperial government has never recognized the existence of this looting income tax, and only uses the suzerainty as a wording.

After the vassal army and the colonial servant army received the order to plunder, they suddenly had high morale, and the negative mentality that was originally used as cannon fodder disappeared, and they turned to support the government of the Chinese Empire, which is in response to the sentence - if you have milk, you are a mother, as long as the Chinese Empire gives them benefits, they are willing to be cannon fodder.

The Chinese Empire's servant army of more than 800,000 spread across the Mughal Empire's 2.7 million square kilometers of land, causing heavy disasters to the local Indians.

The intra-Yugoslav negotiations were held in Mumbai, and the distribution of interests between the countries was very different, and it was difficult to reach an agreement, so the meeting turned into a marathon negotiation, and it was not known when the results would be achieved.

During the negotiations, the Chinese Empire had established an Indian colonial government in the de facto control area, with the colonial capital still in Delhi, divided into thirteen states, each with imperial officials to rule.

Fort Golconda is a very old castle that was occupied by the Chinese Imperial Army a month ago, and all but the diamond craftsmen were driven out of the city.

At the same time, all the mountain rivers in the area around Golconda were confiscated and directly subordinate to the Imperial Internal Affairs Office of the Chinese Empire.

What kind of place is Golconda that can be directly governed by the Imperial Interior Office of the Chinese Empire?

It turned out to be the site of the current largest Coral mine in the world.

All the large diamonds that Zhan Zengyong paid tribute to the emperor were mined from here.

The Koral Mine was the largest diamond mine in the world between the 16th and 18th centuries, and the Kimberley mine in South Africa could only occupy the position of the old 2nd before that.

The Royal Home Office took over the huge mine and invested heavily in expanding the mine's exploitation. At this time, all mining mines relied on manpower, so the Ministry of Internal Affairs had to arrest a large number of young Indian men to work in the mines.

Every day, more than 10,000 Indian workers work in the mines. Since then, they have become slaves, with no freedom, no health care other than food and work. Disease was their natural enemy, and every day slaves died, and the next day a new companion came, and so on and so on day after day, year after year.

Although the Royal Interior Office arrested free laborers, it did not abuse them in terms of eating, after all, they were working for the royal family, and the treatment was still better.

Elsewhere, however, is different.

As the Mughals became colonies of the Chinese Empire, the original Indians were reduced to inferior people, even slaves.

The term slave was first introduced into the Chinese Empire, because with the expansion of the colonial war of the Chinese Empire, under the strong growth of the comprehensive national strength of the empire, the living standards of the people of the empire were greatly improved, the per capita land, factories and other living and production materials expanded rapidly, and the labor force began to be sharply scarce.

Everyone in the empire lived in abundance, and there was a shortage of labor in the companies, factories, farms, estates, and mines in the empire, and the people of the empire wanted to work alone and were unwilling to work as hired laborers for others, making the labor force in all walks of life in the empire scarce.

As a result, in order to maintain the strong growth of the imperial economy, the imperial government had to bring in labor resources on a large scale.

At this time, the black slave trade was prevalent in Europe and America. The Imperial Government, because of its distance from Africa, made it not cost-effective to introduce black slaves, so it targeted the colonies.

Slaves who did not cost money were naturally the most popular, so the imperial government took advantage of the South Asian war to start a large-scale plundering of Indians and shipped them back home as slaves, and then auctioned off to the imperial people.

Thus, after the European slave trade, the Chinese Empire began the slave trade of the colonies.

However, the majority of the colonial population of the Chinese Empire belonged to the yellow race, and the people of the empire did not like it very much. After some slaves escaped, it was difficult for the local police to recognize them among the crowd, causing great difficulties in arresting them, and also bringing hidden dangers to public order.

And so a new model of the slave trade began. The black slaves captured from Africa by Britain, France, the Netherlands, and other countries were very popular with the citizens of the empire, but they came all the way and the prices were very high. As a result, the imperial government signed a series of secret agreements with European countries on the slave trade, and the Chinese Empire imported black slaves from the Europeans, and in return the European countries imported colonial slaves from the Chinese Empire.

From then on, the national composition of the Chinese Empire was an additional class of black slaves. In order to control the colonies, the empire sold a large number of natives and inferior people in the colonies to Europe, weakening the population of the colonies and consolidating its rule.

In the palace of the Forbidden City, Emperor Deng Haonan of Shenwu played with the "Sea of Light" diamond presented by Zhan Zengyong and others, and secretly enjoyed it for several days.

Undoubtedly, a series of diamonds such as the "Sea of Light" are the world's top diamonds, and have been envied by hundreds of millions of people in later generations. In particular, this "Sea of Light", as the world's largest red diamond, will always defend the throne of the first. Now that it has fallen into the hands of Deng Haonan, the joy is naturally silent.

At this time, the "Sea of Light" had not yet undergone a second processing, so that its total weight reached 300 carats, Deng Haonan knew that the diamond cutting technology of this era was too poor, and once such a large diamond was processed, it would lose more than half of its weight, which was definitely the loss of the 'people of the world'. Therefore, after learning the news that Zhan Zengyong brought back this diamond, Deng Haonan immediately ordered it not to be processed and sent directly to the palace.

"Your Majesty" Li Xiaoliu, the chief administrator of the Great Interior, came to Deng Haonan's side and asked softly: "The slave has found more than 20 skilled craftsmen, and according to the emperor's instructions, the diamonds will be polished and set on the dragon crown."

Deng Haonan shook his head and said, "Now this rose is in good shape, it would be a pity if you don't have to polish this thing if you don't grind it."

Deng Haonan knows that although China's jadeite and jade polishing capabilities are among the world's top, the ability is too poor in diamond polishing technology. This is mainly due to the fact that China has very few diamonds, and even most of the finest gemstones in the Imperial Palace are obtained from the tributes of Vietnam, the Taungoo Dynasty, the Siamese Dynasty, the Lancang and other Southeast Asian vassal countries, and China does not have any advantage in the world's top three gemstone sources. At this time, only a few gem mines were found in Shandong, but the quality of the gems produced was too poor and the quantity was too small.

These are the craftsmen of the Chinese Empire, and the craftsmanship of polishing fine gems is too poor, so Deng Haonan can't trust them, and he doesn't want to waste this world's first red diamond.

Xiao Liuzi took the red diamond in Deng Haonan's hand and brought it to the craftsmen to install on the dragon crown.

At this time, Qian Qianyi, the first assistant of the cabinet, met with him.

"Your Majesty, the cabinet thinks that since the empire's treasury is now full of reserves, will it continue to implement the policy of rest and recuperation?"

Deng Haonan nodded and said, "The empire has no place to spend a lot of money now, of course you can."

Qian Qianyi said: "The cabinet plans to extend the policy of rest and recuperation to Shenwu for 20 years, and then depending on the situation."

"Accurate"

"The Emperor Shengming"

Qian Qianyi continued: "Your Majesty, the Independent Commission Against Corruption has not found any corruption and perversion of the law by imperial officials for three consecutive years. This year, the Imperial Public Prosecutor's Office has received 3,031 complaints against officials, 38 fewer than last year, mainly focusing on efficiency and attitude. Under the wise leadership of the emperor, the imperial officials were loyal and law-abiding, and the imperial officials were clean and clear. ”

Deng Haonan nodded and said with a smile: "This is exactly what I expect, as long as the empire is clear, the military is strong, the people are rich, and the whole world is looking at it, who dares to despise the empire?" ”

Qian Qianyi nodded yes, then changed the conversation and said: "It's just that many officials have recently submitted applications to serve in the Indian colonies and other overseas colonies. Most of them went to the overseas colonies to make a fortune. Wechen is worried that the long-term situation will inevitably affect the mentality of domestic officials. ”

Deng Haonan asked, "What is Aiqing's opinion?" You might as well talk and listen to me."

Qian Qianyi replied: "Weichen thinks that there is too much oil and water in overseas colonies. For the sake of fairness, the official positions of the overseas colonies were rotated, with the governor changing every five years and the officials of the colonial state every three years. At the same time, the officials in the empire should increase their earnings, balancing their jealousy, so that they can have hope and do things in accordance with the law."

Deng Haonan smiled and said: "What Aiqing said is very true, this is good, you go back and gather other officials, draw up a statement, and then I will give the officials of the court a raise."

"Wechen obeys the order" Qian Qianyi asked: "Wechen thinks that on the basis of the existing Yulu, it will be doubled, what does the emperor want?" ”

Doubling this would amount to an increase of more than 90 million silver dollars per year for the salaries of officials. At this time, the average annual fiscal revenue of the state and dynasty was about 300 million silver dollars, the fiscal expenditure was 190 million silver dollars, and the surplus was 110 million silver dollars, which could fully support the increase in the salaries of officials. At the same time, the Empire's fiscal revenue increased at a rate of 30 million silver dollars per year, and the Empire's finances were generally not affected by the salary increase, and there was still a considerable fiscal surplus.

At present, the average annual income of ordinary people in the empire is about 100 silver dollars, and 12 years of recuperation have made them live a prosperous life, with stable food, clothing, shelter, and transportation. The salaries of national civil servants vary according to their functions. Roughly speaking, the annual salary benchmark for ordinary local civil servants is about 200 silver dollars, local county-level officials are about 600 silver dollars, state government officials are about 1,200 silver dollars, and central officials are about 2,000 silver dollars.

After 10 years of implementation, under the supervision of the Independent Commission Against Corruption and the Procuratorate, the policy of high salaries and honesty has always been fully implemented by Deng Haonan, and at this time it has produced quite good results.

"I want to build a prosperous empire with clear governance, so the high salary and incorruptibility must be implemented forever"

Deng Haonan said: "However, if you can't give them too much promotion at once, you should gradually raise your salary, give them a hope, so that you can raise your salary by 50% first."

After a 50 percent salary increase, the salaries of state civil servants have already exceeded the national average and are very high, and they have become the middle class just by receiving state salaries.

After the issue of salary increase was resolved, Qian Qianyi proposed to use the treasury to build the imperial mausoleum of the Chinese Empire.

The project of the imperial mausoleum of the Chinese Empire began to be demonstrated in the second year of Shenwu, and Deng Haonan was originally going to build the royal mausoleum in the location of today's Qing Dongling or Qing Xiling, after all, the Qing Dynasty lasted for more than 200 years, indicating that the feng shui there is not bad.

However, Deng Haonan's proposal was vetoed by cabinet ministers. According to the Feng Shui adoption idea of the previous dynasty, the ministers of the Imperial Cabinet finally chose Wuling Mountain after a "complex and motivating" discussion.

The Great Wall of the Chinese Empire passes through Wuling Mountain, and the Great Wall symbolizes the dragon totem of the Chinese Empire, like a giant dragon on the land of China. The imperial tomb was built in Wuling Mountain, and the imperial tomb absorbed the aura of the dragon, blessed the prosperity of the Chinese Empire, and blessed the stability of the imperial family for thousands of years.

At the same time, Wuling Mountain is in line with the general view of warlocks in the Ming Dynasty. Cabinet officials invited hundreds of Feng Shui masters from the empire to calculate and demonstrate, and as a result, these Feng Shui sorcerers unanimously agreed that Wuling Mountain was a 'feng shui' resort and an excellent 'auspicious soil'. Therefore, it was selected as the 'longevity domain' for the construction of the imperial mausoleum of the Chinese Empire.

Deng Haonan didn't understand feng shui, so he deliberately took the civil and military officials to Wuling Mountain. When Deng Haonan entered Mongolia, he once walked through Wuling Mountain, and he didn't pay attention to the situation of Wuling Mountain at that time.

Choosing a feng shui treasure for himself, Deng Haonan is extra interested.

The main peak of Wuling Mountain is 2118 meters above sea level, which is the main peak of Yanshan Mountain Range. Rain and heat in the same season, long winter and short summer, four distinct seasons. Whenever the clouds and mist rise, the clouds pave the road, and people walk in the sky, such as entering the fairyland, so it is named Wuling Mountain.

When choosing the imperial mausoleum, it is natural to choose the high mountain, because the higher the mountain, the higher the number of emperor's mausoleums will be, symbolizing the foundation of eternity.

Of course, it is impossible to build the mausoleum on the top of the mountain, and the feng shui magicians chose the position of the Shenwu Emperor in the middle of the mountain, above the clouds, representing the meaning of the Mandate of Heaven.

Deng Haonan naturally wanted to feel it for himself, so he deliberately stayed there for a few days. At that time, it was just spring, the mountains overlapped, the mountains and rivers were beautiful, the tranquility was magnificent, the meandering streams and streams, the crystal clear, the smoke was vast, the beads were splashed with jade, the strange peaks and strange stones were like sculptures.

Deng Haonan is in it, the canyon wall stands, the stone path lingers, and the ravine is deep.

In spring, all things recover, birds sing and flowers are fragrant, flowers are red and willow green, bees and butterflies are entangled, azaleas, lilacs, honeysuckle flowers and so on are competing to open, purple and red, even if it is green, it also shows different colors and levels, according to the different altitudes of the mountain, the flowers are blooming layer by layer, the trees are green layer by layer, and everywhere is full of vitality, so that Deng Haonan feels close to the infinite beauty of nature. So I nodded in agreement.

The design of the imperial mausoleum project of the Chinese Empire began, starting in the summer of the third year of Shenwu and expected to be completed in 22 years. The imperial mausoleum is built according to the mountain, the mausoleum of Shenwu Emperor Deng Haonan is built on the top, the emperors of the later generations are arranged down in turn, the Shinto road under the gate of heaven is as long as 30 miles, the imperial mausoleum will cover an area of 10,000 square kilometers after completion, and will become a magnificent world mausoleum group building. M