In June 1878, Nanjing, which had entered the summer, was roasted by the sun like a stove, and although there were extremely rare ice cubes, Lin Zhe in the office was still a little bored by the heat.

Today's summer seems to be even hotter than last year!

It's no wonder that Chen Jing has been nagging these days, saying that this day is getting hotter and hotter, and he wants to go to Chengde Summer Resort or Hangzhou Tianmu Mountain Palace.

When Nanjing arrives in summer, it is a big oven, even if it is the royal family with the best living conditions, with ice cubes and other measures to reduce the heat, but this day is still very sad, and before the middle of summer, Lin Zhe misses the air conditioning of later generations.

In order to solve the problem of summer vacation for the royal family, the Royal Asset Management Office chose many summer resorts in China, and finally took into account the convenient transportation, local folk customs, royal roots and other reasons, and chose the place where the Chinese Empire started, that is, the Tianmu Mountain area in northern Zhejiang.

A large area was enclosed there, and then a royal garden was built.

Since it was the royal family that bought the land and built the gardens at their own expense, those officials naturally had nothing to say.

However, Lin Zhe is not very keen on summer vacation, as an emperor, it is very troublesome to travel normally, not to mention that it is a summer vacation for several months, if you go to escape the summer, at least take half of the cabinet with you, and there are thousands of people for all kinds of staff.

Not to mention the troubles, and leaving the capital is also prone to some unnecessary troubles, because when he ran out to escape the summer, what if a bold person came to a coup d'état?

It's okay to say that Lin Zhe is afraid of trouble, or it's okay to say that Lin Zhe is timid, but Lin Zhe doesn't like to run around, and he goes out to escape the summer at most once every two or three years.

This year, Lin Zhe doesn't plan to go out to escape the summer, but there are a lot of things to do this summer!

For example, Lichu!

Since the birth of the emperor's eldest son Lin Xuan in 1858, the rumors about the prince have not stopped, because Lin Zhe is not willing to follow the eldest system, he does not mind whether the heir is his own son-in-law or concubine, he cares more about the ability of the heir.

Therefore, he forcibly pressed the issue of Lichu and kept it in suspense, in order to wait for his sons to grow up and observe their hearts and abilities.

He needed not an heir who could be rightfully spoken, or who balanced and compromised the political factions of the country, but an heir who was brilliant and capable of leading the empire beyond the twentieth century.

Even those who are not familiar with modern history will know that at the end of the 19th century, all kinds of ideas will rise, and words such as nationalism, democracy, and freedom will become familiar to the people, and then all kinds of ideas will erupt.

Although Lin Zhe believed that he had built an empire and industrialized it enough to lay the foundation for the rule of the imperial family at home, the Hohenzollern family of Germany brought no small achievements to modern Germany, unifying Germany and leading Germany to the second most powerful country in the world, but during World War I, the Germans did not hesitate to abandon their allegiance to Wilhelm II.

Most of the European monarchs also lost power during World War I and subsequent wars and World War II, the most unfortunate of which were the Russian Romanovs, whose last Tsar Nicholas II and his family were all killed by their people.

In the original time and space, the Manchu Dynasty also fell on the eve of World War I.

All this made Lin Zhe extremely vigilant against the domestic situation after the 20th century!

Due to the desire for absolute power, Lin Zhe established not a constitutional monarchy, but a continuation of the monarch of the Central Plains Dynasty, and although this system satisfied the emperor's own thirst for power, it was born with various new thinking after the end of the nineteenth century.

It is foreseeable that even if the Lin Dynasty brought great glory and territory to the empire, it could not completely increase the people's desire for power and freedom.

In other words, if the royal family is unwilling to take the initiative to give up power, then in a few more decades, when education in the country is more popular, and various new trends of thought emerge, the imperial family's rule over the empire will face great risks and crises.

And by that time, probably the beginning of the twentieth century, even if Lin Zhe had not died of old age, he was still in his seventies or even eighties, and to solve these things, he was destined to need his heir.

And no matter what kind of decision is made at that time, whether it is suppressed with a tough attitude, and then the monarch is maintained, or whether it makes concessions and implements a constitutional monarchy, it is a serious challenge for the shaky empire.

At this time, it is difficult to solve these things without a talented heir.

In addition to domestic problems, it is also related to the international situation, there was no Chinese empire in history, but the strong rise of the United States, Germany, and Japan seriously challenged the interests of old colonial countries such as Britain and France, and a world war was inevitable for the carveup of the global market.

In this time and space, the newly rising countries have one more Chinese Empire, and the contemporary Chinese Empire is larger than Japan in the original historical time and space, and the demand for the international market is also greater.

At that time, the three newly rising countries of Germany, the United States, and the Chinese Empire, will be desperate to open up the global market, and then they will inevitably contradict the traditional colonial powers such as Britain and France, and war will still be inevitable.

The First World War in history was caused by the death of the Austro-Hungarian Crown Prince and the Balkan problem, but this was just an introduction, and the real deeper reason was the thirst for the international market of the later rising countries.

This reason existed in the original historical time and space, and it also existed in this time and space, and it was even more serious because of the rise of the Chinese Empire.

Therefore, from the perspective of the general trend of world development, the outbreak of a world war is inevitable.

The problem now is that because of the arrival of Lin Zhe and the rise of the Chinese Empire, the trajectory of world history has been very different, and Lin Zhe is not sure that the First World War will break out as immutably as history, and he is even more uncertain that the First World War will break out on time in 1914.

Maybe it will be earlier, maybe it will be later, and it will be difficult to estimate who will be the enemy at that time.

No matter what the time comes, a world war is inevitable, considering that Lin Zhe is still alive after 1914, he will be eighty-four years old, and it is more likely that Lin Zhe feels that he may not live that long.

It doesn't matter if he can live to that time or not, but the one who leads this war should still be his heir.

The world war and the domestic situation, these are serious problems faced by his heirs.

Lin Zhe didn't want the huge empire he had worked so hard to build to collapse after only two reigns like the Qin Dynasty, so he needed an heir with the best heart and talent.

Among Lin Zhe's sons, the four princes who were initially included in the category of candidates by him are the older princes, and at present, Lin Zhe has a total of six sons, the fifth and sixth sons were born in the seventies, and they are too young, so they are basically not considered for the time being, and the four older sons are relatively large.

Lin Zhe is also hesitant about them, and he doesn't know whether he is lucky or unlucky, and the princes of many dynasties in history are not very different from their talents and abilities, Lin Zhe's sons are all extremely smart and talented, but basically none of them are ordinary people.

This is due to Lin Zhe's special education method for the prince, unlike the Ming Dynasty, which raised the prince as a pig, Lin Zhe was very concerned about the education of the prince.

The prince began to enlighten when he was five years old, and at the age of seven, he began to enter the Pingrentang Hall, and moved away from his mother and moved into the prince's house to live alone.

In terms of learning content, they are basically based on imperial studies as the core content, supplemented by military education, and they are different from the courses that ordinary students study.

Ordinary people will learn mathematics, physics and chemistry, and the liberal arts are also specialized in articles and the like, but the mathematics, physics and chemistry education of the princes only involves common sense, and the Chinese studies and scriptures are not too deep, and they learn the most about some things such as ruling the country, from the traditional information and government knowledge to modern justice, etc., and there are some disciplines that are not available in ordinary schools, such as national defense economics, international relations, people's livelihood economics, etc.

As for foreign languages and artistic accomplishments, these are only slightly covered, but they are not in-depth.

Because Lin Zhe believes that an emperor can not understand the professional knowledge of physics, chemistry, and mathematics, but he needs to know the importance of scientific development. He doesn't need to write beautiful articles or calligraphy, and he doesn't know who Gu Kaizhi is, but he must know the importance of grain production, the importance of steel and coal.

He may not know what to do in detail, but he must know what kind of person to choose to do it.

An emperor knows things that are different from ordinary people, even those high-ranking officials.

To put it simply, when Lin Zhe was seven years old, he cultivated them as future emperors, and when they reached the age of fourteen, they had basically completed the basic disciplines, and then Lin Zhe would specially allow them to audit government affairs.

In the past two years, many imperial meetings or cabinet meetings have been attended frequently by several older princes, but they can only listen, but they cannot express any opinions.

After a few years of auditing, they will have a relatively simple understanding of the overall environment of the empire and the handling of some daily affairs, and combined with the courses they are still studying, it will bring them a more intuitive feeling.

When he was sixteen years old, Lin Zhe successively awarded honorary military ranks to these princes, such as the current emperor's eldest son, Lin Xuan, who is currently an honorary major, this military rank is not a separate army or navy rank, but an honorary military rank common to the navy and army.

At the same time, he also served symbolically in the Royal Guard, still in the case of the emperor's eldest son, Lin Xuan, who served in the 1st Cavalry Regiment of the 1st Guards Division at the age of 16 with the rank of second lieutenant, and is currently serving in the 1st Guards Division with the rank of honorary major, serving as an operational staff officer.

Of course, this position was only symbolic, but no one dared to let Lin Xuan go to training or even fight every day, and Lin Xuan only went to the First Guards Division twice before and after.

In addition to Lin Xuan, several other princes over the age of sixteen also served in the 1st Guards Division, and were awarded the rank of honorary second lieutenant to major.

Lin Zhe spent so much effort cultivating them, and he had a specific historical environment, so Lin Zhe's sons were all human spirits, and none of them were simple.

And as they get older, these princes also know that the time for the establishment of the prince is getting closer and closer, so they are all intriguing, desperately expressing themselves and stepping on others.

This is also a headache for Lin Zhe, these sons are all better, but it is not so easy to choose that one.

Originally, a few years earlier, he had planned to establish a reserve around 1875, but he waited and waited until now.

Up to now, even if it is a founding monarch as strong as Lin Zhe, it is not easy to drag it out, because if the problem of establishing a prince is not solved for a day, the country will be unstable for a day.

Many ministers are anxious.

Because if you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what if, if Lin Zhe burps one day, but he has not established a reserve in advance, it will be easy to make a mess at that time, especially in the case that none of these princes are fuel-efficient lamps, if one is not good, it will be a palace change, and even a civil war is possible.

Because many ministers have been knocking on the side in the past two years, trying to get Lin Zhe to establish a reserve as soon as possible.

The new Imperial Prime Minister Guo Longyun revealed his worries about the issue of the Imperial Reserve in front of Lin Zhe several times in private conversations.

Guo Longyun didn't want to support that prince, he himself was the same as the former Prime Minister Xue Huan, he had a firm neutral attitude, and Lin Zheli supported the prince.

By the present day of 1878, Lin Zhe could no longer delay the issue of establishing a reserve, and he planned to finalize the matter this summer. (To be continued.) )