Chapter 2 The Ming Empire
Because of the strong army as the backing, so the Chongzhen Emperor began the Chongzhen reform, it was this change that created a powerful Ming Empire, and later generations called the change initiated by the emperor as the road of strong Ming. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Although this change is very bloody, it does not change the fact that this change has created a rebirth of the Ming Empire. Due to this change, the Ming Empire did not have the same peasant rebellion that swept the Ming Dynasty as in the history of the previous world, and there were only rebellions of people whose interests were damaged, but these rebellions had no basis for the people, and they were quickly extinguished.
After that, he defeated the old enemy of the Ming Dynasty in the previous life, the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so that the country was restored to unity, and then in the decades of his reign, the Ming army's army conquered the east and west, so that the territory of the Ming Dynasty has been greatly expanded, even beyond the Han and Tang dynasties in history.
All right! In Zhu Lei's opinion, Chongzhen in this world must also be a traverser, otherwise he would definitely not be so fierce, if Emperor Chongzhen is not the first traverser not to believe it, after all, the performance of the two worlds of the same person is too different.
However, after the death of Chongzhen, his successor behaved like the Ming Emperor should do, not doing his job, there are people who like to strike iron, some like carpenters, some like hunting, and even in the nineteenth century, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty also appeared in this world-renowned scientist, but none of them like to do what the emperor should do.
This makes the Ming cabinet power has been strengthened, until the beginning of the 20th century, a system similar to the Western constitutional monarchy was completely formed, that is, the Confucian virtual monarchy, which has continued until now, compared to the constitutional monarchy, the power of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is still very large, at least it also controls one of the most powerful armies of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Imperial Forest Army.
The Ming Dynasty did not have the Imperial Forest Army before Emperor Chongzhen, but after Chongzhen became the emperor, he followed the Han and Tang Dynasties to form the most powerful army in the country at that time, the Imperial Forest Army, and it was with the existence of the Imperial Forest Army that the changes at that time could be carried out, and it was the existence of the Imperial Forest Army that he was able to defeat his old enemy in the north at that time. The Ming Imperial Forest Army was less than 300,000 at its peak.
Although there are less than 30,000 in the Imperial Forest Army now, but the equipment is the most advanced unit in the entire Ming Dynasty, the most difficult training and the most efficient troops, every soldier who comes out of the Imperial Forest Army can be said to be the elite of the elite, and it is the top existence in the ordinary army, and now more than 30% of the senior officers in the entire Ming Imperial Army are from the Royal Forest Army, which can be said to be compared to Zhu Lei's previous life The country's top special forces are definitely surpassed.
The current constitution of the Ming Empire stipulates that all nobles must serve in the Imperial Forest Army for more than three years before they can inherit their father's title, and if they want to serve in the military department of the six departments, let alone at least serve in the Imperial Forest Army for more than five years.
It can be said that the Ming Imperial Forest Army is the cradle of the senior generals of the Ming Army.
And the world of China because of the Ming Dynasty in a Chongzhen change of law opened the forbidden sea, to the nineteenth century the entire Ming Dynasty has been very large, north to the Arctic Ocean south to the Strait of Malacca, by the Ming did not implement the policy of closing the country.
Therefore, in the nineteenth century, China in this world did not fall into the same situation of backwardness and beatings as the Manchu Qing in the previous life. But with the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years of heritage and a large population quickly completed the industrial revolution, making the Ming Dynasty one of the most powerful countries in the world at that time, to the twentieth century the world also broke out two world wars that swept the whole world, because of the existence of the Ming Dynasty in this world, so the intensity of the two world wars in this world is more intense than in the previous life, and the number of casualties far exceeds the two world wars in the previous life.
It is really the reason for these two world wars that made the three world-class hegemons of Britain, France, and Germany in the West decline, and it is also the reason for this world war, which created the Soviet Union and the United States, two world-class hegemons in this world, and the Ming Dynasty with its own science and technology and a large population and the five or six hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, did not decline like the Western powers, so there was no only Su in this world as in the previous life; The United States has two superpowers, but plus the Ming Dynasty has three superpowers.
Because the Ming Empire, whether it is the emperor of the country or the officials of the empire, down to the dawn of the common people are guarded, no harmony, no compensation, no land, no tribute, the Son of Heaven guards the country, the king dies Sheji's ancestral teaching, so from the beginning of the Ming Empire to the present, there has been no phenomenon of land cutting, compensation, tribute, and affinity, no matter who dares to mention these articles, whoever mentions these articles will definitely not be able to gain a foothold in the Ming Dynasty, even in the early days of Emperor Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty was on the verge of destroying the country, and never considered these. Not to mention the powerful Ming after Emperor Chongzhen.
In this world, like Zhu Lei's previous life, after the two world wars, due to the emergence of nuclear ground-washing bombs, there has been no full-scale war between major powers since then, let alone a world-class war.
Therefore, the three superpowers also started the Cold War like the Soviet Union and the United States in the previous life, but at the end of the seventies of the twentieth century, the polar bears in the north began to reform like Zhu Lei's country in the previous life.
Therefore, the big powers have gradually moved from the original military cold war to all-round cooperation and confrontation in the economy, culture, art, science and technology, and then they are the little brothers who kill the opponents when they have time, or they are united to bully and bully those countries that do not know who the world boss is, and by the way, let other frogs at the bottom of the well who do not know how high the sky is know who is the world boss.
However, the American imperialists and polar bears in this world have a large group of little brothers, but the Ming Empire only has three or two kittens and dogs, and these are all those who have been following the empire since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, even in the most difficult time of the Ming Dynasty, there was no betrayal, such as the Ryukyu Kingdom. Goryeo
, But there is absolutely no Fusang country in this, because the Ming Empire has zero tolerance for traitors, so during the Second World War, this country has completely become history, so the current Ryukyu country is already a country within a country, and the territory (territorial waters) of the Ming Empire is left and right, so in Zhu Lei's memory, the Ryukyu Kingdom and the Goryeo Kingdom have applied to become part of the empire many times in recent years, and Zhu Lei has known it no less than ten times, The original Fusang Kingdom has now become a sacred and inseparable part of the empire. In addition, the territory of the Ming Dynasty in this world is large enough and the population is large enough, so there is no need to collect younger brothers everywhere like the other two superpowers.
And this one does not have the United Nations, but only the League of Nations similar to the United Nations, and there are no five permanent only three, and the Ming Empire is one of them, needless to say, the other two must be the other two superpowers.
Zhu Lei now feels that his thinking is very messy, after all, the gap between the two worlds is so big, and the feeling of time and space confusion is so strong!