In the ninth year of Longwu, the first autumn rain in early autumn finally dispersed the heat of midsummer a little, and also shrouded the northern land again in weather suitable for soldiers.

The peaceful period of peaceful development between the Ming and Qing dynasties has been three years in the blink of an eye.

Zhu Shuren came to this world, and it is already the fifteenth year, the sixth year of the Chongzhen Dynasty and the ninth year of the Longwu Dynasty, from an eighteen-year-old boy to a thirty-three-year-old middle-aged man.

Even his wife, Princess Zhu Yuchan, is twenty-four years old, and their child, Zhu Ciyu, the grandson of the Ming Emperor, is seven years old.

Zhu Changshu, the great son of tomorrow and Emperor Longwu, is a few years older than the first emperor Chongzhen, and is now forty-eight years old, and will soon reach the year of knowing the destiny of heaven.

For an emperor with absolutely superior medical conditions, it is said that forty-eight years old is not old. However, Zhu Changshu doesn't like sports by nature, and lacks exercise, so he likes to chant Buddha, play the piano and sing and dance women, and it is inevitable that he is often in a weak state.

His uncle Zhu Yijun, Emperor Wanli, lived to be fifty-eight years old, and his father, Lao Lu Wang Zhu Yijun, lived to be forty-seven years old, which shows that their family's genes and life expectancy are in their fifties under normal circumstances-

Zhu Yiyi, the king of Laolu, died in the forty-second year of Wanli, five years younger than his brother, but died six years earlier than his brother. However, it is said that when Zhu Yiyi died, it was because he and Emperor Wanli's biological mother, Empress Dowager Li, died of old age, and Zhu Yiyi died that year because he was "too sad".

However, there are many rumors in the market that the old king Zhu Yiyi is because the Empress Dowager Li loves his youngest son too much. When Emperor Wanli was young, Zhang Juzheng taught Wanli to study, and once Wanli messed around, Empress Dowager Li took "If you don't listen to Zhang Gelao, the palace will abolish you and let your brother succeed to the throne" to scare Wanli. It made Wanli have a shadow in his heart, and he always wanted to liquidate his younger brother.

And Zhu Yiyi himself does have a lot of problems with domineering, overstepping, arrogance and lasciviousness, so when he heard that his mother was dead, he was worried that he would be liquidated by his brother without his mother, so he was scared to death.

But no matter whether Lao Luwang really died of filial piety and sadness, or was scared to death, he was able to die at the age of forty-seven because of mood swings, which shows that his natural lifespan is not much longer. Even if no one scared him or there was no cause for grief, their family would have lived to be in their fifties.

Zhu Changshu was not an ambitious person at all, and he didn't want to take care of specific government affairs at all. But after being in a high position for many years, there will always be some ideas that want to go down in history as an "emperor through the ages".

This is not for real power, but purely for the sake of a good reputation behind him, and it is human nature to be praised and admired by future generations in the future.

When a person is old, who doesn't want to be famous and immortal?

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So, in the early autumn of this year, the Ming Dynasty is about to usher in another year's longevity festival, that is, the forty-eighth birthday of Emperor Longwu.

Zhu Changshu inevitably moved his mind, taking advantage of the fact that his son-in-law was going back to Nanjing this year to report on his work and meet him, and by the way, he congratulated him on his birthday. Zhu Changshu planned to take the opportunity to carefully ask his son-in-law about the timetable of his plan to recover Liaodong.

The daily process and red tape of the Wanshou Festival are not to mention, and after the birthday banquet, Zhu Changshu caught his son-in-law and asked a few questions.

"It's been a truce with the Tartars for years, right? Is this a good time to recover Liaodong? Seeing that last year's financial and military rations in the north were very well prepared, and Liaodong was recovered, and the whole land of the Ming Dynasty was returned to the whole land of the Ming Dynasty many times, but the long-cherished wish of the first emperors of the Ming Dynasty for more than 50 years still has to be taken to heart. ”

Zhu Shuren naturally has his own rhythm of doing things, and he will not cater to his father-in-law, but this year the time is indeed ripe, the north is recuperating and recovering well, and the military rations and other military supplies are also well stocked. His choice to return to Nanjing this year to meet and report on his work is also of profound significance.

Therefore, Zhu Shuren immediately expressed his positive attitude: "What my father saw coincided with the minister, so the minister had many matters that needed to be carefully discussed with the father and the Shi Cabinet Department." The minister also thought that this year could give the Tartars the final blow - however, the war may continue for some time, and it may not be possible to defeat it in the year of the war. ”

There is still a difference between the start of the fight and the end of the fight, and the military operation of the final blow will definitely need to last for a while.

Of course, Zhu Changshu understood, and hurriedly said: "The soldiers are fierce and dangerous, and how to perform them requires soldiers from all walks of life to adapt to the situation and use their lives for the country." Sun Tzu said, the one who will be able to win but the king is not the king, I don't know the soldiers, and I won't ask about the details.

This unknown year's longevity festival, is it going to be fifty birthdays, the first emperor of Wanli was only in his fifties, and the imperial examination was forty-seven. I naturally have selfish intentions, nothing more than to see that in my lifetime, the homeland of the Ming Dynasty will be restored, and the world will be full of gold. ”

The ancients did nine but not ten, and they had to avoid the whole life a year in advance, and they had to do their fiftieth birthday at the age of forty-nine, so there was no problem with Zhu Changshu's algorithm. By the autumn of the tenth year of Longwu, he would celebrate his fiftieth birthday.

Zhu Shuren hurriedly persuaded: "Why did my father say this, my father is now prosperous in the Spring and Autumn Period, not to mention that my Ming Dynasty has made rapid progress in medicine and chemistry over the years, and it will definitely be able to prolong the life of people in the world." There is no problem for the father emperor to surpass Wanli and even Jiajing in the Spring and Autumn Period, and it will definitely be no problem to eliminate the Tartars.

The distant ministers did not dare to say, but after the war started again this year, it was expected to recover most of the territory of Liaodong within the year, and even break the city of Shengjing in one fell swoop. The rest is nothing more than the pursuit and annihilation of the nomadic fishing and hunting tribes in the extreme north of the White Mountain and Black Water, which will take a little more time. ”

Zhu Changshu signaled that he didn't have to be formal, and Weng Son-in-law told the truth in his heart.

Zhu Shuren also introduced some small advances in medical technology in recent years to Zhu Changshu, which made Zhu Changshu believe in his confidence.

On the issue of Zhu Changshu's lifespan, Zhu Shuren still has common interests with his father-in-law.

That is, Zhu Shuren also thinks that if his father-in-law is only in his early fifties, it will be bad for everyone.

After all, he can only be a regent in this life, so he will definitely not look forward to his father's early death like those princes, so that he can ascend the throne as soon as possible.

A hundred years after Zhu Changshu, the position can only be passed to the imperial grandson Zhu Ciyu, and Zhu Ciyu is only seven years old now, and when Zhu Changshu is fifty years old, Zhu Ciyu is only nine years old.

For such a young child, even if he has a biological father and a de jure uncle as the regent, it will be a little troublesome after all.

If Zhu Changshu can live to sixty years, as long as Emperor Jiajing, who has actually been in power for the longest time in the Ming Dynasty, and the imperial grandson can also be delayed until he is nineteen years old, it will be much easier. I really can't delay it, but it's okay to be a few years behind.

Zhu Changshu saw that his son-in-law agreed so happily, and he seemed to be very sure, and he was more comfortable. Then he asked:

"However, after all, the Tartars and I, Da Ming, have actually had a truce for two or three years, and this time the war will start again, do you want to find some excuses again? Although I have never negotiated an armistice with the Tartars, we are a state of etiquette after all, a kingdom of heaven, and every time we send troops, it is best to find a proximate cause and be famous. ”

The Ming Dynasty wants to destroy the Qing Dynasty, which does not need an excuse, the Qing Dynasty occupied part of the original land of the Ming Dynasty, and there is also the revenge of killing the king, which cannot be overstated.

However, the internal reasons for mobilization should still be mentioned, which will help boost morale and let the soldiers know why they are fighting. Any war requires a combination of distant and proximate causes in order to share the same hatred for the enemy.

Fortunately, Zhu Shuren was also prepared for this problem, so he took advantage of the fact that there were no outsiders at the moment to make plans and tell the table:

"In this regard, the minister has long thought about it, in the past two or three years, although the Tartar tribes have ceased war with me, my Ming Dynasty has also continued to bleed the Tartars.

The most important means is to prohibit border trade, and from the economy, there are also key areas such as salt, iron, gunpowder, etc., blockade the Tartars to obtain strategic materials, and slowly weaken the national strength of the Tartars.

However, the Tartars will definitely not give up, when the first emperor was there, Zhangjiakou and Datong had eight traitors and Jin merchants who collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country, but later after the Tartars entered the customs, these people swaggered through the market to reveal their identities.

Later, when my Ming Dynasty regained Shanxi and Hebei, he uprooted the eight traitors, their henchmen, and vassal families, and killed them all over the house.

After those people were purged, the Tartars were unable to get the strategic materials of our Ming Dynasty for a while, and they could not even buy tea and salt bricks, and I heard that in the past two years, the health of the nomads of some tribes on the grassland has deteriorated severely.

In order to set up an ambush and make excuses for the resumption of war in the future, the minister secretly supported a few border merchant families who had a little negotiation with the eight traitor families but did not have deep sins, promising that as long as they obeyed the instructions of the king, they could clear their previous sins, and they could also serve our Ming court in the future and get an official status.

Therefore, since last year, the merchants of the new Zhangjiakou border pass, which were controlled by the ministers, began to trade privately with the Tatars again, mainly with the Mongol tribes in the Horqin and Karaqin steppes. These Mongol tribes will continue to resell some materials that are particularly lacking to the Shengjing puppet dynasty at a higher price.

These border merchants still have a good grasp of the sales scale, and last year the minister only allowed them to sell salt, bricks, tea, and a small amount of ironware. This year, we will gradually lure the enemy into the depths, and we can let go of the sale of iron weapons, and even some black powder, so as to set up a trap to win the trust of others.

When it was time to close the mouth, the minister planned to follow the strategy of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, lure the Mongols to buy it with a big deal, and then set up an ambush to encircle and annihilate all the buyers!

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And the people were stolen and seized, declaring that the Mongols and Manchus stole and bought my Ming ordnance again during the truce, and were always ready for war in an attempt to retaliate against my Ming, and when the time came, these words were propagated, and the soldiers naturally shared the enemy's hatred, knowing that this Northern Expedition was for the safety of my Ming Dynasty, and it was the barbarians around the Ming Dynasty who were constantly trying to improve their strength to threaten the Ming Dynasty, so we had to take the initiative to defend. ”

After all, Zhu Changshu is moral, and when he heard that his son-in-law thought of such a reason for going to war, he was of course happy to see it. It's just that he heard that this bureau is too big and involves the Mongols, so he can't help but be a little worried.

Zhu Changshu said worriedly: "With the national strength of my Ming Dynasty today, it is the enemy of Mongolia and the Manchu Qing Dynasty at the same time, and it will not be impossible to defeat, but the rice must be eaten one bite at a time, and the few steps that can be taken separately are not enough, why should we rush to achieve success and make a step?" ”

Zhu Shuren responded to his father-in-law's doubts: "My father doesn't know that after a few years of attrition, the Mongolian Karaqin and Horqin departments have been extremely weak. This time, the minister could first cut off the Mongol wings, and then slowly unearth the private collusion between the Mongols and the Manchus, and then cut down Liaodong by the way.

In terms of time, it will not face two enemies at the same time, but first and then full. Since the Mongols killed Bumu Butai by Haoge, they have separated from the Manchus, and as long as they annihilate a few of them, the minister feels that the Mongols can still fight for them. As long as they are vassals to the Ming and promise to turn their guns and help the Ming deal with the Manchus, they can stop. ”

Zhu Changshu heard that his son-in-law was so confident, and everything was accurate.

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In the next few days, Zhu Shuren stayed in Nanjing, and naturally he had every opportunity, remotely controlling all kinds of matters ahead, and by the way, he learned about the details of the imperial court's major policies during his absence, and inspected some work on the spot.

He did not need to personally intervene in the provocation against the Mongols, and the few henchmen who left him in the north at the initial stage would be able to deal with them themselves, because the enemy was too small to deserve it.

There is another important reason, that is, after all, Zhu Shuren hopes that the Ming Dynasty can appear righteous in the history of later generations, and try to be as righteous as possible, which is not the moral purity of the world, but also to better let his own people hate the same enemy, and to warn future generations.

Whether you have played "Europharma" or "Victoria", you all know that the game closest to the real world has "over-expansion punishment". The area under the direct rule of a country is not always better.

If the marginal returns are diminishing below the marginal cost of domination, then further expansion will bring down the empire, unless the first technology can catch up with productivity and transportation and communication to match the empire's expansion.

Just like China needs the unification of the north and the south, first of all, it needs Emperor Yang of Sui to build the Grand Canal, and in order to firmly control Siberia in the era of the Rakshasa Kingdom, it is necessary to build the Trans-Siberian Railway first.

But such a scientific concept of development, several generations of Ming rulers after Zhu Shuren's death may not be able to understand, so Zhu Shuren feels that he can give the future Ming Emperor an additional layer of insurance-

If the Ming Dynasty always followed the Han Dynasty's line of "those who commit strong Han crimes, although they are far away, they will be punished", then it is not easy to suffer excessive punishment for reckless military force. But if you follow Qin's line of taking the initiative to use military force, it will be very dangerous.

Because a society where murder and looting, robbery and plundering are legalized, a positive feedback loop and flywheel effect will definitely be formed in the use of foreign troops, and finally the car will not be able to stop.

But in a society where "legitimate defense" and "bounty hunters" are legitimized, that kind of problem will not arise, because the killing and looting in this context has to be done and is controlled by a negative feedback loop.

It's not that the Ming in such an environment can't expand in the future, but the expansion must first have barbarians who don't have long eyes and attack the Ming first, then the Ming can fight back and completely destroy the enemy. After all, the situation of barbarians or Western powers not taking the initiative to take a long time is not happening anytime and anywhere, so that the Ming Dynasty will not worry about over-expansion and self-explosion.

As long as this kind of thing is two or three times, make sure that the signboard that people don't offend me and I don't offend people is erected, so that the people of the earth know that provoking the Ming Dynasty is to exterminate the clan and destroy the country, and there will be fewer and fewer barbarians who commit cheap crimes in the future, and they will weigh it up.

What is it to solve a Mongolia now? When Zhu Shuren does things, of course, he must consider how the people of China in the future will operate steadily for a long time after a hundred years.

As the saying goes, the way of heaven is more than enough to make up for the shortcomings, and the way of man is not enough to give more than enough.

All crazy positive feedback、Matthew effect expansion strategy,Can only take effect within the life period of a generation of male masters,If it's in the online article,It's that the protagonist is very cool when he's alive.,The pleasure is stretched to the limit.。

But the sequelae of this path dependence will be very serious, once there is an intergenerational inheritance of power, not the male lord is in power, it is easy to collapse immediately.

Because future generations will not be able to hold this scale of expansion, and they will not be able to leave a set of expansion ethics that is sufficient for the law of eternity, and if it is expanded, it will explode and die. This is why there are thousands of years of human civilization, one by one examples of prosperity and decline, the gentleman's ze, and the fifth generation.

As long as it is a long scale beyond the human lifespan, it will not be the turn of the way of man to be the main manifestation of the law of nature, and it will give way to the way of heaven.

If Zhu Shuren himself is in Beijing when he provokes Mongolia in the future, or if he makes trouble after he hurries back to Beijing from Nanjing, it is inevitable that there will be conspiracy theorists who chew their tongues. Even if outsiders are not allowed to believe it, future emperors will believe it.

And if Zhu Shuren spent a lot of time in Nanjing to celebrate the birthday of the emperor's father-in-law, it seemed that people and animals were harmless, it was the northern border that had a change first, and the news reached Nanjing, and the Nanjing Imperial Court urgently sent people to the north, then everything would seem very innocent.

It was by no means the clumsy acting of the mustache who "let a few German soldiers put on Polish military uniforms and sneak attack the German border radio station on the eve of the attack on Poland".

Even later emperors had to believe it.

Of course, this level of consideration is also needed by talents at the level of Zhu Shuren.

If he is a ruler with mediocre qualifications, for example, his own ability is at most half a pound and eight taels like Qin Shi Huang, there is no need to think so far.

The mediocre founding monarch exhausted his life's energy and intelligence, and it would be good to be able to open a country, but after his death, he would not care about the flood. But if you keep a little hands when you start the country, think more about the long-term and restrain your means, maybe you won't even be able to open the country, and you will marry others.

At least people who surpass Qin Shi Huang in intelligence by two or three times can open the country without going all out, then they will have the spare strength to eliminate some hidden dangers for a long time, and rule in a more self-consistent way with better food and closed loop.

The so-called literature is not strong, and it will not be long before there is no culture. Those who can't stand up are not worthy of thinking about the problems of the near future, and that is for those who have more than enough to stand up to think about.

Before the emergence of Zhu Shuren, the rulers of Chinese history who were qualified to get a first glimpse of this problem were no more than two and a half, and there was no one who could understand it - but this is not surprising, if it can be integrated, how can there be so many changes of dynasty?

Even if Zhu Shuren himself has hundreds of years of knowledge, he doesn't dare to say that he can understand it, but he knows that he is qualified to think about it for the long term and give it a try, that's all.

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The days in Nanjing passed quickly, waiting for the Jin Shang Inner Line and the Shanxi Border Army to seduce the Mongols, Zhu Shuren in Nanjing, the last thing he needed to do was to compensate for the side concubine Fang Ziling, who had been neglected and idle by him for three years.

Fang Ziling is also pitiful, originally at the age of eighteen, the family talked about marriage for her, caught up with a bunch of changes in the last years of Chongzhen, and it dragged on for more than three years, and she got married at the age of twenty-one.

After marriage, he lived a stable life for more than three years and gave birth to a son. But as soon as his son turned two years old, the husband took the princess's wife to Beijing to stay, and let her stay alone for two or three years, and now she is twenty-seven or eighteen, and the days with men add up to only more than three years.

In the past three years, Zhu Shuren naturally has no shortage of women in Beijing, and the princess Zhu Yuchan, who has already had a son and a daughter, also gave Zhu Shuren a son in Beijing, and is now not yet one year old.

The other concubines have also added a son and a daughter to Zhu Shuren in recent years, and so far "Qin Huai Siyan" has finally had children, and it will not be bleak at night.

Zhu Shuren now has a total of four sons and six daughters, if it weren't for his family's great business enough to inherit, I'm afraid it wouldn't end well.

With the princess giving birth to a second son, it is obvious that the prince of the Ewang Mansion will not be able to inherit it by the son of Fang Ziling, and can only be inherited by the princess's son.

And the second son born to Zhu Yuchan can't use the name of "Zhu Ci", because the format of Zhu Ci x is for Zhu Changshu's grandson. Zhu Yuchan's second son is still the grandson of the emperor de jure, but he was given the surname Zhu with his father, not the emperor's surname, which is different in nature.

So after the birth of this second son, Zhu Shuren even had to take a lot of effort to change the surname of Fang Ziling's concubine, and change it back to his own family surname Shen before he was given the surname, so that Fang Ziling's children could inherit the title of their grandfather Shen Tingyang.

All this made Zhu Shuren feel ashamed of Fang Ziling. It has been five years since the son was born, and he changed back to his ancestral surname, and the child can remember, I don't know if there will be any psychological shadows.

In addition, this time Zhu Shuren will go north in person, and it is estimated that he will not come back to stay with her until the Manchu Qing are completely eliminated, and he will naturally have to compensate Fang Ziling more and more.

During his stay in Nanjing, he almost only favored Fang Ziling alone, and the other concubines were not touched.

"The title of the palace can't be inherited, the lady won't blame the lonely, I've suffered you in the past few years. This time, if you go north again, it will take more than a year at most, and you will be able to stay together for a long time in the future. ”

Shortly before leaving, after finishing things late at night again, Zhu Shuren couldn't help but hug Fang Ziling and comforted him.

Fang Ziling is still very unrestrained: "The concubine follows the father-in-law, but what she wants is not to know her heart." Wealth and nobility, pillow and entertainment, are secondary. Although I can't get married in the past few years, I can teach my son, enjoy the same family, and I can also practice what I have learned in my life, which is not too fast.

His Majesty also added a title to the concubine, which was counted as the adoptive mother of the emperor's grandson. It was the concubine who excused herself, so she didn't ask for it. The palace also has a lot of respect for concubines, which is enough. ”

Fang Ziling mentioned the courtesy of the royal family to her, and she was obviously very satisfied. However, she really doesn't want the title of "Mrs. So-and-so" of the emperor's grandson's adoptive mother. The main reason is that these names were used up at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

When Wei Zhongxian was in power before, there was Emperor Apocalypse's nurse Keshi who was named "Mrs. Fengsheng", but she colluded with Wei Zhongxian.

Fang Ziling naturally just hoped that his identity as the concubine of the King of Hubei would be pure, and not be tainted with other identities. Anyway, the royal family's courtesy and respect for her can be reflected in other ways.

Zhu Shuren chatted with Fang Ziling for a while about the education of the imperial grandson and other sons, and Fang Ziling also talked to him on a whim that she didn't feel empty at all in the past three years, because in order to teach her son and the imperial grandson well, she compiled a book in the past three years.

Zhu Shuren returned to Nanjing for more than a month, he was still busy with government affairs and did not understand children's education.

In addition to the illustrated books of animals, plants, and minerals, there are also the most basic knowledge of mathematics, physics and chemistry, and even the atomic theory and molecular theory that Zhu Shuren has studied and verified with her in letters in the past few years.

And the mathematical knowledge in the book can also be verified with simple astronomical and geographical knowledge, such as "how to see the mast of a ship at sea disappear on the horizon after leaving a certain distance", combined with the Pythagorean theorem to calculate the diameter of the earth, and use mathematical methods to prove that the earth is round. Other basic geometric principles are also combined with astronomical and geographical image phenomena to understand in simple terms.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty's own printing technology, in addition to movable type, was still in the woodcut stage. But woodcut is really not easy to use for drawing, and it is expensive and not wear-resistant.

Nowadays, Zhu Shuren has introduced a large number of Western technicians to learn from each other, and there are also engineers in the national research institute who study and improve printing, and they combine Chinese and Western printing techniques with Gutenberg printing technology in the West, and make a "cement carving, copper casting" engraving plate, with castor oil ink printing, instead of the traditional water-based ink printing of the plate.

As for the cost of engraving and the high cost of copper templates, anyway, it is only a small number of popular science books that can be passed down for eternity, and the circulation is large, so it doesn't matter.

Moreover, these books were printed with royal funds at the beginning, and the original purpose was to enlighten the emperor's grandson in science and engineering thinking, of course, to spend blood.

After teaching the emperor's grandson, by the way, he printed tens of thousands of more copies and bought them for the children of ordinary scholars, a set of five taels of silver, which can be regarded as being born by the common people.

Later generations who read this set of naturalist illustrations and mathematics, physics and chemistry literacy crops will also be grateful for the overflow of royal education.

Zhu Shuren learned about the results of the concubine's work in the past three years, and he also sighed.

Indeed, if a woman can do this, she must be very full of life and soul, and what does it matter if she has a husband who can accompany her for a long time. Some women are born career-oriented.

Zhu Shuren accompanied Fang Ziling and Qinse in Nanjing, and discussed popular science and cultural and educational work together, and two months passed unconsciously.

One day in September, military news finally came from the north, which was sent back by Liu Guoneng, who was sitting in Shanxi.

The set of traps deployed by the Zhu Shuren that imitated the "Mayi Scheme" was really successful, and the Mongols fell into the scheme.

This is also due to the fact that Zhu Shuren made Wang Hui more patient than Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and put a long line to catch big fish.

In any case, according to Liu Guoneng's war report, there is one tribe in the Mongolian Horqin and Karaqin tribes, because of the large amount of private purchase of military supplies prohibited by the Ming Dynasty, when the delivery of the joint, was ambushed and annihilated by the Ming border army, and the evidence is conclusive.

Subsequently, Daming also used this as a fuse to launch a full-scale attack.

The final battle against the remnants of the grassland can be regarded as begins.

100,000 cavalry of the Ming army, divided into roads to kill the steppe, began to divide and disintegrate, each broke the loose and wavering Mongol tribes.

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ps: The timeline spans a long time, so the flow account is a little fragmented, forgive me. That's how the big late timeline flies.

Within a chapter or two at most, Manchu and Mongolia as a regime will be resolved. Be patient, you won't be delayed.