"Whew!"

"Whew-"

"Shoot!"

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

At the end of October of the twenty-first year of the Apocalypse, when the internal politics of the Ming Dynasty was in turmoil, the world was not stable.

A national uprising broke out in Ireland, and Charles I sent troops across the sea to suppress it.

The Battle of Nuremberg between the Catholic and Protestant forces at Nuremberg, with a combined 150,000 troops on both sides, was perhaps the largest number of participants in the battle since the Thirty Years' War.

At the same time, Monaco signed a treaty with France to expel the Spaniards stationed in Monaco.

On October 15, after quelling the Irish national uprising, the English Parliament strongly demanded that Charles I no longer exercise autocratic rule, oppose his feudal rule, and draft the Great Remonspiration to oppose Charles I.

Charles I, who had the Ming Dynasty as his backing and was in control of the royal taxes, did not submit to Parliament.

On October 26, Charles I laid the flag in Nottingham, firing the first shot of the English Civil War.

In the same month, the French troops divided into three routes, and sailed to Italy, Switzerland, Alsace and other battlefields, in an attempt to cut off the land lines of communication between Spain and the Holy Roman Empire.

Due to Spain's diplomatic difficulties, the volume of trade with the Ming Dynasty declined, and the treasure ships at sea were constantly attacked by the Dutch and French navies, so the country began to fall into bankruptcy.

The internal crisis in Spain turned the tide of the French army, and in just one month, the French army regained Arras in the north and captured Turin, Italy.

The lines of communication between Spain and the Holy Roman Empire were cut off, and victory seemed a foregone conclusion in the war, which lasted for twenty-three years.

However, Richelieu, as the Archbishop of France, was not determined to negotiate peace, because he believed that it would be more beneficial for France to wait a little longer.

Moreover, France can also continue to weaken Spain through trade support from the Ming Dynasty, so France is currently in a wait-and-see situation.

However, compared to their actions with Britain and Sweden, the actions of the Netherlands are more jaw-dropping.

On 21 October, the Dutch navy completely annihilated the Spanish fleet, a result that was a year later than in history, but it inflicted a far greater blow on Spain than in history.

Spain and the Americas were completely cut off, and the New World route was occupied by the navies of the Netherlands, France, and Britain.

While the whole of Western, Southern and Northern Europe was fighting together, a war quietly broke out in Eastern Europe.

The Mongols from the east made a comeback, annexing the Kazakh Khanate under the leadership of Lindan Khan, and in the autumn they crossed the Ural River and burned and plundered the plains and hills between the Volga and Ural rivers.

On 12 October, Lin Dan Khan led 60,000 cavalry to cross the Volga, where he encountered 30,000 Russian archery regiments and 10,000 Don Cossack cavalry.

"Shoot!"

"Peng! Peng! Peng! ”

On the battlefield, people turned on their backs, and artillery rang out on the west bank of the Volga River, beating the Mongols who had already gained a foothold on the west bank of the Volga River.

The 30,000 shooting regiments lined up in front of the formation, stabbed their large axes on the ground, and held their large arquebuses to the axes and fired.

The sound of "popping" like fried beans sounded endlessly, and many Mongolian cavalry fell off their horses, but the follow-up tens of thousands of cavalry pressed up.

In just a moment, the firing regiment had to move out its spears, and the 10,000-ton Cossack cavalry was also encircled from both flanks under the command of Commander-in-Chief Morozov.

"Beep!"

When the Mongols blew the wooden whistle captured from the Ming army, tens of thousands of Mongol cavalry immediately scattered, and in front of the 10,000 Donhe Cossack cavalry, a hundred shoddy artillery.

"Put! (Mongolian)"

"Peng Peng Peng—"

The sudden appearance of artillery knocked the 10,000 Don Cossack cavalry to the back, and when the artillery was over, Lin Dan Khan's eldest son Ezhe led 10,000 heavily armored cavalry to charge towards the Don Cossack cavalry.

"Retreat!"

When they saw 10,000 armored Mongol cavalry charging towards their side, the Cossack cavalry immediately retreated under the command of the commander-in-chief.

Such a rapid retreat immediately exposed the shooting corps to the front of 10,000 Mongolian iron cavalry.

"We have spears, they can't break through!"

Although Morozov was very angry with the Cossack cavalry, he still shouted loudly to encourage the morale of his own army.

Since Tsarist Russia had not yet carried out military reforms, when Western Europe had learned the line tactics of the Ming army, they only relied on horse-drawn carriages to carry out musket counterattacks.

Such a musket counterattack, for the Mongols, is not the "Ming army" of decades ago.

To Morozov's astonishment, 10,000 heavily armored cavalry stopped, 50,000 rangers pressed up, and began to turn back and forth in front of the formation.

The face attack tactics of the arrow loss made the shooting corps miserable, and Morozov could only order to retreat and fight.

"Peng Peng Peng—"

The artillery units of Tsarist Russia were intercepted by the Mongol cavalry, and the artillerymen abandoned the artillery and fled frantically, while the Mongol artillery exploded at this time.

"Peng Peng Peng—"

The flying stone projectiles inflicted heavy casualties on the retreating firing corps, and Morozov, who had no choice but to order the whole army to break through.

Without cavalry, the infantry could only look very weak against the Mongol rangers.

At dusk, after leaving behind more than 2,000 corpses, Morozov led the shooting corps to a successful retreat, and Lindan Khan successfully led 60,000 Mongol cavalry to gain a foothold west of the Volga.

"Drive!"

"Drive!"

In the bloodstained land, when Lin Dan Khan galloped on horseback, his son Ezhe also beckoned to him:

"Abu (Father)! We snatched 32 artillery pieces, more than 1,600 birds, and more than 700 pounds of gunpowder. ”

Ezhe told Lin Dan Khan about the results of his battle, and Lin Dan Khan, who heard the news, also rushed over on horseback, and then looked at the piles of captures.

At this moment, he was in high spirits, and he pointed at the arquebus and artillery, as well as the captured armor with his horsewhip: "Half of these things are yours, and the rest of the things will be divided equally among them in Subudi!" ”

With that, Lin Dan Khan beat his horse and continued to rush forward, he wanted to go to the tent in front to rest.

As for Ezhe, he began to distribute all kinds of materials captured in this battle.

When Lin Dan Khan arrived in front of the tent, he skillfully turned over and dismounted, and walked into the army's tent.

Entering it, the aroma of roast mutton inside is mouth-watering, and the other Taiyoshi, who are eating meat, seem to be expressing their satisfaction with this battle.

"Great Khan ......"

Seeing Lin Dan Khan enter the big tent, Subu Di and the others got up and saluted, and Lin Dan Khan also responded, and then walked to his place, sat down with a big horse golden knife and said:

"The Rakshasas resisted very stubbornly, and more than 3,000 of us were wounded, and more than 1,000 fell on this land."

"However, I am not going to make enemies with the Rakshasas, but according to the original plan, after robbing this land, we will continue to move west and cut off Bahadou's head!"

After Lin Dan Khan moved westward, he had no choice but to give up the Red Religion he supported and continue to support the spread of the Yellow Religion among the Mongols.

The Mongols who believed in the Yellow Religion broke into Central Asia and the Caucasus occupied by Mu ** in this way, and the Mongols of the Crimean Khanate who believed in Mu ** were traitors in the eyes of Lin Dan Khan and others.

They wanted to seize the pastures of the Crimean Khanate so that they could feed their current 800,000 people.

"Great Khan ......" as the current think tank of Mongolia, Subu opened his mouth unexpectedly, and Lin Dan Khan also put down his shelf and listened.

"We now have only 800,000 troops and more than 80,000 soldiers and horses, and more than 600,000 of them and 20,000 soldiers and horses are in the middle of the river, and Bahadu has 100,000 soldiers and horses."

"My suggestion is to move the people here to be nomadic first, and at the same time annex the Khivas in the river, so that our army reaches 100,000, and then wait for the opportunity to send troops to Bahadou."

"Anyway, at the moment, Daming doesn't have the capital to send troops, so we don't need to be in such a hurry."

Subudi's words were heard in his ears, especially for Lin Dan Khan, although the river was barren, he was not willing to give up the river, but it was caused by too much pressure from the Ming army.

If the Ming army showed no signs of sending troops, then they would have nothing to rest and recuperate.

Thinking so, Lin Danhan touched his beard: "In this case, first move the troops of the Chahar and Karaqin tribes." ”

"I will lead my troops to the river to recover the Khivans, and as for this place, it will be commanded by my son Ezhe."

"Yes!" Hearing that Lin Dan Khan had changed his mind, many Taiji breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, they also want to continue to invade the Eastern European Plain, after all, compared to Mobei, the Western Regions and Hezhong, the Eastern European Plain is simply their paradise.

It's just that the strength of the Crimean Khanate should not be underestimated, so they still need to think about it.

Moreover, Eastern Europe is no different from other places, where the grass and water are beautiful, and there are many forces, and no one can guarantee that when they go to war with the Crimean Khanate, other countries will not take advantage of the fire.

"That's it, I'll go back and rest first......"

It seemed that there was no pressure, and Lin Dan Khan quickly remembered the several Eastern European women who were dedicated to him by the subordinates.

Thinking of this, his lower abdomen became angry, and he hurriedly said goodbye to everyone and immediately ran to his sweat tent.

It was also when he was in the middle of a storm that the northern Tsarist Russia also knew about the victory of the Mongol expedition to the west and the news that the firing corps had retreated to Kazan.

There was no news about this, but the problem was that after they occupied the lower reaches of the Volga, it was difficult for Tsarist Russia to communicate with Golovin in Western Siberia.

Now they can only wait until winter has passed before they can travel to Western Siberia via the trails of the Ural Mountains.

As the tsar, Mikhail was very unhappy with Morozov's defeat, but his temperament was weak, and he didn't know what to do with Morozov for a while.

The current Tsarist Russia seems to be in a difficult situation, as the tsar, Mikhail can only reorganize the army for war, but the financial problems doom the Tsarist Russia in his hands to not be able to support too many troops.

Tsarist Russia is in an embarrassment, but fortunately, Europe is now in a mess, and even Poland has no intention of taking care of it.

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Of course, compared to Europe, the Ming Dynasty, whose territory covered almost the entire world, was the focus of this era.

"There is a great drought in Beijing, Shandong, Henan, and Zhejiang, and the provinces are hit by locusts, and there are many hungry thieves among the people."

"There was a great epidemic in Taiyuan, Shanxi, and the sick vomited blood like watermelon water and died. Death pillows, ten rooms and nine empty, even the household is extinct, and no one reins in. ”

"When the epidemic was discovered, not only Xingxian, but also Datong also suffered from the plague, ten rooms and nine diseases, infected people died one after another, several families, once infected with this epidemic, one out of ten or two even closed the door."

"At present, the whole province of Shanxi has been banned, and the Beijing-Jiajia Railway and the Jingxi Railway have been suspended."

"On the ninth day of the first month, Imperial Doctor Wu took more than 1,000 imperial doctors from the epidemic department to Shanxi, and they arrived yesterday, but the specific situation is still unknown."

"Preliminary estimates...... I am afraid that no less than 10,000 people have died from the epidemic......"

In the carrier hall, when Li Changgeng, the secretary of the household department, reported to Zhu Youzhen, Zhu Youzhen was nervous throughout the whole process.

The great plague at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the culprit that directly or indirectly took the lives of tens of millions of people in the late Ming Dynasty, finally appeared.

"Has the source of this plague been investigated?"

Zhu Youzhen asked Li Changgeng, but Li Changgeng shook his head again and again.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, Wu Youxing, who is good at treating the epidemic in the Ming Dynasty, has just arrived in Shanxi, and naturally no one dares to explore the source of the plague.

"There are 15,000 pieces of white cloth and 3 million catties of alcohol in the imperial store, and people are ordered to spray alcohol in various cities in Shanxi, and there must be no mistake."

"The subordinate leads the order...... Hearing Zhu Youzhen's words, Li Changgeng hurriedly responded, and Cao Huachun, who was not far away, also got up and glanced at Li Changgeng.

He meant to ask Li Changgeng to go with him to do the paperwork, but Li Changgeng hesitated and turned back to Zhu Youzhen and said:

"Your Highness, although the epidemic has not yet spread in the capital, just in case, I also ask Your Highness to go to Fangshan Midsummer Palace to rest."

Li Changgeng was worried about Zhu Youzhen's safety, but Zhu Youzhen knew very well that with the situation of the plague, the most likely thing to spread at the moment was the train.

As long as the train is stopped and cards are set up along the way, many people carrying the virus can only die of illness on the way, and it is impossible to run to the capital.

Historically, the city of Beijing suffered from the plague because the plague appeared in Beijing, but now Beijing has been designed by Zhu Youjian and built by the Ministry of Industry, and its internal sanitary environment can be described as the world's largest, and it is absolutely impossible for plague to occur.

There is no need for him to leave the capital, and he can even use the matter of the plague to make a co-ordination.

"If the plague is really coming, it's useless for me to go anywhere."

Zhu Youzhen first responded to Li Changgeng, and then said to Wang Chengen, who was sitting in the corner dealing with the papers:

"Cheng'en, the "National Newspaper Station" will publish the "Epidemic Prevention Manual" of Shuncheon Medical College to tell the people how to prevent the epidemic in the face of the epidemic."

"In addition, in the next issue, remember to publish Imperial Doctor Wu's "Treatise on Plague", telling the people not to panic, and at the same time beware of someone speculating on the price of white cloth and coarse cloth."

Zhu Youzhen explained to Wang Chengen, Wang Chengen took notes, and then ordered someone to do it.

When Zhu Youzhen turned around, he found that Li Changgeng had not left, but hesitated: "Your Highness, now the temple is ...... above."

Li Changgeng wanted to talk about the Qi Wangfu and the Yanshan faction, but Zhu Youzhen raised his hand to stop him.

"You just need to take care of the household, and I will take care of the temple affairs."

"Let's go down......"

Zhu Youzhen opened his mouth to see off the guests, and Li Changgeng had no choice but to leave when he heard the words.

After he left, Wang Chengen, who had done everything, got up and walked to Zhu Youjian's table, and said curiously while adding tea to his teacup:

"Your Highness, this plague is menacing, do you think it can be prevented?"

"Naturally......" Zhu Youzhen is very confident, he explained:

"At present, Shanxi is sparsely populated, and there are only more than 4.6 million people in the province as of September, distributed over tens of thousands of miles.

Saying that, Zhu Youzhen was also more happy.

He knew in his early years that there would be an outbreak of plague at the end of the Ming Dynasty, although he didn't know what the reason was, but at least he reused Wu Youxing and let Wu Youxing and Wang Kentang study the plague.

In the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, after the microscope was freshly baked, Wu Youxing and the others studied cells and bacteria under the guidance of Zhu Youjian.

In the sixteenth year of the Apocalypse, with the development of industrial production, Daming microscope production overcame the shortcomings of lens mold lake and chromatic aberration, and the resolution was increased to one micron, and the microscope began to gradually popularize local Huimin pharmacies and government schools.

With the improved microscope, cells and their contents can be seen more clearly and are more conducive to experimentation.

At present, the medical school has begun to study penicillin, artemisinin, and various drugs, although it has not yet seen results, but in the case of the popularization of government and learning, I believe that after the precipitation, basic science will usher in an explosive growth.

However, when it came to official studies, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but ask Wang Chengen: "What is the number of students who have graduated from official schools this year, how many of them are in official positions, and do they all have jobs?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, the slave maid needs to check, please wait a while, Your Highness......"

Wang Chengen didn't expect His Royal Highness to ask about this, so he could only confess, and then returned to his place, rummaging back and forth on the shelves where the books were placed, and finally found the official academic documents handed in by the Ministry of Rites last month.

"In the twenty-first year of the Apocalypse, more than 3,726,000 government students graduated."

"Among them, more than 3.4 million people participated in Enke, and the rest continue to study in the government."

"In addition, less than 30,000 people participated in the Nkoerden branch."

"Most of the remaining students have been recruited to work in major industrial zones."

"Others, they were hired by the official school to teach, which was ordered by Your Highness, but the slaves and maids felt that their knowledge did not seem to be very good."

Wang Chengen said the situation of the government students, as the cornerstone of the Ming Dynasty's start, although they are numerous, they don't have to worry about not having a job.

After all, in places like industrial areas, knowledgeable workers are still needed.

With so many years passing, many workers have reached the age of retirement, and it is normal for young people to be on top.

However, according to the current trend, perhaps in another two or three years, many students who have graduated from government schools will have nowhere to go, and they can only continue to study in government schools.

This is a good thing for the Ming Dynasty, but not for the lives of the people.

To support a school student, you need at least four acres of arable land, and many families can't get extra four acres of arable land.

If they can't be arranged, Daming will only usher in a large group of unemployed people in the future, and many people who have learned can only go home to farm.

There is no way around this, because the whole world cannot afford to support so many workers at the moment.

Even the Ming Dynasty, through the continuous innovation of science and technology, can only feed about 8 million workers.

Overcapacity and the increase in the number of unemployed people are all things that Daming will face in the future.

It's not that students can't go back to farming, but they can't be allowed to work in a small-scale farming economy.

Their knowledge and knowledge, as long as they have the ability to match, can fully adapt to the Ming Dynasty's middle peasant production economy.

The middle peasants, this means that each household must have at least 100 acres of land, and there are more than 39 million households in the Ming Dynasty, and these 3.9 billion mu of cultivated land may be difficult to come up with in a short period of time.

Draining the population to the vassal state is the only way to solve the unemployment of the population at this stage in the Ming Dynasty.

Among them, Qi Guo must be an important link, but Qi Guo has to be checked by Zhu Youzhen himself.

If he wants to check it, the premise is that Daming is stable, and if Daming wants to be stable, he needs to get rid of the biggest uneasy factor inside......

"How many students will graduate from school next year?"

Zhu Youzhen asked again, and Wang Chengen also quickly replied: "About 76,000 people." ”

"Hmm......" After pondering for a moment, Zhu Youzhen thought about something and continued to ask:

"How many people are there in Kim Hyun? How long will it take for Yan Yinshao to arrive in Tianjin? ”

Zhu Youzhen leaned on the chair and asked Wang Chengen in the distance, and Wang Chengen said without thinking:

"There are no less than 5,000 officials in central Beijing and local posts, and Yan Youdu Yushi has already arrived in the old port, and when you get there, you can take a steamer, and you can arrive in Tianjin in more than half a month."

Wang Chengen brought good news to Zhu Youzhen, judging from the condolences received by Kim Xuan, there are still many officials who are dissatisfied with Yanshan and oppose Yanshan.

The officials of the Ming Dynasty will basically not participate in the dedication, and only the officials above the ninth grade are eligible to contribute the post, while the Ming Dynasty has only more than 40,000 officials from the eighth grade and above.

That is to say, at present, one-eighth of the middle and low-level officials in the Ming Dynasty support Jin Xuan, and only supporting Jin Xuan is against Yanshan.

Judging from the current situation, their number will continue to increase.

In the end, as long as they can fight against the Yanshan faction in the temple, then their third-step plan can be implemented.

"Tell Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou not to act in a hurry, and wait for my order before doing it."

Zhu Youzhen took a sip of tea, and Wang Chengen, who was not far away, also nodded when he heard this.

For Yanshan, Zhu Youzhen has never worried about not being able to clean them up, although they entered the officialdom early, they mainly rely on themselves.

Even if the tails are not big at the moment, as long as Zhu Youzhen wants to cut them off, then he doesn't have to make too much effort.

Zhu Youzhen only considered whether there would be someone to replace them after they were cut off.

At present, there are more than 70,000 people in the government, and if you add the officials of the East Palace and other places, it will not be difficult to replace the officials of the three provinces in the south of the Yangtze River.

As long as Jiangnan, Jiugang and Yingzhou are well controlled, Yanshan is a fish on the eucalyptus board, and can only be slaughtered by themselves.

Merely......

Zhu Youzhen was silent, he was wondering if the dye vat of Daming was too much, or if human nature was like this.

In any case, those students of the Yanshan faction were also their own students.

In just ten years, his group of students has completed the transformation from a group of aspiring young people to a group of egoists.

Sure enough, in the face of power, no one can escape the word humanity.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen rubbed his brows, and at this time, hurried footsteps sounded outside the hall......

"Daddy!"

Zhu Cihong, who was carrying a schoolbag, trotted all the way into the carrier hall, and Zhu Youzhen couldn't help laughing when he looked at him.

"At least, I'm not alone......"