"Beep-"

"Bang bang bang!"

On May 12, the 41st year of the Apocalypse, accompanied by whistles and gunshots sounded on the banks of the Qishui River, the Metropolitan Procuratorate of Qi carried out a three-month Beijing inspection under the instruction of Zhu Youzhen, the king of Qi, which was known as "Xin Chou Jingcha" in history.

This inspection was the strictest in the history of Qi State, and no less than 17,000 officials were arrested and killed for accepting bribes and corrupting the state treasury, accounting for one-twentieth of the total number of officials in Qi State.

In other words, almost one out of every twenty Qi officials was sent to the banks of the Qishui River to be executed.

In addition, the number of officials dismissed for poor supervision has reached one-tenth of the total number of officials in the country, totaling more than 30,000.

One-fifth of the officials were demoted, totaling more than 60,000 people.

In this Beijing inspection, from Sanjing to the village, from the temple to Wangdian, no less than 200,000 family members were implicated.

For them, the Dali Temple of Qi State was tried for 20 years in labor camp according to law.

By 28 August, the "Xinchou Jingcha" had ended, and more than 5.72 million taels of illegal income had been seized, and more than 6.3 million mu of land had been confiscated......

It is necessary to know that the Qi State at this moment has only been twenty-nine years since the founding of the country in the twelfth year of the Apocalypse.

In just 29 years, corrupt officials and corrupt officials, who were less than 1% of the total population of Qi State, hid one-twentieth of the country's total land from Qi through the means of protecting officials and officials.

If you indulge them for a few more decades, I am afraid that they will be able to hide most of the means of production of Qi as personal property.

At that time, the new king of Qi will probably be suspicious of the tax that is decreasing year by year.

After this battle, Qi State cleared out more than 60,000 mu of cultivated land hidden by corrupt officials and corrupt officials, which also represented an increase in agricultural tax by one-twentieth of Qi State.

The entire process of "Xin Chou Jingcha" was personally experienced by Zhu Cihong and others, and even participated in part of the investigation.

It is worth mentioning that Zhu Heyin, the grandson of the imperial prince who did not participate in the political power in the Ming Dynasty, also participated in it and gained valuable experience.

It was not until the sixth day of the ninth month that Zhu Heyin left Xijing City by boat and embarked on the road back to Beijing.

In the past time, the Qi State was busy sorting out its internal affairs, but the countries of the world were engaged in local hegemony around the world.

In February, the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV in northern Kunlun gathered troops in Egypt.

By 10 May, the Ottomans had gathered another 60,000 men around Egypt and launched a surprise attack on the Spanish troops stationed in the town of Benghazi on 17 May.

The 2,000 Spanish standing troops stationed in the town of Benghazi were wiped out, 10,000 inhabitants of Benghazi were slaughtered, and 60,000 Ottoman troops marched westward.

After the "Benghazi tragedy" broke out, the news reached Spain on 25 May.

Spain quickly adjusted to the Ottomans' move to provoke war again, and King Felipe IV said categorically at the meeting: "Spain cannot give up North Africa!" ”

As soon as these words were made, the 30,000 Spanish standing troops stationed in Gibraltar were ready to march to Tunisia on 12 July.

On 15 July, the Ottoman army besieged the city of Tunis, with 5,000 Spanish troops in the city holding out for reinforcements.

On the sixth day of August, 30,000 Spanish troops arrived at the town of Annaba in the west of Tunis, and the Ottoman army learned the news and left 10,000 men to besiege the city, and 50,000 troops went straight to the town of Annaba.

In the early morning of the tenth day of the first lunar month, the sentinels of the two armies came into contact near a village, and then set up a battle.

The battle broke out at noon, with 30,000 Spanish troops armed with flintlock muskets attacking in a line tactic, with 400 six-pounder guns in the rear constantly shelling.

This equipment demoralized the Ottoman army at the beginning of the battle, and the army withdrew to Tunisia after leaving behind more than 800 corpses.

It is worth mentioning that due to the squeezing of the eastern and western Kunlun domains inland, a large number of indigenous people migrated to the north.

These natives poured into the Egyptian region and robbed the local area, creating internal instability in Egypt and affecting the Ottoman tax revenue in the southern city-states of Egypt.

Upon hearing the news, Muhammad IV had no choice but to lead his army back to the town of Benghazi and mobilize his army to help the southern city-states suppress the natives.

When the 3,000 vanguard army returned to Egypt first, they learned of the fall of Aswan in the south.

Merchants who fled from Aswan reported that the natives had plundered the wealthy, plundered food, slaughtered civilians, and raped women after the fall of Aswan, leaving the city with no one in ten population.

Upon hearing the news, the Ottoman general Shaga led 3,000 troops down the Nile River non-stop, arriving near Aswan on August 27.

By the time he arrived in Aswan, the population of Aswan had been slaughtered, and the city, which paid the Ottomans a large amount of taxes every year, was in ruins.

Shah sent the news back to Cairo, and Mohammed IV, who had just led a large army to Cairo, learned of the news and immediately led his army south to quell the rebellion.

On September 15, Mohammed IV created the "Red Valley Incident" near the Red River Valley, south of Aswan.

In this incident, indigenous people, both those who participated in the "Aswan Incident" and were not involved, were massacred.

The Red River Valley was littered with corpses, and one by one the Nile washed into the Mediterranean, causing several blockages along the way.

Not only that, but after the retreat of the army led by Mehmed IV to quell the rebellion, a massive plague broke out near Aswan.

The plague caused the death of the natives who fled north, and according to the accounts of some merchants, no less than a million natives died in the plague.

In addition, as wars and plagues devastated local agriculture, there was a food shortage for several years afterward.

Not only were the local Beys in Egypt unable to send troops and relocate the population to restore local agriculture, but even the Ottomans were unable to recover.

As a result, a large number of the indigenous people of Southern Kunlun who migrated north arrived in the Aswan region, either dying of starvation or dying of plague.

At the same time, Zhu Yujian, the king of the Tang Dynasty, also issued a document advocating that the Kunlun vassal once again send troops to Kunlun, and this move accelerated the northward migration of the natives.

The war between Spain and the Ottomans continued, but at the same time the countries of Western Europe did not stop.

In February, French Prime Minister Mazarin died of illness, and before his death, he secretly watched King Louis XIV personally take power, and Louis XIV was deeply convinced.

On the ninth day of February, Louis XIV announced that he would not appoint a new prime minister.

On the 10th day of February, the 24-year-old young king declared himself in power, and in less than three days, he dismissed his important minister Nicholas Fouquet, who considered himself the heir of Mazarin, on the charge of accepting bribes.

Because Richelieu obtained a lot of political capital for France from the Ming Dynasty, when Louis XIV declared himself pro-government, France was already a highly centralized country.

In just five months, Louis XIV dismissed a group of old-fashioned nobles who did not obey his orders and ordered the construction of the Palace of Versailles.

On July 20, Louis XIV studied the Ming Dynasty and built the University of Paris in Paris, where he specialized in the study and improvement of firearms, in an attempt to make rapid-fire muskets (rifles) of the Ming Dynasty.

On August 15, at the instigation of the old-fashioned aristocracy, an armed uprising broke out in Paris.

In just one night, the insurgents built more than a thousand barricades using houses and old-fashioned arquebuses.

Although these forts were quickly suppressed by the French army over the next ten days, revolts against Louis XIV broke out in much of the area outside of Paris.

Faced with the rebellion of the old-fashioned aristocracy, Louis XIV did not give in, but reused his generals and used the army to break up the rebellion one by one.

Like him, there was Charles II of England.

As the new monarch, Charles II launched a northern expedition against the Parliamentarian army in May.

Since both the Qi State and the Ming Dynasty at this moment focused on cleaning up the interior, Charles II took the last castle of the Parliamentary Army on the fifth day of the ninth month.

Thus, the 29-year English Civil War finally came to an end.

This great struggle between the bourgeois new aristocracy and the feudal autocratic royal power finally came to an end by means of war.

The bourgeois forces suffered a heavy blow, and the autocratic monarchy was not overthrown, but was further consolidated.

However, according to Zhang Kaiming, the head of the Ming Emperor's shop in London, the 28-year British Civil War led to a sharp drop of more than one-fifth of Britain's population, nearly one million acres of land, and a two-percent drop in state revenue.

Zhang Kaiming said in the recital: "The next thing the new king of Dark Elia needs to face is how to restore the domestic situation to the pre-war state, a process that may take at least ten years. ”

At the same time, Sweden in the north is also busy.

On 15 July, the Netherlands and Poland declared war on Sweden.

At this point, Sweden was facing enemies on almost all sides, and it had to face pressure from Tsarist Russia, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Poland at the same time.

Under such circumstances, King Alvin followed the advice of his sister Christina and negotiated with Li Ji, the director of the Ming Emperor's store in Stockholm, hoping that the Ming would send troops to Tsarist Russia.

This news was sent to Taixi Province by the Stockholm Emperor Store with carrier pigeons, and after Sun Bingwen, the political envoy of Taixibu, learned the news, he quickly sent a fast horse to send the news to Hezhong, and then sent it back to Daming by train from Hezhongfu.

On the twelfth day of the winter month, when Zhu Heyin returned to the capital, he happened to get this news.

It's just that when he learned of this news, Da Ming had already agreed to Alvin's proposal.

However, what made Zhu Heyin fortunate was that his imperial grandfather and father did not let the Ming soldiers directly intervene in the Northern War.

The reason is very simple, on May 15, the king of Shunning of Mongolia died in the son of Ezhe as the king of Shunning.

Ezhe once came to Daming, he took a train, and saw the power of Daming's rifles and grenades, and artillery.

In addition, Lin Dan Khan's second son, Abu Nai, has been studying in Daming since the thirtieth year of the Apocalypse, so as long as he dares to rebel against Daming, Daming can immediately use Abu Nai as an excuse to attack Mongolia.

Therefore, Ezhe was very obedient to the Ming Dynasty, and never rejected the imperial shop and official school arranged by the Ming Dynasty to enter Mongolia.

He may have known that the Mongols would be assimilated by the Han Chinese, but he had no choice.

In front of him was only a frog that was obediently boiled in warm water, or was wiped out by the Ming army with a thunderous blow.

The former still has a chance, but the latter has no chance at all.

In Zhu Heyin's view, Ezhe was obviously the latter, and he knew in his heart that the Mongols would be assimilated by the Ming Dynasty, but in the face of the Ming Dynasty, he had no choice.

However, this does not mean that he and Mongolia have to wait for death.

On the contrary, after stabilizing the nobles within the Mongol state, Ezhe saw the opportunity of the Northern War and asked the Ming to send troops to Poland.

For this request, normally the Ming would have refused, but Ezhe heard the news of the internal controversy of the Ming Dynasty sending troops to Tsarist Russia.

Therefore, it seems that he wants to experiment with the combat power of the armies of Eastern European countries by himself, so that Daming can better understand the current situation of the Eastern European armies, and Ezhe decisively chose to send troops.

For this requirement, Daming has been thinking about it for a long time.

Although Poland did not pose any threat to the interests of the Ming Dynasty, in the situation that the Ming Dynasty urgently needed products for export, Poland's original sin was the market of more than 5 million people.

If Mongolia could occupy Poland, the increased population of Mongolia would create a market demand for Ming goods.

The temple discussed this matter for a long time, and it was not until Taixi Province sent a request for help from Sweden that Zhu Youxiao made up his mind to intervene in the Northern War.

Sweden's opening represents that Sweden is now unable to stand alone in the face of the siege of the four countries.

In this situation, if Sweden is defeated, then Tsarist Russia will profit, and if Tsarist Russia profits, it will inevitably cause trouble on the frontier of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the Ming Dynasty could not let Sweden win, because that would make a strong country appear in Northern Europe, which was also not in the interests of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Zhu Youxiao resolutely approved the alliance between Mongolia and Sweden to intervene in the Northern War.

Although Mongolia has a population of less than 2 million, its main economy is to trade livestock for the Ming Dynasty, so its fiscal revenue is not bad.

Since the 35th year of the Apocalypse, it has maintained a standing army of 80,000 people, all of which are equipped with Ming rifles (flintlock guns) and Yanshan five-pound cannons.

At present, although the number of countries participating in the Northern War has reached five, in fact, the total standing army of each country is only 200,000.

At such a time, once Mongolia, which had 80,000 troops, joined the war, its impact was self-evident.

In the winter month, when the holy decree of Emperor Zhu Youxiao arrived in the Mongolian capital of Hara and Lin (Donetsk), the king of Shunning knelt down to receive the decree, and sent his own envoy to Sweden the next day, and at the same time reorganized the army for war.

On the fifth day of the lunar month, the Mongolian envoy Sachutu arrived in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden.

After five days of negotiations, under the witness of Li Ji, the director of the Stockholm Imperial Store in Daming, the two countries signed the "Treaty of Equality and Mutual Assistance".

In addition to some economic exchanges, the rest of the treaty is specific provisions on how to cooperate militarily and how to target the other four countries.

Among them, Sweden and Mongolia made specific provisions on how to divide Poland.

According to the terms, Sweden occupied a vast coastal area, which accounted for about one-third of Poland's territory and one-half of its population.

The Mongols, on the other hand, occupied all the areas south of the specified Swedish territory, accounting for about two-thirds of Poland's territory and one-third of its population.

On the tenth day of the lunar month, Sachutu returned to Mongolia, and the Swedish king Alvin led 3,000 remaining troops to Gdansk in northern Poland.

Naturally, such news could not be concealed from the four countries, and the respective kings and parliaments of the four countries probably guessed about the discussion between Sweden and Mongolia.

The first to react was Tsarist Russia in northern Mongolia, where Alexei I ordered the 20,000 firing regiments left behind by Moscow to defend Voronesh in northern Mongolia.

At the same time, the Polish king Kazimierz also ordered his generals to lead 5,000 cavalry to Kiev in the east to prepare for the Eastern Front.

Denmark switched from offense to defense, while the Netherlands continued to sell supplies to earn money.

In the tense situation of the countries, time passed little by little, and the forty-second year of the apocalypse followed.

On the fifth day of the second lunar month, the king of Shunning, Ezhe, led 40,000 Mongol cavalry across the Dnieper River and raided the Zaporozhye region, and the Mongols declared war on Poland......

In early March, after the fall of the Zaporizhzhia region, Ezhe led his army to besiege Kiev and at the same time sent an envoy to Tsarist Russia, stating that the peace treaty between the former king of Shunning, Lin Dan Khan, and Tsarist Russia was still valid.

On the second day of the fourth month, Emperor Zhu You sent the emperor's grandson Zhu and Yin to patrol the sky and organize a fleet to go to the Western Ocean.

On the tenth day of the first month, Hong Chengchou, the first assistant of the cabinet, said that this trip to the West would take Tianjin as the starting point and the end point.

This voyage to the West was escorted by 12 C-class cruisers with a tonnage of 3,000 tons, a 5,000-ton B-class cruiser as the main ship, accompanied by 6,200 sailors, 60 commercial steamers, and 20,000 people.

On the way, they will visit five foreign feudal domains, including Joseon, Sulu, Boni, Kam Po Chi, and Siam.

and twenty-seven vassal states such as Zhou, Shu, Fu, Korea, Zhao, Chu, Jin, Dai, and Qin.

In addition, the vassal kings and county kings of Xiaoxiyang, Kunlun and other places needed to go to the capital of the neighboring coastal vassal states to accept Zhu Heyin's summons.

In short, except for the Qi countries that Zhu Heyin had already toured, most of the vassal states needed to visit Zhu Heyin in the West this time.

Although Zhu Heyin is their son and nephew, this is the power that Zhu Youxiao gave him.

After the news spread, it seemed that Zhu Changluo, who did not want to be humiliated by his great-grandchildren and had no ambition in his life, died on April 25 at the age of 76.

This news was sent back to the capital by the Xiaoxiyang Supervision Mission, and when the news reached the palace, Zhu Youxiao was studying how to build the "Heavenly Pavilion" in Harawen Mountain.

learned that Zhu Changxun had died, although the other party had humiliated him, Zhu Youxiao still gave Zhu Changxun a better nickname.

On the second day of the fifth month, the Ministry of Rites sent people to arrive in Ganges City by train, and then changed ships to Luoyi, the capital of the blessed king.

After the proposal of hundreds of officials, the emperor finalized, the old Fu King Zhu Changxun was posthumously named "King Fuding", and the fifty-four-year-old Fu Wang's son Zhu Youxiang was on the throne of Fu.

On the fifth day of the first month of June, Zhu Heyin, the grandson of the emperor, boarded the ship in Tianjin Port, and the fourth voyage to the West during the Great Tomorrow Apocalypse was unveiled......

"Woo-"

"Gone......"

Looking at the fleet that sailed out of the port, Zhu Ciran, who was standing on the edge of the dock, was a little stunned.

He didn't meet Zhu Heyin, and Zhu Heyin was gone, I'm afraid it would take a year to come back.

Although Zhu Ciran has some dislikes for Zhu Heyin's character, he is a father after all.

Watching the fleet gradually disappear on the sea level, Zhu Ciran turned around and walked towards the carriage by the dock.

He indifferently got into the carriage, but when the carriage was about to return to the Forbidden City, he couldn't help but open the curtains, looked in the direction where the fleet had disappeared and sighed.

After the carriage started, he slowly withdrew his gaze, and then set his gaze on the table in the car.

At this moment, there is a note with the words "Disarmament Matters" written on it.

Zhu Ciran opened it, looked at its contents and was silent for a long time, and only after a moment did he slowly speak, as if talking to himself:

"It's been too long, it's time to loosen up......"

(End of chapter)