In October, Ezhe's carefully prepared gifts were sent to the province of Taixi.

It was accompanied by more than 72,000 Mongolian students, as well as 720,000 taels of gold and silver, which will be used for the students' primary school tuition for the next five years.

After calculation, the average is two taels of silver per year, which is not much, but it is not too little.

Due to the large number of students sent this time, staying in Taixi Province to teach may expose some military problems in Taixi Province, so the official department assigned them to the three provinces of Anxi, Beiting, and Hezhong.

At the same time, the gift prepared by Ezhe also arrived in the capital by train half a month later.

Gifts such as this kind of tribute to the emperor are generally the internal money of the emperor's private money, and the gifts sent by Ezhe are indeed generous, worth no less than 300,000 taels of silver.

While Zhu Youxiao was full of joy to accept the gift, King Felipe IV of Spain died because of untimely surgery for appendicitis.

Five months before his death, Zhang Chi, the head of the Ming Emperor's store in Madrid, had entered the palace to persuade him to invite doctors from the Ming or Qi countries to operate on him.

However, Felipe IV was resented by the fact that the Ming and Qi kingdoms had robbed Spain of its colonies in the Americas and the Far East, and rejected Zhang Chi's proposal.

Since Felipe IV died with only Carlos, a regular male heir who was nearly five years old, Carlos succeeded to the throne with his mother, Maria Anna of Austria, as the regent of Spain.

However, Felipe IV at this time also had an eldest daughter who had married King Louis XIV of France five years earlier.

Therefore, after the death of Felipe IV, Louis XIV took advantage of the issue of Felipe's inheritance and secretly actively prepared for war.

By the twentieth day of the 45th lunar month, the strength of the French standing army had reached 120,000.

Ma Ying, the head of the Ming Emperor's store in Paris, recorded the strength of France and sent the letter to Beijing.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao, who was unaware, was still worried about the affairs of Tiange and the capital, and he ordered the northern part of the capital to be expanded on the second day of the first lunar month to cope with the future population growth of Beijing.

At the same time, he privately contributed 600,000 taels of silver from the interior to build a "heavenly pavilion" on the top of Haravan Mountain.

Tiange, this is a work prepared by Zhu Youxiao since nine years ago.

The work is a high pavilion, the plane is eight squares, each floor has 12 doors and 36 windows, covers an area of 580 acres, 55 zhang high, divided into 11 floors.

Each floor of the Tiange is very ornately decorated, the pillars are surrounded by splendor, the doors and windows are painted with red paint, there are five elements of gold nails on the door, and there are gold rings to pave the head.

The eaves are all extended outward, the eaves hang the golden bell, and then the copper-plated spine beast, every time the wind blows, the golden bell will jingle the bell, and it can be heard more than ten miles away.

The pavilion is mainly used to worship the meritorious emperors of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the famous ministers and generals of the same period.

The emperors elected by Zhu Youxiao were Zhu Yuanzhang, Emperor Taizu Gao of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di, Emperor Zuwen of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Jianshen, Emperor Zongchun of the Ming Dynasty.

The reason why these three people were chosen is because he himself has set quite strict standards.

Literature needs to be in the country, and martial arts need to expand the soil, this is the standard for entering the Heavenly Pavilion.

Such a standard made many officials dissatisfied, believing that Renzong Zhu Gaochi, Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji, and Xiaozong Zhu Youzhu should be arranged.

However, their thoughts were rejected by Zhu Youxiao, just because these three people failed to expand the land, and they were not able to completely settle down.

In addition, Zhu Youxiao also arranged positions for the three ancestors, of which Zhu Yuanzhang was at the top, Zhu Di was on the tenth floor, and Zhu Jianshen was on the eighth floor.

Seeing the emperor's arrangement, the ministers probably understood what the emperor meant.

It seems that this Heavenly Pavilion was built for the emperors of the past, but it was actually cultivated to show your own merits......

After understanding the true meaning, the officials stopped talking, after all, everyone knew that the emperor was sixty years old this year, far exceeding the average life expectancy level of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, and no one knew how long his time would be......

The construction of the Heavenly Pavilion was successfully started, and the workers opened up a site for the construction of the Heavenly Pavilion behind the bell tower of King Qi on the top of Haravan Mountain.

They transported cement, gravel, pig iron rods, river sand and other materials to the base of the mountain, then put them together into tracks with wooden planks, and then used the pull of ten tractors to pull the goods to the top of the mountain.

Fortunately, the road to the top of the mountain is not steep, so it saves a lot of manpower.

It was also when the Tiange was under construction that Shen Tingyang, the head of the household, handed over the documents summarized at the end of the year.

Since the various policies of the Ming Dynasty are linked to the household registration book, with the cooperation of the army, the Soldiers and Horses, the government officials and officials, the annual household registration and the number of acres will not be too different.

However, due to the outbreak of the "Northern Japanese and Southern Burma" incident last year, the population and cultivated land of Daming rarely did not increase much.

As of the 15th day of the 45th lunar month of the 45th year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty had a population of more than 288 million, an increase of only more than 124 million new population.

In terms of the number of acres of land, the cultivated land area of Daming exceeded 1.5 billion mu, but it only increased by more than 15 million mu over last year.

The only thing worth mentioning is that after the turmoil last year and this year, the proportion of Han people in the Ming Dynasty has reached ninety percent and five, and in the three provinces of Yingzhou, Luchuan and Ganges, the proportion of Han people has also reached seventy percent, six percent five, and seven percent five respectively......

On the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, the old minister who had gone through three dynasties, and Sun Chuanting, the grandson of the country, died of illness at home at the age of 73.

After the emperor heard the news, he dropped out of the dynasty for three days, and was buried according to the prince's gifts, and was posthumously named King Zhenwu, nicknamed "Zhongwu".

His eldest son, Tai Xibu, was the political envoy Sun Bingwen on behalf of the Duke of Guo, and his second son, Sun Yinzhi, the chief soldier of Jiugang, was named Zhenwubo, and the rest of his sons were all dismissed by General Zhaoyong.

After the news spread to the feudal domains, the history recorded that "the king of Qi mourned, wept at night, and fasted in the palace for ten days".

On the eighteenth day of the first month of the forty-sixth year of the Apocalypse, Sun Yingyuan, the Marquis of Dingxing of Qi State, died at home, at the age of seventy-two, the King of Qi dropped out of the dynasty for three days, and was buried with the national ceremony, nicknamed "Wu Mu", and his descendants Changxing attacked the Marquis of Dingxing.

After the news was transmitted back to the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Zhu Youxiao was Sun Yingyuan, and the two people who had died before were posthumously named the King of Dingxing and the King of Xuanhua.

On February 20, Zhu Youjian, the king of Qi, and Zhu Youxiao, the emperor of Qi, raised in detail the questions against the people and the nation.

In view of the fact that the number of young people in the Ming Dynasty had dropped to more than 14 million, Emperor Zhu Youxiao decreed that they would be naturalized as Han Chinese, and their treatment would be changed at the same time.

It is worth mentioning that at this time, most of the young people were no longer able to speak their own national language proficiently, and Jianghuai official dialect became a common language in the daily communication of the people of the Ming Dynasty.

In March, Jin Fu, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry of Nanzhili, said that the embankment on the south bank of Taoyuan of the Yellow River was damaged, and Zhu Ciran, the prince of the supervising state, issued an order to allocate 200,000 taels of the national treasury to build it quickly.

On March 25, the Zhongdu Canal (Panama Canal) was finally completed, which lasted 24 years.

After the completion of the canal, the travel time from the Great Ming Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean was shortened from one and a half months to three days.

On the fifth day of April, Ron, a chemist from Qi State, mistakenly immersed cotton in a mixture of nitric acid and sulfuric acid during an experiment at the Academy of Sciences, and he discovered nitrocellulose after tentatively washing off the excess acid.

After the incident was played, Zhu Youzhen, the king of Qi, personally met with Ron in the palace of the king of Qi, and awarded him the "Order of the National Scholar" of pure gold, and awarded him the rank of Wen San, the third grade of Jiayi.

With this rank alone, Ron could receive an additional 1,600 taels a year, but the news was blocked.

Afterwards, Zhu Youzhen wrote this invention in a letter and sent it to Daming.

On April 17, Zong Wei, a doctor at Qiguo Medical College, invented the "hypodermic syringe", thanks to which many drugs can be administered quickly and safely.

On the third day of the first month of May, Qi promulgated the "Patent Law", all patents are owned by the state and individuals, and the state has the unconditional right to use, but still needs to pay patent fees.

The emergence of the Patent Law and patent fees has greatly stimulated the invention and creativity of private scholars.

On July 12, the Ming Dynasty followed the example of Qi and promulgated the "Patent Law" and ordered the vassal countries to add it to the laws of their countries.

On July 29, Shi Xia Yunyi, the governor of Qi, died of illness at home at the age of 70.

After hearing the news, Zhu You, the king of Qi, ordered Zhu Hecheng, the grandson of the king, to mourn for him for three days, and gave the country a public funeral, nicknamed "Wenzhong".

On the first day of the ninth month, Emperor Zhu Youxiao posthumously presented Shi Xia Yunyi, the governor of Qi, as the Duke of Yue, and his son Xia Wanchun attacked the Marquis of Huating, and ordered the emperor's grandson Zhu Heyin to go to Qi to mourn.

On the fifth day of the ninth month, Zhu Youzhen, the king of Qi, appointed Zhang Huangyan, a forty-six-year-old household servant, as the chief of Qi.

In October, the natives of Zhulin Mansion rebelled, and Zhu Cihuang, the king of Langya County, led an army of 20,000 to quell the rebellion of the natives of Zhulin Fu.

On October 25, Zhu Heyin, the grandson of the emperor, arrived in Xijing City to mourn Xia Yunyi, the Duke of Yueguo, and returned on the tenth day of the first month of winter.

On the 17th of winter, a plague broke out in the Branden region, Denmark and Sweden signed the Malmö Treaty, ending the war, Sweden gained Skåne from Denmark, and Denmark lost control of Norway.

Denmark's withdrawal increased pressure on the Holy Roman Empire and Tsarist Russia, and the two countries negotiated peace with Sweden on the 15th of December, recognizing Sweden's sovereignty over Brandon and Poland.

On the 17th of December, the three countries signed the Gdansk Treaty in Gdansk, ending the First Northern War.

On the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month, the king of Joseon, Li Di, went to Beijing to worship the Son of Heaven.

On the first day of the first month of the forty-seventh year of the Apocalypse, Emperor Zhu Youxiao and Li Di met in the Huagai Palace, and Zhu Youxiao taught Li Di to be tolerant of the people as an elder, and Li Di nodded again and again.

That night, Li Li recorded the body of Emperor Zhu Youxiao in his diary, saying, "The Son of Heaven is emaciated and can't eat, and I, as a courtier, am particularly worried." ”

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Li Di returned to Korea and built the "Tiansheng Temple" on Namsan Mountain in Seoul, in which a portrait of the Wanli Emperor was hung.

On the twenty-fifth day of the first lunar month, the king of Qi sent his son Zhu Cihong, the prince's grandson Zhu Hecheng and 30 imperial doctors from the Qi State Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum to Beijing to treat the emperor Zhu Youxiao.

On the first day of the first month of March, Zhu Cihong, the son of Qi, arrived in Beijing and talked with the emperor while the imperial physician of Qi diagnosed Emperor Zhu Youxiao.

Yuan Shiqi, the envoy of the Qi State Traditional Chinese Medical Museum, judged that the condition was aging, and personally gave the emperor an infusion.

In the evening, Zhu Cihong, the son of Qi, and Zhu Heyun, the grandson of Qi, left the palace.

After they left, Zhu Ciran, the prince of the prison state, went to the Qianqing Palace to see the emperor, and the emperor said: "I saw the prince today, I am very happy, and my body feels a little better." ”

When Zhu Ciran heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then chatted with Zhu Youxiao, and then left the Qianqing Palace.

In late March, under the joint care of Qi and the imperial doctors of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Zhu Youxiao's health was much better.

On the second day of the fourth month, Zhu Cihong, the son of Qi, returned to Qi and left 30 imperial doctors in the National Medical Hall to take care of the body of Emperor Zhu Youxiao.

Emperor Zhu Youxiao was pleased, and immediately rewarded the son of Qi Zhu Cihong with more than ten boxes of jewelry.

On the fifth day of the fourth month, Zhu Cihong, the son of Qi, returned to Qi, and his grandson Zhu Hecheng stayed in the capital to study.

During the period when the grandson was in Beijing, the emperor rewarded him constantly.

According to the "Miscellaneous Records of Staying Behind" by Li Chaofeng, a eunuch left behind in the palace of Qi many years later, in the forty-eighth year of the Apocalypse alone, the emperor rewarded Zhu Heyun with gold and silver jewelry worth 30,000 taels, and sent the imperial kitchen to cook for him in the palace of the king of Qi, and summoned him to the palace many times to play chess with the emperor.

On the tenth day of the sixth month, Zhu Shenqi, the grandson of Shu, and Zhu Huiyan, the grandson of Zhou, had a quarrel in Shuntian University, and the two parties entangled the children they knew to fight in Shuntian University, and there were as many as 1,000 children in the clan.

Although the officials took control of the situation in time, Zhu Jinyan, the son of the king of Deyang County of the Shu Domain, died in the brawl.

The feudal state of Deyang in India has a land of one government, with millions of people and more than 10,000 soldiers and horses.

Therefore, after the matter fermented, Emperor Zhu Youxiao immediately ordered to reprimand Zhu Huiyan, the grandson of Zhou, and at the same time ordered Zhu Fuxi, the son of King Zhou, to go to Deyang Kingdom to make amends to the king of Deyang County.

Zhu Lunkui, the king of Zhou, who learned the news, immediately ordered his son Zhu Fuxi to go to Deyang Kingdom to make amends, but something unexpected happened.

When Zhu Maokun, the king of Deyang County, saw Zhu Fuxi, the prince of Zhou State, he actually shot and killed the horse under Zhu Fuxi's crotch before Zhu Fuxi got off the horse, causing Zhu Fuxi to fall down with the horse and break his leg bones.

At the same time that Zhu Fuxi fell, Zhu Maokun, the king of Deyang County, left a sentence of "one life pays one life" and rode away.

Seeing this, Zhou Guo's guards hurriedly escorted his son Zhu Fuxi to the Huimin Pharmacy in Deyang City, who would have thought that Zhu Maokun would inform the City Medical Bureau early that Zhu Fuxi was not allowed to be treated.

Zhou Guo's guards had no choice but to send Zhu Fuxi out of Deyang Country and go to Yiyang Country next door to treat his injuries.

Fortunately, the treatment was timely, otherwise Zhu Fuxi would have become a cripple.

After the news was transmitted back to the Zhou State, Zhu Lunkui, the king of Zhou, was furious, and immediately ordered Zhu Lun, the king of the county, to order 10,000 troops and the army to press towards the Deyang State.

Fortunately, at this time, Zhang Mengming, the envoy of the small Western overseer, was patrolling near the Zhou State at the moment, so he stopped Zhu Lunkui in time, otherwise the first civil strife among the feudal domains during the Great Ming Apocalypse would have broken out in front of his eyes.

Afterwards, Zhang Mengming reported the matter to the cabinet, and Emperor Zhu Youxiao was furious when he learned about it, and ordered the relocation of the Division, and removed the Deyang State and the Zhou State from the migration list of the 47th year of the Apocalypse, and restored it the next year.

Although the matter came to an end, the two countries had grievances and did not mention them, and even the two neighboring countries of Shu and Zhou also had grievances.

It seems that in order to resolve the contradictions between the two countries, and it seems to be to avenge the Mughal plundering of the Ganges, so in October of the same year, Emperor Zhu Youxiao rewarded Wang Fuchen as the deputy governor of the Eastern Army and Li Dingguo as the Marquis of Yanshan.

On October 20, the emperor ordered Li Dingguo to lead the four guards south to the Ganges River, control the northern army, the western army, and the Indian vassals, and crusade against the Mughals.

At the same time, on the other side of the ocean, Louis XIV claimed the Spanish throne under the pretext that his wife was the sister of the current King of Spain, claiming the Spanish throne as the inheritance of Felipe IV.

Since this request had been rejected by Spain for the past two and a half years, Louis XIV declared war on Spain.

After two and a half years of expansion, the French army had reached 200,000, while the Spanish had only 240,000, of which 40,000 were responsible for the defense of Northern Kunlun.

Thus, at the beginning of the war, the Pyrenees region quickly fell, and only a few hundred of the 10,000 local garrisons fled back.

At this time, King Carlos II of Spain was only seven years old, and the affairs of the country were basically handled by his mother Anna.

Upon hearing the news of France's declaration of war on Spain, Anna immediately turned to her homeland...... The Holy Roman Empire sent for help.

She believed that Leopold I, who was also a member of the Habsburgs, would send troops to support Spain, after all, the war between the Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Sweden had been over for half a year.

However, the result was a slap in the face, as Leopold I ruthlessly rejected Anna's request for help, so the Kingdom of Spain had to face the French attack alone.

Anna, in desperation, could only send her domestic army to the north to compete with France for the Pyrenees region.

The two sides have invested a total of 300,000 troops on the border, which is enough to attract the attention of European countries.

However, compared to them, a more grand war at the same time also began.

Contrary to what Emperor Zhu Youxiao thought, Li Dingguo summoned the 15 battalions of the Northern Army, the 15 battalions of the Western Army, and the 20 battalions of the various feudal domains to form a crusading army of more than 145,000 people.

From the fifteenth day of the lunar month when Li Dingguo arrived at the Ganges city in Ganges Province, various countries successively sent troops to the frontier, and at the same time, the 50,000 troops of the northern army also gathered in Kandahar.

It seems that he was worried that Li Dingguo would destroy the country in one fell swoop, so on the twelfth day of the first month of the forty-eighth year of the Apocalypse, Emperor Zhu Youxiao sent Dingwang Zhu Cijiong, Taisun Zhu and Yin to the south to supervise the army.

The large armies assembled by various countries put great pressure on the Mughals, and Emperor Aurangzeb appealed to the Persians and Ottomans for help.

Because of the Triple Alliance, and the fear that the Ming Dynasty would target themselves after the destruction of the Mughals, the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV and the Persian Shah Suleiman I responded to the call.

The local Jinyi guards learned the news and sent it back to the capital in time.

Emperor Zhu Youxiao fell ill again at this time, and the government was handled by Zhu Ciran, the crown prince of the state.

In the face of the alliance counterattack of the Three Kingdoms, Zhu Ciran calmly ordered Li Dingguo to lead the four guards to return to Beijing and confer the title of general of Zhenxi.

Subsequently, Zhu Ciran ordered Li Dingguo, who had returned to Beijing, to lead the 12 guards and horses of Shangzhi to support the Hezhong area and defend it together with the Northern Army.

At the same time, Qi Wulong, the governor of the Southern Army, was appointed as the general of Zhennan to control the Western Army and the Southern Army to attack the Mughals.

However, it is not difficult to see from the two "town" words that Zhu Ciran did not want to destroy the Three Kingdoms at this time, because the domestic economy of the Ming Dynasty had not yet completely recovered.

He is more inclined to attack the main force of the Three Kingdoms and keep the Three Kingdoms weak, so as to facilitate the future development of the Ming Dynasty after domestic stability.

Li Dingguo and Qi Wulong naturally knew his deep meaning, so after the two arrived at the river and the Ganges respectively, they did not rush to attack, but were busy stockpiling the materials needed for the war.

The army in the south was not bad, and sixty percent of the materials in the army were provided by the vassals, but the situation of the army in the north was not good.

In view of the fact that Mongolia was not strong and was the first line of resistance to the Ottoman Empire, Li Dingguo could not ask for supplies from Mongolia, but could only go to the capital.

Due to the emptiness of the treasury, Zhu Ciran, who had no choice but to issue 30 million taels of national debt, could only deal with the war.

The preparations of the two sides began in the first month of the 48th year of the Apocalypse and continued until May, and the Ming army had 140,000 soldiers on both fronts, plus the 120,000 of the vassals, for a total of 260,000.

At the same time, the Jinyi Guard, who was lurking in the Three Kingdoms, also sent back news.

In response to the war, the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV gathered 50,000 cavalry, 100,000 musketeers, and 200,000 troops of 50,000 light infantry to defend the Caucasus.

The Persian Shah Suleiman I also gathered 60,000 musketeers, 40,000 cavalry, and 100,000 Chen soldiers in the frontier areas.

As for the last Mughal Empire, Aurangzeb deployed 100,000 troops in the Khyber Pass and 150,000 troops in Lahore.

By 15 June, the total number of troops assembled on the borders of the two camps had exceeded 800,000.

The intensity of the war instantly overshadowed Europe's heritage wars.

Not only the countries of Asia noticed this, but even Sweden in Northern Europe and Britain at sea also noticed the war.

Everyone is waiting for the war to break out, but it turns out that the unexpected will come sooner than tomorrow......