"Bell...... Clang...... Bell ......"

On March 19, the thirteenth year of Qiansheng, Qi Wangjian died in the middle of the night, at the age of seventy-three.

The news reached the capital, and the history recorded that "the emperor cried in grief".

Li Dingguo, who learned of this news, also wrote down his feelings in his "Qiansheng Diary".

"My heart is like a knife, and I burst into tears"

Eight simple words are enough to explain the thinking of most officials at that time.

Since the news came at the time of the midday break, all the officials felt their brains buzzing and dizzy.

For most of the officials of the Qiansheng Dynasty, King Qi was not only an overseas vassal king, but also a pillar in the hearts of many officials.

Although they all knew about King Qi's illness for a long time, they were still very uncomfortable when they heard the bad news.

Perhaps there are more corrupt officials among them, but none of them dream of becoming corrupt officials.

When they were on campus, how could they never want to be like King Qi and be a famous minister and virtuous king of Kuangfu Sheji.

It was only after they stepped into officialdom that they found that their ideals were nothing compared to the temptations in front of them.

On this road, some people have fallen, and some people have resisted, but this does not mean that the fallen people are completely hopeless.

Late at night, they still think back to their dreams when they were young.

Only on this day, the pillar they once dreamed of also fell.

They are lucky, fortunate that such a capable person did not choose to completely protect the Ming Dynasty, but left a way for the poor students to rise.

They are also unlucky, because no matter what they do, it is difficult for them to leave a mark in the history books, let alone talk about catching up with the King of Qi.

Perhaps every time people in later generations recall this era, they can only think of King Qi, not their group of people who are trying to catch up.

On this day, the spirits of the officials were in a trance, and the one who could barely pull them back to reality was the emperor Zhu Ciran after the grief.

Faced with the departure of Uncle Qi, who had admired Uncle Qi since he was a child, Zhu Ciran organized a court meeting in the afternoon and issued a number of policies.

Among them, the news about the death of Qi Wang Xue cannot be released at once, but should be published by the "Daming Daily".

At present, the "Daming Daily" has spread all over any country within the Daming Sect system, as long as the "Daming Daily" is published, it is basically a declaration to most of the world.

The proclamation was set for the first day of the fifth month, and the contents of this issue will be written by Emperor Zhu Ciran himself.

In addition, Emperor Zhu Ciran decided to transport the body of King Qi back to Beijing and bury it in front of the tomb of Emperor Shizuwu.

Regarding this article, in fact, Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen had already discussed it in their correspondence before his death.

Their brothers knew that the two would never see each other again in their lives, so Zhu Youxiao didn't want to be too far away from his younger brother after his death, and Zhu Youzhen agreed fifteen years ago.

If nothing happens at this moment, his body is already on the way to be transported, so Zhu Ciran asked the Ministry of Rites to prepare various utensils for the burial of King Qi in advance.

In addition, the Ministry of Rites also needs to notify the feudal domains on the same day, and the feudal domains will send people to mourn the king of Qi, and at the same time discuss the changes in the clan system after the death of the king of Qi.

So far, the things that need to be prepared after the death of Qi Wang Xue have been announced, and they are just waiting to be implemented.

In Zhu Ciran's mouth, the value of the artifact required for the burial exceeded five million taels, which was not much different from when Emperor Shizuwu Zhu Youxiao was buried.

However, Zhu Youzhen seems to have already realized that his death would make the Ming Dynasty and the feudal clans very troublesome, so on April 25, the first time the Qi State escorted the ship to the port, Zhu Hecheng, the grandson of the prince who escorted the body this time, sent someone to send the news to the capital.

The last wish of Zhu Youzhen, the king of Qi, was to be buried simply, and the only items he hoped to be buried with him were his armor, weapons, the remains of war horses, and the first pieces of furniture that Zhu Youxiao knocked for him in his early years.

Those furniture have not been repaired by Zhu Youzhen since Zhu Youxiao's death, and they are no longer usable at this time.

However, it is this batch of unusable existences that have been cared for and wiped by Zhu Youzhen in every way.

Before Zhu Youzhen died, he had ordered these furniture to be moved to the Qi Wangfu in Beijing, and they were now being placed in the warehouse of the Qi Wangfu waiting for burial.

Hearing the news, Zhu Ciran was silent for a long time, and he did not nod in agreement until Zhu Youzhen's body had been transported to Beijing.

On the first day of the fifth month, when the "Daming Daily" published the news of the death of Zhu Youzhen, the emperor Zhu Ciran, the crown prince Zhu Heyin, the grandson Zhu Yixuan, the prince Zhu Heyun, and Li Dingguo and other cabinet ministers had already sent Zhu Youzhen's body to a mausoleum outside the world tomb.

This mausoleum was built before Zhu Youxiao's death, and it was not completely completed until the tenth year of Qiansheng, and the scale was comparable to that of the World Mausoleum.

Perhaps Zhu Youxiao had already guessed that his younger brother would be buried simply, so he paid money to repair the house behind his younger brother and "forced" him to live without waste.

After Zhu Ciran and others, who thought it was just an empty tomb, transported the coffin to the tomb door, they found that in the left room of the main tomb, a full set of furniture made by Zhu Youxiao had already been placed.

From tables, chairs, benches, to beds and desks, everything in the tomb is arranged as it was in the palace.

Here, it seems that Zhu Ciran and they can all feel how the young King of Qi scolded Fang Xuan and pointed out the country decades ago.

Standing here, Zhu Ciran's face was gloomy, and then he turned to leave.

A moment later, the door of the burial chamber was closed, along with the simple burial objects.

What Zhu Ciran had to do next was to wait for the representatives of the feudal clans to come to mourn his uncle, and then order the soldiers and horses to "restore the soil like a tomb".

In the days of waiting for the arrival of the representatives of the feudal domains, Zhu Ciran was very tormented in his heart, but there were many government affairs that he needed to handle.

The death of King Qi has brought some unstable factors to the system of the Great Ming Sect, and he must solve these instabilities one by one.

While he was preparing to solve these things, the princes of the feudal clans, as well as some of the princes and princes of the county, arrived in Beijing one after another.

After many earthquakes, most of the houses in Beijing have been renovated, and although they look very beautiful, behind this beauty are countless national debts.

The death of the king of Qi this time made some vassal states insecure, and many people were wondering whether to sell their national debts, after all, the emperor's attitude towards the vassals was not good.

If the emperor defaults on the debt, then the national debt in their hands will be a pile of waste paper.

This kind of thing is not delusional, but something that is highly likely to happen.

How the treasure money collapsed back then is not new to many princes, county kings and princes who went to university in Daming and studied economics.

Tens of millions of taels of treasury bonds are not a small amount, and if we can take the opportunity to sell them, it will naturally be the best, but the question is who will be the first bird, and this is a bit ......

With apprehension, many clans went to Tianshou Mountain and bowed to the portrait of King Qi in the Ming Tower of King Qi's Mausoleum.

The portrait of the King of Qi comes from the hand of Yu Zhiding, the master of Qi painting, and the appearance of Zhu Youzhen in the portrait is twenty-seven or eight, and the appearance is lifelike, so that many clans and officials who have not experienced that era have seen the appearance of His Royal Highness the King of Qi when he was young.

They worshipped the portrait with respect and adoration, and many clans also thought that the funeral arrangements for the King of Qi were too simple.

Fortunately, the emperor had already arranged for someone to emphasize that the funeral was the opinion of King Qi before his death, otherwise I am afraid that Zhu Ciran would have to wear a hat of "mean kindness".

After the prostration, many clans left Tianshou Mountain and returned to rest in Baiwangfang.

For the officials of Tianshou Mountain, this process lasted for a long time, and it was not until the tenth day of the ninth month that the distant princes of Tang, Ji and Huai arrived in Beijing and came to Tianshou Mountain to pay their respects.

On September 12, the tomb of the king of Qi began to be restored with the efforts of 30,000 officers and soldiers, and at the same time, the emperor also summoned many clans to discuss the issue of the name of the king of Qi.

From a personal point of view, Zhu Ciran really wanted to give him the nickname of an emperor, but he knew in his heart that he couldn't do it.

Therefore, after deliberation, he finally took the "Wen" representing "Jingtianwei Earth" as his uncle's nickname, which was "King Qiwen".

As for his mausoleum, it is also called the Mausoleum of King Qi or King Wen by hundreds of officials and clans.

After deciding on the matter of the nickname, Zhu Ciran did not embarrass the feudal domains, but took the initiative to put forward the idea of buying back part of the treasury bonds.

It is now the thirteenth year of Qiansheng, and although the financial income of the Ming Dynasty is still maintained at about 120 million taels, there are too many places to spend money.

Therefore, even if Zhu Ciran wanted to buy it, there was not much silver in the treasury for him to use.

Therefore, after consulting with the feudal clans, Zhu Ciran made a proposal to repurchase five million taels of treasury bonds every year.

For the feudal domains, if they bought back the treasury bonds at this price and speed, it would actually only take six or seven years, so not only did the feudal domains oppose it, but they also hypocritically signaled that the emperor did not need to worry.

It's just that Zhu Ciran knows very well that their words are just polite words.

As soon as Zhu Youzhen left, the only vassal states he could trust were Yongguo, Dingguo and Qi Guo.

Therefore, Zhu Ciran's auction decided on this policy of repurchasing treasury bonds, and at the same time, he also dismissed the feudal clans in front of the Taimiao.

In this way, the vassal system is relatively stable at least until the Ming Dynasty buys back all the national bonds, and Zhu Ciran can also rest assured that he will transfer power to the crown prince Zhu Heyin.

During Zhu Ciran's busy period, there was an atmosphere of mourning among the people under the entire Ming Sect system.

When many people saw the content of the death of King Qi published in the "Daming Daily" on the first day of the fifth month, they only felt dizzy, and the whole person seemed to have been drained of all his strength.

Some people have not yet reacted, and tears flow unconsciously.

There are also people who hold back their tears from flowing out of the streets, and when they return home, they cry loudly.

Some of them couldn't cry, but in the middle of the night, they felt as if their chests were being suppressed, depressed and sad.

Among so many people, Li Dingguo is one of them.

Since learning the news of Zhu Youzhen's death, he didn't have any sad appearance on the surface, but he lay down in bed after dinner every day, remembering the countless scenes when he got along with King Qi in the first half of his life, and he didn't feel sleepy all night.

It wasn't until he saw the portrait of King Qi in Minglou that he couldn't suppress the grief in his heart, and after a while, he burst into tears and couldn't cry.

The news of King Qi's death quickly spread around the world with the report of "Daming Daily".

Since the beginning of May, almost every day, people have looked at the tomb of King Qi in the distance at the foot of Tianshou Mountain, and then silently put a bouquet of flowers at the door of the imperial tomb, turned around and left silently.

This situation lasted for a long time, according to the Tianshou Battalion Zhang Jincaishen, who guarded Tianshou Mountain, in his "Miscellaneous Records of Tianshou Mountain":

"From the news of King Qi's burial to the twenty-six years since I was discharged from the army, there was almost no shortage of flowers at the entrance of the imperial mausoleum, less than 100 flower baskets every day, more than hundreds, and the soldiers put the flower baskets around the tomb of King Qi."

"The flowers in these baskets lived tenaciously until they were sown and completely withered, and many years later, the surrounding area of the tomb of King Qi has become a sea of flowers......

The people could not accept the news of Qi Wang's death for a long time, and it was not until a strong earthquake of magnitude 7 occurred in Lao County, Shanxi Province in the winter of the same year, that the people's attention was distracted.

Zhao Ertang, who was the governor of Shanxi at the time, reported: "Of the 15 prefectures and counties to which Taiyuan Prefecture belongs, Daizhou, Laoxian, and Fanzhi are the most severely affected, and more than 60,000 houses in Lushe County have been destroyed, and more than 500,000 people have been affected by the disaster......."

Upon learning of the news of the earthquake in Shanxi, Zhu Heyin, the crown prince who had been appointed to supervise the country, issued an order to issue 2 million taels of silver for disaster relief.

This amount of money is not much, but it is already the largest amount that Da Ming can come up with.

The annual repurchase of 5 million taels of treasury bonds made the household department breathless, and Zhu Heyin, who had no choice but to order the suspension of the construction of many sections of the railway, barely allowed the Ming Dynasty's finances not to accumulate too many silver taels.

On the fifth day of the lunar month, Qi Wulong, a famous general known as "Southern Qi and Northern Li", died in Guangzhou at the age of 67.

On the sixth day of the first month, Emperor Zhu Ciran issued an edict to drop out of the dynasty for three days, and at the same time posthumously crowned Qi Wulong as the king of Annan, nicknamed "Wujing", and his son Qi Pingbo attacked the Duke of Fengguo.

On the seventh day of the first month, Emperor Zhu Ciran issued a decree and appointed Mu Zhen, the Duke of Qianguo, as the governor of the Southern Army.

On the third day of the first month of the 14th year of Qiansheng, Zheng Chenggong, the governor of the navy, died of illness on the sea route to Nanzhou to patrol the border at the age of 61.

The emperor posthumously named him the Marquis of Quanzhou, nicknamed "Wu Mu", and his son Zheng Jing attacked Quanzhou Bo and was promoted to the deputy governor of the navy, and Shi Lang, the former deputy governor, succeeded him as the governor of the navy.

In April, the cabinet minister Yu Chengchan died in office, nicknamed "Wenzhuang", Li Guangdi, the secretary of the criminal department, entered the cabinet, and Zhang Ying succeeded him as the secretary of the criminal department.

In May, Leibniz of the Holy Roman Empire published his discovery of differentiation, and in the same month he received an invitation from Zhao Buchan, the shopkeeper of the Vienna King of Qi.

In June, Leibniz was invited to attend Tokyo City University in Qi and became a student at the University of Tokyo.

In the winter, the new King James II of England completely ignored the general opposition at home and abroad, violated the "oath ordinance" established by the previous king Charles II, which forbade Catholics from holding public office, and openly appointed Catholics to important positions in the army.

In February of the fifteenth year of Qiansheng, Qi built the world's first iron bridge in the city of Tokyo.

On the second day of the fifth month, after 30 years of unremitting research, the team of Qian Ning, a scientist at the Daming Armaments Institute, finally made a machine that uses the deflection of the galvanometer pointer to receive information.

In May, Zhu Helei, the prince of Dingwang, united with Mongolia to form a 40,000-strong army to the west, attacked Tsarist Russia, recovered the Smolensk region, and killed more than 4,000 enemy soldiers.

In July, it took three months for the Johnning team to successfully replace human writing with the "on/off" and "length" of electric current, and named it "Johnning Code" (Morse Code), and the world's first telegraph was launched.

In August, King Louis XIV hired thirty-two secondary school graduates from the Kunlun Mansion of the Inspectorate of Kunlun and asked them to teach at the University of Paris.

In September, Zhu Heyin, the supervisor of the Ministry of Industry, built telegraph lines in the Forbidden City and the four cities of east, west, north and south.

In October, Tang King Zhu Yujian died at the age of eighty-four, nicknamed "Xiang", and his son Zhu Linyuan succeeded him as Tang King.

In the winter month, the four telegraph lines in the capital were officially put into operation, and they led to the Sixth Division, the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, the Terracotta Division of the Five Cities, and the Shuntian Military Camp.

In front of Emperor Zhu Ciran, Qian Ning showed how to use a telegraph and how to encode letters and numbers for photographing.

When Emperor Zhu Ciran saw the rows of numbers slowly typing out on the Channing telegraph, he was shocked and called the method of using the telegraph the Channing cipher (Morse cipher).

Because the Qianning telegraph is completely dependent on human operation, its reporting rate is very low, even the most skilled typist, can only send and receive about 20 groups of words per minute, but the Qianning telegraph equipment is simple, easy to maintain, and the working performance is very stable.

Therefore, after seeing the means of communication of the telegraph, Emperor Zhu Ci set an order to build a telegraph line to the two capitals throughout the country.

On the first day of the first month of the sixteenth year of the reign of Qiansheng, Leibniz published his treatise on integral science for the first time in the Qi newspaper, "Esoteric Geometry and the Analysis of Inseparable and Infinite", as well as the symbols representing the integrals.

On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, the Great Ming Qin Tianjian published the world's first meteorological map containing the distribution of prevailing winds in the ocean.

On the first day of February, Huang Ping, the naval governor of Qi State, discovered a shipwreck in Zhongdu Bay (Caribbean Sea) and salvaged 53,000 taels of gold from it.

Zhu Cihong, the king of Qi, who learned of this, collected the gold into the treasury and rewarded Huangping with 1,000 taels of gold, and the 24,000 officers and men of the navy also received a total of nearly 150,000 taels of silver.

On the fifth day of the first month of March, according to the intelligence of Jinyiwei, Wang Tang, the Shangshu of the Ming Dynasty, submitted a note to the crown prince Zhu Heyin on the "Population of the World".

In the song, the top five countries in terms of population are: "more than 380 million in the Ming Dynasty, more than 68 million in the Mughals, more than 62 million in the Qi Kingdom, about 20 million in the Ottoman Empire, and more than 16 million in France......"

Among them, Wang Tang roughly divided the population into the Ming Dynasty vassal system, European countries, and the Southwest Asian Alliance.

The population of the Ming Dynasty is about 500 million, the European countries are about 120 million, the Southwest Asian Union is about 100 million, and the world population is about 720 million.

The afterword looks like about four or five chapters, but it's possible to write too much unconsciously, such as the side story......

(End of chapter)