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In the second year of Yongchang, when the countries of the Great Ming Dynasty were almost peaceful in the world, Europe was inseparable.

The war in Europe has not ceased for a moment since the 17th year of the Qiansheng Dynasty.

In the eighteenth year of the reign of the Emperor, the nations of Europe were shocked by Louis XIV's invasion of the Holy Roman Empire.

Fearing that France's next target would be its own, the nations soon sided with the Habsburg royal family, Spain and Holy Rome.

It's just that the war situation of the three kingdoms is not as hearty as the eastern battlefield, but is dominated by a long siege.

Therefore, until March of the 19th year of the reign of Qiansheng, the situation on the battlefield of the three countries did not change much.

This stalemate was broken in April of the same year when Leopold I of the Holy Roman Empire and the Netherlands concluded the Treaty of Vienna.

The Netherlands joined the camp of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire, and declared that they would jointly fight against the expansion of Europe by Louis XIV, the "Sun King", and called on the Ming and Qi states to urge France to restore the Peace of Vienna in the 35th year of the Apocalypse (1655).

However, by the time the news reached Daming, it was already October, and Daming was busy with Zhu Ciran's funeral and a series of things about Zhu Heyin's accession to the throne, so he didn't have time to pay attention to it.

In the following year and a half, Portugal and Denmark also joined the camp, thus forming the anti-French Grand Alliance.

The formation of the Grand Alliance, and the tenacity of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire, hampered France's plans for a quick victory.

France fought the war for five years without protracted war preparations, and the entry of Denmark made France's situation even worse.

Fortunately for Louis XIV, the English Civil War was a protracted war, so Britain could not fish in troubled waters across the Channel.

Otherwise, with his understanding of the British, those guys would never let go of such an opportunity to rob while the fire was burning.

It can be said that the civil strife of Britain, a-stirring stick, has strengthened the intensity of this war a little, because France does not have to worry about being backstabbed by Britain from the sea.

As a result, the Grand Alliance War, which was originally based on protracted warfare and more sieges, was completely changed.

Since the famous French generals Droureny and Grand Condé had died and disappeared, the commanders of the French army in this war were the Duke of Luxembourg and Marshal Catinit.

They are good soldiers, but they are not first-class generals.

They led a large army to forcibly attack the city, interspersed behind the enemy army for field battles.

In the face of multi-country attacks, they chose the simplest, most direct and most costly way of playing.

Starting from the winter of the 19th year of Qiansheng, they trained 100,000 troops in the rear, and asked Louis XIV to purchase enough weapons and equipment from Qi to equip 100,000 troops, trying to break through the multinational attack with numbers.

The equipment of these people cost one-third of France's financial revenue in the same year, and the Qi State also spread the news of France's purchase of arms through the country's own merchants.

The countries that learned the news placed orders for the purchase of weapons from Qi State, and at the same time trained troops in the rear.

In this way, in just a few months, the Qi State received an order for weapons worth seven million and three hundred and thirty thousand taels of silver.

In February of the first year of Yongchang, in order to fight William, the co-ruler of the Netherlands and England, Louis XIV resolutely sent the navy and 50,000 troops to England to help King James II of England restore the throne.

In April, the British and Dutch navies met the French in the waters off Cape Beach, and a naval battle broke out, with Qi wooden merchant ships arriving at Dunkirk with enough ammunition to fit 20,000 men.

A few days later, the combined Anglo-Dutch fleet was defeated by the French fleet, and the French army of 50,000 troops landed in the port of Dover.

On the same day, Louis XIV sent a letter to James II offering to help him restore the throne on the condition that the restored James II would need to help France contain Denmark and the Netherlands.

Faced with this temptation, James II, who had been suppressed by William to the point of exhaustion, chose to agree without hesitation.

Five days later, the British and French forces of 80,000 attacked London in a north-south position, while William held his ground, and quickly moved south after repulsing the 30,000-strong army led by James.

On 20 April, William encountered 50,000 French troops in the suburbs outside London, and after half a month of fighting, William was defeated.

On 17 May, he withdrew to London with 20,000 remnants of his army, intending to rely on London for defense and waiting for reinforcements from within.

However, reality did not give him a chance.

On 19 May, Ouyang Gao, a foreign scholar at the University of Paris, France, suggested to Louis XIV that he send troops to the Netherlands, and persuaded Louis XIV and the Minister of the Interior at the conference to persuade him through reason.

On the first day of June, the Duke of Luxembourg, under the order of Louis XIV, led a new army of 100,000 troops who had been trained for seven months to attack the Netherlands, pinning down 50,000 native Dutch troops, and at the same time, successfully making William, who was still waiting for reinforcements, have to withdraw from the English battlefield.

On 17 June, William withdrew from England with his wife, Mary, and 16,000 remnants.

On June 21, King James returned to London, after a long absence.

Upon learning of James' successful reinstatement, Louis XIV asked the French general Villars to remind James to attack the Netherlands, but James II excused himself for various reasons.

On the first day of July, when Villar realized that James II had not fulfilled his promises, he changed his tune and asked for support for 5,000 British troops.

Faced with this abruptly reduced demand, James II hurriedly agreed, and then transferred 5,000 British troops and Villar to withdraw from London.

When Villars arrived at the Dutch battlefield with more than 46,000 Anglo-French troops, the Duke of Luxembourg immediately launched a fierce attack on the Netherlands.

Under their offensive, the Dutch army led by William was repeatedly defeated in the occasional battle with the French, and almost never won a battle.

However, William did not admit defeat and give in, but became more and more frustrated, fighting for every inch of the country.

The superior French army seemed to be on the verge of taking the Netherlands, but the poor financial situation came at a critical moment.

In order not to affect the war, Louis XIV had no choice but to borrow 1 million taels from the Daming Bank in Paris to purchase enough canned food, cotton jackets and other military supplies from the Qi State.

In September, twenty wooden galleons of Qi arrived at Dunkirk carrying the first batch of four million cans, and there were tens of millions of such cans, enough to support the French army to take the Netherlands.

This news plunged the precarious Netherlands into despair, but there was no end in sight, and the Holy Roman Empire's army broke through the Eastern Front, and 20,000 anti-French troops entered the Netherlands from Utrecht to defend the Netherlands.

At the same time, Spain in the south invaded Toulouse in France, and the French army faced the encirclement and suppression of almost all of Europe, and the only thing that could support him to continue fighting was the weapon support from the Qi State.

On September 27, Louis XIV again borrowed 2 million taels from the Daming Bank and purchased 100,000 flintlock pistols, 600 6-pounder guns, 200 12-pounder cannons, and 800,000 catties of finished nitrate.

Not only that, but Louis XIV wanted Qi to suspend arms orders from Spain and the Holy Roman Empire.

In this regard, Zhou Xian, the head of Qi in Paris, said that "the former can be discussed, but the latter cannot be discussed."

On the fifth day of October, the French army recaptured Toulouse, but at the same time there was a rebellion in Ireland, and the remaining 4,000 British troops of the French army were transferred back to put down the rebellion.

On October 17, Mei Wending, a bachelor of the Daming Academy of Armaments, published "A Detailed Explanation of Calculus", which promoted the application and research of calculus in physics and mechanics.

On the eleventh day of the winter month, Tsar Peter I, who was born in St. Petersburg, sent a letter to King Alvin of Sweden.

Peter expressed to Sweden the importance of Tsarist Russia to Sweden using the Eastern proverb "cold lips and teeth", and explained that "if Romanzhov disappears, then Sweden will border Mongolia and Dingguo, and war will inevitably break out in the future."

On the twentieth day of winter, Sweden and Tsarist Russia, two countries that had hated each other for several eras, formed an alliance, and a month later Norway joined the alliance, known as the "Northern Alliance".

On the second day of the third month of the second year of Yongchang, the Governor's Office of the Five Armies of the Ming Dynasty made an assessment of the Northern Alliance, with a total population of 9.7 million and an army of 320,000, which was enough to deal with the strength of Dingguo and Mongolia.

In April, the British army suppressed the rebellion in Ireland, but soon after, a rebellion broke out in Scotland, and Britain was plunged into civil strife, and the army fought everywhere.

In the same month, the Battle of Verdun broke out at Verdun by the French, Spanish and Holy Roman Empire forces, and the two camps committed 240,000 troops, and the French finally held the place.

On the seventh day of May, an earthquake that broke out in the East China Sea (Caribbean) region of Qi caused a tsunami that swept almost across the coast of the East China Sea.

The tsunami engulfed the Donghai Port (Port Royal), one of the top 10 ports in Qi Province, and sank two-thirds of Donghai Prefecture in Weiqiu Province into the East China Sea, and the remaining buildings on land were also swept away by the waves.

After the disaster, Zhu Cihong, the king of Qi, participated in the disaster relief with his navy.

In July, after the disaster, 7,637 people died and 45,427 were missing.

On the second day of the eighth month, the household department was ordered to distribute 50 taels of bereavement money to the surviving family members of the dead and missing people.

Anyone can see that in this kind of disaster, disappearances and deaths are almost the same.

On August 15, the state of Qi built a new Donghai County on the site of Donghai County.

On the first day of the winter month, the Daming Armaments Institute successfully developed the fourth version of the internal combustion engine through the data of the Qi Academy of Sciences.

On the fifteenth day of the winter month, the fourth version of the internal combustion engine was loaded into the four-wheeled car to run.

On the 19th of December, after more than a month of continuous adjustment, four-wheeled vehicles using ethanol gasoline were unveiled in the Forbidden City.

The car weighs 450 pounds, and can travel 50 miles at the fastest per hour, and can travel 100 miles with a refueling.

It was made of brass with leather and cotton, but according to Emperor Zhu Heyin's recollections, it was not a good ride, and the pungent smell of gasoline made him not even have an appetite for lunch that day.

After a short experience, Zhu Heyin asked about the cost of the car, and the answer was two hundred taels, which is equal to three tractors.

It turns out that such a high price is unaffordable for civilians, and the subsequent maintenance costs and use costs are even more prohibitive.

The price of a tank of gasoline is unaffordable for many people, so after the four-wheeled car was manufactured, it did not enter people's field of vision like bicycles and tricycles.

On the fifth day of February in the third year of Yongchang, the Qi Academy of Sciences invented the lead-acid battery, and made a hand-cranked DC generator in the Academy of Sciences, and stored the electricity into 30 lead-acid batteries.

On the night of the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, the Academy of Sciences lit up a research room of the Armaments Institute with two charcoal rods and copper wires, which was the first time that human beings used electricity to illuminate it at night.

However, the charcoal rod did not last long before losing its luster.

The research fellow of the Academy of Sciences flipped through some of the research documents left by King Qi Wen, and finally used tungsten filament as the filament of electric lamps in the future.

In April, the population of Qi exceeded 80 million.

In July, according to the principle of the hand-cranked engine of the Qi State, and according to the information left by King Qi Wen, the Ming Dynasty successfully built a hydroelectric generator on the mountain near the armament institute.

In August, the Yongchang Emperor Zhu Heyin ordered the suspension of local telegraph construction, hoping to build an undersea telegraph line from Beijing to Liaodong, through Korea and Yingzhou, and then to the western capital of Qi.

In September, Zhu Linyuan, the king of Tang, called on the vassal to continue the crusade against the natives hiding on the Kunlun Plateau.

In October, Mei Wending, the director of the Armaments Institute, replied to the emperor that with the current technology, it was impossible to place a telegraph line in the Daming Sea.

At the same time, he believed that the Ming could lay a line from Beijing to Busan, North Korea, and then lay a telegraph in the "Yingchao Strait", land on the Austronesian Province at the same time, and connect the northern state capital in the north.

If this is the case, the communication time between the Ming and Qi countries can be shortened by seven days, and there is no need to stop the construction of telegraph lines in various places.

After Mei Wending played, Emperor Zhu and Yin Zhu agreed.

On the first day of the winter month, the Ministry of Rites negotiated with Korea, and the Korean king Li Zhuo was very happy, and at the same time signaled the local yamen to cooperate with the officials of the Celestial Empire.

On the fifteenth day of the winter month, Emperor Zhu Heyin thought that there was already a telegram now, and the local officials must go up to the six parts for the record, so the Ming Dynasty's "inscription of this chapter" system was changed, and a new "text" was added to the two official recitals of "inscription" and "inscription".

The content of the text is extensive, and there is basically no limit to the content.

This represents a better understanding of the local situation, and at the same time, it further increases the risk of local officials being exposed to local misdeeds.

On the 22nd of the winter month, the first assistant of the cabinet, Yan Yinshao, the second assistant, Sun Kewang, and the cabinet minister Li Dingguo.

On the 23rd, the emperor promoted Yan Yinshao as the Duke of Lu, Sun Kewang as the Duke of Liang, and Li Dingguo as the Duke of Qin.

On the 25th, after the votes of the Governor's Office of the Six Ministries and the Five Armies, the cabinet minister Chen Tingjing was elected as the cabinet minister, and the cabinet minister Zhou Pei was elected as the second assistant.

At the same time, the naval governor Shi Langzhishi, the deputy governor Zheng Jing entered the cabinet, the naval governor's office secretary Lin Liang was promoted to the naval governor, and Shi Lang's son Shi Shibiao served as the deputy governor.

On the 26th, the emperor crowned Shi Lang as the Marquis of Jinjiang and Zheng Jing was promoted to the Marquis of Yanping.

On the same day, the first assistant Chen Tingjing was sparse, hoping that the emperor would increase the number of officials in six ministries in order to cope with the increase in "texts" in the future.

The next day, Emperor Zhu and Yin Zhu agreed.

On the first day of the lunar month, Li Sizhen, the son of Li Dingguo, the Duke of Qin, was appointed as the governor of Shangdu.

On the fifteenth day of the first month of the fourth year of Yongchang, Emperor Zhu Heyin inspected the State of Qi with the crown prince Zhu Yixuan and the Duke of Qin Li Dingguo.

In March, the Kunlun Domains returned triumphantly, and the crown prince Zhu Yixuan and the Duke of Qin Li Dingguo arrived in Xijing.

For the crown prince Zhu Yixuan, this is only a journey of less than a month and a half, but Li Dingguo, the prince of Qin, has walked for a full fifty-one years.

When they came to the Qi country they saw, there was already a gap between the Qi country they came to and the Qi country that Zhu Heyin came to back then.

The railway network of Qi has been developed, and the railways of the 25 prefectures in the country are all open, and the whitewashed white-walled, gray-tiled and blue-brick buildings make people look like, and the clean and wide roads are even brighter.

However, these are actually all buildings left by King Qi Wen back then, and what Zhu Cihong did was just to maintain his father's policy back then.

Since the death of King Qi Wen, whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Qi State, its development speed has decreased slightly compared to his lifetime.

But even so, there are still many places in the Qi State that need to be emulated by the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yixuan led people around the counties of Jingzhao Mansion, while Li Dingguo and Zhu Cihong drank tea and walked around the palace of Qi every day.

Li Dingguo is now seventy-four years old, and Zhu Cihong is also sixty-one years old, and the two don't know if they will be able to see each other again in the future, so they cherish this opportunity very much.

In addition, Zhu Yixuan's son and grandson Zhu Bohai also stood next to listen to the conversation between the two, and there was a two- or three-year-old doll next to him.

This doll is the grandson of the prince Zhu Heyi, that is, the great-grandson of Zhu Cihong.

Zhu Youxiao's lineage is relatively old, Zhu Youxiao is six years old, Zhu Ciran is ten years old, Zhu Heyin is twelve years old, and Zhu Yixuan is ten years old.

In Zhu Bohai's generation, he is eleven years older than Zhu Bomu.

Today's Zhu Bohai is thirteen years old, and Zhu Bomu is only two years old.

Zhu Bohai lowered his head and looked at Zhu Bomu next to him, while Li Dingguo glanced at him, and then said to Zhu Cihong:

"Long live means that the grandson will stay in Qi to study in middle school, and return to Daming to study in college."

After he said this, he looked at Zhu Cihong directly.

Seeing that he finished speaking, Zhu Cihong also took his mind off the chessboard, and then nodded:

"Since Brother Yin said it, let's do it according to this, and I'll let Brother Yin arrange it tomorrow."

After that, Zhu Cihong looked at Li Dingguo, who was much older, and unconsciously thought of his father, and couldn't help asking:

"What happened to my father's tomb?"

"Good, I go to see it every month." Speaking of the Tomb of King Qi, a smile appeared on Li Dingguo's face, and he mentioned:

"Thanks to His Royal Highness's blessing, Tianshou Mountain has people putting flowers at the door almost every day, and it is a pity that those flowers are lost, so many of them are put in the rest of the Ming Tombs by the mausoleum guards."

"After a long time, Tianshou Mountain has almost become a flower mountain."

"In August last year, the mausoleum guards found wild honey on a tree at the foot of the Tomb of King Qi, so they picked a jar of honey, and it tasted very good."

"After taking a bite, I asked the officialdom to put a few beehives in Tianshou Mountain, thinking that I would have honey to eat when I went back this year."

"When the time comes, I'll have a few jars to bring to you to eat, and it's also great to eat some honey when you're older."

"Hmm......" Listening to the situation in the tomb of King Qi, Zhu Cihong smiled and nodded.

When the two of them smiled and turned their heads to look at Zhu Bohai and Zhu Bomu, they found that Zhu Bohai didn't know when he held Zhu Bomu in his arms and teased with his hands.

He took a piece of candy and put it in front of Zhu Bomu, tempting to speak:

"Call my brother, ask my brother to give you candy ......"

(End of chapter)