In October of the third year of Yongchang, a sudden cold disaster swept through France and the Netherlands.

France and the Netherlands, which were at war, were hit hard by the cold plague, the price of domestic cereals soared to five times that of the beginning of the year, more than 20 million people starved, and tens of thousands of people were found dead from hunger and cold on the streets of Paris in just half a month.

The Holy Roman Empire, as the largest grain exporter, took the opportunity to raise the price of grain, which directly led to tens of thousands of people being starved to death and frozen to death every day in France and the Netherlands.

At the same time, Britain's James II suppressed rebellions in Ireland and Scotland, but years of war destroyed agricultural production and caused domestic prices to soar.

Anti-war sentiment also rose in England and Wales in mid-October, which led to the election of the anti-war Tory party as the new parliamentary majority, while anti-war factions in France and the Netherlands gradually gained the upper hand.

At such a moment, the governors of Qi in Paris, London, and Amsterdam found Louis XIV, James II, and William respectively.

In various palaces, these principals gave the rulers of the three kingdoms a list full of goods.

Qi didn't trade at a loss, but Qi didn't sell at an expensive price like the Holy Roman Empire.

The state of Qi has doubled the original price of many goods, and such a price is undoubtedly very low for the current Three Kingdoms.

In the winter month, Qi and the three countries signed three trade lists.

A month later, Qi will export 30 million stone wheat, 30 million canned food, as well as 500,000 catties of brown sugar, cane sugar, and 300,000 horses of white cloth and other commodities to the three countries.

The price of these goods reached 35 million taels, which was equivalent to two years' fiscal revenues of the three countries.

However, the rulers of the three countries are not fools.

In the first month of the fourth year of Yongchang, when the materials of Qi arrived in batches, the rulers of the three kingdoms claimed that they had bought grain from the Holy Roman Empire and Qi at a high price, and then sold it at 150% of the export price of Qi.

Later scholars of the Qi Kingdom once commented when introducing this history: "During this long trade that lasted for a year and a half, the three countries used the goods of the Qi State to harvest their own people, and a large number of middle classes fell to the poor class, while the nobles of the Three Kingdoms gained a lot of wealth. ”

On 15 April, Prince Zhu Yixuan and Duke Li Dingguo of Qin set off from Xijing Port to return to Beijing.

On 26 May, the flotilla arrived in Tianjin.

On the fifth day of the sixth month, Emperor Zhu Heyin convened the cabinet, the six ministries, and the five military governors to make adjustments to the cabinet.

On July 12, when the Zuodu Imperial Shi Tian Wenjing inspected the old port province, he found that there were a large number of hidden fields in the old port.

In October, Tian Wenjing impeached 1,647 officials in the old port, including Zeng Ying, the former political envoy of the old Hong Kong, Zheng Yan, the envoy of the Imperial Palace, and Guo Houwei, the envoy of the soldiers and horses, and listed three of them and their accomplices.

According to Tian Wenjing's visit and investigation, Si Tianmu, the political envoy of the old port, has been greedy and hidden by officials since the twelfth year of Qiansheng, and in the fourth year of Yongchang, many officials who had served in the old port have more or less hidden a large number of acres.

On October 17, Emperor Zhu Heyin of Yongchang sent Li Siqian, the son of Li Dingguo, the Duke of Qin, to the old port for verification.

On the 27th of the lunar month, Li Siqian played Emperor Yongchang, saying that the officials of the old Hong Kong were very corrupt in the past, and even implicated the officials of Nanzhou.

On the seventh day of the first month of the fifth year of Yongchang, the emperor ordered Tian Wenjing to thoroughly investigate the number of hidden fields in Jiugang and Nanzhou, and ordered that all officials above the eighth grade in Jiugang and Nanzhou be imprisoned.

In February, Tian Wenjing led officials to Nanzhou.

On February 17, Liu Cheng, the general soldier of Nanzhou, and Yang Chong rebelled with soldiers and horses, and Wu Jian, the commander of Nanzhou Wei of Jinyi Wei, attacked and killed Tian Wenjing, and Tian Wenjing jumped into the sea to escape, "known as Liu Yang's Rebellion in history"

After the incident broke out, Liu Cheng and Yang Chong declared the rebellion in the old port, and the North Port (Bamaga), which closed the gateway to Nanzhou, as well as many ports, were unaware of the military and civilians of Nanzhou.

At this time, after more than 60 years of development, the population of Nanzhou has reached more than 5 million, and the total number of soldiers and horses of the army and the Terracotta Division is more than 40,000 people.

It's just that Liu Cheng and Yang Gao estimated their prestige in the army and Nanzhou, and overestimated the courage of the people around them.

Guo Zhaoqing, the political envoy of Nanzhou, who also participated in the Yintian case, did not dare to rebel at all, so he took advantage of the attack on Tian Wenjing by Liu Cheng and others to go north by boat, ran to the old port of Nanhai Mansion, and told Li Siqian about the Nanzhou rebellion.

Li Siqian, who learned the news, immediately went to the palace and sent a ship to Dongzhou (New Zealand) in Nanzhou.

Fortunately, Dongzhou Mansion is far away from Nanzhou, not only did not participate in the "Yintian Case", but also did not collude with Liu Cheng and others.

On March 12, Tian Wenjing fled back to Nanhai Mansion, and at the same time news of Liu Yang's rebellion reached Beijing.

Emperor Yongchang, who learned of the situation, led the southern army to quell the rebellion with Mu Zhen, the Duke of Qianguo, and the navy assisted.

On 20 March, Mu Zhen, the governor of the Southern Army and the Duke of Qianguo, arrived in Jiaozhi and mobilized troops and horses from five provinces, including Jiaozhi, Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, and Jiugang, and the South China Sea Fleet assisted the soldiers and horses to cross the sea to Dongshan Province (New Guinea), the old port.

On the 10th day of the first month of April, Mu Zhen led 15 battalions of soldiers and horses from five provinces, united with about 50,000 people of the South China Sea Fleet to take an oath at Nan'an Port, Dongshan Prefecture, and ordered people to spread the news, saying that "the good ones will not move, and those who commit crimes will not be killed."

It was only then that the soldiers and civilians of Beigang knew about Liu Yang's rebellion.

On the 11th, the army crossed the sea, and the soldiers and civilians of Beigang opened the port to welcome the king's division, and the army landed in Beigang without hindrance.

At the same time, the military and civilians in all parts of Nanzhou also stood still as Mu Zhen said.

In this way, they immediately became anxious about Liu Cheng, Yang Chong, and Wu Jian, a group of generals and officials who had hidden a large amount of cultivated land.

On the 20th, when Mu Zhen led the army to Hepu Mansion, the soldiers and horses stationed in Hepu tied Liu Cheng, Yang Chong, and Wu Jian's henchmen, and at the same time hurriedly opened the city gate to welcome Wang Shi.

On the 23rd, when he learned of Mu Zhen's occupation of Hepu County, Liu Cheng, Yang Chong, and Wu Jian were shocked, and immediately took more than 600 henchmen to hijack the ship in the port of Jiuzhenfu (Sydney).

A steamer laden with gold, silver and jewels and three ships became their dwellings, and they fled westward.

On the 24th, a soldier who found that Liu Cheng and other generals were not there boldly opened the door of Liu Cheng's mansion.

After discovering that Liu Cheng and his family were missing, they hurriedly sent someone to inform Mu Zhen in Hepu County.

On the 27th, Mu Zhen got the news and hurriedly played the emperor.

On the 30th, the Ningming County guard reported that he saw four steamers heading west, and when Mu Zhen learned about it, he hurriedly sent the South China Sea Fleet to pursue it westward.

On the third day of the fifth month, Zhu Heyin, the Yongchang Emperor who learned that Nanzhou had recovered and Liu Yang had fled, ordered Lin Liang, the naval governor, to encircle and suppress Liu Cheng and Yang Chong.

On 27 May, the Kunlun Inspectorate Si Dongping Prefecture made a recital, saying that the Huangdian maritime merchants had found traces of traitors in the southern part of Dongping Mansion.

On the fifth day of June, the Atlantic Fleet led by Naval Governor Lin Liang encountered Liu and Yang in the southern part of Kunlun Province (Cape of Good Hope) and ordered an artillery bombardment.

On the same day, Liu Cheng was killed by a cannon, Yang Chong jumped into the sea and drowned, Wu Jian killed himself, and the Liu Yang Rebellion, which had been in trouble for several months, was completely quelled.

Strictly speaking, this could not be called a rebellion, because Liu, Yang, and Wu did not have the ability to strictly control their subordinates.

Except for the middle and high-level generals who were in the same league with them, most of the grassroots officers and soldiers trusted the Ming more than the commander-in-chief.

The reason for this phenomenon can be traced back to the change of defense system in the military region set by King Qi during the Apocalypse.

This system has been well maintained, so there is also a saying in the army that "the battalion is beaten with iron and the soldiers are flowing water".

Almost every three to five years, the armies of the Governor's Office are rotated.

In addition to the position of generals above the general rank, the rest of the generals, garrisons, general flag officers, team leaders, army commanders and other middle-level and grass-roots generals and soldiers will suffer a major reshuffle.

In addition, with the increase in population, the younger generation is tall and strong, and the salary of the soldiers is very respectable, and the income is high, so the requirements for selecting soldiers are also very strict.

During the Apocalypse, when the Qiansheng Emperor Zhu Ciran was still the crown prince of the prison state, he further strictly reduced the retirement age of the soldiers in the military to under the age of 30.

In the Qiansheng period, he improved his education, height, and endurance in the requirements for military selection.

The education shall not be lower than that of secondary school, and the height shall not be less than five feet four inches (172.8), and the height shall not be less than six miles in a quarter of an hour.

These two items alone discourage many people.

Therefore, in the Yongchang period, those who could join the army were all able to go on horses to become soldiers and dismount as officials.

They have their own ideas and opinions on politics, so they will not follow the orders of their generals like the soldiers of ancient times.

In this incident, the soldiers of the Southern Army stationed in Nanzhou also proved one point to many careerists within the DPRK with their actions, that is, it is impossible to engage in armed struggle in the Ming Dynasty in a short period of time and plot against the army.

In addition, the attitude of the people made those careerists see the unshakable status of the Ming Dynasty.

In the face of Liu, Yang, and Wu commanding the soldiers of the Soldiers and Horses Division and the officials of the Criminal Department to collect food, most of the people simply ignored them, and even persuaded the soldiers and officials of the Soldiers and Horses Division who knew each other to hide secretly.

In this way, the three people who hold the military power can hardly move any of the 100-strong teams except for their own henchmen.

Even those local officials who play with the pen are not afraid of their sharp blades, and the martial arts of the Ming civil officials have long been cultivated in the Apocalypse.

All these are the factors that Liu, Yang, and Wu rebelled and made a joke.

However, Daming is not absolutely without problems.

For example, this time, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, Wu Jian pulled the flag and rebelled, and no one in Nanzhou Jinyi Wei reported the news in advance, but relied on Guo Zhaoqing, the political envoy of Nanzhou who participated in the Yintian case, to report the news.

If Guo Zhaoqing doesn't report the news, then wait for Tian Wenjing to get out of danger and go to Nanhai Mansion, and then play again, I'm afraid that Liu Yang's rebellion will really be "chaotic".

Therefore, when the news of the Liu Yang Rebellion and many generals in the naval battle reached the capital, the Yongchang Emperor Zhu Heyin ordered Lu Yuangao to be relieved of his post by commanding the Jinyi Guards of the three dynasties, and at the same time crowned him as the Marquis of Heyang to appease him.

On the fifth day of the ninth month, Zhu Yidium, the king of Teng, was in charge of the Jinyi Guard, and the emperor took his inventory of the Jinyi Guard, and at the same time ordered Xiao Teng, the eunuch of the East Factory, to inspect the East Factory.

On the tenth day of the first month, the emperor led the Nanjing officials to the left capital Yushi Wenjing Yao, continued to inspect the world, and transferred the Baoding battalion to protect him.

On the first day of October, the surviving Liu Yang offender was taken to Beijing, and the emperor personally wrote down the punishment for the 427 people.

This kind of news relieved many relatives who were implicated in these people, after all, when Emperor Taizongcheng was still there, it was a "punishment of the nine clans" at every turn.

In comparison, the current Emperor Yongchang is simply too benevolent......

At noon on the third day of October, with a scream, Liu Yang's rebellion was completely over.

Without the interference of others, and the unsuccessful rebellion of Liu Yang, many officials involved in the Jiugang and Nanzhou Yintian cases surrendered one after another.

Because they voluntarily surrendered, they did not end up beheaded, but were sentenced to exile from the three clans to the Kwufu (Sakhalin Island) in Lingbei.

After a Yintian case, Tian Wenjing beheaded 274 hard-mouthed corrupt officials and punished more than 5,400 accomplice officials.

After these officials implicated the three clans, a total of nearly 270,000 people were exiled.

After the case ended, Tian Wenjing stayed in the old port for half a year, and then measured the number of all the "hidden fields" and counted everyone's family property.

According to the third day of the sixth month of the eighth year of Yongchang, Tian Wenjing found a total of 36.42 million mu of hidden fields in Jiugang and Nanzhou, and confiscated 776 boxes of money, grain, jewelry, calligraphy and paintings, and antiques, equivalent to 2,36,275,400 taels of silver......

The seizures of the old port and Nanzhou made everyone jaw-dropping.

Only acres of land, the officials of the two provinces were greedy for more than two percent of the Ming Dynasty's acres, and the current silver was enough for the Ming Dynasty to spend most of the year richly.

Where these things came from, needless to say, Zhu Heyin also knows.

Although he didn't connect hundreds of thousands of people in one go, it wasn't that he was soft-hearted, but that he knew that this kind of person could not be killed.

Instead of killing them, it is better to throw them into a poor place and gain a firm foothold in the local area for the Ming Dynasty.

In July, the emperor ordered Tian Wenjing to give all the acres of land to families who had too many children to afford.

In August, Tian Wenjing distributed the more than 36 million mu of cultivated land obtained from the inventory to more than 4 million households.

In September, Tian Wenjing set off for Luchuan, and at the same time, France, the Netherlands, the Holy Roman Empire, Spain and other countries in the west of Eurasia were at war for a long time, and many anti-war parties emerged within themselves.

On 17 September, the Four Nations signed the Peace of Risvik, ending the nine-year War of the Grand Alliance.

The signing of the peace treaty allowed the warring camps to gain and lose each other.

Among them, although France gained Strasbourg, it lost the territory and sea supremacy of other countries newly seized in the "Grand Alliance" war.

In addition, France further reduced tariffs on the Netherlands and returned Spain and parts of the Holy Roman Empire.

After all, Louis XIV, the Sun King, failed to defeat the European nations and failed to realize his ideal of a unified Europe.

On the fifth day of the third month of the ninth year of Yongchang, Shi Zhang Huangyan, the governor of Qi, who was known as the arm of Qi, died in office at the age of 78.

The King of Qi dropped out of the dynasty for three days, and the Yongchang Emperor dropped out of the dynasty for one day, and posthumously named the Marquis of Ningbo, nicknamed "Zhenwu".

His son Zhang Shiqi did not surrender to the lord and was the Marquis of Ningbo.

At this time, in addition to the King of Qi, the only one who had seen the three emperors of the Ming Dynasty was the sixty-seven-year-old Xia Wanchun, the servant of the household department of the Qi State, and he also succeeded Changshi after Zhang Huangyan's death.

In April, the telegraph line from Beijing to Seoul in North Korea was opened.

Upon learning that the telegram was connected, King Yi Kuo of Joseon became the first king to present himself to the Son of Heaven as a foreign vassal.

Since the text is played, it is not too official, so the translation expressed by Li Zhuo in this telegram is......

[Long live, the minister heard that the telegram between Seoul and Tianjing has been communicated, and he is here to congratulate him. 】

Regarding the text of Li Yan's table, because it is the first one, it is rare for Zhu Heyin to let people move the telegraph machine to his heart palace, and ordered someone to knock in response:

[I know that Aiqing has a heart, and I heard that Aiqing is diligent in government, so I must remember to rest. 】

Zhu Heyin's reply made Li Zhuo, who was guarding the Seoul telegraph office, ecstatic, and then said hundreds of words of compliments in a row, so that in the end Zhu Heyin was a little impatient, and could only respond to the three words "I know" to prevaricate.

Perhaps even Zhu Heyin himself didn't expect how much trouble he had caused to him by telegraphing to Seoul.

According to the records of the living annotator in the "National History", since April 12, when the Seoul Telegraph Office was able to go directly to the Yangxin Palace, Yi Yong, as the king of Joseon, reported every day.

In the dozens of days from 12 April to the first day of the first month of June, Li Yan sent 50 telegrams in a row, the contents of which were very boring.

[Emperor Ming Joseon Lord Li Zhuo reported on April 15: Today, the minister heard that Busan caught a golden stone, and the minister thought that this should be auspicious, implying that the emperor would be prosperous tomorrow, so he reported it. 】

[Yang Xin Palace's approval: The so-called auspicious rui is just a forgery by local officials for political achievements, which is not enough to believe, and the national fortune should be based on the king's diligence and clarity. 】

[Emperor Ming Joseon Emperor Yi Zhuo reported on April 26: Today's apples in Bukcheong County, South Hamgyong Province are ripe, and the officials below have given some to the ministers to eat, this kind of apple taste is very unique, crisp and sweet, and the ministers want the officials of the Ministry of Rites to bring some to Banzai you to taste. 】

[Approval of the Heart Palace: Recently, there has been a bumper harvest of fruits in the southwest of the country, and there are more fruits in the palace, so there is no need to send them. 】

[Emperor Ming Joseon Emperor Yi Zhuo reported on the sixth day of the fifth month: There are two thugs in Gyeonggi Province who are robbing children on the road, and the minister has ordered someone to track them down. 】

[Approved by the Palace of Nourishing the Heart: Those who kidnap children are the most evil, and they should be severely punished. 】

[Emperor Ming Joseon Li Zhuo reported on the 10th day of the fifth month: The captive child was found, and his father and uncle took him to the south to take care of him, and his parents had left in March. 】

[Emperor Ming Joseon lord Li Zhuo reported on May 13: Today, the minister led hundreds of officials to pickle kimchi in front of Gyeongbokgung Palace, and they can only be eaten after ten years, and they want to send some to Banzai. 】

[Yang Xin Palace's approval: I like hot food, you keep it for yourself to eat, I heard that the grain of Ping An Dao is rising, agriculture is the foundation of the country, you are the lord of the country, you should deal with it as soon as possible. 】

[Emperor Ming Joseon Li Zhuo reported on 16 May: The minister is ashamed, and a few days ago he has sent someone to conduct a thorough investigation, which is caused by a flash flood in the local area, and the minister has been exempted from local taxes for one year. 】

[Emperor Ming Joseon lord Li Zhuo reported on the first day of the first month of June: The minister heard that Banzai had been infected with wind and cold recently, and he dropped out of the dynasty for three days, and led hundreds of officials to pray for Banzai in the Buddhist hall. 】

[Approved by the Heart Cultivation Palace: I have read it, and I am very relieved. 】

It is not difficult to see from the texts reported and approved that Zhu Heyin responded carefully to Li Yan's text from the beginning, to "I have read it", and then to the later direct non-reply except for major events.

This process was very torturous, and Zhu Heyin seemed to be unable to endure such a recital, so he issued an order on the fifth day of the sixth month of June, ordering that the interval between the submission of texts in various places should not be less than three days.

After this decree was issued, Zhu Heyin was also rarely much quieter.

As if the gospel had come after the noise, in July the telegraph line in the Yingchao Strait was successfully laid, which was the world's first submarine communication cable.

In October, the Daming Armaments Institute successfully lit up a room with tungsten filament in the Forbidden City using steam pumps and hydroelectric power plants.

In February of the tenth year of Yongchang, the Daming Armaments Institute did not use tungsten filament as a filament due to technical problems, but used carbon filament.

On the fifth day of the first month of March, the vacuum bulb with carbon filament energized and glowing was connected to the wire, and the world's first stable electric light appeared in the armament yard in Mentougou.

On the seventh day of the third month, after twenty-one hours of experimentation, the carbon filament of the electric lamp burned out.

After this incident, the scholars of the Armaments Academy continued to experiment, and finally determined that the "carbon filament electric lamp" could only last for 156 hours.

At this time, the cost of the bulb is forty-five wen each, and forty-five wen for thirteen days of lights, which may be a bit expensive for Europe and West Asia, but it is just enough for the people of the Ming Dynasty.

However, since the power system has not been thoroughly studied, electric lights have not entered people's homes, but have been used in some palaces in the Forbidden City with storage batteries.

In April of the same year, as a veteran of the Three Dynasties, the grandson of Liang Guo died at home at the age of 87.

Emperor Zhu Heyin, who learned the news, dropped out of the dynasty for three days, and was posthumously named the king of Jianye, nicknamed "Wenduan", and his descendants Zhengqi was demoted to the first rank to attack the Duke of Liang......

Population of Yongchang in the past ten years:

1. Nanzhili, 33.5 million

2. Zhejiang Province, 30.16 million

3. Jiangxi Province, 26.22 million

4. Huguang Province, 24.08 million

5. Yingzhou Province, 20.14 million

6. Luchuan Province, 19.89 million

7. Shandong Province, 19.07 million

8. Henan Province, 18.69 million

9. Shanxi Province, 16.53 million

10. Beizhili, 15.99 million

11. Old Port Province, 14.27 million

12. Cochin Province, 14.14 million

13. Sichuan Province, 14.71 million

14. Guangdong Province, 12.85 million

15. Fujian Province, 11.05 million

16. Shaanxi Province, 10.23 million

17. Yunnan Province, 10.17 million

18. Hexi Province, 10.02 million

19. Liaodong Province, 9.69 million

20. Donghai Province, 9.39 million

Modong Province, 9.15 million

Ganges province, 9.14 million

Guangxi Province, 8.8 million

Guizhou Province, 7.22 million

Nanzhou Province, 5.95 million

Xiaoxiyang, 4.49 million

Kunlun, 4.45 million

Bac Dinh Province, 4.31 million

Ansi province, 4.15 million

In the province alone, 4.09 million

Pak Son Province, 3.74 million

Ha Ching Province, 3.68 million

Tessy Province, 3.57 million

Lingbuk Province, 3.11 million

Uszang Province, 570,000

Middle East Ombudsman, 320,000

In summary, the total population of Yongchang in ten years is 405.96 million

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