In the fourteenth year of Yongchang, on the sixth day of the winter month, the Ming Dynasty announced the limit on the number of rifles that the feudal lords could hold.

For the vassals, the Ming Dynasty almost treated them equally, regardless of the size of the country's population, strength or weakness, and only issued 3,000 and 31 rifles that were enough for a battalion of soldiers and horses.

In addition, the Ming Dynasty also increased the number of soldiers in the county to one battalion.

Although many counties had already secretly expanded their troops at this time, no matter what, the Ming Dynasty always gave them a regular establishment.

A battalion of soldiers and horses corresponds to a battalion of rifles, and anyone can see that Yongchang's move is to keep the difference in strength between the pro-kingdoms and the county kingdoms in the vassal states not too large, so as not to have a big feudal rebellion in the future, and quickly annex a series of small feudal states.

However, even so, there are still many civil and military generals in the temple who have complained about the emperor's move.

In fact, more than 200 feudal countries of all sizes are more than 200 battalions of guns, and in actual terms, there are as few as 600,000 guns and as many as 7.8 million.

You must know that the military system of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies has been suppressed over the years, and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies has been rejected several times when it wants to expand the army.

At present, the number of Ming troops is only 630,000.

If the vassal alliances to defeat the Ming Dynasty, even if they run out of ammunition and food later, the Ming Dynasty will suffer huge losses.

Therefore, it is not unreasonable for many civil ministers and military generals above the temple to think.

However, the royal family and the cabinet did not show any concern about this.

They know better than anyone that there are still many hole cards in the Ming Dynasty, so many that the ministers dare not imagine.

Except for the Qi State that can bring huge losses to the Ming Dynasty, it is impossible for the other countries together to do it.

Therefore, this matter is only a concern for some officials who do not have access to core politics.

The officials who really sit in the inner circle are now focusing on their own scientific and technological innovation.

For the world, the next few days are destined to be a year of technological explosion.

Since last year's "Ming and Qi" science and technology exchange meeting, many of the respective researches of the two countries have been constantly colliding, and then countless conjectures and inventions have been triggered.

At the beginning of the fourteenth year of Yongchang, Ye Tianshi, a bachelor from Qiguo Medical College, discovered Vibrio cholerae, Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Bacillus anthracis, and improved the method of cultivating bacteria and bacterial dyeing methods, and also proposed the "Three Laws of Tianshi".

He and his team laid the foundations of microbiology, and for a long time afterward, he and his team discovered most of the world's major pathogens.

These theories not only laid the foundation for microbiology and bacteriology, but also promoted some research in pharmacology, and some active ingredients of botanicals were extracted successively.

For example, in the fourteenth year of Yongchang, Xue Shengbai, a medical scholar of the Ming Dynasty, extracted morphine from opium, and the following year proposed quinine and other drugs from cinchonapi, all of which were all advances.

In addition, due to the continuous progress of pathology, cytology, and bacteriology, special attention was paid to the study and diagnosis of pathological changes in internal organs in clinical medical textbooks and practices at that time, and various methods were tried to find "lesions" and the diagnostic methods were constantly enriched.

Such an attitude has led to an increase in the number of diagnostic methods and auxiliary diagnostic tools in the Yongchang period, and many clinical diagnostic auxiliary methods such as blood pressure measurement, body temperature measurement, and body endoscopy have been applied in the Yongchang period.

In addition to these doctrinal achievements, the exploration of physical electricity by the Ming and Qi states appeared to be more effective.

In the fourteenth year of Yongchang, the Daming Armaments Institute published the book "Experiment and Observation of Electricity".

This book not only provides a basis for further experiments with electricity, but also introduces many of the "electricity terms" left over from the reign of King Qi, including positive electrode, negative electrode, charging, battery, and electric shock.

In September, the Academy of Sciences installed 30 batteries on a tricycle, but the vehicle exploded before it could be safely started.

However, this result not only did not stop the scholars of the Academy of Sciences from studying electricity, but greatly boosted their interest.

However, compared with these scientific things, people's livelihood is the foundation of a country.

Among them, natural and man-made disasters are a topic that can never be escaped.

In April of the 14th year of Yongchang, an earthquake occurred near the sea area of Yingzhou South Island Province, and caused a tsunami, the maximum wave of the tsunami was as high as 20 zhang, and the tsunami caused more than 20,000 deaths and 140,000 people were affected.

After the news of the outbreak of the disaster reached Beijing, Zhu Hecheng, the superintendent, immediately issued an order to exempt the local government from paying taxes for three years, and then ordered the Ministry of Industry to prepare for post-disaster reconstruction.

After this small episode, Da Ming and Qi continued to pay more attention and invest in scientific and technological research.

In June of the 14th year of Yongchang, the emperor announced that the scientific investment of the armament institute in the coming year would be increased to 13 million taels of silver, equivalent to 8/1 of the annual income of the state.

Compared with the Ming Dynasty, Qi did not have much national defense pressure, so the amount of investment in science was more, and the investment in Yongchang in 14 years had reached 15 million taels.

The reason why the two countries have made such a full effort to invest is that there is no external pressure, and second, there is pressure on the employment of the population.

Population is the dividend of the two countries, but in addition to the dividend, if we want the country to have long-term peace and stability, we must meet the needs of the people.

As early as the tenth year of Yongchang, Liu Nanshan, a sociologist at Suncheon University, had already put forward the "world resource theory".

This argument tells that in terms of the current productive forces, if "maintaining the lives of the people of Qi" is taken as the standard, then the territory of Qi can only support 200 million people, while the Ming can only feed 600 million people, and the countries of the world together can feed at most 400 million people.

That is to say, with the current productive forces, only 1.2 billion people can live the lives of the people of Qi country.

If we use the standards of the people of the Ming Dynasty, it can feed two billion people.

According to the estimates of scholars and officials of Qi and the Ming Dynasty, the world's population today is probably close to one billion, and the total population of the Ming and Qi countries has reached 500 million people, accounting for more than half of the world's population, and it can reach about 700 million if you count the vassals.

Judging from the population growth in the past, the Ming Dynasty feudal system will reach about 950 million in about 20 years, and is expected to exceed 1.2 billion in 35 years.

In other words, if science and technology do not advance, the time left for the Daming Sect system is actually about the same.

From the Ming Dynasty and the Qi State to maintain the prosperity to this time, it has actually been close to eighty years, no matter how many Ming monarchs are produced in normal dynasties, eighty years will reach the peak of land annexation, and then contradictions will begin to appear.

The fact that the Ming Dynasty feudal system has come so far is the best result of the Ming Dynasty and Qi State using the new technology they have continuously created to continue their lives little by little.

If this process is interrupted, even if only for a few years, it is deadly enough.

For this reason, the two countries have continued to invest funds in the study of various topics left behind by Zhu Youzhen.

Fortunately, the research of the internal combustion engine is only a step away, and no matter how slow it is, it will not drag on until more than 30 years later.

As long as the internal combustion engine is developed, coupled with the innovation of agricultural machinery, the productivity of the two countries can be further increased, and the prosperity can be extended for a long time.

Therefore, compared with the current external turmoil, the two countries pay more attention to the internal problems of the country.

It's not that the European countries are incapable of fighting, but that they have to wait until the internal problems of the Ming Dynasty cannot be covered up.

Now that Daming still has the ability to solve internal problems, he can keep it for the time being.

As for when they will perish, it depends on the thoughts of the Ming and Qi States.

It is precisely because of this idea that the science and technology of the Ming and Qi countries are also constantly improving.

In May of the 15th year of Yongchang, Qi built its first hydropower station, but it could only produce 300 kilowatt-hours of electricity per day, enough to light 300 carbon filament lamps for nighttime research at the nearby Academy of Sciences.

But even so, there are only about 80 laboratories that can be lit up inside the institute.

Compared with Qi's choice of hydroelectric power, the Daming Armaments Institute chose thermal power generation because of the nearby Fangshan coal mine.

They built a coal-fired power station between Beijing and the Mentougou Armaments Institute, which used coal as a raw material and drove a steam turbine to generate electricity through a boiler.

This power station can produce more than 400 kilowatt-hours of electricity per day, and it is more secure than the hydropower generation of Qi country, and there will be no shortcomings that the generator cannot produce electricity at full power during the dry season.

Therefore, the scholars of the Armaments Academy took thermal power generation as a specialized topic, completely ignoring Zhu Youzhen's suggestion that future generations would choose clean energy.

However, this is also normal, after all, in the early stage of immature technology, thermal power generation is undoubtedly the most secure choice.

In July, Geng Qing, the father of Qi Power, invented a series of power supply systems to ensure the stable and safe transmission of electricity from the power station to the power supply.

In August, the fifth version of the Daming internal combustion engine was applied to the four-wheeled vehicle, and in this experiment, the four-wheeled vehicle moved at a speed of 70 miles per hour, successfully breaking the world record.

In October, during the War of the Succession, the British navy captured the Spanish Strait of Gibraltar.

On the frontal battlefield, the Franco-Spanish and anti-French forces began to fight for the Italian peninsula.

On the fifth day of the lunar month, the miners of the southern island of Yingzhou revolted again, but it was quickly suppressed.

In the first month of the sixteenth year of Yongchang (1705), Shi Xia Wanchun, the governor of Qi, died in office at the age of seventy-five.

In April, the British again defeated the French at Lamiy, capturing the Flandlund area.

In June, Daming medical scientist Luo Ting successfully developed smallpox vaccine, and the emperor named him Danjun Bo after learning about it, and added the smallpox vaccine to the list of free drugs of Daming Huimin Pharmacy.

In July, the Taiyuan smallpox vaccine factory was put into construction, and in October of the same year, it was put into production, with an annual mass production of 500,000 pieces.

On August 15, Nanjing Medical College released the "Health Guidelines" manual, which was adopted by the government and the department, which procured it and distributed it to students and their parents.

On August 27, the Emperor of the Ministry of Government and Education said, "The number of students at the university, middle and primary school levels of the National Court has exceeded 60 million this year, and the funds of the Department of Government and Education need to be increased by about 10 million taels in order to cope with the gradual increase in the number of students." ”

On August 28, Emperor Zhu Pi agreed.

In September, the head of the household department said that "the tax of the national dynasty is estimated to be about 120 million taels."

In October, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry asked the cabinet to allocate 5 million taels to repair the railways, and at the same time to send another 3 million taels to reinforce the embankments on both sides of the Yellow River, which Emperor Zhu approved.

In the winter month, the cargo ships of the Qi State arrived at Saint-Malo in this month, which was enough to support 300,000 French troops for another three years.

In the month of Layue, the French army repelled the anti-French coalition forces in Italy, and the anti-French coalition forces were completely defeated.

In the seventeenth year of Yongchang, the Ming Dynasty and Qi successively invented various livelihood technologies such as harmonica, elevated book picker, electrostatic generator, carriage odometer, street lamp, etc.

In this year, the Franco-Spanish forces also won successive battles on the frontal battlefield, occupying Turin, Milan, Venice and other places.

In June of the same year, a local rebellion broke out in Luchuan, and the emperor ordered Qin Jiming, the governor of the Western Army, to suppress it.

In September, the rebellion of the Tumin was suppressed, and the emperor ordered Luchuan to be exempted from taxes for one year.

In the first month of the eighteenth year of Yongchang, Li Dingguo, the Duke of Qin, who was known as "Southern Qi and Northern Li", died in his house at the age of eighty-seven.

Afterwards, the emperor issued an order to drop out of the dynasty for three days, and posthumously named him the king of Yanshan, nicknamed "Zhongwu", and his son Li Hei attacked the Duke of Qin.

In March, in the War of the Spanish Succession, the French defeated the anti-French coalition at Almansa, Spain.

In April, the Ottoman Empire sent 200,000 troops to attack the Holy Roman Empire.

In May, the Middle East Canal (Suez Canal) was completed, and at the same time, Emperor Yongchang issued an order to set the Xiaoxi Ocean, the Daming Sea, and the South Atlantic Ocean as inland seas, and closed the passage of European ships.

If European ships wanted to do business, they had to trade with the Middle East Inspectorate, who controlled the canals.

The opening of the canal reduced the status of the Kunlun Inspectorate and the Kunlun vassals, except for the Rui Kingdom (Ethiopia) and Yongguo (Arabian Peninsula) and Chen State (Egypt), the financial revenues of the other seven countries all declined differently.

However, in this regard, Emperor Yongchang also made corresponding compensation, first of all, he reduced the migration silver of the Seven Kingdoms to one or two people, and no longer set immigration restrictions.

Such news did not completely relieve the vassals, but they were helpless.

For the sake of the national economy, the Tangjihuai Three Kingdoms increased the trade exchanges between the aligned countries.

In June, drought broke out in Nanzhili, Zhejiang and other places, and the emperor issued an order to exempt the local tax for one year, and at the same time opened 40 million stone of grain in the two provinces to relieve the disaster.

In July, Ornold convened the Hungarian parliament and announced the abolition of Habsburg rule in Hungary, and Rakózy was elected head of state for an independent Hungary.

In October, the Mongol king of Shunning, Hungkor, invaded Hungary with an army of 60,000, forcing the Holy Roman Empire to abandon the idea of recovering Hungary.

In the winter month, the Ottoman Empire signed the Peace of Vienna with the Holy Roman Empire, and the Ottoman Empire turned its forces to attack Hungary.

On the 27th of the lunar month, Hungary was divided between the Mongol State and the Ottoman Empire.

Time entered the nineteenth year of Yongchang, and in March, the Metropolitan Procuratorate left the imperial capital Tian Wenjing on the impeachment of Liu Shun, the political envoy of Zhejiang, and Wang Qingxu, the secretary of the household department in Nanjing.

He claimed in his recital that the drought in Nanzhili and Zhejiang last year and the emperor's agricultural tax should have been a good thing.

However, because of the corruption of local officials, the official law was abolished, and the grain deficit in the Changping warehouse was serious, resulting in no grain to be distributed in some places.

If it weren't for one of Tian Wenjing's disciples who went home to find out about this matter, I don't know how long the Jiangnan officials would have to hide it!

Tian Wenjing also suggested that grain should be transferred from other provinces for disaster relief immediately, and at the same time, officials from various prefectures, prefectures and counties should be punished to reassure the people.

Only by doing so can we eliminate possible future disruptions.

After the music was played, it quickly received the attention of Emperor Yongchang.

On 16 March, Zhu Heyin ordered Governor Tian Wenjing to deal with the disaster relief in Jiangnan, and to investigate and deal with all officials who committed crimes in Nanzhili and Zhejiang.

On 20 March, Tian Wenjing led more than 2,000 officials from the Wanping Battalion and the Metropolitan Procuratorate to Nanjing, and officials from the Sixth Department and the Sixth Section of Nanjing were arrested.

In April, Tian Wenjing arrested most of the officials in Nanzhili and Jiangnan, and more than 67,000 officials were directly taken down.

In May, Tian Wenjing compiled a book after investigation, and Shangshu told Emperor Yongchang the results.

According to Tian Wenjing's investigation, over the years, Jiangnan officials have embezzled a total of more than 64.27 million stones of grain, which was converted into more than 2,070,000 taels of silver.

In addition, there is also a corrupt atmosphere in the construction of local roads, houses, and rivers, and some dams on the Yangtze River and the Yellow River in Nanzhili have not been inspected for more than three years and have not been repaired for five years.

You must know that as early as the reign of King Qi Wen during the Apocalypse, it was decided that all rivers should be inspected every year and repaired for three years.

The reason why King Qi Wen attached so much importance was that the Yellow River continued to burst its banks during the Apocalypse, and as a result, in the hands of this group of Jiangnan officials, the Yangtze River and the Yellow River were in a mess.

Over the years, Jiangnan officials have embezzled more than one million taels on the river alone, and as many as 10 million taels in other places.

In Tian Wenjing's upward sparseness, these officials alone have more than 14 million mu of land in their hands, accounting for one-tenth of the acres of land in Zhejiang and Nanzhili.

In addition, the value of the mansion and various antique calligraphy and paintings, gold, silver and jade is as high as more than 34 million taels.

On the fifth day of the sixth month, Emperor Yongchang issued an order to order Tian Wenjing to behead all the offending officials on the banks of the Yangtze River, and at the same time move all the officials and the three clans to the Middle East Supervision Mission.

On the sixth day of the first month, Zhu Heyin, the always good-tempered Emperor Yongchang, was extremely frightened, and ordered Tian Wenjing to inspect the provinces again, and at the same time transferred the Baoding battalion to follow the guards.

On 10 August, after more than three months of investigation, Tian Wenjing beheaded more than 67,000 officials on the banks of the Yangtze River, and at the same time sent the 820,000 family members involved in the case to ships in batches and sent them to the Middle East Supervision Mission.

Since the Middle East Inspectorate owns a quarter of the Nile Delta plain, it doesn't have to worry about how to feed them.

On August 15, on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Tian Wenjing led 2,000 officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to inspect the provinces under the escort of the Wanping Battalion and the Baoding Battalion.

In September, Yan Yinshao, the Duke of Luguo, Zhou Peigong, the second assistant of the cabinet, and Zhang Ying, the cabinet minister, died in the palace one after another.

The emperor posthumously called the ninety-four-year-old Duke of Lu Yan Yinshao as "Wenzheng", and his son Yan Aoming was not demoted to the Duke of Lu.

Zhou Peigong was posthumously named "Wenxuan", and cabinet minister Zhang Ying was posthumously named "Wending".

After that, the emperor entered the cabinet with Tian Wenjing and Yu Zhen.

On October 24, Zhu Hecheng, the prince of Qi, arrived in the capital and said:

"My father's illness worsened after learning the news of the death of Qin Guogong, and he died in the Chu Xin Hall of the Qi Palace on the fifth day of the ninth month at the age of seventy-five......"

It's about the same as I estimated, it's already rough, but it's still not written very quickly, I expect four or five chapters, and the result is written until now......

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