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

In the early morning, with the continuous ringing of bells in the various cities of the Ming Dynasty, and until the twilight did not stop, many people guessed one thing.

At three minutes and five minutes on September 15, the twenty-fifth year of Yongchang, Yongchang Emperor Zhu Heyin died in the Qianqing Palace at the age of 74.

During his reign, there were few wars at home and abroad, and some people said that he was weak to the outside world, but it is undeniable that his recuperation gave the Ming Dynasty the capital to conquer the world.

At the beginning of his reign, the treasury left by Emperor Qiansheng contained more than 40 million taels of banknotes, 45 million taels of gold, and 300 million Shi Changping grain.

By the time of his big trip, the Ming treasury had more than 170 million taels of paper money, more than 64 million taels of gold, and 2.2 billion stones of grain in the world, which was enough for the people of the Ming Dynasty to eat for two years.

At the same time, during his reign, the per capita amount of meat, eggs and milk of the Ming people exceeded 60 catties, the per capita grain was 924 catties, and the average life expectancy increased from 52 years to 62 years old during the Qiansheng period.

There are countless books that record the prosperity of the people during the Yongchang period, among which the writer Zhang Yaoshun's "Yongchang Experience" is the most.

Zhang Yaoshun recorded in the vernacular in the book: "I was born in the first year of Yongchang...... At that time, there was a scene of leveling, the people in all directions were very happy, a stone of rice was less than 300 yuan, a pound of fish was only one or two yuan, ten betel nuts were two yuan, a pound of meat was only six yuan, a duck was only seven yuan, and a bucket of salt was three yuan, which was as white as easy. ”

"What I saw during the study tour is that the local people also live very well, there are few taxes, and most of the crops in the fields are abundant.

"It's that the primary school students in the countryside like to dictate and play with pen and ink."

"Business people, all three religions and nine streams are comfortable and comfortable, what a paradise this is."

"It's a remote area, don't talk about other benefits, just say firewood, rice, oil, salt, chicken, duck, fish, all kinds of food and so on, which is not cheap?"

"If a family of several people has a lot of fish and meat every day, the cost is only fifty or sixty yuan, which can be regarded as extremely rich."

"Ordinary market towns don't have to worry about living problems, sell some physical strength, and you can get more than 40 yuan a day, and live a very happy life."

"In the evening, some gluttonous people still have to eat meat and drink wine, and everyone is so unhappy ......"

In addition to the written records, many painters of the same period also recorded the scenes of the Yongchang period one by one, and the folk life at that time was simply the envy of all countries.

When such a king died, the common people hung white cloth at the door of their homes and burned paper money at the door to see him off.

All the feudal clans in the sea went to Beijing in person, weeping and sighing in front of the spirit.

Zhu Heyin's goodness is not only reflected in his treatment of the people, but also in his tolerance of the vassals.

During the 25 years of his reign, the Ming Dynasty emigrated more than 18 million people, greatly enriching the strength of overseas vassal states and further expanding the footprint of the Han people.

He opened up the trade in apocalyptic rifles, allowing the feudal clans to continue to maintain their suppression of foreign enemies, and the common people of the feudal domains were able to live a peaceful life.

Such a king was buried in Tianshou Mountain after 47 days of rest, and the mausoleum he built was very cheap compared to other emperors, only less than 800,000 taels.

On the third day of the winter month, the new emperor Zhu Yixuan was in the Ming Tower on the mausoleum under the witness of hundreds of officials and vassals for the Yongchang Emperor who was about to be buried in the temple called Gaozong, and the name was Emperor Xiang, the full name was "Emperor Gaozong Xiang of the Ming Dynasty", and his imperial tomb was also called "Xiangling".

Afterwards, the coffin was buried, and Zhu Yixuan returned to the capital with hundreds of officials and vassals, ascended the throne in the Imperial Palace, and set the name of the next year as "Xianjia".

After the era name was drafted, Zhu Yixuan held the "Princely Dynasty Meeting" in Taimiao under the witness of the cabinet and officials of the six ministries and the governor of the five armies.

Zhu Yixuan said some comforting words at the meeting, but all the vassal kings could see the attitude of the new emperor from the era name of "Xianjia".

Xianbian is a fight, it seems that the new emperor is ready to fight again.

But if you think about it carefully, Da Ming has been peaceful for more than 20 years, and it's time to show martial arts.

However, if the Ming Dynasty conquers the country, it will inevitably require immigrants to enrich the place.

If the Ming Dynasty needs to emigrate, then the vassals should not be delusional that there will be too many immigrants to migrate to the vassal kingdom in the coming days.

Sensing this intention, some of the feudal kingdoms whose populations were still small sighed, and returned to the feudal kingdoms one after another within a month after the end of the feudal courts.

In the month of Layue, the ordnance bureaus of Xi'an, Taiyuan, Beijing, Jinling, Kunming, Wuchang and other provinces in the Ming Dynasty mass-produced ammunition and transported it to Hezhong and Ganges provinces by train.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, the eve of the New Year, according to the estimates of the generals of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, the two provinces had hoarded no less than 10 million ammunition.

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

"Put!"

"Bang bang bang-"

When the bell rang at midnight, the name of Xianjia officially entered people's lives, and at the same time, when the people were celebrating the New Year, the Ming army in the two provinces of Hezhong and Ganges launched an attack on the Mughals entrenched in India.

On the first day of the first month of the first year of Xianjia, at four o'clock, the Ming Western Army Governor's Office, the Southern Army Governor's Office, and the Small Western Supervision Department gathered 120,000 troops to attack the Mughals.

Despite their preparations, the Mughals were weak when the day came.

1,200 "Qiansheng-style howitzers" appeared on the battlefield, and in just one night, the border fortress defenses that the Mughals had strengthened for more than half a century were completely destroyed, and many cities were reduced to ruins.

According to the recollections of officials of the vassal states of Shu, Zhou, and Qin who watched the battle:

"Our army's artillery fire was large, and the whole army was wiped out without the Nan captives responding, and the so-called fortified city collapsed in an instant, and by the time dawn, there were many soldiers and civilians in the Nan captives, and there was not one in ten."

The power of the Qiansheng-style howitzer opened the eyes of the feudal clans, and their hearts were shocked and fearful.

In addition, what surprised them even more was that the general who commanded this battle was actually Zhu Bomu, the twenty-four-year-old grandson of Qi.

When Zhu Bomu was ten years old, he and the crown prince Zhu Bohai returned to Beijing to study at the Beijing Central Government School, and by the age of seventeen, he had been admitted to the Shuntian Military Academy as the champion of the national examination.

After graduating at the age of 22, he was awarded the rank of general and joined the Western Army.

In the imagination of the princes, he would probably return to Qi after two years of simple tempering, but they did not expect that Zhu Bomu not only did not return to Qi, but became the "governor of the three armies".

The twenty-four-year-old governor of the three armies, this can't help but remind people of King Qi Wen, who dared to lead the army to quell the rebellion at the age of twelve.

The Mughals at this time were led by Bahadur, and his performance in this war was disappointing.

In the face of the Ming army's attack from three sides, he did not choose to support the cities, but gathered his troops scattered around to Lahore, and called on the people of the whole country to resist the atrocities of the Ming army.

However, the untouchable populace ignored his words, and a small number of Persians and Mongols were killed and wounded in the war, so the Mughal defenses collapsed at the touch of a button.

On March 15 of the first year of Xianjia, the Ming army had recovered most of the lost territory, and Zhu Bomu, the governor of the three armies, led 30,000 soldiers and horses to the city of Lahore.

On March 30, the Ming army captured Lahore, and the Mughal Emperor Bahadur died of self-immolation in despair.

Zhu Bomu used his strength to show the world his talent as "Little King Qiwen", and handed over the first answer sheet of his war career with "Annihilating a Country in March".

On the fifth day of April, when the news of the Mughals' demise reached Beijing, the Xianjia Emperor Zhu Yixuan couldn't wait to reward his outstanding nephew and confer him with the official position of governor of the Ming Dynasty.

On the sixth day of the first lunar month, Zhu Yixuan set up the Mughal Empire's Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, and parts of Uttar Pradesh as the Sui State, and gave his second brother Zhu Yijin, the king of Sui, to this place, and rewarded part of the area to the five feudal domains of Qin, Jin, Zhou, Shu, and Fu.

On the fifth day of the first month of June, Zhu Bomu led some generals back to Beijing to receive awards, and some of the generals who participated in the battle were rewarded.

In July, Pu Songling, a waiter in the Ministry of Rites, died.

In August, King Louis XIV of France died, and Emperor Xianjia, at the discretion of the Department of Finance, cut half of the interest on French loans in the same year.

In March of the second year of Xianjia, after nearly a year of investigation and arrest, a large number of Mughal officials and their families were classified as labor campers.

In May, Emperor Xianjia divided the Mughal territory into three provinces, Xikang, Shannan, and Nanyuan, and set up a political envoy and a supervisory envoy.

In July, Emperor Xianjia consulted with the cabinet and decided to redivide the military districts.

On July 20, after negotiations with the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, Emperor Xianjia moved the Governor's Office of the Western Army to the Hezhong region, and controlled the three provinces and three divisions of Hezhong, Anxi, Xikang, Xiaoxiyang, Middle East, and Kunlun.

The Southern Military Governorate increased the four provinces of Sichuan, Wusizang, Shannan, and Nanyuan, and cut Zhejiang, Fujian, and Liangguang.

The Governor's Office of Shangzhi Prefecture increased the jurisdiction of six provinces, including Shaanxi, Hexi, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Liangguang.

On August 12, Newton analyzed that the shortage of gold in Europe had become a fact, and that the Ming Dynasty still held a large amount of silver, and suggested that Britain use the same banknotes as the "Ming Liang" to resist the invasion of currency.

In September, Qi took the lead in developing a 100-kilowatt-hour generator, but did not rush to produce it.

Such a move made many nobles in China who had been to Daming and enjoyed the convenience of electric lights dissatisfied.

The nobles said that the Academy of Sciences has long occupied a large amount of financial expenditure, but it has been hiding some science and technology and not using it for the people, which is an act of "betrayal" of King Qi Wen.

The speeches of the nobles were reprimanded by Zhu Heyun, the king of Qi, and increased their investment in the Academy of Sciences.

In October of the same year, Daming introduced the technology of 100 kWh generators from Qi and upgraded the generator factory.

In February of the third year of Xianjia, Daming Automobile has been developed many times, and the cost price has been reduced by about one-third compared with Yongchang for 25 years.

In the same month, Emperor Xianjia felt that automobile technology had matured, and ordered the Armaments Institute to build factories in Beizhili, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hexi, Liaodong, Yunnan, Nanzhili, Huguang and other places.

In June, the Fangshan thermal power plant was upgraded, and by this time it was able to generate 18,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per day.

Upon learning the news, Emperor Xianjia planned to build ten more thermal power plants around the capital, and to build power plants in eight major industrial provinces of the Ming Dynasty.

In September, after two years of field surveys, the Ministry of Industry finalized the blueprints for India's railway network.

India's railway network not only needs to pass through the four provinces of Ganges, Nanyuan, Shannan and Xikang in the Tianzhu region, but also needs to travel through more than 200 feudal countries, with a total mileage of more than 53,000 miles, an estimated expenditure of more than 120 million taels, and a construction period of 15 years.

The cost of the railway network was cheap because the Ming army captured a large number of nobles, their families, and slaves after the war.

They were sentenced to re-education through labor, and it took 20 years of re-education to end the re-education through labor.

Therefore, in the construction of the railway network, they will work together with the labor reformers under the rule of the feudal lords to shine for India.

In Layue, after two years and eight months of Qi people's household arrangement, the population books of the four provinces of Tianzhu were handed over to the desk of Emperor Xianjia.

Excluding Ganges Province, which had been regained for many years, the total population of the three provinces in Shannan was more than 37 million, and the number of labor campers was more than 8.5 million.

Compared with more than 60 million before the war, the local population has dropped by about 30% due to the famine caused by the war.

In March of the fourth year of Xianjia, the officials of the three provinces of Tianzhu sent the "Atlas of Fish Scales" to the capital, and the cultivated land of the three provinces of Tianzhu totaled more than 430 million mu.

In May of the same year, the head of the household department Shangshu Wang Shangshu said that "the population of the national dynasty has exceeded 600 million, and the cultivated land has exceeded 3 billion mu".

In June, an earthquake struck Tongwei County, Hexi, with an epicenter intensity of 10 degrees and a magnitude of 7.5, and countless walls of houses collapsed, affecting more than 30,000 people.

In July, the Suncheon Depot produced the first civilian car and military truck.

Upon learning the news, the crown prince Zhu Bohai and the grandson of Qi, Zhu Bomu, visited the people, and jointly believed that it was most appropriate to set the price of civilian cars at 300 taels.

In addition, Zhu Bo Mu Shangshu, the grandson of Qi, believes that now is not the best time to equip military trucks, and believes that military trucks should continue to be researched and improved to ensure that the failure rate is low enough before being loaded into the army.

At the same time, he also suggested the establishment of a "car repair" university so that there would not be too many cars and too few people in the future.

For the suggestions of the two, Emperor Xianjia adopted them one by one.

On 20 July, flash floods broke out in Shexian, Xiuning, Jixi and Taiping, Nanling, Xuancheng, Jingxian, Jingde and other counties, and the water was fierce, destroying roads and bridges, destroying dilapidated houses, and drowning tens of thousands of people and animals.

In October, the Qi State Armaments Institute developed a "dry battery" and used it in people's livelihood inventions such as miner's lamps and flashlights.

In the winter moon, Zhu Hecheng, the king of Qi, ordered the construction of ten flashlight and mining lamp factories aimed at Qi State.

In the same month, the United Kingdom issued three million banknotes, which were settled in "pounds".

In the first month of the fifth year of Xianjia, a large number of "counterfeit money" with better quality than the "British pound" appeared on the British market, and the British monetary system was chaotic, and the parliament placed the object of suspicion on Qi and Daming.

In July of the same year, the Daming Armaments Institute invented the world's first practical daguerreotype camera.

It consists of two wooden boxes, one of which is inserted into the other for focusing, and the lens cap is used as a shutter to control the exposure time for up to 30 minutes, so that clear images can be taken.

In October, on the basis of the daguerreotype camera, the Qi Academy of Sciences further invented the first all-metal body camera.

The camera is equipped with the world's first mathematically designed photographic lens with a maximum phase aperture of 1:3.

In Layue, the Qi Academy of Sciences developed a generator with a power of 300 kilowatt hours, and suggested that a generator factory be built to use the generator for power generation in the "Qishui Power Station".

At the same time, the Academy of Sciences also suggested that thermal power plants could be built on a large scale.

After the Academy of Sciences, Zhu Heyun, the king of Qi, ordered the Ministry of Industry to build 500 large and small thermal power plants across the country.

In the first month of the seventh year of Xianjia, the Ministry of Qi said that "the country's population has exceeded 150 million".

In order to better govern the state of Qi, Zhu Heyi, the king of Qi, issued an edict to promote 25 prefectures to provinces, 160 counties to prefectures, 827 towns to county seats, and the rest of the villages were also set up as towns, and the newly relocated places were set up as villages.

In April, "Qi Guo" cars, trucks, and buses appeared in the Qi Palace in Xijing City, along with two-wheeled motorcycles, three-wheeled motorcycles, wheeled tractors and other products.

Compared with the Ming Dynasty, there are more types of cars in Qi and more complete varieties, which can meet the different needs of different people.

In terms of performance, the speed of Qi country's cars and motorcycles is also about 10%~20% faster than that of Daming.

In addition, since ethanol gasoline is used, the price of gasoline is not that high.

Seeing the appearance of Qi Guo Automobile, Qi Wang Zhu and Cheng immediately allocated 5 million taels of silver to build factories for various types of different vehicles.

After the news reached the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Armaments Institute sent an expedition team of 200 people to the Qi State and arrived in June.

In September, the inspection team of the Armaments Institute returned to Daming, and in April of the eighth year of Xianjia, various types of vehicles were imitated.

Among them, the most concerned is a wheeled tractor that can cultivate 30 acres of land in a day.

Many private factories controlled by Xungui took the opportunity to imitate them, which aroused the dissatisfaction of Wenchen.

In May of the eighth year of Xianjia, after the death of the cabinet minister Chen Tingjing in office, the contradiction between the minister and the nobles was even more difficult to reconcile.

Emperor Xianjia elected his cabinet minister Tian Wenjing as the first assistant and Zhang Tingyu as the second assistant, but neither of them was able to resolve the struggle between the two factions.

Since the land was all state-owned, the competition for interests of the Ming Dynasty had long since shifted from agriculture to commerce.

Because of the hereditary demotion system, the nobles were eager to grab a lot of benefits before the family title disappeared and conflicts broke out with the civil officials.

Huangdian has now become a huge existence that many civilian officials are attached to blood, and any market opponent who dares to fight with Huangdian will be targeted by this interest group, so the struggle between the two factions has become a death match.

After the time entered September, the two sides were even more tense, and there were countless impeachment recitals.

Under the battle, not only the temple was smoky, but also the armament institute, which was regarded as an important place by the emperors of previous dynasties, was also full of intrigues.

In order to divert the contradictions, Emperor Xianjia secretly issued an order in Layue and appointed Zhu Bomu, the governor of Shangzhi, as the general of the expedition to the west, to control Shangzhi, the western army, and the navy, recover Persia, and crusade against the Ottomans.

Seeing this situation, Zhu Bomu secretly transported a large amount of supplies to Hezhong and Yongguo.

In June of the ninth year of Xianjia, after more than half a year of allocation, Zhu Bomu led the 20th battalion of soldiers and horses to arrive in the Hezhong area, and sent Yue Zhongqi and Shi Shibiao to lead 40,000 soldiers and horses of the navy to garrison troops in Yongyi, Yongguo.

An unusual atmosphere began to permeate the Middle East, with Persia and the Ottoman Empire moving troops to the frontiers.

On the fifth day of the ninth lunar month of the ninth year of Xianjia, accompanied by the sound of mule and carriage moving, Zhu Bomu commanded 200,000 troops to launch a war, which was known as the "Xianjia Western Expedition" in history

Some book lovers want to see the modern era, eh......

At this rate, it's actually pretty fast.

If you want to see modern times, you can wait a few days.

I still prefer to write a timeline, and I don't want to skip the "history" of the book for the past two hundred years.

If you're not happy to see it, then I have to apologize......