"Woo rumble—"

In the fourteenth year of Shaoqing, with the sound of the train passing rapidly in the land of Shannan Province, the Tianzhu Railway built by the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years was finally completed.

Due to the construction of this railway, the train technology of the Ming Dynasty has improved again, so the train at this time has reached a speed of 120 miles per hour.

It only takes eight days to take the Jinglong Railway, the Luchuan and Xihai Railways from Beijing, and the Indian Yandang Railway to Shannan Province.

The advancement of train technology has allowed the Ming to once again strengthen its control over India.

At the same time, the railways of the three Persian provinces are also under construction, and it is expected that the whole line will be completed in Shaoqing 22 years, and it will only take ten days to travel from Beijing to the Persian provinces.

In the current system, the Ming court can rule more firmly within a month's territory.

As a result, since the completion of the Indian Railway, local rebellions have often been crushed within a few days.

However, because the Ming army never tolerated the rebellion of the native people, a large number of people died in the rebellion, whether it was the four provinces of India or the three provinces of Persia.

In March of the fifteenth year of Shaoqing, Zhou Dong, the head of the household department, said that in the past ten years, the number of Indian natives had been reduced to sixty percent to remind Zhu Bohai.

However, Zhu Bohai ignored his negligence.

Since the tenth year of Shaoqing, Zhu Bohai has been obsessed with listening to songs and watching opera.

At this time, the most developed place for opera was the four cities of Suzhou, Hangzhou, Nanyang, so Zhu Bohai often dropped out of the dynasty to listen to the local music, and state affairs were handled by the crown prince Zhu Zhongshan.

In July of the fifteenth year of Shaoqing, it seems that it is too frequent to go back and forth between the two capitals, and Zhu Bohai, the emperor of Shaoqing, allocated 500,000 taels of silver to repair the Nanjing Imperial Palace, and lived in Nanjing.

In the first month of the sixteenth year of Shaoqing, Zhou Dong, the head of the household department, played the annual income of the treasury.

As a result of the removal of a large number of moths in both parties, the income of the royal store increased every year.

In the 15 years of Shaoqing, the total amount of income and commercial taxes handed over was more than 94 million taels, and the commercial taxes of private enterprises were also more than 35 million taels, and the commercial taxes of the state-owned enterprises alone were close to 130 million taels.

Counting the income from agricultural taxes and the relocation of the silver and the four divisions, the annual income is more than 240 million taels, an annual increase of nearly 10 million taels in the past eight years.

This is mainly due to the increase in population and the increase in employment in new industries such as automobiles, electricity, and refrigerators.

A large number of people from the countryside have migrated to the towns, and the proportion of workers has further increased to 40 million.

In February, the Armaments Institute was put on a briefing that the global population was estimated to be about 1.2 billion, and that of Europe and the Ottomans was about 200 million.

Among other things, the Armaments Institute proposal mentions the reasons why the population of Europe and the Ottomans grew so rapidly.

In the eyes of the Armaments Institute, the main reason is that Qi and Daming sell a large amount of canned food and grain to Europe every year, which has caused the cost of living for Europeans to drop and the fertility environment to improve.

The Armaments Institute simply put forward its own opinions, but after this note was seen by the officials of the Sixth Section, many officials of the Sixth Section believed that they should send troops to Europe to exterminate the European countries.

It's just that in the face of their excitement, Emperor Zhu Bohai of Shaoqing was unwilling to solve this weak opponent.

Although judging from the national strength of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty only needed to send 100,000 troops to pacify Europe, but Zhu Bohai was worried that without this external force, the Ming Dynasty would fall into internal strife, so he insisted on importing culture and food to Europe.

Unless there are any irreconcilable contradictions within Daming again, he doesn't want to play the last card of Europe at this time.

In July, Emperor Zhu Bohai of Shaoqing issued a decree to reduce the agricultural tax to 2 percent.

After this policy was issued to the Ministry of Households, Zhou Dong, the secretary of the Ministry of Households, rejected it.

Zhou Dong believes that the current time for the dynasty to promote electricity requires a lot of finance for local construction.

Although the agricultural tax was reduced by only 1.3 percent, the income was reduced by nearly 18 million taels.

This amount of money can be used to build electricity in a province, so that the people of a province can enjoy the convenience of electricity from the city to the countryside.

Therefore, the tax reduction policy was suspended, and Emperor Shaoqing was not angry, because what Zhou Dong said did make sense.

In October, the Ministry of Industry announced that it was expected to build 1,400 thermal power plants with a construction period of 10 years and an estimated expenditure of 530 million taels.

After the completion of the construction of this batch of thermal power plants, Daming's power generation capacity will reach 1.5 billion kilowatt hours.

If the Armaments Institute can upgrade the generator during this period, the power generation of Daming may be doubled.

In the same month, Zhu Zhongshan, the crown prince of the prison state, agreed, and the construction of power plants began in various places.

In the month of Layue, Zhu Zhongshan's handwritten letter was sent to Qi State, hoping that the Daming Armaments Institute and the Qi National Academy of Science and Technology could conduct joint research on electric power.

At this time, it was not possible to lay cables between Qi and Daming in the Daming Ocean, so they could only communicate by ship.

On the second day of the first month of the seventeenth year of Shaoqing, Qi replied and agreed.

In April, continuous rainfall occurred in many places south of the Yellow River, so that the mountains and rivers erupted, and the Yellow River and Huai River swelled.

Hongze Lake, Dongting Lake and other places overflowed, and the river burst the river, resulting in the affected areas in Nanzhili, Huguang, Guizhou, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Shandong and other provinces, among which the flood in Nanzhili was particularly serious.

The nineteen counties of Fengyang, Yingzhou and Sizhou, the central capital, were affected by the flood of the Huai River, and the people's pastoral houses were flooded, and there was no harvest of summer wheat and autumn crops.

In June, the Yellow River swelled so much that Hongze Lake burst its banks, destroying tens of thousands of homes and killing more than 36,000 people.

Emperor Shaoqing was anxious and went to the front line to appease the people, and at the same time ordered the army and soldiers to send out to fight the flood and provide disaster relief.

In August, according to the statistics of provincial officials, the number of victims in the world was no less than 20 million.

When Emperor Shaoqing heard the report, he was very anxious, and instructed the household department and provincial officials to try their best to save the people without following the usual rules, and personally put forward a written decree, signaling that after the water receded, the local officials should be doubly appeased so that the people would not be lost.

In early September, Emperor Shaoqing summoned officials from the Beijing cabinet and six ministries to Nanjing.

At this time, in the treasury of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the gold used for reserves, there were still more than 430 million taels of paper money, and more than 360 million stones of grain were often closed.

Emperor Shaoqing issued an edict restricting the circulation of the people in the provinces for one month, and asked the provincial officials to directly distribute relief silver and relief food to the affected people during this month.

The specific standard for disaster relief is 10 taels of silver and 3 stones of grain per person.

In addition, the Ministry of Industry is to provide free repairs to the people's houses and pay them wages after the fact.

After the disaster, the Ministry of Industry was responsible for repairing the Yellow River and the Huai River, and the Armaments Institute was responsible for studying the flood disaster and thoroughly put an end to the phenomenon of the Yellow River bursting its banks.

In October, when the floods subsided, provincial officials appeased the people to clean up the Yellow Flood area.

In the same month, after inspecting the Yellow River, Huai River, and Yangtze River, the Armament Institute proposed to build the dam in sections according to the codex left by King Qi Wen, so that the dam could obtain storage capacity.

During the Apocalypse, it could not be realized due to substandard technology, but now more than 70 years have passed, and the Ming Dynasty has long had the ability to build dams on the Yellow River and Huai River.

However, for the Yangtze River, which has a huge runoff, the Armament Institute is still helpless at present.

Upon learning of the proposal of the Armaments Institute, Emperor Shaoqing immediately ordered the Ministry of Industry to inspect the construction of a dam in the upper reaches of the Yellow River.

In April of the 18th year of Shaoqing, the population of Tokyo City and Zhongdu City of Qi exceeded one million one after another, and the only city of Qi with a population of 2.86 million before them exceeded one million was Xijing City, which had a population of 2.86 million.

During the same period, the number of cities with a population of more than one million in the Ming Dynasty has reached 72, and the most populous city of Beijing even has a population of 4.6 million.

The sheer size of the population has created such a huge demand for water that many rivers in Suncheonfu have been cut off.

During the same period, the population of Beizhili also exceeded 20 million, and the area of the triangle was reduced by a quarter compared with the period of the Apocalypse.

Examples of lakes shrinking due to population growth are not limited to Beizhili, but the more serious ones are Juyanhai in Hexi and Puchanghai (Lop Nur) in Anxi.

Pu Changhai was still one hundred and twenty miles long from east to west and six or seven miles wide from north to south during the Apocalypse.

In the eighteenth year of Shaoqing, because the population of Anxi exceeded 10 million, the length of Puchanghai was only sixty or seventy miles from east to west, and the width from north to south was three or four miles.

According to the estimates of a bachelor's degree in water conservancy at Anzai University, if Anxi's population continues to grow, Pu Changhai may disappear completely within 50 years.

The Armaments Institute also published an article on the greenhouse effect in the eighteenth year of Shaoqing, which was published in the "Science and Technology News".

According to the records of the Armament Institute in the past 100 years, in the 100 years from the 23rd year of the Apocalypse to the 18th year of Shaoqing, the global surface temperature has risen by 0.8°C to 1.19°C.

Among them, in the 23 years after the Xiaoice period subsided, the global temperature increased by 0.6 °C - 1 °C, and the remaining 0.19 ~ 0.2 degrees Celsius was due to the use of steam engines and internal combustion engines.

The greenhouse effect has good and bad, the disadvantage is that the sea level has risen by three inches compared to the year of the Apocalypse, and the good thing is that the "Wenwang rainfall line" has moved to the northwest for about 100 miles, and the rainfall in the north has begun to increase.

Most officials are unimpressed, after all, the greenhouse effect has not yet reached the point where it can affect them.

In the 19th year of Shaoqing, the sales volume of refrigerators in Qi exceeded 20,000 units, and the number of electrified households in the country reached 8.76 million, basically covering the urban population.

In the twenty years of Shaoqing, the Royal Academy of England, with the help of Feng Cheng, an outcast of the Ming Dynasty, finally solved most of the problems of the steam engine after twenty years.

The new version of the steam engine has made the original machinery that can only lift water become a prime mover that can be widely used, and the thermal efficiency of the steam engine has been doubled, and the coal consumption has been greatly reduced.

Due to the existence of the Ming Dynasty and the Qi Kingdom, Britain took many detours, and George II immediately ordered the mass production of the steam engine after verifying the performance of the steam engine.

His orders allowed the steam engine to be widely used not only in the mining industry, but also in smelting, textiles, machine building and other industries.

At the same time, European countries also traveled to England to learn from the experience, and in the following years, steam engines sprung up on the continent.

It's just that their steam engines are very inefficient compared to the larger steam engines and internal combustion engines.

However, even so, the news of the appearance of steam engines in Europe inevitably spread among the feudal domains.

In March of the 21st year of Shaoqing, Zhu Zhaowei, the king of Zhou, went to the court alone and asked the dynasty to relax the restrictions on the steam engine during the Qiansheng period, so that the vassal could use the steam engine.

In April, Emperor Shaoqing lifted restrictions and built ten lines for the production of old steam engines for the feudal domains, each costing 1,000 taels.

In October, the steam engine trade of the Ming Dynasty was opened, and the teaching materials of the feudal domains were also updated under the guidance of the national dynasty.

When the information was released, it was no longer difficult to make an old steam engine.

Although this steam engine is an old model in the Qiansheng period, its efficiency is still far superior to that of European steam engines.

In June of the 22nd year of Shaoqing, Zhu Zhongshu, the grandson of Qi, calculated the distance between the earth and Jupiter at the observatory in Hejian Province, and discovered the celestial star (Uranus) recorded in the Codex of King Qiwen.

In August, Zhu Jianhuan, the grandson of the Ming Dynasty, spent 500 taels to build an off-road racing track in Changping, and drove his own car to play in the field.

However, only three days later, the site was reported by the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate as "belonging to forced buying and selling", and after Emperor Shaoqing ordered someone to investigate the truth, he sent troops to destroy the site and fined Zhu Jianhuan for three years to compensate the peasants who had been seized from the farmland.

In October, he built a hot air balloon and tried to travel to Beijing in a hot air balloon, but was stopped by Jinyiwei, who feared him.

In the first month of the 23rd year of Shaoqing, a magnitude 6 earthquake struck Wenchuan, causing local houses to collapse, bridges to be destroyed, roads to blockage, and more than 300 people to be killed and injured.

In August, Zhu Zhongji, the king of Yue, saw a record of the lottery in the "Codex of King Wen", and he took out his annual income to set up the first lottery shop in Beijing.

Lottery tickets are filled in and sold in the form of stamped digital paper, each penny, the next day at the door of the store with a hair dryer to blow out the number ball in the ticket barrel to redeem the prize, each winning number needs to reach three to redeem the lowest ten penny, the winning eight words will be redeemed five hundred taels of silver.

In the first month of the lottery shop, Zhu Zhongji made a profit of more than 700 taels.

In the winter of the same year, Su Hui, a scholar from the Ming Armaments Academy, discovered the existence of radio waves and reported it to the Armaments Academy.

On the fifth day of the lunar month, there was an old man in the Shangjuan Mansion of Yang Yi, the prefect of Dali, Yunnan, who turned 120 years old this month.

Emperor Shaoqing was surprised, so he personally drove to Dali, and arrived in Taihe County, Dali Prefecture on the ninth day of the lunar month, and met the old man there.

According to the old man, he was born in the eighth year of the Apocalypse, and when he was a teenager, he had seen King Qi Wen and the local Dean Yang Lianyang working as farmers in the local area, and when he grew up, he joined the army and returned home for three years in the river.

After returning home, he became a local servant, and since then he has lived an ordinary life until now.

Although it was bland, the mere fact that he had seen "King Qiwen" was enough for him to brag.

For Zhu Bohai, these topics are very novel, so he lived in Dali for more than half a month, and then reluctantly left Dali.

As for the oral experiences of the old men these days, they were also compiled into a biography by the accompanying officials, also known as "The End of the Five Dynasties".

At the end of the lunar month, Zhu Bohai returned to Nanjing, and still went to some of the more famous local theaters every day to listen to plays.

In the same month, Qin Ke of the Qi Academy of Sciences developed sulfonamides, which can treat diseases caused by a variety of bacteria.

In March of the 24th year of Shaoqing, the British successfully installed the steam engine on a four-wheeled car and ran it on the railroad tracks, but after walking more than ten miles, the steam engine broke down and the experiment failed.

In May, Dingwang Zhu and Lei Xue died, and he was called Dingzhao King.

In the same month, Zhu Yi was sparse, please relax the number of guns held by the feudal domains.

In June, Emperor Shaoqing relaxed the rifle organization of the feudal domains to three battalions per country, and the feudal domains successively placed orders with the Ordnance Bureau.

In October, the first assistant Zhang Tingyu and the second assistant Li Fushang Shu Zhishi, the emperor Zhu approved and appointed the cabinet minister Li Ziren as the first assistant, Liu Tongxun as the second assistant, and summoned the Ministry of Labor Shangshu Yu Minzhong into the cabinet.

In the winter month, Emperor Shaoqing reorganized the cabinet and summoned Li Muxian, the Duke of Qin, and Yan Chang, the Duke of Lu, to inquire into the cabinet.

In March of the twenty-fifth year of Shaoqing (1750), Li Fu died at home at the age of seventy-six, and Emperor Shaoqing gave him the nickname "Wenzheng".

In May, the population of Beijing exceeded 5 million, and Zhu Yigui, the prefect of Shuntian, expanded the city of Beijing, which was adopted by the emperor and ordered the Ministry of Households to allocate 3 million taels of silver to expand the city of Beijing, determined to build an urban area that could accommodate 10 million people, and made requirements for greening.

In September, the population of Nanjing exceeded 8 million, and Jiangning, Longtan and other towns were incorporated into the urban area.

In October, Zhu Jianjiong, the king of E, revised the version of Trolling, received the hem to the base of the thigh, and updated the version to the appearance of oblique shoulders, wide waist, and small hem.

After the emergence of the new trolling, the army, factories, and schools have purchased it as work and sportswear, and the people also call it "uniforms".

However, for most of the people living in this era, the round-necked robe is still the favorite of the people.

It's just that compared with the apocalypse, people like to wear hats and scarves when traveling, and now people are more simple, so an ordinary wooden hair crown or a hairpin has become the choice of ordinary people to travel.

On the fifth day of the lunar month, the 58-year-old king of Ding, Zhu Yichao, decided to lead his troops to the west after obtaining two battalions of rifle equipment.

Due to the heavy casualties in the civil strife in Mongolia, Zhu Yichao did not invite Chakoor.

In April of the 26th year of Shaoqing, Dingguo sent 50,000 troops to Tsarist Russia, of which 9,000 were Dingguo Ruishi armed with apocalypse-style rifles.

Upon learning of the invasion of the Statutes, Sweden and Tsarist Russia appealed to the Holy Roman Empire and Denmark for help, and at the same time organized a defense line of 80,000 men in St. Petersburg.

It's just that in the face of the Dingguo Rui, the fortifications they rely on are so ridiculous.

On 28 April, the army broke through St. Petersburg, and the last Tsar, Elizabeth I, fled to Helsinki in Sweden.

On 17 May, 30,000 Danish reinforcements arrived in Helsinki, but by this time the entire territory of Tsarist Russia had already been captured by Dingguo.

Limited by supply problems, Dingguo stopped the offensive and allowed a large number of Russians to flee to Sweden.

In August of the same year, the Special Governing Board of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oxford issued a warning: "Some parts of the lectures taught by Zhao Qian, a Han Chinese scholar, are contrary to religious teachings, and these statements and courses must be abolished." ”

However, in the face of the seminary's warning, Zhao Qian approached King George II of England and explained to him how unoptimistic the situation facing Britain and Europe as a whole was at present.

At Zhao Qian's reminder, George II was determined to separate theology from science, and he ordered that the seminary should not interfere with the personnel of the Academy of Sciences.

Such a move caused an uproar throughout Europe, but at the same time, most of the Han Chinese scientists who remained in Europe but were checked by seminaries saw hope and left for England.

In October, Congressman Benjamin Franklin created eight and sixteen magic squares, and at the same time wrote the economics book "Europe and the Ming Dynasty."

In the book, he compares the economic size and approximate population size of present-day Europe with that of the Ming Dynasty.

Since there are no specific figures, he estimates that the population of Europe is 150 million, and the fiscal revenue is about 94 million taels.

In comparison, the population of the Ming Dynasty was wrongly judged to be 600 million, and the fiscal revenue was equivalent to about 340 million taels in the Ming Dynasty.

Franklin argues that if the Ming raise taxes to the same rate as European countries, they will receive about 1.2 billion taels of fiscal revenue a year.

Once a war broke out between the Ming Dynasty and Europe, the Ming Dynasty could mobilize more than three million troops armed with breech guns to attack Europe, and Europe would be attacked from both sides in less than a month and finally destroyed.

Among them, Britain and Portugal will be the first two countries to fall, because the cruisers of the Ming and Qi countries will annihilate the European navy and carry out landing operations in less than half a month.

Under the threat of naval artillery, Europe will lose its coastal line without any resistance, and Britain and Portugal, which are too shallow, will be the first to perish.

When the book hit the shelves, it was robbed by the entire European aristocracy, and most Europeans thought that his language would become a reality.

The French economist Durgo even suggested to Louis XV that European countries must cooperate comprehensively and set up a multinational parliament to help each other, so that they would not be attacked by the Ming Dynasty one by one in the next 50 years.

But even so, a mood of pessimism and anxiety spread among the European aristocracy......

There are about five chapters in the afterword, three modern chapters and two modern chapters.