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

In the middle of the night, the bells of the towns around the day rang again, and everyone seemed to think of what the bells represented behind them.

Since October of the 26th year of Shaoqing, the health problems of the Shaoqing Emperor have often appeared in the newspapers.

Even in the Ming Dynasty, where the average life expectancy had reached seventy-five years old, the lifespan of emperors and vassal kings was still a problem.

According to the statistics of the Armament Institute in Shaoqing 25 years, in the past 150 years, the average life expectancy of emperors and vassal kings was only 64, far lower than the normal average life expectancy.

In this context, the seventy-one-year-old Shaoqing Emperor Zhu Bohai has already played extraordinarily.

In March of the twenty-seventh year of Shaoqing, Emperor Shaoqing was transferred to the intensive ward, which was no secret in the Ming Dynasty.

To this day, the emperor, who has solved the officials of the two parties, has finally come to the end of his life.

On the fifth day of the fifth month of the 27th year of Shaoqing, at the eighth quarter of the year, Emperor Zhu Bohai of Shaoqing died in the Huimin General Hospital in Beijing at the age of 72.

Before his death, he passed on the forty-seven-year-old crown prince Zhu Zhongshan, and canonized his grandson Zhu Jianhuan as the crown prince.

On May 12, when a new edition of Daming Pao was published, the newspaper put the news of Emperor Shaoqing's death on the front page.

In the newspapers, the front page detailed the life of Emperor Shaoqing.

At the age of 32, he was imprisoned in prison, at the age of 45, he ascended the throne to implement the Shaoqing New Deal, and at the age of 53, he completely cut off the officials of the two parties, so as to reduce the cost of living and increase the income of the people.

During his reign, he did not launch major foreign wars, mainly counterinsurgency and internal governance.

But even so, many people in the Ming Dynasty still felt that Emperor Shaoqing was a hero.

Judging from his attitude towards the people, he is among the best among the nineteen emperors of the Ming Dynasty, and in terms of personal conduct and inner court life, he can be regarded as extremely self-denying.

He had only six concubines in his life, and although he had eight heirs, he did not canonize his heirs overseas, but let them settle down in the country, and the money was also allocated by the internal funds, and almost did not occupy any of the country's finances.

He didn't build the palace, but only occasionally listened to operas, and he also used his own internal money.

In addition, after the local disaster occurred, he would also allocate silver from the internal treasury in the name of the clan for disaster relief.

During his 27-year reign, he successively appropriated more than 14.3 million taels of silver and more than 2.76 million stones of grain from the interior.

He was not only lenient to the inside, but also the most lenient to the vassal kings.

He opened up a lot of science and technology, liberated the productive forces of the feudal domains, and relieved the internal pressure among the feudal domains, so that civil strife would not break out among the feudal domains.

Many foreign vassals demanded to be attached, and he also tried his best to appease the foreign vassals, saying: "The land of the world is the land of China, and the people of the world are all the people of me, and I am the co-lord of the world, so why should I rob the land of the vassals?" ”

Therefore, when the news of his death spread, all the vassal kings of the world entered Beijing, and the king of Joseon, Li Yu, and the king of Boni, Qi Yan, even asked for his burial, but Zhu Zhongzhi politely refused.

On June 24, Emperor Shaoqing was buried as "Emperor Chengzongping".

On the 30th, Zhu Zhongshan held a meeting of the feudal dynasties in Taimiao, and set the name of the next year as "Wu Hunt".

In August, the governor of the Western Army, Nian Qianyao, died in office at the age of seventy-three, and Zhu Zhongshan, the emperor of Wujia, posthumously named him Guangning Bo, nicknamed "Wuxiang".

In October, the Qi Academy of Sciences invented smokeless gunpowder and shared the results with the Ming Dynasty.

In the same year, in the exchange center of the Beizhou Prefecture, the electric power bachelors of the two countries jointly developed the fourth-generation generator.

Compared with the third generation, the fourth generation generator has more power and conversion rate, and can maintain 600 kWh of power generation under normal operation.

If the two countries were to replace the motors of their local power stations with fourth-generation generators, the amount of electricity generated would increase by two to three times.

In April of the first year of Wujia, Ouyang He, the river attendant of the Ministry of Industry, played: "The officials of the provinces along the Huanghuai River will be arbitrarily short of money and grain for repairs, resulting in a loss of materials. ”

Upon learning of the news, Emperor Wujia then sent the Imperial Emperor of the Right Capital of the Imperial Procuratorate to lead the officials of the Imperial Procuratorate to inspect, and in July of the same year, he found that there were all kinds of troubles in the face of confusion, with a total deficit of more than 2 million taels.

In addition, the coastal defense yamen in Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Shandong, and other places also embezzled public funds, so that the coastal defense of the three provinces has not been repaired for many years.

In September, Emperor Wujia instructed the officials of the Imperial Procuratorate to behead a group of officials who had embezzled treasury money in the course of investigating the case, and sent them to the coastal provinces as an example.

In the first month of the second year of Wujia, Zhou Dongshang, the secretary of the household department, reported on the financial situation of the previous year, and the annual income of the treasury was 274 million taels, and the existing silver deposit in the treasury was more than 840 million taels, of which nearly 600 million taels were the surplus in the Shaoqing period.

Knowing that the treasury was so abundant, Emperor Wujia ordered the construction of local power stations, and set the result of the policy of allowing the rural people of the Ming Dynasty to use electric lights for 20 years.

In March, the Ministry of Industry drafted a list of more than 30,000 hydropower and thermal power stations within 20 years, and at the same time recruited workers in rural areas to generate income for the rural people.

In April, the Imperial Emperor of the Right Capital of the Imperial Court returned to Beijing with the officials of the Imperial Procuratorate, and brought back a book of records of corrupt officials and the amount of money confiscated from their families and deposited in the bank.

According to statistics, there were more than 24,000 officials who committed the crime this time, and excluding accomplices and officials who embezzled less than 50 taels, there were still 1,742 beheaded.

The confiscated family property was sold by the local yamen and deposited in the bank, totaling more than 14,356,000 taels.

In April of the third year of Wuzhen, "The Old Things of Zhumen" written by Zhu Zhongqi, the king of Liang, was put on the shelves of major bookstores in Beijing, and more than 126,000 copies were sold on the first day alone.

Although the book tells the story of a family, many people have seen many things about the Apocalypse Dynasty from it.

Among them, the head of the family, Zhu Qi, and his younger brother Zhu Qi are perfectly fit the identities of Emperor Tianqi and King Qi Wen.

Therefore, in the following month, this book was successively put on the shelves of the bookstores of the Ming Dynasty, the Qi State, and even the Princes.

On July 17, the sales volume of "Old Things of Zhumen" exceeded 5 million copies, becoming the seventh popular book in the Ming Dynasty to sell more than 5 million copies in addition to "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", "Journey to the West", "Golden Vase Plum", "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai" and "Three Words and Two Beats".

On the first day of the eighth month, Zhu Zhongzhen received his first manuscript fee, 7,500 yuan in banknotes.

It seems that Zhu Zhongzhen's behavior and manuscript fees stimulated the remaining seven sons of Emperor Shaoqing, and in the days that followed, they relied on their status as princes to consult historical materials and documents in the Six Books and the National History Museum, and wrote many books successively.

However, compared to them, the Qi country broke away early, and black-and-white comics and many villain books appeared.

In September, Huayang Boyue Zhongqi died in Fuzhong, nicknamed "Wuding".

In the same month, the French writer Voltaire adapted "The Orphan of Zhao" into a new play, called "The Orphan of the Ming Dynasty", and began to be staged in various theaters in Paris on the fifth day of October, with unprecedented pomp.

On the sixth day of October, a massive earthquake struck at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean west of Ribens, and this huge earthquake was felt throughout Europe, even as far away as Kyrgyzstan in West Kunlun.

According to Huang Jin, captain of Qi's fleet stationed at the Beihai Port (Herosmo Martísmo), the earthquake caused the island's lakes and lakes to rise and fall in response to the seismic waves.

In the aftermath of the disaster, they went on a tour of Portugal, where the situation was devastating.

On the day of the disaster, the Portuguese city of Lisbon was shaken three times in succession.

The local population did not notice any signs of disaster beforehand, and the earthquake destroyed the city's buildings, ignited fires, and caused a large number of casualties.

Then the seismic waves from the bottom of the sea caused a tsunami, which destroyed a large number of ships and buildings in Portugal and Spain, as well as in the North Sea Port, and completely submerged Ribens.

Hardly a single building in the city of Lisbon, Portugal, survived the earthquake, and many people died when the buildings collapsed.

According to Huang Jin's estimate, the number of residents who died as a result of the earthquake was probably no less than 60,000.

In Layue, Zhang Tingyu died at home at the age of eighty-four, nicknamed "Wending".

In the fourth year of martial hunting, Britain, France, Spain, Holy Rome and other countries successively used steam engines in agriculture.

Under the leadership of hundreds of Han scholars, they are taking the old road of the Great Tomorrow and the Apocalypse.

Although this is a new path, they have been able to follow exceptionally smoothly thanks to the lessons of the past, and Europe's productivity has increased.

However, due to the immaturity of iron-smelting technology, they could not make breech guns, and could only focus on large-caliber guns.

During this time, they created many products that make people laugh, such as the "European Cannon", which weighs 25 tons.

In the same year, Emperor Wujia went to Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hexi, Anxi, Beiting, Hezhong, Taixi and other provinces to inspect the people's situation.

On April 17 of the fifth year of Wuzhen, Emperor Wuzhen, who was inspecting the people of Taixi, received bad news that Zhu Yiming, the king of Qi, died in Xijing City at the age of 84.

Upon hearing the news, he hurriedly sent someone to send a telegram to send the crown prince Zhu Jianhuan to the State of Qi to mourn the King of Qi, and at the same time gave the King of Qi the nickname "Zhuang".

In June, Zhu Jianhuan arrived in Xijing City, and after the condolences, he was called "King of Qizhuang", and according to the courtesy of the son Zhu Bomu ascended the throne, canonized Zhu Zhongxi as the son, and Zhu Jianxi as the grandson.

In July, Franklin and Washington entered the House of Lords and then the House of Commons.

In October, Emperor Wujia negotiated with Zhu Bomu to jointly lay the Daming Ocean submarine cable.

At the same time, Qi also negotiated with Tangjihuai to lay the Atlantic submarine cable.

In March of the sixth year of Takekari, the construction of these two projects began one after another, but the former was stopped due to technical problems.

In May, the power stations of Daming and Qi basically eliminated the third-generation generators, Qi power began to enter the countryside, and Daming completed the construction of urban power.

In the same month, Emperor Wujia went to Dading Palace to escape the summer, and Emperor Wujia ordered the crown prince to supervise the country.

In June, the mileage of the Daming Railway exceeded 150,000 kilometers, and the Qi country exceeded 80,000 kilometers, and at this time, Europe had not yet solved the pressure problem of steam trains.

In July, Frederick, Duke of Prussia, suggested to the Holy Roman Emperor Franz I that he should train the soldiers of the Empire, and that "the best defense is the offense."

He believes that Mongolia is different from Dingguo, although Mongolia is also a member of the Ming Dynasty vassal system, but Mongolia's population is only more than 8 million, most of whom are Poles.

If the empire can march into Mongolia and rebel against the local Poles, place the battlefield in Mongolia, and constantly plunder supplies to bring back home, then the empire's strength will be strengthened in the long tug-of-war.

However, his proposal was not approved by Franz I.

In this regard, Frederick believed that Austria had fallen into decay, and only Prussia could lead the Prussian people against the Ming Dynasty.

This was the eighteenth year of Frederick's succession as Duke of Prussia, and in the last eighteen years he had actively reformed Prussia, focusing on education, military affairs, and economics.

For the government agency in charge of domestic affairs, Frederick made a number of reforms to the institution.

Generally speaking, these reforms are mainly aimed at establishing a number of new functional government departments to replace the all-powerful prime minister's yamen and strengthen leadership over the sectoral economy.

Between the 20th year of Shaoqing and the 6th year of Wujia, he successively established new functional departments such as the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, the Ministry of Military Administration, the Ministry of Finance and Customs, the Ministry of Mining and Metallurgy, and the Ministry of Forestry.

These departments enabled Prussia to have a well-structured economic sector of government and strengthened its unified and effective leadership over economic work.

Secondly, Frederick noticed early on that the main reason why Europe could not develop breech guns was that the fire cap and metallurgical technology were not up to standard.

Therefore, he adopted different policies to promote the development of mining and metallurgical industries according to local conditions, and at the same time vigorously supported more than 200 Chinese and foreign scholars in China to study the composition of fire caps.

In order to strengthen the development and leadership of Prussian heavy industry, Frederick also established the Prussian Ministry of Mines.

He instructed the head of the department, Heinitz, to draw up a plan for the reorganization and expansion of the Prussian iron industry, as well as to allocate sufficient funds for the expansion and improvement of the mining and metallurgical industries.

In addition, he saw in some of Newton's advice to Charles II the importance of food for Europe today.

In the situation that European countries were heavily dependent on grain imports from the Ming Dynasty, he restricted grain imports through travel policies and began to carry out deep reforms in Prussian agriculture.

He used his army to abolish serfdom in Prussia, and constantly encouraged immigration to expand the ranks of producers in the Kingdom of Prussia.

During his 18 years of rule in Prussia, more than 300 peasant villages were built in Prussia, and more than 200,000 peasant households moved to Prussia.

In addition to carrying a large number of physical objects with them, these immigrants also brought with them their skills.

For these immigrants, Frederick also actively gave preferential treatment to immigrants such as tax exemption and exemption from military service.

After the number of inhabitants increased, he began to vigorously build water conservancy, reclaim wasteland, and expand the area of arable land in the country, so that Prussia's agricultural environment flourished.

Finally, he also reformed the army, thoroughly emulated the Ming vassal states such as the French state, and while developing the armament industry, he also reorganized the training methods of cavalry and artillery, strictly enforced the military discipline of the army, and perfected the army's strategy and tactics.

Under his reforms, Prussia's national power continued to grow.

By the end of the sixth year of the Martial Hunt, Prussia had a standing army of 64,000 men, more than 2,300 cannons, 300 mortars, and 120 howitzers, and the whole army was equipped with flintlock pistols and mini shells, as well as 40,000 troops that could be conscripted at any time, and 40,000 armaments and weapons that could be conscripted at any time.

Therefore, Prussia at this time did not become weak because of the Ming Dynasty's intervention in the European political structure, but continued to grow stronger in the midst of many upheavals in the Holy Roman Empire.

After Franz I rejected his proposal, he understood that the fall of the Holy Roman Empire was not far from the day and began to actively prepare for war.

In May of the seventh year of Wujia, the dispute between Deyang County and Zhou State arose again, and Shu State joined it.

The dispute quickly developed from one county and one kingdom to two kingdoms, in which many of the counties behind the Zhou and Shu domains were involved and were forced to take sides.

Upon hearing the news, Emperor Wujia issued an edict to reprimand the kings and restricted them from entering the country for one year.

Although the two sides were forced by the pressure of the state and the dynasty to stop fighting on the surface, the fight in the secret never stopped.

In March of the eighth year of Wujiao, the three provinces of Persia and the four provinces of Tianzhu broke out again, and Zhou Dong, the head of the household department, believed that it was caused by the uneven distribution of local resources, and listed the distribution of local resources.

In his recital, the main contradiction is that the natives, who have a huge group of more than 60 million, own less than three-tenths of the resources of the seven provinces, while the people occupy more than 70 percent.

Zhou Dong suggested that the means of production be distributed to the natives as a way to appease them, but the cabinet rejected it.

In the same month, Emperor Wujia sent the crown prince Zhu Jianhuan and the governor of the Western Army, Li Shoubi, to quell the rebellion.

In September of the same year, King George II of England died suddenly due to the rupture of a dissecting aneurysm caused by too much force during the early morning stool, and George III succeeded to the throne.

In May of the ninth year of Wuzhan, the rebellion of the seven provinces was quelled, and Emperor Wuzhan issued an order to reward the counterinsurgency army, and Li Shoubi, the governor of the Western Army, was able to restore the Duke of Qin, which was also the only duke in the Shaoqing and Wuzhan periods.

In the same month, Emperor Wujia left the crown prince Zhu Jianhuan and the Duke of Qin Li Shoubi to stay in the three provinces of Persia in an effort to restore the pre-war state.

In July, Zhu Jianhuan, the crown prince who stayed in the three Persian provinces, drove into a private house, killing a Persian native.

This move caused dissatisfaction among the Persian natives, and Li Shoubi, the Duke of Qin, also went to Emperor Wu and asked the prince to return to Beijing.

However, without waiting for Li Shoubi to wait for news from the capital, on July 17, the Persian natives burned the prince's mansion, Zhu Jianhuan fled by car, and the natives rebelled.

Although Li Shoubi later suppressed the rebellion, the three Persian provinces already had a deep hatred for the crown prince Zhu Jianhuan.

Zhu Jianhuan asked Li Shoubi, the Duke of Qin, not to play, but Li Shoubi still played the matter, so Zhu Jianhuan was jealous.

After the news was transmitted back to the capital, Emperor Wujia was furious and ordered Li Huanglai, the camp guard of the East Palace, to escort the prince into Beijing.

In October, Zhu Jianhuan was escorted back to Beijing, and Emperor Wujia punished him for three years and grounded him in the East Palace.

In May of the tenth year of Wujia, Li Shoubi, the Duke of Qin, completely pacified the rebels in the three Persian provinces, and Emperor Wujia recalled him to Beijing to report on his work.

In June, Zhu Zhongfang, the king of Lu, built a listening hall in Changsha (Mumbai), the capital of Lu State, and held his own concert in the listening hall in October of the same year, with more than 2,000 people present, among which the most noble was Zhu Muxuan, the king of Jin.

In August, Zhu Fangcun, a farmer in Yanhe Town, Cangwu County, Daming Prefecture, privately made a dragon robe, claiming to be the illegitimate son of King Qi Wen and calling himself Emperor Wen.

An hour later, he was arrested by two officials and exiled to plant trees in the mansion for 30 years.

In the same month, Benjamin Franklin became prime minister, and Britain carried out Chinese-style reforms, emulating the Ming and Qi kingdoms in all respects, except for religion.

In February of the tenth year of Takekari, Watt, who was born in Scotland, was admitted to Oxford University.

In July of the same year, the "Mingqi" submarine cable was laid, and telegraph communication between the two countries was realized.

In the same month, Emperor Wu Jia lowered the electricity bill again, reducing the price of electricity to five cents per kilowatt-hour, and at this time, the price of electricity in Qi was three cents per kilowatt-hour.

On the first day of the first month of the eleventh year of Wuzhen, Zhou Dong, the head of the household department, said that "the population of the national dynasty has exceeded 900 million, and the country of Qi has exceeded 300 million." ”

In addition, Zhou Dong also reported the news that a large amount of oil had been discovered in Kunlun and the Middle East such as Yongguo, Ruiguo, and Chenguo, and suggested that the oil of the seven countries be purchased at a fixed price.

On the fifteenth day of the first month, according to the document sent by Qi Guo to the Ministry of Households, Zhou Dong went up again to celebrate the annual income of the national dynasty exceeding 300 million Ming taels.

On the first day of the second month, Emperor Wujia was ill and recuperated in the Qianqing Palace, and ordered his second son, Zhu Jianjiong, the king of Wu, to supervise the country.

Because Zhu Jianjiong's teacher when he was not out of the cabinet was the first assistant Li Ziren, the two cooperated well during the prison period.

However, after the news reached the East Palace, Zhu Jianhuan, who was grounded, felt jealous.

Zhu Jianhuan had been in charge of the country for several years before, so he had his own henchmen.

When the news of King Wu's imprisonment spread, the ministers of the prince's mansion ran in the East Palace all day long.

Such a domineering behavior made Emperor Wujia, who was recuperating from illness, displease, and on the fifth day of the first month of March, he directly sent someone to reprimand Zhu Jianhuan for "frequent incidents".

On March 17, Zhu Bomu, the king of Qi, who learned of the problem of the prince of the Ming Dynasty, sent a telegram to the Qianqing Palace, advising Emperor Wujia that if he wanted to abolish the crown prince, he must make preparations in advance, and he must start with the officials of the East Palace first.

However, in this regard, Emperor Wujia was very hesitant, he did not want to destroy the system of elders that had been inherited by the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, but this also gave Zhu Jianhuan a chance.

Knowing that the king of Qi persuaded the emperor to abolish it, the crown prince Zhu Jianhuan was uneasy, so he could only send Li Huanglai, the general of the Donggong battalion, and Jinyiwei to command Luo Changgong to contact the officials of the prince's palace inside and outside Beijing.

In the following months, Li Huanglai first persuaded the eight battalions around the capital, including the Wanping Battalion, the Daxing Battalion, the Changping Battalion, and the Tianjin Battalion, and then privately went to Shenyang to persuade Zhang Bingzhong, the governor of the Eastern Army, who had been promoted by the Eastern Palace.

At the end of June, Li Huanglai returned to the capital with Zhang Bingzhong's integrity, and Zhu Jianhuan was overjoyed when he heard it.

Soon, Jin Yiwei commanded Luo Changgong to persuade Luo Fu, the governor of the southern army, and some of the general soldiers of the provinces directly under the upper government, so Zhu Jianhuan decided to force the palace.

He set the day of forcing the palace on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, and asked Luo Changgong to be wary of leaks by Jinyi officials.

At the beginning of August, Zhu Jianhuan first confessed his mistake to the hundred officials, the people and Emperor Wujia, lifted the ban, and then lived in the East Palace to study and practice calligraphy......