"Lord, lord, wake up quickly!"

The prime minister of the Ming Dynasty, the king of thistle, Zhuge Weidao, was woken up by this rapid and sweet voice from his sweet sleep. This highly meritorious and powerful prime minister of the Ming Dynasty just celebrated his 60th birthday yesterday.

In the past 20 years, the prime minister has been proud and smooth sailing...... Oh, if you count further, it seems that he has been very smooth in his life, except for a shot in the brain for no reason when he was an embassy military attache in Petersburg 35 years ago. Even the shot in the head "exchanged" him for a wishful beauty, the Archduchess Natalie. The two have been happily married for more than 30 years, and they have raised five love crystals together. And this somewhat "lustful" female grand duke did not stop Zhuge from accepting concubines, and had a close relationship with the concubines of Prime Minister Zhuge , which was really happy. With the joint efforts of Zhuge Weidao and Natalie, their family has become larger and larger, and now it has developed into a monogamous wife, six concubines, and fifteen children, so a happy family!

In addition to a happy family, Zhuge Weidao's career is also very smooth. He retired from active duty at the age of fifty-five with the rank of Admiral. At that time, he had been in the position of the secretary of the Admiralty for several years, and at the same time, he also became the chief military division of the Zhuge family's military division, and he also received the full support of the Civic Party, the largest party in the parliamentary council controlled by the Zhuge family. So after retiring from active service, he was naturally elected as the right prime minister of the Ming Dynasty, and three years later, he entered another one, replacing Mu Zhongjun, who resigned because of the improper handling of the economic crisis, and became the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty, and held this position until today.

But if anyone thinks that he has been smooth sailing for the past twenty-seven years, it is not true.

The first thing that made him unhappy was that the Second World War he was expecting did not start as scheduled!

At the time of the signing of the "Havana Peace Treaty", Zhuge Weidao pinched his fingers and counted and calculated, feeling that this peace would barely last for twenty years at most, and World War II would break out! But his prediction fell short six years ago...... In the 44th year of the Taiping, the whole world was immersed in an atmosphere of prosperity and stability, and there was no intention of fighting a world war.

At that time, the whole world was under the combined effect of new technologies, new industries, new economies, and long-term peace and stability, and there was a long-term prosperity and stability. Even the United States and Britain, which were defeated in the last war, have also seen a fiery situation.

Among them, the huge debt of 8.88 billion yuan of the United States was repaid in the 40th year of peace...... And it's even with interest, and a dime is paid off in advance!

Originally, Zhuge Weidao thought that the United States would end up with Germany in another timeline, which lost in World War I! Who knows that the United States is still underestimated...... The United States is the chosen nation!

Five years after the signing of the Havana Treaty, the United States emerged from the post-war recession and began to move toward positive growth with the discovery and exploitation of the Ohio oil field.

At the same time, the vast land of the United States also told all those who looked down on her what it means to be called "the chosen nation" - at the same time that the United States abolished black slaves and allocated land to free blacks according to the "Havana Treaty", the United States Congress also passed the "American Revival Homestead Act" based on the principle of "black and white people are all people", and began to allocate agricultural land free of charge to all Americans, including new Americans who have just crossed the ocean to this country by ship - as long as they can develop and use the agricultural land within 24 months after receiving it. And if certain conditions are met, the land they receive will be theirs forever!

Under the impetus of this Homestead Law, the poor of Europe flocked to the United States like a tide, and American agriculture miraculously quickly came out of the shadow of abolition, and soon became the world's largest exporter of wheat, cotton, tobacco, butter, beef, wool, cowhide and other agricultural and animal husbandry products.

The large export of oil and agricultural and animal husbandry products not only provided the United States with enough money to pay off the war reparations, but also gave the United States the spare resources to develop its industry and infrastructure...... Railways, roads, power stations, power grids, ports, cities, and factories of all kinds have sprung up. As a result, instead of being deindustrialized after the defeat of the war, the United States quickly industrialized.

By the fifties of the 19th century, the United States had replaced Britain as the world's second largest industrial country!

And the population of the United States has also increased by more than one and a half times, from 20 million to 50 million!

What is even more unexpected is that the rapidly growing United States has been honestly obeying the world order dominated by the Ming Dynasty, and it is completely impossible to see what ambition this country still harbors to dominate the world. Her army and navy have not even reached the size required by the Havana Treaty. Relations with Mexico, Spain, the United Kingdom, as well as the Ming Dynasty and Japan, have also been good......

Like the good performance of the United States, Britain has also been a well-behaved and obedient "little Ming Dynasty" in the past 27 years. Queen Victoria, apart from giving birth to children, is taking care of children, and has no interest in leading the country at all. And Zhu Xiuran became the real king of the United Kingdom and the emperor of India...... And it's the kind that holds real power! Although he did not govern himself, he could arbitrarily remove the prime ministers of Britain and India, issue decrees, dissolve parliament, and interfere with the judiciary. According to the British themselves, this is simply the return of Henry VIII!

Of course, Zhu Xiyou will not divorce and kill his wife like Henry VIII, and his relationship with Victoria can still stand the test of time...... He doesn't even have a mistress! And the two also gave birth to 10 children together, 5 of which are sons, although 3 of them are not in good health, but the British Ming Dynasty has no shortage of heirs at all.

Under Zhu Xiyou's leadership, the British Empire also gradually emerged from the economic crisis caused by the defeat and civil war...... After all, India can still transfuse blood to the British Empire!

The people of India have everything with a belt of their trousers!

In addition, the industrialization of the United States, as well as the industrialization and military confrontation of the Roman Republic, the Roman Empire, and the German Empire on the European continent, also sent orders and capital to Britain.

So the British economy has entered an upward channel of prosperity and growth since the 40s of the 19th century......

By the way, the economies of the Roman Republic, the Roman Empire, and the German Empire, which faced off on the European continent, were actually very good - the confrontation between these three countries was a confrontation, and business was still done. Especially the Roman Empire among them...... It was that Rakshasa who, after taking Constantine, Rumillia, Moldavia, and Wallachia, and raising a strong Serbia, began to carry out reforms to abolish serfdom, and achieved good results.

In short, everything looks good, and the Ming Dynasty, who has seized the leadership of the world, is certainly the biggest beneficiary of this twenty-seven years of post-war prosperity, and the economy has been in a high degree of prosperity, seemingly endless......

Zhuge yawned for Dao, woke up from a recliner in his prime minister's office, looked at his female secretary Fu Shanxiang Fu Dacai, and asked with a smile: "My talented girl, it's time to get off work?" Shall we go to the Big Black Room for dinner tonight? ”

The talented woman Fu Dacai, who had beautiful facial features, glared at Zhuge Weidao angrily, and then said to him: "Lord Wang, the Shanghai Securities Exchange just called, and the stock market has plummeted today, and the stock index has fallen by 21% in one day!" ”