Chapter 383: Bombardment of London, Invention Explosion, Writing Revolution, and Increasing Festivals
In the Second Ming-Austrian War, the Ming Dynasty was in an overwhelming advantage.
Once again, the Europa war is cloudy.
The Kaiser sent troops to support the Ottoman Empire, trying to open Istanbul to the Black Sea.
But at this time.
The Kamal Union declared its dissolution, Denmark became independent, Sweden became independent, Norway became independent, Iceland became independent, and Finland was annexed by Zhao.
Da Ming sent a congratulatory message.
As a result, the Viking Four Kingdoms directly fell to the European Union and declared war on the Ming Dynasty.
Daming's congratulatory telegram sent a loneliness.
Li Chengxun, the governor of the Mediterranean, sent troops to attack Denmark and helped Zhu Youfang, the second son of King Chen, establish the Ji state.
The German fleet fought a bloody battle with the Ming army in the North Sea.
Britain and France entered the war, cutting off the rear route of the Ming fleet, and the Ming army landed in Britain instead.
It was originally intended for Denmark.
Who knew that Da Ming turned around to attack the British, and the British directly sabbied.
The Ming fleet sent 30,000 marines to land on the British mainland, besieged London, bombarded the London gates with heavy artillery, and slaughtered the cities near London.
The King of England hurriedly called for help.
The envoys who could ask for help could not escape from London at all.
After receiving the news that the Ming army had landed in London, Chen sent 100,000 troops, abandoned the garrison, and increased troops to London.
Burn and plunder the entire vicinity of London.
Standing in the city of London, you can hear the sound of crying and shouting outside the city every day, and the boundless fire, burning a monstrous black smoke, can be seen every day in the city.
Then they drove the living British and attacked London, and every day a large number of civilians died tragically outside the city. The situation is terrible.
For the first time, British soil was subjected to such terrible destruction.
Ming soldiers stationed in Ireland began to capture Manchester.
The British fleet is at sea, and the main force is not on the mainland.
According to estimates, the Ming fleet did not exceed 30,000 marines, but he did not expect that Chen Guoguo would choose to abandon his homeland and exchange his own homeland for the British homeland, which was a tactic of killing 10,000 enemies and losing 8,000 himself.
That's right, at this time, the native of Chen was being ravaged by the Vikings.
Chen Guo mainly stuck to the big cities, fortified the walls and cleared the wilderness, abandoned the countryside, and abandoned the factories outside the city, and the losses were not large.
Britain also wanted to clear the wilderness, but the problem was that the newly emerging capitalists in the country were reluctant to give up factories and farms, and as a result, they were all slaughtered.
It is estimated that the 130,000 troops of Ming and Chen slaughtered more than 400,000 people in Britain itself.
And England, without Ireland, has a population of no more than two million!
That's a fifth of the population.
The Ming fleet got rid of the flanking attack of the Three Kingdoms fleet and withdrew from the North Sea, although the losses were relatively large, but the plundering in Britain was also a rough return to the capital.
Only the English people were weeping, and their king was weeping in the court.
Many buildings in London were burned down.
Many residents were burned to death.
Don't talk about it outside the city, a Shura field.
A month later, the Ming-Chen coalition withdrew from Britain and returned to sink several Viking warships, and the Chen-Chen army intercepted some of the Vikings who did not return.
Behead them all and build a Kyoto view.
The fleet under Lee Seung-hoon suffered heavy losses, 170 medium-sized warships were sunk, and more than 7,000 soldiers were killed in battle.
The Mediterranean Fleet lost its vitality in the first battle and could not afford to fight a major war again for three years.
The price of Germany and France is not small.
Britain was the worst, the country was slaughtered by a fifth of the population, the country was bareland, and the farmland was poured with oil, ignited, and completely burned.
Huge amounts of pesticides have been poured on rivers, and the water sources of the entire country have been seriously polluted.
The most ruthless thing is that the Ming army exposed the corpses to the sun and threw them into the water source, causing the entire river to spread the plague.
True, after the withdrawal of the Ming army, there was an outbreak of plague in Britain.
Chen Guo was prepared in advance, closed the country in advance, and silently licked his wounds, while Lee Seung-hoon closed the Strait of Gibraltar and closed the passage from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic.
and warned all Ming ships in the territory not to approach British waters.
The troops of various countries that were originally stationed in Ireland have also been withdrawn one after another.
The memory of the plague is still fresh in the minds of the Ming people.
Dachu blocked the country, actively prepared medicines, and prepared for epidemic prevention.
The Ming Dynasty sent a large number of medicines to the European and African vassal countries from the mainland.
In the 61st year of Jingtai, the epidemic broke out in England, and this wave of virus swept through France.
Emperor Louis XII of France contracted the plague and died.
Vlasova I ascended the throne.
However, several nobles at the court contracted the plague and died of incurable disease, including Louis XII's daughter, Frasois's wife.
As soon as the princess died, his position was shaky.
Fortunately, the plague began to spread in France.
Frasova relied on his own ability to help France survive the plague and barely maintain the throne of the French emperor.
Zhu Youzhu is really bad, at this time, he actually expelled the Pope of Rome and did not allow them to stay in the Chu State.
Although it caused a lot of opposition from Christians.
But what Zhu Youzhu means is that all those who oppose it will follow, and Da Chu will not leave people with ulterior motives!
Since then, there have been no Ji Christians in Da Chu!
The Pope of Rome directly.
You're forcing us to die!
They were glad before, the Chu State was prepared in time, and there was no epidemic, but just a few minutes after they were happy, the Chu State dared to expel them.
Moreover, only those who expel them!
All the things that the Pope has been doing for thousands of years must remain in the Chu State!
Zhu Youzhu simply doesn't want to have a face!
However, under the pressure of muskets, all the papal personnel left the state of Chu within a limited time, otherwise they would be killed.
In order to control the situation, the Chu army shot and killed several important members.
Now everyone can see that the state of Chu must have broken with the Pope of Rome.
Even, began to drive out the Christians.
In the past, it was the Pope who called others heretics.
Well, this time, they're heretics.
Groups of people hobbled towards the Chufa border, not even a donkey cart, and many members died on the road.
Zhu Youzhu is really ruthless, the corpses are all refined, let them take the ashes with them.
Where did the Pope suffer from such a wretchedness?
Even the Ming Emperor had to treat them equally.
But they forgot that the European Union and the Ming Dynasty had declared war, and the Ming Emperor had long ceased to regard them as friends.
Otherwise, Zhu Youzhu would not dare to do this.
The Pope issued a crusade to the south to attack the state of Chu!
But all countries are preventing the epidemic, and this wave of British plague came unexpectedly and directly swept the whole of Europa.
The state of Chen and the state of Chu were spared from danger.
But Hungary and the Ottomans, who were at war, were also swept by the plague, and the Ming army was also infected.
The symptoms of this wave of plague are cough, chest tightness, and high fever.
If you can survive it, you will live, and if you can't survive, you will die.
Hu Shining, who was in charge of the Hungarian War, immediately turned to the defensive and carried out epidemic prevention, although the preparations were rough, but still saved the lives of many soldiers.
Sick soldiers were quarantined and observed daily.
Wear a mask and wash your hands frequently.
This is the method proposed by Zhang Zhongjing, and Huaxia has used it for 2,000 years, and the effect is very good.
Europa doesn't have a solution.
They can only let the plague spread widely, and then rely on their lives to resist.
It is in the stage of a concentrated outbreak of the plague.
A large number of penicillin was sent from the locals to inject the patients, saving the lives of a large number of soldiers again.
But the number of soldiers killed by the plague was as high as 40,000.
More than 250,000 soldiers have survived the plague.
On the Ottoman battlefield, in the Second Min-Austrian War, the Ming Dynasty took an overwhelming lead, and as a result, a wave of epidemics interrupted the course of the war.
A large number of soldiers fell ill, and Wang Qiong and Wang Xian were immediately isolated for treatment.
Penicillin and other therapeutic drugs were sent from the mainland, as well as a large number of Chinese medicinal materials, which saved the lives of soldiers.
But the great advantage of the battle is gone.
It could have destroyed the Ottomans in one battle, but it gave the Ottomans a chance to breathe.
The Ming were forced to halt the course of the war.
Turn offense to defense.
In order to save the lives of their soldiers, the major feudal states actively supplied goods and at the same time cut off communication with Europe, and entered a state of seclusion.
The Ottomans were boiling up and down, and they preached that it was God's grace to them that helped them win the war.
Although the Ottomans were swept away by the plague and claimed countless lives.
But the country is still there.
The Ottoman Emperor Selim was a very powerful man, and he drove the infected soldiers every day to rush into the Ming army camp.
Anyway, it depends on who lives hard.
This method greatly increased the non-war attrition of the Ming army.
In the first Ottoman War, although the Ming Dynasty was defeated, the loss was about 50,000, and the death toll of this plague was as high as 120,000.
Wang Qiong and Wang Xian whined and mourned, obviously achieving a turning point in the war, a great epidemic, taking away the fruits of victory.
No one knows when this plague will pass, and where the next fighter will be.
But more than a million people.
Eating and drinking Lazar is a huge number.
It is also possible for the Ming Dynasty to support such a large-scale foreign conquest, and if it was a small country, it would have collapsed long ago.
If you eat domestic for another two years, it is estimated that the emperor will not be able to hold on.
They are worried.
The Min-Au-T War entered a state of stagnation.
And all of Europe, set on fire by the plague, and people are dying every day.
The worst was in England, where the plague broke out.
In the past six months alone, 600,000 people have died in Britain, and the population has plummeted to 900,000.
The native farms were destroyed, the farming implements were burned, it would take time to resume production, and if they wanted to buy grain, France and Germany were too busy to take care of themselves, and it was impossible to sell grain to the British.
Britain could experience the biggest food shortage ever.
I wonder how many people are left in Britain after this catastrophe?
The King prayed to God.
And some people have already shouted out that the prince and the general Xiangning have a kind of hu, and the common people can't live anymore, and there is only one way to rebel.
Britain has come to an end.
Chu, Chen and other countries said that Britain should be fully responsible for this plague.
Britain was also wronged, saying that this was a plague created by the Ming army, and the European Union should unite and unite with the outside world.
Many vassal states and Britain began to fight over each other.
At this moment, the emperor of the European Union, the Kaiser, was mysteriously infected with the plague, and Germany was in a panic, and the death toll could not be counted.
Germany was the biggest beneficiary of the Ming-Austrian War, the Ming-Hungarian War, and the Shang-Polish War, but because of a plague, all of them were gone.
The population of Germany was plummeting, soldiers were infecting each other, and countless valiant soldiers were dying in hospital beds.
Now even the emperor is infected.
There was panic in Germany.
The Kaiser had a high fever in the palace, and some ministers suggested that Daming had a special medicine and could buy a special medicine from Daming.
At first, the Kaiser was quite tough, but then his head burned and he agreed to buy it.
Of course, Daming didn't sell it.
He also ridiculed the Kaiser.
Then the Kaiser bought it from the black market, from the army from a special channel, and really bought penicillin, and a needle really saved his dog's life.
"We in Germany must master this medicine." The Kaiser's eyes were blue.
And this wave of plague is spreading to Eastern Europe.
Qi and Zhao also began to be infected.
But they don't have a large-scale war, as long as they close the country and control the number of infected people in time, there won't be too many problems.
The fear now is that Germany will go crazy and inflict a deadly attack on them.
This is not unlikely.
The Ottomans exchanged the dead for the living, causing the Ming army stationed in Turkey to suffer a great loss.
I really want to think about good things, and I want bad things to come.
The Kaiser sent an army of plague to invade the four kingdoms of Shang, Zhao, Qi, and Lu.
Shikoku scolded his mother directly.
Europa's side has been turned upside down by a plague.
However, this thing is spreading like wings to the Great Ming.
After Daming finished delivering the medicine, he cut off contact with Europe.
The population of Daming is too large, and once the plague spreads, Daming can be destroyed.
In the sixty-first year of Jingtai, the emperor ordered the closure of ports and wharves, temporarily closed the country, and sent the goods that were eager to be sold to the trade island, and the goods that could be stored were temporarily parked in the port.
The government and the opposition all thought that it was just a plague, and it would not be so popular.
But the emperor insisted on going his own way.
The plague was rampant in Europe, and the country was closed off.
As a result, a large amount of hot money at home and abroad poured into the entertainment industry.
The emperor wanted to build a multi-legged walk for the Ming Dynasty and develop steadily, not only by real estate, but also by industry, including literature, comics, cross talk, sketches, dramas, stage plays and other entertainment industries, as well as side businesses such as tourism and services.
For real estate, a soft landing.
Housing prices are indeed inflated, but they must be inflated and turned into real high.
In addition, highly polluting industries should be transferred to the outside world, and economic development should be coordinated with environmental protection.
We want to make money and a good environment, and the economy will grow in an orderly and gradual manner, without haste or slowness, and move forward steadily.
In the 61st year of Jingtai, the population of Jingtai officially exceeded 3 billion.
The domestic economy has risen further.
Last year, Jingtai's 60-year fiscal revenue reached 2.4 billion yuan, and the total income of state-owned enterprises and imperial enterprises reached 27 billion yuan, of which imperial enterprises accounted for the majority.
The economy is extremely prosperous.
But it didn't drive the electrical revolution.
The steam engine has not yet been fully popularized by the people, and the electric revolution is only a concept put forward by the emperor, and the people will be skeptical of this concept.
But the old emperor was old, and the folk called him auspicious.
The exploits of the old emperor are obvious to all.
Even if he is old, he is not mediocre, and half of the country's rapid progress is due to the old emperor, who has personally created a great prosperity of entertainment in recent years.
This year, it is to raise tens of billions of yuan, personally go down, invest in the construction of local parks, and in the future, comics will come into reality, and people can see them everywhere.
The emperor plans to link up with big IP to create an industrial chain of derivative peripheral products.
Let's just say that Pokemon, a comic, is enough to create an industrial park to attract children to come in and consume.
The emperor's meaning is to build different parks in various places, promote the development of local tourism, and build a tourism industry full of local characteristics.
Split multiple big IPs and divide them into some cities with special tourism, such as Leshan Giant Buddha, link this scenic spot to make an amusement park full of characteristics.
For some cities that do not have local characteristics, it is necessary to tap local characteristics and create local characteristics.
In the New Year's message of the sixty-first year of Jingtai, the emperor emphasized that there are two words of characteristics.
Each place must have its own characteristics.
Excavate historical characteristics, give characteristics to the times, strengthen original characteristics, and establish new characteristics.
To attract tourists, we must retain tourists and attract new tourists in a steady stream, which is the new requirement and new goal of industrial development.
Every sentence of the old emperor has a pointing effect of the times.
At the beginning, he moved Greek culture and Egyptian culture to the border province, and now the border province has created a unique ice and snow cultural paradise.
With the development of the entertainment industry, it has brought fire to one tourist route after another.
It is far more effective for the people to move than to be tied to the spot.
The three carriages that pull the economy, consumption, investment and exports.
Domestic consumption is not only about food, clothing, housing and transportation, but also about meeting the spiritual and cultural needs of the people and pursuing a high-quality life.
Speaking of investment, the emperor intends to establish a sound stock market, which is still under evaluation, and it is expected that within one to two years, a sound investment environment will be established.
Let the people be able to participate in the operation of capital.
Export, that is, the export of goods to the vassal country, this point has always been far ahead.
The tourism industry needs to keep innovating.
It was history fever before, and now it's martial arts fever.
While developing the original tourism advantages, it is necessary to develop new tourism projects.
The big IP of entertainment is a new tourism project.
Seize the big IP outlet of entertainment, who can capture the hearts of the next wave of tourists.
In order to promote the rapid development of the book and comic industry, the center decided to set up Li Bai Literature Award, Gu Kaizhi Painting Award, Qu Yuan Award, Wu Daozi Comics Award, Bangu Reasoning Award and other awards.
It was decided to establish the Hutuo River Literature Festival, the Qinhuai River Literature Festival, and the Bianhe Literature Festival.
There are a number of awards, three literary festivals, all of which are held every three years, this year's Hutuo River Literature Festival, next year's Qinhuai River Literature Festival, and the next year's Bianhe Literature Festival, alternately.
Every year, the high-quality ones are selected and recommended by the Literature Festival Publicity Committee to readers and friends, and strive to create high-quality content.
Ten awards will be given for the time being, and more will be added in the future.
In order to select the stories that the people like to see, and then create a big IP.
This year, the center plans to spend 2 billion yuan to transform scenic spot projects, transform and build some high-quality landscapes, and take the lead by the center to attract local capital and participate in investment.
In other words, it is to stimulate consumption.
It is already difficult for real estate to develop again, unless the real estate bubble is advocated, it is good that real estate can maintain a high level without reducing prices.
We must find a new breakthrough in development.
One foot is the electrical revolution, which drives the upgrading of the industrial chain and promotes the prosperity of the general environment; The other foot is the big entertainment, make good use of the good learning atmosphere of the contemporary era, and fully develop the entertainment industry.
It is also necessary to drive the development of the downstream industrial chain of entertainment, such as drama, stage plays, cross talk, sketches, talk shows, storytelling, allegro, singing and dancing and other cultural projects to boost the downstream industrial chain.
Commendation, support, and development will be given to wonderful literary works.
Make every effort to create a big IP for entertainment.
In addition to these two paths, there is the stock market.
Stocks should become a reservoir of alternative real estate, and will gradually replace the real estate market in the future, and real estate will become the two legs of Daming, and unswervingly move forward.
In the 60th year of Jingtai, the first fountain pen of the Ming Dynasty was born.
There was a writing revolution in the Ming Dynasty.
Fountain pens are more convenient than brushes for writing, and some folk scholars have proposed to abandon brushes and use fountain pens.
can be rejected by conservatives.
It is believed that the brush is the root of China and must not be thrown away.
And the dispute between the fountain pen and the brush has been quarreling for a year.
The center is also noisy.
Some people say that the fountain pen is convenient, easy to carry, and can be used at any time, while some people say that writing horizontally loses the beauty of words.
There is nothing to say, and it takes time to adapt to the birth of any new thing.
In the sixty-first year of Jingtai, the palace began to use a fountain pen to write, and in order to adapt to the fountain pen, he began to write horizontally.
It's not mandatory.
Anyway, if you want to use a brush, you can continue to use a brush, if you want to use a pen, you can use a pen, if you like to write horizontally, you can write horizontally, if you like to write vertically, you can write vertically, and the center does not make restrictions.
In the sixty-first year of Jingtai, three most important inventions were born.
One is a pencil.
When the emperor was in Jingtai for forty years, he put forward the concept of pencils, but over the years, he has not been able to fire qualified pencil leads, and later wood could not be synthesized.
This year, the finished pencil was completely tackled and pressed out by the machine.
It has brought earth-shattering changes to the calligraphy and painting industry.
Pencil drawings and drawings became a new school of painting.
Pencils and pens, directly gave birth to the writing revolution, pencils are certainly more convenient than brushes, and easier to carry than fountain pens.
And in order to accommodate pencils and pens, the text must also begin to be simplified.
In fact, the simplification of words has been done from ancient times to the present, from the big seal to the small seal, to the Han Li, that is, the text is simplifying.
Today's traditional Chinese characters are also being simplified.
Although the text loses its original symbolic meaning, it is convenient to write, save time and save paper.
Up to now, folk paper has been very cheap, and the elderly people are still reluctant to wipe their buttocks with paper.
Because that's a desecration of paper!
Nowadays, people have an indescribable worship of pen, ink, paper and inkstone.
But as the younger generation continues to grow up and have begun to get used to toilet paper, the worship of paper is also decreasing, which means that knowledge is readily available and the worship of knowledge is also decreasing.
And the old man is absolutely reluctant to waste a piece of paper, even a piece of paper, it must be full of words, and he will be reluctant to throw it away.
There is also a habit of cherishing newspapers.
After reading the newspaper, I was reluctant to damage it a little, folded it neatly, stored it, and took it out to dry every other day to keep it forever.
The reason why the Han people were able to guarantee a complete legal system.
It is because the Han people love words and love paper, ink, pen and inkstone.
Therefore, Huaxia is the only ancient civilization in the world that has never been cut off.
Every piece of history is remembered clearly.
No culture has ever been destroyed.
This is unique in the history of the world.
The second invention is the camera!
That's right, it's the camera.
In fact, in the 59th year of Jingtai, there were craftsmen who registered the patent of the camera in the patent office.
It is a simple wooden box, with the help of the imaging principle of camera obscura, the world's first permanent photograph was taken.
This technology, reported to the center, the emperor was particularly interested, the talent to the palace, he injected 5 million, only 20% of the equity, and helped him set up a team to tackle camera technology.
It wasn't until this year that the first stable version of the camera appeared.
But the exposure time takes 20 minutes.
The previous one, which took 8 hours to image, is better than asking an artist to paint one.
This year, after the production was successful, he personally took a picture of the emperor.
This was the first emperor in the world to take a photograph.
This incident caused a sensation in Jingshi.
Countless dignitaries and dignitaries invited him to take photos for himself.
The company has also attracted numerous capital injections from investors.
This guy is also a business genius, and he is not sensitive to all the investments, accepts them all, and then expands production and makes a lot of money.
However, the emperor bought the copyright use patent from him and founded the second camera enterprise of the Ming Dynasty.
And recruit the team, and innovate against the camera.
And put forward the idea of the camera.
It is also necessary to study from black and white to color.
The emperor injected 20 million yuan into this company, recruited civilian optical talents, set up a laboratory, and began research.
The third invention, also related to optics, is the microscope.
For the first time, Daming biological experts observed microorganisms through a microscope.
Through the study of microorganisms, nutrition experts have come up with new recipes that suggest that people should not eat raw food.
Keming people have long stopped eating living things.
In the eighth year of Jingtai, the emperor proposed that water must be boiled before drinking, and it was mandatory to enforce it among the people.
Up to now, the people basically don't drink raw water.
Now that microorganisms have been observed, people are even more afraid to drink raw water and eat raw food after seeing it.
The microscope has opened a milestone in microbiology research.
With the help of microscopes and other instruments, a table of new chemical elements was proposed.
The list of chemical elements is a subject that every primary school student must memorize, and it is the same as multiplication formulas and pinyin.
In the biology department, there is an additional microbiology.
Daming is making great strides towards modern society.
In the sixty-first year of Jingtai, the first refrigerator model of Daming was born.
There is also a folk craftsman treasure center, and the first tractor model was born.
Machinery has evolved from the study of steam engines to the study of automobiles and ships.
The emperor's support for science and technology is unique, and material rewards and financial support are given to some newly registered patents and private treasure donors.
According to the statistics of the eunuchs in the palace, the emperor invested in about 140,000 enterprises.
There are many who die without a problem.
It is said that the emperor holds more than half of the patents in the patent office.
Because those companies have collapsed, the patent rights can only fall into the hands of investors, and the emperor buys back the ownership of all the patents, and it becomes the emperor holding a large number of patents.
When the company can go public, the world will know how valuable these patents will be.
They all thought that His Royal Highness the Emperor had a treasure trove.
But I don't know that these hundreds of thousands of patents are more important than the treasure trove of gold.
The emperor still holds the copyrights of hundreds of big IPs.
It's all money.
Take a look at Ultraman comics, a single comic feeds the profligacy of several generations of a family.
The emperor holds the copyrights of hundreds of comics in his hands, and he is still investing in the comics industry, and there will be tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of comic copyrights in the future.
There are also countless classic copyrights.
Daming does not have the provision that the copyright owner will become public copyright when he dies, it is yours, it will always be yours, and your family can always own this copyright.
As long as the kings of later generations do not jump blindly, the royal family will always be the richest.
In the 61st year of Jingtai, the creation of science and technology has ushered in great success.
The common people are also living smoothly, and wages have risen again this year, except for the expensive houses, the prices have remained stable and have not risen.
The salary of an ordinary worker in the private sector exceeded 2,000 yuan.
The salary of engineers exceeded 10,000 yuan.
The total assets of the private sector are estimated to be about 1 trillion yuan.
Because of the issuance of stocks, the emperor was discussing with his courtiers whether it was possible to issue paper money, and paper money was gradually replacing silver coins.
This matter is still under discussion in the center, because of the failure of the treasure banknote, the people still do not trust the paper money.
The emperor meant, issued together.
After a long time, the people recognized it.
Directly from silver coins to paper money, it is easy to cause panic, gradual change, the protection period is 20 years, after 20 years, completely let the silver coin disappear from the stage of history.
A large number of private economic experts also participated in this discussion.
They proposed that paper money should be linked to silver and that the silver standard should be implemented.
But on the silver standard, money is worthless.
If there are sufficient gold reserves, it is better to introduce a gold standard currency, and the paper money is fixed for gold, and the Ming Yuan becomes Ming Jin.
As long as the Ming Yuan is equivalent to gold, then the banknotes of the Ming Dynasty will not collapse.
Because there's so much silver.
Once the silver war with the American vassal states started, the silver reserves of the Ming Dynasty were very at a loss.
The issuance of paper money can avoid war, and the use of economic war can be used to gather the world's wool.
At this point, the old emperor felt very nonsense.
Without nuclear weapons, economic means are useless.
Daming is now helping the vassal country to succeed the domain, waiting for the vassal country's wings to harden, it will turn against the Ming Dynasty, as for how much territory the Ming can hold, look at the governance level of the monarch of later generations.
If it weren't for the stocks, the emperor didn't want to issue paper money at all.
There's no need.
After the Ming Dynasty owned American silver, the silver reserves were very rich.
Let's just say that there is a huge amount of silver in the treasury, and the market will not be able to eat it in the next ten years.
And if the gold standard is used, what about silver?
So, now is not the time to issue banknotes.
The emperor also thought so, paper money should be on the gold standard, and the issuance of paper money means giving up silver coins, and there will be no place to spend the silver in stock.
Before I wanted to gather the world's wool, I had to have a core.
Without nuclear, who is it? Whoever you fight you, as long as the war is under control, there will be people who will take risks, don't overestimate human nature.
It is still under discussion.
At this time, in Central Asia.
Last time, because of the emperor's unfair handling, Xu Guo repeatedly went to the emperor and asked the emperor to divide the territory fairly.
He will never give up the territory he occupies.
Because of territorial disputes, Shikoku has reached a stage of saber rattling.
The old emperor is still alive.
The four kingdoms haven't made a move yet, and once the old emperor dies, they will immediately hit the dog's brain.
The emperor only tried it a little, and they were revealed.
Zhu Qiyu never thought that the brothers could get along harmoniously, what he needed was a foreign domain to defend the Ming Dynasty, not a foreign domain to encroach on the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, the Ming Dynasty wanted to provoke a war between foreign vassals.
Serve as a referee in the middle of the outer domains.
In this way, we can sit firmly on the Diaoyutai platform.
The premise is that Emperor Daming is a master of micro-manipulation, anyway, he is not optimistic about Zhu Jianqi, Zhu Yourong is still young, and he can't see anything special.
Officials in the DPRK and China also do not have much experience in micromanipulating foreign countries.
Before he died, he had to let the royal family and courtiers learn the means of manipulating foreign vassals to maintain the status of the Ming Dynasty.
At this time, the plague from Europe spread to the Ming Dynasty.
The first case has already appeared in the Ming Dynasty.
The imperial court has long been prepared to prevent the epidemic, try to control the plague outside the island, and do not enter the Ming Dynasty.
Officials who returned to Beijing from foreign domains to report on their work were blocked on the island, temporarily isolated, and not allowed to return to the Ming Dynasty.
At Christmas time.
Some people presented gifts to the emperor and applied for a patent for an audio telephone.
The Emperor rewarded the man.
This patent is an imaginary patent, and it is also the reason why folk craftsmen want to go to the center.
Because the emperor attaches great importance to folk inventions and creations, many folk craftsmen want to get promoted with an invention.
In recent years, there are many people in the palace who have offered treasures, and the palace has also set up a treasure bureau to listen to the strange ideas of the common people, all of which will be written into a note and sent to the emperor to see.
If the emperor thinks it's good after reading it, he will see the treasure donor.
The same is true of the devotee, who came up with an idea.
If a person speaks to a piece of iron, the sound waves will cause the sheet to vibrate.
If a magnet is placed behind the iron sheet, the vibration of the iron sheet will produce a corresponding current in the solenoid coil, and this current can be transmitted through the wire to a distance, and similar devices in the distance will also vibrate and make a sound.
A simple idea, and an experiment, is the telephone idea.
The emperor rewarded this person heavily and invested 20 million for telephone research.
Along with the gift, there was also the idea of a telegraph, which would convert words into an electric current, which would be transmitted to the other end of the wire.
At the same time, they mastered the principles of electromagnetism.
Simply, with a total investment of 50 million, we will study the telephone and telegraph together.
Although it is only the conception stage, it is enough to prove that Daming is about to enter the electric age.
A number of comics and comics were announced in the palace, and the Christmas blockbuster was Emperor Liu Yu.
The Great Emperor series, with the addition of Liu Yu, the founding emperor of the Liu Song Dynasty.
The launch of blockbuster books and comics in the Christmas Palace is already a regular means.
This year, it is more of the same, it is a group photo of the Manchu courtiers.
The emperor was dressed in military uniform, huddled among many courtiers, and took a group photo.
This group photo was published in major newspapers and periodicals, and the subjects of the world saw the face of the sky again.
Although the emperor is old, his momentum is like a rainbow.
Dressed in a military uniform and holding a sharp sword, he looks domineering.
The crown prince and grandson are on the left and right, the courtiers stand behind the emperor, and the stars hold the moon.
The crown princess wrote a poem, which was published in the newspaper at the same time.
The emperor delivered a Christmas speech, proposing that the development of science and technology is the last word, paying attention to the protection of patents, the development of science and technology, and the rejuvenation of the country through science and education.
After the dinner, the emperor left the important ministers of the cabinet behind.
"Zhuqing, the plague is raging in Europe, and the Ming Dynasty rules Europe, I'm afraid it will be a few years."
Zhu Qiyu sighed: "If the Ming Dynasty has no external enemies, there will definitely be internal strife, and many feudal states will definitely attack each other." ”
"Is there a way for you to let Da Ming be the suzerainty forever?"
The courtier's face was bitter.
The emperor hopes that the courtiers can be in the center and manipulate the situation abroad, which is really a bit taken for granted, unless that kind of phone call can appear, don't even think about it.
Seeing that the courtiers all bowed their heads.
"What? Don't you dare to say it? Still don't know what to say? Zhu Qiyu asked with a calm face.
The courtiers all knelt on the ground.
Zhang Fuhua smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, this matter really can't be manipulated, the ministers are not roundworms in the stomachs of the kings, how can they manipulate the kings?" ”
"Big fish eat small fish, and big fish will get stronger and stronger."
"I divide the kings on all continents, which is to check and balance each other, but I don't want a behemoth to emerge and become an obstacle to the development of the Ming Dynasty."
Zhu Qiyu was dissatisfied with Zhang Fuhua's perfunctory attitude: "What do you say? ”
The emperor's idea was that the vassal state could threaten the Ming Dynasty and promote the rapid development of the Ming Dynasty, but it could not surpass the Ming Dynasty, and the vassal state must be controlled within a controllable range.
Let them be the whetstone of the Ming Dynasty, not the opponent of the Ming Dynasty.
It is best for the world to maintain a state of one superpower and many strengths.
It's kind of a state of wanting this and that.
Zhang Fuhua thinks that there is no way to do it slightly.
"I can't think about it, and I think of it and then come back to me."
Zhu Qiyu felt that the courtiers were stupid, how did Daiying manipulate the global situation?
Isn't it just a check and balance!
Why is it so difficult to change Da Ming to manipulate the world?
Because Daiying guards the choke point and deploys heavy troops on the choke point, he can manipulate the world slightly.
Why can't Da Ming?
Because Da Ming has sealed all the throat arteries, of course it won't work.
At this stage, the Ming warships can cruise around the world, because the old emperor is still there, and once the crown prince ascends the throne, it may not be possible.
Another point is that other countries were lagging behind at that time.
Which of the vassal states is backward now?
Look at the war with Britain to fight a country of the same level, they are not bullshit.
It also bullies and bullies Asians, bullies and bullies primitive people.
It's not that they have a high level of micro-manipulation, but that the enemy is too weak, and if it's really tough, the British army is the most rubbish army, and there is no one.
Daming can now handle Europa at will, because they are too weak.
It's the same thing.
But the feudal kingdom is different, even if there is a technical shelf life of ten years, but a railway, it is enough for the feudal kingdom to enter the modernization.
The Ming capitalists made a lot of money, but let the countries gradually get out of the control of the Ming Dynasty.
At the beginning, the courtiers opposed the Ming Dynasty to build railways for the vassal state.
However, they ignore technological innovation, and from the age of steam it is necessary to enter the age of electricity, and from the age of electricity to the age of technology.
As long as the technology is leading, Daming will always be strong.
He has led the Ming Dynasty to this point, if he can still lag behind, the king of the future generations will simply wipe his neck and commit suicide.
"That's it, let's not talk about it today."
Zhu Qiyu asked them to get up: "I plan to set up another festival, called Halloween." ”
"Taking the Christmas birthdays of Huaxia as the sacrifice day, I feel that I can pick out a date, and there will be fewer festivals in the second half of the year, so it will be set on the eleventh day of November."
"Make this day the day of sacrifice for all saints."
This isn't the lunar version of Double 11.
The courtiers have different faces, and they all feel that there are too many festivals in the Ming Dynasty, such as the Spring Festival, National Day, Lantern Festival, Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, Christmas, Mid-Autumn Festival, Halloween, New Year's Day, and there are nine major festivals.
There are countless subsections.
"Your Majesty."
The prince is the mouth of the courtier: "The ministers think that there are too many festivals in the Ming Dynasty, and if all the festivals are on vacation, it will not be good for production." ”
"Besides, the public memorial day is the Qingming Festival, so why bother to set up a separate festival?"
"As far as Erchen knows, Halloween is a Western Day, and Erchen thinks we shouldn't celebrate it."
After he finished speaking, he was a little frightened, worried that his father would scold him again.
"That's what the prince said."
"Celebrate the festive season, it means that the Ming Dynasty is getting better and better day by day, and it is good to have more."
"I also plan to set up Mother's Day and Father's Day, which are only half a day off, so that the people can express their love to their hard-working parents."
Zhu Qiyu added three festivals in one go.
I wanted to join a Thanksgiving day, but the courtiers were very opposed.
It's not a bad thing to have more festivals, it can drive tourism.
"Your Majesty, is it important to travel or work? If private factories close down because of too many festivals and too much wage pressure, many people will lose their jobs, which is not good for economic development. ”
"Weichen believes that Father's Day and Mother's Day can't be half a day off, so let's take two hours early."
"Halloween, a day off."
"What do you think?"
Because Daming is rested from Chinese New Year's Eve to Lantern Festival, a total of seventeen to nineteen days off.
There is a national holiday in the middle.
Li Dongyang said: "What do you think of changing the Qingming Festival into a one-day holiday?" ”
The emperor frowned slightly and looked at Liu Jian.
"Your Majesty, Weichen agrees with Li Gelao's words, the factory is under great pressure."
Daming employees are five and a half days and a day and a half off, but this day and a half is allowed to work overtime for half a day, which is equivalent to saying that there is only one day off by law.
There are five festivals that are held for three days, and if you have a holiday, you can squeeze out five days.
Now add another one, one day, two two hours, and it is more reasonable to adjust the Qingming Festival to a day off.
"Then add another Thanksgiving, thank your parents for the holiday, and also take a day off."
"There are few holidays in the second half of the year, and they are placed in the second half of the year."
"You pick a day to come out for a holiday, and it will start this year."
The emperor directly made a decision.
(End of chapter)