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Chapter 1207 Returning Home (Final Chapter)
In the spring of the 63rd year of Chengshun, Luo Zhixue, who had been handling government affairs personally for many years, took part in the first imperial council meeting after the beginning of spring.
In fact, there was nothing important in the meeting, it was mainly for showing up... After all, the last time Luo Zhixue attended such a formal occasion was last fall.
Of course, this does not mean that Luo Zhixue will not meet with his subjects and lock himself up...
In fact, the nobles, ministers, and royal family members outside could still meet Luo Zhixue every few days, but these meetings were more about chatting and getting to know each other. Luo Zhixue generally would not deal with any problems personally.
No matter what happened, it was directly pushed to the prince.
He is almost eighty years old this year. No matter how you look at it, his physical functions have declined significantly. Although he is not completely old and frail and unable to walk, he does not have much energy to deal with those complicated government affairs.
In fact, in the 58th year of Chengshun, Luo Zhixue had, to a certain extent, completely faded out of all government affairs and no longer handled them personally.
Apart from the fact that there was no abdication, there was actually not much difference between it and the abdication. Even the daily imperial council meetings were presided over by the crown prince.
In recent years, Luo Zhixue has increasingly felt that his physical functions are rapidly declining. In addition, he is not as interested in or concerned about many things as he was when he was young.
For example, ten years ago, Luo Zhixue was more concerned about the overall development of the Empire Electrification, but now, he feels that it doesn’t matter anymore… Anyway, he can no longer see the modern society and Internet life in his memory.
Since we can't see it anymore, it doesn't matter. At most, we can leave behind some brief words to describe our vision of the future. We mentioned things like electronic computers, and imagined using electric current switches to represent 0 and 1, and then building a computer based on electricity.
The contemporary Chu Empire actually already had some mechanical computers. The empire's household registration department first used paper tape computers to record and calculate large and complex information.
At the same time, the navy's fire control computer, developed by Jiangnan Precision Machinery Company and led by the navy, is also a mechanical computer that can output shooting data based on various input parameters, greatly improving the accuracy of the navy's naval guns in long-range shooting.
After having these mechanical computers, scientists in the Chu State were actually also exploring and researching better computers. At the Royal Institute of Technology, there was an electronic computer research institute established according to Luo Zhixue's instructions. It explored how to use electricity as energy for large-scale calculations and proposed the concept of analog electronic computers.
Of course, this is still a concept, and it will probably take a long time for it to take shape.
In the early years, Luo Zhixue was quite interested in these things and promoted their participation... But now, Luo Zhixue no longer has much interest. At most, he would give a few hints when he remembered it, but he no longer cared whether the people under him did it or not.
At this age and having achieved such great success, Luo Zhixue already has a feeling of looking down on everything.
I have to take it lightly...I no longer have the energy to bother with these things.
This was the first Council meeting after the beginning of spring, and I just made a simple appearance and announced to the public that I am still alive...not dead.
So he simply sat there for five minutes and then got up and left.
After respectfully seeing Luo Zhixue off, the prince began to preside over the council meeting.
The current crown prince is actually not young anymore. Born in the fifth year of Chengshun, he is 58 years old this year. After decades of government training, the crown prince is now a very mature politician. He does not need Luo Zhixue to support him from behind. The crown prince can handle these things on his own.
In fact, the prince was considered to be relatively long-lived. Many of Luo Zhixue’s children did not live to this age... Even though they were born in the royal family, the life expectancy of the Luo royal family was far shorter than that of ordinary people in modern times.
There is no way. The medical conditions are at this level. Even penicillin was only completed in industrial mass production last year.
There are no good medical treatments for many diseases in the local area.
Medical care and life expectancy are closely related. Even if a member of the royal family becomes ill or is accidentally injured, they cannot be saved.
Therefore, many of Luo Zhixue's children have left him over the past few decades... From his eldest son Luo Wei, whom he loved the most in his early years, to his other children... More than a dozen of them have died over the years.
Luo Zhixue was also very sad at the beginning, but gradually he became indifferent... Life and death are determined by fate, what's there to say!
Not to mention children, even many grandchildren died young due to various reasons.
Having seen so many dead people, Luo Zhixue has become numb to it.
Until the summer of that year, Queen Wang died of a cerebral hemorrhage due to various illnesses brought on by old age and physical frailty... On that day, Luo Zhixue held the hand of the old lady who had been with him for more than sixty years, listened to her unconscious mumblings, and finally watched her close her eyes!
At the beginning, Luo Zhixue didn't have any feelings for Queen Wang, at least it had nothing to do with love... But after living together for decades, even if there was no love, there was family affection.
There are three thousand women in the harem, but she is the only one who is his wife... She has been with him since the rebellion period, witnessed his success, witnessed the rise of the empire, and witnessed the changes of the times.
In recent years, she has often said that when she was a girl, she never imagined that she would one day become a queen... and the queen of the greatest and largest empire in Chinese history and even in human history.
Now, Queen Wang, who has witnessed the times, has finally become a part of this magnificent era... and has become history.
On this day, Luo Zhixue did not shed even a single tear. He just held her hand... for a long, long time!
However, Princess Luo Wei and Crown Prince Luo Jun were crying their hearts out... because it was their mother who died!
There was also a group of concubines, princes and grandchildren outside, most of them were crying loudly, and a few were even wailing... As to whether they were real tears or fake tears, no one knew.
Luo Zhixue said softly to Queen Wang, who had already closed her eyes: "Don't go too far on the road to the underworld, or I won't be able to find you when I come back!"
"As husband and wife, we must walk together on the road to the underworld. This way we can feel more at ease!"
After saying that, Luo Zhixue opened his mouth, then stood up, looked at the concubines and princes and grandchildren who were kneeling in a large group outside, then retracted his gaze and left.
The next day, the imperial newspaper officially published the news of Queen Wang's death, and the funeral procession would follow.
According to what Queen Wang said before her death, she should be buried as soon as possible so as not to be tormented for a long time after her death.
So although the funeral was grand, it was done quickly. The burial was completed only half a month later and was buried on Zhongshan Mountain... According to tradition, the empire had begun building a tomb for Luo Zhixue decades ago, and had been patching it up since then.
Now Queen Wang will be buried there first, and in the future Luo Zhixue will also be buried there after his death, and the couple will be buried together!
After the funeral, the grand Chu Empire returned to its former state, prosperous and full of vitality!
Except for a few people, no one actually cared about Queen Wang’s death...even though she was Luo Zhixue’s queen and the mother of a country!
After all, the royal family is too far away for ordinary Chu people... The royal family of Chu has always had a sense of mystery among the people. Royal family members rarely appear in public, and even if they do, it is always in formal occasions.
Mysterious and distant: this is the initial impression many contemporary Chu people have of the Chu royal family.
Of course, this was limited to the harem and ordinary princes. Luo Zhixue and Crown Prince Luo Jun were exceptions... Before the 58th year of Chengshun, the Great Chu Chao Bao published news about the great emperor every day.
Fifty-eight years later, Luo Zhixue completely withdrew from government affairs and began to publish various news related to the prince on a large scale.
In newspapers, textbooks and other propaganda channels led by the various etiquette departments of the empire, Emperor Luo Zhixue has long been a god-like person, and the prince is also a demigod...
This is a reflection of the important work of the Ministry of Rites and Education, 'education'.
Coupled with the huge achievements the empire has made so far, people are also happy to acknowledge the concept of them being "gods".
Sixty years of continuous brainwashing has actually had a very good effect...
In contemporary Chu society, there are many people who curse the Minister of State Affairs, but there are very few who curse Luo Zhixue and his son... Whenever someone talks about something bad, they always say that there are treacherous ministers in the court who have deceived His Majesty and His Highness.
But upon closer inspection, the highest power of the empire was always firmly in the hands of Luo Zhixue and his son. Without their approval or even promotion, no major policy could be implemented.
To a certain extent, the actions of the Grand Councillor are actually a reflection of the imperial will... You have to know that the emperor has the final say over the Grand Councillor, who can come and go as he pleases.
Since Queen Wang's death, Luo Zhixue has seemed somewhat silent in the eyes of outsiders, and often lies alone in a recliner without saying a word.
In fact, it’s not that Luo Zhixue has suffered too much shock and become withdrawn... Queen Wang is the same age as him, so it is normal for her to die in old age. After experiencing the death of so many of his children, he has actually been able to accept it calmly.
Nor was he afraid of his own death in the near future.
He just missed the days before he traveled through time... Recently, he often recalled some people and things before he traveled through time, especially his parents. He... missed home!
Although he has been in this time and space for more than sixty years, he has created his own miracle here, built a home, and had many women and children.
But... his home is not here... this is the home of the eldest prince Luo Wei and the crown prince Luo Jun!
His home is at the other end of time and space... After all, he also has parents.
Wherever parents are, there is home!
But he couldn't go back.
Because of these, Luo Zhixue seemed to be in a low spirit during this period.
He often reminisces and tries to remember what his parents looked like as much as possible, but so many years have passed, and to be honest, he can't remember them very clearly!
Luo Zhixue, who was often lost in his memories, became even less concerned about many things in the outside world.
Be it the empire or the great cause, Luo Zhixue actually doesn’t care much about these.
Anyway, he has done enough and has a sense of accomplishment. The rest is the prince's business!
In the past ten to twenty years, the prince has actually done a pretty good job, always making steady progress in promoting the continued development of the empire.
Both internal affairs and external markets are handled well.
For example, the many adjustments in external affairs have achieved relatively good results. Now, many vassal states in Europe are already in a state of fully moving closer to the empire... To be honest, the younger generation in places like the Kingdom of England, if you don’t look at their appearance, but only look at their clothes, their way of speaking and their way of thinking, are actually no different from the Chu people.
They speak Chu dialect, have Chinese names, celebrate the Spring Festival, admire the moon on Mid-Autumn Festival, worship their ancestors on Qingming Festival...even their speech is sprinkled with idioms from time to time.
Because the Kingdom of England implemented comprehensive Chinese language education, even the official language was Chinese... As for English, it evolved into a dialect... An Englishman who had the opportunity to receive education, from the time he was born to the time he went to school, received almost a full range of Chu cultural education.
They even abandoned the so-called religion and began to regard themselves as Confucian disciples. Even if they wanted to find a belief, they would choose Taoism or Buddhism... If they met someone who was good for them, they would pray for the blessing of gods and Buddhas. If they met someone who was not good for them, they would shout "Where are you going, you bastard?"...
This made many academics in the empire who were clamoring to further reduce the influence of Confucianism and to allow a hundred flowers to bloom and a hundred schools of thought to contend feel upset!
Then some English people even tried every means to prove that the English are actually a branch of the Chinese ethnic group... They found a lot of various messy evidences, trying to prove that their English ethnic group gradually migrated from East Asia to Europe thousands of years ago, and then gradually migrated to the English Isles after intermarrying and integrating locally.
This kind of argument made a large group of West Asians and even Southern Europeans speechless... Especially some black-haired and black-eyed people in Southern Europe: We are embarrassed to say that we are descendants of the Chinese, how dare you, a bunch of red-haired people in England, say so...
What outsiders think is not important, what matters is what the English think...
What do they think?
The economy took off, per capita income increased significantly, and life became better day by day. Especially after the prince's sixteenth son became the first in line to the throne of England, with the arrival of some support policies from the empire, their lives became more comfortable.
What do you think they think?
Of course, we must continue to hold on to the empire unwaveringly!
So they have been actively promoting the Kingdom of England to become a royal territory.
As for outsiders... to be honest, the English looked down on them: a bunch of uncivilized poor people who didn't even have potatoes to eat.
The Kingdom of England is an extreme example among a large number of indigenous vassal states...Except for the Kingdom of England, other indigenous countries are not like this. Even the Kingdom of Denmark wants to go this way but has not done it so thoroughly.
After a civil war broke out in the Kingdom of Denmark, the royal family was defeated. The king fled to the London Concession of the Chu State with his two grandsons and announced that his two grandsons would give up their rights to the throne... in order to avoid continued pursuit.
This also means that when the exiled king dies, the throne of the Danish king will be passed on to Christina's son, the 21st son of Crown Prince Robert.
But even so, the Kingdom of Denmark did not do anything too thorough and still retained some of its own culture.
But the Kingdom of England was extreme on the one hand, but universal on the other... because in every indigenous vassal state, the reforms and cultural education of the Chu State were being implemented.
Whether you like the Great Chu Empire or hate it, you can't ignore it... Even if you want to defeat it, you have to understand it and learn it first... Otherwise, how can you resist? Are you going to fight against the Chu people's planes, tanks and cannons with the shabby single-shot rifles that the Chu people sold you?
That's unrealistic!
The impact that the Great Chu Empire has brought to human beings all over the world is huge and unavoidable... Even the primitive people in Africa cannot avoid this impact... Well, there are actually not many of these primitive people left now.
The policy implemented by the Chu people in Africa was similar to the policy implemented in America back then, which was to gradually advance from the coast to the inland, advance militarily, establish settlements, eliminate surrounding threats, then build roads for simple development, and then repeat...
Under such circumstances, Africa quickly became similar to America, with fewer and fewer indigenous people, and then slowly no indigenous people could be seen anymore.
At the same time, because the medical means of the Great Chu Empire, especially the research and development of drugs, continued to deepen, and there were drugs to fight a variety of diseases, some special difficulties in Africa were no longer a problem.
Therefore, the contemporary Chu State also launched a large-scale development of Africa. Many companies came here to establish large-scale mechanized farms, mine various minerals and forest resources, etc.
In addition, the North African region has long been controlled by the Chu people.
In the 70th year of Chengshun, the Great Chu Empire officially announced that the entire territory of Africa would be made a directly governed territory and several provinces would be established.
After America, the empire has won a permanent living space for the Chinese nation!
India, West Asia and Europe...this needs to maintain the status quo!
There is no point in keeping the native Africans uncivilized, so Africa can be directly governed.
However, the indigenous peoples of Europe, West Asia and India still belong to the civilized human society and are a good labor resource... They are also the valuable assets of the empire and cannot be messed with.
It is precisely because of this group of indigenous people whose total number has exceeded one billion that the lives of the people of the empire are getting better and better, not only in terms of material things, but also in spirit.
People always have to make comparisons when they are alive!
Some poor people in the empire no longer think of themselves as unlucky when they see the misfortunes of the overseas natives.
Moreover, overseas places are also a retreat route for the lower-class people of the Chu State... If they can't make it in their home country, they will run to the concessions in Europe, India, and West Asia, or even go directly to the indigenous countries. This is the choice of many people.
Although he is just a low-level trash character in his native country, once he arrives in these indigenous countries, he can immediately become a superior person. He doesn't even have to do anything. He can just open a school and teach Chinese and live a very decent life.
In recent years, countless poor people in their native countries have gone to indigenous countries to work as foreign teachers...
The contemporary Great Chu Empire has reached the peak state envisioned by Luo Zhixue in his early years, and it may even be unable to make any further progress.
At this time, in the autumn of the 70th year of Chengshun, Luo Zhixue, who had been sleeping in bed for several months, suddenly woke up, and called in Crown Prince Luo Jun and the Crown Prince, and gave them some notes and tips on the future development of science and technology.
Finally, he ordered: "The empire must never stop moving forward, otherwise it will die a slow death!"
After giving the order, Luo Zhixue looked at the princes, grandchildren and many ministers kneeling outside the door. He thought of the scene when Queen Wang died many years ago.
Although many years have passed, the scenes are surprisingly similar!
I just don’t know how many people were crying for real and how many were crying fake tears...and what do the ordinary people in the empire think of me?
Do you think you are a good emperor?
Luo Zhixue felt more and more tired. He closed his eyes and stopped looking at the princes and grandchildren. Instead, he once again recalled many scenes from his previous life, the home and his parents that he could hardly remember clearly.
Dad, Mom, my son is coming back...
(Complete)
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