Daming Jingtai: I am the eternal benevolent king

Chapter 384 Bombardment of London, Invention of the Explosion, Writing of Revolution, and Increase of Festivals

In the second Ming'ao War, the Ming Dynasty was in an overwhelming advantage.

Europa is once again clouded with war.

The Kaiser sent troops to support the Ottoman Empire, trying to open up Istanbul, and marched to the Black Sea.

But at this time.

The Kamal Union announced its disintegration, Denmark became independent, Sweden became independent, Norway became independent, Iceland became independent, and Finland was invaded by Zhao.

Daming sent a congratulatory message.

As a result, the four Viking countries directly turned to the European Union and declared war on the Ming Dynasty.

Daming's congratulatory message sent a lonely message.

Li Chengxun, the governor of the Mediterranean, sent troops to attack Denmark and help Zhu Youzhen, the second son of King Chen, establish the country of Hebei.

The German fleet fought a bloody battle with the Ming army in the North Sea.

A month later, the Ming and Chen coalition forces withdrew from Britain and retaliated and sank several Viking warships. The Chen army intercepted some of the Vikings who had not returned.

Standing in the city of London, you can hear the sounds of crying outside the city every day. The endless fires and the towering black smoke can be seen every day in the city.

Britain was the worst. One-fifth of the country's population was slaughtered. The country was a red land, and the farmland was poured with oil. After being set on fire, it was completely burned.

Many residents were burned to death.

And Britain, without Ireland, has a population of no more than two million!

Behead them all and build a Jingguan.

For the first time mainland Britain suffered such terrible destruction.

Then they drove away the living British and attacked London. Massive civilians died tragically outside the city every day. The situation is appalling.

Troops from various countries originally stationed in Ireland also gradually withdrew.

The most cruel thing is that the Ming army exposed the corpses and threw them into the water source, causing the entire river to spread plague.

People in the Ming Dynasty still have vivid memories of the plague.

After receiving the news that the Ming army had landed in London, Chen Guo sent 100,000 troops to abandon the defense of the mainland and send additional troops to London.

It was originally a plot to attack Denmark.

It is estimated that Ming and Chen's 130,000-strong army will massacre more than 400,000 people in the British mainland.

In the 61st year of Jingtai's reign, a great epidemic broke out in England, and this wave of viruses swept to France.

Only the British people were weeping, and their king was weeping in the court.

Chen Guo was prepared in advance, closed the country in advance and licked his wounds silently, while Li Chengxun closed the Strait of Gibraltar and closed the channel from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic Ocean.

Britain and France joined the war, cutting off the retreat of the Ming fleet, and the Ming army landed in Britain instead.

The King of England hurriedly asked for help.

The Ming Dynasty sent large quantities of medicines to European and African vassal countries from the mainland.

A full fifth of the population was lost.

Burning, killing, and looting began throughout London.

The British fleet is at sea, and the main force is not at home.

The Mediterranean fleet lost its vitality in the first battle and was unable to fight another war within three years.

Yes, after the Ming army withdrew, the plague broke out in Britain.

Not to mention outside the city, there is a Shura field.

Ming soldiers stationed in Ireland began to capture Manchester.

Britain also wanted to fortify its walls and clear the country. The problem was that the newly emerging capitalists in the country were reluctant to give up their factories and farms. As a result, they were all slaughtered.

A large amount of pesticides were poured into rivers, and the entire country's water sources were seriously polluted.

The envoys who could ask for help could not escape from London at all.

The Ming fleet escaped the attack of the Three Kingdoms fleets and withdrew from the North Sea. Although the losses were relatively large, the looting in Britain could be considered a rough return.

That's right, at this time, Chen's homeland was being ravaged by the Vikings.

All Daming ships in the territory were warned not to approach British waters.

Li Chengxun's fleet suffered heavy losses, with 170 medium-sized warships sunk and more than soldiers killed.

The price of morality and law is not small either.

According to estimates, the Ming Army's fleet and marines did not exceed 30,000 people. It was never expected that Chen Guo would choose to abandon his homeland and exchange his own homeland for the British homeland. This method of killing 10,000 enemies and self-destructing 8,000.

Who knew that the Ming Dynasty would turn to attack Britain, but Britain would directly attack Shabi.

Da Chu sealed the country's borders, actively prepared medicines, and prepared for epidemic prevention.

The Ming fleet sent 30,000 marines to the British mainland, surrounded London, bombarded the city gates of London with heavy artillery, and massacred the cities near London.

Chen Guo mainly stuck to the big cities, fortified the walls and cleared the fields, and gave up the countryside and factories outside the cities. The losses were not big.

Many buildings in London were burned down.

French Emperor Louis XII contracted the plague and died.

Vlasova I ascends the throne.

However, many nobles in the court were infected with the plague and died without treatment, including Louis XII's daughter and Fraçois' wife.

When the princess died, his status was in shaky condition.

Fortunately, the plague began to spread in France.

Vlasois relied on his own ability to help France survive the plague and barely maintained the throne of French emperor.

Zhu Youtang is really bad. At this time, he even expelled the Roman Pope and did not allow them to stay in the Chu Kingdom.

Although it aroused opposition from many Christians.

But what Zhu Youtang meant was that all those who objected would follow, and no one with ulterior motives would be spared in Chu!

From then on, there were no Christians in Dachu!

The Pope just peed.

You are forcing us to die!

They were lucky before that the Chu State prepared in time and there was no major epidemic. However, just a few minutes after they were happy, the Chu State dared to expel them.

And, only expel their people!

Everything that has been owned by the Pope for thousands of years will be left in Chu!

Zhu Youtang was so shameless!

However, under the pressure of muskets, all the papal personnel had to leave Chu State within a time limit, otherwise they would be killed.

In order to control the situation, the Chu army shot and killed several important members.

Now everyone could see that Chu State must have broken with the Roman Pope.

They even started to drive away Christians.

In the past, it was the pope who called others heretics.

Well this time, they became heretics.

Groups of people staggered toward the Chufa border without even a donkey cart, and many members died on the road.

Zhu Youtang was so ruthless. All the corpses were refined and they were asked to take away the ashes.

How has the Pope ever experienced such cowardice?

Even the Ming Emperor had to treat them equally.

But they forgot that the European Union and the Ming Dynasty declared war, and the Ming Emperor no longer regarded them as friends.

Otherwise, Zhu Youtang would not dare to do this.

The Pope announced that the Crusaders marched south to attack Chu!

However, all countries are preventing the epidemic. This wave of British plague came unexpectedly and swept directly across Europe.

Chen and Chu were saved 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; if you cannot survive it, you will die.

Hu Shining, who was in charge of the Hungarian war, immediately switched to a defensive state and carried out epidemic prevention. Although the preparations were rough, he 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. It has been used in China for two thousand years and the effect is very good.

Europa has no such solution.

They could only allow the plague to spread over a large area and then fight with their lives.

At the stage of a concentrated outbreak of the plague.

A large amount of penicillin was sent from the mainland to inject and treat patients, once again saving the lives of a large number of soldiers.

But as many as 4 soldiers died due to the plague.

More than 25 soldiers survived the plague.

On the Ottoman battlefield, during the Second Ming Dynasty War, the Ming Dynasty took an overwhelming lead. However, a wave of epidemics interrupted the progress of the war.

A large number of soldiers fell ill, and Wang Qiong and Wang Xian were immediately isolated and treated.

Penicillin and other therapeutic drugs, as well as a large amount of Chinese medicinal materials, were sent from the mainland, which saved the lives of soldiers.

But the great advantage in the battle situation was gone.

Osman could have been destroyed in one battle, but in the end, Osman was given a chance to breathe.

Ming Dynasty was forced to stop the war process.

Turn offense into defense.

With the priority of preserving the lives of soldiers, the major vassal states actively supplied supplies, while cutting off communications with Europe and entering a state of isolation.

The Ottomans were in a state of excitement and publicized that it was God's gift to them that helped them win the war.

Although the Ottoman Empire was swept by the plague, which claimed countless lives.

But the country is still there.

The Ottoman Emperor Selim was a very powerful man. He drove infected soldiers into the Ming army camp every day.

Anyway, it depends on who is lucky.

This method greatly increased the non-war attrition of the Ming army.

In the First Ottoman War, although the Ming Dynasty was defeated, its losses were about 12, and this plague killed as many as people.

Wang Qiong and Wang Xian were in mourning. They had clearly reached a turning point in the war, but a great epidemic took away the fruits of victory.

No one knows when this plague will be over or where the next fighter plane will be.

But there are more than one million people.

Eating, drinking, and eating is a huge number.

In other words, the Ming Dynasty could support such a large-scale foreign campaign. If it were a small country, it would have collapsed long ago.

If we stay at home for another two years, the emperor may not be able to hold on.

They are both worried.

The Ming'ao War came to a standstill.

And the whole of Europe was ignited by the plague, and people were dying every day.

The worst case was Britain, where the plague broke out.

In the past six months alone, 600,000 people have died in the UK, and the population has dropped sharply to 900,000.

However, the local farms were destroyed and the farming equipment was burned. It would take time to restore production. France and Germany had too much to take care of themselves and it was impossible to sell food to Britain.

Britain could be on course for its biggest ever food shortage.

I wonder how many people will be left in the UK after this disaster is over?

The King of England prayed to God.

And some people among the people are already shouting that the princes, generals and Xiang Ning have the right to live, and the people can't live anymore, and the only way is to rebel.

Britain is at the end of its rope.

Chu, Chen and other countries announced that Britain was fully responsible for this plague.

The United Kingdom was also wronged, saying that this was a plague created by the Ming army. The European Union should unite and deal with the outside world.

Many vassal states and Britain began to quarrel with each other from afar.

At this moment, the Kaiser, the emperor of the European Union, was mysteriously infected with the plague. Germany was in panic, and the death toll could no longer be counted.

Germany was the biggest beneficiary from the Ming-Austrian War, the Ming-Hungary War, and the Shang-Polish War, but it was all lost because of a plague.

Germany's population was declining sharply, soldiers were infecting each other, and countless brave soldiers died on their beds.

Now even the emperor is infected.

There was panic throughout Germany.

The Kaiser was suffering from a high fever in the palace. Some ministers suggested that the Ming Dynasty had special medicines and that they could be purchased from the Ming Dynasty.

The Kaiser was quite stubborn at first, but later his head was confused due to the burning, and he agreed to buy it.

Of course Daming will not sell it.

He even ridiculed the Kaiser.

Then the Kaiser bought it from the black market and from the military through special channels. He actually bought penicillin. One injection actually saved his life.

"We in Germany must master this medicine." The Kaiser's eyes turned blue.

And this wave of plague is spreading to Eastern Europe.

People in 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 infections in a timely manner, there won't be many problems.

The worry now is that Germany will go crazy and launch a fatal attack on them.

This possibility is not small.

Osman exchanged dead people for living people, causing the Ming army stationed in Turkey to suffer heavy losses.

I really don't think about the good things, but I think about the bad things.

The Kaiser sent an army of plague to invade the four kingdoms of Shang, Zhao, Qi and Lu.

Shikoku scolded her directly.

Europa was turned upside down by a plague.

However, this thing is spreading to Ming Dynasty like it has wings.

After Ming Dynasty finished delivering the medicine, it cut off communication with Europe.

The Ming Dynasty had too many people. Once the plague spread, the Ming Dynasty would be destroyed.

In the 61st year of Jingtai's reign, the emperor ordered the closure of ports and docks, and temporarily closed the country. The goods that were eager to be sold were sent to the trading island, and the goods that could be stored were temporarily parked in the port. The storage costs during this period were borne by the court.

Both the government and the public thought it was just a plague and would not mobilize troops like this.

But the emperor had 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 create a multi-legged city for Ming Dynasty to develop steadily. It should not only rely on real estate, but also have industries such as literature, comics, cross talk, sketches, dramas, stage plays and other entertainment industries, as well as side businesses such as tourism and services.

Make a soft landing for real estate.

House prices are indeed falsely high, but we must turn the false high into a real high.

Highly polluting industries should be relocated and economic development should be coordinated with environmental protection.

We not only want to make money, but also want a beautiful environment. The economy will grow gradually and steadily, moving forward steadily without any rush.

In the 30st year of Jingtai's reign, the population in the country officially exceeded billion.

The domestic economy has further strengthened.

Last year, Jingtai's 24-year fiscal revenue reached 270 billion yuan, and the total revenue of state-owned enterprises and imperial enterprises reached billion yuan, of which imperial enterprises accounted for the majority.

The economy is extremely prosperous.

But it did not advance the electrical revolution.

Steam engines have not yet been fully popularized among the people. The electrical revolution is just a concept proposed by the emperor, and the people are still skeptical about this concept.

But the old emperor was old, and the people called him auspicious.

The achievements of the old emperor are obvious to all.

Even though he is old, he is not sluggish, and half of the country's rapid progress is due to the old emperor. In recent years, the old emperor has personally created a great prosperity in entertainment.

This year, tens of billions of dollars have been raised to invest in the construction of local parks. In the future, novels and comics will become reality and be seen by people everywhere.

Emperor plans to link up with big IPs to create an industry chain for derivative peripheral products.

Just take Pokemon, a comic, is enough to create an industrial park to attract children to come in and consume.

What the emperor means is to create different paradises in various places, promote the development of local tourism, and build a tourism industry full of local characteristics.

Split multiple big IPs into some cities with distinctive tourism, such as the Leshan Giant Buddha, and link this scenic spot to create a unique amusement park.

For some cities without local characteristics, local characteristics must be explored and created.

The emperor emphasized the word "characteristic" in his New Year's message in the 61st year of Jingtai.

Every place must have its own characteristics.

Excavate historical characteristics, give them characteristics of the times, strengthen original characteristics, and establish new characteristics.

After attracting tourists, we must retain them and attract new tourists continuously. This is the new requirement and goal of industrial development.

Every word of the old emperor has a directional effect on the times.

At first, he moved Greek culture and Egyptian culture to Border Province, and now Border Province has created a unique ice and snow cultural paradise.

With the development of the entertainment industry, one tourist route after another has become popular.

It is far more effective for the people to move than to stay tied in place.

The three carriages that drive the economy are consumption, investment and exports.

Domestic consumption is not only about food, clothing, housing and transportation, it must also meet the spiritual and cultural needs of the people and pursue a high-quality life.

Speaking of investment, the emperor plans to establish a complete stock market, which is still under evaluation. It is expected that a complete investment environment will be established within one to two years.

Let the people participate in capital operations.

Exports are the export of goods to vassal states, and Ming Dynasty has always been far ahead in this regard.

The tourism industry needs to constantly innovate.

Before there was a craze for history, now it’s a craze for martial arts.

While developing the original tourism advantages, new tourism projects should be developed.

Big entertainment IP is a new tourism project.

Whoever seizes the big entertainment IP will be able to 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 establish awards such as the Li Bai Literature Award, Gu Kaizhi Painting Award, Qu Yuan Novel Award, Wu Daozi Comic Award, and Ban Gu Mystery Novel Award.

It was decided to establish the Hutuo River Literature Festival, the Qinhuai River Literature Festival, and the Bianhe River Literature Festival.

Multiple awards and three literary festivals are set up, all held every three years. This year's Hutuo River Literature Festival will be held alternately, next year it will be Qinhuai River Literature Festival, and the year after that it will be Bianhe River Literature Festival.

High-quality novels are selected every year and recommended to readers by the Literature Festival Publicity Committee, striving to create high-quality content.

There are currently ten awards, and more will be added in the future.

In order to select stories that people like to hear and see, and then create big IP.

This year, the Central Hub plans to spend 20 billion to renovate scenic spots and renovate and construct some high-quality landscapes. The Central Hub will take the lead to attract local capital to participate in investment.

After all, it is to stimulate consumption.

It is already difficult for real estate to develop further. Unless a real estate bubble is promoted, it would be good if real estate prices can remain high and not fall in price.

We must find new breakthroughs for 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 big entertainment, making good use of the contemporary good learning atmosphere to fully develop the entertainment industry.

And it is necessary to promote the development of the downstream entertainment industry chain, such as dramas, stage plays, cross talk, sketches, talk shows, storytelling, allegro, song and dance and other cultural projects, to boost the downstream industry chain.

Give praise, support and development to wonderful literary works.

Make every effort to create a big entertainment IP.

Apart from these two roads, there is the stock market.

Stocks should become a reservoir that replaces real estate, and will gradually replace the real estate market in the future, and real estate will become the two legs of Ming Dynasty, moving forward unswervingly.

In the 60th year of Jingtai's reign, the first fountain pen of Ming Dynasty was born.

A writing revolution occurred in the Ming Dynasty.

Fountain pens are more convenient for writing than calligraphy pens. Some folk scholars have proposed giving up calligraphy pens and using pens.

But it was rejected by conservatives.

He believes that the writing brush is the root of China and must not be thrown away.

The dispute between pens and brushes has been going on for a year.

The center is also noisy.

Some people say that pens are convenient, easy to carry, and can be used at any time. Some people say that writing horizontally will lose the beauty of the text.

It’s all said and done, any new thing is born, it takes time to adapt.

However, in the 61st year of Jingtai's reign, the palace began to use fountain pens for writing. In order to adapt to the fountain pens, they began to write horizontally.

There are no mandatory rules. Anyway, if you want to use a brush, keep using a brush. If you want to use a fountain pen, just use a fountain pen. If you like to write horizontally, then write horizontally. If you like to write vertically, just write vertically. There are no restrictions on the center.

In the 61st year of Jingtai's reign, three of the most important inventions were born.

One item is a pencil.

The emperor proposed the concept of pencils when he was in Jingtai forty years. However, over the years, he has been unable to produce qualified pencil leads. Later, it was impossible to synthesize wood.

This year we successfully tackled the problem and produced finished pencils pressed by machines.

It has brought earth-shaking changes to the calligraphy and painting industry.

Pencil drawings and sketches became a new school of painting.

Pencils and pens directly gave birth to the writing revolution. Pencils are definitely more convenient than brushes and easier to carry than pens.

And in order to accommodate pencils and pens, text must also begin to be simplified.

In fact, the simplification of characters has been done from ancient times to the present. From large seal script to small seal script to Han Li, characters are being simplified.

Today's traditional Chinese characters are also constantly being simplified.

Although the text loses its original symbolic meaning, it is convenient to write, saves time and paper.

Until now, private paper has become very cheap, and older people are still reluctant to wipe their butts with paper.

Because that is blasphemy to paper!

People nowadays have an unspeakable admiration for pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

But as the younger generation continues to grow up, they have become accustomed to using toilet paper, and their worship of paper is also decreasing. This means that knowledge is readily available and their worship of knowledge is also decreasing.

The old man is absolutely unwilling to waste a piece of paper. Even if a piece of paper has to be filled with words, he will reluctantly throw it away.

Folks also have the habit of collecting newspapers.

After reading the newspaper, I was reluctant to damage it even a little bit. After folding it neatly, I stored it and took it out to dry every few days to keep it forever.

The reason why the Han people can guarantee a complete legal system.

It is because the Han people respect writing, paper, ink, pen and inkstone.

Therefore, China is the only ancient civilization in the world that has never been cut off, the only one.

I remember every piece of history clearly.

All cultures have never been destroyed.

This is unique in the history of the world.

The second invention is the camera!

Yes, it's a camera.

In fact, in the 59th year of Jingtai's reign, there were private craftsmen who registered camera patents with the Patent Office.

It was a simple wooden box, and with the help of the camera obscura painting imaging principle, the world's first permanent photo was taken.

This technology was reported to the central government. The emperor was particularly interested and summoned this talent to the palace. He invested 500 million, only holding 20% ​​of the equity, and helped him form a team to tackle camera technology.

Until this year, the first stable version of the camera appeared.

But the exposure time takes 20 minutes.

The previous one took 8 hours to complete, so it was better to hire an artist to draw a picture.

This year, after the production was successful, he personally took a photo of the emperor.

This is the first emperor in the world to have his photo taken.

This incident caused a sensation in the capital.

Countless dignitaries invited him to take photos of themselves.

The company has also attracted numerous investors to inject capital.

This guy is also a business genius. He is grateful for all investments and accepts them all, then expands production and makes a lot of money.

Instead, the emperor bought the copyright and patent from him and founded the second camera company in the Ming Dynasty.

And recruit teams and innovate cameras.

And came up with the idea of ​​a camera.

We also need to study from black and white to color.

The emperor invested 20 million in this company, recruited private optical talents, set up a laboratory, and started research.

The third invention, also related to optics, was the microscope.

Ming Dynasty biological experts observed microorganisms through a microscope for the first time.

By studying microorganisms, nutrition experts have proposed new recipes and believe that people cannot eat raw food.

But people in Ming Dynasty stopped eating living things a long time ago.

In the eighth year of Jingtai's reign, the emperor proposed that water must be boiled before drinking, and this was enforced among the people.

Up to now, people basically no longer 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 started the research journey of microbiology.

A new table of chemical elements was also proposed with the help of microscopes and other instruments.

The table of chemical elements is a must-memorize subject for every primary school student, just like multiplication tables and pinyin.

In the biology department, there is an additional subject of microbiology.

Ming Dynasty is taking great strides towards modern society.

In the 61st year of Jingtai's reign, the first refrigerator model of Ming Dynasty was born.

There is also a treasure center presented by folk craftsmen, and the first tractor model was born.

Machinery has evolved from the research of steam engines to the research of automobiles and ships.

The emperor's support for science and technology was unique. He provided material rewards and financial support to some newly registered patents and private treasure donors.

According to statistics from the eunuchs in the palace, the emperor invested in about 14 enterprises.

Many died in vain.

It is said that the emperor holds more than half of the patents in the patent office.

Because those companies had gone bankrupt, the patent rights could only fall into the hands of investors. The emperor bought back the ownership of all the patents, and the emperor held a large number of patents in his hands.

When the company can go public, everyone in the world will know how valuable these patents will be.

Everyone thought that His Highness the Emperor Yangxin had a treasure house.

Little did he know that these hundreds of thousands of patents were more important than a gold treasure house.

The emperor still holds the copyrights of hundreds of big IPs.

These are all money.

Look at the Ultraman comics. One comic has supported the squandering of a family for several generations.

The emperor holds hundreds of comic copyrights in his hands, and he is still investing in the comics industry. In the future, there will be tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of comic copyrights.

There are also copyrights to countless classic novels.

There is no provision in the Ming Dynasty that copyright becomes a public copyright after death. If it is yours, it will always be yours, and your family will always own this copyright.

As long as the kings of future generations don't act blindly, the royal family will always be the richest.

In the 61st year of Jingtai's founding, scientific and technological creation has ushered in major successes.

The common people are also living smoothly. Their wages have increased again this year. Apart from expensive houses, prices have remained stable and have not increased.

The salary of an ordinary private worker exceeds 2000 yuan.

The salary of engineers exceeds 10,000 yuan.

All private assets are estimated to be approximately 1 trillion.

Because stocks were to be issued, the emperor was discussing with his courtiers whether banknotes could be issued and gradually replaced silver coins.

This matter is still under discussion in the central government. Because of the failure of the banknotes, the people still do not trust banknotes.

The emperor means, issue them together.

Over time, people will recognize it.

Directly changing from silver coins to paper money can easily cause panic. Changes are gradual. The protection period is twenty years. After twenty years, silver coins will completely withdraw from the stage of history.

Many private economic experts also participated in this discussion.

They proposed that banknotes should be linked to silver and implement a silver standard.

But on the silver standard, money is worthless.

If there are sufficient gold reserves, it is best to introduce a gold standard currency, peg the paper currency to gold, and the Ming Yuan will become the Ming Gold.

As long as Ming Yuan is equal to gold, Ming's paper money will not collapse.

Because there is too much silver.

Once a silver war started with the American vassals, Ming's silver reserves would be at a huge disadvantage.

Issuing banknotes can avoid war, and using economic war can harvest the world's wool.

The old emperor thought this was nonsense.

Without nuclear weapons, economic means are useless.

The Ming Dynasty is now helping the vassal state to inherit the vassal state. When the vassal state's wings become stronger, it will fall out with the Ming Dynasty. As for how much territory the Ming Dynasty can hold, it depends on the political level of future kings.

If it weren't for stocks, the emperor wouldn't want to issue banknotes at all.

It's not necessary.

After the Ming Dynasty owned American silver, its silver reserves were very generous.

Just say that there is a huge amount of silver stored in the national treasury, and the market will not be able to absorb it in the next ten years.

And if the gold standard is adopted, what will happen to silver?

So, now is not the time to issue banknotes.

The emperor also thought the same way. Paper money must be based on the gold standard. Issuing paper money means giving up silver coins, and there will be no place to consume the silver in stock.

In the past, if I wanted to harvest the world's wool, I had to have a core.

If there is no core, who will be killed? You can attack whoever you want. As long as the war is in a controllable stage, some people will take desperate risks. Never overestimate human nature.

It is still in the discussion stage.

At this time, in Central Asia.

Last time, because of the unfair treatment of the emperor, Xu repeatedly went to the emperor and asked him to divide the territory fairly.

He would never give up the territory he occupied.

The four countries have reached a stage of intense tension due to territorial disputes.

That means the old emperor is still alive.

The Four Kingdoms haven't taken action yet, but once the old emperor dies, they will immediately beat the crap out of them.

The emperor only tested them a little, and their true colors were revealed.

Zhu Qiyu never thought that brothers could live in harmony. What he needed was for external vassals to protect the Ming Dynasty, not for external vassals to encroach on the Ming Dynasty's territory.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty wanted to provoke a war between foreign vassals.

Serve as a referee between foreign vassals.

Use this to sit firmly on the Diaoyutai.

The premise is that Emperor Ming is a master of micro-management. Anyway, he doesn't think highly of Zhu Jianqi. Zhu Youquan is still young and can't see anything special.

North Korean and Chinese officials do not have much experience in micromanaging foreign countries.

Before his death, he must let the royal family and courtiers learn how to micro-manage foreign vassals in order to maintain the status of the Ming suzerainty.

At this time, the plague from Europe spread to the Ming Dynasty.

The first case has appeared in Ming Dynasty.

The imperial court has long been prepared to prevent the epidemic and try to control the plague outside the island and not enter the Ming Dynasty.

Officials who returned to Beijing from foreign vassals to report on their duties were stopped on the island, temporarily isolated, and were not allowed to return to the Ming Dynasty.

Christmas time.

Some people presented gifts to the emperor and applied for a patent for a talking phone.

The emperor rewarded this man heavily.

This patent is a conceptual patent, and it is also the reason why folk craftsmen want to try it in the center.

Because the emperor attached great importance to folk inventions and creations, many folk craftsmen wanted to get promoted through an invention.

Many people have succeeded. In recent years, many people have presented treasures in the palace. A treasure presentation bureau has also been set up in the palace to listen to the strange and weird ideas of the people. All of them will be written into memorials and sent to the emperor.

If the emperor thinks it is good after reading it, he will summon the person who presented the treasure.

So did the treasure presenter, who came up with an idea.

If a person speaks to a piece of iron, the sound waves will cause the iron to vibrate.

If a magnet is placed behind the iron sheet, the vibration of the iron sheet will generate a corresponding current in the electromagnetic coil. This current can be transmitted to a distant place through wires, and similar devices in the distance will also vibrate and make sounds.

A simple idea, and an experiment, was the telephone idea.

The emperor rewarded this man heavily and invested 2000 million in telephone research.

Along with the gift, there is also an idea about the telegraph, which converts words into electric current and transmits it to the other end of the wire through the electric current.

They also mastered the principles of electromagnetism.

Simply, invest a total of 5000 million to research telephones and telegraphs together.

Although it is only in the conceptual stage, it is enough to prove that Ming Dynasty is entering the electrical age.

The palace has announced several more novels and comics, with the big Christmas novel being Liu Yu the Great.

The Great Emperor series adds Liu Yu, the founding emperor of the Liu Song Dynasty.

It has become a routine method for the Christmas Palace to launch blockbuster books and comics.

This year it’s more of the same, a group photo of courtiers from the Manchu Dynasty.

The emperor, dressed in military uniform, gathered among many courtiers and took a group photo.

This group photo was published in major newspapers and periodicals, and all the subjects of the world saw Tian Yan again.

Although the emperor is old, he is as powerful as a rainbow.

Wearing a military uniform and holding a sharp sword, he looked very domineering.

The prince and grandson were on the left and right, and the courtiers stood behind the emperor, with stars holding the moon.

The princess composed a poem and published it in newspapers at the same time.

The emperor delivered a Christmas speech, proposing that scientific and technological development is the last word, focusing on protecting patents, developing science and technology, and rejuvenating the country through science and education.

After the dinner, the emperor left the important ministers of the cabinet behind.

"My lords, the plague is raging in Europe, and it will be a few years before the Ming Dynasty rules Europe."

Zhu Qiyu sighed: "If the Ming Dynasty had no external enemies, there would definitely be civil strife, and many vassal states would definitely attack each other."

"Is there any way for you to make Ming the suzerain forever?"

The courtier looked bitter.

The emperor hopes that the courtiers can micro-manage the situation abroad from the center. This is really a bit taken for granted. Unless that kind of phone call can appear, otherwise don't even think about it.

The courtiers all lowered their heads.

"What? Are you afraid to say it? Or you still don't know what to say?" Zhu Qiyu asked with a stern face.

The courtiers all knelt on the ground.

Zhang Fuhua smiled bitterly and said: "Your Majesty, there is really no way to control this matter. I am not a roundworm in the belly of the kings. How can I control the kings?"

"Big fish eat small fish, and the big fish will become stronger and stronger."

"I have created many kings on each continent to check and balance each other. I don't want a behemoth to emerge and become a constraint to the development of the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Qiyu was dissatisfied with Zhang Fuhua's perfunctory attitude: "What do you think?"

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. The vassal state must be controlled within a controllable range.

Let them become Ming Dynasty's whetstone instead of becoming Ming Dynasty's opponent.

It would be best if the world maintained a state of one super power and multiple powers.

In fact, there is a bit of a state of wanting this and wanting that.

Zhang Fuhua believes that there is no way to micromanage.

"If you can't help it, just think about it and report it to me when you think of it."

Zhu Qiyu thought the courtiers were stupid. How did Dai Ying micromanage the global situation?

Isn’t it just checks and balances?

Why is it so difficult to change the Ming Dynasty to micromanage the world?

Because Dai Ying guarded the chokepoints and deployed heavy troops on the chokepoints, he was able to control the world microscopically.

Why not Daming?

Because the Ming Dynasty had sealed off all the choke points, of course it wouldn't work.

At this stage, Ming warships can cruise around the world because the old emperor is still there. Once the prince ascends the throne, this may not be possible.

Another point is that other countries were very backward at that time.

Which feudal state is lagging behind now?

Look at the wars fought by the British against countries of the same level. They are nothing but bullshit.

That means bullying Asia and bullying primitive people.

It's not that they have a high level of micro-management, but that the enemy is too weak. If it were a head-to-head encounter, the British army would be the most rubbish army there is.

Ming Dynasty can now control Europa at will because they are too weak.

Same thing.

But the vassal state is different. Even though there is a ten-year technology shelf life, one railway is enough to modernize the vassal state.

The capitalists of the Ming Dynasty made a lot of money, but countries gradually escaped from the control of the Ming Dynasty.

At the beginning, the court officials opposed the Ming Dynasty's building of railways for the vassal state.

However, they ignored technological innovation. From the steam age, we must enter the electrical age, and from the electrical age, we must enter the technological age.

As long as Ming Dynasty leads in technology, it will always be strong.

He has led the Ming Dynasty to this point. If it can still fall behind, the kings of future generations may simply wipe their necks and commit suicide.

"That's all, we won't talk about it today."

Zhu Qiyu asked them to get up: "I plan to set up another festival called Halloween."

"With all Christmas and birthdays in China as sacrificial days, I think we should pick a day. Since there are few festivals in the second half of the year, it should be on the eleventh day of November."

"Designate this day as the Day of Sacrifice for All Saints."

Isn’t this the lunar version of Double Eleven?

The courtiers had different expressions, and they all felt that there were too many festivals in the Ming Dynasty. There were only nine major festivals, including Spring Festival, National Day, Lantern Festival, Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, Christmas, Mid-Autumn Festival, Halloween, and New Year's Day.

There are countless sections.

"Your Majesty."

The prince said, "I think there are too many festivals in the Ming Dynasty. If we take a holiday for every holiday, it will be detrimental to production."

"Besides, the public memorial day is Qingming Festival, why bother to establish a separate festival?"

"As far as I know, Halloween is a Western festival, and I think we shouldn't celebrate it."

After he finished speaking, he felt a little frightened, worried that his father would scold him again.

"That's what the prince said."

"Celebrating the festival means that tomorrow's life is getting better day by day, and it would be good to have more."

"I also plan to establish Mother's Day and Father's Day. These two festivals will only have a half-day holiday. On this day, people can express their love to their hard-working parents."

Zhu Qiyu added three festivals in one breath.

I originally wanted to include a Thanksgiving Day, but the courtiers were very opposed.

Having too many festivals is not a bad thing, it can drive tourism.

"Your Majesty, what is more important, tourism or work? If private factories close down due to too many holidays and too much pressure on wages, many people will be unemployed, which is not conducive to economic development."

"Weichen believes that we should not take a half-day holiday on Father's Day and Mother's Day, but let's take a two-hour holiday as early as possible."

"Halloween, a day off."

"What do you think?"

Because the Ming Dynasty is closed from New Year's Eve to Lantern Festival, with a total of 17 to 19 days of rest.

There is a National Day in the middle.

Li Dongyang said: "What do you think about changing the Qingming Festival to a one-day holiday?"

The emperor frowned slightly and looked at Liu Jian.

"Your Majesty, I agree with what Mr. Li Ge said. The factory is under great pressure."

Employees in Ming Dynasty work for five and a half days and have one and a half days off. However, during this day and a half, they are allowed half a day of overtime, which is equivalent to saying that they only have one day of statutory leave.

There are five holidays and three days off. If we have a holiday, we can squeeze out five days.

Now we have added one to take a day off, and two to take off for two hours. It is more reasonable to adjust the Qingming Festival to a day off.

"Then add another Thanksgiving, a holiday to thank parents, and also have a day off."

"There are less holidays in the second half of the year, so we should put them in the second half of the year."

"You pick a day to take a holiday, and it will start this year."

The emperor made the decision directly.

(End of this chapter)