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Chapter 1539 Afterword
Later, when it comes to the 12th year of Wanli, people will be at a loss.

It's as if nothing really happened in the 12th year of Wanli.

When one looks back at this year of this era in history textbooks 300 years later, there is little to be said about it.

Chen Mu, the legendary oriental minister who opened up Asia, encountered a typhoon when he returned home. Three masts of the fleet were broken and a cow died. From his personal letter, he said that he seemed to be suspected of falling into the water, because he mentioned in his letter to his friend that a whole dozen a month of sneezing.

Zhang Juzheng, the chief assistant of the empire, who lived in seclusion, lay on the bed for three months because of drinking, drinking, eating and hair. This disease was tormented for 16 years before he gave up.

The sports-loving Emperor Wanli contracted athlete's foot. It seems that he was obsessed with Cuju but always forgot to change his socks. He couldn't even go crazy when Lu Wang was not around. After a year and a half, he called Lu Wang back from Asia.

Of course, Lin Xiao, a 31-year-old national hero in Asia, celebrated his 68th birthday, but no one knew that Lin Xiao was only 31 years old, and they were surprised that at such an advanced age, he still had the leisure and elegance to cross the sea to Fujian, saying this The place is good, he will be buried here after a hundred years.

Later, this wish was not fulfilled, because he lived to be 140 years old. In fact, even if the fake age is subtracted, he is still an extraordinary long-lived person.

Also, it seems that a European country that was once called Ezephania fought a 45-year war starting this year.

Although some people who like to study minority historical materials later said that Ezephania was once very powerful, and from the clues of unofficial history, it seemed that the Ming Empire had contributed to that war, but no one cared.

There used to be so many countries in this world. Where is the country that has perished and lost its inheritance that will be remembered?
If we really want to say that there are only two things that can be called affecting future generations.

King Lu of the Ming Empire is number one. According to records, King Lu was extravagant and ignorant when he was young. He even made a fuss in the palace because he wanted to see the sea. Who would have thought that this bright young man would later become a scientist? , discovered a new substance and named it after your own title?
Gaolu steel really influenced the world later, and it was put into use in the 14th year of Wanli. It was first used to make ball bearings, and later it was used in chariot tracks, helmets, and shovel heads for agricultural excavation.

Also won the Wanli Science and Technology Award.

The second one happened overseas in the Puli County Government of Puli Prefecture, Yilan Province. Cao Changqing, the magistrate of Puli County, discovered silver fulminate in the process of doing things. half ass.

Later, this kind of thing also affected the world, but it was not put into use as quickly as Lugang, and it was even unknown for more than [-] years after it was invented.

It wasn't until the fourth year of Tianqi, when Wei Xie'en, a hundred household of Jinyiwei who lived in the capital, received an obituary from the imperial court that his father Wei Jinzhong led the army to intervene in the Western Kingdom Unification War and was killed by a stray bullet. He discovered this formula when he was sorting out his belongings.

In order to support and pull his father’s 130 five illegitimate children around the world, Wei Xie’en used the medicine made from this formula as a primer, improved the structure of the bird’s gun, rewarded and supported his brothers and sisters, and became the third rank of the Beiyang Military Mansion A high-ranking technical official, gunpowder supervisor, and concurrently a professor of firearms in the Xuanfu Lecture Hall.

Professor Wei's brothers and sisters all lived very well, but the professor himself didn't end up well in the end.

Only 14 years later, Professor Wei, who was in his prime, caught up with the change of vertical arch.

At that time, Yuan Chongzhen had been changed, and the decisions made by the new emperor were at odds with the cabinet, the Siyang military government, and the officials of the six departments.

The habit of training the Imperial Forest Army in the Wanli era in the palace is running out, and the old guards in Tsinghua Garden have withered away, so that it is rumored that the rebellious soldiers will force the palace to force the emperor to bow.

Professor Wei was experimenting with the newly developed rear-loaded firing gun in Tsinghua Garden. He was shocked when he heard about it. In order to repay the late emperor, he led sixteen guards veterans into the palace to escort them and intercept the Beiyang Banner Army who tried to enter the palace.

He was a man in his prime, wearing a Lu steel helmet and composite armor, holding a new blunderbuss and taking the Jinshui Bridge as a bunker, making Yuan Chonghuan, the commander of the second phase of Beiyang 140, cast a slap in the face.

Originally, the Beiyang Banner Army didn't want to kill anyone just to force the palace, but Wei Xie'en's bullets were poisonous, and the Lugang warhead almost hit the Banner Army one by one. open fire.

Decades ago, Li Zhi, a professor at the Asian Imperial Clan University, was promoting the idea of ​​limiting the power of the emperor. It was only when he caught up with the most prestigious Wanli that year that he failed to achieve his wish until his death. .

Three hours after Wei Xie'en's death, Emperor Chongzhen sent a telegram to the whole country, and he was allowed to be headed by the chief minister of the cabinet, supplemented by the military officials from all over the world, civil and military officials, and govern the government. Quan, becoming the spiritual leader of the country, is to rule for the sake of the arch.

For Wei Xie'en, the assistant ministers who promoted the reform decided to give him a generous burial after discussion. He pursued Dr. Ronglu and posthumously Zhongjie.

Although Wei Xie'en died, his new type of rear-loading percussion gun and new bullets did not disappear because of this.

It was finally finalized as the Chongzhen 17th Year Horse Rifle. The first unit under his command to be equipped with this type of weapon was Qianhu Li Jin, the Beiyang Banner Army who was about to lead his troops to the Northwest to serve as the Raksha State Prime Minister.

Li Jin is from Shaanxi. In the second year of Chongzhen, there was a severe drought in Shaanxi. His uncle Li Hongji, a gentleman in the village, was killed. He bought two tickets in Gansu and took them to Daqinglong in the northwest.

In those days, all the people who committed crimes in their hometowns or could not survive natural disasters ran to the northwest, either to reclaim land, work as loggers, or join the frontier army on the Volga River.

In fact, Li Zicheng was just trying his luck at first, thinking that he could not join the army, so he went to the border to shed grass in armor. Unexpectedly, the Qinglong Railway was just opened in the past, and San Yueguang used to be a porter in the past, and the food was good.

The Cossacks, who caught up with the Don River, fought back daily as winter approached. They cut off a few heads and became the commander in chief. In the second year, there was a rebellion in Rakshasa, so they led the army to suppress the riots and made great contributions. , The nephew was also admitted to Beiyang's internal recruitment in the frontier army.

The day suddenly changed.

There is also Gao Yingxiang, nicknamed Chuangwang, who was originally a horse dealer. In the first year of Chongzhen, he entered the desert of the Mongolian grassland alone. The horse team has started a bounty hunter's business outside the mouth, and is widely active in the north of Lake Baikal, dedicated to driving all horse thieves to places where they can't live.

His nickname was given by Chen Hailong.

Marshal Chen's son did not succeed in the end and continued to be a marshal. As the son of Zhang Juzheng and Zhang Han's cabinet chief assistant in the Wanli Dynasty, he was just catching up with his rebellious mentality. He was unwilling to lead troops at all, and finally entered the Daming National Museum. Been a museum curator for 27 years.

During his 27 years as an administrator, the National Museum added more than 460 items to its collection by picking up and buying.

The latter is very simple to pay, while the former is more dangerous, mainly sending people to the European battlefield to pick them up.

Known by later generations as the master of the founding school of archaeology, the tenth generation disciple of one of his students, in the 500th year of the Taizu calendar of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, cracked the famous governor Magui at the turn of Long and Wan in Shuihufeng, Massachusetts, Asia. The five poetry fan monuments.

From the cave that has been frozen for 300 years, take out the artillery that Magui hid because he was afraid of the avalanche caused by the bombardment of the aurora.

The reappearance of hundreds of general Zhenshuo cannons is not eye-catching, but a few of them are more valuable for research.

After the establishment of the Siyang Military Mansion, although small wars in the country were inevitable, the threat of large-scale wars had never been seen in the past 300 years. Maintained like new in the museum.

But later young people no longer bother to understand what happened back then.

Even people don't even want to know, there are tens of thousands of precious collections in the museum, why the bird gun and the broken waist knife with a worn-out edge in the 46th year of Jiajing's reign are placed in the most conspicuous position in the hall.

They just enjoy a rich, happy and carefree life to the fullest.

Only the old people who have been passed down from generation to generation in the museum know that everything started here.

(End of this chapter)