Dominate the Country

The eleventh year of Chengtian was a peaceful year, and wars all over the world were coming to an end.

Emperor Chen of China signed his name on the Sino-Spanish Treaty of Madrid and the Sino-Dutch Treaty of Paris. The two treaties had been signed by the King of Spain and the Dutch ruler before, and the war between China and the two Western countries was declared over.

The French had previously announced the restoration of diplomatic relations between China and France at the ambassadorial level, and François Philippe Perrier officially became the French ambassador to China, but Paris still insisted on punishing Pierre, who had previously betrayed France, for treason.

In the second half of the year, the North American War was completely over, the American Republic was established, and it was recognized by the Western world.

The British signed armistice agreements with France, Spain, and the United States respectively, and the fourth war between Britain and the Netherlands also ended. While the Dutch enjoyed the victory in the war against Britain in France, the United States, and Spain, they painfully reaped the most painful defeat in a hundred years.

The British withdrew from New York, but at least they kept their roots in India.

Because of the truce between Britain and France, the British, who were extremely trapped on the Indian continent, won a chance to breathe. Without the pressure on the sea, the British seemed to have no big problem dealing with Tipu's Mysore army alone.

All of this seems to have not changed much from the results in the original time and space history, but the financial burden on Britain, France and other countries will definitely be heavier than the pressure on the original time and space plane.

The naval fleet ordered by the British from China had already been put into the naval battle in the Indian Ocean before, and this scene did not happen in the original history.

The Spanish re-consolidated their position in the West Indies and consolidated their rule in Havana, but the disastrous defeat in the war against China not only made them lose a large piece of land, but also lost a lot of money.

Although this also made a large number of Spanish prisoners of war return to the Iberian Peninsula in the next two or three years.

Anyway, the ending of the war, which seemed to have not changed much, was a deeper loss for Europe itself.

In this year, Russia established its own Black Sea Fleet. The French Montgolfier brothers made a large hot air balloon with a diameter of about 30 meters with linen and paper. The balloon rose to 1,800 meters in the sky and flew 2,300 meters in the air. The brothers then flew in the hot air balloon they made for 25 minutes. This was the first hot air balloon trip for Europeans.

The Asama volcano in Japan erupted, and the lava flow that flowed out cooled and solidified, forming a maximum width of 2 kilometers, 5.5 kilometers long, and 6.8 square kilometers.

Then it was Madame Serpier of France who took off in a hot air balloon and became the first woman in the world to fly into the sky.

The great effect of hot air balloons in the Sino-Western War made this new thing popular among Europeans, especially the French. Not only the French people, but also the French military showed great interest in this.

It was also this year that the Americans who had just won independence hurriedly started their journey to the East. They did not travel by land to the west coast of North America, nor did they sail to the land in the north of the Gulf of Mexico that already belonged to China, but directly sailed to mainland China.

The 360-ton ocean-going sailing ship "Emperor of China", jointly equipped by Philadelphia merchants Robert Morris, Daniel Pike and New York Company, was led by Captain Green, loaded with more than 40 tons of American ginseng and more than 3,000 bison skins, leaving the Port of New York and sailing to China via the Cape of Good Hope.

Americans at this time were not as ignorant as they were in history.

In the original time and space plane, Americans in history believed that Britain had a queen, so China at this time was likely to be ruled by a queen. So in order to please this "Queen of China", the ship was named "Emperor of China".

Now, Americans not only know that the ruler of China is a man, but also that this ruler is a great monarch like the Sun King. The Chinese soldiers under him are invincible.

Half a year later, the "Emperor of China", which had sailed tens of thousands of miles on the sea, arrived in Jinghai. The extremely excited Americans fired cannons to salute the city. A month later, the "Emperor of China" arrived at Guangzhou, the final destination of their trip.

According to the report of Guangzhou Customs officials, these Americans know how to abide by the law, and most of the American seamen behave properly, so Guangzhou Customs has a good impression of Americans. The cost of the "Emperor of China" trip was about 140,000 US dollars, and the net profit of this trip was only 47,700 US dollars. Although the profit is not large, it is of great significance.

It also added a new country to China's foreign trade records.

But none of these are important, including the achievements of many domestic economic developments and the new development of overseas immigrants, which are not the most important.

In Chen Ming's eyes, the most important thing in the eleventh year of Chengtian was the emergence of a new invention.

In July, Zhongshan Academy of Natural Sciences successfully tested the world's first steam engine ship "Flying Dragon" in the Yangtze River.

This is a paddle steamer, 55 feet long, 12 feet wide, with a speed of 11 miles per hour, and a total of 25 miles.

Although this ship is still an experimental ship that cannot be put into actual operation, and the kinetic energy of the steam engine is still not strong enough, no one knows the significance of this steamship better than Chen Ming.

Chen Ming didn't know whether the Frenchman Lova Taiba was dead or alive. The first steamship in human history was built by Lova Taiba in 1783 of the Western calendar, but in 1783 of the Western calendar in this time and space, there was not a hair of Lova Taiba.

Instead, Zhongshan Academy of Natural Sciences took the lead.

Chen Ming didn't know whether the performance of Feilong and the steamship built by Lova Taiba in history was better or worse. Anyway, at this time, Lova Taiba had no chance of leaving a name in history. Fulton in history was more of the first person to use steamships for transportation.

But history is so funny. In the impression of many people, Fulton became the inventor of steamships, just like Watt was the inventor of steam engines, rather than a more accurate definition-Fulton built the first steamship powered by steam engines!

Unfortunately, Chen Ming didn't see the Feilong in person when it was on trial. Because as early as May, Chen Ming went to Beijing with great fanfare.

It was June when he arrived in Beijing. Chen Ming did not go to the Forbidden City at all, but went directly to the Old Summer Palace. The reason was that he was a little tired from the hard work on the road, so he went to the Old Summer Palace to rest first, let the imperial physician diagnose him, and recuperate.

The Old Summer Palace was cool and pleasant, and it was an excellent place for recuperation.

The emperor wanted to have a good rest. The northern tour was really too tiring, wasn't it?

With the emperor saying so, naturally no one would come to trouble him. In the Old Summer Palace, he still reviewed memorials and met people every day, which was no different from usual. However, after this northern tour, he was indeed a little tired.

When the emperor met officials and gentry at any time, he had to dress neatly and hat neatly, and he was so hot that he wished he had prickly heat.

However, on the way from Nanjing to Beijing, Chen Ming really received a lot of good things. Just like what was said in the chocolate advertisements of later generations, every bite of chocolate was a surprise, and this place was the same.

Yangzhou presented several volumes of "Taiping Yulan", Huai'an presented several volumes of Cefu Yuangui, Shandong presented a complete set of bronze chimes, and Northern Zhili made several bronze swords of extraordinary specifications.

Anyway, they are all competing with each other.

Outside the Qinzheng Qinxian Hall of Yuanmingyuan, officials from Northern Zhili were wiping their sweat and waiting for the summons. No one knew whether these people were complaining in their hearts. It was not comfortable to run hundreds of miles to see the emperor in the hot summer.

This emperor is different from the emperor emeritus. He knows that you are in good health, but the people below are really not as strong as the emperor.

When the emperor emeritus came to Beijing, he would not let anyone disturb him every time. If the officials below did not ask for an audience repeatedly, they would not be able to enter the gate of Yuanmingyuan. Moreover, even if the emperor emeritus showed mercy to receive people, he would choose the end of September and the beginning of October, which was when the emperor emeritus was going south, just in time to send him off. The weather was a little cold at that time, so it was comfortable to wear thick clothes. It was so hot in the dog days of summer.

There were no icebergs in the waiting room, but a fan was good. Of course, mung bean soup was a must to relieve the heat. This was much better than the pseudo-Qing Dynasty. Some old people who had worked in the officialdom of the pseudo-Qing Dynasty confirmed this.

At that time, not to mention mung bean soup when meeting the emperor, even when meeting the central ministers, there was not necessarily a cup of tea. They were afraid that holding back urine would be disrespectful to the emperor and disrespectful to the superiors.

After Chen Ming finished reviewing the memorial in his hand, it was handed over by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It was a request from the French to send a group of students to China to study military affairs.

There was also a list of personnel attached below.

Gao Yanming reached this relevant agreement with the French when he was in Europe.

The total number was about 20 people, including infantry, cavalry, artillery and logistics, no navy, and even the cavalry had only two people.

Henri René Abel

Guy de Maupassant

Francois Ponge

Giuseppe Maria Paravicini

Napoleon Buvanaparte

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A series of names, none of which made Chen Ming have any impression. Except for the three words "Napoleon". Unfortunately, the suffix was not "Bonaparte", but the unfamiliar "Buvanaparte".

Chen Ming waved his pen and sent it to the cabinet for processing. He stood up and walked around the room. The hall was cool in the shade, and the sun outside the hall shone a scorching white under the steps in front of the hall, making people seem to see the rolling heat waves.

He took a sip of the sour plum soup, which had a mellow taste and quenched thirst.

Chen Ming liked to drink these things in the summer, iced sour plum soup, fruit juice, iced yogurt, shaved ice, and ice porridge.

He also relied on his good health to do whatever he wanted.

Li Xiaomei used to drink a lot of tea in summer, and she always had Biluochun, Longjing, Maojian, Yunwu, etc. with her. But after eating and drinking with the emperor for a long time, her good habits were all distorted by him. The iced sour plum soup is also very refreshing to drink now.

However, Li Xiaomei's body cannot be compared with Chen Ming's. The former can eat and drink as much as she wants, but the latter has to be more relaxed, otherwise it will be indecent if his stomach is exposed.

During this northern tour, Chen Ming has wiped off the official hats of forty or fifty people. There are big and small ones among them. The big ones can participate in provincial politics and council, and the small ones may not even be county magistrates.

Although Chen Ming is not a pure political animal, he can't say a few words about what he saw on the road, and he started to complain about local officials.

Either he criticized people for being idle or scolded them for being stupid and incompetent. Anyway, there are very few officials that satisfy him.

Forty or fifty officials who were stripped of their official hats, some were sent back home and asked to defend themselves in the Ministry of Personnel or go home to wait for the review of the Supervisory Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, while the other part was directly detained.

The renovation project in the south of Tianjin was the focus of Chen Ming's inspection during this northern tour. As a result, the accounts were not clear at all. The Tianjin prefect who should have been rewarded was imprisoned, and Xiao Lou himself was also arrested.

Of course, it may also be that Chen Ming was a bit picky.

But no matter what, in the past month or two, the strings of the entire Chen Han officialdom have been tightened.

In the next period of time, Chen Ming will go to more northern places. The Northeast, Outer Northeast, and Korea are not the focus. He will not even go to Korea and Outer Northeast.

Chen Ming's focus is Mongolia in the north.

Chen Han has been established for eleven years, and it is time to show his cards.

The future of the Mongols lies in the west. There will be pastures for them to gallop in the Kazakh steppes and the Ural River Basin. As for other places, they would all be divided into counties.

Chen Ming would not learn from the rabbits of his previous life, playing with this flag and that flag on the prairie, and all place names would be Sinicized. Those things left over from the pseudo-Qing era would be forever buried in the long river of history along with the pseudo-Qing.

Chen Ming also brought Zhangjia III with him on this northern tour. Moreover, he had informed Zhangjia III when he left Beijing. On the way north, Zhangjia III kept sending letters to Mongolia and kept receiving replies from Mongolia, but Chen Ming never asked about it.

Because he believed that the general trend of the world was mighty; those who followed it would prosper, and those who went against it would perish.

Chen Han, which he established, had enough power to eliminate all dissenting opinions. North America, thousands of miles away, had to bow down, so what was Mongolia, which was so close, worth?

There would be no Mongolian princes or foreign autonomous regions in Chen Han, and no one could stop the complete Sinicization.

If nothing unexpected happens next year, Chen Ming will take action against Annan. He doesn't want to take down Annan, but there are still a wave of feudal princes and nobles who maintain a certain degree of independence in Mongolia.

Chen Ming stayed in the Old Summer Palace until August. In early August, the emperor went north to Shenyang, and entered Mongolia in September. Now, one by one, the Mongolian princes and nobles have gathered in Xilinhot.

At noon that day, the emperor arrived at Shanhaiguan. Chen Ming was walking around the wall of the pass, and Liu Wu suddenly came with a secret report. "Your Majesty, an urgent report from the Military Intelligence Bureau."

Few people around him knew what the secret report said. But Zhang Dayong kept hearing Chen Ming muttering the word Annan in the next few days...