Bright Spring

Zhu Gaoxu said: "There used to be a court lady named Xiao He who looked a bit like you when making tea. At that time, I was only in my thirties, so young."

Xiao He in front of him said in surprise, "That must have happened decades ago."

Zhu Gaoxu nodded.

Xiao He said: "My lord, what kind of person is she, is she very beautiful?"

Zhu Gaoxu couldn't answer, and even the appearance of the maid was vague in his mind, but he still remembered that she didn't seem very beautiful.For a while, he couldn't tell whether he still remembered Xiao He or missed his young years.

Xiao He asked curiously again: "What happened to her after that?"

Zhu Gaoxu said: "What else can I do? It has been five or sixty years since I met her, and she died of old age in the palace."

Xiao He resentfully said "Oh".

At this moment, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly stretched out his hand to press his chest and felt a sharp pain, and even had difficulty breathing.Xiao He was shocked.

"Don't bark." Zhu Gaoxu gritted his teeth.

Xiao He opened her mouth and looked at him in bewilderment.

Zhu Gaoxu slowed down for a while, took a deep breath, and said weakly: "The hospital can't help me with these problems, and it's useless to call the medical officer in the car. They have to stop at that time, otherwise who will be responsible? Blind waste of time .”

Xiao He said: "Is your Majesty feeling better? Drink some water."

"Better." Zhu Gaoxu said slowly, "Actually, I only have one problem, and that is getting old."

What Xiao He said again, Zhu Gaoxu didn't hear clearly, he closed his eyes and rested on the chair.After a while he felt someone throw a blanket over him.

He has been particularly lethargic lately, and he fell asleep for an unknown amount of time before waking up.It was found that Xiao He was still guarding by the side.

"In my dream, I remembered the trip to the North a long time ago, and I also went to the capital to go to Beijing. At that time, it was still called Beiping." Zhu Gaoxu said.

Xiao He brought over a bowl of soup and listened carefully.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu said: "If I wasn't the emperor, a girl like you would definitely not want to hear my ramblings."

Xiao He said: "Your Majesty's words are very insightful, and he is willing to talk to your servant, your servant is very lucky."

Zhu Gaoxu smiled and closed his mouth.

He turned his head and looked out of the car window, seeing that the sun had already set, he was still thinking about the past.

After that northern tour, the Ming army fought a battle with the Mongols, and Concubine Shun Asari came to the capital after that.She may not have thought that she would never leave Zhu Gaoxu in her whole life.Asari is a woman of color, and she gave birth to a mixed-race daughter for Zhu Gaoxu, and later married Wei Da's son.

Thinking of these things, Zhu Gaoxu's memory gradually became clearer.At that time, Mahamu from Oara took the opportunity to attack the Tatars, but he was defeated by the army of Adai Khan and Arutai, and Mahamu himself was killed.

Mahamu's son, Tuo Huan, inherited the position of the leader of the Wara tribes.Tuohuan supported a puppet Khan, who was at odds with Alutai.Tuo Huan finally avenged his revenge more than ten years later, killed Alutai and Adai Khan on the battlefield, and wanted to expand to the north of Liaodong. The Wala people completely lost their checks and balances on the grassland.But at that time, the Ming army carried out some innovations, stronger than before, and drove Tuohuan back to the west again.

In name, the Wuliangha people got the pasture of Arutai.Because the national policy of the Ming Dynasty is to develop the entire Liaodong region, they need to give up the land slowly.

But now in Liaodong, there are already large tracts of fertile land and factories, and there is no nomadic land for a long time.The Mongolian tribes on the prairie finally became a mess and came under the management of the Ming government one after another. They mainly produced meat products, leather, wool, dairy products and other commodities; they entered the industrial chain in the interior of the Ming Dynasty and lived a good life. Not many people want to There is a war.Those people who were engaged in looting were not only attacked by the Ming army, but even the Mongolian tribesmen also dealt with them.

When the production of animal husbandry is reduced due to weather, Liaodong’s commercial grain will help them tide over the difficulties, and some tribes will immigrate to Australia for animal husbandry, reducing the population pressure on the northern pastures.

After the Ming army discovered the Australian mainland, there are already a group of immigrants there.In addition to the Han people, there are Mongolians, as well as bankrupt farmers from various countries, mainly engaged in animal husbandry.

After the steam engine was put into practical use a few years ago, the Longjiang Shipyard was the first to manufacture ships.The Ming army crossed the vast Pacific Ocean, arrived in North America, and established a port base called "Xinzhou". Zhu Gaoxu believed that it might be near Vancouver, Canada.

New crops from the Americas were introduced to Ming Dynasty, which changed people's diet, increased food production, and further stimulated the domestic industrialization process.

A large number of native people were found in North America, they should be "Indians", but Zhu Gaoxu called them "Yin people".The imperial court sent officials to the local area to preach, telling the local people that there is a continental shelf in the sea, which can go from Shenzhou to North America.Therefore, the Yin people were the people who migrated from the land of Shenzhou during the Yin and Shang dynasties; in order to win over the local people and reduce conflicts.But Zhu Gaoxu felt like he was talking nonsense after seeing the Yin people come to envoy.

But benevolent government is still being implemented.Due to the long distance and tens of thousands of miles of voyage, there are very few military households in Xinzhou Port, and even fewer immigrants.The imperial court needs the population of the Yin people to develop in North America as soon as possible.Otherwise, in a few years, people from Europe may also go there. Once they start immigrating, the difficulty will be reduced by more than ten times.

Ming has very little control over Europe, still because it is too far away. Currently, it is mainly trade. If it wants to expand further, it will take a long time.In recent years, the focus of the imperial court has mainly been in Egypt.Moreover, the imperial court has established many governor's mansions in East Africa, India, Southeast Asia and other places. In order to consolidate the dominance of the sea in the east, it has been somewhat powerless.

At that time, a conflict broke out between the Ming army and the Mamluks. The Ming Navy Expeditionary Force defeated the Mamluk army several times, completely controlled the eastern region, and supported a local force in the Nile River Basin, sending officials and garrisons, Build a fort.The Mamluks fled in all directions, and some fled to Europe and Muslim areas to become mercenaries.

But the imperial court wanted to open the Suez Canal, which was not as easy as imagined.The canal has not been repaired until now, and a lot of money and food have been spent.

Ten years ago, the forces of Islam in the eastern Mediterranean expanded westward, captured Constantinople, and destroyed Eastern Rome.The king of Eastern Rome once sent envoys to Egypt to ask for help from the Ming army, promising a lot of benefits that could not be fulfilled.But the situation over there is very complicated. After weighing the balance, the imperial court only provided a batch of arms in the name of selling.

Because if Ming's goods go around Africa, the freight will increase exponentially.Therefore, a "western port" was established in the Mediterranean Sea. After the goods transported by sea on the eastern route arrived in the Red Sea, they were transported by land in Egypt to the western port, and then traded with middlemen.

Most of the local middlemen are Muslims and Portuguese.If the imperial court and the Islamic region are torn apart, they will lose huge profits in the short term and cause domestic economic turmoil.What's more, the Ming army had very few people in Egypt, reinforcements were tens of thousands of miles away, and the navy had to go around Africa. Even if they directly joined the war, it might not have much effect.

Muslims are also doing brisk business with the Nestorian area. They have a saying that "gold is gold, and God is God".

In the end, Constantinople failed to change its fate and fell amid the roar of heavy artillery and flintlock guns.The wave of the Renaissance is also accelerating to spread to the European continent.

The Ming Dynasty could not completely stop the outflow of technology, especially the relatively easy-to-learn technologies such as flintlock guns and artillery, which were only improvements for people in the Muslim and Nestorian areas. They already had the low-level technology of casting cannons and guns.There are constant military conflicts among countries in the west, and they pay special attention to changing weapons.

For half a century, Zhu Gaoxu has also done many things in China.Such as the Tweeting Law, which allows the clan and vassal states to be downgraded generation by generation, so that the county king can do business to find his own way out.

The descendants of these vassal kings had constant grievances at first, but later they found a way out. Relying on some potential privileges of the clan, some capable people made their business bigger and bigger, and became veritable big capitalists of the imperial business.At the same time, some gentry and big landlords became big businessmen, and the former business gangs joined them to share the profits, and the noble forces were no exception.These wealthy people all use the support of imperial examinations to serve as spokespersons for the imperial court.

The hereditary order of generals in the Guards Army has long been abolished, and officers are now selected mainly through various criteria such as examinations and descendants of military merit.Because of technological and system innovations, the situation of embezzlement of military pay in previous dynasties has greatly improved. It is extremely risky for officers to do this kind of thing, and the specifications of military pay will be made known to soldiers in the form of internal newspapers.

Military registration has become a favorite, even if there is a danger of dying on the battlefield, the income is stable.The huge economic scale of Ming Dynasty at home and abroad fully guaranteed the welfare and equipment of the army.

Compulsory education for civilians has also been rolled out long ago, and the Ministry of Rites invests a lot of money every year to make up for it.

The stall is really too big, and with the stimulation of interests, even if Zhu Gaoxu wants to control it, he can't control it.

When Zhu Gaoxu was in power, relying on his prestige in the army and years of accumulated power, he was able to suppress various forces.As long as people who don't want to die, they have to pay taxes honestly and abide by the court's laws and regulations.But what will happen in the future, Zhu Gaoxu is powerless.Probably no one person can control everything.

The empire should also have its own destiny. Human beings have never had a millennium empire; just like people themselves have to face death when they are old.

Zhu Gaoxu felt a little tired, and no matter what, the fate of the country should not be any worse.

When he recovered from his memory, he found that the light outside had dimmed.

Chapter 989 I Can't Stop It Anymore

At dusk, the imperial chef in the car prepared four dishes and one soup, all of which were very light dishes, and a bowl of white rice porridge.

Zhu Gaoxu tasted bland and tasteless, and he couldn't eat much at all.Seafood, which was his favorite, was not recommended by the imperial physician many years ago. Sometimes he insisted on eating it, but eating it would indeed cause physical discomfort.

It was Xiao He who served him.This little girl looks good, her skin is fair and thin, but Zhu Gaoxu can only look at it, and can't do anything.The word "life food and sex" has been lost to him.

He quickly put down his chopsticks and returned to the study compartment.In the glass case on the lamp stand, more than a dozen oil lamps have been lit. He picked up a book from the box on the bookshelf, sat back on the chair and read it slowly.

It is a very old handwritten book with yellowed paper, but it is in good condition.There are several beautiful words on the cover: The Daily Life of the King of Han.

He already knew the content, but Miaojin's narration was different.The beautiful handwriting made Zhu Gaoxu seem to see her desolate and charming face again, and even the subtle and rich emotions in those beautiful almond eyes were revealed between the lines.Zhu Gaoxu read slowly while imagining, very intoxicated.

Completely abandoning the government, Zhu Gaoxu's life has become very simple, and it is even simpler in the car these days.It's nothing more than talking to Xiao He, mostly trivial matters, reading a book, and then washing, eating, drinking and sleeping.