Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 679 Fanwai (27) Heavenly Stems and Prosperity

"For the Sun King!"

"Bang bang bang-"

On the second day of July, when the sound of gunfire appeared on the French-Dutch border, King Louis XIV of France officially launched a war against the Netherlands, known as the Franco-Dutch War in history.

On August [-]th, taking advantage of the Franco-Dutch War, Spain united with the Holy Roman Empire and launched a war against the Ottoman Empire.

On August 12th, [-] French troops were about to capture Amsterdam. However, the patriotic energy of the Dutch exploded and broke the embankment to prevent the French army from occupying Amsterdam, and appointed Prince William III of Orange as the governor of the Union Province.

On the second day of September, Charles II of England declared war on the Netherlands.

On September [-], Spain captured the Egyptian region of the Ottoman Empire, and the Ottomans retreated back to the Middle East peninsula.

On October [-], the ruling William III of the Netherlands formed an anti-French alliance with Spain and the Holy Roman Empire.

On the first day of the first winter month, Spain and the Holy Roman Empire each sent [-] troops, forcing France to disperse its troops and fight in different directions.

On the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, Qi National Academy of Sciences successfully tested the first gasoline internal combustion locomotive, and used ethanol gasoline as fuel.

In this experiment, the three-wheeled diesel locomotive attracted everyone's attention at a speed of [-] miles per hour.

Qi Wang Zhu Youjian visited this experiment. While awarding the "National Scholars" medal to the bachelor of internal combustion engine research, he also hoped that they could develop a faster internal combustion locomotive.

In February of the third year of Qiansheng, the Kunlun slave rebellion broke out in Tang State. The number of slaves participating in the rebellion reached tens of thousands, and it rapidly expanded to millions in the following months.

On February 100th, the Luzhou earthquake in Daming was like thunder, and the houses were toppled over, affecting areas as far as Wuhan in the west and Wuxi in the east.

In May, Newton handed over the data to King Charles II after spending a year recording data on British grain exported overseas.

According to Newton's records, in the past year, 400 million pounds of grain and wheat were shipped overseas to Britain, equivalent to [-] tons in the Ming Dynasty, which was enough to feed London residents for ten months.

In June, the British Navy and the Dutch Navy encountered a firefight at sea. The British Navy was defeated and [-] warships were sunk.

In July, Charles II negotiated a peace with the Netherlands, and William III agreed.

In October, following the Tang Dynasty, the seven vassal states of Kunlun Continent, including the Ji Kingdom and the Huai Kingdom, were enslaved. All countries asked for help from the Kunlun Supervisory Commissioner, and the Kunlun Supervisory Commissioner sent troops to the capital at the same time.

In the twelfth lunar month, with William III's excellent combat and the help of the Allies, the Dutch army regained Bonn, and all the French troops were driven out of the country, but the Dutch army suffered heavy losses.

In February of the fourth year of Qiansheng, at the invitation of Zhou Chongjian, a businessman from Qi State, Dutch scholar Leeuwenhoek took his family to Qi State.

In March, Leeuwenhoek arrived in Xijing City and was invited by Qi Wang Zhu Youjian to enter the Academy of Sciences.

In the Academy of Sciences, Leeuwenhoek used the state-of-the-art microscope to observe many microorganisms that he had not observed.

In a letter to King Qi he stated that he had discovered and learned that blood was composed of a crystal-like mist of water containing very small spherical globules.

Qi Wang Zhu Youjian wrote back to him three days later, and mentioned that the water he observed was plasma, and blood cells were suspended in this liquid.

According to Qi Wang Zhu Youjian's prompt, Leeuwenhoek measured the size of blood cells ten days later.

In May, after the victory, William III led the newly recruited [-] troops to continue to counterattack the French army.

In July, Leeuwenhoek proposed that "people's blood is divided into different blood types" based on the research of the past few months and the erudition and suggestions of Qi Wang Zhu Youjian.

In the next few days, he and his colleagues used their own blood to find four different blood types.

In October, Emperor Zhu Ciran felt that the territory of the country had been relatively consolidated after many years of recuperation. In addition, King Ding had not taken over the feudal domain for a long time. Wan attacked Rakshasa.

In March of the fifth year of Qiansheng, after half a month of dispatching troops, Li Dingguo led his army out of Yumen Pass in Western Taixi Province.

At this time, Taixi Province had a permanent population of 160 million, and trains were continuously transporting supplies from the Central Plains to Taixi to support the army's westward expedition.

At this time, Tsarist Russia had only 6 troops deployed on the border, and they used the highlands on the west bank of the Volga River as their defensive positions.

The Volga Highland position has been repaired by Tsarist Russia for more than ten years, and it can be said to be a perfect line of defense in this era.

However, Li Dingguo did not intend to fight the [-] Russian troops on the highlands. He ordered Zhu Cijiong to lead [-] cavalry to surround the [-] Russian troops on the Volga River highlands, and then went straight to Moscow with Wu Sangui.

Since the main forces were in the east and west, the hinterland of Tsarist Russia was empty of troops. Wu Sangui led [-] vanguard cavalry to easily break through the Central Tsarist Russian highlands. It took only three days to cross the hinterland of Tsarist Russia and penetrate into the central region.

On the afternoon of March [-]th, the old and vigorous Wu Sangui led [-] vanguard cavalry to Moscow on the east bank of the Moscow River, and captured Ryazan, the capital of the former Grand Duchy of Ryazan.

Seeing the Ming army on the east bank, Alexei I in Moscow thought that the [-] troops in the east had been wiped out, so he hurriedly led the army out of Moscow and headed for St. Petersburg.

That night, Li Dingguo led [-] horse infantry to the east bank of the Moskva River and crossed the river at night.

The next morning, the Ming army appeared under the city of Moscow, and most of the defenders who had not escaped from Moscow were wiped out. At [-]:[-] am, the Ming army completely wiped out Moscow.

After Moscow fell, the Ming army did not massacre the residents, but allowed them to flee to St. Petersburg.

On March [-], Li Dingguo ordered Wu Sangui to lead [-] horse and infantry to defend Moscow, and he led [-] cavalry and [-] horse and infantry to sweep across many cities east of the Moskva River from north to south.

In front of the rifles and artillery in the hands of the Ming army, all the defenders were wiped out like grass, and the Ming army drove straight in. Its combat power and speed were unheard of in the history of war, and the whole of Tsarist Russia fell into panic.

On March 26, while fleeing to St. Petersburg, Alexei I died of illness in panic, and his son Fedor Alexievich became the tsar.

Since he was young when he came to the throne, the government of Tsarist Russia was controlled by the Naryshkin family.

On the fifth day of April, when Fedor III arrived in St. Petersburg, the Naryshkin family proposed to send someone to negotiate a peace. This proposal was approved by a small number of nobles.

However, most nobles believed that after losing the territory east of Moscow, Tsarist Russia could not gain a foothold in St. Petersburg, so they strongly opposed it.

However, with the news of the continuous fall of the city, they could only bow their heads helplessly.

On the first day of June, when the Ming army cleared the last castle east of Moscow, Tsarist Russia sent people to Moscow to discuss peace.

At this time, only the [-] troops on the Volga Heights remained in the hands of Tsarist Russia east of Moscow.

Under the indulgence of the Ming army, a large number of Tsarist Russians fled to the west, and famine spread in St. Petersburg.

On the first day of July, Li Dingguo negotiated with the Tsarist Russian envoy a month later.

After three days of confrontation, Tsarist Russia ceded Moscow and all the land east of Moscow, the "Moscow Treaty" was signed, and [-] Tsarist Russian troops and a large number of Tsarist Russian civilians withdrew to St. Petersburg.

In August, after a month's journey, the good news was successfully reported back to the capital. The emperor was overjoyed and granted Li Dingguo Marquis of Yanshan and Wu Sangui Pingxibo.

At the same time, the emperor handed over Moscow and two cities and towns on the west bank of the Moskva River to King Ding, and established Dingguo there as a foreign vassal. equipment.

On September [-]th, after the news arrived in Moscow, Li Dingguo and Wu Sangui returned to the dynasty. Ding Wang Zhu Cijiong led three battalions of soldiers and horses to stay in Dingguo, and Moscow was renamed Dingxiang.

On the [-]th of the winter month, Li Dingguo led the Shangzhi Four Cavalry Guards back to the capital, and Ping Xibo and Wu Sangui, the governor of the Northern Army, were stationed in Taixi Province.

At the Zhengdan court meeting in the sixth year of Qiansheng, Chen Tingjing, Minister of the Household Department, said, "The population of the country has reached 3000 million, but many officials at the local level have hidden land, so that the cultivated land has not increased much. Please order to check the acres of land."

When the emperor Zhu Ciran heard the words, he immediately ordered Zuoqian Capital Censor Chengde of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the three divisions to investigate the land in the world.

In April, Sichuan chief envoy Jiao Changlu was found to have hidden more than [-] mu of newly reclaimed farmland, and the "hidden field case" that shocked the world broke out.

The case began when Jiao Changlu was investigated on the fifth day of April, and until August 24th, the Zuoqian capital censor Chengde found that there were no less than [-] officials corrupted by ink farming.

In the case, more than 27 people embezzled less than [-] mu, more than [-] people embezzled more than [-] mu and less than [-] mu, [-] people embezzled more than [-] mu and less than [-] mu, and six people embezzled more than [-] mu.

Officials from all over the province have had their hands on the newly reclaimed cultivated land in Sichuan in the past seven years, totaling more than 620 mu of cultivated land.

On the first day of September, Zuoqian capital censor Chengde went to Shu, Emperor Nu, the chief envoy Jiao Changlu, and the inspector envoy Zhang Chun, two Yi and three tribes.

After the "Sichuan Hidden Field Case" broke out, Cheng De successively led more than 320 officials from the third department to visit around. [-] mu.

In July of the seventh year of Qiansheng, the national farming investigation came to an end. Emperor Zhu Ciran decreed that the officials involved in the case be beheaded, and Sun Yinzhi, the minister of the relocation department, moved the three families of the officials involved in the case to Dingguo, Yongguo.

Afterwards, Chen Tingjing, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, made statistics and went to the press. Since there were more than one million people involved in this case, the emperor asked the emperor to reduce the punishment as appropriate.

On September [-]th, Emperor Zhu Ciran rejected the memorial and upheld the original sentence. Millions of criminals were relocated to Dingguo and Yongguo.

On October 20th, Sun Kewang, a cabinet minister, went to the Shu, saying that the new "Yellow Book" had more than [-] acres of arable land.

On October 270th, Chen Tingjing, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, made an elucidation, saying that after the "Yintian case", the family properties confiscated after the incident, except for cultivated land, totaled about [-] taels.

On the fifth day of the first winter month, Chengde, the censor of Zuoqian Capital, who had finished handling the case, died of illness on the train returning to the capital at the age of 79.

On the sixth day of the winter month, Emperor Zhu Ciran decreed that he should stay out of court for three days and posthumously named "Wenzhen".

On the seventh day of the lunar new year, Emperor Zhu Ciran issued a decree that Chengde deserves to enjoy the Tiange, and he is the seventeenth ancestor of Emperor Wu Dongxiang, after Wu Aheng.

On the eighth day of the eighth day, all the officials came forward, thinking that Chengde had been disloyal to Emperor Wu, the ancestor of the emperor, and asked the emperor to withdraw his order, but the emperor ignored it.

On the second day of the twelfth lunar month, after Lu Wang Zhu Ciyu, who loves astronomy, observed the transit of Mercury at the Observatory of the Palace, he proposed to measure the time of the transit of Venus in different regions of the earth, and recorded the process of observing the transit, and then calculated the solar parallax , the exact value of the distance between the sun and the earth.

In March of the eighth year of Qiansheng, Ottoman invaded Mongolia, and Ding Wang Zhu Cijiong and Ping Xibo Wu Sangui led troops to rescue.

In May, the Ottoman army was defeated in the Caucasus region. The emperor was overjoyed and promoted Pingxibo Wu Sangui to Pingxihou.

In August, Wu Sangui, Marquis of Pingxi, died of illness on his way back from the Great Victory, and his son Wu Yingxiong took over the title of Earl of Pingxi.

In September, the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb led an army of 12 to invade the Ganges area, and was defeated by Zhu Fuju, the governor of the Western Army.

In the winter moon, Zhu Fuju, the governor of the Western Army, died in office. The emperor recognized his contribution and posthumously named him King of Hanzhong, and his son Zhu Sibu succeeded as King of Ankang County.

On the fifteenth day of the winter month, the emperor transferred Wang Fuchen as the governor of the Northern Army, Duke Zhong Qin Jiming as the governor of the Western Army, and Duke Qian Mu Tianbo as the governor of the Eastern Army.

On the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month, the seven-year French-Dutch War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Nijmegen.

In the peace treaty, France gained sovereignty over some cities in the Franche-Comté, Flanders, and Hainault regions.

After the war, countries began to recognize and respect Louis XIV's title of "Sun King".

France, which owns the Sun King, replaced the Netherlands as the most powerful arbiter in Europe, and William III of the Netherlands, who signed the humiliating treaty, decided to devote his whole life to fighting the Catholic hegemony of France.

In the first month of the ninth year of Qiansheng, the Qi State Academy of Sciences experimented with the latest version of the diesel locomotive in the Qi Palace. The reason was that Qi Wang Zhu Youjian was unable to travel far due to physical problems.

In this experiment, Qi Guo's three-wheeled diesel locomotive used ethanol gasoline as fuel and ethanol as pure fuel.

In the two-car race, the three-wheeled diesel locomotive using ethanol gasoline won at a speed of 22 miles per hour, while the ethanol-fueled diesel locomotive only achieved a speed of [-] miles per hour.

In this regard, Qi Wang Zhu Youjian did not attack the research bachelors of the Academy of Sciences, but encouraged them with the example of trains.

In April, Ron from the Daming Military Academy completed a project on "electric energy".

Ron had discovered five years earlier that if a current flowed through a circuit, the magnetic needle of an ordinary compass near it would deflect.

He was inspired by it, thinking that if the magnet is fixed, the coil may move.Based on this idea, he succeeded in inventing a simple device.

In the device, as long as an electric current is passed through the wire, the wire will continuously rotate around a magnet, and this is the first device in the world that uses electric current to move an object.

Although this device is very crude, it is the ancestor of all electric motors in the later world.

This was a major breakthrough, and although its practical use was still very limited, Emperor Zhu Ciran still awarded him the title of Earl of Kaiping.

In addition, Liangjing University of Ming Dynasty also added "Electromagnetism" to it.

In June, through the continuous promotion of chemical fertilizers and the fallow system, Daming's average grain yield per mu has successfully stabilized at 360 jin.

On June 3000th, Minister of Rites Gu Yanwu made a statement, saying that the country’s annual grain exports had exceeded [-] million shi, but according to the statistics of the Ministry of Household Minister Chen Tingjing, Ming’s annual grain exports did not exceed [-] million shi.

Even so, it can also explain the prosperity of Ming Dynasty in terms of food, and such prosperity also shows the prosperity of the people.

According to the "Tianxia Huozhi" written by Prince Zhu Heyin, from the fourth day of May to the seventeenth day of May in the ninth year of Qiansheng, Prince Zhu Heyin traveled between the two capitals in person.

Although the distance between the two capitals is more than 700 miles, the prices of the two capitals are surprisingly equivalent.

The price of finished rice is three cents a catty, beef is sixteen cents a catty, pork is twelve cents a catty, mutton is eighteen cents a catty, and various vegetables range from one to three cents each.

The abundance of food brings cheap prices for other non-staple foods, so the folks call the year of Qiansheng and the year of Tianqi together as the "Heavenly Stems and Prosperity".

However, such a happy and nourishing day has not passed for a long time. Facts have proved that suffering often does not leave the people on this land easily.

At si o'clock on the morning of July 28 in the ninth year of Qiansheng, a strong earthquake broke out in the capital.

At that time, the sound of the capital was like thunder, its momentum was like a wave, and the day was dark.

Immediately after the earthquake broke out, the city gates of Beijing Shuncheng, Desheng, Haidai, and Zhangyi collapsed, palaces, official houses, and residential buildings collapsed, and the number of city walls collapsed was innumerable.

When the earthquake broke out, Emperor Zhu Ciran and Crown Prince Zhu Heyin were having a family banquet in Qianqing Palace. The two were far away from the door, so they immediately hid under the dining table.

Fortunately, the Qianqing Palace was repaired and strengthened many times during the reign of Emperor Shizu Wu, so the two of them would not die.

However, compared with many ministers in their foreign court, they are unlucky.

The officials who were discussing matters in the Wenhua Hall did not have time to withdraw from the Wenhua Hall. The cabinet ministers Jin Xuan, Yan Yinshao and others hid under the table one after another.

Court ministers Yu Chenglong and Sun Kewang were buried by the toppled tiles, officials Wang Fuzheng, Zhuang Jiongsheng, Wang Guangyu and others were crushed to death by the toppled walls, and the rest of the civil and military officials died, not to mention the civilians in the inner and outer cities.

In the next two days, the capital continued to experience major earthquakes, Tongzhou, Liangxiang and other cities were sunk, the ground was cracked into canals, yellow and black water flowed out, and black air filled the sky.

After the earthquake, the capital was disconnected from all towns and counties. Emperor Zhu Ciran led the crown prince, officials and people to flee to Nanyuan.

At Haishi, when everyone arrived at Nanyuan, they were not allowed to rest for a while, because the earthquake did not let them go...

Li Dingguo, Marquis of Yanshan, was ordered to brave the earthquake and ride his horse to the camp of Yanshan, and mobilized troops from Liaodong, Shanyu, Shanxi and other places to go to Zhili in the north for disaster relief.

Pu Songling, head of the Ministry of Rites, recorded the tragic situation of the people who followed the emperor and fled to Nanyuan in the "Liuquan Handbook".

"Hundreds of thousands of people drove south with them. On the Nanshou Road, the dead along the way filled the sky with filth."

"When we arrived in Nanyuan, there were constant earthquakes, and it was stable after three days. There were also slight earthquakes from time to time. The monarchs, ministers and people slept on the plains, terrified and frightened. Long live the British Duke Zhang Chengzhi to open the Nanyuan warehouse for disaster relief."

"On August [-]th, [-]th, and [-]th, there was another big earthquake. Within [-] miles around the capital, many people were crushed to death!"

"From the 21th to the [-]st, the Marquis of Yanshan led his army to Nanyuan, and Wan Sui led the civil and military officials and ministers back to Beijing. Suddenly there was a heavy rainstorm, and the fields in Shuntian became swamps. The roads were blocked, and the monarchs and ministers were starving..."

"On the 23rd, the monarchs, ministers and people returned to Beijing. There were countless corpses in the city, and the stench continued. The Marquis of Yanshan feared that there would be a plague, so he ordered his soldiers to burn the corpses. The black smoke continued for ten days..."

(End of this chapter)