Chapter 1045 Prosperity and Destruction

Tourists from all over the world who leave the pyramids will most likely continue to go south along the Nile River, where there are several famous temples.Or go north to Alexandria, where there are Greek cultural relics.

However, Gao Xu and his four men gave up the ancient attractions and headed east to the Suez Canal, preparing to go south along the canal to the Donggang Fortress ruins.

This is a very unpopular route because there are really not many mysterious things.

Along the way, Miaojin began to tell the history before and after World War I and the story about the canal.Gao Xu gradually systematically understood all this based on the information he usually read from books.

In the early stages of the application of steam engines, that is, in the late Wude period, Gao Xu was not dead (in the second half of the 15th century AD). He ruled for half a century and spent many years on the direction of industrial technology development, and finally created the first generation of steam engines.

The Ming Dynasty built many cities and Governor's Office in the coastal areas east of Yiji, and its power expanded to the west and defeated the local ruler Mamuliuk.

The Ming Dynasty began to gather local labor and build the Suez Canal, intending to open up the closest route to Europe, but the canal was closed by Gaoxu and the canal had not been completed.

The Ming fleet arrived in Australia south. Because there was no country in the area, Gao Xu took the name of the Australian area casually and migrated a small number of people to raise horses and do animal husbandry.

The fleet crossed the Pacific eastward and discovered the North American continent. It was originally named the US District and established a tun fort called Xinzhou Port on the west coast, which continuously migrated the population to gain a foothold.

However, the ships at that time were very slow and it was still not easy to cross the Pacific Ocean. Compared with the vast American mainland and the Han people in the past, the population was seriously insufficient.

Given the frequent maritime activities and the information cannot be kept confidential for a long time, it is easier for Europeans to find that continent from the Atlantic Ocean.

The Ming Dynasty began to show kindness to the natives in the United States, sending various gifts, and also went there to promote the theory of continental bridges everywhere, saying that the local natives were fellow villagers who migrated from the Ming Dynasty in ancient times, and even named them Yin people, in an attempt to educate the natives to expand the shortage of the Han people's population.

During the reign of Zhu Gaoxu and his grandson, there was not much problem with the Ming Dynasty.

However, later emperors and ministers were very worried that overseas power would not be too strong, and gradually stopped expanding, but they did not dare to give up the ancestral property that they had occupied and the huge investment of the harbor canal.

All forces in China who make profits from official large factories and become rich in maritime trade are not allowed.

There was no economic crisis for a long time. The overseas market in the Ming Dynasty was really large, and capital was in the market development period for a long time.

After the Suez Canal was built, the Ming Dynasty faced pressure of the expansion of the Ottoman Empire and began to make friends with European countries.

The court allowed the Portuguese who occupied Morocco and the Austrians who occupied Italy to act as a proxy for the waterway transit trade.

Then the Ming army built East Port on the Mediterranean Coast and the eastern part of Alexandria, and stationed naval and army; sold large amounts of elimination arms to Austrians and European mercenaries to arm these potential helpers.

The Spanish sailed to South America, causing tragic encounters among the local natives. European diseases and guns caused disasters, and the number of unruly Spanish children in the local area continued to increase.

At this time, the Portuguese and the Spaniards signed a treaty, meaning that the West of the world belongs to Spain and the East belongs to Portugal.Of course, the Ming Dynasty was just a joke and ignored it.

In the 16th century AD, a short-term war broke out between the Ming Dynasty and the Governor's Office and the Ottomans.

The Ottoman fleet was repelled by the Ming army's steam gunboats, and the Ottoman army could not advance in an instant on land, and could no longer repeat the great achievements of breaking Constellation Danteburg.

Although the total number of water and land troops in the Governor's Office at that time was only a few thousand people, relying on the substitution of weapons, it withstood the military attack of the nearby empire.

The Ming army relied on the garrison, and it was difficult for them to counterattack the huge Ottoman Empire. The Ming court at that time had no intention of continuing to expand, so the two sides negotiated.

The Ottomans paid compensation, but received some opportunities for transit trade.

After the Ottomans calmed down, the East and the West lived peacefully together for a period of time.In the past two hundred years, everyone has found their own livelihood.

The Spanish dug silver in South America and then spent the whole world, living a lot of money, and there was no problem in the early stage.

The Portuguese, Italians and Austrians are doing transit shipping trade, which is also very nourishing.

The Dutch and a small number of British people started to carry out marine transportation and carried out financial business, which was fine.

Bankrupt farmers and prisoners from Britain and France ran to western North America to open up the land, and the land was very fertile.

The British King declared that the entire North America belonged to the United Kingdom, and there was no problem, because the mainland was very large, and it was up to its ability to occupy.

The colonists expel the land owned by the indigenous people, tell stories and slander the local tribes as cannibals, and in order to attack and kill them justly, they are all normal operations.

The Ming court in the East was also quite satisfied with the situation. At that time, the tariffs were not high and the management of various countries was not good, so the Han people started selling various industrial products.

Even though the sea route is far away, the shipping cost of steamships is low, so everyone is still making a happy profit.

Facing the huge population market in European countries, including Eastern Europe, Russia, the Ottomans, and the vast market with traditional spheres of influence in the East, the upper class of the Ming Dynasty was doing well for a period of time.

Many countries such as Britain, France and the U.S. (Prussia) vigorously developed industry and commerce and put forward the concept of mercantilism.

Although the industrial products of the Ming Dynasty are of high quality and low price, and the first-mover advantage is difficult to compete, Europeans still have many industries to do, such as introducing equipment to the textile industry, marketing luxury handicrafts, selling agricultural and sideline products, financial industry, etc.

After all, the Spanish were reluctant to produce goods after poaching silver and were very generous.

In the middle, the Dutch vs. the British vs. the French, the Ottomans themselves coups and civil wars, and small-scale wars occurred many times in many places, but there was no big problem.

The Ming Dynasty had no intention of participating at all, so it took the opportunity to sell the eliminated arms and sold them at the same time.

An uprising broke out in Britain, and the king was cracked from time to time, resulting in a period of time no one dared to ascend the throne.

Then Prussia rose, defeated the French, and took the opportunity to unify the Deyizhi Federation by force, which made the French heartbroken.

Prosperity is always so short, and the haze of war is constantly brewing in the carnival of the upper class.

The destruction and chaos between the East and the West were finally detonated one after another.

This world war lasted for a long time, and the initial war was not strong. The battle stopped and finally developed into a decisive battle.

Moreover, at the beginning, the war between the East and the West was each fighting, and then it became more and more intense.

At that time, extreme nationalist thoughts appeared one after another in European countries, and then revolution broke out in France. The uprisingers first killed the king, and later the uprisingers fought each other themselves.

France, which originally planned to overthrow the king and establish a capitalist political system, successfully became the military dictatorship under the brewing of internal struggles and nationalism.

At this time, we could only expand nationalism and honor, so the French first attacked the Spanish.

This empire, which had been squandered after being rich and had already returned to poverty, was about to explode on the spot, and the French army soon fell apart when it arrived.

He easily killed the French army in Spain and gained unprecedented confidence. His next goal was to win the devil's ambition and planned to avenge his previous shame.

Deyizhi's official palace was so scared that it was half-hearted that he quickly formed an alliance everywhere. Austria-Hungary, Ottoman, Italy and others signed a mutual assistance treaty with Deyizhi.

However, there are endless emergence of extreme nationalism in Germany and the theory of noble Germanic blood, so the old emperor was forced to prepare for war.

Coincidentally, there were many malpractices in the Ming Dynasty, and eventually resorted to force and began a civil war.

The problems in the Ming Dynasty at that time were simply complicated and were not a simple contradiction between the two forces.

The increasing merger and monopoly of large capital has caused a large number of farmers and workers to be extremely poor and have difficulty in making livelihoods. The upper class has occupied astronomical assets and profits, and the gap between the rich and the poor is huge. Domestic uprisings and foreign rebellions on the frontier have occurred one after another.

The contradiction between the emperor's centralization and the big capitalists expanded.

The emperor wanted to collect taxes to fill the extremely extravagant living expenses and the expenses of the government. The big capitalists and landlords accused the emperor of collecting taxes too much.

It has become increasingly difficult for big capital to pass on taxes to the bottom, because the bottom is already extremely poor.

The Emperor of Ming Dynasty also wanted to recover the profits of the official company, which was obviously impossible.

A large number of official companies, including energy and military factories, are controlled by civil servants and nobles. They were divided up a hundred years ago, and are nominally just public.

I want to take it back now, isn’t it to take someone else’s life?

Capitalists generally have the identities of big landlords and civil and military officials, and are all wealthy and powerful figures.

The conflicts between them are also unreconciliable, because they all want to expand their power and increase their influence on the court, so as not to be suddenly deprived of their property or gradually be eroded by their power.

Under the sharp and complex contradictions, it is already a miracle that people still maintain the Ming Dynasty.

Perhaps because since the Qin Dynasty, the concept of unification has been deeply rooted in people's hearts, and people think about killing their opponents and dominating themselves.

Then the operation of a cabinet chief minister named Zhou and a big capitalist and landlord directly triggered the war.

After this man came to power, he won over a general from the northern defense zone (of course these generals are also rich), and Zhou Shoufu gave local military, political and financial power to the general to coordinate, allowing him to suppress the rebellion and suppress the uprising.

However, the general raised the enemy and was able to extinguish the uprising for a long time. He also kept asking for money and merged the Northern Company.

Other forces in the court tried to put pressure on the chief minister to remove the general so as to prevent the military group from becoming a warlord.But how could Shoufu Zhou be willing to give up such a large amount of political capital?

After a lot of internal struggle, the young emperor who had just ascended the throne wanted to make great achievements, but found that it was all messed up and scolded the court for being treacherous. The emperor was very angry and pulled Zhou Shuoxu to the outside of the Meridian Gate and beat him to death.

The frightened frontier general then raised the banner of rebellion.

The prelude to the civil war suddenly opened, and the smoke of gunpowdered over the huge empire with the Pacific Ocean as the inner lake, and it was out of control.