Chapter 988 Journey

The carriage maintained a uniform rhythm of clanging and clanging noise, which was the sound from the joints of the railway tracks, and also caused shaking on the table.

Xiaohe made tea, put a piece of silk squid on the table, and then placed the tea cup there.

The orange-red tea water rippled left and right in the cup.

Zhu Gaoxu looked at her careful actions and said: Do you know why, did I give you this name?

Xiaohe Shuiling looked at him with her eyes and shook her head.

Zhu Gaoxu said: There was a palace maid named Xiaohe in the past, which looked a bit like you when making tea.I was only in my thirties at that time, so young...

Xiaohe in front of her said in surprise: That’s not a matter of decades ago.

Zhu Gaoxu nodded.

Xiaohe said: Master, what kind of person is she? Is she very beautiful?

Zhu Gaoxu couldn't answer, and even the appearance of the palace maid was blurred in his mind, but he still remembered that she didn't seem very beautiful.

For a moment, he could no longer tell whether he still remembered Xiaohe or his youth.

Xiaohe asked curiously again: How did she do later?

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

Xiaohe said in disappointment.

At this moment, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly reached out and pressed his chest and felt a severe pain, and even difficulty breathing.Xiaohe was shocked.

Don't shout.Zhu Gaoxu gritted his teeth and said.

Xiaohe opened her mouth and looked at him at a loss.

Zhu Gaoxu took a moment, took a strong breath, and said weakly: I have no choice but to call the medical officer in the car.They still have to park the car at that time, otherwise who will be responsible?It's a waste of time.

Xiaohe said: Is the emperor better?Have some water quickly.

Better.Zhu Gaoxu said slowly, in fact, I only have one problem, that is, I am old.

Xiaohe said something again, Zhu Gaoxu didn't hear it clearly. He closed his eyes and leaned on the chair to rest. After a while he felt someone cover him with a blanket.

I was particularly lethargic recently. He slept for a while before he woke up.I found that Xiaohe was still guarding her.

In my dream, I remembered the Northern Tour a long time ago, and I also went to Beijing to go to Beijing.It was still called Peiping at that time.Zhu Gaoxu said.

Xiaohe brought a bowl of soup over and listened carefully.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu said: If I weren’t the emperor, a girl like you would definitely not want to listen to my longing.

Xiaohe said: The emperor's words are so knowledgeable, and he is willing to talk to me. I am very lucky.

Zhu Gaoxu smiled and closed his mouth.

He turned his head and looked outside the car window glass. Seeing that the sun had already set off, he was still thinking about what happened before.

After that northern tour, the Ming army fought a war with the Mongols, and Concubine Shun, Asari, came to the capital after that.

She may not have thought about it, and she would never leave Zhu Gaoxu again in her life.

Asari is a Semi-sama, and gave birth to a mixed-race daughter for Zhu Gaoxu and later married Veda's son.

Thinking of these things, Zhu Gaoxu's memories gradually became clear.

At that time, Mahamu, the Oirats, took the opportunity to attack the Tatars, but was defeated by the army of Adai Khan and Arutai. Mahamu himself was killed, which was a failure to steal chickens and lose a lot of rice.

Mahamu's son Tuohuan inherited the position of leader of the Oirat tribes.

Tuohuan supported a puppet Khan and was incompatible with Alutai.

Tuohuan finally avenged more than ten years later, killed Alutai and Adai Khan on the battlefield, and wanted to expand into northeastern Liaoning. The Oirats completely lost the checks and balances on the grassland.

But at that time, the Ming army carried out another innovation, stronger than before, and drove Tuohuan back to the west again.

The Urianha people nominally obtained the pastures of Arutai.Because the Ming Dynasty's national policy was to develop the entire Liaodong region, they needed to slowly give up their land.

Now in Liaodong, there are already large areas of fertile land and factories, and there is no nomadic land.

The Mongolian tribes on the grassland finally became a pile of loose sand and were successively managed by the Ming government. They mainly produced meat products, leather, wool, dairy products and other commodities; they entered the industrial chain in the mainland of Ming Dynasty, and lived a good life, and not many people wanted to fight.

Those who were engaged in robbery were not only attacked by the Ming army, but also the people from the Mongolian tribes were dealing with them.

When animal husbandry production is reduced due to weather reasons, Liaodong's commercial grain will help them overcome difficulties, and some tribes will immigrate to Australia's livestock and reduce population pressure on northern ranches.

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

After the steam engine was put into practical use a few years ago, Longjiang Shipyard first built a ship.

The Ming army crossed the vast Pacific Ocean and arrived in North America and established a port stronghold called New South Wales. Zhu Gaoxu believed that it might be near Vancouver, Canada.

The introduction of new crops from America into the Ming Dynasty, changing people's recipes and increasing grain production, further stimulating the domestic industrialization process.

A large number of locals were found in North America, probably Indians, but Zhu Gaoxu called them Yin people.

The court sent officials to the local area to preach and told the locals that there was a continental shelf on the sea that could go from Shenzhou to North America.

Therefore, the Yin people were the population that migrated from Shenzhou during the Shang Dynasty; in order to win over local people and reduce conflicts.

But after Zhu Gaoxu saw the Yin people coming to envoy, he felt like he was talking nonsense.

However, benevolent government is still being implemented.

Due to the long journey and a voyage of tens of thousands of miles, there are particularly few military households and even fewer immigrants in Xinzhou Port.

The imperial court needed the population of the Yin people and developed it in North America as soon as possible.

Otherwise, in a short time, people from Europe may also go there. Once they start immigrating, the difficulty will be reduced by more than ten times.

The Ming Dynasty's control over Europe was very small, but it was still because it was too far away. It is currently mainly trade. If you want to expand further, it will have to be done for a long time.

The focus of the imperial court in recent years is mainly in Egypt.

In addition, the imperial court established many governor's offices in East Africa, India, and Southeast Asia. In order to consolidate the sea control rights in the east, they were already a little helpless.

The Ming army and Mamuliuk had a conflict that broke out. The Ming Navy Expeditionary Force defeated the Mamuliuk army several times, completely controlled the eastern region, and supported a local force in the Nile River Basin, dispatched officials and garrisons to build a tun fort.

Mamuliuk fled everywhere, and some people fled to Europe and the Hui Muslim areas and became mercenaries.

But it was not as easy as the court wanted to open the Suez Canal.The canal has not been built until now and has consumed a lot of money and food.

Ten years ago, the Hui and Islamic powers in the east of the Mediterranean expanded westward, captured Constellation Dantembourg, and destroyed Eastern Rome.

The King of Eastern Romans once sent envoys to Egypt to ask for help from the Ming army, promising a large number of unfulfilled benefits.

But the situation there was very complicated. After weighing the pros and cons, the court only provided a batch of arms in the name of sale.

Because if Ming Dynasty goods detours around Africa, freight will increase exponentially.

So a western port was established in the Mediterranean. After the goods freight from the Eastern Line arrived at the Red Sea, they were transported by land to the western port in Egypt and then traded with the middlemen.

Most of the local middlemen were from the Hui Muslim clan and Portuguese.

The court and the Hui and Hui Sect regions will lose huge benefits in the short term and cause domestic economic turmoil.

What's more, the Ming army had very few people in Egypt and reinforcements were even tens of thousands of miles away. The navy had to circumvent Africa, and even if it directly joined the war, it would not necessarily have a great effect.

The Hui and Huishu are also doing business with the Nestorian area. They have a saying that gold is gold, and God is God.

In the end, Constellation Danteburg failed to change his fate and fell into the roar of heavy artillery and flintlock rifle.The wave of Renaissance is also accelerating its spread to the European continent.

The Ming Dynasty could not completely prevent the technology from flowing out, especially the relatively easy-to-learn technologies such as flintlock guns and artillery. They only improved the people in the Hui and Nestorian areas. They already had low-level technology to cast guns and guns.

Military conflicts are constantly occurring in countries in the west, and special attention is paid to changing weapons.

Over the past half a century, Zhu Gaoxu has also done a lot of things in the country.Such as the law of advocating the grace, which allowed the royal family and vassal states to be demoted from generation to generation, so that the princes can do business and find a way out.

The descendants of these vassal kings were constantly resentful at first, but later they found a way out. Relying on some potential privileges of the royal family, some capable people made their business bigger and bigger, and became veritable capitalists of the imperial merchants.

At the same time, some gentry and landlords became big merchants, and the former merchant gangs joined in and had the share of the pie, and the noble forces were no exception.

These wealthy people all support the imperial examinations and send spokespersons to the court.

The hereditary hereditary officers of the Guards have long been abolished, and now they mainly select officers through various standards such as examinations and descendants of military merits.

Due to the innovation of technology and systems, the situation of deducting military pay in previous dynasties has improved greatly. It is extremely risky for officers to do such things. The military pay specifications will be made in the form of internal newspapers to let the soldiers know.

Military status has become a hot commodity, and even if there is a risk of losing one's life on the battlefield, its income is stable.The huge economic scale of the Ming Dynasty at home and abroad fully guaranteed the welfare and equipment of the army.

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

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

When Zhu Gaoxu was in power, he could probably suppress all forces with his prestige in the army and his years of prestige.

As long as people who do not want to die, they must pay taxes honestly and abide by the imperial court laws.

But what will happen in the future is really powerless.

Maybe no one can control everything.

The empire should also have its own destiny, and humans have never had an empire for a thousand years; just like when people reach their age, they have to face death.

Zhu Gaoxu felt a little tired, and no matter what, the national fortune should not be much worse.

When he came back to his memory, he found that the light outside had dimmed.