Chapter 477 Unification
Emperor Yang is now thinking about unification.
It's not just a prime meridian.
For example, the origin of the Indians, he now said that the Indians were the Yin army that disappeared from the Dongyi and were brothers and sisters of the same origin of the Ming people. He also formally notified the governments of various countries, requiring them to respect the facts and respect the feelings of the Ming people. In addition, the Ming Dynasty will investigate the main reasons for the extinction of the Inca Empire when the Spaniards conquered the Inca Empire. How did our tens of millions of distant relatives die in less than a hundred years?
This is very puzzling!
Also, in terms of the description of historical events, such as the large-scale racial mystery after Jiannu entered the pass, this Western historical document must be clearly recorded and must have a clear position, otherwise it will ignore the facts and hurt the feelings of the people of the Ming Dynasty.
Especially Sichuan Tuk Killing.
At that time, those Western missionaries who were bribed by Jiannu confused the black and white frame-ups on this issue. Zhang Xianzhong had been dead for many years. Jiannu's rebel army was still fighting hard in Sichuan. He actually said that Zhang Xianzhong killed all the people in Sichuan. So the rebel army was fighting hard with ghosts later? So on this issue, the two shameless people must be settled. Although Zhang Xianzhong is not a good thing, this kind of historical matter must be true. If it is not his fault, he cannot be taken. Especially at that time, King Zhongwu of Xining was still in Zhang Xianzhong's army. He actually said that a gentleman like King Zhongwu of Xining would kill the people. Do you believe it or not?
There are also some scientific terms and units.
For example, using cows instead of Newton in mechanics, there is an essential difference between the two. How can shameless people like Newton enjoy such advanced treatment? For example, using horsepower in power is actually the British horsepower. It was originally a definition proposed by Watt in history, but Watt's mother was probably still a little loli at this time, so this was also defined by scientists from the Ming Dynasty. For example, the unit of current is amp, of course not amp. Ampe probably is very good now that his grandmother was born, and the unit of voltage is volt, which is definitely not volt. If Voltt's mother can be born now, he would be considered late for childbirth.
These were written by Yang Feng just casually when he was working on the textbook here, and of course it was also simple. As the Emperor of God, he was the main focus of everything, and what was spread out was also based on the Ming Dynasty as the standard.
In fact, except for some nouns such as weight and length, most of the common standards among countries are the Ming Dynasty. Whoever proposes these things first has the right to speak. Now, the Ming Dynasty is already at the beacon level, both scientifically, culturally and institutionally. The standards set by the Ming Dynasty are naturally common in the world. Even Chinese has begun to appear in dances in the upper class of Europe, and the people must know Chinese because of trade with the East. Therefore, Chinese can be heard at any port in Europe, and even the Ming-style flag language has become the most commonly used thing on merchant ships in various countries.
This is also strength.
Similarly, the Ming Dynasty's currency gold and silver copy system was also cited by countries around the world. This kind of gold and silver coins parallel, and the national legal gold and silver exchange ratio system solved the chaos of currencies in various countries, and the way of printing paper money was adopted by most countries. Originally, Europe's first real use of paper money started from the United Kingdom, and they were even earlier than the Ming Dynasty. Although Sweden was earlier, it was only an emergency. The Bank of England played real paper money, but now the improvement of the banknote system was played by the Bank of the Ming Empire.
Similarly, the Longyuan bill was also the most popular at this time.
This red banknote with dragon patterns and Emperor Yang’s avatar is not only exquisitely printed and works of art, but also a symbol of user status. It’s nothing to show off among European nobles, but it’s really worth taking out a gold coin, and taking out a 100-dragon dollar bill is truly worthy of face. Even in Europe, banks controlled by Ming Capital have appeared. The way to purchase goods in Ming Dynasty with a box of gold coins is no longer popular. After all, the journey on the sea is long and the ship may sink one day and the people and money will be lost. But these banks only need to deposit money in, and then they can cash in just one check in the Ming Dynasty. Even if the ship sinks on the road, the money will not be lost. It is precisely because of this that the capital banks are gradually beginning to penetrate Europe and compete fiercely with the Jews.
It is indeed too early to invade force, but this does not mean that other parties cannot start in advance. They will corrode the European castle to the point of being riddled with holes, and the rest will be nothing more than a last push.
"Your Majesty, it's time to set off."
Yang Zhong interrupted His Majesty's imagination and said.
"Walk!"
Yang Feng nodded, then turned around and walked towards his airship.
His Qinglong airship was not purely a product of this era. He was asked to buy a piece of stuff from Lin Qian to assemble it at Kunpeng Company. It is basically the same size as the Hindenburg, and it is even slightly larger. But unlike the Hindenburg, his airship is filled with helium, and the skeleton of the airship is not aluminum alloy. He uses titanium alloy, and the skin is also multi-layer flexible composite material, which cannot be lit even with the fire point, and can even fly to the stratosphere. There are four airships in total, named after the Four Symbols. This is his main means of transportation before the aircraft technology matures. Among them, the Dragon was riding, and the whole was a flying palace, while the other three carried escorts and guards, as well as some necessary supplies.
Immediately afterwards, His Majesty the Emperor walked into the cockpit of the Qinglong airship as tens of thousands of people bowed to the entire construction site.
Then the giant airship slowly rose to the sky and joined the other three giant airships in the sky, flying west under the spiral push of a high-power engine and composite material that burned special fuel, and their final destination was Longcheng thousands of miles away. Four huge airships kept flying at a high altitude at 300 miles per hour, and by the next morning, they had already seen the Tianshan Mountains below. Of course, they had to continue moving forward. After checking the orientation, the airships slightly lowered their heights to find the Yili River Valley, and then continued to fly along the valley. Four hours later, they met the airships under the command of the Xijing Liushou Division in the sky, and flew westward under the protection of the latter, crossed the Yili, where the black smoke from the steel plant was emitted, and did not reach the destination until noon, and then began to descend in turn.
The first one to go down is the Tiger Number.
After the giant airship landed, a hundred fully armed guards came out first to take over control of the landing ground, followed by the Zhuque, which the attendants were riding, and a large number of attendants, including the accompanying officials, came out quickly with officials from Fengtian Prefecture, Xijing Left-behind Office, and Beitingshannan Provinces who were receiving the throne.
Longcheng is the name of Xijing county, but the area where Longcheng is located is under the jurisdiction of Fengtian Prefecture, including Beijing Shuntian, Nanjing Yingtian, Xijing Fengtian, and the remaining one is Tokyo Chengtian, which is reserved for America. This place was originally a Suiye Prefecture in Beiting Province, and Suiye Prefecture was upgraded to Fengtian Prefecture as one of the four capitals. After Longcheng was built, Fengtian Prefecture and Longcheng County Prefecture are all here, plus the Xijing Left-behind Department, the branches of each cabinet in Xijing, the Xijing Palace, and a complete national administrative system will exercise their powers in this city.
Then add a hundred thousand troops.
The city will be suppressed in Central Asia forever.
"What is the current situation in the Western Regions?"
After meeting the subjects who were welcomed and giving a speech, Yang Feng went directly to the temporary palace for him, and then summoned Lu Yi, the left-behind Xijing, to ask.
"The Kazakh Khanate has been officially divided into two parts. We call it the big tent small tent. The big tent is in the Yibohai area, and the small tent is in the Ural River basin on the north bank of the Caspian Sea. From Longcheng to the south and west is the territory of the Bukhara Khan. The Bukhara Khan was in chaos in the country and divided the Kokhan in Shannan Province. The Bukhara Khan then went west to the east bank of the Caspian Sea, which was the territory of the Shiva Khanate, which was Khwarezm, which was the Western Regions. To the north of the two Kazakhs, the Russians were the territory of the Persians, and Bukhara and Kokhan were connected to the territory of Persia and the Mughal Empire in the south. However, the governor of Kabul of the Mughal Empire had been established, and after the Persians were defeated by us and the Ottomans, the Hindu Kush region of the originally Persia was also close to the establishment.
In short, these forces are from the Tianshan Mountains to the Caspian Sea.
However, although these are called Khanate, they are actually tribal alliances dominated by nomadism. There is no military-civilian difference. Whenever they fight, all adult men ride horses and hold bows and arrows. Even if they are soldiers, the total number is hard to say. All the troops have hundreds of thousands. The weapons are mainly cold weapons, but there are also a large number of smoothbore guns, even purchased from our arms dealers. They are very brave, but they are equivalent to the level of Mongolian cavalry when they were in Hebei. If they really want to fight, I guarantee that the First Cavalry Army can sweep from north to south and fight all the way to Kabul."
Lu Yi said.
In recent years, the First Cavalry Army beat up the messy ethnic groups in the Western Regions very seriously. Originally, the Kazakhstan tribe had the central tent, but they were destroyed by the First Cavalry Army. Now all the people who are still alive are honestly under the jurisdiction of Beiting Province!
But this place was never the focus of the Ming Dynasty's expansion. They were very anxious to wait, especially since the Ming army was making a fortune, they could only stay in the Western Regions. Although the Western Regions also had many benefits, such as the jade here made the First Cavalry Army make a lot of money. The Ming Dynasty now has a strong demand for jade. The domestic capitalists are not interested in other gems due to traditional reasons, but the pursuit of jade is completely fanatical. Although the army does not allow business, it is not said that the families of middle and senior officers are not allowed to do business.
For example, Lu Yi’s own wife is the number one jade supplier in Daming.
But this is not as good as plundering.
"No hurry. The most important thing for you now is to ensure the construction of Longcheng. What's more, one army will have no problem in attacking Kabul, but what about it after attacking? How to control it? If you want to control the entire Western Regions, you may have to at least three armies. The supplies of the three armies cannot be supplied by roads and carriages alone. Moreover, the roads must also ensure the transportation of saltpeter. Without the supply of saltpeter from Shanshan, we cannot even supply explosives."
Yang Feng said.
It is indeed unrealistic to conquer the Western Regions now. The Ming army cannot do without logistics, and a national highway cannot meet the combat consumption of more than one army. What's more, the main task of this national highway is to transport saltpeter. Before the railway is completed, it will not consider large-scale expansion in the Western Regions.
"But you can clean up the Kazakhs in the Yibohai area."
Then he said again.
Yibohai is Lake Balkash, which is the territory of the Kazakhs in the big tent. However, if Yang Feng wants to build the railway on the banks of the Erthis River to build Xinjin, he must solve this part of the Kazakhs.
"The minister respects the order."
Lu Yi said.
"Then you go down first!"
Yang Feng said.
Lu Yi left quickly.
Seeing the Xijing left-behind, who hurriedly ran to study how to attack the Kazakhs, Emperor Yang was more or less depressed. He spent twenty years raising a beast. Now the Ming Dynasty was full of craze for plunder. The gentle and kind nation was no longer there. Even the primary school students of the Ming Dynasty knew that they would go out to grab money and women when they grew up, and they knew that they would use small whips to slap those slaves who didn't like them.
But as the brain of this beast, he was a little confused.
Of course, he was not confused about whether this was good or bad for the Han people. His Majesty the Emperor was not so literary. What he was confused about now was that once the world was swallowed up, what should he continue to feed this beast? From the First Cavalry Army's desire for war, we can see how hungry the beast was. When plunder and expansion have become inertia, once it loses the target of plunder and expansion, how should it adapt, and where should its sharp teeth and claws extend?
Are you my own?
Once there is no expansion goal, internal contradictions and conflicts will inevitably become prominent.
This is inevitable.
He did not think that there were no internal conflicts in the Ming Dynasty. In fact, there were a lot of internal conflicts in the Ming Dynasty. The military was dissatisfied with the cabinet's stakes in military spending, the place representing capitalists was dissatisfied with the cabinet representing the nobles, the inspector was dissatisfied with the Jinyiwei, and the Jinyiwei was dissatisfied with the army's robbery outside. In short, as a semi-feudal and semi-capitalist, there were a little bit of socialist huge empire, and the Ming Dynasty was also full of internal conflicts, and it was definitely not less than any country.
But external expansion solved everything.
External expansion makes all contradictions just contradictions.
But what if there is no place to expand?
The generals, mainly aristocrats, had no place to plunder, they would look at the wealth of those capitalists, and there was no place to annex. The local gentry that supported the finances of the Ming Dynasty would feel that the number of troops was too large and was completely wasted. There was no place to plunder, and the cabinet would find that their finances had lost an important source, and they would think of making up for it from the local level...
"This is very troublesome!"
Chapter completed!