Forbidden City, Wenhua Hall, Small Synagogue.
"Your Majesty, please take a look. This is the draft of the Declaration of the Three Kingdoms of Ming, Mongolia, and Frank. It is just waiting for the saints of the three countries to sign it and use their seals. As long as this Declaration is announced, the new world order will be established. Yes. From now on, the world will be divided into three parts: the Ming Dynasty, the Mongolia Dynasty, and the Frankish Empire!"
Guo Youde, minister of Honglu Temple in the Ming Dynasty, spoke standard Tianjin Mandarin while respectfully placing a draft text of the "Three Kingdoms Declaration" with the details and wording in front of Emperor Zhu Da, and then retreated to his seat. Take a seat.
Zhu Heji had long known the contents of the Declaration. Although he did not sit at the negotiating table in person, he would read the minutes of the talks every day, and would also give face-to-face instructions to the two negotiators, Guo Youde and Nalan Xingde. So at this moment, he just pretended to pick up the text that Guo Youde sent and read it, then put it back on the desk, then raised his eyes and glanced at the Ming Dynasty civil and military officials sitting on both sides of a five-foot long table in front of him, and finally He cast his gaze on the face of Crown Prince Zhu Yixin.
This Prince Zhu has completed all the experiences and performed quite well... Obviously, he is a moderate king who connects the past and the future. But for Zhu Yixin and his son and grandson, being well-behaved is enough.
It is already 1697 in the Western calendar, and in three years it will be the 18th century. According to Zhu Heji's prediction, from the end of the 18th century to the first half of the 19th century, all mankind will usher in another major change. In the hundred years before this great change, all mankind should have had a relatively peaceful period of development.
Because Zhu Heji opened a lot of golden fingers, he created a system for China three hundred years in advance, from four years of compulsory elementary school to six years of secondary education, then to four years of higher education, and finally several years of postgraduate training. In the modern education system, the progress of science and technology and the development of productivity will definitely be greatly accelerated.
In fact, the modern education system created by Zhu Heji has a role in promoting science, technology and productivity as much as his golden finger! After all, this golden finger can only work for a while, but a good education system can provide a steady stream of power for the progress of science and technology!
The education system developed by Zhu Heji was based on the Guangzhou Science and Technology Examination. Through that imperial examination, Zhu Heji's court received a group of highly intelligent talents. Some of them were sent by Zhu Heji to Haizhu University for further study.
At the beginning, Zhu Heji only provided mathematics textbooks equivalent to those in elementary and junior high schools, and physics and chemistry textbooks in junior high schools. Of course, it is not a complete version. It also refers to some mathematics and geometry books seized from Macau. Because his memory is not that good, just about right.
After Zhu Heji finished the textbooks, he asked some smart people selected through the imperial examination to study on their own. He also arranged for some bachelors to take turns as school inspectors, and he himself took as much time as possible to teach them a few lessons. Then, after passing exams again and again, those with the strongest self-study ability (who may have studied Western learning) were selected and set up in a small area to focus on training. After a year or two, we finally had the first batch of talented people equivalent to junior high school level.
With this group of great talents, several major academies in Guangdong, which are equivalent to secondary education, can be opened. Although the teachers themselves are only at the "junior high school" level, they all have the brains of Tsinghua University and Peking University, and they can still do it on the side. Teaching, while studying on his own under the guidance of Zhu Heji. Therefore, among the earliest batch of academy teachers and students, teachers and students often entered higher education together. When students are admitted to universities or military academies, teachers have also completed the self-study courses provided by Zhu Heji, and can finally become university teachers...
In addition, Zhu Heji also printed a large number of elementary and middle school textbooks he wrote and distributed them as tutoring materials for the imperial examination - the imperial examination run by Emperor Zhu was to test arithmetic, science (physics) and "magic"! In the following years, Zhu Heji continuously increased the proportion of science subjects in the imperial examinations, selected more talented people in science, and sent the most talented among them to universities for further study.
Although the knowledge mastered by these self-taught college students and the students they taught cannot be compared with the students who came out of 985 and 211 in later generations, it was enough in the 17th century.
After all, the level of Western universities in the 17th century was not high, and their scale was not large. There were not many students, and of course there was no mechanism for selecting top students.
Therefore, Ming Dynasty’s new education system should be very advanced compared to today’s West! Therefore, there is no reason for the Ming Dynasty to lag behind others in science and technology a hundred years later. And with the participation of countless Chinese talents, human technological civilization can certainly be accelerated.
By then, how can China, a country with advanced technology, rich resources, and a population of 40 to 50 million, not be able to dominate the world?
However, this does not mean that we can do nothing now, because in the battle for world hegemony a hundred years later, the loser will definitely be shattered to pieces, so Ming Dynasty must win... and win by any means necessary!
Thinking of this, Zhu Heji asked Zhu Yixin: "Prince, now that the agreement to carve up the world has been completed, a new order will soon be established... What do you think we should do in the future?"
Zhu Yixin thought for a while and replied: "Father, we have also signed secret treaties with the Franks and Great Mongolia. Most of the Great Mongolia will also sign a secret treaty with the Franks. The Ottoman Empire and the Rakshasa Kingdom will also promote us and the Great Mongolia. We have made a secret agreement... The agreement to carve up the world has not yet been signed, and there are already several secret agreements that undermine this agreement, so this new order is simply unreliable!"
This answer...is quite satisfactory!
Zhu Heji didn't expect his son to be as talented as himself. It was fine if he could be just right. Don't be stupid and sweet!
He nodded and said: "Prince, you are half right! This order is meant to be destroyed, and the agreement is meant to be violated... But the new order in the future can be used for hundreds of years."
Zhu Yixin didn't understand, "Father, why is this?"
"Because the Ming Dynasty needs to maintain this new order!" Zhu Heji taught his son, "So the Ming Dynasty can weaken the Frank Empire and the Great Mongolia while maintaining the new order... but at the same time not destroy their power in the Atlantic Ocean, Hegemony in the Indian Ocean. In this way, in the next hundred years, the world order will be maintained under the leadership and maintenance of the Ming Dynasty, until new forces emerge that break this order."
"Father, what do you mean...it's not the Franks and Mongolia who will compete with the Ming Dynasty for the world in the future?"
"Of course not!" Zhu Heji shook his head, "Because I, you, and your son and grandson will always use various means to weaken and suppress these two countries, while allowing them to gain more power in their respective powers. enjoy wealth and glory within their boundaries...so they will eventually become the beneficiaries of the new order, until an emerging power emerges to tip the balance."
Zhu Heji conducted his analysis from the modern history of another time and space. Neither of the two world wars broke out between countries with vested interests... The so-called emerging powers challenge the established powers is not accurate, because they did not Not every emerging power will use war to challenge established powers. Otherwise, it should be the United States, not Germany, Japan, Austria-Hungary, and Italy, that started the world war.
But the United States is doing well in the world system dominated by the British Empire. It has food, drink, resources and markets, so there is no need to launch a war to break the pattern. Germany, Austria-Hungary, Japan, and Italy are all lacking in industrial and military capabilities. If they want to turn around and counterattack, they can only fight a war.
In the new world order based on the "Declaration of the Three Kingdoms of Ming, Mongolia, and Frank", although Ming is the most powerful world leader, the interests of Mongolia and Frank are also guaranteed.
In this new order, Frank can dominate Christian civilization and force his younger brothers in Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Rakshasa, Portugal, Italy, etc. to pay tribute to him, and his life will be more prosperous in the future. And since Mongolia has India's blood to drink, its life will be even happier.
So even if they are bullied by Ming Dynasty, they will swallow their anger... And Ming Dynasty itself has already dominated the world, has eaten the biggest piece of cake, and can scrape a little oil and water from Frank and Mongolia, so there is no need. To disrupt order.
Only those small powers who have not caught up with this carve-up will become destroyers of the world order when they grow bigger!
"Father," Zhu Yixin thought, "Who will be the enemy who will destroy the world order in the future?"
Zhu Heji shook his head: "There may be too many, I have no way to predict it!"
There are actually several candidate countries in his mind, one is England, one is Sweden, one is Rakshasa, the United States is also possible, and Japan may also become a disruptor of the world order that needs to be repaired!
But it is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to wipe out these countries one by one... And even if the Ming Dynasty wipes out all these countries, there will definitely be new challengers!
"Prince," Zhu Heji looked at his son again, "What do you think we should do next?"
"This..." Zhu Yixin thought carefully again, "Since my father doesn't know who will disrupt the world order in the future, let's find a way to suppress the Frank Empire and the Great Mongolia first! If we can't suppress it, If we don’t live with them, then our Ming Dynasty will not be able to dominate the next hundred years!”
"That's right!" Zhu Heji nodded and said with a smile, "One generation does one thing..." He looked at the officials present again, "From now on, our Ming Dynasty's foreign national policy is to weaken Frank and Great Mongolia, but don’t bring them down, this is the new order of the future world!”
"Father," Zhu Yixin said again, "our first step in suppressing the Frankish Empire and the Great Mongolia should be to promote an armistice between the Ottoman Empire and the Christian coalition... Reliable news came three days ago that the Ottoman Empire Vienna has been lost, they have completely lost the Great Southern War!”
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At the same time, in the newly built Frankish Empire Embassy in Nanjing, Hugo Leonard, Soetou, Longkodo, Dega Magala and others were drinking wine together and celebrating the victory.
The victory they celebrated was not the just-completed negotiations to divide the world, but that Louis the Great had finally recovered Vienna!
This battle was really not easy to fight. If we count it from the battle outside Vienna, it has been going on for several years, and now the Ottomans have finally taken down the city of Vienna, which was firmly fortified.
The change of ownership in Vienna also meant that the "Great Southern War" that had lasted for many years could finally come to an end.
The news had just reached Nanjing three days ago. Of course, the Westerners in Nanjing were in jubilation, and of course the Frankish Empire's embassy had to show its expression, so today's cocktail party was held.
At this time, the Frank Embassy was full of guests, various Western musical instruments were playing cheerful tunes, and some Western dancers who came to Ming Dynasty to make money were dancing hard. It was really unhappy.
Hugo Leonardo, Soetou, Longkodo, and Dega Magala took advantage of everyone's excitement and quietly entered a small restaurant to enjoy a French meal. At the same time, they began to discuss how to use the failure of the Ottoman Empire to gain benefits for the Franks, Mongolia, and the Rakshasa Kingdom.
"Li Zhongtang, Bishop De, although we did not come to Nanjing to discuss the aftermath of the Great Southern War with Ming Dynasty, Emperor Zhu will definitely discuss this matter with us when we resign and return to China, and will probably propose mediation."
Suo'etu looked at the undercooked steak and felt a little off-putting, so he had to put down his chopsticks and talk to Hugo Leonardo about business.
He paused and then said: "I, Mongolia, are considered an outsider in this matter and can also participate in the mediation... If you have any conditions, you can tell me first."
His words were translated directly into French by Longcordo.
Leona also put down his knife and fork, considered it and said: "Indemnity and land cession are necessary... otherwise the war will have to continue! But the Ottoman Empire is so poor that it should not be able to afford compensation... .I think we can let them use the management rights and income rights of the Suez Canal as collateral to give me Frank!"
This Leonard thought really well. According to the agreement reached by the Ming, Frank, and Mongolia, the Suez Canal has a total of four major shares, one for Frank, one for Ming, one for Mongolia, and one for Ottoman. If Ottoman pledged his share to Frank, wouldn't Frank control the Suez Canal?
Dergamagala added: "And the concession in Jerusalem... The concession should not only include Jerusalem, but also a port and the road leading to Jerusalem from the port and part of the land on both sides of the road, and also allow Christianity Coalition troops stationed!”
Suo'etu nodded and said with a smile: "Then let's add the right of Rakshasa Kingdom's merchant ships to pass through the Turkic Strait and Kerch for free!"
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