Time has entered May.
The breath of summer begins to spread in the land of Yanyun.
The weather is starting to get hotter, and the elm trees in the streets and alleys have become lush and lush, and the entire capital seems to have become enthusiastic because of this.
The alley entrance also began to become more crowded.
With the end of the war.
The surviving people everywhere are like weeds, starting to glow with life again.
They emerged from every corner, working at sunrise and resting at sunset, over and over again, writing many insignificant footnotes on this ancient land, piling up the stories of princes, generals and ministers, allowing people to A glimpse.
"Hey, did you hear that? The Emperor is coming to Beidu soon!"
"The former Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty is dead, so the emperor should have come long ago, right?"
"Don't you know this? Although the emperor of the former Qing Dynasty died, all the Manchus in the city had to be moved away, the palace also had to be repaired, and an auspicious day of the zodiac had to be chosen before entering the city."
"You're really particular about it."
"When today I heard that I am from Guangdong, they, Lao Guang, are the most particular about this."
The topic at the entrance of the alley is also inseparable from the hot topics these days.
That is to say, the Ming Dynasty court is back.
Why say it again?
Because since Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty was hanged from a crooked neck tree in Meishan one hundred and fifty years ago, this majestic city in the land of Yanyun with a history of one or two thousand years has been successively occupied by Dashun and Qing Dynasty.
The plaque on the Zhengyang Gate finally changed from "Da Ming Gate" to "Da Qing Gate" written in both Manchu and Han languages.
"Have you heard? The plaque on the Zhengyang Gate is the Daming Gate!"
Someone gossiped.
"Can't? Isn't it just a plaque?"
"Why not? When the Qing Dynasty heard that this plaque was written on the Qing Sect, it was to suppress the Ming Dynasty. Unexpectedly, it left a glimmer of hope for the Ming Dynasty. Only then did the emperor restore the Ming Dynasty. "
"And there's this thing."
"Who knows."
The discussion at the entrance of the alley seemed very lively.
Because the Ming Dynasty Emperor Guangfu said so.
In the Ming Dynasty, everything was governed according to etiquette.
Mingli stipulates that unless subjects discuss subversion of the Ming Dynasty regime or directly attack the Ming emperor, empress, or prince, any other speech will not be punished. However, those who spread rumors or create rumors will be punished according to the severity and nature of the consequences caused by their speech. Trial and conviction.
Originally, everyone didn't know much about this.
After all, there are more than a dozen volumes in a general outline of Ming Li.
In addition, the laws that have been formulated in a general outline of etiquette include [Rites - Order of Duties], [Rites - Imperial Examination Law], [Rites - Military Service Law], [Rites - Agricultural Law], [Rites - Commercial Law], etc. .
That's more.
And with the Ming Dynasty, the world was unified.
More laws will surely be enacted.
By then, Ming Dynasty will probably also go down the evil road of making a lot of money as a lawyer and litigator.
It's really not advanced at all.
However, with the public trial of the former Qing Emperor Qianlong.
At this moment, almost all the scholar-officials and people in the capital who watched the trial knew the determination of the restored emperor to carry out the ceremony!
Even Emperor Qianlong of the former Qing Dynasty was spared from execution because he was over eighty years old. Although Qianlong still died, it was because of his own anger.
It has nothing to do with the restoration of the emperor.
And some people even wrote a drama about it.
It’s called [Emperor’s Three Qi Qianlong].
It's being performed in the West Garden right now.
I don’t know how many young and old men in the capital know about it.
This Emperor Qianlong is like Zhou Yu - no, not even Zhou Yu, at least Zhou Yu is good-looking.
I was so shocked by the great spirit of the restored emperor that I finally choked myself to death.
You really deserve it.
In the streets and alleys, the young and old men in Beidu City were talking happily.
The interior of Beidu City is also newly decorated.
The trees on both sides of the street were wrapped in red cloth and hung with sun and moon flags.
The soldiers of the Guards also entered the city many days in advance. In the past few days, patrols carrying muskets and lining up in neat lines could be seen.
All the officials in the city also took action, hiring many people to clean up the entire city, and the Forbidden City was also renovated.
Those palace ladies and eunuchs from the former Qing Dynasty were all kicked out after receiving a severance package - the Ming Dynasty did not use eunuchs.
The latest news that everyone is concerned about during this period is the marriage of some wealthy eunuchs.
I don’t know what this eunuch wants to do when he gets a wife.
Watching and playing?
So now the whole city is waiting for the protagonist to arrive.
The Ming Dynasty is back again after a lapse of one hundred and fifty years!
May 20th.
There were two rows of soldiers standing on both sides of the street from Yongding Gate to Zhengyang Gate, leaving the avenue in the middle.
And on both sides of the road.
There are many people coming to watch the fun.
Everyone has heard about it.
The imperial chariot of the Emperor of Heaven must go from Yongdingmen Road to Zhengyangmen and then to the imperial palace.
Naturally, ordinary people were not allowed to enter the palace, but the section from Yongding Gate to Zhengyang Gate did not prevent the masses from watching.
among the crowd of onlookers.
There are also some low-key crowds.
Those were the original diplomats from Western countries stationed in Beijing.
Since the Emperor of Heaven did not summon them, these diplomats who were waiting anxiously in Beidu finally waited until Emperor Zhu entered Beidu.
"His Majesty the Ming Emperor has barely unified their world now."
British Ambassador George Staunton said rather helplessly.
What is the thing that His Majesty King George III who is currently at Windsor Castle regrets the most.
That's because he didn't stop Zhu Daohua from returning to the east.
It's better now.
The Ming Empire is now the greatest threat to Britain's world hegemony.
Moreover, the threat is so great that it makes George Staunton's scalp numb just thinking about it: Britain's opponent is a country with a population of 40 million, the largest industry in the world, and the ability to produce the most advanced products in the world. A super empire of weapons.
The power of this empire.
Perhaps even the whole of Europe cannot compare with it.
"China is a sleeping lion, but unfortunately, this lion has been awakened by His Majesty the Emperor."
Next to George Staunton is Vasily Lavrov, the great Russian player.
Now Britain and Tsarist Russia are "close allies" because both sides are consistent in their stance on France and Ming Dynasty.
The common interest of both parties is to curb the expansion of the Ming Empire's power.
Britain wanted to prevent the Ming Dynasty from expanding in India and Southeast Asia, and at the same time prevent the Ming Empire from setting its sights on their Australian colonies.
After some testing in Vladivostok, Tsarist Russia began to take a defensive stance to defend its Siberia and influence in Central Asia.
The two parties appear to be more "closer" because of their common interests.
"Yes, I heard that Britain suffered repeated defeats in India, and now even the mouth of the Bengal River has been lost."
Vasily Lavrov said.
George Stonedong frowned when he heard this.
The news from the Indian battlefield is indeed worrying.
Having lost its control of the sea, the British Governor's Palace in Calcutta was simply unable to fortify everywhere along the long colonial coastline of British India.
They simply don't have that many troops. ,
So we can only focus on defense.
The Ming Empire's coalition of Indian princes did not immediately seek a decisive battle with the British Governor's Mansion in Calcutta.
Instead, relying on the deterrent power of the Ming Dynasty's Indian Ocean Fleet, they recruited a large number of Chinese pirates and carried out plunder operations in the British Indian colonies, plundering a lot of wealth that originally belonged to Britain!
Then they landed at weakly defended areas and occupied East Bengal with their superior strength. Now they have expanded to the Lower Ganges, and joined forces with the Maratha Alliance to begin westward expansion along the Ganges.
The situation is not good for Britain.
with this trend.
Britain's Indian colonies would all be occupied by the Chinese.
"Didn't your Cossacks also come back with a heavy defeat in Vladivostok? I heard that the Ming army only dispatched half of its newly formed army brigade and defeated your Cossacks, and the other side didn't even suffer any casualties."
George Staunton said.
Vasily shook his head with a wry smile and said: "George, it won't help you and me to ridicule each other here. I think we can reach a consensus, that is, the Ming Empire's military technology is already ahead of Europe. We want to compete with such To fight the empire, we need the same weapons and the same tactics to defeat our opponents!"
When George Standong heard this, his expression became serious.
For a long time.
The fundamental reason for the successful expansion of Europeans around the world still lies in the strong force of Europeans.
Only with strong force can we occupy so much land.
but now.
They must face a serious situation: the rise of a terrifying empire that crushes the entire Europe in terms of population and leads Europe in military technology!
And since its birth, this empire has shown a strong ambition for external expansion!
They now have armies fighting in the north, south, and west.
The Ming Dynasty incorporated its domestic peasant army and formed a very large army to prepare for expansion into Central Asia.
The Manchu and Mongolian tribes were also incorporated and became the Ming Dynasty's westward marching camp. The strategic goal was also very clear - this was war revenge against Tsarist Russia!
Tsarist Russia launched a tentative attack on Vladivostok.
Finally it had terrible consequences.
Vasily Lavrov stayed in the northern capital in the hope of conducting a certain degree of diplomatic negotiations with the Ming Dynasty and avoiding a war without preparing for a full-scale war with the Ming Empire - for Tsarist Russia, the Western Expedition of almost 100,000 people The army has already made it necessary for them to mobilize the whole country to fight against it.
But for the Ming Empire.
Provide weapons for 100,000 soldiers of the Western Army.
It's not something too difficult to do.
And in India, in Central Asia, in Siberia.
The expansion of the Ming Dynasty did not use their core strength, but expanded through the vassals who surrendered to them.
This is only one percent of the strength of this terrifying monster of the Ming Empire.
This
It has made Tsarist Russia and Britain realize that it is simply impossible for a single European country to face the behemoth of the Ming Empire!
(End of chapter)
