The Russian crown prince came east, fought a losing war, and signed his name on a treaty that ceded millions of square kilometers.
As a result, the territory of the Ming Dynasty has reached the coastline of the Arctic Ocean. Of course, no soldiers or officials of the Ming Dynasty have reached the coast of the Arctic Ocean.
In fact, the Russian Empire's so-called right to rule Western Liya was only based on sporadic castles built on rivers, and then forced the indigenous tribes around the castle to pay them fur as tribute.
There aren't many places where you can actually control it.
"Your Majesty, such a large area on this map belongs to Ming Dynasty?"
Grand Duke Lin was in a daze.
on the map.
The territory of the Ming Dynasty increased by a large area, extending thousands of miles directly to the north.
Arrived in the far north.
"Now it's just some barren land. It doesn't have much value for the time being. However, there may be some good mineral resources. The greatest value is that the Heilongjiang River Basin belongs to my Ming Dynasty!"
Emperor Zhu smiled.
"Your Majesty, give Prince Er so many weapons just in case," Grand Duke Lin said worriedly.
"There is no such thing as a contingency, so what if he goes back on his word? Once the land is in Ming's hands, there is no possibility of spitting it out."
Grand Duke Lin nodded.
It seems.
A palace coup is likely in Russia.
And they are about to use the weapons obtained from the east to launch a war against the Ottoman Turks.
Without the strength of the Russians, the anti-French alliance does not know whether it can suppress France without the strength of the Russians.
But no matter what.
It is obvious that Europe is going to be in chaos.
The Spanish fleet on the sea was driven away.
The Russian army in the north was defeated and an alliance under the city was signed.
The Pingxi King vassal army to the west of the Ming Dynasty also entered Central Asia.
Although India is still at war.
But because the Indian people are so easy to rule.
The Indian princes of the Ming Dynasty all lived too comfortably after gaining territory and had little energy to continue fighting.
So much so that India is now in a situation of three dragons and two tigers.
The Three Dragons are three dragons from other places crossing the river.
They are Lebao, the Governor-General of India in the Qing Dynasty, the Alliance of Indian Princes in the Ming Dynasty, and the Governor-General of the British Indian Colony.
The two tigers are the two local sick tigers, the Maratha League and the Mughal Empire.
After Lebao entered northwest India, the British Indian Governor-General's Mansion, which was beaten out of breath by the coalition forces of Ming and Indian princes, immediately found foreign help.
Once the two sides joined forces, Sun Shiyi did not dare to act rashly.
And there are many places where India can expand.
The three parties have temporarily ceased their activities and have begun to attack the indigenous people of India. It seems that they want to suffer the Indian people first.
Anyway.
Entering the fifth year of the Ming Dynasty's restoration.
There are basically no major wars around the Ming Dynasty.
The threat has been completely eliminated.
The world also seems to have entered a time where it can recuperate and recuperate.
The Ming Emperor also left the northern capital and went south to the central capital in the spring of this year.
The Ming Dynasty court also moved to Zhongdu.
This seems to mean that the war in the north has come to an end.
in domestic newspapers.
He began to report endlessly on Emperor Zhu's great military exploits in opening up new territories.
"Hmph! The continuous battles between east, west, north and south are really barbaric!"
Chengdu.
At Heming Restaurant.
A young man looked at the propaganda in the newspaper and said with a sneer.
"Brother Du, is there any news? The court still hasn't changed the syllabus?"
"If there is no news, it probably can't be changed."
"If we don't get it right, we Sichuan people will be miserable."
"The imperial examination was finally launched in Sichuan. Instead of taking the Four Books and Five Classics, what else will be tested on arithmetic, Western learning, etiquette, and military science? Are these things that scholars can learn?"
"No more exams! No more exams!"
A group of scholars who looked like scholars were either sighing or getting excited.
These Confucian scholars in Sichuan have actually been looking forward to the imperial examination for a long time.
Apart from the Western Regions, Sichuan was the last province recovered by the Ming Dynasty.
In fact, it is not how many Qing Dynasty troops were stationed in Sichuan.
It was purely Qianlong who completely sold Sichuan to noble families of all sizes, forming a large number of "warlords" in Sichuan.
It's not easy to clean up.
The main reason was that Emperor Zhu did not want to give these "warlords" too many benefits, and sending troops directly would easily cause too many casualties (deaths and injuries to ordinary people in Sichuan). Therefore, the matter in Sichuan was delayed until the middle of the fourth year of the liberation, when Right Prime Minister Gu Song personally led the The troops in Sichuan were sorted out. When the warlords from various places saw that the Ming Dynasty was tough, they disbanded their armies and surrendered. Sichuan was finally settled.
Therefore, Sichuan currently does not implement the policy of "scholars becoming officials and government officials going to the countryside".
Instead, the ruling structure of the grassroots gentry was basically retained.
Preparations for the imperial examination in Sichuan Province did not begin until the end of the fourth year after the liberation.
The imperial examination is certainly a good thing for scholars.
But because in other southern provinces except Sichuan, the imperial examination has been taken two or three times and improved two or three times, there is such a step-by-step process.
So there wasn't any trouble.
But this time the imperial examination in Sichuan had a great impact on Sichuan scholars-mainly because of the content.
Emperor Zhu was impatient and didn't care whether Sichuan scholars could accept it or not. He directly asked Sichuan to integrate with other southern provinces.
Test the same content.
At the same time, a series of imperial examination review materials were also launched and distributed in Sichuan.
This caused a strong backlash from Sichuan Confucian scholars!
Compared with Liangjiang, Guangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Xianghu and other places, Sichuan at this time was more closed, and the minds of Sichuan's Confucian scholars and officials were more conservative. In addition, there are no scholars in Sichuan to govern the local area. The “degree of freedom” is much greater than that of other provinces in the south.
It's a bit close to the freedom of Southeast Shilin in the late Ming Dynasty.
Local Sichuan Confucian scholars wrote articles in newspapers one after another opposing the new learning—against the new learning, not against the imperial examination.
It is required that the imperial examination should continue the tradition of selecting scholars based on the eight-part essay, and questions can only be drawn from the Four Books and Five Classics.
At the same time, in Chengdu, someone creatively invented the "big character poster".
Use big-character posters to express opinions and attack new learning.
This new way of fighting quickly became popular throughout Sichuan.
In every county in Sichuan, someone put up big-character posters.
Attack new learning.
Under the influence of public opinion.
Calls for "boycott of exams" and "petitions" began to appear.
To strike out means to refuse to take the Sichuan Provincial Imperial Examination this time.
And petition.
It is to call on Sichuan scholars to go to Zhongdu to petition the emperor!
"Yili! The subjects of the Ming Dynasty have the right to petition! We, the Sichuan scholars, must go to Zhongdu to petition the emperor!"
"The imperial court wants to be close to virtuous ministers and stay away from villains! Close to the sages of Confucius and Mencius, and stay away from crooked ways!"
"China has its own way that directly points to one's own nature, so there is no need to learn anything about Western learning, arithmetic, military science, and etiquette."
Inside Heming Tower.
All the Sichuan scholars started shouting.
(End of chapter)
