With the completion of the asset registration tax collection in the UK, Daming also completed a survey of the entire western continent.
The occupying forces in various parts of the Western European continent also gradually lifted the state of military control and fully handed over social management tasks to the chief envoys that were established one after another.
Correspondingly, restrictions on the activities of Thais and Westerners have also been gradually relaxed, and free market trading activities have been gradually relaxed.
Ordinary people who had not participated in the war a few years ago and who had not resisted the Ming occupation in the past two years began to have some freedom of movement.
Renovation and construction activity continues across the continent and should continue for several more years.
But it is only a few years, and it is estimated that it will not exceed ten years.
Those huge religious buildings and palaces may have taken decades or even hundreds of years to build.
But demolition would only take a few years.
This is still normal demolition, and the stones must be reused as building materials.
If you just want to destroy it, you only need to spend a few days filling it with explosives and press a button to turn it into a pile of ruins.
The main reason is that most of these buildings were built in the agricultural era or the handicraft era.
In the industrial era, productivity was extremely low.
That's why it took dozens or hundreds of years to build.
After the completion of the second industrial revolution, with the advent of electricity, internal combustion engines and various construction machinery, the speed of construction and demolition has increased by several orders of magnitude.
Looking at the satellite maps of later generations, we can see that the old cities left over from the classical era only account for a very small part of the big cities in the industrial era.
In fact, many of the construction sites where Ming Dynasty demolishes traditional religious buildings in major cities in Western Thailand are not as large as those under construction nearby.
It includes new Ming-style yamen courtyards and official family homes, as well as new residential areas for Ming soldiers and immigrants who settled there, as well as future residential areas for employees of the four major industrial groups of Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty's practice of demolishing traditional buildings and building new government offices and residential areas on the mainland was just a waste in the eyes of ordinary Thais at the bottom.
You can't live in a nice house just because the people of Ming Dynasty dislike the Thai and Western architectural style.
But many of the remaining literate people in the city have gradually felt the true purpose of Ming Dynasty.
Because Daming was not only renovating buildings, but also dealing with other things.
The little boys in the church were sent to read the Three-Character Classic and the Thousand-Character Classic, and the choir read the Four Books and Five Classics instead.
The castrato was sent to the opera troupe to sing Ming operas.
The most important thing is that religious classics and various literary and artistic books are all recycled by specialized institutions and turned into pulp to re-produce straw paper.
But there was nothing they could do.
The original kings and nobles all surrendered and were sent to Mozhou to open up wasteland one after another. There was no one left who could command and stop the resistance.
The original young men were conscripted into soldiers, and after the king surrendered, they became prisoners, and then were sent to Mozhou. There were no more people who had the strength to resist.
Most ordinary people at the bottom have been incorporated into the system newly established by the Ming Dynasty and have become beneficiaries of the new social system, and will not take the initiative to resist.
Religious personnel in the city of Rome who were willing to cooperate were assigned as translators and registration personnel.
Directly forced labor if you are unwilling to cooperate.
On a construction site outside Rome, there was a group of former professional priests, now driven by Persian and Tatar foremen, weeping and tying steel bars on the scaffolding.
Every morning when I get up, I can listen to the sound of little boys reading, and when I rest at night, I have the opportunity to listen to the singing of castratoes from the past.
The people who cooked and served food in the cafeteria were all former nuns, but now they all shouted in half-baked Ming dialect to queue up.
In the library of the University of Berlin, scholars and professors such as Hegel and Schopenhauer led a large number of college students, and under the supervision of several Ming officials, translated important documents in the library into Ming texts.
Officials of the Ming Dynasty rarely checked the translated results. They basically read them briefly and considered them passed.
Scholars such as Hegel and Schopenhauer, as workers, would take the initiative to cross-check all translated documents before handing them over to Ming officials.
Because they all already know that what they translate has a chance to be passed down.
Other original books with Thai and Spanish characters will be directly loaded onto trucks and sent to the paper mill, where they will be broken into pulp and turned into the lowest grade straw paper.
Therefore, they are afraid that any errors will occur, resulting in the complete loss of precious document data.
During lunch and during the evening break, a group of professors complained more than once and discussed privately more than once.
"Translate documents from other countries into your own language and archive them, and then destroy the originals of all other languages. This would be Qin Shihuang's burning of books and entrapment of Confucian scholars."
"Now we are just burning books, but we are not cheating Confucians, because we are all still alive and well..."
"Who knows if we will get into trouble after we finish the translation!"
"Don't be so desperate. Even a family like the Hohenzollerns that destroyed the situation in Taixi has a chance to continue to inherit the family..."
"It's not hopeless. The Ming people are planning to destroy the traces of Taixi's writing——"
"The Hohenzollerns can continue to exist because they have contributed to the Ming Dynasty!"
"Yes, it's not like Hohenzollern is seeking death, and it's hard for the Ming Dynasty to break its promise not to occupy the mainland of Europe and send troops."
"Do you think the Ming Dynasty would not take action without Hohenzollern? The promise that it will not occupy the mainland of Europe is itself a hard-to-get game!"
"If the Grand Duke and Emperor hadn't been shouting for peace everywhere, if he hadn't deliberately made the promise not to occupy Europe, if he hadn't deliberately shown extraordinarily indecisive and the key is cowardice, the Hohenzollern and European countries would not have been so indulgent, and the Ming Dynasty would not have Opportunity to live in an open and honest world——"
"Now that I think about it, it is indeed true. The Grand Duke and Emperor's palace is too deep. Who would have imagined that he would start planning all this when he was fifteen years old."
"I remember the newspapers back then called him the Angel of Peace. It was really ironic..."
"Everything is in the past, we should look forward and work hard to preserve the evidence that our civilization existed."
"What we are doing now is unifying the characters. There is nothing wrong with unifying the characters. It is much more convenient than the mess before."
"There is nothing wrong with Qin Shihuang burning books and archiving the unified script. The problem is that the archives were eventually burned by Xiang Yu, which directly led to the cultural fault line in China."
"So you are worried that Xiang Yu will appear again later and burn the documents we translated?"
"The Grand Duke Emperor is not Qin Shihuang, and the European countries are far less powerful than the Six Kingdoms compared to Qin."
"It would be great if it was the First Emperor, then we Europa would still have a chance to turn around. Now it seems that Europa really has no future at all."
"Speaking of which, according to China's tradition, since all the European countries have perished, isn't it time to revise history?"
"According to the size of the European countries relative to the Ming Dynasty, they are at most equivalent to countries like South Vietnam and Jiaozhi. There is no need to compile a separate history."
"Then you can... compile a Roman history in the name of Rome and treat the European countries as part of Rome..."
"Even if the Ming Dynasty does not repair it, we can repair it ourselves to commemorate our former country.
"Now I still have the opportunity to consult various documents, but I may not have the opportunity in the future."
"If it is indeed necessary, we can organize the information separately and compile it separately."
The final idea was recognized by most scholars, so they began to secretly prepare to study Roman history in private.
But conflicts soon emerged between them. When the Holy Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire existed at the same time, who was the orthodox?
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Among the British nobles was the Earl of Grosvenor, who in original history would have become the Marquess of Westminster in 1831.
His grandson would become the Duke of Westminster in 1874, the last non-royal duke in the UK, and become the richest man in the UK at the end of the 19th century.
Thirty-one-year-old Richard Grosvenor, son of Earl Grosvenor.
After the military control was lifted in the British mainland, he brought a large number of luggage and entourage to New England in Southwest Mexico.
There is a small town called Alexander Bay in the southwest of England.
This place belonged to South Africa in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life. It was on the boundary line in the northwest corner of the South African map, on the south bank of the outlet of the Orange River.
The climate here is quite special, very similar to Lima, the capital of Chile in Nanyinzhou.
It has a tropical desert climate, with less than 40 millimeters of precipitation throughout the year, and sunny weather most of the year.
But there is a cold current passing through the sea next to it, so the overall temperature is very cool.
The average minimum temperature in winter is eight degrees and the average maximum temperature is twenty degrees.
The average minimum temperature in summer is fifteen degrees, and the average maximum temperature is only twenty-eight degrees.
The relative average humidity is not low, always between 70 and 80 percent, which is comparable to the summer in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty.
It's like being in an air-conditioned room in the north of Ming Dynasty in summer.
For those who are afraid of heat and dryness, and don't like rainfall, this is a good place for a vacation.
For the British, it's a sunny and warmer London.
The northwestern part of South Africa in this world belongs to the United Kingdom.
The town of Alexander Bay is now the property of the Grosvenor family.
There is a small diamond mine here.
The Grosvenor family developed a diamond mine here, built a small textile factory, and lived in a manor house.
The town is surrounded by desert mining areas and uninhabited wilderness.
If you don't come here via sea route, this place can be regarded as an isolated place.
After Richard Grosvenor arrived here, he first met with the manager and steward responsible for the property management here.
In his own manor, under the service of the Tianzhu maid, he checked the accounts of the family property and inventoried the more important warehouses.
The war affected the family's business, but it wasn't all bad news.
In the process of British military expansion, the textile products produced by its own factories were also military supplies.
Since the Ming Dynasty always controlled the sea, the routes to the mainland and the United States were not greatly affected.
The overall operating conditions can be considered good.
After Richard finished checking the business, he began to implement his other plans.
Renovate the manor, remove all facilities that may be Ming style, and use pure Europa design.
Re-formulate the etiquette rules in the manor, from eating and drinking to walking, sitting and lying, and use pure European court etiquette that suits your status.
When changing the clothes of everyone in the manor, including your own family and all servants, you must use pure Europa clothes.
Furthermore, all mine and factory stewards were also required to change their clothes, and their etiquette and living habits were corrected.
Richard Grosvenor was a conservative who emerged from the process of active enlightenment in Britain.
However, although Richard was born into a noble family, and his grandfather had been made an earl, he didn't know much about many etiquettes.
It's not that he doesn't know how to do it, but he doesn't know the specific details.
For example, touching his chest and bowing in greeting, when he did this action, it was a natural action.
But let him tell others how much he should bend, where his hands should be, and what posture his palms should have.
Instead, his mind went blank.
For things that have already formed a conditioned reflex, I can’t tell you the specific criteria at once.
When Richard thought about this issue, his normal living habits became awkward.
However, after discussing it several times with my personal servant, and constantly repeating the movements to confirm the scale, I gradually got used to the awkwardness over time.
He re-drafted an etiquette code that he recognized and defined the standards for various etiquette actions.
At the same time, a similar situation occurred during the clothing selection process.
When Richard had just turned ten, the new clothes designed by Zhu Jingyuan had already become popular.
Richard had worn this style of clothing since he was a child.
Before the end of the Spanish-Spanish War, this style of clothing was also popular among the entire aristocracy and elite class.
The main reason is that it is really more convenient and comfortable, and it is suitable for the accelerating pace of life after industrialization, so it can quickly become popular among all walks of life.
In the past twenty years, the styles of this kind of clothing have been constantly updated and have penetrated into all aspects of life of people from all walks of life in Thailand and Spain.
Many people occasionally try to wear orthodox Ming-style clothing, and their choices are mainly more serious dresses.
Many traditional nobles, including Richard, did not like Ming-style dresses very much.
The key is that dresses are not suitable for daily wear, so they are not as popular as these so-called new formal dresses.
When the Ming Dynasty conquered the entire continent of Europe, everyone took the initiative to wear orthodox Ming-style clothing. At this time, formal clothes and casual clothes appeared at the same time.
Ming-style clothing suitable for daily wear comes out.
But Richard, who had lost most of his property, felt rebellious.
Not only do they not want to accept Ming-style clothing and lifestyle, they even want to eliminate the influence of all Ming elements.
As a result, both Richard and the costume designer he hired were a little confused as to which items were Ming elements.
They took it for granted that the so-called new formal clothes they were wearing were of course traditional Thai and Western clothes.
It’s just that this thing seems to have been originally designed, produced and sold by Ming people.
Therefore, it is necessary to leave out the Ming elements and retain the pure Europa elements.
Other elements and designs may be difficult to judge, but high heels and stockings are definitely the purest Europa tradition.
Richard was the first to confirm this.
However, if both men and women wear high-heeled shoes, there must be a clear distinction in style.
Richard feels that it can be distinguished from the most critical heel shape.
Slender straight heels that are as sharp as a sword should belong to men, while thick heels with relatively rounded curves should belong to women.
After settling on the heel, Richard felt he had found his direction.
So we used similar standards to slowly determine the new clothing design plan in the pure traditional European style.
Let the factory produce them to replace your own servants and employees.
In order to implement his philosophy to the end, Richard changed all the clothes for his one-year-old child into styles he recognized.
Let him learn to walk and grow up wearing this kind of clothes directly.
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When Richard Grosvenor was tormenting his family, a moderate battle broke out inside the Mozhou continent, nearly a thousand kilometers away from here.
The fate of the entire Mozhou Continent has also reached a new intersection. Ming's comprehensive exploration and government actions within the continent are finally coming to an end.
The main force responsible for carrying out the mission, the nomadic legion of black nobles and black officers, ushered in the last large-scale battle.
The initial task of the team of black nobles and black officers was to use scattered settlements to build a "black wall" as the border between the Ming Dynasty and the Mozhou colony of the European and Western countries.
When the built settlements were basically stabilized and the borders between the two sides were basically stabilized, they soon had new tasks.
The Ming court required the organization of exploration and conquest teams, a dragnet-style exploration of the interior of the entire continent, and the conquest of all savage tribes that had not yet been incorporated into the Ming system.
The black nobles took this kind of fighting for granted, as well as conquering other disobedient tribes and capturing slaves.
This kind of combat team sends out troops in units of black dukes and still operates in a form similar to a nomadic tribe.
They spent twenty years sweeping back and forth across the entire prairie twice.
We have figured out most of the geographical conditions within the entire continent, and found most of the tribes of a certain size active on the prairie.
The nomadic troops of the Black Nobles used obsolete weapons provided by the Ming Dynasty. Most of them were bolt-action rifles and did not have large-caliber artillery.
Of course they suffered a loss when facing regular armies from other countries, but they crushed most of the Mozhou tribes.
In the vast prairie, a bolt-action rifle with a longer range may be better than an assault rifle.
On July 15, the sixth year of the Grand Duke's reign, the last tribal-level battle ended in the mountainous areas of the interior of Nanmozhou.
The coalition of three large tribes, with a total of more than a thousand indigenous troops, was defeated by the gunmen of the black nobles in three encounters.
Then the much-loved slave-catching session began.
The black noble responsible for commanding this battle is Hei Jizhong.
He is the heir to the Black Loyalty who was the first to cross the Mozhou prairie twenty years ago.
The wisest black nobleman twenty years ago, Mr. Black Loyalty, passed away a few years ago.
Hei Jizhong has inherited their position as Black Duke.
Today's battle seems to be the final battle of his war career.
But the battle itself is nothing to record.
But from now on, Ming Dynasty's management of the interior of Mozhou has become stock control.
The Ming Dynasty hopes to reasonably control the population other than the Ming Dynasty people.
Excessive population growth will lead to excessive consumption of resources, especially in the interior of Mozhou where living resources are scarce. Excessive population is obviously inappropriate.
Therefore, Ming Dynasty has established a series of social management rules within the black noble system.
Only the black nobles and black officers who had achieved meritorious service on the battlefield and owned slaves had the right to marry and pass on their descendants.
Ordinary low-class slaves have no right to have offspring.
At the same time, every black noble and black officer can only pass on his title and identity to one descendant.
The other children are also ordinary slaves and cannot have offspring.
In order to cooperate with the implementation of this system, in the absence of war, the brothers and sisters of black nobles and black officers must become monks and practice Buddhism.
(End of chapter)
