Zuo Mengeng always had a steelyard in his heart.
The Russian War was probably the limit of the expansion of the empire's territory.
Although the earth is large and there are many unclaimed lands, it is impossible for them all to be occupied by the empire.
Firstly, the empire does not have that much energy and strength, and secondly, it will make other countries jealous, and eventually end up attacking in groups.
Even so, think about the territory of the empire today, which includes all of North Asia, East Asia, part of Central Asia, part of Southeast Asia, most of North America, all of Australia, and also has enclaves in South Asia and Africa.
The territory is so vast that it accounts for almost half of the world, not to mention the distant Han and Tang Dynasties.
It’s time for the empire to stop and digest its existing fruits.
When the European mission arrived and proposed mediation, Zuo Mengeng readily agreed.
Although this seems a bit weak, in international politics, sometimes weakness is also a strategy.
Today's empire will make others feel uneasy if it assumes an aggressive stance.
During this period, the besieged Russian army was on the eve of its destruction.
When the ceasefire order was issued, the number of Russian troops who finally walked out of the encirclement was less than 100,000, and they were all emaciated and shaky.
It is conceivable that Russia will not be able to recover for a long time in the future, and will have to face the eyes of neighboring countries such as Sweden and Poland.
In the presence of European countries, the Empire and Russia signed an armistice agreement in Moscow.
The two sides used the Ural Mountains and the Volga River as boundaries to redraw their national borders;
Russia recognizes the territory east of the Dnieper River, Transcaucasus, the Crimean Peninsula and the Volga River Basin as the territory of the Kingdom of Xinhua;
European countries also recognized the sovereignty of the Xinhua Kingdom;
Russia's economic and trade, commerce, finance, agriculture, handicrafts, industry and other fields are open to the empire, and the empire's exports to Russia enjoy most-favored-nation treatment.
At this point, the war between China and Russia is completely over.
After nearly a decade of war, the empire wrested all of Siberia and a large part of Central Asia from Russia.
Throughout the seventeenth century, the Sino-Russian war was regarded as the end of the military field.
In this century, the world has gone through various wars, and the pattern has undergone major changes.
All countries needed to digest the changes after the war, which also led to a rare period of peace in the second half of the seventeenth century.
Within the empire, along with rapid expansion, various industries and technologies have entered a period of great development.
And because the war was over, a lot of money was saved, which provided support for the conversion of military to civilians with various technologies.
Driven by huge interests, railways spread out across the land of China like a spider web.
At the same time, due to the introduction of European countries, railways not only did not consume a large amount of national assets, but instead became an important profit point.
By 1670, the total length of domestic railways exceeded 40,000 kilometers.
Railway networks have been built between the five capitals and the four capitals to communicate with each other, which greatly enhanced the empire's control over the territory.
In addition to railways, the construction of the road network is also very gratifying.
The “Village-to-Village” plan proposed by Zuo Mengengen has received strong support from the cabinet and governments at all levels. Also by 1670, 80% of the villages in the country were connected by roads.
As the saying goes, if you want to be rich, build roads first.
Once the road is open, it is like a person's meridians being active and full of vitality. Visible to the naked eye, the private commodity economy began to become rapidly active.
Not only that, at Zuo Menggeng's strong request, many remote mountain villages have been implemented with many measures such as overall relocation and merging of villages and towns.
In the beginning, such a policy really aroused complaints among the people. After all, Chinese people attach great importance to never leaving their homeland, and the government's approach seems to be forcing people to do so.
Fortunately, as the empire expanded, the population in many places became sparse due to constant immigration, so it did not cause much backlash.
And something happened that completely changed people's thinking.
In the autumn of 1676, a sudden earthquake occurred in Sichuan, causing a large number of areas north of Chengdu to be affected by the disaster.
However, because the people in the mountainous area had already completed their migration, no one was affected by the disaster.
The news spread, the whole country was in an uproar, and there was no longer any resistance to the implementation of relevant policies.
In 1680, the Imperial Navy was completely replaced.
All wooden sailing ships were withdrawn from active service, and there were more than 6,000 steam-armored battleships.
Above the ocean, the Imperial Navy stretches endlessly and completely controls all sea routes.
In 1681, the Suez Canal was finally completed after fifteen years of massive construction. So far, the connection between Europe and Asia no longer needs to go around Africa, and the distance and time have been reduced exponentially.
In 1684, the Panama Canal was opened. The communication between the two sides of the New World is getting closer and closer, and the prosperity is no longer inferior to that of the mainland.
In 1688, the thirty-five-year Yellow River diversion project was completed, seven years longer than originally planned.
At this point, the water of the Yellow River no longer diverts the Huaihe River into the sea, but nourishes the land of North China, solving the water shortage dilemma in North China in one fell swoop.
The greening project in the Three Norths has also begun to show significant results, and the number of sandstorms invaded every year has been greatly reduced.
On the day when the blue sky and white clouds returned, Xue Fengzuo became ill from overwork and passed away.
Zuo Menggeng cried endlessly, and issued an edict for the whole country to mourn, and to confer him the title of Prince Jing. He specially ordered Xue Fengzuo's son to ascend the throne.
In the same year, the first car rolled off the assembly line at the Weifang Automobile Factory, ushering in a new pattern of transportation.
Zuo Menggeng personally presided over the new car's off-line ceremony and traveled around in the new car, making the world aware of the importance of cars.
"Your Majesty always sees things thousands of miles away and has unparalleled sage. With His Majesty's guidance, the people below will never go wrong as long as they act according to your orders."
"Can't it be wrong?"
The people below were flattering him, but Zuo Mengeng fell into deep thought.
The next day, he quickly issued an edict, ordering King Qin Zuo Xuanyan, who was guarding in Xijing, to return to the capital.
When Zuo Xuanyan came back, something shocking happened to the world.
Zuo Menggeng abdicated and passed on to Zuo Xuanyan, completing the inheritance of the imperial throne.
No one knows what the father and daughter talked about. After Zuo Xuanyan ascended the throne as emperor, he began to make all-round adjustments to the administration, system, and policies.
A large group of old people stepped down, and new forces took control of the government.
Chen Yonghua served as the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, presided over the reform of the official system, formally strengthened the voice of capital power in the country, and further marginalized the traditional landlord power.
In 1700, Zuo Xuanyan, the second emperor of the empire, suddenly fell ill and passed away at the age of seventy-three.
After being presided over by the Supreme Emperor Zuo Menggeng and recommended by the royal family, Zuo Zhi, the third son of King Zheng Zuo Xuanhui, became the emperor.
In the same year, Amakusa Tokisada took over as Prime Minister.
In 1714, a big event happened.
Huang Lvzhuang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, piloted a biplane propeller plane soaring into the sky in front of hundreds of thousands of people.
This scene left a mark in history books and rewrote world science.
Regrettably, the Supreme Emperor Zuo Menggeng could not come in person.
The 100-year-old Supreme Emperor Zuo Mengeng abandoned everyone and sat alone on the top of Mount Tai.
When he saw the black spot in the distance reaching into the sky with a roar, he finally closed his eyes with satisfaction.
