In fact, some things are not as difficult as you think. Brother Zhang is not the kind of nouveau riche who suddenly becomes rich from the poor. The little emperor is still young and a few women cannot support the scene. Basically, he is the helmsman of this huge empire, but he does not Gone with the wind, she is still working hard as before.
During this period, there was more than one person trying to instigate, but whether it was Zhao Rong or Yelu Tri, there was usually only one outcome, and that was death. Women are much more ruthless than men, and with Brother Zhang as their backing, they are not afraid of any family power at all. All the aristocratic families in the world are like fooling around in the face of absolute oppression.
Sometimes, as long as you don't need to consider the world's sophistication, you will naturally become more pure in your behavior. And those officials have become much more honest after losing their support. Especially after the new policy came down, an assessment system made these people's heads swollen. , anyway, there is an assessment every three years, and those who fail the assessment are directly rolled out, and an almost cruel rotation system is used to maintain the operation of this unprecedentedly huge empire.
It's not perfect, but it works. This is enough, because this can buy more time for Brother Zhang, and as long as there is enough time, he does not believe that he cannot carve out a future.
This went on until the little emperor took charge of the government, and Brother Zhang was already in his forties. The ministers who were suppressed by him thought that the little emperor finally took charge of the government, and they would have another chance.
But I never expected it... The little emperor was taught by Brother Zhang himself. His personality, thinking mode, methods and thinking direction are exactly the same as Brother Zhang's. It's super doubled.
This is great. The ministers who had been suppressed by the regent for ten years were now suppressed by the little emperor who was in charge. The little emperor inherited all the excellent genes of the Yelu family and the Zhao family and inherited Brother Zhang's technology. With the mantle of knowledge, he is simply a hexagonal warrior in this era, and unlike Brother Zhang, who is silent and steady, the young man's blood is hot, and he does everything boldly and harvests in the first year of taking office. He defeated seven aristocratic families in Longxi and disintegrated the merchant clan in Jiangnan.
In the second year, he and Wang Anshi presided over the New Deal, nationalized almost all people's livelihood industries, and erected a new monument. The content was eye-catching. The inscription on the monument was engraved with the new promotion system and The review system, clans, schools, clans, and business clans collapsed almost overnight. Although there are still many places struggling hard to mislead the people and trigger rebellions, these rebellions of local chickens and dogs cannot become a climate at all under the terrifying combat effectiveness of the New Army. , and the empire at this time has reached an unprecedented peak.
In the third year of the little emperor's reign, Su Shi returned to Beijing and handed over all the works they had written in the past ten years. He also brought news from another continent, saying that they were launching an Eastern Expedition and asked His Majesty to do it in advance. Be prepared.
The dusty Su Shi was much older, but the light in his eyes was brighter and brighter than before. He did not publish more poems. Instead, he published scientific research works that were enough to change the course of mankind. Without the melancholy in that copy Instead of ambition, we are full of expectations for the future and the desire to borrow another five hundred years from heaven.
When he saw Brother Zhang again, the two of them sat together and had a drink. Su Shi drank a lot that night and fell asleep without any pretense. He didn't even talk about the hard work he had done outside these years, he just kept talking. He was describing to Brother Zhang how vast the world outside was.
And on the fourth day after he returned, the theoretically largest library in the world was officially built, gathering more than 600,000 books of all kinds, as well as 120,000 atlases and drawings, becoming the most dazzling library in culture. A pearl.
What is even more gratifying is that the literacy rate in the entire territory has increased from 5% thirty years ago to 42% now. This is even compared to the grassland, Xixia, Western Regions and Jurchens, which have relatively low literacy rates. The reason is that local areas are not included. In the South, where the literacy rate is relatively high, the overall literacy rate has reached 70%, and in about 20 years, the overall literacy rate will reach about 80%.
This was the foundation for completely shattering the powerful family, and it was an unprecedented feat.
In the same year, an internal coup occurred in Dali. The pro-Central Plains faction won the victory and successfully made the Dali Buddhist Kingdom a vassal state of the Central Plains. At the same time, it submitted its credentials in the hope of bathing in the glory of the Central Plains' orthodoxy and becoming an integral part of it.
It can be said that it is a blessing to the country. Although minor disasters have occurred every year in recent years, major disasters have never occurred. Moreover, there is abundant rain, four distinct seasons, and a bumper harvest of food every year. On average, there is a baby boom every ten years. .
With the explosive growth of population, the entire industrial structure has also changed. Almost without everyone realizing it, the production model is completely different from what it was thirty years ago.
As industrialization progressed, a large number of emerging cities emerged one after another, and a large number of industrial products flowed to Europe along the trade routes opened by Su Shi and others. European gentlemen of this era were proud to own an oriental product. Orientalism is even popular there.
In the fifth year of the little emperor's reign, the epochal calendar has completed a major update, and the universal chronological system has begun to be tried. With the rapid advancement of productivity, astronomy, calendars, geography, literature and art have blossomed in all directions, and humankind has moved forward. Stride.
And the already full technology tree is like the roots of the times, quickly taking root and sprouting in this fertile soil, just like it only took more than fifty years from the first invention of the airplane to the first exploration of space. It is impossible that this number will continue to shrink when there is a technology tree error.
Brother Zhang obviously has no intention of stopping. After reaching each stage, he will continue to click on the technology tree one level higher. For example, after geology and chemistry reach a certain level, he will click on petrochemical industry. , and now his job is getting easier and easier, because there are more and more literate people, and more and more people are studying related projects.
In such a general environment, the change of generations has exceeded people's imagination. It is no exaggeration to say that the development in the last one hundred years has actually exceeded the total of the previous four thousand years, and the development of the next one hundred years has Thirty years will exceed the sum of the previous seventy years.
It's just that Brother Zhang is not very satisfied, because he has turned it on and off the whole time, but the development speed is only the same as the average development speed of New China from 1950 to 1990. Although the population base was large during the New China period, the starting point here is low. …
As for saying that the industrial system has foreign help, Brother Zhang is cheating. The blueprints are all ready-made. As long as he follows the standard operation, there will be zero mistakes. He even set the quantitative list of the technology tree to 2055, directly bypassing R&D and During the discussion stage and all the trial and error stages, you just have to follow the same pattern, but in the end it is just the same, and there is no way to surpass it even if you press the accelerator to the end.
In the past ten years, the first gasoline-burning car was born, the first thermal power plant was put into use, the first university was born, the first general hospital appeared, and many kinds of firsts were successively opened. Flowers come.
In the third year of the little emperor's reign, the country officially entered the stage of stabilization. Almost overnight, infrastructure construction in various places was like mushrooms after a spring rain. Dots on the map were connected together, and the expansion of the territory was even more exaggerated. From the Arctic Circle to the depths of the South China Sea, everything is included in the territory, and wherever surveyors go, as long as there is no one living above, they will leave traces and mark this place as the inherent territory since ancient times.
Anyone? It doesn’t matter if there are people. With the expansion of the territory in the past twenty years, the number of domestic ethnic groups has directly expanded from twelve to sixty. Under the twelve propositions proposed by Zhang Ge, no fierce conflicts broke out during the entire integration stage. Without the instigation and instigation of external forces, Thanks to the planning and strong centripetal force, the integration process went very smoothly.
The problems brought by the huge territory have gradually become prominent, so at this time, outward exploration has become the current mainstream.
Over the past twenty years, South Ship and Bei Ship have developed their own production routes. Bei Ship mainly produces military ships. From the beginning of ordinary ironclad ships, it has developed to the production of various types of warships. Type 12, the maximum tonnage has reached almost 8,000 to 10,000 tons. Although the current technology is still far behind the real comprehensive warship, in this world where other countries still use sailing sampans. , which is no different from Zenith Star Technology.
Nanjing Ship mainly focuses on ocean-going commercial ships, with a maximum tonnage between 20,000 and 25,000. Civilian merchant ships do not need to be considered for combat purposes, so they can be very large, although even the 20,000-ton ships they produced are in this era. It is said to be more useful than any warship, but it is for civilian use. If you say it is, it is.
Three such giant ships have already been launched and are undergoing ocean-going training. They are waiting for the time to come and sing all the way to the eastern sea to explore the unknown in the distance.
In the seventh year of the little emperor's reign, the first batch of ocean-going fleets finally went to sea. The configuration of five giant ships, four warships and two professional supply ships could be seen from a distance.
Brother Zhang was already over fifty this year, and there were already white hairs on his forehead. Looking at his old appearance in the mirror, he actually laughed. Zhao Rong put clothes on him from behind and said with complaint. "You are very old, and you don't know how to take care of yourself. You think you are just a young man. If you don't wear clothes in the cold weather, a cold may kill you."
Brother Zhang is currently suffering from severe arthritis. He can't even get out of bed when it's cloudy or rainy, but this doesn't stop him from being the most respected person in this country.
All the knowledgeable people in the world who know his life history are all surprised and impressed by him. In the first half of his life, he almost single-handedly brought up industry, agriculture, education, and culture. It is no exaggeration to say that today The country is like a kite in his hand. Without him pulling it forward, no matter how beautiful the kite is, it cannot fly. And for the rest of his life, he was like the helmsman of a giant ship, constantly adjusting the direction of the giant ship to prevent it from being smashed into pieces by the surging waves.
This was originally his job as the Holy Master, and here he worked conscientiously and successfully completed his unfinished job.
However, Brother Zhang is not afraid of growing old, because he has never experienced becoming an old man, and death is not a particularly unacceptable thing to him. He even looks forward to the time after becoming an old man.
In the fifteenth year of the little emperor's reign, maritime trade reached its peak, and a large number of ships traveled on the trans-Pacific route every day. Brother Zhang is now nearly sixty years old, and the 18-year-old fool he once was has disappeared, replaced by It was this sixty-year-old idiot.
He still doesn't like to talk. He likes to sit quietly in his office and work while wearing reading glasses. The little emperor who he once brought up finally had a child this year, but instead of establishing a prince, he chatted with Brother Zhang. For a long, long time, he has been lingering on the idea of abolishing the monarchy for several years.
His Majesty the Emperor, who is in his thirties, has a very simple feeling for Brother Zhang. He is both a teacher and a father, so he can say these things to Brother Zhang without any pressure, which he cannot say to others.
Brother Zhang did not give any opinion, because he knew that no matter whether he agreed or not, this boy would do it. He was rebellious and would not change his mind just because anyone disagreed.
As for what Brother Zhang can do, is to tell the emperor who brought him up by himself the stakes, advantages and disadvantages.
The little emperor's twentieth year in power.
As soon as spring started this year, Su Shi left. He said he wanted to go to the other side of the sea in person. Brother Zhang felt that he was over sixty years old and might not come back after one trip, but Su Xianer didn't care. He said that he would be wandering in this life. When he was young, he was demoted and exiled everywhere. When he got old, he would never come back. There is no way to stop. The fate of people like him is to wander on the road. Whenever he stops, it means death. He knew that he might not be able to come back, so he came to see Zhong Pu to say goodbye. Otherwise, it would be so sad if his lifelong friend could not see him.
After Su Shi left, a little girl came to Brother Zhang's house. She was fourteen or fifteen years old, beautiful, lively and talented. She was Su Shi's close disciple. After the old man ran away, she was brought to Zhao Rong.
Her name is Li Qingzhao.
And this day is the 40th anniversary of the all-round blockade of Baga. These forty years of comprehensive blockade have made the Ryukyu region an important shipping transit station. It is a small Hong Kong on the sea. Now Baga is basically The world is about to degenerate from the Heian Period to the Jomon Period, because the comprehensive blockade is not only about shipping, but also ports, trade, economy, technology and fishing...
Fishing is not impossible, but it is limited to within six nautical miles of the coastline. Even if you are hungry, you will not die of hunger, and you will not be able to fly...
So in this year, Baga suddenly rose up and launched an attack on Ryukyu, but they probably underestimated Ryukyu. Ryukyu is no longer a ball for anyone to manipulate. It has made decades of money as a shipping transit port. , now the troops are strong, and looking back to see Baga's soldiers charging towards them with sharpened bamboos, Ryukyu's local security team silently took out their semi-automatic rifles...
Afterwards, the Ryukyu militia launched a counterattack against Baga. In nineteen days, they reached Baga's palace and captured King Baga alive...
When Brother Zhang got the telegram, he glanced at the date and scratched his head: "What a coincidence? Is it also this point?"
"What's such a coincidence? What's wrong?" Zhao Rong came up and took a look: "July 8th, what's wrong?"
"It's okay, it's just that you still have to believe in some metaphysics for some things."
(End of chapter)
