Seven Thirty-Four White Cloud Cang Dog (The Finale)(1/2)
Whether Zhu Cixuan visited Guo Zhenren or Zhu Hegui and Mr. Tian Shuang's garden conversations were like mud and sand surging in the turbulent river, buried deep under the waves. Even the parties involved didn't know how their psychology had changed, and the journey of life did not seem to have been affected.
However, the real influence still exists. Zhu Hegui began to work hard on natural sciences, and at the same time taught himself the law, Buddhism and Taoism. Zhu Cilang restrained his interference with his son and began to quietly observe his son's changes. He knew that the eldest son was in adolescence, and this stage was when he was rebellious and self-filled with every thought. At that time, he was determined to become a rich man at this age.
In order to rebel against his father, the noble and almost arrogant middle school teacher.
Yes, my father in his previous life was a respected Chinese teacher, with the style of an ancient gentleman. He hoped that his son could make achievements in literature and history and fulfill his academic dream. But his son resolutely embarked on the path of making money machines. This made the father-son relationship not improve until the end of his previous life.
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"Actually, I still love my father very much." Zhu Cilang's eyes were filled with tears, and he raised his head to prevent the tears from flowing down.
Sitting opposite the emperor was an elderly eunuch with no beard. Although he sat quietly, he could not hide the military aura emitted from his body. However, his current identity is no longer a military man, but a university professor - a professor of psychology at Jingshi University.
His name is Chen Chong, and he was the military training instructor of the Southwest Group who once wore the rank of major general.
As the founder of imperial psychology, Zhu Ciyang himself is not a good psychologist. He cannot have so much time and energy to study, think, and conduct psychological experiments. In order to better grasp the hearts of the people, the Training Department has cultivated a large number of soldiers who are loyal to the emperor and the empire, and at the same time solved the psychological problems of some soldiers. He has invested greatly in the field of psychology, and has explored a path of psychoanalysis in the past few decades along the path pointed out by His Majesty the Emperor.
But there are too few people who are truly willing to receive psychological treatment or counseling, perhaps His Majesty the Emperor is one of the few.
Maybe not necessarily.
Chen Chong knew that His Majesty the Emperor chose him as his psychotherapist because of his "loyalty" rather than his "professionality". Among the professors in the Department of Psychology, he was probably the weakest in his academic background. Because he only studied the practical application of psychology, he was not as proficient in various ideas in ancient and modern times, as well as the influence of those ideas on people, like several other professors.
Even so, the emperor often deliberately conceals his words, and even suspects of intentional misleading.
For example, the title "Master Father" is obviously not suitable for calling Emperor Daxing.
Chen Chong asked questions in his heart, but he still buried it in his heart.
Now is the time for His Majesty to vent his emotions. If you interrupt it, it will definitely cause considerable mental trauma.
However, the emperor had quickly restrained the emotions and wiped away his tears. He said, "I am old and my eyes can no longer cover my tears."
Chen Chong was older than the emperor and just smiled slightly.
"I might have abdicated." Zhu Cilang smiled bitterly and said, "The fifty abdication I agreed with the late emperor back then... As a result, none of us abdicated."
Chen Chong found that reason asked him to remain silent, but his feelings forced him to speak: "Your Majesty has enjoyed the country for 61 years, which is rare in ancient and modern times. As for the country's destruction, I believe that those who have experienced national changes cannot imagine what a situation would be without Your Majesty."
"Now I'm useless." Zhu Cilang sighed and said, "The border is solid and the people live in peace. Rich people pay taxes obediently, and officials dare not bully the poor. I can only do this."
"Your Majesty, the old minister is brave. The American border has not been completely consolidated, and the Ming Dynasty still cannot do without Your Majesty." Chen Chong seemed to have a premonition and tried his best to persuade him.
"This is no longer my responsibility." Zhu Cixuan sighed: "I have sent away too many people over the years. I really don't want to experience the feeling of being left. I dreamed several times that I was riding on the train, not knowing where to go, nor who was walking with me."
Chen Chong said: "Your Majesty, this is an idea of escape."
Zhu Cilang sighed and said, "I have never been a brave person, but I always have to stand at the forefront."
"Your Majesty. You are the strongest person I have ever seen." Chen Chong paused and said, "Your self-discipline is like a rock, always shining on this empire with the sun's light and heat, leading the people forward."
"There are also dark spots in the sun." Zhu Cixuan smiled reluctantly and said, "When it comes to this, how long has it been for you to provide psychological counseling for me?"
"It's been twenty years, Your Majesty." Chen Chong blurted out without even counting it.
Zhu Cilang pursed his lips, as if he was regretful, and as if he was proud, "Then you didn't see through me completely."
"I am really ashamed to come here every week to listen to the Hadith." Chen Chong lowered his head.
Zhu Cilang shook his head and said nothing more.
Chen Chong turned off the lights when he went out, and he knew that His Majesty the Emperor needed a rest.
In fifty years, in the words of the Yeli calendar, it took half a century, and the Ming Dynasty had completely emerged from the shadows.
With the steam-powered iron-armored giant ship successfully voyage, the Ming Dynasty finally began its own maritime era, turning the east of the Malacca Strait into its own swimming pool, and even the Pacific Ocean became the inland sea between the eastern and western territories.
On the land border, because Russia broke out in the 12th year of Longjing, it had to sell the Ural Mountains to the Ming Dynasty in exchange for silver and gold to quell the rebellion of the princes and the riots of Moscow citizens. This was not mentioned at all in the history textbooks of Zhu Cixuan's previous life, but in this time and space, it turned into a blow to the Russian revival.
The shadows of the Jinyiwei and the Military Intelligence Department are naturally floating in this.
In the 23rd year of Longjing, Song Yingxing, as the first scientific master after Wang Zheng, successfully found a yellow ** that could be used as a dye. In addition to winning the Kuaixin Award, he was also appointed as the Duke of Yue. His yellow ** was soon used to study flowering bullets and musket bullets, and shined in the war with the Ottomans in the 25th year of Longjing.
In the 25th year of Longjing, Xiao Mo and Xiao Donglou led their troops to conquer Istanbul. The Ottomans who were good at fighting could only seek peace in pain under the power of the yellow **, hoping that the war would end as soon as possible.
The Ming Empire finally withdrew a thousand miles, fixed the border on the west coast of the Black Sea. Until the Persian Gulf, it returned to Istanbul, ended the war, and forced the Ottomans to launch trade activities fairly and justly.
Both tactical and strategic, the Ming Dynasty achieved a perfect ending.
In the Americas, it was also due to the contribution of the Yellow**. The Spanish finally agreed to cede all territories north of Mexico City, respect Ming values in America, legislated to prohibit the slave trade, and sent existing slaves back to Africa in an orderly manner.
However, the war did not end there.
In the 26th year of Longjing, the Ming army's southwestern border defense army and the Mughal Empire had a border dispute in the Rakhail Mountains. In the following three months, the Ming army's Li Dingguo's troops crossed the Rakhail Mountains and occupied Bangladesh, while the Northwest Army captured Kabul - this can be said to be the birthplace of the Mughal Empire.
The war lasted for six years, with two Ming troops from north to south, totaling 300,000. The history of the Mughal Empire ended in Sri Lanka, and the Ming Dynasty added an Indian Duss.
In the 31st year of Longjing, as the war gradually faded away, the military and nobles had to seek a new foundation for their establishment. They followed the investment direction of His Majesty the Emperor and invested the spoils obtained from the new territory into scientific research. In the following ten years, the Ming Dynasty was like a playground for scientists. As long as there was a whimsical idea, someone was willing to invest money for it.
Because these military aristocrats are the ultimate beneficiaries of science and technology, the importance of intellectual property rights in the Ming Dynasty was far more important than Zhu Cixuan's expectations.
In the 37th year of Longjing, the world's first electric motor was successfully developed. Electric power entered this world after thirty-years of pregnancy.
In the 38th year of Longjing, Royal Power Group was established. At the end of the same year, its subsidiaries had 5,000 bulbs. Three years later, with the rapid progress of electric motors and generators, the daily output of the 39 factories in the country reached 30,000, and continued to rise.
In the 40th year of Longjing, electric four-wheelers powered by chemical batteries appeared on the streets of Beijing.
In the fifty years of Longjing, Song Yingxing finally completed his early internal combustion engine plan and built the world's first internal combustion engine. However, at this time, the motors of the Ming Dynasty had become mainstream, and people were more willing to use non-polluting electric motors, and almost no one could see the prospects from the newly born internal combustion engine.
Song Yingxing had to give the internal combustion engine to His Majesty the Emperor. It is said that this gasoline-burning machine, dirty machine, can become the heart of an aircraft - unless the battery engine can overcome its shortcomings such as instability and excessively expensive construction costs. However, His Majesty the Emperor, as always, first used this new power machine on the train, greatly improving the carrying capacity of the railway.
With the emergence of internal combustion locomotives, the traffic context of the Ming Dynasty continued to rise, and the mining of various industrial raw materials became more efficient.
In the ten years from the fifty years of Longjing to the sixty years of Longjing, productivity showed explosive progress, and the materials produced were almost the sum of the past three hundred years, so that the units of measurement had to expand ten times or hundreds of times.
In the 67th year of Longjing, Zhu Cilang passed the throne to the already gray-haired Crown Prince Zhu Hegui on his 88th birthday, on his Mishou.
Zhu Hegui made great achievements in Confucianism and did not have any interest in the late emperor throne.
He even rejected the Confucian ministers' suggestion to change the era, and announced that starting from himself and even Sijun would continue to use the Longjing era name, so that this great era would last for thousands of years.
Facing his son's statement, Zhu Cilang was not at all relieved.
Because as the founder of the Imperial Intelligence Agency, Zhu Cilang is very clear about the truth behind this.
The second son of the emperor, Zhu Heqi, controlled the Emperor's Guards, which terrified the whole world; the third son of the emperor, Zhu Heyuan, controlled many industries under the royal family, including the Emperor's newspaper industry, railways and shipping; the fourth son of the emperor, Zhu Heyin, followed Fu Shan to practice Taoism, and the great abbot of Quanzhen, who was enthroned by Zhu Cilang, has the saying of the fourth prince among the people, which is highly respected by believers;
The fifth son of the Emperor Zhu Hetan graduated from the School of Law of Jingshi University. When he was young, he went to Europe and served as the Imperial Ming ambassador to the Western countries of Thailand. He presided over the first world-oriented conference. On the issue of "respecting the territory of other countries", he forced the whole world to recognize the current territory of the Ming Dynasty and was highly regarded by Qingliu and young people in China.
He also drafted international law with the support of the Ming Dynasty's military power and established the Guangzhou International Criminal Court. He tried pirates, slave traders, genocide and other crimes against humanity, and with the help of the Thaisian allies, the Ming Dynasty truly became a world empire.
From the moment Zhu and Gui put on the emperor's crown, he knew that his situation had not changed at all, and he still lived in the shadow of the great father of the wise and wise father.
"Since I can't change it, no one of you will change it."
The new emperor had already thought of the ethereal "constitution" in his heart. It was a weapon I heard from his father by chance.
"Isn't this good if the emperor makes a charter and the world is ruled in the future?" Zhu Hegui asked his father.
Zhu Cixuan looked at the eldest son who was exuding an aging breath, and was quite tired in the warm sunshine. He forced himself to ask, "What do you want to exchange for?"
Zhu Hegui was not surprised at all about his father's quick thinking.
"I want to use this guarantee to exchange for control of the imperial family over the royal assets." Zhu Hegui said.
In Zhu Cixuan's hands, the imperial family could naturally use its own equity to have a direct impact on the operation. However, as soon as Zhu Cixuan let go, Zhu Hegui found that the management rights had actually fallen into the hands of his younger brothers and he had only the equity. However, to affect the operation, he had to risk the death of breaking the situation.
For half a century, the power of capital has prevailed.
"I kept saying that you are naive, but you are not convinced?" Zhu Cilan almost murmured.
"Father, my only innocence has long been exhausted." Zhu Hegui almost burst out with decades of depression and shouted: "Why is my father wrong to see what I do? I have worked very hard to do everything!"
Zhu Cilang sighed heavily and said, "If you come to ask for my opinion, I hope you will not change anything, just like you will continue to use the Longjing era name. Until a strong emperor appears among your descendants, you may be able to revive the imperial family."
"if……"
"If you want to show off with your younger brothers, I'm worried that your descendants can only be a puppet with seals." Zhu Cilang said: "But no matter what, there will be no second Fengtian Jingzhang, and you will not be pushed to the guillotine by your own people. If you happen to the traitor and rebellion, you will be content." Zhu Cilang closed his eyes and was powerless to say anything more.
For an old man who is about to reach the end of his life, it is really a tragic thing to see his sons kill each other.
When Zhu Hegui walked out of the Emperor's bedroom, he felt that all his strength was exhausted. He could no longer be influenced by others because he was a great scholar in the world and was influencing other people's thoughts. He also had his own school and many disciples. However, there were few heroes among these people who could see the current affairs clearly. Due to the bureaucratic system of the Ming Dynasty, even if he was the emperor, it was impossible to promote these disciples in an extraordinary way.
——I have to master some things myself.
Zhu Hegui made a secret decision in his heart.
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In the 68th year of Longjing, a bad news was transmitted to the capital through a wired telegram.
King Ding Zhu Cijiong died because he had no son and could only face the situation of expulsion of the country.
Three months later, Zhu Cilang met Princess Ding with white hair.
"Although it is inevitable to decree the kingdom, don't worry, the industry in North Korea will still be yours. You don't need to worry about your life in the capital in the future." Zhu Cixuan said.
Lu Qiaochu was not worried about his life in the capital, not only his property in North Korea, but also his family had become one of the most prominent families in the Ming Dynasty. His father, Lu Xiangguan, finally became the Minister of Rites. Before retiring, he went out as usual and added the title of Grand Secretary of the Dongge.
His cousin Lu An, a famous economist in the Longjing era, was in charge of the Imperial Bank for 30 years. His salary and bonus alone were already rich enough to rival a country.
"I only ask the Supreme Emperor to allow me to be buried in Babao Mountain." Lu raised his head stubbornly: "Be with the soldiers of the Second Army."
Zhu Cilang did not forget that she was once a female general in the army and nodded silently.
To be continued...