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
There is no drifting, and I am still working hard as before.
During this period, there was more than one person trying to provoke, 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 the two of them have Brother Zhang as their backing.
You 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, your behavior will naturally become pure. 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 will be automatically dismissed. An almost cruel rotation system is used to maintain the operation of this unprecedentedly huge empire.
It's not perfect, but it's enough. This is enough, because it can buy more time for Brother Zhang, and as long as there is enough time, he doesn't believe that he can't carve out a future.
This continued until the young emperor took charge of the government, and Brother Zhang was already in his forties. The ministers who were suppressed by him thought that the young 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 blood of young people is hot, and he does everything boldly and harvests in the first year of taking office.
He conquered seven aristocratic families in Longxi and disintegrated the merchant families in Jiangnan.
In the second year, he and Wang Anshi presided over the New Deal, nationalized almost all the people's livelihood industries, and erected a new monument with eye-catching content. The inscription 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 writings they had written during the past ten years. He also brought news from another continent, saying that they were launching an Eastern Expedition and wanted His Majesty to advance it.
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, but replaced them with scientific research works that were enough to change the course of mankind. There was no more melancholy in that copy.
Instead of being ambitious, I was filled with expectations for the future and the desire to borrow another five hundred years from heaven.
When he saw Brother Zhang again, the two 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, atlases, and drawings of all kinds, making it 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 grassland, Xixia, Western Regions and Jurchen countries with 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 twenty 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, a coup occurred within 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 that it could bask in the glory of the Central Plains' orthodoxy and become 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.
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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 of owning 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, etc. are blooming in all directions, and human beings are moving forward.
A big step forward.
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.
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As for saying that the industrial system has foreign help, Brother Zhang is cheating. The blueprints are all ready-made. As long as the operation is carried out according to the standards, 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, we just had to follow the same pattern, but in the end it was just the same, and there was no way to surpass it even if we pressed the accelerator to the end.
In the past ten years, the first car that actually burns gasoline has been born, the first thermal power plant has been put into use, the first university has been born, the first general hospital has appeared, and many kinds of firsts have been opened one after another.
Flowers come.
In the third year of the little emperor's pro-government, the country officially entered the stage of stabilization. Almost overnight, the infrastructure construction in various places was like a piece of land after a spring rain. Dots on the map were connected together, and the expansion of the territory was even more exaggerated.
, everything from the Arctic Circle to the depths of the South China Sea 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.
Is there anyone? It doesn’t matter. With the expansion of the territory in the past twenty years, the number of domestic ethnic groups has directly expanded from twelve to sixty. And under the twelve propositions proposed by Brother Zhang, no fierce conflicts broke out during the entire integration stage.
Without the instigation and planning of external forces, relying on its own strong centripetal force, the integration process was very smooth.
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 lines. 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 sail sampans.
, this 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 of less than 20,000 tons 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 when the time comes to 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 on cloudy and rainy days, but this does not prevent him from being the most respected person in this country.
All the knowledgeable people in the world who know his life history are all shocked and amazed 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 is like the helmsman of a giant ship, constantly adjusting the direction of the giant ship.
, the giant ship was not allowed to be shattered on the sea 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 idiot he once was has disappeared.
It's this sixty-year-old idiot.
He still doesn't like to talk, preferring to sit quietly in his office and work while wearing reading glasses. The little emperor he once brought up by himself finally had a child this year, but instead of establishing a prince, he chatted with Brother Zhang.
For a long, long time, he had 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 would not be able to 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, and he was so rebellious that he would not change his mind just because anyone disagreed.
As for what Brother Zhang could do, he was to tell the emperor, whom he had single-handedly brought up, the stakes, advantages and disadvantages.
The 20th year of the little emperor's reign.
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 be able to come back if he went there, but Su Xianer didn't care.
He said that his life was a wandering life. When he was young, he was demoted and exiled everywhere. When he got old, he could not stop. The fate of a person like him was to wander on the road. Whenever he stopped, it meant death. He knew that he
He might not be able to come back, so he came to see Zhong Pu to say goodbye. Otherwise, how sad it would be 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, outgoing, and talented. She was a close disciple of Su Shi. 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 total blockade is not only 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 bounce back...
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 that the troops were strong, and looking back to see Baga's soldiers charging towards them with sharpened bamboos, the local Ryukyu security team silently took out their semi-automatic rifles...
After that, 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 this also the 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."