The Second Crusade, which Alexander VII had high hopes for, came to an end.
Just after the Lantern Festival in the 29th year of Chongzhen's reign, the Christian leader Bomig held a public trial on Pope Alexander VII in the square outside St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
As a result of the public trial, Alexander VII was sentenced to be burned at the stake.
Ferdinand III, Felipe IV and other kings, as well as Mazarin and other prime ministers and dukes, witnessed Alexander VII being tied to the stake and burned alive.
With the burning of Alexander VII, it also meant the official end of an era.
Chongzhen fulfilled his promise. The day after the peace treaty came into effect, he recalled Zhu Cijiong's army back to the territory of the Papal State. Oh, by the way, there is no longer the Papal State.
The Papal State has now become an overseas province of the Ming Dynasty.
The 4th Army Division led by Wang Euzhi was transferred to the Roman Provincial Guard.
Wang Fuzhi himself would also become the first governor of the Roman Province of the Ming Empire.
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Half a month later, Zhu Cijiong led a division back to Rome.
Zhu Cijiong was accompanied by a large number of scientists and their families, including the families of Pascal, Boyle, Viviani and others.
Everything was as Chongzhen expected. Europe in this era had indeed not yet formed the concept of a nation-state.
Therefore, people such as the mathematician Fermat and others recruited by Zhu Cijiong had no concept of loyalty to the country. They readily accepted the generous treatment and extra courtesy offered by the Ming Dynasty.
Fermat and others were looking forward to their upcoming life in Ming Dynasty.
Especially when they heard that Pascal, Boyle and others had become deans of mathematics, physics and chemistry at the Ming Empire University, and that tens of thousands of students were following them to do experiments, they were even more excited.
Liang, extremely looking forward to their arrival in Ming Dynasty as soon as possible and engaging in vigorous scientific research.
Chongzhen was about to return, but Wang Fuzhi, the first governor of the Roman Province, came to visit him.
"Your Majesty, I have a question to ask." Wang Fuzhi asked in a low voice, "Do these indigenous men in the Roman Province need to be castrated like the indigenous people in Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia?"
In overseas provinces such as Wodo, Korea and Nanyang, regardless of the areas not included in the jurisdiction, as long as they are indigenous people included in the effective jurisdiction area, all males need to be castrated.
The indigenous peoples of South Asia and Black Africa are even more strict.
Not only men need to be castrated, but women also need to be sterilized.
But Wang Fuzhi felt that there was no need for the indigenous people of Europe to do this.
Because the existence of scientific figures such as Pascal, Boyle and Fermat is enough to prove that the IQ of the indigenous people of Europe is no worse than that of the Orientals, there seems to be no need to be so extreme.
Hearing this, Chongzhen couldn't help but hesitate.
To be honest, the Romans and even most Europeans were pretty good.
Apart from more hair, enlarged pores, and heavier body odor, there are no other flaws. Chongzhen was also able to accept them mixing with the Han people, but he definitely did not include the red-skinned Anglo-Saxons. These descendants of pirates were not only ugly.
, and their nature is also bad, it is better to exterminate a race like this.
At that moment, Chongzhen said: "Indigenous peoples such as Romans, Gauls, Gypsies and even Slavs do not need to be castrated, but Anglo-Saxons with red skin and red necks must be castrated."
"According to the order." Wang Euzhi received the order and turned around and left in a hurry.
Watching Wang Euzhi leave, Jiang Tianyi suddenly said: "Your Majesty, have we forgotten something?"
Facing Chongzhen's inquiring gaze, Jiang Tianyi added: "Even the colonies of Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and other countries in Latin America, we should actually ask for them."
"This matter?" Chongzhen said with a smile, "There is no need to put this kind of matter on the table of peace talks."
After a pause, Chongzhen continued: "Because even if Spain and other countries signed the peace treaty, the governors of their overseas colonies would not recognize it. Europeans have always lacked the spirit of contract."
As a time traveler, Chongzhen knows the truth.
Western countries talk about this constitution and that constitution, which are lofty and superior.
But in fact, all these charters or constitutions must have a premise, which is equal strength.
Without equal strength, these charters or constitutions are just decorations, and Western countries will plunder or enslave other countries without blinking an eye.
Therefore, Chongzhen did not believe that Western countries would really abide by the contract.
The Peace of Rome was signed just to fragment the European world.
Besides, it would be more beneficial for the Ming Dynasty's navy to not include overseas colonial clauses in the peace treaty, so there would be no restrictions when it comes to plundering the merchant ships of these European countries.
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In the first month of AD 1655, the 29th year of Chongzhen, Chongzhen set off from Rome back to the Ming Dynasty.
On the same day, Zhu Cijiong also led the 1st Cavalry Division on the journey back to Ming Dynasty.
Since the Ming army participating in this expedition had five cavalry divisions, 100,000 cavalry officers and 300,000 horses, such a large number of men and horses could not be transported even if the Ming Navy assembled three fleets and 48 heavy cruisers.
Go, so the cavalry regiment can only return to Central Asia by land, and then return to Yinli.
After arriving in Yinli, you can take the train back to Daming.
It should be noted that by this time, the domestic railway network in the Ming Dynasty had been much improved.
The railways from Chengdu to Kunming, Xi'an to Chengdu, Wuchang to Guangzhou, Hangzhou to Changsha, Guiyang to Kunming were completed within a few years, as well as the Far East Railway and the Grassland Railway.
The Far East Railway has been built to the distant "Tianya City".
The so-called "Tianya City" is built on the west side of the Bering Strait in another world.
This Tianya City and the railway from Shenyang directly to Tianya City were prepared for the future colonization of North America. With this railway line, immigrants from the Ming Dynasty could continuously enter the North American continent by land. As for South America and Australia, then There was no way to build railways, so large-scale colonization could only be carried out by sea.
The railway from Guangzhou to Manlaga has also been completed and opened to traffic.
Furthermore, the railway from Datong to "Suwu City" via Baotou has also been opened to traffic.
"Suwu City" is located on the north shore of Lake Baikal. By the way, Lake Baikal is no longer called Lake Baikal, but is named Shepherd Lake to commemorate Suwu who once herded sheep here.
Of course, the construction of so many railways and cities was inseparable from a large number of Su workers.
It is no exaggeration to say that under these railway lines and cities, there are piles of corpses of workers from Japan, Korea, Nanyang and South Asia. It can almost be said that they are paved with corpses.
In this regard, the Ministry of Internal Affairs once made simple statistics.
In the six years from the 24th year of Chongzhen to the 29th year of Chongzhen, more than 30 million workers died.
The average number of workers who die abnormally every year reaches more than 5 million, which is really terrible.
Many workers died, but the results were also remarkable. A three-vertical and two-horizontal traffic trunk line running through the Ming Dynasty has basically taken shape, and the hinterland of the Central Plains connects the extreme west (Yinli City), the extreme north (Suwucheng), and the extreme north. The four major traffic arteries in the east (Tianya City) and the extreme south (Manlajia) have also been completed and opened to traffic.
The actual control territory of the Ming Empire has reached a height far exceeding that of previous generations.
Although there is no exact statistical calculation, according to Chongzhen's estimate, there are 13 million in Siberia, 6 million in the Far East, 5 million in Southeast Asia, 10 million in mainland China, and 4 million in Central Asia. Korea and Japan are ignored, so the current territory of the Ming Empire At least it is 38 million square kilometers.
This territory can be compared to the Yuan Dynasty in history.
Moreover, even the Yuan Dynasty actually controlled less than half of the territory. More than half of the area belonged to the four major khanates and was not under the jurisdiction of the central government of the Yuan Dynasty.
However, the Ming Dynasty's territory was actually controlled territory.
This 38 million square kilometers of territory has been completely brought under the effective control of the Ming Dynasty, instead of being a vassal state or a vassal state in history. This is really unprecedented.
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At the end of June 1655, the 29th year of Chongzhen's reign, Chongzhen led the navy to Nanjing.
Prince Zhu Cihong, the first minister of the cabinet Wang Jiayan, and the second minister Jin Xuan led the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty to Yanziji Pier to welcome him, and then a grand victory ceremony was held outside Shence Gate.
Chongzhen hated all forms of formalism.
But I still agree with the necessary rituals.
For example, a victory ceremony like this is very necessary.
Immediately afterwards, Chongzhen led Prince Zhu Cixiang and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty to worship at the Martyrs Cemetery at the foot of Purple Mountain. At the same time, they buried the ashes of fallen soldiers in the cemetery and placed their tablets in the Hall of Heroes.
Li Huie, a doctor in the Ministry of Rites, even published a book and asked for the yuan to be changed.
Yes, that's right, it was the Donglin backbone who founded Hanlin Daily and Huang Ming Times to compete with each other.
However, Li Huie has already "repented deeply" and truly repented. He has changed from the backbone of Donglin to the vanguard of criticizing Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism.
By the way, Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism has been abandoned.
Now scholars all over the world are eager to learn new things.
Li Huie, who had just been transferred back to Shuntian Prefecture as a doctor in the Ministry of Rites, wrote a memorial and proposed changing the Yuan Dynasty to Datong. The reason was that the Ming Dynasty had achieved unprecedented world unity, so it should be changed to Datong.
Although the civil and military officials in the DPRK and China despised Li Hui's character, they still supported this proposal.
So the civil servants and military ministers headed by Wang Jiayan, Jin Xuan and Ma Mingluo also submitted the memorial and seconded it, and even the prince Zhu Cihong also followed suit.
Chongzhen's reaction was beyond everyone's expectations.
Chongzhen's reaction was to directly abolish the reign title.
Chongzhen directly abolished the reign name that had been used for nearly two thousand years and switched to the imperial calendar year. Then the first year after Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms and proclaimed himself emperor was the first year of the imperial calendar.
According to this new imperial calendar, the 29th year of Chongzhen is also 1876 in the imperial calendar.
Although Wang Jiayan, Jin Xuan and other civil and military officials felt it was sudden, they could only support it.
The reason is also very simple. Chongzhen's prestige has been so high that people dare not comment on it.
