Near Schönbrunn Palace, there is a European-style mansion with wooden lattice windows covered with large characters. Candles are lit in the house. Through the windows, you can vaguely see two figures standing and lying on one side.

"The paper on this window is nothing in the Han area... But when I arrived at Europa, I was actually a rare object."

In the room, an old man lay on the bed, pointing to the paper that was pasted on the window and talking.

"This paper is not difficult to make. Some of the Han people who came with the Khan can make paper, but now it is not the time when Europa starts to make paper."

Another person smiled and said that the person on the bed was Liu Bingzhong, and the person who spoke to him was Liu Xiaoyuan. When Liu Bingzhong heard Liu Xiaoyuan's words, Liu Bingzhong just smiled bitterly. The reason why he did not allow papermaking was probably to burn Europa's text books, right? His nephew is really a trick!

"Ming Jing, the European writing strategy is better. Now it's a little troublesome, but in a decade or twenty years, the country will be able to deal with it."

Liu Bingzhong nodded with gratitude. He had tuberculosis. There was no cure for this year. He just delayed his care for a while. However, in his lifetime, he could see Kublai Khan, who had been loyal to his life, able to build a country that could last long and last forever in Europe. He always felt that it was a good thing. Kublai Khan's "Mongolo" could be at peace. Only when he was born, he could enjoy wealth and honor for a long time!

"But it's hard to say whether our country can survive for a decade or twenty years..."

Now there are Liu Bingzhong and Liu Xiaoyuan’s uncle and nephew in the room, so there is no scruples when speaking.

“Ten or twenty years are more than a decade.”

"More than that? Will the saint of the Ming Dynasty agree?"

"Ming Dynasty? Haha..." Liu Bingzhong just shook his head, "Do you really think the Ming Dynasty will be resolute and go on a thousand miles of expedition to attack the continent?"

"Not it? Didn't the saint of the Ming Dynasty refuse to surrender to the Khan?"

Liu Xiaoyuan asked uncertainly that he had not been to China for many years and did not know much about Daming's current situation.

"Of course I won't come!" Liu Bingzhong smiled coldly. "Would I have no vision? I have walked around the Ming Dynasty and saw through it... The Ming Dynasty is now a Tianlong who eats and drinks and doesn't want to move. No matter how powerful the dragon is, you have to rest and play. How could you mobilize a group of troops in this miserable and poor place in the continent? Chen Dexing was unwilling to make peace. He just didn't want to relax so quickly. However, he didn't have much energy to deal with us. His Ming Dynasty had too many troubles to ask him, a saint, to cook!"

"Trouble..." Liu Xiaoyuan nodded. He was also a master who was familiar with history books and understood allusions from various dynasties. Naturally, he could see that the country established by Chen Dexing was very different from previous dynasties. If you must find any reference object, it seems that only the Western Zhou Dynasty was slightly similar to it in Chinese history.

In addition, some systems of the Ming Dynasty were somewhat similar to those of the Roman Empire in ancient Europe.

Liu Bingzhong said lightly: "The politics of the Ming Dynasty is very different from the Chinese dynasties. The internal ones are so-called sirs and gentry autonomy. The local area is autonomy, the court is dictatorship, and there is also a consulting council to conduct consultation... This set of methods, whether good or bad, is to make it work properly, without decades of careful training? And this is not the biggest trouble. The biggest trouble is the vassal states and so-called overseas colonies of the Ming Dynasty. They all left the Ming Dynasty more than thousands of miles away, and they each owned troops and had wealth, and they were completely in a big way. How to manage it is probably going to make Chen Dexing, the saint of the Ming Dynasty, hurt his brain."

Liu Bingzhong said something proud, and he laughed softly.

In his opinion, Chen Dexing had enfeoffed so many vassal states and formulated the "Chen Li", which was obviously intended to establish a tribute system with the Ming Empire as the core. The vassal states must obey the Ming court, and the Ming court ruled the world through these vassal states just like the feudal world in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

However, the enlarged version of the Western Zhou Dynasty established by Chen Dexing is too big. How could the Ming Dynasty be able to manage it? Most of the vassal states have just opened, and some have not opened yet. In the years to come, all kinds of troubles that will make Chen Dexing trouble will definitely continue. At that time, where will he have time to take care of Europa?

"What is the Chinese world? It's just full."

After hearing this comment, Liu Xiaoyuan nodded repeatedly, as if he agreed. As one of the four major officials in the Mongolian Europa Empire, he was naturally familiar with military and political affairs. During this period, in addition to being responsible for contacting the Europa people and the Atlantic Governor's Office of the Ming Dynasty, he was busy dealing with the matters submitted by the Mongolian Governors from all over the country.

Kublai Khan's "Mongolian Empire" starts from Lithuania on the south coast of the Baltic Sea in the east, to the Atlantic Ocean in the west, to the Alps and the Pyrenees in the south, and the territory is incomparable to the Ming Dynasty, but it is not small. It is also a headache to manage it. Most of the news reported by the Mongolian Governors from all over the country is not very good.

Whether the chaos here is the riots, the landless knights are making trouble, trying to overthrow the rule of the Eight Banners of the Mongolian Banners and restore their homeland; or the cults there do not recognize that Kublai Khan is the second child of God's family, Christianity is a cult; or where the places are owed taxes and food; or where the households flee to maritime merchants and smuggle.

"A small European has so many things. The Ming Dynasty has a wide range of worlds. How can the trouble be small? It will not be stable without decades of conditioning."

Liu Xiaoyuan seemed to have a deep feeling.

"In decades, if we have peace and stability over time, we will not be able to go on a long expedition to Europe. It seems that our country can last for a long time..."

Liu Bingzhong lowered his voice and shook his hand gently.

"not necessarily."

Liu Xiaoyuan's pupils shrank slightly, and he looked at his uncle Liu Bingzhong. Liu Bingzhong was a mature man and had a unique view of the world's major events, so he had to pay attention to it.

"The Great Mongolia established a country with martial arts. The reason why the Mongols' military power was because the Mongols' military power could suppress all the heroes. Now they lost the Central Plains and went tens of thousands of miles westward is that the military power of the Great Mongolia is weakening. The foundation of the Great Mongolian military power is in the bitter and cold grasslands in the north, and the so-called poor mountains and bad waters produce elite soldiers. The weak Mongolian military power is because of the prosperity of the Central Plains and the infiltration of wealth, Mongolian children are worse than the previous generation. And to the extreme western continent, they rely on the power of the Han people to bully some barbarians and poor people.

The country is really not a hero. The Khan also knew that the Eight Banners of Mongolia were strong and were not invincible heavenly soldiers, so he obeyed the words of Ming Jing and I. He appointed the Bible and named himself the son of God. He ruled out the words of Europa and practiced the national policy of fooling the people and weak the people. He wanted to make the people of Europa both stupid and weak, so that the children of Europa could enjoy glory. However... the people were poor and did not fear death, and the people were foolish and easy to incite! Once millions of heroes of Europa were incited and held by one or two heroes, the Great Mongolia would undoubtedly perish!"

"So...will Hu have a century of national destiny?" Liu Xiaoyuan asked in a low voice.

"A hundred years of national destiny... It's almost like this. It's been more than 60 years since Genghis Khan was founded, and more than 160 years have been. The former Mongolian warriors must be passed down for at least seven or eight generations. After more than 100 years of wealth, what kind of fighting spirit can you have? If there is really something, who can the country rely on?"

Liu Bingzhong saw it very clearly. The Mongols fought all over the world by relying on the brute force and martial arts that they had cultivated from generation to generation on the grassland. This is the fundamental thing! This kind of force and martial arts are no longer good in Kublai Khan's generation. The combat power is not much stronger than the Han army of several marquises. If it were simply hand-to-hand combat, it would definitely be worse than that of Chen Dexing's steel armored spearmen. As a result, when they met Chen Dexing's steel armored spearmen, they were no longer able to shoot archery and ride horses, and they were all beaten.

"Then... how many years will the Ming Dynasty have for national destiny?" Liu Xiaoyuan asked again.

"The Ming Dynasty... is hard to say, this is hard to say." Liu Bingzhong frowned deeply, "The Ming Dynasty was not a country that inherited the Zhao Song Dynasty. All systems were completely different. Since ancient times, the strength, weakness, rise and fall of a country were related to the system at the beginning of the founding of the country. At the beginning of the country, the founding king established a ancestral system and passed on to the descendants. If it were not a big problem, it would be extremely difficult to change. The system did not have its advantages and disadvantages, but it was only whether it was in line with the times. The Han Dynasty and the people rested,

The powerful and powerful people died in the rebellion of the powerful. The Tang Dynasty was very fond of great achievements, and the Hu Feng was strong, so they were weakened by the Anshi Rebellion. The separatist rule of the vassal states. The Song Dynasty learned from the lessons of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and ruled the world in culture. It was weaker than the way to win with troops. Chen Ming... Ming used sirs and gentry to emphasize industry and commerce and neglect agriculture. In the future, industry and commerce may flourish, gentry will be rampant, bullying the people at home, and causing the people to live in poverty! Invading the vassal states externally, resulting in the collapse of rituals and music!”

Liu Bingzhong was very insightful and saw through the essence of Chen Dexing's administration at a glance! The Sir Jue Manor was simply not as good as the chaebols in the market! In the long run, a country's economic foundation would inevitably be controlled by the bourgeoisie, and the increasingly powerful bourgeoisie will gradually get involved in power. Once the capitalists control the Ming regime, they will inevitably use the power of the Ming country to open up the market and use cheap raw materials. At that time, there will definitely be serious conflicts with other Chinese bans, which is the collapse of etiquette and music...

"However, the Ming Dynasty is vast and its ban is spread all over the world. The so-called country is huge and its population is sparse. The country is big and its land is rich, and all people can be comfortable. Even if the industry and commerce are prosperous, the people will not be in trouble for a while. I think the country's destiny will be longer than Mongolia, which is probably like the Tang and Song dynasties?"

"Can it last three hundred years?" Liu Xiaoyuan murmured in a low voice. "It's better than Mongolia... Uncle, should our Liu family leave a way out?"

"The way out?" Liu Bingzhong glanced at his nephew, "Didn't he already marry Roma Khan's daughter?"

"A hundred years are just two lives. I and my son are free of worries. Where should my grandson go?"

He is really a good father and grandfather who plan for his descendants.

"Isn't there still Hong Kong and Macau?" Liu Bingzhong said lightly, "Hong Kong is on the other side of the strait, the place where the Ming Dynasty protects it. The Mongols cannot control it, and the British cannot control it, but it is a free and free land of transformation!"

Liu Bingzhong seems to be also a good ancestor of an Europa bannerman, and he is already seeking a way out for his descendants a hundred years later.

However, later history proved that the retreat lane set by Liu Bingzhong and Liu Xiaoyuan for the Liu family in Hong Kong was not redundant. More than a hundred years later, the massive "Jesus Uprising" occurred on the land of Europa. A German scholar in his thirties, named Sauronquan, went crazy because he failed the repeated tests. He claimed that he was his brother Jesus, descended to earth, organized a religious group, the Jesuits, and launched an uprising in the Rhine Province, swept over half of the Mongolian and European Empire, and once captured the eastern capital of the empire (Krakow).

However, after occupying the Eastern Capital, Solonquan took rebellion. On the one hand, he continued to claim that Jesus descended to earth and issued an edict to the Holy Roman Emperor and the Roman Catholic Church, asking them to obey themselves; on the other hand, he massacred the captured Eight Banners and Europa officials in the Eastern Capital. At the same time, he did not send troops to pursue the Mongolian capital Paris in time. In the end, the war lasted for a long time, and both sides suffered heavy losses, allowing the Qing Dynasty, which rose in Asia Minor, to take advantage of the opportunity...

...

Of course, Liu Bingzhong and Liu Xiaoyuan cannot fully consider the changes in the future, and Kublai Khan is naturally even more unlikely to know. At this moment, he was talking to Batulu and An Tong, father and son in Schonbrunn Palace. His old face, which was originally smiling, seemed to be frozen by the coldness of the night, his eyebrows were deeply locked, and he was shaking his head slightly from time to time.

Batulu and Antong came to report to Kublai Khan the breeding and the budget for the people of the Zhengbai Banner in Mongolia. Zhengbai Banner and the Inlaid White Banner are the two most confidant banners of Kublai Khan. They are stationed in Paris and the treatment of the Banners is also better.

But what made Kublai Khan feel embarrassed was that the population and expenses of these two banners have been growing rapidly during this period.

Now the Eight Banners in Mongolia were organized by Kublai Khan before leaving the Western Expedition of the Two Rivers. The population of the eight banners was about 2 million, of which half of the bannermen and half of the banner slaves were each. Some died of illness and battle during the Western Expedition, and later some of the banner slaves with contributions were added to the Eight Banners. In this way, the bannermen remained above 1 million, and the number of banner slaves was reduced to less than 700,000. In other words, the Eight Banners plus banner slaves should have 1.7 million, of which the bannermen of Zhengbai Banner should be about 1.25 million. However, just over a year after Kublai Khan decided to govern Paris, the population of Zhengbai Banner was almost approaching 200,000!

The number of people increased by 750,000 at once! This was not all born from the baby boom after the war, but the strong men of Zhengbai Banner were marrying their little wives... taking local French women as concubines. According to the system set by Kublai Khan during the Two Rivers, any wives and concubines of the Eight Banners warriors could be classified as a banner. Therefore, these French concubines were considered Frenchmen who threw the banner and were all bannermen.

And this bannerman was not for nothing, he wanted to get the banner salary!
Chapter completed!