"Student Napoleon, this is the blade of the cutshot of His Highness Otani Otani, a savage girl from our Japanese province!"

"Oh? It's the knife without a handle inside the glass cover?"

"Yes, that's it! This knife has a history of hundreds of years. It was given to You by Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty. It also symbolizes the right of the Otani family to rule Japan for generations. His Highness Lin used it to protest against Emperor Gaozong Wu's depriving the Otani family of the power to rule over Japan. Moreover, His Highness Lin was useless to make mistakes when he was separating. He was so strong..."

"That hurts so much! But why did she do it? Is there no better way?"

"A better way?"

"For example, fighting..."

"That's not her responsibility. She is the right envoy of Guangming and must obey the Ming Emperor. Moreover, she advised Emperor Gaozong in her suicide note, asking him not to destroy the "Chen Li" and seize the vassal of the vassal state. However, Emperor Gaozong did not obey, which led to the subsequent collapse of rituals and music. The current situation in the world is so corrupt, and the root cause lies..."

One morning of the 521st year of Tiandao, two short young men came to Macau East Tiandao Sacred View and visited the "Tiandao East Sacred Sect" sacred relics exhibition here. They were all the holy objects of the East Sacred Sect of Tiandao, that is, the sacred objects of the East Sacred Sect that were split from the Sacred Sect. All of them were transported from the East Japan Province of the Ming Dynasty.

One of them was a thin European young man with short golden hair, five pretty hair, dozens of freckles on his face, and his name was Napoleon! The other was a Shenzhou man shorter than the European young man, named Mitsukoshi Otani. Both of them were wearing the most popular bachelor's outfits of this era, and the school badge of Macau Otani Medical College was on their chests.

By the way, the Eastern Holy Sect of the Tiandaoism that held this exhibition was supported by Emperor Chen Zongdao of the Ming Dynasty after the thirty years of the Heavenly Dao War.

According to the conclusion of this time and space historian, the Eight Years War that invaded Japan was part of the Thirty Years War of Heaven. The Ming Dynasty invaded Japan and the later long-term war with the Holy Heavenly Kingdom were all carried out in the name of the slaughter of the Holy Heavenly Kingdom. Therefore, it was discussed by later historians.

However, these were actually two wars. Although the invasion of Japan lasted for eight years (it took three years to invade to full occupation and five years to public security war), it ended with the victory of the Ming Empire. However, because the Ming Empire paid a great price, more than 50,000 casualties and hundreds of millions of military expenses were spent. Therefore, Japan did not become a fiefdom of the son of Chen Zongdao, but became a colony of the Ming Dynasty. More than a hundred years later, it was incorporated into the Ming Empire and became the Japanese Province.

And another war with the Holy Heavenly Dao Kingdom was not so lucky! The Holy Heavenly Dao Kingdom was far away from the Ming Dynasty and received support from the Qing Dynasty, which was taken from the Yuan Dynasty. This made the resistance of the Holy Heavenly Dao Kingdom quite tenacious and powerful!

What's even more troublesome is that because of the "Otani Lin's Death Response" incident, all the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty noticed the danger. Although no one except the Qing Dynasty dared to publicly support the Holy Heavenly Kingdom. However, no one really made efforts to support the Ming Dynasty. Even the nobles of the Ming Dynasty themselves did not support the attack on the Holy Heavenly Kingdom. In their opinion, the invasion was not only "unethical", but also had no benefits...

In short, the Ming Empire faced various adverse situations in the Heavenly Dao War. In the end, although it captured the Mongolian headquarters (Mongols stood on the side of the Holy Sect in the early stages of the war) and half of the Qinzha grassland. The troops almost rushed into the Ural Mountains, but they still did not suppress the Holy Heavenly Dao Kingdom. After more than 20 years of confrontation, both sides were exhausted and had to sign a "Hujiu Peace Treaty", which annexed Mongolia and obtained a large area of ​​barren land east of the Ob River.

Judging from the map, although the local area of ​​the Ming Empire increased significantly after the war, all they obtained were worthless wasteland. Therefore, in the eyes of everyone, including Chen Zongdao, who started the war, the war with the Holy Heavenly Dao Kingdom was considered to be defeated.

Moreover, when the thirty-year war of Heavenly Way reached a deadlock, the Qing Dynasty King Zhu Chongba also ascended the throne and emperor in the Grand Palace of Vienna, the Central Capital of the Qing Dynasty (Zhu Chongba established three capitals, the Western Capital, the Central Capital, and the Eastern Capital, Constantinople. However, he and the imperial court were stationed in Vienna)! This officially declared the collapse of the Ming Dynasty's world imperial system!

The Ming Dynasty, which fought the thirty years of Heavenly Dao War, was exhausted. Not only did more than 400,000 people die in the war, but the issuance of national debts also hit a new high, finally reaching 4.2 billion yuan! The international reputation of the Heavenly Dao votes is also in danger.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty was unable to go to war with the Qing Empire again, so it could only announce a blockade of the Qing Empire. In fact, this punishment had no effect on the Qing Empire. On the one hand, the prestige of the Ming Empire dropped greatly after the thirty years of Heavenly Dao War, and the countries around the Mediterranean were not very obedient; on the other hand, in order to restrict white people and the outside world, the Qing Empire had originally implemented a closed-door country, only opening up the two ports of Rouen and the eastern capital Constantinople (of course, all the borders with the sacred Heavenly Dao Kingdom were opened), and the Qing Empire was not a country that valued commerce at all.

In short, Chen Zongdao, who fought a war for a full thirty years after ascending the throne, did not receive any good reviews in history, and was recognized as a sign that the Ming Empire changed from "prosperity" to "decline". The "Otani Lin seduced the abdomen incident" was the beginning of the collapse of rituals and music in the Chinese world.

The short Shenzhou young man walked to another glass cover and looked at the imperial edict to enfeoff the saint of Otani Lin, saying with some emotion: "Emperor Gaozongwu finally knew the loyalty of His Highness Lin in his later years. He not only enfeoffed her, but also restored the religious status of the Otani clan and allowed the new saint of the Otani clan to enter the palace to accompany him. It seems that he also regretted his violation of "Chen Li" and deprived his vassals of the vassals to rule the country. Therefore, what is popular in Japan is still the sacred Tiandaoism, and the Otani clan still maintains the status of religious leaders..."

"What? That's it?" The young man named Napoleon was stunned, and his pretty facial features were twisted for a moment. "Teacher Otani, can you Otani and the Japanese forget about it?"

"Uh... isn't that all? Napoleon, the Ming Empire in Europe had no choice but to do anything to you in the Qing Dynasty, but there was no country in Shenzhou that could fight against the Ming Dynasty."

Otani Hikaru paused and added with certainty: "Even more than four hundred years later, the Ming Dynasty's position in Shenzhou is still unshakable! Even a powerful country like the Chinese Empire and the United Kingdom of China can only fight against our Ming Dynasty on the eastern Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean! Their fleet will definitely not be able to cross the Sandalwood Islands (Hawaii). Moreover, they will definitely not be able to defeat the New Shenzhou Prefecture and control the New Shenzhou Canal!"

The Chinese Empire and the United Kingdom of China... are probably the "United Kingdom of Ming and Lijians"! The thing Chen Dexing was most worried about finally happened! The person who gave birth to the "United Kingdom of Ming and Lijians" was actually Chen Dexing's unworthy descendants. He once wore the seal of the four kingdoms of "Qin", "Chu", "Jin" and "Wu", and finally created a powerful empire on the Beimingzhou continent.

Of course, the fundamental reason why the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Northern Ming Dynasty eventually evolved into two powerful countries was that Chen Dexing and the later rulers of the Ming Empire were not well thought out.

First of all, because the four countries of "Qin", "Chu", "Jin" and "Wu" are all on the Pacific coast, which is Canada, the west coast of the United States and Mexico in later generations. Although the four countries were sealed, the transportation between these four countries could be carried by sea, which was very convenient and low. Therefore, starting from the "Sixteen Cities Age", the four cities' economy was completely integrated. Many "cross-city commercial banks" were produced. Moreover, because these four countries are close to the Pacific Ocean, they naturally became the most convenient area to attract the Ming Dynasty to immigrate, and they are also the most economically developed areas on the Mingzhou continent. By the time Chen Yonghua served as the left prime minister of the Qin Kingdom, the total population of the four countries had exceeded 50 million, far higher than the total of the other twelve Beimingzhou vassal states.

The resources around Xinxianyang, the capital of the Qin Kingdom, are quite rich. Not only are there gold mines, wood and fur, which can attract immigrants to make money quickly. There are also rich coal and iron resources. After the gradual maturity of metallurgical technology, coal and iron resources became a powerful booster for the industrial development of the Qin Kingdom. Especially in the second year when Chen Yonghua was elected as the left prime minister of the Qin Kingdom, the Ming Dynasty metallurgist and chemist Song Yingxing invented the converter steelmaking method, which opened the curtain of the Second Industrial Revolution. The Qin Kingdom quickly stepped onto the fast lane of industrialization. Although it could not be compared with the large-scale old industrialized country, the Ming Empire. But it also came from behind and with the help of the east wind of the countries in Beimingzhou to start building railways (this time, it was a real railway led by steam locomotives), it quickly rose to become the world's second largest steel producer!

Later, Chen Yonghua took advantage of the lack of male heirs in the Jin Kingdom in Beimingzhou to promote marriage between the same clans, and let the prince Zheng of the Qin Kingdom (Chen Yongzheng) marry the princess Min (Chen Yonglan) of the Jin Kingdom. It realized that the Qin and Jin kings Chen Yongzheng and Chen Yonglan were both descendants of Chen Dexing, but they were not close relatives. Chen Dexing had passed away more than 300 years when they got married.

After the Qin and Jin lords, Chen Yonghua promoted the common ministers of Qin, Chu and Jin. That is, the three countries' parliaments were merged and a unified cabinet was elected. At the same time, the economy of the three countries was completely integrated, the flow of materials and personnel was completely liberalized, and the tax cards between the three countries were completely cancelled. Later, the Wu Kingdom, which was rich in silver, was also pulled into the alliance by Chen Yonghua, and the common ministers of the three countries became common ministers of the four countries. The four countries "Qin", "Chu", "Jin" and "Wu" were actually unified. A powerful country that occupied almost all the land on the west coast of Beimingzhou and had a population of 50 million appeared!

The response of the Ming Empire was to support other countries on the North American continent to form alliances to fight against the "Qin, Chu, Jin and Wu" alliance. This response, which seemed quite appropriate on the surface, had the opposite effect during the implementation process, accelerated rather than delayed the integration process of the countries in the North Ming Dynasty. The Four-Nation Alliance and the Twelve-Nation Alliance both set up an integrated market within their respective jurisdictions, built an integrated transportation network, and formed a unified command army. In the end, the royal family of the Twelve-Nation Alliance also began to learn from the Four-Nation Alliance, began to promote the marriage of dynasties, and tried to make the alliance a starting point for forming a unified country!

When the Ming Empire realized something was wrong, two huge national groups had already appeared on the Beiming continent. One was the Huaxia Empire formed by the merger of "Qin, Chu, Jin and Wu" (the emperor was appointed by the original King of Qin); the other was the Huaxia United Kingdom pieced together by the other twelve countries (the royal family of the twelve kingdoms took turns to serve as heads of state).

What made the rulings of the Ming Empire even more troubled was that the two Mingzhou powers, which were named "China". They were really "China". The race belonged to China, the culture belonged to China, and the religion belonged to Tiandao Scientific Sect. Even the ruling monarch was part of the Chen Ming royal family. Moreover, the political systems of the two countries were similar, and they were both constitutional monarchs. The difference was that the monarchy of the Chinese Empire was greater, and the twelve kings of the United Kingdom of China were just twelve mascots.

In other words, once the two sides confront each other, the consequences are likely to result in a unified Beiming Empire! This empire will have territory and resources no less than the mainland of the Ming Empire, with a population of nearly 10 million, and is still growing rapidly. Moreover, it has entered the threshold of industrialization and can produce the latest steam iron armored ships and after-mounted cannons.

Therefore, the top priority of the foreign policy of the Ming Empire in the past few decades is to provoke the relationship between the Chinese Empire and the United Kingdom of China and continue to maintain confrontation; on the other hand, it is necessary to keep the conflict between the two countries within a controllable range as much as possible. Small and medium-sized wars between the two countries have occurred frequently in the past few decades, and the army of the Chinese Empire is beating the United Kingdom of China. The Ming Empire has repeatedly played the role of protector of the United Kingdom of China and actively invested in the heavy industry and railways of the United Kingdom of China.

However, as the population of the Ming Empire approached one billion, the gap between the rich and the poor and the excessive concentration of wealth were delayed. The spillover effect of the population further increased, giving Mingzhou countries with few people and many lands a good opportunity to quickly absorb the population and strengthen national strength. In the decades of the end of the fifth and early sixth centuries of the Heavenly Dao, the population of Mingzhou in the north and south doubled by 100 million! The population of Mingzhou in Beimingzhou was close to 200 million, and the population of Mingzhou in Nanmingzhou also exceeded 150 million. The pace of industrialization of the two powerful countries in Beimingzhou has also accelerated, and it has reached a situation that the Ming Empire had to deal with it with all its strength.

At the same time, class contradictions within the Ming Empire were also constantly intensifying. Due to the long-term implementation of aristocratic and elite democracy and the ignorance of the democratic rights of the lower class people, the lower class people were unable to share the benefits brought by the world hegemony of the Ming Empire for a long time. They could at least immigrate to "Minglijian" or Oceania, and the Datongism trend has become increasingly fierce in the past few decades. The workers' movement can be described as surging. Strikes, protests, and petitions were almost always staged in the Ming Dynasty. There were even "Mohist Datongism" with terrorist activities as the struggle situation.
Chapter completed!