Chapter 219 Final Chapter

Xiao Tianjian, the founding emperor of the Great Middle Dynasty, has always been in good health, and he pays great attention to exercise, so his body has always been in a healthy state, which makes him rule for 42 years, but just when everyone thinks that he will continue to govern, His Majesty is in Tianyuan 42. In the year, he suddenly announced his abdication and passed the throne to the eldest prince Xiao Haoyu.

During the more than 40 years of his rule, the Great China and the North Korea have almost never stopped using foreign troops, but in the same way, in the continuous use of troops, China's territory is also expanding.

After his unremitting efforts, in the 42nd year of Tianyuan, the jurisdiction and colonial territory of the Great China Dynasty had expanded to all over the world. Except for Europe, almost every continent had the colonial territory of the Great China Dynasty, making the Great China Dynasty a real empire that will not set.

In the 20th year of Tianyuan, after the successful expedition of China and North Korea to the Americas, they gradually controlled a large area of land in North and South America, almost completely expelled the Spanish out of the North and South American continent, and also almost drove the Dutch out of the American continent.

After completing the conquest of the American continent and the Australian continent, Xiao Tianjian, for some personal reasons, sent a huge fleet and army to completely destroy an island country in the east of mainland China, making it the land of the Great China Dynasty, and there, the Great Middle Kingdom was established. To the East China Sea Province, as for the emperor who has lasted for more than a thousand years on the island country, it has been completely erased from this era, gradually disappeared in the long river of history, and gradually forgotten by the world.

Of course, like the Li Dynasty in Nanyang, it will naturally not continue to be preserved. However, after a short war, the Dazhong Dynasty also merged it into the territory of the Dazhong Dynasty and restored its title of Jiaozhi Province, including the Kingdom of Siam in Southeast Asia. Seeing the strength of the Dazhong Dynasty, it also turned to the Great China Dynasty. He became a subordinate country of the Greater China Dynasty.

And in the 30th year of the Tianyuan Dynasty, the Greater China Dynasty once again sent troops to the Indian Ocean, controlling India in the hands of the Greater China Dynasty, and squeezing the Dutch and the British who were there out of India, making it another colony of the Greater China Dynasty.

So far, the whole of Asia has been basically controlled by China and North Korea, and Asia has completely become China's Asia.

Although in a short period of time, the Greater China and the DPRK did not have a strong ability to control many colonies, the Greater China and DPRK have been promoting immigration and encouraging nationals to emigrate to the newly occupied colonies. In the long run, sooner or later, these colonies will be completely controlled.

The colonial policy has also brought great rewards to the citizens of the Great China and North Korea. The resources of the colonies have been continuously discovered and developed, so that the financial revenue of the Great China Dynasty has been an astronomical figure for more than 30 years, and the wealth of the people is almost unimaginable.

The colonial policy has also brought a large amount of cheap labor to China and North Korea, making many Chinese people rich one by one, and social welfare has also begun to improve significantly. In Xiao Tianjian's later years, the citizens of China and North Korea have begun to enjoy the benefits of free compulsory education for all, and also enjoy free The medical security system.

In the past, this was something that Chinese people never dared to imagine. Official citizens of Greater China and North Korea began to enjoy various national social benefits from birth to death. Almost all of them could enjoy a worry-free life.

The improvement of the national quality of life has also greatly stabilized the stability of the country. By the 20th year of Tianyuan, there was basically no riot or chaos in China. Almost all the traces left by the Ming Dynasty to the people have been erased, and no one mentioned the bullshit anti-China restoration.

In the middle and late period of Xiao Tianjian's administration, Xiao Tianjian began to deliberately promote democratic ideas among the people, and gradually established and improved the system of separation of powers, established the national parliament, and improved the judicial system, so that the legislative power, executive power and judicial power were gradually placed in the three national institutions. And in the 30th year of Tianyuan, he officially began to implement the electoral system in China, and gradually transferred the power that originally belonged to the emperor to the Prime Minister, so that the Prime Minister gradually became the de facto supreme chief executive of the country.

At the beginning, the people did not understand Xiao Tianjian's practice, believing that Xiao Tianjian's doing so was to weaken the imperial power and make the imperial power fall. For this reason, many people were dissatisfied with this.

Xiao Tianjian has written many articles in various newspapers for this purpose, preaching that the country is not a country of Xiao Tianjian alone, but a country of all Chinese people. Power should be returned to the people, not just in his hands.

At the same time, he has also written many articles to explain the shortcomings of the old-style imperial system. He can guarantee that he will be a wise king, but he cannot guarantee that the emperors who will succeed to the throne will always be wise. Once there is a faint king, it will cause irreparable disasters to the country, so the people have Power chooses their rulers to govern the country.

The two political parties in the Greater China and North Korea can express their own opinions to win the support of voters, and form a cabinet to carry out governance management. Moreover, the people also have the power to use their votes to drive out the unqualified ruling party and replace the qualified ruler to manage the country.

In this way, under the long-term guidance of Xiao Tianjian, the people gradually understood his intention, and gradually began to get used to this new political system.

In Xiao Tianjian's later years, the royal family gradually became an honorable existence. In name, both the Royal Army and the Royal Navy belonged to the royal family's army. In essence, at this time, the army had been subordinated to the ruler for command and management.

In the 40th year of Tianyuan, Xiao Tianjian formally established a constitutional monarchy in China, established the political system of a constitutional monarchy, strictly limited the scope of power of the rulers, and completely handed over the last military power to the national parliament.

At the beginning, the princes and grandchildren did not quite understand this and raised objections many times. However, after Xiao Tianjian induced several princes, the princes also realized the benefits of this system. Although the royal family members lost their supreme power, they still kept the supreme glory.

And under this system, it is impossible for anyone to overthrow their royal family in the future, so that their royal family can be preserved forever, and there will be no more dynasties, so they gradually accept this fact.

In the more than 40 years of Xiao Tianjian's administration, China has not only completed its unprecedented great achievements in military expansion, but also greatly improved the education system promoted by Xiao Tianjian. It has gradually formed a three-level education system for universities, primary and secondary schools. It is broken to cultivate all kinds of talents for China and North Korea.

The reform of the education system naturally provides sufficient impetus for the development of science and technology. In addition, under the leadership of Xiao Tianjian, the Great China and the DPRK has always spared no effort to invest heavily in scientific research. In addition, there is the existence of Xiao Tianjian, a super cheater, which has made the technology of the Great China and DPRK also make rapid progress. Development.

In the past ten years of Tianyuan, China and North Korea promoted the application and manufacture of various machine tools across the country, making the machinery manufacturing industry of China and North Korea an industry that is proud of the world.

In addition, the chemical industry has gradually established a relatively complete research mechanism after improving the basic research of chemistry, so the chemical industry in China and North Korea has also begun to develop rapidly in about 20 years.

In the military field, after 20 years of Tianyuan, the Dazhong Dynasty had developed thunder mercury, which enabled Dazhong Dynasty to master an important technology. A large number of front-mounted rifles that had just been installed began to be quickly replaced by rear-mounted, causing the war mode to change significantly.

In addition, due to the invention of thunder mercury, Dazhong and North Korea broke through the technical bottleneck of cannon-launched grenades and developed a reliable fuse device, which made Dazhong North Korea, which had already led a lot in artillery technology, once again made a major breakthrough, and began to equip the artillery with new type of howitzers, which greatly strengthened the lethality of artillery.

The army of China and North Korea then began to replace it with the newly developed all-steel rear-loaded line-bore artillery, and with the technical breakthrough of the metal smelting industry, the barrel wall has become thinner and stronger, with greater load pressure and a longer range, while the weight of the gun at the same caliber has been greatly reduced, coupled with this new type of explosion. The grenade made the cannon enter a new stage, which greatly exceeded the power of various artillery before. At least it has reached the artillery level of the old time and space in the mid-19th century, and completely left the Western artillery far behind.

The only pity is that the regressor and reentry are still not developed at this time. The artillery still uses the frame retreat method, and the physical requirements for artillery are still very large, which is more or less a pity. Otherwise, the artillery technology of the Greater China and North Korea is likely to reach the end of the 19th century at this time. Level.

Considering the problem that China and North Korea will compete for the hegemony of the world with Western countries in the future, China and North Korea have formulated a national confidentiality law very early. For this series of scientific and technological inventions, after development, they will immediately implement the confidentiality regulations in accordance with the confidentiality law. In addition to the fact that designers are not allowed to leak technical drawings, All exports are prohibited.

Because Xiao Tianjian knows that in the future generations of the old time and space, Chinese people have experienced the suffering of the technological blockade of China by Western countries. Now that China and North Korea have finally come to the forefront of science and technology, it is time for Western countries to taste the bitter fruits of backward technology.

In the thirty-second year of Tianyuan, because Western countries felt the scorching oppression of the Greater China and the DPRK around the world, their thoughts began to gradually unify. Under the leadership of Britain, which began to rise, they began to unite with the DPRK as enemies.

Seeing that the Great Central dynasties gradually occupied large chunks of North and South American territories, and repeatedly seized colonies from their Westerners by force. Twenty-five years later, the tentacles of the Great Middle dynasties extended to Africa and India, which they regarded as imprisoned.

Commercially, China and North Korea have controlled the spice trade in Southeast Asia, and the silk, raw silk, tea ceramics, glass and other trade in East Asia. At the same time, they also took away the silver and gold production areas of Westerners in the Americas, and sent plundering boats to rob and attack Western cargo ships, giving them the gold and silver treasures they had finally got. It was abhorred to mainland China and controlled almost 90% of the world's sugar production, making it almost impossible for European countries to gain a foothold in the Pacific Ocean.

In order to curb the hegemony of the Great China and North Korea at sea and control the continued expansion of the Great China and North Korea, and in order to compete for their interests in India, the British, together with the Netherlands, France, Spain and even Tunisia and other countries, began to fight back against the Great China and North Korea.

Britain united with the Netherlands and Spain, and also gathered French fleets. It sent a large number of private ships and warships to bypass the Cape of Good Hope and enter the Indian Ocean, or even deep into the Pacific Ocean. It launched a large-scale looting of Chinese merchant ships for more than two years, in addition to such actions. In addition to gaining wealth, it also tries to crack down on trade activities at sea between China and North Korea.

Naturally, the Chinese and North Korean navies were not polite. After discovering this momentum, they immediately returned their teeth. In conjunction with the Maritime Trade Group, they also sent more private ships and warships to enter the Indian Ocean and even sail to the Atlantic Ocean to loot Western merchant ships and look for their predatory and warships at sea. Seek to fight with it, capture or sink it.

The competition between the East and the West on the sea began immediately began. In terms of navigation experience and shipbuilding experience, Westerners may have certain advantages, but in these aspects, China and North Korea, after more than more than 20 years of catching up, they are not far behind. What's more, the quality of artillery in China and North Korea is far higher than that of Western countries. The result of the hand can be imagined.

The plundering and warships of Western countries did not take any advantage in this large-scale confrontation. Even if their warships encounter the armed merchant ships of the Greater China and North Korea, with the advantage of the number of cannons, they may not be able to take advantage of it. On the contrary, they often take advantage of the new rear-loaded artillery of the Greater China and North Korea. The sexual plundering of private ships or warships was hit by the armed merchant ships of the Dazhong Dynasty either full of holes, or the flames rushed to the sky. If you run fast, you can get a chance to live. If you run slowly, in front of the new flowering grenades of the Dazhong Dynasty, you will soon be hit like a live target and sink into the sea.

The generation difference in artillery technology makes the ships of China and North Korea often meet Western ships at sea. They can win more with less, and beat the strong with the weak, especially the new explosive grenade, which may not be used to deal with the steel armor of later generations, but dealing with the current wooden ships can be described as a super killer, as long as the life In the middle, they will immediately blow up a big hole in the other party's hull. Often with a few cannons, they can split the enemy ship or start a fire. As a result, Western countries will suffer a great loss. Those Western pirates who plan to make a fortune by plundering private ships sometimes do not dare to plunder, but see Chinese armed merchant ships. Then he turned around and ran away.

With the Thirty-second year of Tianyuan, the Great Central and North Korea suddenly sent a fleet and army to capture the Gahle in Ceylon and expelled the Dutch from here. The British and the Dutch were completely enraged. In order to ensure their interests in India, they gathered nearly a hundred different types. Armed merchant ships and warships gathered in the Portuguese-controlled colony of Goa and launched an attack on Ceylon in the 33rd year of Tianyuan.

At this time, the large, medium and South Pacific Fleet also found their plan. They gathered dozens of warships, armed merchant ships and plundering ships in the sea of Ceylon in advance, and then there was a fierce battle between the two sides for more than a month.

In the end, although the Chinese fleet paid a considerable price, it defeated the European Combined Fleet, destroyed more than half of the ships that captured them, and forced their Combined Fleet to flee back to Goa.

The Great China and North Korea sent more fleets and armies to Goa. After World War I, they beat the European coalition forces there. Goa was also occupied by the Great China and expelled them from India, causing the Great China to take over their various interests in India.

In this battle, the Europeans completely realized that they were backward in terms of weapons. The naval guns at sea, their range and power were far less than the naval guns of the Chinese fleet. However, when fighting on land, the smooth-fire rifles and flectar guns they used were also not the shot needle-type rear equipment used by the army of the Greater China and North Koreans. The opponent of the rifle.

The Western army must stand in a posture, line up and use gun tactics. However, at this time, the way of fighting in the Great China and Middle Korea is already allowed soldiers to open fire, and they began to shoot far away outside the range of the enemy's musket. This is simply a unilateral massacre. The Western army has not been able to get it yet. With the Chinese army, it was beaten down in rows. Naturally, this battle could not be fought.

Moreover, the range of the cannons of the Great China and North Korea is also far beyond the range of their front smooth-loaded guns. A large number of ground-blooming grenades are even more powerful, which makes them fly flesh and blood. It is impossible not to fail.

So in the face of the huge technical generation gap, the European allied forces quickly and completely failed. After being forced to hand over their territory, they were confiscated their artillery and muskets by the large and medium-sized army, caught up with the remaining ships and expelled them from the Indian subcontinent.

A few years later, after the Greater China and North Korea gradually incorporated India into the colonial system, the armies of Greater China and North Korea once again focused on the inner area of West Asia. The Chinese fleet entered the Red Sea and the Gulf of Oman, and began to land in West Asia, gradually beginning to build a bridgehead.

Just as the war in the Indian subcontinent was about to begin, another major event happened to the Great China and North Korea, that is, with more than ten years of unremitting efforts of the Mechanical Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China's first practical steam engine officially began to operate under the ignition of the imperial emperor Xiao Tianjian.

When Xiao Tianjian watched the steam engine designed and manufactured by him and operated with his own participation, he couldn't help but burst into tears and stroked the seemingly clumsy steam engine. Xiao Tianjian contained hot tears and officially announced a new era. This is the steam age!

In the following few years, new steam engines began to be produced in batches, and began to be continuously applied to various factories, replacing hydraulic power and becoming the prime mover of many factories, and then the mines began to use steam engines to drive. The water pump discharges stagnant water from the mine or cave.

With the continuous maturity of steam engine technology, the power of the steam engine began to become larger and larger, and the unit volume began to shrink. Therefore, in the 38th year of Tianyuan, the first small train for the mine began to be put into trial operation in Datong Coal Mine, Shanxi. The first railway built by the independent investment of the Royal in childhood began In Tangshan Kaiping Coal Mine was paved in Tianjin Weixin Industrial Zone, and then in the next year, a new train was put into operation on this railway. The high-quality coal produced by Kaiping Coal Mine began to be continuously transported to Tianjin Wei Industrial Zone, completely replacing the original coal mine by mule and horse carts.

Xiao Tianjian also went to Tianjin Wei in person and became the first batch of passengers to take the train. The news came out, and the whole country was shocked. Many people ran to Tianjin Wei thousands of miles to watch this kind of steel monster filled with coal and could run by themselves with black smoke.

Then, under the will of Xiao Tianjian, the Ministry of Industry began to build railways all over the country, and then began the railway construction of the Great China and North Korea**.

However, considering the importance of the steam engine, Xiao Tianjian still ordered to block the steam engine manufacturing technology and not allow the steam engine to export in any form.

In the 42nd year of Tianyuan, Xiao Tianjian was already an old man in his seventies. Although he was still in good health, after completing the transfer of all his rights, he decided to abdicated and passed the throne to the crown prince Xiao Haoyu.

Although the ministers and the people went to the palace many times after learning the news and pleaded with Emperor Xiao not to abdicate, they were rejected by Emperor Xiao with a smile. In desperation, the Dazhong Empire held a very grand Zen ceremony for their father and son, making Xiao Haoyu the most nominal Gao ruled, and Xiao Tianjian became the emperor of the Dazhong Empire.

After completing the throne ceremony, Xiao Tianjian left the Forbidden City relaxedly and suddenly. Accompanied by the empress dowager Fan Yutong and the imperial concubine Fan Linger, he took a steam engine ship just built by the Dazhong Dynasty in Tianjin Port and left the mainland (the imperial concubine Die'er died of illness ten years ago) and sailed to Shen. The Jewel Islands in the depths of the Pacific Ocean (that is, the Hawaiian Islands, which are well known to future generations), will never come to the world again.

In addition to fishing at the seaside every day, this old man walks around the island accompanied by his two wives. According to Xiao Tianjian's own words, this is the life he wants to live, but he comes too late, so he should enjoy his life in his life.

In addition to fishing and walking, he basically no longer cares about state affairs. He only occasionally reads some newspapers sent by the empire. For more time, he will draw some drawings in his study with drawing tools.

The Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager often looked curiously at the strange drawings he drew, but they didn't know what were painted on them, so Xiao Tianjian often pointed to the drawings he drew and explained them.

Under Xiao Tianjian's explanation, they know that some of the things drawn on these pictures are not only new guns, but also new guns, and some of them are schematics that they have never heard of, such as internal combustion engines, generators and motors. Of course, the most rarest ones are There are several things that Xiao Tianjian calls submarines and planes. According to Xiao Tianjian, one can dive into the deep water like a fish, and the other can rely on its own power to fly into the sky like a bird.

In addition, when he is free, Xiao Tianjian will write something, organize it with these drawings, and finally compile it into a book. This book is full of fantasy colors. In the book, Xiao Tianjian looks forward to the future technology and depicts a scene of the future world that people yearn for.

In the end, the book was named "The Road to Future Science and Technology" by Xiao Tianjian, and after several years of improvement and collation, it was finally finalized. After completing the book, Xiao Tianjian sent someone to send the series back to the current imperial emperor Xiao Haoyu. At the same time, he told Xiao Haoyu that the book is not yet It can be printed and publicly distributed, and can only be kept in the Royal Library. Every few years, some of the fascicles are printed and sent to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, so that those academicians of the Academy of Sciences can develop according to the content.

After completing this book, Xiao Tianjian is already in his 80s. His two imperial concubines have also left the world at this time. One afternoon, he sat on a rocking chair on the promenade of a seaside villa, shaking the rocking chair slightly, looking at the sparkling sea in the distance, and suddenly the corners of his mouth. With a mysterious smile, he said, "I've done everything I have to do!" Now I have no regrets! I hope my soul can return to the future!"

When the maid delivered a cup of tea to him, she found that the respectable old man had closed his eyes peacefully and fell asleep forever...

(the end of this book)