I - Chapter 1066

  Chapter 1066 1062【Final Chapter 1】

  The forty-sixth year of the beginning of the Republic of China.

  Prince Zhao Kuanghuan is 51 years old. Since he was 40 years old, he has officially handled the government affairs.

   All the memorials sent by the cabinet were sent to the prince, and the emperor only randomly checked and reviewed them every day.

  This kind of situation puts more pressure on the prince.

  Because the prince wants to do things, he must have his own team. The team he promotes often conflicts with the important ministers of the cabinet, and the important ministers of the cabinet are the emperor’s people.

  In the end, it becomes a conflict between the emperor and the prince!

  Under normal circumstances, the emperor is the crown prince. But at every critical moment, the emperor suddenly exerted force, and more than a dozen people from the crown prince’s team were demoted one after another, and one was even exiled to Beihai (the one who was exiled deserved it, and was involved in the case of government coercion and rebellion. Datong In the prosperous age, the people of Gansu actually rebelled).

   Fortunately, he was already in his early years. The emperor’s health was getting worse and worse, and his mental health was getting worse day by day.

   “Your Highness, the birthday ceremony has been properly arranged.”

   “Drill it again, I’ll go and see it myself.”

  The emperor’s 70th birthday was coming up soon, and Emperor Zhao, who had always disliked making arrangements, suddenly proposed to celebrate his birthday grandly.

   When the news came out, not only the officials were enthusiastic, but even the people were jubilant.

  Businessmen inside and outside the city of Nanjing spontaneously purchased red satin, decorated their shops with joy, and hung up red lanterns to celebrate all night.

  In the early morning of this day, Nanjing was already bustling.

  All civil and military officials wore uniforms, and envoys from various countries also entered the city early and waited in line outside Donghua Gate.

  Zhao Han rode the imperial chariot, came to the Meridian Gate Tower, stood up tremblingly, and was supported by the female officer to climb the city.

  Three years ago, he was still in good health and thought he could live to be eighty or ninety years old.

  I don’t know when, the frequency of defecation increased, three or four times a day. When defecating, it seems to have diarrhea but not diarrhea, and there is no other discomfort, and the energy is very energetic, and there is no problem with appetite.

   Just last year, Zhao Han suddenly felt severe pain in his abdomen, and even had blood in his stool.

  Famous doctors from all walks of life came to the palace for consultation in turn, and the diagnosis results were similar. They all said that the emperor had heat poison in his body, and he had to clear away the heat and eliminate the evil to recover.

  After taking the medicine for several days, there was a slight improvement.

  Last winter, my condition took a turn for the worse. Difficulty defecating at the beginning, abdominal distension, abdominal pain, and then the liver also hurts. Sometimes he fell asleep and couldn’t wake up, so he had to wait for him to wake up naturally.

  This year is even worse, at least 30 catties lost.

  Zhao Han can probably guess that he should be suffering from bowel cancer, and it is probably at an advanced stage.

  If it cannot be cured, it will not be cured in another three hundred years.

  The empresses and concubines followed, and went to the city one after another.

  Queen Fei Rulan has died of illness for four years, Tian Xiuying and Liu Rushi have also died of illness. Now it’s Fei Rumei who is the queen, and she doesn’t do very well, and she has a little temper from time to time.

   Today is sunny, Zhao Han was helped to a chair and sat down.

  Although the spirit is not bad, but the physical strength is not enough to support sitting for a long time, Zhao Han can only lean on the backrest and look at the city.

   “The imperial family enters!”

  The members of the clan lined up in front of the Meridian Gate, led by King Zhao Kuangping of Chu. The two eldest princesses, Zhao Zhenlan and Zhao Zhenfang, were also there, but their husbands had both died of illness, and this time they brought their children to the capital to celebrate their birthdays.

   After Zheng Sen resigned as the chief envoy of Guangdong, he served as Zongzheng of the Clan Mansion for two years. I really couldn’t stay idle, so I took the initiative to apply for a transfer and was assigned to be the governor of Bangladesh.

  Bangladesh has been destroyed, not by invasion, but by playing itself to pieces.

  The Bengal emperor resorted to military force, expanding his territory to the limit. When the monarch was critically ill, rebellions broke out all over the country and split into seven separatist forces. Chinese merchants took advantage of the situation and obtained the commercial privileges of several ports by selling cold weapons.

   When the melee started, the merchants couldn’t bear it, so they had to ask the imperial court to send troops, and those ports became the imperial court’s colonies.

   Together with the Chittagong acquired by dowry, they will form the Governor-General of Bangladesh.

   “My son, Zhao Kuangping, congratulate Father on Christmas, and wish Father a long life!”

  Zhao Han raised his hand slightly with a smile on his face.

   Zhao Kuangping immediately retreated to the side, and Han Wang Zhao Kuangbai came forward to celebrate his birthday again.

  Among them, Jin Wang Zhao Kuangyi did not come in person, but sent a Han official as a birthday emissary.

  Zhao Kuangyi’s health is not very good, and he is occasionally bedridden. But his state of Jin has expanded its territory several times, owning the lands of the five countries of Tanjore, Madurai, Julan, Klady, and Mysore, occupying half of South India.

  The number of Han immigrants and their descendants is about 500,000, but they rule more than 10 million Indians.

   In order to facilitate the rule, compromises had to be made, and South Indian customs, culture and politics were accepted with reservations. It has become a freak, a fusion of Chinese culture and Dravidian culture, but the official language and characters must use Chinese and Chinese characters.

  The land system adopts the advanced landlord ownership system.

  Almost all Han Chinese are big landlords, and Indian elites who can speak Chinese and write Chinese characters, of course, also became big landlords.

  Hindu culture was impacted, and at the same time actively catered to the rule, the caste ranking became: Chinese, Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, Sudra, and untouchables.

  The Chinese are the Han people, superior to all castes, and not bound by caste occupations. I can engage in whatever occupation I want. This has aroused several rebellions, which were completely suppressed by the army.

  Moreover, no matter which caste, as long as they are admitted to the imperial examination to become an official, they can immediately become Chinese, and their descendants will also be Chinese.

   But there is a restriction. Those naturalized Chinese who do not intermarry with Han people within three generations will automatically cancel their Chinese status.

  Facts have proved that Indians are very obedient, and they are willing to cooperate no matter how outrageous the policy is.

  Mughals brought Persian culture, which was quickly accepted by North India. The British brought European culture, and deliberately divided India, forcing the North Indian language into two official scripts, which made it impossible for India to unify the script hundreds of years later.

   Now that Chinese culture has come, South Indian elites are actively learning, and many even go to China to study.

   After the clan celebrates the birthday, all civil and military officials stepped forward.

   Then there are envoys from various countries, North Korea, Japan, Siam, Laos, Dai, Meng, Brunei, Sulu, Spain, Portugal, France, Britain, Tsarist Russia, Mughals, Persia…

  Foreign envoys no longer live in Zhongshan Temple, and a special embassy has been built.

   There are too many of them. Even European countries have envoys stationed in Nanjing to facilitate access to Chinese information at any time.

  North Korea is very obedient nowadays. The king’s name is Li Xuan, which is different from the same name in history.

   It was mainly because of being beaten by China once, which caused the queen of Joseon to change, and of course the prince who was born also changed.

   This unlucky child was born with fierce party struggles, and now the pro-government party struggles are still there. He hated party struggles deeply. After taking office, he immediately had a big change in the court. Three times in ten years, each time was accompanied by attacks and killings. Not only did the party struggle not subside, but it intensified because the parties had killed their blood feuds.

  Japan is still governed by the Tokugawa shogunate. Since the country is no longer closed to the outside world, local daimyos have greatly increased their strength through maritime trade.

  This increase in strength did not weaken the power of the shogunate too much. The only result is that when the local big names are arrogant and extravagant, they no longer owe huge sums of money to merchants in Sandu. Their sea trade income, coupled with the taxation of the territory, is enough to support the squandering, and only the large-scale construction projects are heavily in debt.

   There are also one or two powerful feudal clans who worked hard to govern, and even quietly learned the steam engine by sending envoys to study abroad.

  However, it is very embarrassing, Japan is a coal-poor country!

  Only in the northern part of Kyushu Island, the northern part of the Kanto Plain, and the western part of Hokkaido, there are a small number of coal mines, and Hokkaido has long been China’s Ezo County.

  At present, there are only two steam factories in Japan.

  The Governor-General of Luzon in the south was changed to Luzon Province eight years ago.

  The mountainous area in central Luzon is still the territory of indigenous tribes. However, the coastal areas of the entire island have basically completed Sinicization, and there is even a Luzon Chinese mixed-race jinshi.

  Java Island has not established a province yet, but it has been put on the agenda.

  Spain has completely declined, and the hawkish officials of the Nanjing court have been clamoring to capture the South Philippine Islands all day long.

   To be honest, it will definitely be defeated, and it will be easy.

  Because the Spanish colonies are rebelling for independence. Especially in Latin America, there are uprisings everywhere, native whites and mixed Europeans and Americans have long been unbearable to be exploited by Spain, and some people even clamor to join China.

  Under the rule of Louis XIV, France dominated the European continent and won many foreign wars, but the people in the country were in dire straits.

   King Charles II of England died of illness two years ago.

  Because he remarried the French clan as the queen, history changed. The eldest son did not die, and the eldest son succeeded to the throne as Charles III.

  But this Charles III, influenced by his father’s thoughts on religious freedom and his mother’s Catholic belief, actually wanted to implement a policy of religious freedom as soon as he came to power. As a compromise to the Protestants, he restored a parliament which his father had closed for several years.

  After the reorganization of the Parliament, the first decree drafted was “All those who do not believe in the Anglican religion shall be dealt with according to the law.”

  Charles III was furious and dissolved the British Parliament again.

  Members of Congress colluded with the nobles to rebel, the Earl of Argyll launched a rebellion to invade Scotland, and the Duke of Monmouth (the illegitimate son of Charles II) led the rebel army to land in southwest England.

  The National Defense Army built by Charles II showed strong combat effectiveness and easily defeated the two rebels.

   Then, Charles III started to mess around. He felt that there were rebels everywhere, and ordered to severely punish the conspiring rebels. Not only killed the younger brother (half mother) who led the rebellion, but also arrested suspects around London. Then deliberately confronted the Anglican Church and used a large number of Catholics as military officers.

   Now that the civil war broke out again, even the army left by Charles II began to oppose the king’s perverse actions.

  Especially the group of pirates and descendants from Chittagong, all of them were baptized into Protestantism, and they were very devout in seeking identity. The king not only insulted their beliefs, but also used a large number of heretic officers. These Chittagong pirates had a tendency to defect.

  When Zhao Han celebrated his 70th birthday, the second son of Charles II was elected as the leader of the rebel army and declared himself King Edward IV of England.

  Edward IV won, but the centralization of the British monarchy was also over.

  Because he relied on the strength of the squire, he defeated his brother, and the squire group regained power through the House of Commons. The British named this incident the “Glorious Revolution”.

  (end of this chapter)