Bright Spring

Maybe modern people shouldn't mock the pharaohs, because rich people still have their blood drained and frozen.Compared with the pharaohs, the difference seems to be insignificant in nature.

After a long time, Gao Xu said: "You are right, any religion is born because of death."

But soon the most simple reality of life pulled them back from abstract and ancient topics.A man led the camel and said: "Camel, Xiangyin." Then he spoke in an incomprehensible language.

Gao Xu looked embarrassed: "Who taught you the dialect?"

The camel driver couldn't understand, so Mona began to translate.After a while, she said: "He rents camels, but I don't recommend riding them. It's a little unsafe, and he will ask you for more money later on. If you agree, the money will become Mingyuan."

Fortunately, the person who rented the camel could not understand Chinese very well.Gao Xu felt Mona's kindness and accepted her suggestion.

Gao Xu first helped her black girl friend, and then generously and "trusted" the advance payment (he didn't care about the little money at all). Not only did Mona not be late to release the pigeons, but she also put herself in the position of protecting the interests of her employer.It seems that some things in human beings are indeed interlinked.

But the person who rented the camel did not go, but followed.After a while, two more came with camels.Gao Xu is completely in no mood to experience the ancient concept of eternal life.

At this moment, Yang Kui took out three small bottles and handed them to the camel driver with a smile, finally ending the entanglement amicably.

Gao Xu smelled the scent, and said in admiration: "I haven't thought of giving a small gift, cooling oil is good, it's really suitable for this hot place."

Yang Kui shook his head and said, "It's not applied like that. They are used like Indian god|oil."

Gao Xu: "..."

Yang Kui also immediately encountered a cold spot, Mona pretended not to understand, and Gao Xu didn't have the nerve to continue this topic.

Chapter 45 Prosperity and Destruction

Most of the tourists from all over the world who leave the pyramids will continue to go south along the Nile River, where there are several famous temples.Or go north to Alexandria, where there are Greek cultural relics.

However, the four of Gao Xu and his party gave up the ancient scenic spots and headed east to the Suez Canal, planning to go down the canal to the "Donggang Fortress" site.This is a very unpopular route, because there are really not many mysterious things.

Along the way, Miaojin began to tell the history before and after World War I, as well as stories about the canal.Combining the information he usually read from books, Gao Xu gradually understood all this systematically.

In the early days of the application of steam engines, that is, in the late Wude period, Gao Xu was still alive (the second half of the fifteenth century AD). During his half-century-long rule, he spent years of financial funds on the development of industrial technology, and finally came up with The first generation of steam engines.

The Ming Dynasty built many "envoy cities" and "governor's mansions" in the coastal area east of Yiji, and its power expanded westward to Yiji, where it defeated the local ruler Mamluk forces.The Ming Dynasty began to recruit local labor and build the Suez Canal, intending to open up the closest route to Europe, but Gaoxu died and the canal was not completed.

The Ming Fleet headed south to Australia. Because there was no country there, Gao Xu casually named the region and moved a small number of people there to raise horses and engage in animal husbandry.

The fleet crossed the Pacific Ocean to the east and discovered the North American continent. At first it was named "America", and a fort called "Xinzhou Port" was established on the west coast.However, the speed of ships at that time was very slow, and it was still not easy to cross the Pacific Ocean. Compared with the vast American continent, the population of the Han people was seriously underpopulated in the past.

Considering the frequent activities at sea, it is impossible to keep information secret for a long time. It is easier for Europeans to find that continent from the Atlantic Ocean.The Ming court began to show favor to the aborigines in the United States, sending various gifts, and went there to spread the theory of the land bridge everywhere, saying that the local aborigines were fellow villagers who migrated from the Ming Dynasty in ancient times, and named them Yin people. , in an attempt to "educate" the aborigines in order to expand the shortage of the Han population.

During the reign of Zhu Gaoxu and his grandson, Daming did not have too many problems.It's just that the later emperors and ministers were very worried that the overseas power would not be lost, and gradually stopped continuing to expand, but they dared not easily give up the "ancestral property" they had already occupied and the huge investment in the seaport and canal.Domestic forces that profit from large government-run factories and get rich in maritime trade are also not allowed.

There was no economic crisis for a long time. The overseas market of the Ming Dynasty was really huge, and the capital was in the market development period for a long time.

After the completion of the Suez Canal, the Ming Dynasty faced the expansion pressure of the Ottoman Empire and began to make friends with European countries.

The imperial court let the Portuguese occupying Morocco and the Austrians occupying Italy represent the waterway transit trade.Then the Ming army built the "East Port" on the Mediterranean coast and east of Alexandria, and stationed the navy and army; sold large sums of obsolete arms to Austrians and European mercenaries, and armed these potential helpers.

The Spaniards sailed to South America, causing the local natives to suffer horribly. European diseases, guns |

At this time, the Portuguese and the Spaniards signed a treaty, which meant that the west of the world belonged to Spain and the east to Portugal.Ming Dynasty is of course just watching a joke

, ignore it.

In the sixteenth century AD, there was a short-term war between the Ming Dynasty and the Governor's Mansion and the Ottomans.

The Ottoman fleet was repulsed by the steam gunships of the Ming army, and the Ottoman army was also unable to advance an inch on land, and could not repeat the feat of breaking Constantinople.Although the total land and water force of the Governor's Mansion at that time was only a few thousand, they withstood the military attack of the nearby great empire by virtue of their weapons.

It was difficult for the Ming army to counterattack the huge Ottoman Empire due to the proximity of the Ming army and the number of people in the garrison. The Ming court at that time had no intention of continuing to expand, so the two sides negotiated peace.The Ottomans paid reparations, but got some transit trade opportunities.

After the Ottomans subsided, East and West generally lived in peace for a while.For nearly 200 years, everyone has found their own livelihood.

The Spaniards dug silver in South America, and then spent it all over the world. They lived quite lavishly, and there were no problems in the early stage.The Portuguese, Italians and Austrians are doing transit shipping trade, which is also very nourishing.

The Dutch and a small number of British people started the business of sea handling and financial business, which was okay.

Bankrupt farmers and prisoners from Britain and France went to the western part of North America to pioneer, and the land was very fertile.The King of England declared that the entire territory of North America belongs to the United Kingdom, and there is no problem, because the continent is very large, and how much can be occupied depends on one's ability.The colonists expelled the aboriginals to occupy the land, and told stories to slander the local tribes as cannibals in order to crusade and slaughter them justly, all of which were normal operations.

The Ming court in the east was also quite satisfied with the situation. At that time, the tariffs were not high and the countries were not well managed, so the Han people sold all kinds of industrial products.Even though the sea is far away, the cost of steamship shipping is low, and everyone still makes a lot of money.Facing the huge population markets of European countries, including Eastern Europe, Russia, Ottoman and other places, as well as the vast market of the traditional oriental sphere of influence, the upper class of the Ming Dynasty at that time was doing well for a while.

Britain, France and Prussia (Prussia) and many other countries vigorously developed industry and commerce, and put forward the concept of mercantilism.Although Ming’s industrial products are high-quality and cheap, and the first-mover advantage is difficult to compete with, Europeans still have many industries to do, such as importing equipment for the textile industry, marketing luxury handicrafts, selling agricultural and sideline products, and the financial industry.After all, the Spaniards dug up silver and were unwilling to produce goods, so they spent a lot of money.

In the middle, the Dutch were against the British, the British were against the French, Ottoman's own coup|coup and civil war, and many small-scale wars occurred in many places, which was not a big problem.The Ming court did not intend to participate at all, and took the opportunity to sell obsolete arms, and both sides sold them at the same time.

An uprising broke out in England, and the king was clicked from time to time, so that no one dared to take the throne for a while.Then there was the rise of Prussia, defeated the French, and took the opportunity to unify the German Federation by force, which made the French heartbroken.

Prosperity is always so short-lived, and the haze of war is constantly brewing in the carnival of the upper echelons.

The destruction and chaos of the East and the West finally detonated successively.

This world war was protracted, and the intensity of the initial war was not strong, fighting and stopping, and finally developed into a decisive battle.

And at the beginning, the war between the East and the West was fought separately, and then it intensified.At that time, extreme nationalist trends appeared one after another in various European countries, and then a revolution broke out in France. The rebels first killed the king, and then the rebels themselves intervened.

France, which originally planned to overthrow the king and establish a capitalist system of governance, successfully turned into a military dictatorship under the brewing of internal fighting and nationalism.At this time, it is only possible to expand the "sense of honor" of nationalism, so the French took the Spaniards first.This empire, which was profligate after being rich and has returned to poverty, was about to explode on the spot|explosion inside. When the French army came, it quickly fell apart.

He easily killed the French army in Spain and gained unprecedented confidence. The next goal is De Yizhi, intending to avenge his shame.De Yizhi's government was frightened to death, and quickly formed alliances everywhere. Austria-Hungary, Ottoman, Italy and others signed a mutual aid treaty with De Yizhi.However, extreme nationalism is popular in Germany, and the theory of Germanic blood nobility emerges in an endless stream, so the old emperor was forced to prepare for war.

Coincidentally, there were many evils in the Ming Dynasty, and finally resorted to force and started a civil war.

At that time, the problems in the Ming Dynasty were simply complicated, not a simple contradiction between two forces.Big capital increasingly merged and monopolized, causing a large number of farmers and workers to be extremely impoverished and struggling to make ends meet. The upper class took possession of astronomical assets and profits.

The contradiction between the centralization of the emperor and the big capitalists expanded.The emperor wanted to collect taxes to cover the extremely extravagant living expenses and government expenses, and the big capitalists and landlords accused the emperor of collecting taxes too freely.It has become increasingly difficult for big capital to transfer taxes to the bottom, because the bottom is already extremely poor.

The Emperor Ming also wanted to recover the profits of the government-run company, which was obviously impossible.A large number of government-run companies, including energy and military factories, are controlled by civilian officials and nobles. They were divided up 100 years ago and belong to the public in name.If you want to take it back now, don't you want someone else's life?

Capitalists generally have the status of big landlords and civil and military officials, and they are all rich and powerful figures.The contradictions between them are also irreconcilable, because they all want to expand their power and increase their influence on the court, so as not to be suddenly deprived of their property or gradually eroded their power.

Under the sharp complex contradictions, it is a miracle that people still maintain the Ming Dynasty.Probably because since the Qin Dynasty, the concept of great unification has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and what people think is |destroying their opponents and dominating themselves.

Then a cabinet chief assistant surnamed Zhou, who is also a big capitalist and a big landlord, directly ignited the war.

After this person came to power, he recruited a general from the northern defense area (of course, these generals themselves are also wealthy), and Zhou Shoufu delegated the local military and financial power to the general to "coordinate" and let him counter the rebellion and suppress the uprising.However, the general supported the bandits to enrich himself, and was unable to put out the uprising for a long time. He kept asking for money and annexing the Northern Company.

Other forces in the imperial court tried every means to exert pressure, so that the first assistant dismissed the general, so as to prevent the military group from turning into a warlord.But how could Zhou Shoufu be willing to give up such a large political|political capital?

After some internal strife, the young emperor who had just ascended the throne wanted to make a big splash, but found out that it was all a mess.The terrified frontier general then raised the banner of rebellion.

The prelude to the civil war suddenly kicked off, and the smoke of gunpowder shrouded the huge empire territory with the Pacific Ocean as its inner lake, and it was out of control.

The Thousandth Chapter 16 Blood Fire Nirvana

The frontier generals who held the "Qing Emperor's side" against the flag were eventually wiped out by the official army composed of the Beijing camp and the local army.But the problem of the Ming Dynasty is far from being resolved, and it has only just begun.

The rebel is dead, but the essay he left is still there, and it has a great influence.