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Chapter 41: Xu Xiake

At the moment when the space-time situation of No. 3 has entered a rush stage, the heroes of the Space-Time Expeditionary Force launched a large-scale invasion, profoundly and permanently changing the original history of Space-Time and Space-Time Empire, which belongs to the Space-Time Empire, has developed tepid.

Here, unlike the No. 1 space-time at the same time, the internal combustion engine revolution is in full swing. Every day, thousands of cars and planes descend from the production line and enter the lives of ordinary citizens, changing the state of survival of the traditional transportation mode of society. Millions of steam locomotives that were originally rampant in the countryside were replaced and thrown into the garbage dump, becoming waste products that need to be processed urgently. Lightweight and beautiful, horsepower off-road vehicles began to become mainstream, and Mercedes-Benz was galloping in the fields throughout the imperial countryside.

The industrial foundation of Space 2 is far from the level of Space 1. After more than ten years of development, the number of skilled workers who have already entered construction positions has been trained in basic education, but they only have the knowledge base of the steam engine era. Therefore, when Space 1 has made great strides towards the oil era, Space 2 is still clumsy and stubborn, firmly following the unique path of the steel and coal era.

The railway that Xu Xiake was facing in front of him was conquering the roof of the world bit by bit, which was enough to prove it.

This is the Caucasus. Time, the spring of the thirty-eight years, was in the second space and time, that is, 1648 AD.

The Eurasian Continental Railway Line is the ruler of the second space-time Ming Empire. The Regent Queen Li Huamei, the chief assistant Kong Ming (Zhuge Liang), and the second assistant Zheng Zhilong made a decision at the same time. It has huge strategic interests and roles, and has occupied most of the current strategic resources of the empire's entire country from the very beginning.

Starting from the Longhai Railway, which was already part of the original Longhai Railway within the borders of the empire, we pass through the Central Plains from Lianyungang on the coast of the East China Sea. Longxi, Western Xinjiang (Xinjiang), Hezhong (Central Asia), and then head north, bypassing the Aral Sea, Caspian Sea, entering the Caucasus, and will here, bypass the Black Sea. We have been through the front lines of war between the empire and European countries, the Dnieper River Plain and the Polish Plain!

The branch of this railway line, from the river, leads to India (India), maintains the rich agricultural base of the empire, and connects the African territory that leads to Persia, and connects the empire. It also pushes the empire's troops to the doorstep of the Ottoman Turkey, which is now compressed by the empire's iron hoof army. Another one goes south from the Don River Basin, leading directly to the Caucasus Mountains here, threatening the northern border of Turkey in the south.

Along the way, we moved like a mighty dragon in the territory of tens of millions of square kilometers, and on a railway line of tens of thousands of kilometers. Dozens of work sites started at the same time. Under the extremely evil geographical environment and natural conditions, millions of imperial workers and more slaves and war captives participated in the construction of this miraculous great project. However, this railway that is the greatest artificial miracle of mankind has been built. I don’t know how many people’s blood will soak in the cement sleepers and sections of steel tracks under my feet.

Civilization, to a certain extent, is a process of elimination. Natural competition is nature's butcher knife full of blood.

Xu Xiake, this year, is already 65 years old, but still has good maintenance. As the empire's leading geological expert, the empire's medical and health conditions have greatly improved in recent years, which has made his life still shine with unimaginable brilliance at this age. He was once one of the inspectors along the railway responsible for discovering, inspecting and dealing with some temporary engineering and construction geological problems.

Although this railway was not involved in the exploration and site design, he was once one of the think tanks he had at the time. In addition, he was lazy by nature and liked to travel. For him, being an inspector was suitable, and he used to work very happily in this position.

But now, of course he has retired. This time he came here for a purely personal trip. Along the way, the railway lines along the road were still insisting on maintaining the safety of the railway lines and the people at the stations and work stations were very happy to see him. After all, in this land, except for the military camp, it is extremely difficult to see Han people from the local empire.

For him, although he is so a habit, he is the second best person to maintain such a good body at this age and to continue hiking.

Stepping on the permafrost unique to the Tropic of Cancer, Xu Xia came to the Caucasus and climbed the Greater Caucasus Mountains with an average altitude of three to four thousand meters to track down the traces of the bloody Caucasus battle back then!

It is April of the thirty-eighth year.

What is the significance of the arrival of thirty-eight years? As a Ming Dynasty, Xu Xiake has never known why His Majesty the Emperor had to formulate such a strange calendar. Before thirty-eight, the current emperor had not appeared yet, and he never raised his hand to destroy the former Ming Dynasty and founded the foundation of the great Ming Empire in front of him. What great days were these thirty-eight years ago that were worth remembering forever by the entire empire?

Regarding this, the subjects of the entire empire are actually a little confused. The most reliable speculation is that thirty-eight years ago was the day when the imperial emperor was born, so it is worth remembering by the subjects forever. This hypothesis is reasonable for the creation of such a great achievements by His Majesty Shenwu Emperor, but this is inevitably a bit too ostentatious, which is somewhat inconsistent with the deep and restrained empire culture generally advocated.

However, no matter what, this is a speculation generally accepted by the imperial subjects. The imperial official has never explained this strange calendar. Just like... like many inexplicable policies when the Empire was first established, they suddenly appeared without warning or reason and began to be implemented. In the end, it proved that the result was very unexpected, and it was indeed more beneficial than disadvantages to the Empire.

Over time, the subjects of the empire accepted the wise and powerful force of the imperial ruling class. In recent years, the empire's various gratifying changes, industrial progress, general wealth of the people, strong national power, and national prestige spread throughout the world proved this.

For those like Xu Xiake who have entered the imperial ruling level, everyone knows that the empire is in the hands of a group of strange people. The empire's national policies and policies are presumptions by those at the core, and their origins are as confusing as the wise and wise Emperor Shenwu. The most obvious but unexamined characteristic of these people is that their names are all related to the names of the Three Kingdoms periods that are familiar to the people.

For example, General Wei Yan, who has been the chief minister since the founding of the country, has been in charge of the empire for many years, and has a prestige in the country, second only to His Majesty the Emperor, and is famous. For example, General Wei Yan, who won a series of wars of advancing westward and conquered these tens of millions of square kilometers of apprentices for the empire!

General Wei Yan, the commander of the Caucasus Battle, made great contributions in this Empire's War to Advance West. In this battle, the Empire defeated the coalition forces of Turkey and European countries and gained a comprehensive strategic advantage over Europe.

Among them, they defeated the Turkish army in the south, crossed the Greater Caucasus Mountains, overlooking the northern border of Turkey. In the north, after defeating the coalition forces formed by dozens of European countries such as Poland and Lithuania, France, Prussia, Ukraine, Finland and Russia, the troops advanced to the Ukrainian plains and suppressed Europe. At this point, the empire's world hegemony was firmly established. The empire's only opponent in the world, Europe and Turkey, were both passively beaten.

The Empire's Battle of the West began in 1642, when the Ming Empire had completed the integration of East and South Asia.

Among them, Japan was naturalized in 1638 and became the empire's Japanese province, the Indochina Peninsula and the Nanyang Islands, and the empire's North Vietnam, the South Vietnam, the Malay, the Thousand Islands, and the subordinate states Siam and Myanmar. As for India, due to the complex situation, it was established as a governor's office directly under the jurisdiction, and the internal local religious situation is still somewhat deeply rooted.

The light industry productivity, led by the textile industry, cultivated in the early days of the founding of the Empire, expanded violently, and had to find a broader market space. However, the empire's colonial development in North and South America has been jointly resisted by European countries and cannot open up the situation. His Majesty the Emperor of the Empire was furious and personally ordered the Western Expedition!

The imperial general Wei Yan led the empire's millions of troops, carrying the cavalry of the Mongolian tribes that had been tamed at this time, crossed thousands of mountains and miles from Asia, and drove directly to the European mainland. He no longer played hide-and-seek with the European countries at sea, but directly engaged in a war of conquest against the European continent!

The biggest obstacle at that time was the Ottoman Turkish Empire, which was lying across the territory of the Empire and the European countries, and had a long-lasting tug-of-war. Due to the powerful military pressure of the Empire, the century-old feud between the European countries and Turkey had been relieved of its past grudges and became a strategic partner. The war supplies sent from Europe to Turkey every year were tens of thousands, making Turkey almost completely suppressed by the Empire to Europe's borders, but it was very resilient, blocking the empire's military front for Europe and resisting tenaciously under the pressure of Xu Huang, the governor of the Empire West Asia.

General Wei Yan's army came out from the northern road, stepped by iron hoof, and directly annihilated the remaining Junggar Khanate, Shiva Khanate and Kazakh Khanate. The Tatars, Kazakhs, Kyrgyzstans and other nomadic peoples on the Central Asian prairie were all conquered by the army. Millions of cavalry of various tribes, under the call of the reappearing Tiankhan's flag, took two years to cross the Ural River to the west and enter the Don River Basin. Here we finally met the coalition forces of various countries mobilized throughout Europe, with more than two million, and launched a head-on decisive battle with the Turkish army headed from the Caucasus Mountains and the Iron Hoof Army led by Wei Yan.

This battle is a battle that determines the outcome between Western and Eastern civilizations, and it is also a battle that determines the future of the world! The number of musketeers, cavalry, artillery, and air force on both sides has shed blood and the price of life for the future of their respective nations on the limited land of the Caucasus, and wrote the most passionate song of the era.
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