Prince Zhao Kuanghuan is 51 years old. He has been formally handling government affairs since he was 40 years old.
All memorials from the cabinet were sent to the prince, and the emperor only randomly checked and reviewed them every day.
This situation made the prince even more stressed.
Because if the prince wants to do things, he must have his own team. The team he promotes often conflict with the ministers of the cabinet, and the ministers of the cabinet are the emperor's people.
In the end, it turned into a conflict between the emperor and the prince!
Under normal circumstances, the emperor left the prince alone. But at critical moments, the emperor suddenly exerted his force. More than ten members of the prince's team were demoted one after another, and one was even exiled to Beihai (the exiled one totally deserved it.
Involved in the case where the government forced the people to rebel. During the prosperous era of Datong, the people of Gansu actually rebelled).
Fortunately, he was almost in his prime. The emperor's health was getting worse and worse, and his mental state was getting worse day by day.
"Your Highness, the birthday ceremony has been arranged."
"Practice it again and I'll see it myself."
It was the emperor's seventieth birthday soon. Emperor Zhao, who had always disliked making arrangements, suddenly proposed to celebrate his birthday grandly.
When the news came out, not only the officials but also the people were excited.
Merchants inside and outside Nanjing spontaneously purchased red satin, decorated their shops with joy, and hung up red lanterns to celebrate all night long.
In the early morning of that day, Nanjing was already bustling with activity.
All civil and military officials wore formal uniforms, and envoys from various countries also entered the city early and lined up outside Donghua Gate.
Zhao Han took an imperial chariot and came to the Meridian Gate Tower. He stood up tremblingly and was supported by a female official 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 which day started, but the frequency of bowel movements increased, and I had to have bowel movements three or four times a day. When I had a bowel movement, I felt like having diarrhea but not diarrhea. In addition, I had no other symptoms of discomfort. I was very energetic and had no problem with my appetite.
Just last year, Zhao Han suddenly felt severe pain in his abdomen, which was accompanied by blood in his stool.
Famous doctors from all walks of life came to the palace for consultation, 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 many days, there was slight improvement.
Last winter, his condition took a turn for the worse. He began to have difficulty defecation, bloating, and abdominal pain, and then his liver also hurt. Sometimes he couldn't wake up when he fell asleep, and he had to wait for him to wake up naturally.
This year is even worse, I lost at least 30 pounds.
Zhao Han could probably guess that he was suffering from intestinal cancer, and it was probably in the advanced stage.
What cannot be cured will not be cured in another three hundred years.
The concubines followed him, and they also entered the city one after another.
Queen Fei Rulan has died of illness four years ago, and Tian Xiuying and Liu Rushi have also died of illness. Now Fei Rumei is the queen, but she is not doing a very good job and has a little temper from time to time.
It was a warm day today, and Zhao Han was helped to sit on a chair.
Although he was in good spirits, his physical strength was not enough to sit for a long time, so Zhao Han could only lean on the backrest and look at the city.
"The clan enters!"
The members of the royal family lined up in front of the Meridian Gate, led by the King of Chu, Zhao Kuangping. The two eldest princesses Zhao Zhenlan and Zhao Zhenfang were also there, but their husbands had died of illness. This time they came to the capital with their children to celebrate their birthdays.
After Zheng Sen resigned as Chief Envoy to Guangdong, he served as Zong Zheng of the Zongren Mansion for two years. He couldn't sit still, so he took the initiative to apply for external transfer and was arranged to be the Governor of Bengal.
Bangladesh has been destroyed, not because it was invaded, but because it destroyed itself.
The Bengal emperor went on a military rampage and expanded his territory to the limit. During the period when the monarch was critically ill, rebellions broke out across the country and split into seven separatist forces. Chinese merchants took advantage of the situation and obtained commercial privileges in several ports by selling cold weapons.
When the melee really broke out, the merchants couldn't bear it, so they had to ask the imperial court to send troops, and those ports became colonies of the imperial court.
Together with the Chittagong gained from the dowry, the Governorate of Bengal was formed.
"My son, Zhao Kuangping, wishes my father a long Christmas and wishes him a long life!"
Zhao Han smiled and raised his hand gently.
Zhao Kuangping immediately retreated to the side, and Han Wang Zhao Kuangbai came forward to congratulate him on his birthday.
Among them, Jin Wang Zhao Kuangli did not come in person and sent a Han official as a birthday messenger.
Zhao Kuanglui's health was also not very good and he was occasionally bedridden. However, his Jin Kingdom had expanded several times to include Tanjore, Madurai, Kulam, Keladi, and Mysore, occupying half of the country.
South Indian region.
Han immigrants and their descendants, numbering about 500,000, rule over 10 million Indians.
In order to facilitate the rule, we had to make compromises and accept the customs, culture and politics of South India with reservations. It has become a weird place, a fusion of Chinese culture and Dravidian culture, but the official language and writing must be used
Chinese language and Chinese characters.
The land system adopts advanced landlord ownership.
Almost all Han people are big landowners, and the Indian elites who can speak Chinese and write Chinese characters have certainly become big landowners.
Hindu culture was impacted, and at the same time, it actively catered to the rule, and the caste ranking became: Chinese, Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, Sudra, and untouchable.
The Chinese are Han people, superior to all castes, and at the same time not bound by caste occupations. They can engage in any occupation they want. This has provoked several rebellions, which were completely suppressed by the military.
Moreover, no matter which caste you are, as long as you pass the imperial examination and become an official, you can immediately become Chinese, and your descendants will also be Chinese.
But there is a restriction. Those naturalized Chinese who do not marry Han Chinese within three generations will automatically lose their Chinese identity.
Facts have proved that Indians are very compliant and are willing to cooperate with policies no matter how outrageous they are.
The Mughals brought Persian culture, which was quickly adopted by North India. The British brought European culture, and deliberately created divisions in India. They forced North Indian languages into two official scripts, which led to India hundreds of years later
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Now that Chinese culture has arrived, South Indian elites have taken the initiative to learn, and many even went to China to study abroad.
After the clan congratulated them on their birthday, all the civil and military officials came forward.
Then came the envoys from various countries, North Korea, Japan, Siam, Laos, Dai, Bangladesh, Brunei, Sulu, Spain, Portugal, France, Britain, Tsarist Russia, Mughals, Persia...
Foreign envoys no longer live in Zhongshan Temple, and special embassies have been built.
There are so many that even European countries have envoys stationed in Nanjing to facilitate access to Chinese information at any time.
North Korea is very obedient now. The king's name is Li Yin, who is different from the same name in history.
The main reason was that she was beaten once by China, which caused the queen of Korea to change. Of course, the prince she was born also changed.
This unlucky child was born with fierce party strife. Now that he has taken office, the party strife is still there. He hates party strife deeply. After taking office, he immediately changed the court, three times in ten years, and each time was accompanied by criticism and killing. Not only did the party strife not subside,
On the contrary, it became more intense because the various parties were already fighting blood feuds.
Japan is still governed by the Tokugawa shogunate. Since it is no longer closed to the country, the power of local daimyo has greatly increased through sea trade.
This increase in strength did not weaken the power of the shogunate too much. The only result was that when the local lords were arrogant and extravagant, they no longer owed huge sums of money to the merchants of the three capitals. Their maritime trade income, plus territorial taxes, was
It is enough to support the squandering, but only the heavy debts for large-scale construction projects.
There were also one or two powerful vassals who worked hard to govern and secretly learned steam engines by sending envoys to study abroad.
However, it is very embarrassing, Japan is a coal-poor country!
There are only a few coal mines in the northern part of Kyushu Island, the northern part of the Kanto Plain, and the western part of Hokkaido, and Hokkaido has long been the Ezo Prefecture of China.
Currently, there are only two steam factories in Japan.
The Luzon Governorate in the south was changed to Luzon Province eight years ago.
The mountainous areas in central Luzon are still the territory of indigenous tribes. However, the entire coastal area of the island has basically completed Chineseization, and there is even a Luzon-born mixed-race Jinshi.
Java Island has not yet established a province, but it is 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 can definitely be defeated, and it will be a piece of cake.
Because all Spanish colonies are revolting and seeking independence. Especially in Latin America, uprisings are everywhere. The native white people are mixed with European and American blood. They have long been unable to withstand Spanish exploitation. Some people are even clamoring to join China.
Under the rule of Louis XIV, France dominated the European continent and won many foreign wars, but the people at home were in dire straits.
King Charles II of England died of illness two years ago.
Because he remarried to the French clan as the queen, history changed. His legitimate son did not die in infancy, and his 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 faith, actually started to implement religious freedom policies as soon as he came to power. In order to compromise with the Protestants, he restored the parliament that his father had closed for several years.
After the reorganization of Parliament, the first decree drafted was "all those who do not believe in the Church of England shall be dealt with in accordance with the law."
Charles III was furious and dissolved the British Parliament again.
The members of Parliament colluded with the nobles to rebel. The Earl of Argyll launched a rebellion and invaded Scotland. The Duke of Monmouth (the illegitimate son of Charles II) led the rebels to land in southwest England.
The national defense force built by Charles II showed strong combat effectiveness and easily defeated the two groups of rebels.
Then, Charles III began to cause chaos. He felt that there were rebels everywhere and ordered severe punishment for those who conspired to rebel. Not only did he kill his younger brother (half-mother) who led the rebellion, he also went around London to arrest suspects. Then he deliberately cooperated with the Anglican Church
To counter this, a large number of Catholics were employed as military officers.
Now that the civil war broke out again, even the troops left behind by Charles II began to oppose the king's perverse actions.
Especially the group of pirates and their descendants from Chittagong. They were all baptized into the Protestant religion and were very pious in seeking recognition. The king not only insulted their beliefs, but also hired a large number of heretical 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 rebels and declared himself King Edward IV of England.
Edward IV won the battle, but the centralization of the British monarchy was also over.
Because he relied on the power of the squire to defeat his brother, the squire group regained power through the House of Commons. The British named this event the "Glorious Revolution."