1519: Unification of the world (final chapter and postscript)
In the sixth year of the founding of the Han Dynasty, the imperial emperor Gao Yuan led hundreds of thousands of troops to attack Qin in three groups, and was as powerful as a rock. In less than three months, he captured the capital of Qin Xianyang. Emperor Lu Chao committed suicide. The seven countries that had been chaotic for hundreds of years had fought for power. From the day Gao Yuan raised his troops, after eighteen years, the Han Empire founded by Gao Yuan wiped out the seven countries and unified the world.
In the summer of the sixth year of the Han Dynasty, Gao Yuan led his troops to return to the capital Jicheng, and returned military power, retreated to the harem, and no longer involved in political affairs or military affairs. The Han Empire formed a situation where the chief minister of the Political Affairs Hall ruled, the Grand Council was the highest authority, the army belonged to the Grand Council, and the judicial institutions were completely independent. The emperor became a symbol of the empire and only appeared in public during important festivals and sacrifices.
The Han Empire, which pacified the world, began a long and arduous internal construction. It was easy to conquer the world, but it was difficult to build the world, but it was difficult to let the people live a better life. An unprecedentedly huge empire, with rapidly increasing population after the war, and the different economic development levels in various places made the ministers of the Zhengshi Hall in a mess.
The Grand Parliament was still quarreling, fighting, and chaotic, but the empire was still moving forward steadily. Although the Emperor Gao Yuan was not only concerned about political affairs, the rulings of the Political Affairs Hall would always run to the palace when they encountered difficult things and begged His Majesty the Emperor to come out to solve the problem. Only at this time can Gao Yuan appear in the Grand Parliament, mediate conflicts between all parties and balance the interests of all parties. Gao Yuan's unparalleled influence in the Han Empire can ultimately resolve all irreconcilable contradictions into invisible, and can also make the irreconcilable enemies shake hands and have fun.
The prefectures and counties of Han countries that became rich first formed pairs with poor and backward remote areas, helping each other. Especially for the former Qin territory that suffered the most, the central government also strengthened support, which led to the rapid development of the economy in these places. The people basically solved the problem of hunger in a short period of time. With the development of time, the rebels led by the lurking Gouyi in Qin State ended up at the end of their lives. They were surrounded by enemies and surrendered to the government at the end of their own way out. Gouyi was arrested in Jicheng.
After being tried by the Supreme Court, he was sentenced to twenty years in prison. On the day of the trial, in addition to Gou Yi's old opponents, there was also a special person, who was his nephew who Gou Yi asked Tang He to bring to Han. Now his nephew has become an official in the garrison palace of Jicheng, and in the trial court, his uncle and nephew hugged each other and cried. The nephew's encounter also made Gou Yi feel ashamed. When he walked out of the trial court, he knelt down in the direction of the Han Palace and knocked three loudly.
In the eighth year of the Han Dynasty, the country unified the currency system, and the last piece of Qin territory using gold, silver and silver exchange was officially abolished the direct gold and silver transactions.
In the ninth year of the Great Han Dynasty, the national unified text was unified, and the fonts uniformly printed by the Great Han Propaganda Department became popular texts nationwide, and other texts were abolished.
In the tenth year of the Han Dynasty, Gao Yuan took the lead. The Political Affairs Hall and the Grand Council were headed by the Grand Council. The first constitution of the Han Dynasty, which had been in full swing for ten years, was officially passed and promulgated to the world. In the constitution, the constitutional system of the Han Empire was established. The emperor was the symbol of the empire, the Political Affairs Hall was the highest ruling institution in the country, the Grand Council was the highest legislative institution in the country, and the ** House was the highest judicial institution in the country.
In the tenth year of the Han Dynasty, the Han Empire began the first major parliamentary election after the promulgation of the Constitution. After the unification, the fifty-six counties that redefine administrative divisions were allocated according to the economic development level and population size, and 668 major parliamentarians were elected.
In the eleventh year of the Han Dynasty, the term of the second chief ruling minister Yan Shenghao had expired. Yan Shenghao announced that he would run for the next chief ruling minister due to his age. The second ruling minister Yan Shenghao retired with satisfaction with the reputation of unifying the world. On the second day after he announced his retirement, he happily went straight to the shore of the Dayan Lake. In fact, he only needed to get a joint election from ten major members of the assembly, but in this term, only Wu Qi. Fang Shu and Tian Yuancheng announced their candidacy, and the three sides confronted fiercely. In the end, Tian Yuancheng, the first defeated, turned to Wu Qi, and made the veteran ruling minister Wu Qi defeat Fang Shu as the chief ruling minister. Fang Shu retreated and became the Speaker of the Grand Parliament.
The ambitious Wu Qi was doing a great job during his first term. He focused on domestic people's livelihood and did a great job in developing the domestic economy. The domestic economy developed rapidly and the national living standards were rapidly improving. In the 16th year of the Han Dynasty, Wu Qi defeated Fang Shu again with an absolute advantage and was elected. However, during his second term, he encountered great setbacks.
The domestic economy has reached a bottleneck, domestic currency has surged, and a large amount of goods produced have nowhere to be sold. Wu Qi, who is focused on domestic development, neglected overseas expansion, and continuously compressed the military's costs on the grounds of no war, which also caused great dissatisfaction among the two branches of the water and land. In the 18th year of the Han Dynasty, Wu Qi was voted for the distrust case initiated by the Grand Parliament. More than two-thirds of the Grand Parliament agreed to Wu Qi's step down, and Wu Qi resigned in disgrace.
Fang Shu took over halfway, but the stall handed over to him was not so easy to solve. This year, Fang Shu was less than forty years old, and it was when he was young and energetic. After taking over as the Chief Minister, he immediately passed the overseas colonization bill. The two major fleets of the Han Dynasty, who had been idle for nearly ten years, once again attacked across the sea. At the end of the 18th, Li Quan led his troops to set foot on the continent of Africa again. In the 19th year, Yang Qingyi led another fleet to discover Meizhou. The Han army set foot on these two continents and found another market for goods in the Han Dynasty. Countless merchant ships once again formed a mighty fleet and marched towards the distant overseas.
Amidst these disturbances, the Emperor Gao Yuan of the Han Kingdom has been buried in the Royal Academy of Sciences he created with his own hands, leading a group of madmen to study the great inventions that the emperor claimed would change the world.
The Political Affairs Hall expressed great welcome to the emperor's incompetence, because as the founding emperor, Gao Yuan, although he did not ask about political affairs, the Constitution also established that the emperor had no right to ask about political affairs, but if Gao Yuan had a whim, one day he ran to the Grand Parliament and shouted, "I want to take back all the power and keep the great parliamentarians dare not even fart one." The generals of the army would applaud and welcome him happily. In the years when Wu Qi was in power, it was common for the generals in the army to cry outside the palace. Of course, the final result was that the emperor came out to meet them, but the fierce Yang Dasha was carrying a stick and came out to beat these guys to the point of fart.
The emperor's attitude was obvious, but no one guaranteed that the emperor would always be like this. There is one thing that would make the emperor concentrate and have no time to look around, so the Political Affairs Hall has always been very generous with the funds of the Royal Academy of Sciences. As long as you speak, you will pay immediately, and you will never delay it until the next day. Even the bosses who need the Political Affairs Hall are sluggish and get less wages. They are absolutely right.
What is Gao Yuan doing?
He was working on the steam engine with a group of people.
This thing is an absolute weapon to develop from agricultural civilization to industrial society.
In the 25th year of the founding of the Han Dynasty, the experimental field of the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Han Dynasty.
The roar of the rumbling machine resounded throughout the Academy of Sciences. In the closed factory, a huge machine was roaring. He had been working continuously for a day and a night, and His Majesty Gao Yuan, the great emperor of the Han Empire, also stayed in the building of the Academy of Sciences for a day and a night, occasionally taking a nap. When he woke up, he immediately cared about whether the machine was still roaring.
"Your Majesty, we succeeded." A technician in charge of the study burst into tears and knelt down in front of Gao Yuan and burst into tears. It took them ten years in total. Since the emperor Gao Yuan proposed this idea, the Academy of Sciences has been tirelessly conducting this research for ten years. Out of a fanatical trust in the emperor, they have never raised doubts about this project. Ten years have spent countless money. Today, he has finally successfully operated continuously without any problems.
Gao Yuan, who has been more fanatical than these technicians for ten years, was surprisingly calm at this time.
He walked to the window of the building, held the window frame with his hand, looked at the rolling smoke coming out of the closed factory chimney not far away, and whispered: "A great era has begun."
Yes. In a great era, the invention of the steam engine brought not only a revolution above the production relations, but also a huge change in social relations.
In the thirty years of the Han Dynasty, Gao Yuan had been in power for thirty years. In the past thirty years, the Han Dynasty underwent earth-shaking changes, especially after the invention of the steamer machine, in just five years, the Han Dynasty's drastic changes exceeded the past hundred years. Machine tools appeared in factories, machines were replacing labor, and the roar brought huge productivity. A large number of workers began to lose their jobs. In order to transform domestic conflicts, the Han Dynasty accelerated the expansion of foreign countries. In this year, Li Quan led his fleet to embark on the land of Europa. Han soldiers equipped with the latest rifles produced by machines took their efforts to capture city-states one by one.
But Emperor Gao Yuan didn't know what he thought, and suggested that the Zhengshi Hall should not include these overseas colonies under the formal rule of the Han Dynasty. However, the Zhengshi Hall rejected the Emperor Gao Yuan's suggestion. Fang Shu quoted what Emperor Gao Yuan had said before and wanted to plant the Huanglong flag of the Han Dynasty in all places where the sun rose.
The Political Affairs Hall, which did not listen to the emperor's advice, soon suffered a huge pain. The Han army, who had advanced straight, encountered heavy failures in Europe. The modern army also relied on logistics more seriously. The consequence of going deep into the land was that it was cut off from the rear, the logistics was cut off, and thousands of soldiers died in Europe.
When the news came, the whole country was in an uproar. Fang Shu, the chief ruling minister of the Political Affairs Hall, resigned. After the return of Admiral Li Quan, he also left the country in disgrace.
After the new chief ruling minister came to power, the navy organized a larger fleet again, led by another general Yang Qingyi, and embarked on the journey again. This time, Yang Qingyi's flagship was replaced by the first steam engine-powered warship produced by the Han Dynasty. However, this time, the new ruling minister accepted the emperor's suggestion. On Yang Qingyi's ship, in addition to guns and cannons, diplomats carried one agreement after another.
That is, the year after the defeat of Europa, Emperor Gao Yuan of the Han Dynasty was 60 years old. He announced his retirement and the emperor was handed over to his son Gao Zhiyuan to take over.
Emperor Gao Yuan of the Han Dynasty spent his entire life creating innovations that others could not imagine. He retired at the age of 60 and set a precedent. The consequence of this move was that the Grand Parliament formally decided that the legal age for retirement at the age of 60 was the legal age for retirement.
In the second year of Gao Yuan's retirement, Xin Qin, which borders the Han Empire, could no longer withstand the silent invasion of neighboring countries. As the train was invented, the railway tracks from the Han Dynasty were paved to the capital of the Xin Qin. Xin Qin finally bowed his head. Wang Jian, who was nearly twilight, dragged his injured body and arrived at Jicheng by train. He reached an agreement with Gao Zhiyuan, the second emperor of the Han Dynasty. Under the conditions of ensuring the royal status of the New Qin Kingdom and ensuring the maximum independence of the internal affairs of the New Qin Kingdom, the New Qin handed over the power of national defense, diplomacy and other powers to the Han Empire, and the New Qin would become a federal state of the Han Empire.
The two countries are united into one, and the world is jubilant, especially the New Qin. Since the beginning of the founding of this country, this country has brought a strong shadow of the Great Han Kingdom. Although Wang Jian has tried his best to remove this shadow during his decades of ruling, it has achieved little success. Finally, after he discovered that he was unable to reverse the trend, he raised his hands to surrender, which also made the New Qin people extremely excited, because the two countries are united into one. It also means that they will become citizens of the Great Han Empire, and they will also enjoy the power of citizens of the Great Han Empire. Although this still requires their long-term efforts to fight for it, since they have taken the first step, will the second step be too far?
In the winter of the 50th year of the Han Dynasty, the white snow covered the entire Jicheng with a layer of silver. The capital, which should have been noisy, was silent on this day. It was only because the Dahan Daily and Jicheng Evening News, published early in the morning, published a major news on the front page headlines.
The founding emperor of the Han Dynasty, Gao Yuan, was critically ill. This year, Gao Yuan was eighty years old.
Lying in the thick bedding, Gao Yuan opened his dizzy eyes and looked at his son, daughter and grandchildren who were kneeling in front of him, but a satisfied smile appeared on his face. His partner and lovers have left him one after another in the past few years.
"I'm leaving, I'm going to find your mother!" Gao Yuan said with a smile, and the figures of Ye Jing'er, Helanyan and Ning Xin were passing by their eyes. They smiled and their figures floated in the air and were waving their hands to him.
Under the bed, there were waves of sobs.
Outside the bedroom, anxiously awaiting the rule of the Han Empire's Political Affairs Hall and the head of the army. A generation of new people replaced the old people. The current senior leaders of the Han Empire are no longer the old people who followed Gao Yuan to conquer the world. Over the years, Gao Yuan's old subordinates have basically left, and even the strongest Yang Dasha passed away last year.
Except for the current emperor Gao Zhiyuan, the other children and grandchildren kowtowed to Gao Yuan one by one and left the bedroom, while the ruling government and the head of the army of the Zhengshi Hall were called in.
"Your Majesty!" Everyone knelt down.
Gao Yuan raised his first finger: "First, the political system of the Han Empire will never change."
"I obey the order!" the chief consul said loudly.
"Second, the army will never interfere in politics."
"I obey the order!"
The two military leaders, Shu, kowtowed and received the order.
"Third!" Gao Yuan lowered his hand and looked at them with a smile: "I, Gao Yuan, was not from this world, but I created such a huge career in this world. After I died, my body was cremated, half stayed here, accompanying my deceased wife, half of them sat on a warship and went to the sea, throwing it with the wind. I hope that God has a spirit that can take me back to my original world and see my hometown for the last life."
The people in the house were petrified together. They really couldn't understand what Gao Yuan was saying, but Gao Yuan's order was clear. The body was cremated, half of which were buried with the three wives, and half went to the sea and passed away with the wind.
There was heavy snow in the sky, and countless people began to gather towards the palace. More and more people were forced to start diversion. Before the palace and before the parliament building, all the places that could fill people were full of people. Everyone was looking at the same place, the palace of the Han Empire. Although it was not the highest authority of the Han Empire, there were the most respected people in the Han Empire.
The heavy snow made the palace fall into a hazy state. They couldn't see the outline of the palace, but they still looked hard. When the first bell rang, everyone's spirit suddenly became nervous. The bell kept ringing, and some people knelt down. Then, more and more people fell to the ground. When the eighty-one bells were ringing, almost where the bells could be heard, everyone knelt down towards the palace.
The founding emperor of the Han Dynasty, Gao Yuan, died.
Telegrams were transmitted to every corner of the Han Dynasty with the radio waves, and newspapers were sold out in the shortest time. On the newspapers, not only the news of the death of the Han Emperor Gao Yuan, but also the last words of Gao Yuan, were slightly modified except for the last one. Because neither Gao Zhiyuan nor the ministers could understand the meaning of Gao Yuan's last one, and could only modify the last one into the emperor's ashes that he wanted to sway with the wind and fall in every corner of the Han Dynasty, and always protect the peace of the Han Dynasty.
The entire Han Dynasty fell into sorrow. Even in those places conquered by the Han Dynasty, although the war of unity caused thousands of people to die, the living people enjoyed the happiness that the lofty brought them for generations.
More than ten days later, with the sound of the train whistle, the train escorted Gao Yuan's half ashes heading towards Cangzhou. On both sides of the railway tracks, countless people knelt beside the road, and the incense tables continued.
Dozens of the latest naval steam engine warships of the Han Navy welcomed high ashes.
After half a day of sailing, the originally gloomy weather suddenly became cloudless with the unexpected breeze, and a scorching sun jumped into the sky.
Gao Zhiyuan stood at the head of the tall ship, stretched out his trembling hands, picked up his father's bones, and raised them high. The wind blew by, and the ashes passed by with the wind.
Cannons above dozens of warships fired salutes at the same time.
In the sky, clouds came from the sky with the wind and floated above the warship. The clouds were changing and they slowly formed a large group of human figures in the air, with their voice, appearance and smile as if they were lofty. The clouds moved with the wind, as if they were waving goodbye to everyone. Such a strange scene made all those who went out to sea stunned. After a moment of stagnation, the sound of long live like a tsunami sounded on the sea, and everyone knelt on the deck.
Widths of breeze blew, and the clouds gradually dissipated, and the sky was still blue.
Chapter completed!