Time flies like flowing clouds, the years roll forward, thirty years have passed, and a flick of a finger has passed.

In the thirty-five years of Taishun, the world has undergone earth-shaking changes because of Asia, to be precise, because of one emperor and one king.

The emperor is naturally Zhu Cihong, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and the king is Liu Hongchuan, the king of the Great Qin State.

After 30 years of vigorous development, the population of the Ming Empire exceeded 80 million, and the Ming Beiyang and Nanyang naval divisions were established successively, with 12 first-class battleships, 146 second-class battleships, and 290 third-class battleships.

The fleet of the Ming Empire galloped in the spice islands of the South Seas, Australia, and the Americas, and the ships of the European countries saw that the fleet of the Ming Empire had taken a detour since retreating, and the South Sea Spice Islands had become the back garden of the Ming Empire, and the Ming Empire had reached a terrifying 13 million taels of taxes only a year on the port of Malacca.

In the Americas, Emperor Zhu Cihong followed the phalanx set by the regent and supported Aragorn Conquita as the eighteenth Sapainka (emperor) of the Inca Empire.

As a result, the Ming Empire had the right to mine the Potosi silver mine in the Inca Empire for 100 years and the Inca Empire's continuous rubber import, and the Potosi silver ore reserves were the largest in the world.

In the course of 30 years of take-off, the largest merchant group of the Ming Empire, Xishan Shangheju, has made great contributions.

As the imperial merchant group of the emperor of the Ming Empire, Xishan Shanghe has the largest number of merchant ships in the world, from Tianjin Dagu to Daqin Changqi, from Taiwan to Batavia, from Luzon to Australia, from Da Ni to Honolulu to Cusco, the capital of the Inca Empire.

The Ming Empire relied on huge warships and ubiquitous merchant groups to quickly complete the primitive accumulation of imperial capital, and also completed the expansion of the imperial currency, the Ming silver dollar.

At first, the Great Qin used the Ming silver dollar as the only official currency recognized, and then the South Sea Spice Islands, Australia, and the Americas, all regions that received the support of the Ming Empire, all used the Ming silver dollar as the only medium of trade.

The Ming silver dollar was not only linked to gold and silver, but also to spices, rubber, and oil, and the Europa people finally had to succumb to the national prestige of the Ming Empire after a brief confrontation thirty years ago.

Of course, there is still the shadow of Liu Hongji, the king of Great Qin, in fact, compared with the technological take-off speed of the Great Qin State, the Ming Empire is not the same at all, except for its larger size.

Under the iron-blooded policy of King Liu Hongji, it took only eight years to complete the delocalization of the Japanese people in the land of Dongying, from writing to language to surnames, from clothing to hairstyles, from etiquette to culture, all of which followed the Ming system.

The price was that the Japanese people of Toei went from 12 million people at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, through the Saito Rebellion, the Dutch invasion, and then to the iron-blooded massacre of the Qin king Liu Hongjian and completely subjugated the Japanese people, and finally only more than 5 million people remained.

Among them, the proportion of men due to the perennial war is less than forty percent, and most of them are young children, which makes the first batch of remnants come to Daqin, and each of them is assigned more than three widow female concubines.

As a result, more than 20 years have passed, and although the population of Daqin can be estimated to be more than 6.5 million, the proportion of Chinese and their descendants has risen from 1.7 percent 30 years ago to 7.4 percent today.

Liu Hongjian always believed that where there was oppression, there would be resistance, and Liu Hongjian insisted on the same treatment as Chinese civilians for the Japanese people, and of course the treatment of Shunmin could only reach the level of Chinese civilians.

They can enjoy the same education and the same taxes as the descendants of Chinese descent, they can engage in business, the military and agriculture, but they cannot engage in politics, and there are strict restrictions on the proportion of Japanese people in the army, and they cannot enter the Daqin institutions of higher learning.

The transformation and test of the Japanese people should last for 100 years, which is the national policy set by Liu Hongjian since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

In a hundred years, four generations, without all the historical marks of the Japanese people, are enough for them to regard Han culture as orthodox.

At the same time as the transformation of the Japanese people, the scientific and technological take-off of the Great Qin State began as early as the year when Liu Hongjian became a vassal domain.

Relying on the team of craftsmen brought from Daming, with the help of Liu Hongji's drawings, and the full efforts of a group of supporters such as Han Yu and Gu Jia.

In August of the eighth year of Taishun, Daqin Institute of Technology was completed, in December Daqin National Defense Military Academy was completed, and in April of the following year, Daqin Business School was completed.

From June to December of the 11th year of Taishun, Daqin spinning mills, glass factories, cement, steel factories and other workshops sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and in the same year, under the leadership of Liu Hongji, the king of Daqin, Daqin Shunfeng Commercial Cooperation was formally established by relying on forty large merchant ships purchased from Daming.

In March of the twelfth year of Taishun, the Daqin Military Factory was completed, which was dedicated to the research and development and improvement of firearms and warships.

In July of the sixteenth year of Taishun, the train independently developed by Daqin was successfully trial-produced, and sold to Daming in batches a year later, and in the same year, Han Yu, the first first assistant of Daqin, passed away at the age of eighty-nine.

Liu Hongjian held a state funeral for him in Kyoto, and deserved to enjoy the Taimiao, and the whole country mourned for a month.

In the midsummer of the twentieth year of Taishun, Daqin's first thermal power plant was put into operation, and Daqin became the first country in the world to enter the electric age.

In the twenty-fifth year of Taishun, Daqin independently developed a carbon electrode arc, and the first first-class battleship built by the Daqin Empire was launched the following year.

The battleship is fifty zhang long, divided into three layers, with the internal combustion engine as the driving force and electricity as the auxiliary power, and the artillery assembly has reached a terrifying 210 guns, of which the main gun in the bow can penetrate the old ironclad ship that is still in service in the Ming Dynasty with one shot.

Liu Hong gradually named this type of battleship as the Dreadnought-class battleship, quickly began production, and shared the key technology of the Dreadnought-class battleship with his good friend Zhu Cihong, who was waiting to be fed.

In the twenty-fifth year of Taishun, it was a key year for Daqin to catch up with the Ming Dynasty in science and technology and various types of machinery, and in the same year, the founding father Gu Jia died of illness at the age of 86.

It took Liu Hong seven years to complete the Ming industry from scratch, from the beginning to catch up with Europa, and then it took 20 years to catch up with the Ming Empire to complete the counterattack.

Of course, it is not that the craftsmen of the Ming Empire are not working hard enough, but it is that the technical books in Liu Hongji's hands are too rebellious, from the light industry base to the heavy industry base, from the steam age to the electric age, along the scientific and technological development process summarized by the scientific research workers of later generations, the Great Qin State has taken many detours compared to Europa and even the Ming Dynasty.

Yes, for a long time, Liu Hongjian did not hand over all kinds of books brought from later generations to anyone, including the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty and the Great Qin, in fact, it was Liu Honggradually who controlled the process of science and technology in the two countries.

Either he can't do it, because he can't be sure if it will cause undesirable consequences such as pulling out seedlings and fueling a huge empire, or whether it will lead to the flow of advanced technology into Europa.

Whether it is Da Ming or Da Qin, in fact, Liu Hongjian has always only handed over the technical drawings that are urgently needed for development to the craftsmen, and the provision of Daming's drawings has been stopped as early as when Liu Hongjian left.

Science and technology have their own development process, and he doesn't care if he tosses the land of Daqin, which also leads to the development of Daming into a financial empire with leading technology in Europa but Daming silver dollars all over the world.

Daqin, on the other hand, developed into a scientific and technological empire that led the Ming Dynasty in science and technology, and the legal tender was the Ming silver dollar, and technology was the only weapon that Liu Honggradually left to his descendants.

In the late autumn of the 35th year of Taishun, Liu Hong, the 57-year-old king of Great Qin, gradually received a secret letter from the Ming Dynasty, and the envelope was added with the private seal of Zhu Cihong, the emperor of the Ming Empire.

Liu Honggradually frowned slightly, put on reading glasses and then opened the envelope, the content was not long, Liu Honggradually read the content after his brows slowly relaxed, he put down the letter, and the corners of his mouth showed a slight smile.

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