The Mid-Autumn Festival in the forty-first year of Chengtian is particularly lively, this is not the whole year of Chen Ming's ascension to the throne, just like last year, he sat on the dragon chair for exactly 40 years, which can be described as a great joy. Push forward another four years, Chen Ming's 60th birthday, the Mid-Autumn Festival, Spring Festival and so on that year are also very hilarious, whether it is the officialdom in the palace or the people, it is really all the people are happy, and the whole world celebrates together.

This year, none of these things have been touched, but this year is the last year that Chen Ming has sat on the throne, which is very, very special significance.

Chen Ming did not spare the expenses of the two jujubes because of the war in the middle of the confrontation, and the empire he established would not be destroyed because of the royal family's eating, drinking, and merrymaking.

However, Chen Ming, who was always smiling on the surface, did not put his real heart on the singing and dancing banquet, but what he paid attention to was the naval battle report of South America.

Previously, Ye Tingyang had already played the first battle report, and the Grand Fleet had successfully passed through the Strait of Magellan, and the two sides were facing each other. In other words, the decisive battle is imminent.

In this case, how could Chen Ming still be interested in eating, drinking, and having fun?

Ye Tingyang's battle report is like a broken dog with a full level of cultivation, it is inhumane and inhumane. These days, Chen Ming just sleeps, and his mind will think of the sea battles with heavy artillery fire, and think of the battleships one after another......

Fortunately, Ye Tingyang's follow-up came quickly. On the fifth day after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the battle report arrived in Chen Ming's hands.

"Eight to eight ......" After reading it, Chen Ming's heart first settled down, and there was a score. Although he was a little worried about Ye Tingyang's subsequent attack, no matter how bad it was, it would be a lose-lose situation, wouldn't it?

Chen Han can afford to lose these boats, as long as he can have some sailor seeds left. But what about Europe?

What will the Europeans do without the current group of capital ships? Continue to make wooden sailing ships? When it's still on the slipway, it's a backward cargo. And as long as the sailboats are sailing, even if the technology of the Europeans can keep up after half a year, what about their production capacity?

And in the golden autumn festival when osmanthus flowers bloom everywhere in August, the winter in the northwest has quietly come. Chen Ming is not surprised that there has been no great progress in the northwest battlefield this year, and the military spending of the Seven Khanates of Central Asia has completely depended on Chen Han. In this battle, the weight of the Seven Khanates in the early stage was still quite important, and now it can be said that it has completely become a vassal.

Their biggest role was to ride horses as dragoons, constantly harass the Russian army, and did the same work as the Cossack cavalry. It's just that the Russian Cossacks can't get up, the casualties are too great, and it's already difficult to guarantee the scale.

Although with Hungary and part of the Polish hussars, the role of the Cossacks was irreplaceable.

This year, winter is coming, and the dividing line between the Sino-Russian battlefield remains in Tulinsk. No one can move on either side in the front. And the North Caucasus, which is a flank battlefield, is now basically fighting to the end - it can't be fought anymore.

Chen Ming was not worried about the war in the northwest, because he had already amassed more than 200,000 troops in Ili, Lake Balkhash was an important base, with more than 50,000 troops, and 50,000 troops in the Aral Sea. In the spring of the following year, Ili's 200,000 troops marched westward, and when the time came, he would also march in person, and that was the time for a decisive battle.

Chen Han had built twelve reserve areas on the western shore of Lake Balkhash, each with thirty or fifty super-large warehouses. It was filled with either munitions, clothes, shoes, socks, canned food, rations, medicine, and so on.

Chen Ming was worried about the naval battle in South America, but after the news of South America had a basic concept, all he thought about was the imperial conquest.

When you get old, you can still shake it on the battlefield. Chen Ming didn't expect it.

So he is very 'longing' for his demeanor to go to the battlefield again. Chen Ming is getting old, and he is also concerned about his reputation. His exploits are impeccable, the greatest emperor in the world is difficult to compare with him, under the great achievements of most of the world, the so-called conquerors in European history are only worthy of carrying shoes, and the Mongols are also children, Chen Ming turned his head and cared more about his reputation.

Although his fame is largely inevitably associated with his great achievements, Chen Ming feels that it is good to add a few more links to the 'imperial exploits'. Just like the old man Taizu of New China, it is a series of titles, great leader, revolutionary, strategist, theoretician, poet, calligrapher. This is the length after omitting a few titles to be called 404.

Chen Ming can't be a theoretician, and the political system he created is like a four-way system, and he also added his own selfishness. It is impossible for a poet or calligrapher, let alone a revolutionary army, who overthrew the Manchus, but it was definitely not a revolution, but a kind of traditional dynastic change.

The great leader is now in the current time, that is the great emperor, this Chen Ming already has it, and he still wants to add a military strategist to the back.

However, the military transformation in the world is simply too fast. The war now is like a joke compared to the war of the past.

If the times remain unchanged, military wars will still be military wars, and Chen Ming will definitely be Li Shimin's second in terms of fighting.

No one in the Chinese can deny that Li Er is quite capable of fighting, and although he may not be as miraculous as touted in history, no one can deny Li Er's military talent. And if Li Shimin's brilliance had not been set off by the 'war', it would not have been so bright and blind. Just talking about governing the country, the awesome emperors in history can pick out seven or eight casually. For example, Ming Xiaozong, who shaped "Hongzhi Zhongxing", and Song Renzong, who made the enemy countries cry when he died, and so on. But without the light of the 'war halo', their brilliance is far worse than Li Shimin's.

Catching up with today's era, this is both Chen Ming's luck and Chen Ming's misfortune.

Fortunately, when he is old, he can still walk on the battlefield.

Chen Ming would not interfere in military command without authorization, and to be honest, he really didn't have the ability to command and dispatch hundreds of thousands of firearms troops. At most, Chen Ming 'raised' one or two points in a small-scale offensive battle.

He had been away from the battlefield for decades, and his prestige in the army was rapidly declining, and he was even more neglected in command. If you go to the battlefield and really regard yourself as the supreme commander of the army, then the hundreds of thousands of troops on the northwest front will have to suffer.

In addition to Chen Ming, who is preparing for next year's royal expedition, there are still thousands of people in the entire city of Nanjing, who are desperately looking forward to the first day of the Lunar New Year. Because a new era is coming!

The old emperor went to the throne and the new emperor ascended the throne, this is not like the father and son of Song Huizong and Song Qinzong in history, nor the father and son of Liu Laohan and Liu Laosan, let alone Li Yuan and Li Er, Li Longji and Li Heng father and son. Chen Ming has monstrous power in his hands, and he can control the military and political power in the country more than King Zhao Wuling, who took the initiative to abdicate, if he wants, Chen Ming can completely treat his son as a puppet like Emperor Qianlong in history.

But Chen Ming didn't do that. Soon after the news of his decision to abdicate came out, there was news that Chen Ming was going to the northwest. This time, the Praetorian Guard mobilized an entire division of troops at once, and when the army marched into Xinjiang, Chen Ming's army should have a full 50,000 men.

Chen Ming: This is really going to the northwest to fight. He made this voice and put on this posture, and no one would suspect that Chen Ming was playing false. Chen Ming sent a clear signal to the whole world that he had really given up the throne and power.

He did not even participate in the further expansion of the powers of the Local Advisory Council and the Information Council in Nanjing. Whether the latter two can grasp this opportunity or not, that is their ability, and Chen Ming doesn't care.

The resistance of the harem was not taken to heart by Chen Ming, the queen, Liu Bangyun and others are still alive, in their sixties, in the 21st century, they can only be said to have just entered old age, but at this time, their age is not small. Chen Ming was not allowed to go out for a walk, and when he came back, they would be gone.

Of course, in the eyes of the queen, these people were more worried that Chen Ming would go out and come back lying down. Although he has always been in good health, he is sixty-five years old, and in this era, it is not surprising that he died.

Although the Chinese emperor proclaimed himself the Son of Heaven and was called Banzai, there were not many long-lived and short-lived ones, and more than half of them were under the age of fifty (Qin Shi Huang's previous ones were not counted.) ）。

Throughout the history of China, there are only five people who are over 80 years old, including the longest-lived Qianlong Emperor, of course, Qianlong has no such blessing in this time and space. Emperor Wu of Liang Xiao Yan was 85 years old, the only female emperor Wu Zetian was 81 years old, Song Gaozong Zhao Gou was 80 years old, and the fifth generation of Wuyue Wusu King Qian Biao was also 80 years old.

There are ten people over 70 years old, including Kublai Khan, Tang Xuanzong, Zhu Yuanzhang, Sun Quan, etc.

Over sixty years old are thirty-eight. Chen Ming has now lived to be 65 years old, which can be said to be in the top 50 of the Chinese emperor's longevity spectrum.

In this way, Chen Ming is really not young.

Of course, Chen Ming didn't think he would die soon. What's a long trip? Know that he is the emperor. The risk of the emperor going far away is much smaller than that of ordinary people.

He sat in the most comfortable carriage in the world, ate the delicacies cooked by the best chefs in the world, and had the top doctors and doctors in the entire empire by his side, so if he could still encounter danger, only the army would be defeated on all fronts, and he was very unlucky to mix with the army on the front line.

Chen Ming has become obsessed with the 'Royal Driving Expedition', and no one can persuade him. The older generations than him have passed away one by one over the years, and there are not a few older than him in the same generation. For example, Chen Gang died when he was thirty-three years old.

In the whole world, no one inside and outside can stop Chen Ming's trip to the northwest.

In the Qianqing Palace, Chen Ming looked at the book handed over by the national security side, and his face showed a helpless look. "Well, let them go."

It is a common practice in officialdom that people cool tea before they leave. Chen Ming never imagined that this convention would one day fall on his head. After reading this fold, it is impossible to say that he does not have such a trace of anger in his heart. But when you think about it, it's just convention.

And what is conventional? That's the universal truth. Although Chen Ming is an emperor and an emperor who has been on the throne for 40 years, he can't escape this 'convention'.

"Before people leave, the tea is cold first, this is all a routine......"

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Shanghai International Hotel, Room 0512.

Sunlight shines through the curtains on the red pine desk. Pages of letterhead lay flat on the table, and a quill was stuck in an inkwell, on which the sun's shadows shone on. There was also a fur on the seat, which was a very expensive calfskin leather carousel, but from the looks of the bag it had been used for several years. The bag was stuffed to the brim, and the copper reeds on the leather bag shone golden in the sun, reflecting the gilt copper alarm clock next to it.

It was half past seven in the morning, and as usual, after finishing the free breakfast served by the hotel in the restaurant, George Gordon Byron hurried back to the room where he was staying, picked up the pages of the letterhead from his desk, and read them carefully for a moment, then glanced at the alarm clock on the table, hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to sit down at the table and continue to write this unfinished Chinese diary.

George Gordon Byron had arrived in China two months earlier, and as a betrayer of the British ruling class, he could not stay in England any longer.

Byron and his wife had been married for less than two years, and Miss Anna Millbank was a narrow-minded man who was deeply encumbered by the hypocrisy of her class, and was completely incomprehensible to Byron's career and ideas. A year after the marriage, he returned to his home with his daughter, who had been born for more than a month, and refused to live with Byron, which caused rumors. Taking this as an opportunity, the British ruling class took the most frenzied revenge on its rebel Byron, in an attempt to mentally destroy this man who dared to be its political enemy.

In 1814 Byron was forced to run away to Switzerland, where he met another exiled English poet, Shelley, who was four years younger than Byron and was a more 'crazy' man than Byron. He entered Oxford University in October 1810 and was opened by Oxford University at the end of March of the following year. Because Shelley published "On the Inevitability of Atheism", which completely touched the nerves of the entire British ruling class, and after 1813 he was forced to leave England.

Two 'stinky and like-smelling' men became close friends in a foreign land, and then they also decided to go to the East.

As early as 1808, when Byron was twenty years old, he made a trip to the 'East' in order to "see mankind, and not to read about them in books," and to sweep away "the pernicious consequences of an islander guarding his home with narrow prejudices." It's just that the East is only compared to the English East, which is actually a trip to Southern Europe and West Asia. And this time, Byron is ready to go to China.

The outbreak of the war between the East and the West has made China's 'reputation' in Europe even louder, and its notoriety is also famous. Byron was a revolutionary fighter who was personally involved in the anti-Ottoman struggle among the locals in Greece and was one of the leaders of the latter.

And the Chinese are unmistakably the biggest backstage of the Ottomans.

Byron convinces Shelley, but a sudden love stops Shelley. Byron had to embark on a journey to the East alone.