Guide to traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty

The 11th major changes in the world

Luoyang, Imperial Palace.

The little emperor was staring at his homework book in a daze when he heard footsteps coming from behind him. He hurriedly leaned on the table to do his homework.

Tao Jinfeng glanced at it and knew that the little emperor was lazy again, so he patted his head gently.

The little emperor smiled awkwardly, turned his head and looked again, and found that his mother was not here. Then he felt completely relieved and concentrated on solving the math problems.

Outside the house, Queen Mother Ye was walking with Zhu Tangxi.

"What has Bachelor Xie been doing recently?" Queen Mother Ye asked.

Zhu Tangxi said: "We built three cement kilns in the south of the city, each with a slightly different structure. We spent the whole day firing cement to collect test data. I was also asked to borrow a microscope, saying that I wanted to observe the microscopic properties of the cement obtained. Structure. I haven’t fired it for the past two days, but I am renovating the cement kiln. I will continue to test it after the renovation is completed.”

Queen Mother Ye smiled and said: "It seems that he is right not to pursue an official career, but he can focus on experiments wholeheartedly."

Zhu Tangxi said helplessly: "Since the cement firing experiment, except for the time when he asked me to borrow the microscope, he has never come to my house again. Alas, what a heartless and unjust person."

"Hahaha!"

Queen Mother Ye smiled even more happily: "This is a man who really does things. He wants to run around your house and play all day long. Will you still be able to look down on him in the long run?"

"So I have to go see him. I've been to the southern suburbs twice these days, both as an excuse to visit the Longmen Grottoes. I can't go again in a short time, otherwise I will be laughed at." Zhu Tangxi obviously has a good relationship with the Queen Mother , can even be said to be best friends who talk about everything.

The two walked around outside and slowly walked back to Qinzheng Hall.

The little emperor was doing his homework in the side hall, and Tao Jinfeng was in the main hall helping to sort out the memorials. There are also a group of people from Zhongshushe who are busy working, and only the living man is more leisurely.

Qi Julang recorded a few sentences today, which were nothing more than what books the little emperor read, what homework he wrote, and how he interacted with several teachers.

Queen Mother Ye sat down and began to review the memorial.

She is the Queen Mother Regent, replacing the little emperor!

Of course, out of respect for the cabinet, Queen Mother Ye never dismissed the cabinet's opinions. At most, you can add a sentence or two of your own suggestions on certain issues and take them back to the cabinet for further discussion.

Qi Julang finally took up writing again to record the Queen Mother's handling of government affairs.

As for the Queen Mother, while reviewing memorials and chatting with her best friends, these are things that ordinary people would not be able to write. He also turned a deaf ear to the chat.

"Bring the globe!" Queen Mother Ye suddenly shouted.

A man from Zhongshushe immediately came forward holding a globe.

Queen Mother Ye stared at the globe carefully for a while and said to Zhu Tangxi: "The Governor-General of India sent troops and destroyed the Jilinga Kingdom. The area under the Governor-General's jurisdiction has almost doubled."

When he heard the Empress Dowager talking about business, Liang immediately pricked up his ears and picked up his pen, ready to take notes.

Zhu Tangxi looked at the globe and said with a smile, "It's time to change the relevant maps."

The Kalinga Kingdom was located on the northeastern coast of the South Asian subcontinent and owned half of Orissa and a quarter of West Bengal in later India.

China was still in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the Jilinga Kingdom had already appeared.

During the Mauryan Dynasty, two consecutive monarchs lost their lives to Kalinga. Eventually the country was annexed by King Ashoka, but King Ashoka himself suffered heavy losses, and then began to promote Buddhism to consolidate his rule.

When Ju Ming first established the Ming Dynasty, there were only a few scattered feudal states left in Jilinga. One of the kingdoms continued to grow through trade with the Ming Dynasty, and then expanded by force to re-establish the Jilinga Kingdom.

For decades, Jilinga has been a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and the two sides have a harmonious relationship.

They purchased various commodities from the Ming Dynasty and sold agricultural products to merchants of the Ming Dynasty. It is rich in rice, sorghum, corn and jute, all of which Ming Dynasty liked.

Since he could continue to suck Jilinga's blood through trade scissors, Ming would not resort to force unless necessary.

This time we were forced to send troops!

The old king of Jilinga died of illness, and various princes competed for the throne.

The one who succeeded in seizing the throne killed all the other brothers. But all the princes who were killed were married to princes from the feudal states, and some princes from the feudal states in Jilinga were ready to make a move.

In order to increase his prestige and consolidate his throne, the new king actually wanted to divert internal conflicts by touching the Ming Dynasty.

He took advantage of the hatred of all classes and sects in the country towards the Ming Dynasty (the country of Jilingjia was particularly badly affected by blood-sucking), and sent troops to coastal ports to kill Ming merchants, confiscate Han people's property, and destroy Buddhist and Taoist temples.

The Ming Dynasty's Viceroyalty of India was right next to it. The governor was stunned when he received the news. He couldn't figure out why the other party dared to do this!

The governor did not even ask for reinforcements, but only dispatched his own navy and army, and destroyed Jilinga in less than a month...

It is very easy to destroy a country, but difficult to rule.

Although the princes of the feudal states in Jilinga were all vying to be loyal to him. However, it is difficult for the governor to directly collect taxes. He can only ask them to pay a certain amount of tribute every year, and there may be another day of the Ming Dynasty movement.

Therefore, the Governor-General of India went to Shu and asked the court to increase the number of garrison troops or allow him to recruit indigenous people as soldiers. And requested to increase Han immigration and turn a few key areas into actual control of the Ming Dynasty.

Rice is abundant there, and the people of the Ming Dynasty must have loved it!

In this way, the Ming Dynasty's direct jurisdiction in India was opened up. As shown below:

Queen Mother Ye and her cabinet ministers did not care what the indigenous people there thought or why they were hostile to Ming merchants.

Anyway, they drove away Ming people and destroyed Buddhist and Taoist temples, so they should be severely punished and deserved to be destroyed!

Moreover, it has always been the overseas granary of Ming Dynasty. Immigrating to the past can not only consolidate control, but also alleviate the internal conflicts of the Ming Dynasty.

The improvement of industrial production efficiency will bear the brunt of the small-scale peasant economy in the Ming Dynasty. Every year, bankrupt farmers flock to the city. If they do not continue to emigrate, big problems will easily arise.

Today, in the vast rural areas of Ming Dynasty, the small-scale peasant economy still continues to exist.

Especially in backward areas, women still spin their own cloth. I don’t sell them either, I just wear them myself.

Queen Mother Ye approved the cabinet's opinion with one word: Yes.

…

The central dignitaries of the Ming Dynasty only knew that something big had happened in India, but they had not yet received any news from further west.

This year is an eventful time!

The Zanji dynasty, which inherited the Seljuq legacy, fell apart due to war with the Dawan Kingdom. After years of civil war, they were finally reunited in these years, so they started fighting with the Dawan Kingdom again.

In the Battle of Khorasan, the Kingdom of Dayuan suffered heavy losses, and the Zanji Dynasty collapsed.

The Ayyubid dynasty took the opportunity to move north and devour the entire Syrian region. Lords from other areas of the Zanji dynasty paid allegiance to the Ayyubid dynasty.

Although this allegiance was superficial, the Ayyubid dynasty officially became a vast empire. Its territory includes Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, extending to Somalia in the south, and half of Persia to the east.

At the same time, due to the collapse of the suzerain and ally (Zanji Dynasty), the Sultanate of Rum was defeated by Byzantium.

Byzantium rises again!

The Byzantine Empire and the Ayyubid Dynasty have been in alliance for decades, and they are both countries that have absorbed the most Ming technology. Today, the two heroes stand side by side.

Moreover, their alliance will not be broken in a short time.

Byzantium needed to resist the invasion of European countries, and the Ayyubid Dynasty was bordering the Dawan Kingdom (Zhu's vassal state). They each face enemies on the east and west sides, and there will at most be some border friction in the future.

Also, just three months ago.

Emperor Shinra died of illness!

Although the civil war has not yet broken out, it is already brewing - the Kingdom of Sicily has even become substantially independent.

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In view of the poor political system of the Shinra, two consecutive generations of Shinra emperors carried out reforms in the newly annexed Kingdom of Sicily, hoping to make it the base of the Shinra emperors.

Today, the Kingdom of Sicily has become the only centralized monarchy in Europe, covering the entire Italian region except the Papal States.

But the king of Sicily at this time was the concubine of the old emperor of Shinra.

It is difficult for him to compete for the throne of emperor, and since he has centralized power as a monarch, why should he continue to hang out with Shinra? He cut off all tributes that needed to be paid, and continued to support his brother (the new emperor of Shinra) in name only.

The Pope also took the opportunity to win over the King of Sicily and encourage Sicily to become independent from the HRE.

…

Located in Chang'an City (Marrakesh) in northwest Africa.

Yang Wenhu, King of the Han Dynasty, was receiving a Byzantine envoy.

"You can actually speak Chinese?" Yang Wenhu looked at this person with interest.

Not only could this messenger speak Chinese, but he was also obviously of mixed Eastern and Western descent. He bowed and said: "My surname is Shen, my given name is Yan, and my courtesy name is Zimei. I am both the envoy of Rome and the envoy of Dawan."

Yang Wenhu asked: "What is your purpose?"

Shen Yan said: "Your Majesty, please expand eastward until we reach the border with the Ayyubid Dynasty!"

Yang Wenhu laughed and said, "I'm crazy to provoke them."

Shen Yan asked back: "If Your Majesty doesn't provoke them, won't they come over? The Ayyubid dynasty has risen, and its strength is no less than that of the Seljuqs. Their expansion to the east is blocked by the Kingdom of Dawan, and their expansion to the northwest is blocked by the Kingdom of Dawan. The ally Rome (Byzantium) can only expand westward. Sooner or later, your Majesty’s Han Kingdom will be at war with the Ayyubid Dynasty!”

These words touched Yang Wenhu's heart, and he asked: "Sooner or later, there is a difference in whether we fight sooner or later. If I keep fighting eastward now, what benefits can Dawan and Rome give me?"

"Trade," Shen Yan explained, "Dawan first went to war with the Zanji dynasty, and now it was at odds with the Ayyubid dynasty. The trade between the east and the west has always been affected. Similarly, the Roman state was also blocked by the Ayyubid dynasty. Therefore, the two countries decided to open up the trade route by bypassing the Ayyubid Dynasty, and your Majesty’s powerful navy will also be able to trade directly with Rome in the future.”

The Kingdom of Dawan already controls the east coast of the Caspian Sea.

Byzantium also defeated the Sultanate of Roma and basically controlled the major ports on the southern coast of the Black Sea.

In addition, Georgia defeated Azerbaijan and Armenia.

The Kingdom of Dayuan is expanding its Caspian Sea fleet, preparing to fight across the Caspian Sea, and will attack Shirvan (an Azerbaijani country that believes in desert religion) from east to west together with the Kingdom of Georgia.

As long as the war is victorious, the trade route will be opened: Ming Dynasty-Dawan Kingdom-Georgia-Byzantium.

Yang Wenhu's Han Dynasty is extremely rich now because he controls gold in West Africa!

In another hundred years, the Mali Empire rose in West Africa, and it relied on gold to grow rapidly.

How rich was the Mali Empire?

A group of black men from West Africa actually organized a pilgrimage of 60,000 people. Moreover, a large number of pilgrims held gold staffs, and the king directly sent gold everywhere in the Middle East. This led to the devaluation of gold in the Middle East for twenty years, and the entire Middle East and Europe were dumbfounded.

The Mali Empire had just been established at this time and was relatively weak. Yang Wenhu sent a thousand men to kill it.

King Dawan's idea is very simple. He will form a strategic alliance with Yang Wenhu's Han Dynasty to attack the rising Ayyubid Dynasty of Egypt from east to west!

The reason why Byzantium came to join in the fun was, firstly, for long-term trade with Dawan, and secondly, to provide eye drops to its ally, the Ayyubid Dynasty, to make their alliance closer.

Yang Wenhu was still thinking about it when Shen Yan said again: "Your Majesty, are you worried about religion?"

"Do you have any idea?" Yang Wenhu asked.

Shen Yan said with a smile: "The religious situation in Dawan is more complicated than that of your Majesty's Han Dynasty. I am a Nestorian who reads Confucian sages, and I also dabble in Desert Religion, Buddhism, Taoism, Manichaeism and Zoroastrianism. "

Yang Wenhu was stunned when he heard this: "With so many religions, won't Dawan country be in chaos?"

Shen Yan said: "Of course it is very chaotic, and believers rebel from time to time. But while holding the handle of the knife and sorting out the teachings, the situation can be maintained after all. Nestorianism comes from the Roman Orthodox Church (Orthodox Church), which has lasted for hundreds of years. The spread has become secular enough. Perhaps, your Majesty can learn from it. Once your Majesty converts to Nestorianism, you can have good relations with Rome (Byzantium)."

"Please elaborate." Yang Wenhu was finally tempted.

Religions can really be integrated, but only if force is sufficient.

India is an experimental ground for religious syncretism, where there are even Hindu sects who read desert scriptures...

The religious situation in Dawan Kingdom at this time was equally crazy. The Nestorian religion that Shen Yan believed in had already absorbed all the Taoism and the Three Purities.

Yang Wenhu discussed with Shen Yan for several days and nights and decided to create a country with Nestorianism as the mainstay and Desert Religion as the supplement. His future sphere of influence will be West Africa, North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula (Spain + Portugal).

Of course, it now only occupies half of Spain, only one-third of the coast of North Africa, and those gold-rich places in West Africa.