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Part One Chapter 1534 Theory of Great Harmony

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    The thick scroll was held in an old left hand.  ¡õ This is a big, wide and thick hand, with thick fingers and raised knuckles. It can be seen that it contains strong strength. Although the owner of this hand is old, his body is still strong.  The book in your hand has some wear and tear on the edges of the cover. It has obviously been read frequently. There are many pen-written annotations on the pages, which are the experiences of those who read.  This book is a philosophical book, with the title printed on the cover - "The Theory of Great Harmony".  "Your Majesty" Hearing the voice, the hand holding the book did not move. The owner of the hand just responded in a low voice.  "What's the matter?" "Telegram from Mexico City, Caesar Mathilde I had a stroke and passed away." "Martšªn is dead go and ask the Emperor and Queen to come over." "I know this." A maid in an undershirt responded.  He retreated and hurriedly left the Hot Spring Palace Yangxin Hall.  Zhu Jishi closed the book quietly, and his face, which already looked old, showed deep sadness.  This is not the first woman to leave him.  The first to leave was Queen Shuzi, who died more than thirty years ago.  Then there was Mrs. Dulan, the first woman Zhu Jishi arrived in this world. When she left, Zhu Jishi was very sad and depressed for a week.  After Madame Tulan, Empress Luo Xiangmei also had physical problems and suffered from heart disease. If it were done decades later, bypass surgery might be possible to extend her life. However, in 1894, there was nothing that could be done. The Supreme Empress still did not  Being able to become the Queen Mother and leave this world According to the suicide note left by Luo Xiangmei.  Zhu Jishi canonized Maria Clementina as Tai Huang Empress three months after her death.  Let the woman who has followed him for half a century become his official wife.  certainly.  Maria Clementina becoming the Grand Empress poses no threat to Zhu Guoxiong, who has been emperor for more than 20 years.  The current Ming Empire has long been a modern capitalist constitutional country with enlightened people. The inheritance of the throne is based on the "Royal Model", which is not something Zhu Guoxiong's brothers can covet.  And Zhu Heng, who had been the king of North China for more than 20 years, did not show much political and military talent, but he became more and more like a shrewd businessman.  He devoted most of his energy to the operation of Beihua Petroleum Company, and spent more than 20 years building an oil empire that is no less than the royal consortium. His private property is said to have exceeded 20 billion yuan. It is truly  He is as rich as a country, and his life is much more luxurious than that of the emperor Zhu Guoxiong.  Why bother trying to get a crown that is impossible to get?  ¡°Besides, it¡¯s becoming increasingly difficult to be the Ming Emperor.  Half a century of capitalist road has not only transformed China from a feudal agricultural country to the current imperialist industrial country, but also greatly changed China's social and economic structure.  And this change is not beneficial to every Ming people - at least not necessarily in line with their short-term interests.  Because cheap agricultural products from the Greater China countries and the new territories of the Ming Dynasty (referring to the territories outside the 18 provinces of the Han Dynasty) are constantly impacting the small farmer economy of the Han Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty.  Especially in the twenty-two years since the end of World War I, cheap agricultural products from North America and Australia have flooded in, and under the principle of Greater China's trade liberalization, the Ming court was unable to compete with tariffs.  The result is that small farmers in the Han region went bankrupt one after another - after bankruptcy, farmers either entered the city and became poor people living in row houses, or they went overseas and became citizens of Greater China.  It will take only a few years for these former Han farmers who immigrated overseas to cultivate the land they were allocated into fertile farmland.  Then another wave of low-priced agricultural products rushed towards Ming Dynasty This almost became a vicious cycle!  The arable land area (excluding grassland) of Donghua, Nanhua, Beihua and Xihua alone is more than 2.5 million square kilometers, which is equivalent to more than 4 billion acres of Chinese acres.  It is almost three times the total cultivated land area of ??the 18 provinces of Han Dynasty. In this time and space, the cultivated land area of ??the 18 provinces of Han Dynasty is not as large as the same period in history. It is always around 1.2 billion acres. A large number of slopes and terraces have been abandoned because of the high cost of farming.  Every immigrant can get 100 acres of land for free in the above areas!  Therefore, the family farms in Sihua are all large farms of 4 to 500 acres connected together, and generally use the rotation method of horse farming and farming and animal husbandry for agricultural production.  The low operating costs and high operating efficiency are simply unimaginable for small-scale agriculture in the Han region!  In just over 20 years, rural areas in 18 provinces in Han Dynasty have experienced five large-scale bankruptcies!  Most of the families of middle peasants and poor peasants have lost everything in this wave of bankruptcies. There are even many farmers on the "100-acre farm" who cannot withstand the cheap agricultural products produced by the "500-acre farm" in Sihua.  He went bankrupt due to the impact of the epidemic and left the countryside with heavy debts.  The population of rural areas in the Han region is also??The approximately 280 million before World War I dropped sharply to around 140 million!  Among the more than 220 million people who left the countryside (taking into account population growth), about 120 million people immigrated to other countries and new lands, and the remaining nearly 100 million people all poured into cities and towns, which also caused the urbanization of the Han Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty.  (The standard for the urban population of the Ming Empire is those who live in cities or towns with a population of more than 1,000 and are not directly engaged in agriculture, forestry, fishery, and animal husbandry.) The rate has exceeded 60% from about 32% before the war!  This ultra-high-speed urbanization has also brought abundant and cheap labor to major cities in the Ming and Han Dynasties. At the same time, it has also made poverty an unsolvable problem for a period of time.  According to statistics from the Ministry of Interior of the Ming Dynasty Cabinet, as of June 1899, there were nearly 180 million people living in less than 200 large and medium-sized cities in the 18 provinces of the Ming Dynasty alone.  And more than 90% of the residentsunfortunately, are all glorious members of the proletariat!  Similar to the UK in earlier years, because the rate of population influx into cities was much higher than the growth rate of industry and commerce, employment opportunities did not increase with the increase in urban population.  Starting from about 1880, the labor market in the cities of the Ming Empire began to experience surpluses, and the consequences of the labor surplus were naturally long-term wage levels and high unemployment rates - although in the face of cheap labor, abundant natural resources and vast territory  Due to multiple factors in the overseas market, Ming Dynasty's capitalists' pockets are getting richer by the day, but the wages they pay to workers have been at zero growth for twenty years.  In the last few years of the 19th century, in large cities such as Shanghai, Yingtian, Guangzhou, and Wuhan, the area of ??slums (townhouse areas) became larger and larger, and countless poor people crowded there.  , without the means of production and not much property, they were worried and embarrassed for living expenses of less than half a Chinese yuan a day.  To make matters worse, the fertile land available for distribution in the Greater China countries such as Donghua, Beihua, Nanhua and Xihua has been exhausted, so the efforts of each country to attract immigrants have also been greatly reduced, although it is still open to every Chinese  The gate, but the free fertile land is gone.  Now the Ming Empire has no way to transfer social contradictions to the outside world The red tide of socialism has begun to really spread in the slums of the Han cities of the Ming Dynasty!  The "On Datong" in the hands of Zhu Jishi is a "red book" that promotes socialism, and the name of the author of this book, Zhu Jishi, was well known 70 years ago.  Nanhai Kang Youwei!  In this time and space, Kang Youwei is no longer the leader of the scholars who wrote letters on the bus, but a member of the lower house of the Ming Dynasty Parliament and the new chairman of the Chinese Socialist Party!  ¡®My era is almost over, and the figures of the new era are beginning to emerge one by one!  I really don¡¯t know what Greater China will look like in the future' Zhu Jishi put down the book in his hand with some emotion, closed his eyes and began to imagine what the world would be like after his death.  Not long after, Maria Clementina¡¯s old voice and Kusumoto Takako¡¯s voice rang together.  "My concubine, Maria, is here to meet the Supreme Emperor." "My concubine, my tall body, is here to see the Supreme Emperor." Zhu Jishi opened his eyes and looked at Maria, who was also old, and Kusumoto Takako, who was in middle age.  "Everyone, please take a seat Takako, why are you back? Is everything okay at the SHIELD Science Department?" "Your Majesty, I would like to spend more time with you." Takako Kusumoto walked behind Zhu Jishi and gently replaced him.  Massaging his shoulders, he said, "The Department of Latent Sciences doesn't have much to do. Huang Feihong and Wang Wu just need to watch over it." The Department of Latent Science actually doesn't have much to do. It is probably the most leisurely office among SHIELD.  There are only two big cases in recent years - the Truss case and the Xu Yifan case.  The former¡¯s details were found out and the possibility of a ¡°stowaway¡± was ruled out. He is now an academician of the Donghua Academy of Sciences and owns a large electrical equipment company.  The latter was discovered in Suiyuan by Wang Wu, an investigator from the Department of Latent Science. He claimed to be a lama at first, but he could not chant sutras, had no identification, and had some very strange clothes and belongings, making him very suspicious.  big.  He is now being held in the secret detention center of the Department of Latent Science and is under investigation. However, after several years of investigation, there is no progress other than knowing that this person is named Xu Yifan - because this suspicious person claims to meet Zhu Jishi first before he can confess.  Everything "The Department of Potential Science cannot take anything lightly, otherwise the consequences will be disastrous." After giving the instructions, Zhu Jishi turned his attention to Maria, "Mathilde is gone, and the Roman Empire's pinnacle is gone! Now!  The situation reminds me of the time when Napoleon III passed away! I can already smell the smell of gunpowder." (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature for better and faster updates!
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