Chapter 525 The End - Twenty Seven Years Later
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, wake up quickly!"
Prime Minister Zuo of the Ming Dynasty, Zhuge Weidao, King of Ji, was awakened from his sweet sleep by this urgent and sweet voice. This distinguished and powerful Prime Minister of the Ming Dynasty just celebrated his 60th birthday yesterday.
The Prime Minister has been very proud and smooth in his life over the past 20 years. If we count further back, it seems that except for 35 years ago when he was the military attache of the embassy in Petersburg, he suffered a blow to his head for no reason.
Apart from the one shot, he has always been smooth in his life. Even the shot in the head "exchanged" him for the beauty of his dreams, Grand Duchess Natalie. The two have been happily married for thirty years.
Over the years, they have raised five love children together. Moreover, this somewhat "lascivious" female grand duchess did not stop Zhuge from taking concubines for Dao, and she also had a close relationship with Prime Minister Zhuge's concubines, which was really a happy life. In Zhuge
With the joint efforts of Wei Dao and Natalie, their family has grown larger and larger, and now it has developed into a husband, a wife, six concubines, and fifteen children. What a big happy family!
In addition to a happy family, Zhuge Weidao also had a smooth career. He retired from active service with the rank of Navy Marshal at the age of fifty-five. At that time, he had already served as Minister of the Navy for several years and was also a
He became the great military advisor of the Zhuge family's military division, and also received the full support of the Civic Party, the largest party in the political council controlled by the Zhuge family. Therefore, after retiring from active service, he was naturally elected as the Right Prime Minister of the Ming Dynasty, and three years later he was promoted to the Prime Minister.
He replaced Mu Zhongjun, who resigned due to improper handling of the economic crisis, and became the Prime Minister of the Ming Dynasty, and holds this position until today.
However, if anyone thinks that everything has been smooth sailing for him over the past twenty-seven years, that is not necessarily the case.
The first thing that made him unhappy was that the Second World War he was looking forward to did not start as scheduled!
When the "Havana Peace Treaty" was signed, Zhuge Weidao pinched his fingers and calculated again and again. He felt that this peace would barely last for twenty years at most, and the Second World War would break out! However, his prediction failed six years ago.
During the forty-four years of peace, the entire world was immersed in an atmosphere of prosperity and stability, and there was no intention of fighting a world war.
At that time, the entire world was experiencing long-term prosperity and stability under the combined influence of new technologies, new industries, new economies, and long-term peace and stability. Even the United States and the United Kingdom, which had been defeated in the last war, also experienced a fiery situation.
Among them, the huge debt of 8.88 billion in the United States was paid off in 40 years of peace. And it was paid off with interest, not less than a dime in advance!
Originally, Zhuge Weidao thought that the United States would end up like Germany, which failed in World War I in another timeline! Who knew that he underestimated the United States too much? The United States is the chosen country!
In the fifth year after the signing of the Treaty of Havana, the United States got rid of the post-war recession and began to grow towards positive growth due to the discovery and exploitation of the large oil fields in Ohio.
At the same time, the vast land of the United States also told all those who looked down upon her what the "Chosen Country" was - while the United States abolished black slavery and allocated land to free blacks in accordance with the Treaty of Havana, the U.S. Congress also
Based on the principle that "blacks and whites are all human beings", the American Recovery Homestead Act was passed and began to allocate farmland free of charge to all Americans, including new Americans who had just crossed the ocean on ships and arrived in this country - as long as
They can develop and utilize the farmland within 24 months after receiving it, and if certain conditions are met, the land they receive will be theirs forever!
Driven by the Homestead Act, poor people from Europe flocked to the United States like a tide, and American agriculture miraculously quickly emerged from the shadow of abolition, and soon became the world's largest producer of wheat and cotton.
, an exporting country of agricultural and animal husbandry products such as tobacco, butter, beef, wool, and cowhide.
The large amount of exported oil and agricultural and animal husbandry products not only provided the United States with enough funds to repay war reparations, but also gave the United States the spare capacity to develop its industrial and infrastructure railways, highways, power stations, power grids, ports, cities, and more.
Various factories sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. Instead of being de-industrialized after the defeat of the war, the United States quickly realized industrialization.
By the 1850s, the United States had replaced the United Kingdom and became the world's second largest industrial country!
The population of the United States has also increased by one and a half times, from the original 20 million to 50 million!
What is even more unexpected than Zhuge Weidao is that the rapidly growing United States has been obediently obeying the world order led by the Ming Dynasty. It is completely invisible that this country still harbors any ambition to rule the world? Her army and navy have not even reached the level of
It has exceeded the scale stipulated in the Treaty of Havana. It has also maintained good relations with Mexico, Spain, the United Kingdom, the Ming Dynasty and Japan.
Similar to the good performance of the United States, the United Kingdom has been a well-behaved and obedient "Little Ming Dynasty" in the past twenty-seven years. Queen Victoria only gave birth to children and took care of them, and had no interest in leading the country. Zhu Xiu, on the other hand,
He became the real King of the United Kingdom and the Emperor of India. And he was the one who held real power! Although he did not personally govern, he could replace the British Prime Minister and the Indian Prime Minister at will, issue decrees, dissolve Parliament, and interfere with the judiciary. According to the British's own
To put it another way, this is simply Henry VIII coming back!
Of course, Zhu Xiu will not divorce or kill his wife like Henry VIII. His relationship with Victoria can still withstand the test of time. He does not even have a mistress! Moreover, the two have 10 children together, 5 of whom are
Sons, although three of them are in poor health, there is no shortage of heirs in the Great British and Little Ming dynasties.
Under the leadership of Zhu Xi, the British Empire gradually emerged from the economic crisis caused by defeat and civil war. After all, India can still donate blood to the British Empire!
The Indian people tighten their belts and have everything!
In addition, the industrialization of the United States, as well as the industrialization and military confrontation between the Roman Republic, the Roman Empire, and the German Empire on the European continent, also sent orders and capital to Britain.
Therefore, the British economy has entered an upward path of prosperity and growth since the 1840s.
By the way, the economies of the Roman Republic, the Roman Empire and the German Empire, which were facing each other on the European continent, were actually very good - these three countries were in conflict, but business was still going on. Especially the Roman Empire among them. It was the Rakshasa.
After taking down Constantine, Rumelia, Moldavia, and Wallachia, and building a powerful Serbia, they began to carry out reforms to abolish serfdom, and achieved good results.
In short, everything looks good, and the Ming Dynasty, which has seized world leadership, is of course the biggest beneficiary of the twenty-seven-year post-war prosperity. The economy has been in a high degree of prosperity, which seems to have no end.
Zhuge Weidao yawned, woke up from a recliner in his prime minister's office, looked at his female secretary Fu Shanxiang Fu Dacainv, and asked with a smile: "My talented woman, is it time to get off work? We are going to get off work tonight.
Would you like to go to Daikokuya and have dinner together?”
Chapter completed!