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One Person's Time and Space Smuggling Empire VIP Volume Chapter 41 Xu Xiake

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    When the situation in the third space-time has entered a boiling stage, and the heroes of the Space-Time Expeditionary Force invaded in large numbers, profoundly and permanently changing the original history of the third space-time, the development of the Ming Empire in the second space-time to which the space-time empire belongs is tepid.  Not popular.

    Here, unlike the No. 1 space-time at the same time, the internal combustion engine revolution is in full swing. Every day, thousands of cars and airplanes come off the production line and enter the lives of ordinary citizens, changing the traditional transportation mode of society.  In such a state, the millions of steam locomotives that once roamed the countryside were replaced and thrown onto the garbage heap, becoming waste products in urgent need of treatment.  Light, beautiful, and powerful off-road vehicles began to become the mainstream, running on the wilderness throughout the empire's countryside.

    The industrial base of Spacetime No. 2 is far from reaching the level of Spacetime No.1. After more than ten years of development, basic education has trained more than hundreds of thousands of skilled workers who have gone to construction jobs, but they only have the skills of the steam engine era.  Based on the knowledge base, therefore, the No. 1 space-time has made great strides towards the oil age, while the No. 2 space-time is still clumsy and stubborn, firmly following the unique path of the steel and coal age.

    The railway that Xu Xiake is facing in front of him, which is conquering the roof of the world bit by bit, is enough to prove it.

    This is the Caucasus.  Time comes in the spring of the thirty-eighth year, in time and space No. 2, which is 1648 AD.

    The Eurasian Continental Railway Line was decided at the same time by the ruler of the Ming Empire in Time and Space No. 2, Her Royal Highness Queen Regent Li Huamei, First Assistant Kong Ming (Zhuge Liang), and Second Assistant Zheng Zhilong, as a railway connecting the newly conquered territories of the empire.  It has huge strategic benefits and effects from the beginning.  It occupies most of the empire's current strategic resources.

    Starting from the Longhai Railway, which was already part of the original territory of the empire, it passed through the Central Plains from Lianyungang on the coast of the East China Sea.  Longxi, Xijiang (Xinjiang), Hezhong (Central Asia), turn north, bypass the Aral Sea, Caspian Sea, enter the Caucasus, and here, bypass the Black Sea.  The front lines that have been at war with European countries through the empire, the Dnieper River Plain and the Polish Plain!

    The branch lines of this railway go south from the river, one leads to Tianzhu (India), maintaining the rich agricultural base of the empire, and the other leads to Persia, connecting the empire's African territory, and pushing the empire's military forward to where it is now.  The empire's iron-hoofed army compressed only a small piece of territory at the doorstep of Ottoman Turkey.  And there is another one, which goes south from the Don River Basin.  The Caucasus Mountains, which lead directly to here, threaten the northern border of Tš¹rkiye in the south.

    Along the way, like a mighty dragon, it moved around in a country with tens of millions of square kilometers and tens of thousands of kilometers of railway lines.  Dozens of work sites started working at the same time.  Under the extremely harsh geographical environment and natural conditions, millions of imperial workers and an even larger number of slaves and war prisoners participated in the construction of this miraculous great project.  It's just that this railway is the greatest man-made miracle that mankind has ever built.  I don¡¯t know how many people¡¯s blood will be soaked in the concrete sleepers and steel rails under my feet.

    Civilization.  To a certain extent, it is a process of elimination.  Natural competition is nature¡¯s butcher knife full of blood.

    Xu Xiake, this year, is already sixty-five years old, but he is still in good health. As the empire's leading geological expert, the empire's medical and health conditions have greatly improved in recent years, so that his life can still shine at this age.  Unimaginable brilliance.  He was once one of the inspectors responsible for discovering, inspecting and dealing with some temporary geological problems in engineering construction along the railway line.

    Although he was not involved in the exploration and site selection design of this railway, he was once one of the original think tanks. In addition, he is lazy by nature and likes to travel. For him, being an inspector is just the right job.  He had a great time working in this position.

    But now, of course, he has retired.  Coming here this time is purely a personal trip.  Along the way, people at the military stations and work sites who were still insisting on maintaining the safety of the railway lines were very happy to see him. After all, in this land, except for military camps, even if they could see him  It is extremely difficult for the native Han people in an empire.

    For him, although it is a habit, in this era and at this age, he can still maintain such a good body and insist on hiking, Xu Xiake is second to none.

    Walking on the unique frozen soil north of the Tropic of Cancer, Xu Xia came to the Caucasus and climbed the Greater Caucasus Mountains with an average altitude of three to four thousand meters to trace the traces of the bloody battle in the Caucasus!

    The time is April in the thirty-eighth year.

    Thirty-eight years have passed, what¡¯s the significance of this?  As a native of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Xiake never knew why the emperor made such a strange calendar.Before, the current emperor had not appeared, nor had he raised his hand to overthrow the Ming Dynasty, and establish the foundation of the great Ming Empire in front of us. What kind of great day was it thirty-eight years ago, worthy of the entire empire?  Remember it forever?

    Regarding this, in fact, the subjects of the entire empire are a little confused.  The most reliable guess is that thirty-eight years ago was the day the current emperor was born, so it is worth remembering by his subjects forever.  This hypothesis is reasonable for His Majesty the Shenwu Emperor who single-handedly created such a great and great achievement, but it is inevitably a bit too flamboyant and inconsistent with the deep and restrained nature generally respected by the imperial culture.

    However, in any case, this is a conjecture generally accepted by the subjects of the empire. The official empire has never explained this strange almanac.  Just like just like many of the inexplicable policies in the early days of the empire, they suddenly appeared without warning or reason and were implemented. In the end, the results proved to be very unexpected, and the benefits to the empire always outweighed the disadvantages.

    Over time, the subjects of the empire have accepted the wisdom and prowess of the empire's ruling class. In recent years, the empire has experienced various gratifying changes, industrial progress, the general prosperity of the people, the strength of the country, and the spread of national prestige in all directions.

    And for people like Xu Xiake who have entered the empire's ruling class, everyone knows that the empire is in the hands of a group of strange people.  The various national policies and policies of the empire were all determined by those at the core, and their origins were as confusing as the wise and wise Emperor Shenwu.  The most obvious, but also difficult-to-understand, characteristic of these people is that their names are all related to the names of people from the Three Kingdoms period that are familiar to the people.

    For example, His Excellency Kong Ming, a famous official who has been serving as the chief minister since the founding of the People's Republic of China and has been in charge of the empire for many years. His prestige in the country is second only to His Majesty the Emperor.  For example, General Wei Yan personally won a series of westward wars and gained tens of millions of square kilometers of disciples for the empire!

    General Wei Yan, the commander of the Caucasus Campaign, played the most important role in the empire's westward expansion. In this battle, the empire defeated the coalition forces of Turkey and European countries and gained overall strategic advantage over Europe.

    Among them, they defeated the Turkish army in the south, crossed the Greater Caucasus Mountains, and overlooked the northern border of Turkey. In the north, they defeated the coalition forces of dozens of European countries including Poland and the Kingdom of Lithuania, France, Prussia, Ukraine, Finland, and Russia.  , the soldiers advanced to the Ukrainian plains and suppressed Europe. At this point, the empire's world hegemony was firmly established.  This put the empire's only rivals in the world, Europe and Turkey, into a position of being passively beaten.

    The empire¡¯s westward march began in 1642, when the Ming Empire had completed the integration of East Asia and South Asia.

    ??Among them, Japan was naturalized in 1638 and became the empire's Dongpu Province, Indochina Peninsula and Nanyang Islands, respectively became the empire's North Vietnam Province, South Vietnam Province, Malay Province, Thousand Islands Province and the dependent countries Siam and Burma.  As for Tianzhu, due to the complicated situation, it was established as a governor-general directly under the jurisdiction, and the internal local religious situation was still somewhat entrenched.

    The productivity of the light industry, led by the textile industry, cultivated in the Jiangnan region in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China expanded dramatically, and they had to find a broader market space. However, the empire's colonial expansion in North and South America has always been resisted by the joint resistance of European countries.  Don't open the situation.  The emperor was so angry that he personally ordered the Western Expedition!

    The imperial general Wei Yan led the empire's million-strong army, carrying the cavalry of the Mongolian tribes that had been tamed at this time, across thousands of mountains and miles from Asia, and drove directly to the European mainland, no longer playing hide-and-seek with the alliance of European countries on the sea.  , but directly carried out a war of conquest on the European continent!

    The biggest obstacle at that time was the Ottoman Turkish Empire, which was engaged in a long-lasting tug-of-war between the empire and the European countries. Due to the empire's strong military pressure, the century-old feud between the European countries and Turkey had already  The old grudges were cleared and they became strategically dependent partners.  Thousands of war materials are transported from Europe to Turkey every year. Although Turkey is almost completely suppressed by the empire in West Asia and within the borders of Europe, it is very resilient and blocks the front of the empire for Europe. In the empire  Under the pressure of Xu Huang, the governor of West Asia, he resisted tenaciously.

    General Wei Yan's army marched out from the north road, stepped through with iron hooves, and directly annihilated the remaining Jungar Khanate, Khiva Khanate and Kazakh Khanate. The Tatars and Kazakhs on the Central Asian steppes,  The Kyrgyz people, as well as various other nameless nomads, were all conquered by the army. Millions of cavalry from all ethnic groups, under the call of the reappearance of the banner of Tian Khan, took two years.  , crossing the Ural River westward and entering the Don River Basin.  Here I finally met people from all walks of life who had been mobilized throughout Europe.The Allied Forces, numbering more than two million, engaged in a decisive frontal battle with the Turkish army that came north from the Caucasus Mountains and the iron-hoof army led by Wei Yan.

    This battle is a battle that determines the outcome between Western and Eastern civilizations, and it is also a battle that determines the future of the world!  Nearly ten million musketeers, cavalry, artillery, and air forces from both sides shed blood and lives for the future of their respective nations on the limited land of the Caucasus, composing the most passionate song of this era.

    The Empire has won the future.
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