Chapter 333: Mankind's Goal is the Sea of ​​Stars

Empress Dowager Sun could not understand the power of the Luo family, nor could she understand the power of Mingyue from the Luo family.

It was not until she and Zhu Qizhen got into a luxury car, passed through the streets of the capital, and saw rows of soldiers lined up in neat rows.

These soldiers have a neat military appearance that is incomparable to the Ming army.

Seeing a row of steel chariots, although Empress Dowager Sun had never seen one, but by looking at the long muzzles and the roaring sounds, she could roughly judge that it was similar to the red cannon.

At the same time, she also saw planes flying in the sky, which made her even more shocked.

Empress Dowager Sun and Zhu Qizhen were sent to their new residence.

The mansion was huge, and many of her former maids and eunuchs were already waiting there.

Queen Mother Sun came to her room and found a strange box hanging on the wall.

"Pu Niang, what is this?" asked Empress Dowager Sun.

"My lady, this thing is called a television."

"Television? What is that?"

"My queen, look." Pu Niang had been here for half a day, and during this half day, she had learned a lot of things here.

Pu Niang turned on the TV and the picture immediately appeared on it.

When Empress Dowager Sun saw the TV screen, she was so shocked that her mouth couldn't close.

She had never seen anything so special and magical.

"According to our reporter, today the Ming Dynasty and Ming Yue have completed the handover of power. The Ming Yue army entered Shuntian Prefecture at 9.30 a.m. today and entered the Forbidden City at : a.m. Lord Luo Mingyue entered the Palace of Heavenly Purity and held a half-hour discussion with the Empress Dowager Sun Ruowei and Emperor Ming Zhu Qizhen. Sun Ruowei and Zhu Qizhen accepted the established results."

"According to the central government, the Mingyue Empire will be established in seven days."

"The output of cattle and sheep in the northern Mongolian Yuan Province exceeded 30 million tons this year. This means that every citizen of Mingyue will get at least 600 kilograms of meat this year. It also indicates that the price of meat will drop significantly."

"Hebei Province's wheat production exceeded 500 million tons this year, and rice production reached 400 million tons, while Shanxi Province reached 460 million tons..."

This series of numbers made Empress Dowager Sun dizzy.

After all, she had been in power for more than half a year, and the court had long been running out of money. However, looking at the grain production in the area controlled by the Luo family, it was beyond her imagination.

Queen Mother Sun watched TV from afternoon to evening.

She read a lot of news, and what shocked her the most was that the Luo family had unknowingly regained control of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, which had once been a major threat to the Ming Dynasty, and the countries in the Western Regions (such as Xinjiang).

North Korea and Japan have also changed their flags without realizing it.

Even if the Central Plains are not counted, the area controlled by the Luo family has already exceeded that of the previous Ming Dynasty.

And the Luo family also plans to continue their expedition to the west.

Now she finally understood why the Ming Dynasty lost and why the Luo family won.

The Luo family had been planning this for a long time, and the power they had accumulated was completely a crushing force of the times.

They have absolute dominance over everything flying in the sky, running on the ground, and swimming in the water.

Empress Dowager Sun went out every day for the next few days.

No one stopped her from entering and leaving the mansion.

Even when he met with former officials, no one stopped him.

Because all the high-ranking officials in the imperial court had been stripped of their titles and dismissed from office, Mingyue now has a completely different system.

Only at this moment did Empress Dowager Sun understand how well prepared the Luo family was.

After these old officials from the previous dynasty were dismissed, all departments not only did not shut down, but instead operated in a more efficient manner.

However, most of the lower-level officials were retained.

Empress Dowager Sun was holding Zhu Qizhen's hand and standing in front of a government office, which was full of people.

They all came here to re-register their identity information. Everyone who came here to register their identity information could get three taels of silver, three hundred kilograms of rice and flour, and three hundred kilograms of meat.

This is why these civilians are so active in registering.

They did not receive any preferential treatment and had to queue up with the crowd.

After waiting in line for half an hour, they finally completed the registration.

Both mother and son received their ID cards and a household registration booklet.

Empress Dowager Sun had very complicated feelings. She was the empress dowager of the previous dynasty and a commoner of this dynasty.

The Luo family carried out almost no bloody purge of the previous dynasty.

Even the property of noble princes was not plundered.

It's just that they no longer have these privileges, and they are no longer allowed to keep illegal slaves.

Empress Dowager Sun was still politically sensitive to a certain extent. She could see that this policy was actually depriving these nobles of their foundation.

After losing their privileges and their servants, they were no longer the privileged class.

By retaining their wealth, they can still have enough food and clothing.

But they are just dry bones in a grave. Without tenants and illegal households, their vast fields will not be able to continue to be cultivated.

As for abandoned farmland, both the former Ming Dynasty and the current dynasty had detailed requirements. If there was no disaster, the abandoned farmland would be nationalized.

Therefore, the Luo family is nationalizing the land in a peaceful way.

It has to be said that even Empress Dowager Sun was amazed by this method.

But the real evil plan was that the Luo family gave up all agricultural taxes, head taxes, and adult taxes, abolished all corvee labor, abolished the household registration system, and allowed anyone with a clean criminal record to go anywhere and do any job.

It can be said that these policies directly made civilians and the middle class become Mingyue’s most staunch supporters.

The common people were naturally the happiest, and the middle class did not have much land to begin with. With only a few dozen acres of land at home, they could easily cultivate the land even without relying on tenants or illegal households.

Only those wealthy gentry who own hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of acres of land are the ones who give them the most headaches.

And without agricultural taxes, they also lost the opportunity to annex land.

However, the gentry, who had lost their foundation, could not cause any waves even if they wanted to rebel.

All policies are linked together.

Sun Ruowei could be said to have watched how the Mingyue Empire seized the Ming Dynasty and how it conquered all directions, just like Genghis Khan back then.

But it is different from the Mongols of that time, which mainly focused on plundering.

But now Mingyue has directly recovered and governed all the conquered territories.

In fact, there have been many dynasties in history that have the ability to sweep across the world.

However, due to the vast territory, conquering, governing, and communicating all became extremely long.

Therefore, even if it is conquered, it cannot be governed and it will be separated again in a short time.

But this problem is no longer a problem in the Mingyue Empire.

The railway line that runs through tens of thousands of miles from the southeast, northwest, and northeast makes it very easy to transport troops and supplies. Even if a million dan of grain and fodder are transported from Yingtian Prefecture to the western border, the journey only takes five days.

If it were in the past, it would take half a year to deliver.

As for communication, that is even less of a problem.

The orders sent from the capital can be received thousands of miles away in an instant.

In the past two years, Sun Ruowei has had former officials approach her, trying to use the former royal family's identity to restore the throne.

These former ministers were unwilling to resign because they were expelled from the court and had lost their previous honorable status.

At first, Sun Ruowei thought that the Luo family of the Mingyue Empire was letting a tiger return to the mountains.

But after two years, Sun Ruowei has seen the situation clearly.

How strong is the Mingyue Empire now? Let's put it this way, even at the peak of the Ming Dynasty, the Mingyue Empire only needed one percent of its military strength to make the Ming Dynasty kneel down and sing "Conquer".

The current Mingyue Empire is experiencing unprecedented prosperity in terms of economy, culture, military, and even policy.

The people are even more cohesive about this new empire.

In the past Ming Dynasty, even during its heyday, the most they could do was to keep them from starving to death.

However, when the Mingyue Empire was first established, anyone who went to register their identity information was given money, food, and meat without exception, and all kinds of benefits were extremely good.

Moreover, all agricultural taxes on land were exempted, which was a policy that had never been adopted in any previous dynasty.

There are also various new and interesting things emerging one after another.

Various household appliances have gradually entered thousands of households, and cars of all sizes have increased in number on the roads.

For example, military service was something that everyone hated and feared in the past.

Today's soldiers are there to defend the country. Anyone who insults a soldier on any occasion will be severely punished.

The cohesion of the past Ming Dynasty cannot be compared at all.

What's more, now they have lost their power, status, and military force.

How can restoration be achieved when everyone is united?

Even if they killed the current emperor at this time, what could the Great Emperor Mingyue do?

At the beginning, there were a few poor scholars who scolded her for being a hen that crows at dawn and for being shameless.

But Emperor Mingyue didn't even need to do anything, as he was torn to pieces by the angry people and finally fled the capital in disgrace.

Today, Confucianism has long lost its soil for survival.

From the imperial court to the common people, everyone hated Confucianism.

And it was the Confucians who actually encouraged Sun Ruowei to restore the monarchy.

They were unwilling to see their thousand-year-old heritage come to an end.

Unwilling to be deprived of the power and status that he had held for thousands of years.

But as the old saying goes, a scholar's rebellion will fail in three years.

The little flame in Sun Ruowei's heart was extinguished little by little as Zhu Qizhen grew older.

Sun Ruowei was initially worried that the new dynasty would poison them, the royal family of the previous dynasty.

Even though at the beginning we said we would give them a stable life.

But who knows if they will quietly kill them after stabilizing the situation.

But as time went by, she discovered that the Mingyue Empire was truly magnanimous.

There weren't even any restrictions on her.

There were even no restrictions on her contact with former officials.

She also knew in her heart that the court must have known about the plans of those former ministers, but had never taken any action. It must have been waiting for them to reveal themselves.

However, as Zhu Qizhen grew up healthily like most children and he himself got used to his identity as an ordinary person, Sun Ruowei did not want to let Zhu Qizhen be involved in danger again.

Zhu Qizhen is now called Zhu Zhen. He is fourteen years old now, but because of his excellent academic performance, he was able to enter the highest institution of learning faster than his peers.

"Madam, someone from the palace came and said they want to invite you to come into the palace."

Sun Ruowei was a little surprised. She hadn't set foot in the Forbidden City for many years, and she thought that the man in the palace had forgotten her existence.

Sun Ruowei tidied her clothes and then got into the special car.

When she arrived in front of the palace wall, she was still a little dazed. The scenery before her was the same as before, but everything and everyone had changed.

Sun Ruowei met Luo Mingyue in the garden, and there was a middle-aged man next to Luo Mingyue.

Sun Ruowei's heart moved. The outside world has never known whether Luo Mingyue has a spouse. Could the person in front of her be one?

This middle-aged man was of imposing appearance and was dressed in a golden and black robe.

Although there is no prohibition on wearing clothes of any color among the people, those who can be so generous are definitely not ordinary people.

"Madam Sun, please take a seat." Luo Mingyue stood up and made a gesture of invitation.

Sun Ruowei was a little confused. Luo Mingyue had already stood up, but the middle-aged man in front of her was still sitting there motionless. What was going on?

Even if he is the emperor's husband, he shouldn't be so rude, right?

"I have met His Majesty."

"The etiquette of the previous dynasty is no longer in fashion." Luo Mingyue waved her hand: "This is my father, Luo Sen."

Sun Ruowei widened her eyes. That was not right. Luo Mingyue should be in her fifties. The middle-aged man in front of her should be about the same age as Luo Mingyue.

"Don't doubt it, he is really my biological father, and it is my father who is looking for you this time."

"I've met the Supreme Emperor."

"You don't have to call me the emperor. I'm now the president of Capital University. This time I asked you to come here to discuss Zhu Zhen's future." Rosen said.

Sun Ruowei turned pale and immediately knelt on the ground.

"My two Supremes, Zhen'er and I have no intention of rebelling. We just want to live our lives in peace. Please understand my two Supremes."

"It's not bad for him, you stand up." Rosen waved his hand. "Zhu Zhen's grades are excellent, especially in physics. He is very talented. Even some college teachers may not be better than him. So I plan to take him as a student. If he has children in the future, the restrictions on him will be lifted, and your descendants will no longer be prohibited from entering politics."

Sun Ruowei's mood was like a roller coaster.

She didn't expect the Luo family to be so tolerant and actually willing to treat the Zhu family well.

"It's all up to you."

"Then it's decided."

In Li Yue's plan, unifying the world is not the ultimate goal.

With the current Mingyue Empire, it is only a matter of time before humanity is unified.

And this plan can be completed within the next five years.

The current Mingyue Empire has conquered all the desert countries and started to spread Mingyue culture. When the next generation of the desert countries rises, they will completely belong to the Mingyue Empire family.

Human beings are just a drop in the ocean in the entire starry sky.

What he wants is for humans to leave the earth and head towards the vast sea of ​​stars.

But before that, he needs to solve the world's biggest trouble.

If that big problem is not solved, then humanity will be in danger forever.