Chapter 279: After Two Thousand Years
In the year 16590 AD, Peng Feng defeated the Manchu Qing, single-handedly battling six Great Heavenly Immortal Realm experts and killing the Manchu Qing’s number one expert, Huang Taiji, thus establishing the New Dynasty.
In the year 16610 AD, the fleet of the Kingdom of Badrand attacked Taiwan Island. Upon hearing this, the New Dynasty Grand Ancestor Emperor Peng Feng rushed over, personally killing the fleet’s Commander-in-Chief and Vice Commander, winning this battle to protect the island.
This was also the first clash between the East and the West.
In the year 16700 AD, Peng Feng passed the throne to his eldest son, Peng Zhenlong, who was known as the New Dynasty Grand Ancestor Emperor.
Then, Peng Feng went into seclusion.
In the year 17255 AD, the Empress Dowager Zhu Huichuo passed away. The lifespan of people in this world is one thousand years, and those who can break through the limit are few and far between.
The following year, Imperial Concubine Feng Feifei and Bai Wan’er both passed away simultaneously. These two had competed their entire lives, openly and secretly, but they passed away in the same year, which was truly ironic.
Peng Feng successively saw off his wife and two concubines from this life.
His emotions were still somewhat turbulent.
Indeed.
He has now lived for almost three thousand years.
He has become accustomed to life and death.
However, his wife and two concubines had accompanied him for nearly a thousand years after all.
Their sudden passing still caused him to sigh deeply.
Life and death are impermanent.
However, as a living being, one must continue to live on.
Live on with the beautiful blessings of his wives.
In his previous life, Peng Feng had consumed phoenix blood once and a complete dragon core. The phoenix blood increased his lifespan by two thousand five hundred years, a complete dragon core by five thousand years, plus the one thousand years of lifespan brought by his own cultivation.
He actually has a lifespan of eight thousand five hundred years now.
He has only lived for three thousand years.
He still has five thousand five hundred years of lifespan left.
He still has a long life ahead of him.
Watching his wives and concubines pass away.
Peng Feng also knew that according to the rules of this world, even if you are a powerful expert, you only have a lifespan limit of one thousand years, and he should also pass away.
Therefore, he staged a disappearance, a divine vanishing.
In the end, he ran to Mount Everest to live in seclusion.
Everything in this world is similar to the original world, except that everything is ten times larger.
Mount Everest in this world is a full 88,888 meters high.
The summit is uninhabited year-round.
It is covered in snow that has accumulated for ten thousand years.
The temperature at the summit is constantly around minus two hundred degrees Celsius.
It is not a place where humans can survive.
Such low temperatures are nothing to Peng Feng.
It was just the right place for him to be quiet and undisturbed.
Thus, Peng Feng opened up a cave on the summit of Mount Everest, and then began his seclusion and cultivation. Of course, the phoenix blood would also act up from time to time, and whenever it did, he would fall into a coma for a hundred years.
And so, time continued to pass.
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Time flew by.
In the blink of an eye, another thousand years had passed.
Unknowingly, it was already the year 18550 AD.
At this time, it had been a full two thousand years since the establishment of the New Dynasty.
Two thousand years of vicissitudes of life.
Two thousand years of great changes in time and space.
And the New Dynasty on the land of Huaxia had also been a dynasty for two thousand years.
There has never been an undefeated dynasty.
A dynasty, in its later stages, will inevitably become corrupt.
Although Peng Feng had established various systems and set the New Dynasty Six Articles at the time, it was to limit the power of officials and curb corruption.
However, one person, after all, cannot compete with the efforts of the powerful and bureaucrats.
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Just like how powerful Zhu Yuanzhang and that other one were, they also could not defeat this huge group of the powerful and bureaucrats.
For example, one of the New Dynasty Six Articles was to limit the amount of good farmland and spiritual farmland that one person could own, as well as the area of a person’s property.
A person could only own a maximum of twenty mu of good farmland.
A person could only own a maximum of ten mu of spiritual farmland.
A person could only own a property with an area of one hundred square meters.
In the beginning, during the reign of the New Dynasty Grand Ancestor Emperor Peng Zhenlong, these conditions were still upheld, and no one dared to violate them.
However, when it came to the hands of the fourth emperor of the New Dynasty, Peng Zhu, this condition was changed, and the annexation of land and property had become mainstream.
For another example, one of the New Dynasty Six Articles stated that merchants must pay taxes, and the amount of tax to be paid was also fixed, and the tax was quite high. However, later on, merchants increasingly preferred to lower the declared amount, so that the tax they had to pay became lower and lower.
Among the New Dynasty Six Articles, there were no preferential treatments for bureaucrats, such as tax exemptions.
However, under the fifth emperor of the New Dynasty, this condition was changed again, and the bureaucrats regained preferential treatment, and the farmland and spiritual farmland under their control could be exempted from taxes.
The interest groups were expanding madly.
Later on, the Four Great Families of the New Dynasty were formed.
These Four Great Families.
The first great family is the Bai Family. That is, the maiden family of Bai Wan’er in the past. In the past, Zhu Huichuo was the Empress, but the Zhu family was from the previous dynasty and was always targeted, so the Zhu family did not develop.
And Feng Feifei was originally a Holy Maiden of the Yin Gui Sect, and before entering the Demon Sect, she had to cut off her ties with the secular world, so she did not have any family.
Therefore, it was the maiden family of Bai Wan’er that developed, becoming one of the Four Great Families, and they controlled salt.
The second great family is the Zheng Family. They are the descendants of Zheng Chenggong in the past. They control foreign trade, and all sea merchants who enter and leave must pay money to the Zheng Family.
The third great family is the Li Family. The favorite concubine of the fourth emperor of the New Dynasty, Emperor Xinming Peng Zhu, was surnamed Li, and her name was Li Ruyi. This Li Family is her family, and it has continued to this day. The Li Family is involved in the real estate industry. That’s right, logically speaking, the real estate industry should only appear in later generations, but it appeared in this era.
The Li Family exploits the whole country through the real estate industry.
The fourth great family is the Zeng Family. The chancellor of the previous generation of the empire, and the chancellor of this generation of the empire, are all members of the Zeng Family, which has enabled the Zeng Family to also join the ranks of the Four Great Families.
And the most famous thing about the Zeng Family is hospitals. Nearly one-third of the hospitals in the country are in the hands of the Zeng Family.
The Zeng Family exploits the whole country through the medical industry.
The Four Great Families have tremendous power.
Like the Bai Family and the Zheng Family among them, they were all dragon slayers.
However, the dragon slayers eventually became evil dragons.
And at this time,
they also encountered a great change that had not happened in ten thousand years.
Those Western countries also began to attack the East. Of course, countries like the Elephant Country had already knelt down two thousand years ago. What they wanted to attack was actually only the New Dynasty. As for countries like the Sakura Country, they were just incidental.
The four great powers of the West, the Vampire Country, the Werewolf Country, the Christian Country, and the Knight Country, took turns to fight.
The New Dynasty was still very promising at the beginning.
It was much better than the Qing Dynasty in the other world.
In one-on-one battles, they still managed to resist the first round of attacks from the Christian Country.
It was not until the four great powers of the West joined forces and sent a large number of experts to attack that.
The weakened New Dynasty could not resist.
Then, taking this opportunity,
The four great powers of the West obtained various privileges in the New Dynasty, and for a time, white people swaggered in the New Dynasty.
This was also an extremely bad era.
Internally, there were the Four Great Families.
Externally, there were the four great powers of the West.
With so many oppressors, the common people were living extremely poorly.
And at this time,
in a certain cave on Mount Everest,
a certain person woke up.
The previous volume has ended.
This volume begins, writing about the events of the nineteenth century.
