World Setting:
The basic distribution of nations is the same as in the previous world, except there is an extra country in the North Pacific, about 5.6 million square kilometers in size—Grand Zhou.
Grand Zhou:
It is the world's economic center, political center, and cultural center. At the same time, it is also the core state of the Grand Zhou Federal Empire.
The Grand Zhou Federal Empire:
It is a federal empire made up of forty-six countries, including Grand Zhou and Great Britain. It's similar to the EU. But unlike the EU, not only is there an economic community, political integration is also moving toward unity. The supreme commander of the federal empire is the Emperor of Grand Zhou. The Grand Zhou Emperor also holds powers over member states such as dissolving parliament, dismissing prime ministers and presidents, mobilizing the military, and appointing or removing high-ranking military officers.
The world's common language is Ya, which is almost identical to Chinese.
The world's common currency is the Zhou yuan. RMB to Zhou yuan is 8:1.
Zhaoge Royal Academy was founded in 1256 AD. It is the world's top comprehensive university, and has produced famous figures from every profession. It is also one of the main reasons Grand Zhou has remained standing at the top of the world.
The Grand Zhou royal family are descendants of the Zhou dynasty of Huaxia, from the line of King Nan of Zhou, Ji Yan. At the time, the realm was in chaos, so Ji Yan's descendants changed their surname to Zhou and traveled east all the way to the Penglai region. After several more centuries, they ventured far overseas and eventually arrived on this island.
Because of this tiny change, the entire world slowly began to turn different. Starting from the late Eastern Han, Cao Cao actually won the Battle of Red Cliffs. Without that, there was no later Jin dynasty, and naturally no upheaval of the Five Barbarians. Even if there were still Tang and Song dynasties afterward, the people within them were all different. Overall, the level of science did not differ much, but culturally, the differences were naturally enormous.
Ancient Grand Zhou valued practical learning and utility, while placing less emphasis on poetry and literary arts. Now that people want to pick those things up again, it's extremely difficult.
