Dominate the Country

As a prince, what is the biggest surprise in life? It is not a lifetime of wealth and glory, nor is it marrying a beautiful fairy, nor is it giving birth to a good son, but that you, who originally had no hope of succession, suddenly became the emperor of the empire.

Yongsheng is such a lucky man. He was adopted early and lost hope early. His identity destined him to have nothing to do with the throne, and he himself had wasted his time. But he never expected that the situation would change, and the throne would suddenly fall from the sky.

There is nothing in the world that makes a prince happier than a prince who has no right of succession suddenly sitting on the throne of the emperor. Although the Daqingguo was in turmoil at that time, Yongsheng still had confidence in his heart! Just like Emperor Chongzhen felt that he could revive the Ming Dynasty, Yongsheng also felt that he could revive the Qing Dynasty.

But the goddess of luck quickly fell in love with someone else after liking Yongsheng. Yongcheng had just experienced the greatest joy in his life, but was thrown into the abyss of despair.

Just as he had just experienced a surprise, what could be more despairing than for an emperor to watch his dynasty collapse?

One joy and one sorrow, the huge impact can drive people crazy. It was also because Yongcheng had suffered too much indifference in the past 20 years, and his mind was strong enough to withstand this devastating blow. Otherwise, it is really hard to imagine that the "Nine Fives" sitting on the throne of the Qing Dynasty is still normal now.

How could he be like Yongcheng now, who not only did not lose his fighting spirit after running to the northeast, but also immediately prepared to retreat to the bitter cold land further north for a long battle. And to be honest, Yongcheng's "preparation" was really foresighted. Now, isn't the Fu Han Army going to Shengjing?

Although they have not completely taken Jinzhou, the latter is already a cooked duck in the bowl of the Han people.

Once Jinzhou was lost, Shengjing Fengtianfu would have no chance of survival. Yongcheng rejected the proposal of some ministers to let them stay in Shengjing City with their troops, defend Shengjing to the death, and cover Yongcheng's retreat. When the war in Jinzhou was still going on, an order was issued for everyone to retreat northward.

The officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners Imperial Army gathered in a strict formation at the gate of the imperial palace in Shengjing City. The soldiers were armed with live ammunition and stood there straight, and all the strangers were strictly prohibited from approaching. The sharp bayonets and the gun barrels with a dark metallic luster shone brightly in the sun, dazzling the eyes. These soldiers were the elite selected from the Eight Banners New Army soldiers who survived on the battlefield, and each of them was tall and strong. There were only 10,000 people in total!

Now these imperial soldiers, who were selected from the best of the Eight Banners New Army, were wearing Russian-style Western military uniforms, standing straight, and looking straight ahead. However, the atmosphere of this neatly-organized formation was not the fearlessness of victory, but the deep sorrow from the bones.

Because each of them knew deeply what day it was.

Two years after the Qing Dynasty withdrew from Beijing, they once again had to leave their "capital", leaving the place where Jingcheng was destined before Daqingguo entered the pass. This is Shengjing! It is the place where the Qing Dynasty rose.

As a soldier, the most elite and best-treated soldier in a country, abandoning his capital without fighting...

Is there anything more shameful than this?

But Yongcheng was reluctant to take them to the battlefield. Since withdrawing from the Central Plains and returning to the Northeast, the strength of the Qing Dynasty has certainly been greatly weakened, but Yongcheng and all the important officials of the Qing Dynasty also regarded the Eight Banners New Army as a treasure, relying on them as their own Great Wall, and as the fundamental force of the Qing Dynasty's Northeastern ***.

In the past, these Eight Banners Guards were treated so well, and now they are so ugly.

He Lin stood up in front of a line of Eight Banners Imperial Guards, his face red enough to fry an egg.

As a man who had a national hatred and family feud with Chen Han, He Lin was not afraid of death at all. Now he would rather fight to death in Jinzhou than experience the scene before his eyes.

Not only did his brother die at the hands of the Fu Han Army, but even his sister-in-law was taken over by Chen Ming, the lecher. He Lin really hated every Han person to the bone.

But no matter how much hatred there is, it cannot be turned into an arrow to pierce the heart of the Han people. Shengjing can't hear a single gunshot yet, because the war here has not really started, but everyone in the Eight Banners knows that they will definitely lose. When Shanhaiguan was directly crushed by the Fu Han Army with powerful force, the news spread to Shengjing, and the last glimmer of hope of the Eight Banners monarchs and ministers was shattered.

They all knew. The Han emperor has made up his mind to destroy the Eight Banners! And after a year of delay, the Fu Han Army is now stronger than before. Facing the extremely powerful Fu Han Army, any frontal resistance is futile. The only feasible way is to preserve strength for the future.

So Yongcheng decided to give up the entire Shengjing and the southern part of Jilin, and the Eight Banners soldiers and civilians would withdraw to the central and northern part of Jilin as much as possible. Moreover, there is always a way out. General Potemkin of Russia has conveyed the will of Her Majesty the Russian Empress. Russia agrees to let the Eight Banners withdraw to the Russian Far East. They open all the land west of the Ural Mountains and the Ural River to provide shelter for the Eight Banners. The entire Manchu court, army, and bannermen can enter. And they promised to recognize the independence of the Eight Banners!

The current Eight Banners monarchs and ministers have a good understanding of Russia's national power and status. It is a powerful country in Europe and an absolute military power. It has more than 200,000 regular troops equipped with guns and no less than 100,000 Cossacks and nomads. cavalry. It is a powerful force throughout Europe and the dominant force in northern and eastern Europe.

Their land is vast, simply larger than the entire Central Plains. Although much of that land is regarded as barren, cold and desolate land in the eyes of the Eight Banners monarchs, its overall value is not even as high as a corner of Shengjing. Half of the year is marked by severe winter weather of ice, snow and strong winds. But as a last resort, they will have a place to stay.

Yongxun, who was destined to become the last king of the Qing Dynasty, has not completely lost hope and fighting spirit. He still hopes that the vast Shengjing and southern Jilin will become an insurmountable obstacle for the Restoration of Han Army, at least for another two years.

But at this time he was about to leave the Qing Palace in Shengjing where he had lived for more than a year.

This Qing imperial palace built in the Nurhachi period is one of the only two remaining palace complexes in China in later generations. It was built in the Huang Taiji period. The area at the beginning was not as grand as it is now. After reconstruction and additions during the Kangxi and Qianlong periods, it now has more than 100 palaces, pavilions, pavilions, dining halls and other buildings and more than 500 rooms, covering an area of ​​more than 100 acres. pattern appearance. Moreover, the architecture here contains rich Eight Banners style and local characteristics of Northeast China.

The palace is located in the center of Shengjing City, with the Dazheng Hall and the Ten King Pavilions in the center.

The Dazheng Hall is in the middle, and the Ten King Pavilions are arranged on the left and right. This architectural layout is very much like the style of the Eight Banners Co., Ltd., especially the so-called Dazheng Hall, which is actually an octagonal shape. Among traditional Chinese royal buildings, this is completely an octagonal shape. joke.

Until Huang Taiji's death and the Eight Banners' entry into the Customs, Shengjing was the political, military, economic, and cultural center of the Qing Dynasty in those twenty years. Therefore, in the political system of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Shengjing also played a very important role. The Manchu princes were divided into two groups, one in Beijing and the other in Shengjing. Much like the nobles of the northern and southern capitals of the former Ming Dynasty!

Now Yongxun is standing in front of the octagonal Dazheng Palace. Compared with the Forbidden City in Beijing, this place is really weak. However, this is not the point at this moment. Yong Xun's face was very ugly, his mouth was tightened, and his fists were clenched. The ministers around him didn't know what their master was thinking. But the latter group of people were also very painful in their hearts. They were the core power holders of the Eight Banners. The scene of the second panic escape in front of them made each of them speechless in pain.

Under the guard of five thousand Eight Banners Imperial Guards who had high hopes from the Eight Banners, but had no chance of fighting the Fuhan Army, the Manchu Qing power center once again embarked on the road of migration.

Under the supervision of the Eight Banners soldiers, countless eunuchs and maids drove carriages and horses filled with property and carried sedans of various sizes, and filed out of the palace gate, and then gradually left behind the palace where they had lived for more than a year. , and soon the entire Shengjing City was gradually left behind...

Jinzhou City at this time.

"The city is broken, the city is broken!"

Accompanied by two earth-shaking explosions, a huge shout like a mountain roaring and a tsunami suddenly sounded on the Jinzhou battlefield. Whether it was the attacking Fuhan Army or the defending Eight Banners soldiers, they were all shouting the same thing. The only difference is that the former is inflated with morale, while the latter is in panic.

"Charge..." The Fuhan Army's charge sounded.

"Didi-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee..." accompanied by the sound of the charging horn. The bustle was at its peak.

Yoshida Shoichi held the katana in his hand tightly. He was wearing a breastplate and an iron helmet on his head. However, the iron helmet was different from the red tassels of the Fuhan Army. The tassels of the soldiers of the Standing Team were white. In addition to the katana in his hand, Yoshida Shoichi only had two pull-tab grenades on his chest, no muskets, and no blunderbuss.

Their mission in the Fuhan Army is to fight hand-to-hand, and they do not need to shoot guns. Hand-to-hand fighting is the most suitable thing for these warriors, and it is also what they like to do the most.

Wearing steel armor and slashing people with a high-quality samurai sword, this is the training that Japanese samurai have received since childhood. For Yoshida Shoichi and others who came to Ryukyu from Japan wearing only the same clothes for training, and then in Belitung Island, West Borneo and other places, they cut down the mountains and villages, drove groups of aborigines out of the mountains and forests, or stayed there forever. In the mountains and dense forests, nature is nourished.

The best-performing group among them was transferred to Taiwan for intensive training in March this year, and their status was changed from security team members to soldiers of the Stand-Up Team.

The number of people who entered the Jinzhou battlefield was very small. In many previous battles, they were not part of the standing team at all. Yoshida Shoichi and the others have been on the Jinzhou battlefield for ten days, but they feel more like a rare object, or a training partner for Chinese soldiers in assassination training. , they are protected.

This made Yoshida Shoichi very distressed. What everyone in their team longs for is war. Because of the war, they can have trophies. As melee fighters, they can have half of the profits from the trophies. They can get higher points, give their families more money, and let their families live a richer life.

Even Yoshida Shoichi has a wish that he has never told anyone. He hopes to obtain permanent residence in China. China's society is more dynamic than Japan's outdated society. In Jiao Xi's words, civilians in China have more ways to become people of status and status than in Japan.

Yoshida Shoichi understands the meaning of this sentence very well.

Because China is still at war, as long as you dare to go to the battlefield, you can get benefits that Japanese civilians can't imagine.

Although when becoming a soldier of the Volunteer Corps, the Chinese army also explained the current contradictions between China and Japan to all Japanese people. But among the civilian warriors who were selected into the Volunteer Corps with Yoshida Masakazu, only a small number of them chose to withdraw, and more people still firmly joined the Volunteer Corps to win a better future for their families.

"There is nothing wrong with being called 'God'. Since you have lost the right to rule the country, it is good to completely give up secular power and become the leader of Shinto, and you can get higher offerings, isn't it?"

Yoshida Masakazu didn't have much concept of the emperor in his mind. Before, he thought more about how to live. He also respected the emperor, but it was obvious that the Tokugawa shogunate had a higher status in his heart, and the emperor was too far away for him. And now when Yoshida Masakazu found that this emperor who was far away and unreachable in the past has now become an obstacle to his pursuit of a better and richer life, the so-called 'respect' is just a matter of time.

The ‘spiritual power’ without material and power foundation is not solid.

In the original choice, Yoshida Masakazu chose to trample the ‘Emperor’ under his feet, and the brainwashing of the Fu Han Army instructors in the following days was not without any effect.

God, the Emperor!

Give up the secular power that does not exist in your hands, let those public clowns who are painted with rouge and powder disappear from this world, and enter the spiritual world to obtain better and higher support. This is the best destination for the ‘Chrysanthemum Emblem’.

And the geographical name of Kyushu Island is an easier problem to solve in Yoshida Masakazu’s view. Just change the name. Wasn’t Kyushu Island called Zizhu Island before? In Yoshida Masakazu’s view, this is more of a translation problem. The word "zhou" in Japanese means a region, which is completely different from the meaning of "Kyushu" in the upper country. Is there any difference between Kyushu Island and Kyukoku Island?

Japan has learned too many things from China. In the Heian period, Kyoto City was completely imitated from Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty. The core buildings of Heijokyo, Daegikuden and Chaotangyuan, are located in Heijokyo Palace. This is done to imitate the Taiji Palace Taiji Hall, the central building of Chang'an City. To the west is the Hanyuan Hall of Daming Palace. The first Daegikuden was used for the enthronement ceremony of the emperor and the audience ceremony of foreign envoys, while the second Daegikuden was used to handle daily government affairs. After moving back to Heijokyo in 745 AD, on the original site of the first Daegikuden, a pavilion was built imitating the Lindeokden Hall of Daming Palace in Chang'an to hold banquets.

There are too many of these things.

Just like North Korea called its capital Hancheng, and China has the Han River, and North Korea also has the Han River; China has Anyang, and North Korea also has Anyang; China has Gangneung and Yangzhou, and North Korea also has Gangneung and Yangzhou...

"Vanguard team!"

A shout rang in Yoshida Shoichi's ears, almost reflexively, Yoshida Shoichi dispersed all the distracting thoughts in his mind, straightened his back, and stood at attention.

"Kill them!" Captain Aoki Nakaichi waved his command knife and shouted the order to attack Jinzhou City.

"Get on board..."