Section 475

In the fifth year of the Republic (1649), the Nanjing official army conquered Guangzhou and captured Emperor Shaowu, and then entered Guangxi to pursue the Yongli Emperor in the name of "welcoming the emperor and the Qing monarch".

Cromwell, the leader of the English Revolution, sent troops to suppress the Scottish Royalist Army, brought King Charles I back to London to be guillotined for treason, and declared England a republic, and since then he has been monopolizing the country and embarking on the road of dictatorship.

In February of that year, the western expeditionary army of the Datong Federation conquered Kazan, an important town in the east of the Rakshasa country, and then went south along the Volga River to meet with the Turgots led by Shukul and the Polish-Lithuanian army led by Yunrong, in April, the federal government issued a decree appointing Yunrong as the governor of Kazan, and built a Xinjiang province east of the Ural Mountains, appointing Shukur as the commander, and in May, the Datong Federation and the Polish-Lithuanian United Kingdom formally formed an alliance, and the two sides joined forces to defeat the Rakshasa Army in the two battles of Smolensk and Bonokino, and the troops were directed at Moscow. When the news came out, the countries of Europa were shocked, and the Ottoman Turkish Empire quickly sent troops to the Rakshasa State, and sent an envoy to inform the Western Expeditionary Army - the Datong Federation accepted the title of Holy Emperor of Eastern Rome, and at the same time marched westward under the banner of the Crusader, which was a provocation to His Majesty the Turkish Sultan, and the troops must withdraw and return home, otherwise the war would start immediately, and at the same time, the army of the Kingdom of Sweden was also quietly approaching the Western Expeditionary Army.

Sensing the danger, Yunrong quickly rushed to Moscow to negotiate secretly, and the Rakshasa Tsar Aliksei was cornered and forced to sign a trade treaty and cede the lands that had belonged to the Kazan Khanate in exchange for the protection of the Datong Federation, and the Kingdom of Sweden then signed a satisfactory trade agreement with Wang Fang, promising to remain neutral. In August, the Commonwealth of Pax Romana, the United Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania, and the Rakshasa Kingdom simultaneously declared war on Turkey, and co-opted its vassal, the Crimean Khanate, which was formerly part of the Golden Horde, to defect.

At the end of the war, Father Deng Ruoshui accompanied the Orthodox Patriarch to Rome to present the Pope with booty and land vouchers - overwhelming the Orthodox Church and defeating the infidels, this is an unprecedented event, the Holy See cheered, Innocent X was so excited that tears filled his eyes, and immediately awarded the Datong Western Expeditionary Army the title of "Holy Crusade", and encouraged the Western Expeditionary Army to make persistent efforts to recover Constantinople - Yunrong of course did not listen to this, and the Western Expeditionary Army quickly retreated to Kazan after the victory, In the following decades, it was used as a base to support the Western Rakshasa Company to do business in Europa, but the Europa countries were full of contradictions, wars between each other, and the Turks repeatedly provoked wars for revenge, so the Western Expeditionary Army had to ask the federal government to increase its troops in order to protect its own commercial interests, and the army exceeded 150,000 at most.

In the sixth year of the republic (1650), Zheng Chenggong booby-trapped Zheng Lian, expelled Zheng Cai to seize Xiamen, the Datong merchants on the island were slaughtered and plundered, and the Datong Federation retaliated immediately, and the Jiangxi High Court ruled that Zheng Zhilong was guilty of robbery and killing civilians, and was hanged in Nanchang with the approval of the Supreme Court, and Zheng Chenggong and Datong have since formed a mortal enmity.

In the seventh year of the Republic (1651), Cromwell promulgated the draconian Navigation Regulations, which required all merchant ships entering and leaving the ports of England and its colonies to use English ships to carry goods, apparently with the aim of disrupting Dutch maritime trade.

In May of the 8th year of the Republic, two Dutch East India Company and a Union Europa Company merchant ship were sunk by English warships in an attempt to cross the Strait of Dover, which became the trigger for the First Anglo-Dutch War, and the Dutch Parliament immediately declared war on England. Yunrong also rushed to Amsterdam from Kazan and took out a secret order from the federal government, ordering de Knight to lead the federal fleet and the combined fleet that were training in Europa into battle.

Prince Wilhelm II, the ruling Dutch ruler, died young two years ago, his widow Wilhelm III was still young, the Netherlands entered a period of no government, and the parliament arbitrarily abolished the standing army, resulting in the Dutch navy having to hastily recruit merchant ships to respond to the war, and fell into passivity at the beginning of the war - the Netherlands did not lack skilled sailors and the courage to fight, but lacked the necessary training, while the English fleet was well-trained, and the battle line tactics were impressive, and after successive victories, the Dutch coast was blockaded, and the following year, the Dutch outstanding naval commander Trop was killed in an anti-blockade war, The Netherlands completely lost its sea supremacy.

The war was brutal, Dutch maritime trade shrank sharply, a large number of people lost their jobs and were forced to find other ways to survive, Amsterdam was left uninhabited, England also suffered heavy losses, the Mediterranean fleet was defeated by the Dutch naval detachment led by Van Galen, and the Mediterranean trade came to a complete standstill. The young Datong Navy also paid a heavy price for its growth, with five of the only eight battleships of the Federation Fleet and the Combined Fleet and more than 20 other capital ships sunk, and more than 500 people under Lin Feiyu and Ogawa Yingjian, commanders of the fleet, were killed.

In April of the tenth year of the Republic (1654 Western calendar), the Netherlands signed the Peace of Westminster with England, the Netherlands admitted the defeat and agreed to abide by the "Navigation Regulations", the first Anglo-Dutch war ended, but because Yun Rong refused to go to London on the grounds that the federal government did not authorize, the "Peace Treaty" was more like an invalid agreement without one party to sign - the news of the naval defeat reached Datong, the Senate and the House of Representatives were angry, and passed the proposal of the Prime Minister's Office by an absolute majority: freeze England's shares in the United Asia Company and allocate an additional 10 million yuan for naval reconstruction, sent troops into Gurkha and Ceylon to provide military assistance to the Mughal Empire.

In May of the 11th year of the Republic (1655 AD), General Van Galen was commissioned by the Dutch Parliament to lead the remnants of the Federal Fleet and the Combined Fleet back to the Far East, carrying thousands of Dutch people who had gone out to earn a living. The Metropolitan Governor's Office of the Datong Federation immediately issued an order: appoint Van Galen as the Admiral of the Federal Navy, build three additional military ports of Lushun, Dengzhou, and Haizhou, expand the number of battleships to 15, and increase the number of other capital ships to 40 -- the Federal Navy has since entered a long period of reconstruction, and there is no spare strength to maintain order in the southern seas.

In the fourteenth year of the Republic (1658), less than a year after the coronation of King Cromwell died, Charles II was restored, and the political situation in England was turbulent, at this time, Datong and the Netherlands also had secret talks in Batavia - the Dutch parliament persuaded the East India Company to give up Formosa and the naval loan claims to Datong, hoping to exchange this for the aid of the Datong Federation, and the Datong federal government was not interested in Taiwan, and asked the Netherlands to settle the military expenses that Datong had incurred to defend the Netherlands as soon as possible, and to provide guarantees for future debts incurred as a result, The gap between the demands of the two sides was too great, so they had to constantly ask for instructions from above, and the negotiations were intermittent, and reaching a consensus was far away.

In the fifteenth year of the republic (1659 in the Western calendar), Wu Sangui invaded Yunnan, and Emperor Yongli fled to Burma. Wu Sangui had the most soldiers, but occupied Yunnan and Guizhou were the poorest, and he was in trouble for a while, and his strategist Fang Guangchen was worthy of mixing in Datong, and offered a plan to enrich the country and strengthen the army: to form a good alliance with Datong to introduce industry and commerce; issuing copper banknotes to collect people's money; opening up all industries to increase commercial taxes; Dredging trade routes to collect money widely. Wu Sangui adopted them one by one, and his relatives and subordinates immediately pounced like wolves to do business in Yunnan and Guizhou, and Shang Kexi in Guangdong, Geng Jingzhong in Fujian, and Sun Yanling in Guangxi followed suit, and South China seemed to have suddenly entered a new era.

At the beginning of the 16th year of the Republic (1660 in the Western calendar), Zheng Chenggong raised 180,000 troops to take the northern expedition by sea, and in May he joined Zhang Huangyan of Zhoushan to defeat the Chongming Naval Division Association of the Datong Federation at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and then attacked Chongming and Shanghai Buke into the Yangtze River, and in June in Guazhou and Zhenjiang successively defeated the Jiangbei militia and the Nanjing official army. Hong Chengchou's main force in the south, unable to hold Nanjing, hurriedly asked Li Huai of Yangzhou for help, at this time, Zheng Jun rested under the city of Nanjing for more than ten days and did nothing, giving Jiangbei time to mobilize reserves and mobilize troops, in August, Shanghai garrison Liang Huafeng first led 3,000 militia to Nanjing, and then Xuzhou Governor Gartu led the cavalry five towns, foot six towns to cross the Yangtze River. Zheng Jun was caught off guard and was defeated, and on the way to retreat, he was flanked by the Wuchang Naval Division Association and the Chongming Naval Division, losing 50,000 elite elites and hundreds of warships before escaping from the mouth of the Yangtze River.

Hong Chengchou escaped by luck, gritted his teeth with hatred, and killed Zhang Huangyan and a large number of people loyal to the Ming Dynasty.

In the seventeenth year of the Republic (1661 in the Western calendar), Zheng Chenggong, who was trapped in Xiamen, led 25,000 elite men and hundreds of warships to the east in order to find a way out, and landed in southern Taiwan in April. Zheng's army quickly divided its troops to the north of Taiwan and surrounded the city of Zeeland with the main force, but the governor of Formosa, Kuiyi, refused to persuade him to surrender and led a thousand Dutch men and women to defend the city of Zeeland, and at the same time sent people to Batavia for help. In August, more than a dozen armed merchant ships of the Dutch East India Company entered the Taijiang River, and the Zheng fleet repelled them with absolute superiority, but the messengers sent by Batavia took advantage of the chaos to enter the city of Zeeland and convey the order - to remove the governor of Formosa, abandon Formosa, and evacuate all the Dutch. Zheng Chenggong largely released the surrendered Dutch, who was not convinced, and soon turned to northern Taiwan after going to sea.

The northern part of Taiwan is the gathering place of more than 100,000 Datong immigrants, and there are two fortified castles of republic and freedom, Datong ambassador to Taiwan Peng Dashun and deputy envoy Shi Lang are not afraid of the Zheng army's attack, leading the militia to attack by sea and land, repelling the Zheng army landing several times, and leading more than 100 Dutch young men to arrive after the defense is more tight, the Zheng army has repeatedly lost battles, and retreats to the south of Taiwan to join the main force.

In the first month of the 18th year of the Republic (1662 in the Western calendar), the Datong Federation and the Netherlands were forced to make concessions to the deteriorating situation in Taiwan, and the two governments made mutual concessions and reached an agreement - all the claims and debts incurred by the two sides were offset, and in the future, the military expenses incurred by the Datong Navy to defend the Netherlands were borne by the Datong Federation 70% and the Netherlands 30%, and the Netherlands also supported Datong to confiscate England's shares in the United Asia Company as war reparations, and Datong agreed to accept Taiwan and promised to appoint General Van Galen to lead the Federal Navy to send troops to Europa before the end of the year.

In May, Van Galen led the Federation Fleet and the Combined Fleet to suddenly appear in the sea of Xiamen, easily annihilating the Zheng army's remaining fleet, and also assisted Geng Jingzhong's troops to conquer Xiamen. When Zheng Chenggong heard the news, he hurriedly ordered to abandon Taiwan and enter Luzon, but on the way, he was surrounded by the Datong Navy and the Dutch and Spanish fleets, and most of the warships were sunk after three days of hard fighting.

In the same year, Emperor Yongli of the Ming Dynasty was sent back to China by the king of Burma, and Wu Sangui ordered him and his family to be hanged in Kunming, and the Nanjing court thus confirmed the notoriety of the puppet dynasty. The people of Jiangnan and Zhejiang have been suffering from the exploitation of the official camp for a long time, and took advantage of the situation to raise up under the banner of "eliminating thieves and restoring sight", Hong Chengchou had the intention to suppress it, but the army continued to mutiny, and the officials of the DPRK and China also fell apart, so they had to flee to Jiangbei for refuge, and died of illness in Datong three years later. The Nanjing court collapsed suddenly, but the gentry fame could not find any Ming clan who dared to become emperor, and the local chaos fell into chaos, and the three major army leaders of Wu Sangui, Shang Kexi and Geng Jingzhong in the south took the opportunity to send troops to seize power. At this time, the federal party founded by Wu Xian became active, convened local gentry and returned merchants to set up a parliament in Nanjing, declared the independence of Jiangnan and Zhejiang, and at the same time asked Datong for protection, and the federal government quickly sent troops into the two provinces to force Wu Sangui and others to retreat to their old nest.

In the first month of the 19th year of the Republic (1663 in the Western calendar), Saigo Yue went to Edo to meet the Japanese emperor, but unfortunately was assassinated by the shogunate. In June, the combined fleet stationed in the Ryukyus entered Edo Bay on the pretext of protecting its own citizens, and the Japanese reformers were greatly encouraged and took advantage of the situation to launch a large march of more than 100,000 people to Edo. The people of the Tokugawa family left, but the Emperor Li Yu of the Heavenly Khan arrived in Edo with more than a dozen boats of grain and cloth, and also joined hands with Emperor Chihito to preside over the public festival of Saigo Youjiang, the Japanese were disappointed when they saw the emperor for the first time, the emperor was short and wooden, slurred speech, standing next to Li Yu was like a follower, everyone shouted a few words "Long live the emperor" and changed the words "Long live the Emperor of the Heavenly Khan", as soon as the public sacrifice ended, the newly established Japanese parliament elected Li Yu as the speaker.

When the news of the success of the Japanese revolution spread, the Koreans suddenly staged a mutiny to drive out the king, and then also established a parliament - the long-term spread of liberal ideas inevitably led to this result, but it was easy to overthrow autocracy and establish a republic but it was difficult, and in October, representatives of Japan and Korea went to Datong to propose the establishment of a federal republic of East Asia Minor, and the parliaments of Jiangnan and Zhejiang, unable to maintain the local area, immediately sent representatives to discuss how to achieve national reunification. The federal government had a headache, and whether it was the establishment of an East Asian federation or the unification of the country, it would inevitably involve issues such as the relationship between the central and local governments, the distribution of seats in the parliament, and the sharing of fiscal and tax revenues, all of which were clearly stipulated in the "Datong Constitutional Law" and could never be easily changed, so they began to bargain with each other, and another long negotiation began.

In the twentieth year of the Republic (1664 in the Western calendar), England seized the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam in America, and sank a number of merchant ships of the Dutch West India Company and the Datong United America Company in the battle, and in February of the following year, the Netherlands and Datong declared war on England, and the two armies finally waited for the opportunity to be ashamed for more than ten years, and launched a powerful attack under the unified command of the Dutch naval commander General de Knight, and sent the English fleet back to its nest, May 1667, De Knight led the two fleets into the Thames, swept through the Thames for several days before safely withdrawing. At this time, the bubonic plague suddenly broke out in London, England was unable to fight again, and in June signed the "Peace of Breda" with the Netherlands and Datong - England agreed to amend the "Navigation Regulations" and return the colonies of Suriname that belonged to the Netherlands, agreed that the Federation of Datong had inviolable special rights and interests in the west coast of America, and gave up its stake in the United Asia Company, and reciprocated, the Netherlands gave up New Amsterdam and the Hudson River Valley, and Datong stopped aiding the Mughal Empire, The two countries jointly recognized the inviolable special rights of the Kingdom of England to India.

The representatives of Japan, Korea, Jiangnan, and Zhejiang, who were negotiating in Datong, were greatly encouraged and made a compromise with the federal government -- the Datong Federation changed its name to the Federal Republic of East Asia, and the "Datong Constitution" remained unchanged, with only one amendment: "Freedom is the most basic right of the people, and in the event that the liberal order upheld by the Constitution is violated, the members of the Federation have the right to decide whether or not to secede from the Federation in a fair and free from external interference with the self-determination of citizens." Since then, the Quartet has taken the giant ship of the Datong Federation, which has set sail, and a few years later, an unprecedented era of peace and prosperity appeared in the land of East Asia, and Mr. Saigo's dream of many years of struggle has been realized.

In the 25th year of the Republic (1669 A.D.), Li Yu set out from Nagasaki to visit the countries of Europa, and in this year, Gordon's "Revolutionary History of the Commonwealth of Datong" was published in London, and English scholars were attracted by the contents of the book and embarked on a journey to the Federation of Datong, including the great John Locke and Isaac Newton.

The following year, Federal President Li Jin threw down a letter of resignation, and quietly set off from Tianjin to the other side of the ocean with his childhood partners Liu Chengzu, Zhao Bao, Zhanabazar Living Buddha and others - Li Jin waited for this day for a long time, and did not hesitate to build a shipyard and navigation school out of his own pocket, but he never expected his willfulness to set off another great sailing climax, and after more than 100 years, countless Datong people will follow their footsteps to the west coast of America, and build a number of names called New Datong, New Naturalization, and New Taiyuan...... eventually joined forces with Europa immigrants on the East Coast to form another great free nation, the Confederation of North America.

Li Jin's sudden departure caught the presidential palace off guard, and the consul general's political affairs Li Yao and Malik immediately convened an emergency meeting of the presidential palace, the prime minister's office, the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Criminal Court to nominate Li Kun, the eldest grandson of Li Yu and the son of Ada Hai, as the president of the Federation. The Senate and the House of Representatives passed the bill without incident, but at the same time, the president's right to designate members of the House of Representatives and nominate the prime minister's political candidate was revoked.

In June of the twenty-fourth year of the republic (1668 in the Western calendar), the fifth Zhaojun Tomb Conference was held as scheduled, and the older generation of Ortai, Li Fugui, Liu Zongzhou, Huang Daozhou, Cai Maode and others had all passed away at this time, and the two sides of the confrontation became the republican faction headed by Li Huai, Namur, and Yun Rong and the Shixue faction headed by Huang Zongxi, Gu Jiang, and Zhu Zhiyu, but the focus of the dispute was no longer the issue of Sinology, gentry, and the imperial system, but how to deal with the relationship between the federal and the local, freedom and the republic, and the meeting reached a consensus—— The East Asian Federation is a new country in which all ethnic groups are united into one large nation and industry is the main business, and the doctrine of governing the country must keep pace with the times and cannot be conservative, and the current political system is the best choice, and all parties should maintain the unity and stability of the country, and on this premise, fully guarantee the autonomy of the local areas and the freedom of the people.