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Tai'an, Shandong, within the army of Yang Xiuqing, the eastern king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

With a bang, King Yang Dong overturned the entire bookcase, and frightened the surrounding staff and female officials to lie on the ground.

Several princes and generals of the Taiping Army did not dare to raise their heads.

Yang Xiuqing, who had just pushed down his bookcase, sat on the throne in a daze, panting. He was really about to be mad, and the military report of Wei Changhui, the king of the north, was handed over together with the guilty plea. Wei Changhui was actually defeated by Miao Peilin! Zeng Tianyang, the first fierce general of the Heavenly Kingdom, and Qin Rigang, the prime minister of Tianguanzheng, and King Yan of Tianguan, both died! The foreign gun left army, which had made a name for itself in the Battle of Chengqian Ling and the Battle of Huaxian, lost two-thirds of its troops, and was beaten out of Xuzhou City and collapsed! The 200,000 Taiping army commanded by Wei Changhui retreated and fled to Henan and Shandong in two ways—Wei Changhui fled to Kaifeng, Henan, his hometown, with his own descendants, and the remnants of Zeng Tianyang and Qin Rigang retreated to Shandong. The defeated troops on both sides were also covered by the pursuers sent by Miao Peilin all the way, and the losses were so high that they were unbearable.

According to Wei Changhui's own report, in the battle of Xuzhou, tens of thousands of soldiers were lost, all the artillery baggage was discarded, the defeated soldiers had no fighting spirit, and the local inferior gentry in Henan colluded with bandits to resist the kingdom of heaven one after another, and now Kaifeng, Guide, Zhengzhou, Xuchang and other important towns have been closed and ready to defend to the death.

"Rotten! Rotten! It's only been a few days, it's only been a few days......"

Yang Xiuqing just muttered to himself, and the Heavenly Princes below looked at their Yang God with such a lost appearance, and they all gasped for a while. They couldn't believe what was happening in front of them. The Taiping Army, which had swept half the world, would actually be defeated by the regimental training leader in Huaibei. And the Taiping army under Wei Changhui has 200,000 people! Although most of them are newly gathered rabble. But there are at least 20,000 old brothers. Their opponents totaled seventy or eighty thousand, less than half of their own, so how could they be defeated? Even if Zeng Tianyang and Qin Rigang were killed in an ambush in Xuzhou City, Wei Changhui was still there! He still has at least 1780,000 people in his hands, how can he not deal with Miao Peilin's tens of thousands of soldiers?

Could it be that Miao Peilin's group training is really so powerful? More powerful than the Eight Banners New Army encountered in Huaxian County? How powerful is this elite army of the Ming Dynasty? Is there still a chance for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom?

"Wei Changhui damn it! King Dong, please send a decree quickly and correct the law before his army! In this way, the hearts of the soldiers of the heavenly kingdom can be aroused to fight to the death! ”

A henchman of the East King suggested loudly that Yang Xiuqing and Wei Changhui were not very good at dealing with. Everyone knows this, so why not take this opportunity to eradicate him now?

Yang Xiuqing snorted coldly: "King Wei Bei is the son of Heavenly Father after all!" Do you dare to talk about his life and death? ”

O Son of the Father! Wei Changhui is the eldest of God's family, Yang Xiuqing is the fourth, can the fourth child make a will to kill the eldest child? Isn't this fratricide? Yang Xiuqing himself did not have such power, so he could only kill Wei Changhui in the name of Heavenly Father's possession. But the question is...... Can Heavenly Father kill his son with all his heart? And if the Heavenly Father can kill his youngest son with all his heart, can't he kill his second and third sons with all his heart?

If this knife goes down, Hong Xiuquan and Feng Yunshan will immediately have to tear their faces with Yang Xiuqing, or they will tear and change Ming'er Yang Xiuqing to send a God dictation, and they both have to go to see God!

Besides, Wei Changhui also has his own group of people, so can Yang Xiuqing take his life away with a single word? Is Yang Xiuqing really God?

There is one more problem. The reason why the backbone of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is so powerful is because of the belief that God is omnipotent! If a conflict breaks out between God and the Son. Cannibalism, can this faith still be maintained? If everyone doesn't believe in God anymore, what will the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom do to fight the world?

Yang Xiuqing stood up abruptly and said in a deep voice: "North King...... There's nothing wrong with him, he's a deceitful defeat, and he's defeated very well! With this defeat in Xuzhou, he is not afraid that Zhu Jishi will not come out, he can just endure it, and Miao Peilin can't help it......"

Outside the lobby of the Chinese army, Lin Fengxiang's voice suddenly sounded: "His Royal Highness the King of the East, Yizhou Emergency, on December 10 (Tianli), the Ming army of 50,000 has been killed from the direction of Huaibei, and the soldiers are pointing directly at the capital city of Yizhou!" ”

Several Heavenly Kings made an uproar, this Miao Peilin really had to make a footfall, and he actually dared to attack the territory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom! This Yizhou Mansion is the southern gate of Shandong, if it is kicked open by Miao Peilin, maybe the Ming army will advance to the foot of Mount Tai at once. At that time, maybe even Tai'an will have to give up, and even the siege of Jinan will not be maintained.

Therefore, we must give Miao Peilin a little bitterness!

Yang Xiuqing's expression became solemn, and he was silent for a long time before he said, "Give up Yizhou Mansion." ”

"East King!"

As soon as the princes below opened their mouths, they were interrupted by Yang Xiuqing with a wave of his hand before they could speak: "Do what the king says, give up Yizhou!" ”

He paused for a moment, and then said: "Qufu and Tai'an must also be prepared to give up, and the troops besieging Jinan must be ready to retreat north at any time!" ”

As soon as the words came out, the Heavenly King Hou who shook the room was dumbfounded, what kind of calculation was this King Yang Dong making?

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"Your Majesty, the governor of Huaibei Yamen reported that the deputy generals of Huaibei Town, Li Wanchun and Wang Jinkui, supervised the army of 30,000 to capture the capital city of Yizhou."

Huai'an, the big tomorrow is here. Luo Zenan took the military report sent by the staff officer and glanced at it, and his brows immediately furrowed.

"Yang Xiuqing took the initiative to give up Yizhou......" Zhu Jishi sat behind his desk, writing a letter to Luo Xiangmei, the empress of Yingtianfu, with a pen, taking care of her matter of letting the "Lanfang faction" join the Righteous Dao Society.

Judging from the current situation, there will be two main parties in the future Constituent Assembly, the Royalist Society and the Righteous Path Society. The former must rely on Zhu Jishi's financial support, and the mainstream is Cantonese and Fujian politicians and chaebols; The latter was the empress's Lanfang faction (originally a branch of the Cantonese faction) allied with Xianghu and relied on the support of the Lanfang consortium financially.

And such a situation is, of course, deliberately caused by Zhu Jishi. In his understanding, if parliament does not want to become a rubber stamp, then there must be two parties with little difference in strength to check and balance each other. If there had been only the royalist party, the Constituent Assembly would soon have become an ornament.

In addition, although the two parties in the parliament are opposed, there should be no irreconcilable contradictions, otherwise the parliament will become a battlefield sooner or later. Therefore, Zhu Jishi did not deliberately create a new party to oppose the so-called old party of scholars. Instead, it fostered two political parties that combined the old and the new—the Royalist Society, which also had many scholars and nobles, and the Righteous Way Society, which also had big capitalists to join. The difference in views and ingredients between the two is not too big...... The Royalist Society was relatively more Westernized, and the Righteous Path Society was not a diehard, and their backbone, the Xianghu faction, was originally a reformist among the scholars.

Regarding the argument that the bourgeoisie is inevitably opposed to the noble and scholarly classes, our Emperor Zhu said that he had not heard of it, and that the three legendary mountains also have the bureaucratic landlord class and the bureaucratic bourgeoisie. Haven't you heard of "mountain" and "mountain" between you live and die? And isn't Maria's deceased ex-husband also a duke and a big capitalist, and at the same time a big landowner?

Therefore, Zhu Jishi believes that the germ of party politics in the Ming Empire can start from the Royalist Society and the Righteous Way Society. Of course, it is only the embryonic now, because the power of the Constituent Assembly and the provincial public bureaus is very small, only the power of suggestion and impeachment, and the power is still held by Zhu Jishi. In his view, even a bourgeois dictatorship-style constitutionalism could only advance slowly and steadily. It would be nice to establish the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie with Chinese characteristics in the early 20th century in a few decades.

This matter cannot be rushed or delayed, and it must be steadily advanced step by step.

However, the Northern Expedition to unify the Central Plains had to make a great leap forward.

"Strategist, it seems that Yang Xiuqing can't allow us to delay the date of going north until next autumn, he is now throwing the territory into the hands of Miao Peilin, and then it is possible to let Lin Zexu and Zeng Guofan occupy the territory, if they really want to make them bigger, it will be troublesome in the future."

Zhu Jishi put down the pen in his hand, put the letter he had just written into an envelope, and then handed it to the secretary on duty with a paste seal, and then said to the secretary: "Go and inform Old Peel and the generals above the division commander to let them come to the line for a meeting in the afternoon, and I will discuss with them the specific arrangements for going north." (To be continued......)