After Yu Hang left, Shi Dakai sat on the chair silently with an expressionless face. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

"Heavenly King, Heavenly Monarch, I, Shi Dakai, am dedicated to the people. And you, why are you so disappointed in me? If this continues, this king will have to choose another hero. ”

In fact, fundamentally speaking, the Wing King was still a little hesitant to completely defect to the Dragon God Sect and leave with his army. He also wanted to wait a little longer to see if the decay and rapid degeneration of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom could still be saved......

In addition to the hidden forces left by the Dragon God Sect in Shenzhou Mainland, which are still making various efforts, the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which still rules most of the Shenzhou Mainland, is also undergoing tremendous changes!

No matter how backward and decadent and barbaric the ruling class is, there will always be some far-sighted people. Or maybe they are acting only to consolidate their rule, but in fact they are making progress for both the country and the nation. Like what...... Westernization movement!

Let's look back a little, in fact, as early as the beginning of 1844, when the Dragon God Sect captured the seven southern provinces. In addition to the shock of the Manchu court in Beijing, some people took the opportunity to put forward their own political ideas and reported them to the Daoguang Emperor.

On March 2, 1844, Prince Gong of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, together with Gui Liang and Wen Xiang, played the "Six Articles of the Draft Regulations for the Overall Situation", and launched a Westernization movement with the goal of enriching the country and strengthening the army!

The wheels of history, rumbling and spinning, have finally come to this point. In the parallel world of Zhao Wushuang's previous life, the Westernization Movement of the late Qing Dynasty was also played by Prince Gong Yixun together with Gui Liang and Wen Xiang on January 11, 1861, but the emperor at that time was no longer Daoguang, but Xianfeng.

Now, in this parallel world, which has been "unrecognizable" by the advent of Zao Wushuang, the Manchu Westernization Movement is a full seventeen years ahead of schedule!!

Beginning in March 1844, the Westernists cooperated with a number of European powers who were ostensibly willing to support the Manchu court. Under the banner of "self-reliance," it began to adopt a large number of advanced Western production technologies and founded a number of modern military industries.

In the future, the famous Li Hongzhang also officially stepped onto the political stage at this time! Under the auspices of various members of the Westernization faction, a number of large-scale modern military industries, such as the Jiangnan Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, the Jinling Manufacturing Bureau, the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau, and the Tianjin Machinery Bureau, came out one after another.

In just three years, from 1844 to 1847, China under the Manchu Qing Dynasty had the ability to cast iron, make steel, and produce a variety of military products, including new weapons such as cannons, guns, ammunition, mines, and steam steamers, and equip part of the army.

Of course, it does not mean that the Manchu Qing Dynasty has become a "great power", it can only be said that it has a certain industrial production capacity.

At the same time, these Westernists, who were anxious for change, also opened a large number of military schools, such as the Tianjin Beiyang Naval Academy, the Guangzhou Torpedo Academy, the Weihai Naval Division, the Nanyang Naval Division, the Lushun Torpedo Academy, the Jiangnan Army Academy, and the Shanghai Artillery Academy.

These military schools have borrowed a lot from Western military theories and training models, and in fact have indeed made certain contributions to laying the foundation for the future cause of national defense......

On the other hand, at the same time that the Westernization Movement was in full swing within the Manchu court. A small island country in the eastern part of Shenzhou mainland, the Wa Kingdom, is undergoing a reform movement that later generations called the "Meiji Restoration"!

The Wa Kingdom is a very strange country. This nation, deep down, has hidden a kind of insidiousness, cunning and evil from ancient times to the present.

When China was strong, such as the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, they would grovel to it in various ways, respect it as the "kingdom of heaven", and send various envoys to China to beg grandpa to hug grandma and hug their thighs, hoping to get some benefits. But once China lags behind, the Japanese people will be fierce, and they will instantly turn their faces and deny people!

To put it simply, this is the white-eyed wolf that hides. Later, it caused the deepest suffering to the Chinese nation.

Zhao Wushuang naturally knew such a thing. Therefore, he has always regarded the Japanese and the United States as the number one enemy, and is ready to find a way to deal with these two countries - especially the Japanese - once the Chinese Divine Kingdom is stabilized.

It's just that even he didn't expect that due to his rebirth and crossing, this parallel world has undergone a lot of changes!

The most significant manifestation is that the occurrence time of various historical events has been greatly advanced!

For example, the Westernization Movement was advanced by 17 years, and the "Meiji Restoration" of the Wa Kingdom was also advanced by 16 years.

In the history of Zhao Wushuang's previous life, the Wa State also implemented a policy of closing the country to the outside world. It was not until 1853 that U.S. Navy Commodore Matthew Perry led a fleet into Uraga on the shores of Edo (present-day Tokyo) and handed a letter from U.S. President Millard Fillmore to the Emperor of the Wakuni Shogunate, requesting the establishment of diplomatic relations and trade with the Wakuni. Known in history as the "Black Ship Incident" (or "Black Ship Founding")!

This completely opened the door to the Wa Kingdom. But what followed was the reform of the Wa Kingdom in full swing. Therefore, in 1868, Emperor Meiji regained real power and implemented a new policy, which is known as the Meiji Restoration.

In this world after Zao Woushuang crossed the rebirth, the United States came to the Japanese Kingdom as early as 1840 to create the "Black Ship Incident", and the Meiji Restoration was even earlier than 1843, a year earlier than the Westernization Movement!

Not only that, but look a little further and look at the side of the European powers......

Originally, it was until January 18, 1871. Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck succeeded in uniting the North German Confederation with Bavaria and establishing the German Empire. It was only from this time that all the German states, with the exception of the Austrian Empire, were united into - Germany!

And in the present parallel world, the reunification of Germany has nothing to do with Bismarck. It was unified in 1843 by King Wilhelm I of Prussia on his own!

In addition, there are many different changes in the world.

To put it simply, due to the arrival of Zhao Wushuang, he and his drastic changes to the Chinese nation and even conquered India to establish the Chinese Divine Kingdom. As a result, the direction of history in this parallel world has also changed - most notably, the timeline has been fully advanced!

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was established ahead of schedule, the Manchu court carried out the Westernization Movement ahead of schedule, Japan was "opened by the U.S. Navy with black ships" ahead of schedule and the Meiji Restoration broke out, and Germany completed its unification ahead of schedule......

Everything seems to have changed. But it doesn't seem to have changed much!

Except, of course, for the flourishing Chinese Divine Kingdom on the Indian Peninsula.

The great operation of the world has begun, the dawn of the great era has come ahead of schedule, and how will the Kingdom of China rise? Before dominating the world, how about standing proudly on the top of Asia?

Everything is going on...... (To be continued.) )