In the last 50 years of the Min Dynasty, natural disasters continued, floods, droughts, and locust plagues occurred one after another throughout the country, and agricultural production declined seriously, coupled with the corruption of officials at the end of the Min Dynasty, the bankruptcy of the countryside, the withering of handicrafts and commerce, and the increasingly aggravated oppression and exploitation of the people. The exiles and rogues eventually formed a "thief" headed by Li Hongji and Zhang Xianzhong, and the Min Dynasty government did not respond effectively, and finally the world was in chaos.

The trend of thieves swept the country, the Min Dynasty government mobilized the whole country to suppress it, for a time there were wars all over the country, the war led to a large number of deaths, the plague was rampant, spread throughout the country (some Japanese scholars thought it might be the plague after research), the army was also infected, and the combat effectiveness was seriously reduced, as a result, when Li Hongji besieged the Beijing division, the Min Dynasty monarchs and ministers were helpless, the then Emperor Sizong wanted to ask the princes and ministers and the nobles and wealthy families to pay to recruit troops to defend the city, but no one responded, the capital was broken, Sizong died, Li Hongji entered the city, and ascended the throne as the emperor, changed the name of the country to "liter", and told the world.

The Min Dynasty fell, and many of its relict ministers went to the border pass, and through the contact of Wu Shangui, the guard general of Shanhaiguan, they went to the Boren to "cry and beg" in order to restore the country. At that time, the leader of the Bohai people (the Bo people did not establish a state at that time, only called the "Bohai Ministry", and the leader was called the head of the alliance), Mu Linde Zhenyu, was in power, and he was worried that sending troops would bring the plague to the northeast, so he refused to accept the invitation, and ordered the customs to be closed and forbidden the mainlanders to enter the territory of the Bohai Ministry (the development of the situation later proved that this leader's fears were very, very reasonable).

After the establishment of the Ascension Dynasty, Li Hongji did not wait to unify the whole country, so he issued an edict to the whole world, and sent an envoy to the Bohai Ministry to proclaim that the Bohai Ministry should submit to the Ascension Dynasty as if it had submitted to the Min Dynasty, and pay tribute to show his obedience. Zhenyu met with the envoys of the Shengchao and expressed his willingness to reconcile with the Shengchao, but said that the Boren had been in the Zhengshuo of the Min Dynasty for many years and "did not want to change their service", and refused Li Hongji's request. Li Hongji was furious when he heard the news, and personally led 200,000 elite soldiers to the expedition, Zhenyu led 80,000 elite cavalry of the Bohai Department of "Qinglong Banner" and "White Tiger Banner", and 20,000 of the original Min army "Guanshan Iron Cavalry" of Wushan Guitoucheng as a guide, and Li Hongji's department fought for three days and three nights, and finally Li's army was defeated, and Li Hongji only took more than 1,000 cavalry to return to Beijing.

After defeating Li Hongji, the Bo people were worried about the plague infection, so they did not take advantage of the situation to pursue, but still strictly guarded the pass. Because the Zhengshuo of the Min Dynasty has died, Zhenyu announced the founding of the Bohai Ministry, the country name is "Bohai", and Zhenyu is called Khan.

After Li Hongji was defeated and returned to Beijing, due to a great loss of strength, his former comrade-in-arms Zhang Xianzhong took the opportunity to attack, raised troops to attack Li Hongji, and founded a country in Sichuan, with the national name "Daxi", and fought against Li Hongji. Of course, Li Hongji could not admit such a result, and sent troops to recruit many times, and the Greek Kingdom and the Shengchao attacked each other, and the entire Central Plains fell into war again.

Zhang Xianzhong was brutal and bloodthirsty, liked to kill, every time he conquered a place, he would inevitably slaughter the city, and the provinces killed millions of people for their subordinates, because there were too many dead, no one buried them, the epidemic was everywhere, the people died in their pillows, and the whole Central Plains was like Shura Hell.

Zhenyu always paid attention to the situation in the Central Plains, he wanted to raise troops to the south to end the war, but he was worried that the plague would spread and affect himself, so although he had been persuaded by the Bohai State and the remnants of the Min Dynasty many times, he still couldn't make a decision. It wasn't until Ye Jing, a goddess doctor who claimed to be a descendant of the divine doctor Ye Tianlai, arrived, saying that there was a method of prevention and treatment, and that the true jade test was correct, that he agreed to send troops south.

At that time, the Bohai Kingdom was divided into eight parts, called the "Eight Banners", namely "Qinglong", "White Tiger", "Vermilion Bird", "Xuanwu", "Green Lion", "Bailin", "Jinyi", "Xuanbao", 40,000 elite cavalry per banner, a total of 320,000 people, plus 80,000 "Guanshan Iron Cavalry" of the original Minjun Army, a total of 400,000 people.

Hearing that the Boren cavalry went south, Li Hongji and Zhang Xianzhong stopped the infighting, joined forces, and went north to meet the enemy, but because the two were too jealous, they could not cooperate with each other, plus the internal fighting and plague were rampant, and the soldiers died a lot, and they were simply unable to resist the attack of the Boren cavalry. In less than a year, the Boren cavalry swept through the Central Plains and dominated the world.

After gaining power in the Central Plains, the Boren cavalry successively pacified Mongolia, Weijiang, Kangzang and other places, and included the land of the Kazakh Three Tents into the territory, plus the original hometown of the Bohai State, and established a vast empire. At the suggestion of officials from the Central Plains, the new empire still had its capital in Beijing, and the country name was "Qian", which means "opening up a new world and opening up a new world".

After the capital of Beijing, Zhenyu ascended the throne and became the emperor, with the year name "Qianfeng", as the founding emperor. After the death of Zhenyu, the Daqian Empire successively went through Shunzhi, Ningxu, Rongfang, Quanlong, Jiaqing, Shaoguang, Xianfeng, Tongzhi eight emperors, Yanguozuo for more than 200 years, and the young Tongzhi Emperor Mu Linde Chengchun just died at the beginning of this year.

The sudden death of Emperor Tongzhi caused an uproar around the world, and on February 1, 9075, the New York Times and the Chicago Daily Tribune simultaneously published a very short front page report, the text of which was only 14 English words: "The telegram from Daqian indicates that civil war in this country will not be avoided." ”

The next day, the two newspapers published a prominent report saying that although Prince Chun's son (i.e., Emperor Guangxu Chengtian) had been chosen as his successor, the Tongzhi Empress Erut Lingyin was pregnant, and if she could give birth to a prince, the battle for the throne would become fierce. According to the report, it is rumored that the queen has committed suicide because the minister said that the queen is not pregnant with royal blood, but it cannot be confirmed.

It was exactly a month before the death of the 19-year-old Emperor Tongzhi, despite the efforts of the Great Qian Empire to create an impression on her subjects and the world that the situation in the Great Qian Empire was very good, and it was getting better and better. But in this good situation, Westerners don't seem to appreciate it. On February 3, the two major newspapers also carried a short message on the front page: "Rumor has it that riots have broken out in Beijing over the succession to the throne." ”

All kinds of speculation about the conspiracy within the red walls of the Forbidden City spread and fermented in the Western world. The unfortunate death of Emperor Tongzhi attracted great attention from the Western media, no doubt because of the absolutely undeniable status of the Great Cadre as a great power (not a great power).

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