Chapter 1: Wangbei Mansion City
Wangbei Mansion City is located in the northernmost part of Wangbei Province and the northernmost part of the territory of the Far Song Dynasty. It accompanied the growth and expansion of the Far Song Empire, and after several changes, it can almost be said that it has witnessed the entire history of the Far Song Empire.
This is after King Yongzu's plan to get rid of the shell of the golden cicada, so that in the Battle of Yashan, Zhang Hongfan, who pursued and killed the remnants of the small court fleet of the Southern Song Dynasty, mistakenly thought that it was a great success. The remnants of the fleet made their way south, through the South China Sea, the first place to land.
Originally a deserted beach, after hardship, it was built into a city by the remnants of the fleet of soldiers and civilians, making it their first home away from their homeland.
Subsequently, with the continuous growth of the remnant Song Dynasty, the founding of the Far Song Dynasty, the city of Wangbei Prefecture has undergone repeated expansions, and finally, it was designated as the capital.
It was not until the Far Song Dynasty conquered the entire territory of Nanyang that the empire moved its capital to Yuanjing Mansion, which was located in the depths of Nanyang, so that the capital could be used as a political center to better radiate the entire empire.
Since then, Wangbei Province has gradually transformed from the political and military center of the empire into a pure military center - during the heyday of Wangbei Port, it was expanded again and again, and the main fleet of the Royal Navy, which was close to 70% of the empire's strength, was stationed. The fleet is gathered, and the troops are strong; Wait for the day, look at China.
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In the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, while the empire mobilized materials from the sea to continuously support the rebel army, it also mobilized an unprecedentedly large fleet and pledged to go on an expedition.
There was a lot of fanaticism and jubilation all over the country, and they all thought that they could finally return to their homeland. Confucianism has always advocated that under the gradual indoctrination, the lazy nature does not want to work hard to get rich, but the industrious Chinese people gradually accumulate wealth...... Seeing that the empire was extremely empty, he took advantage of the weakness and rebelled throughout the territory.
Fortunately, the short-sightedness and stupidity of the natives gave the empire a glimmer of life.
In the original plan, they were going to wait for the imperial army to be entangled with the life and death of the Yuan Dynasty before rebelling again. However, the conspiracy was well discussed, and a stupid earth king who was extremely short-sighted was fighting for more military exploits and more voice in the earth king alliance, and he was jealous of the gold, silver and jewels that had been in front of him all day but had to wait for months to get them.
He couldn't bear it anymore and eventually launched a rebellion ahead of schedule.
Immediately, the whole body is moved.
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The Empire, caught off guard, was given a rare respite. The premeditated outbreak of rebellion turned into a series of convergent rebellions, and the Empire was alarmed by the first rebellion. And after someone took the lead in raising the rebel flag beyond the plan, the length of reaction time varied, which also made the surprise attack of the victory in hand, and finally turned into a chaotic battle.
At the same time, the empire also avoided an extremely unfavorable two-front war. If the empire rebelled again when the army was deep in its homeland, then this rebellion of great scale would not only last a few years, but also overthrow the empire.
However, even so, at the most dangerous moment, the entire control area of the empire was only the respective radiation areas of Yuanjing Mansion and Wangbei Mansion! The rest of the borders are either intertwined, precarious, or scorched earlier. And Wangbei and Yuanjing were cut off earlier.
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When the south had been blockaded and it was really impossible to get in touch with Enjing, the clippers, who were panicked to transmit military information, went north from Beifu and caught up with the expeditionary fleet day and night, the fleet was already able to look at its homeland of Guangnan from afar.
At that time, the messenger only knew that when he set out, the natives rebelled, and the momentum was great. I didn't know that the country had rapidly evolved into such a precarious war situation later. So, under the news of the rebellion, the Imperial Expeditionary Fleet quarreled - in front of it was the homeland of several generations, and in the rear was the empire that was hastily chaotic.
Someone wanted to divide the army in two; Some people think that the empire will be stable, and it is not too late to return to the country to quell the rebellion after conquering the homeland; Some people have long been worried about their relatives at home.
Subsequently, the eighth generation of King Yong, who personally accompanied the expedition and commanded the whole army, held a water blue hanging sword and changed the military order with the king's order. The Imperial Expeditionary Army lost contact with Yuanjing, and after capturing Quang Nam and recuperating for a while, the Imperial Expeditionary Army hurriedly turned the bow of the ship and returned to the country to quell the rebellion.
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It was a wise decision.
When the imperial army hurriedly returned to Wangbei, they slaughtered everywhere. After several years of delay, the empire finally put down the rebellion in its entire territory. The empire has long been full of devastation.
Life and death and blood feud are not shared. How to repay virtue with virtue? Those who are not of my race will have different hearts. If you are not of my race, why bother to talk about it!
With a bloody 32-character manifesto, the party quelled another controversy in the government and stood on the big stage of imperial politics for the first time. They looked angrily at the corpses of their loved ones, at the wreckage of the empire, and resolutely raised their swords.
Under the expulsion of ten killings, except for a few wise ethnic groups in the empire who had been completely naturalized and did not participate in the rebellion but helped the empire resist the rebels, the rest were either expelled or blood-for-blood, and all were empty.
At the same time, King Yongzu, who had been dead for many years, was once again shocked by the foresight of his later generations, and was full of remorse.
It was set up by King Yongzu, but it was extremely unvalued by later generations, and was repeatedly criticized by the government as a secret agency like the pseudo-Ming Jinyiwei, and the Yongfu was often suppressed and troubled by all parties, and the Imperial National Security Bureau was in charge of internal intelligence and national security.
Since then, the three powers of the empire, which have officially learned from the pain, have been elevated to a higher status, and have become listed alongside the General Department of Supervision, the General Department of Military Constitution, and the Imperial Affairs Bureau...... The center of Yongfu, one of the four functional institutions.
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Later, when the empire licked its wounds and looked north again, the Ming Dynasty had already been quietly established.
In the century-old wave war of the Song and Ming dynasties, Wangbei Mansion, as the starting point and base camp of the Far Song Dynasty's attack on the puppet Ming Dynasty, once again witnessed the history of life and death entanglement between the two major sea and land powers in China in the South China Sea and even in the homeland and coastal areas.
Until the first cannon sound sounded outside the strait of the New Great Wall.
The Far Song Dynasty, which was still fighting with the Ming Empire in the South China Sea for a hundred years, began to quarrel again about whether it should be committed to the westward rejection or the northward advance.
Subsequently, the tenth generation of King Yongzu at that time suddenly announced a paragraph in King Yongzu's living notes that seemed to have been secretly recorded.
It reads—
The ancestral king was alone one day, looking at himself in the mirror, very happy, handsome.
Immediately, looking at the map of the empire, I didn't know where to think, and sighed:
In his spare time, he always likes to watch and remember history.
Every time I think of the five chaotic China, and when I think of the Republic of China, I always sigh.
For thousands of years, I have suffered from foreign people in China for a long time. The dynasties have fallen, and the lives have been ruined, all by the hands of foreigners.
If one day, the same descendants of Yan and Huang, there is a tiger outside and the civil war is endless, the brothers are on the wall but do not resist their insults, and the two are defeated after the same root is fried, but they are taken advantage of by foreigners, resulting in the fall of China and the overthrow of China. This eternal hatred.
Although China is wide, it is only a square inch of land in the world. Don't go outward and fight inward, what is the result of wisdom and evil?
If you don't think about it well, it will lead to disaster.
As soon as the living note came out, the whole country was shocked.
Handsome can barely be understood: the handsome man is also the master of the army. Perhaps His Royal Highness the Ancestor is self-conscious of his conquest of the entire empire and the establishment of a huge empire that is not inferior to his homeland.
And Wuhu Chaohua also knows, but ...... What is the Republic of China?
When they were puzzled by where the extremely strange term Yongzu came from, and even listed it as one of the top ten unsolved mysteries of Yongzu Wang, people also fell into reflection almost at the same time - yes...... The world is incomparably big, and there is an endless stream of foreign enemies. How can we not learn from the precedent of the five nonsense chaos?
When will the meat rotten in the pot between brothers of the same nation? But if the pot is snatched away by outsiders......
The controversy died down abruptly.
At the same time, King Yongzu and the Wang family, who were already somewhat deified, were also completely deified. It is generally believed that the Wang family was an envoy of heaven and was ordered to help Zhao and Song Huaxia. King Yongzu can know three hundred years later, and it is a gift from heaven. Since then, the prestige and status of the royal family in the empire have been almost the same as those of the Zhao and Song dynasties, which have lasted for 600 years.
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In this way, with the signing of the Song and Ming truces, the imperial royal navy was transferred south. Xinpofu, an important town in the New Great Wall Strait, also replaced Wangbei Province and became the station of the First Fleet of the Imperial Royal Navy.
Eventually, a few years later, due to the increasing pressure from the Xiyi, the ban on the sea according to the treaty in the "Song Sea Minglu" sphere of influence demarcated by the puppet Ming Dynasty, and the eventual formation of the Xisha-Nansha-Ryukyu warning island chain, the Imperial Patriarchate withdrew the last Royal Navy First Class Fleet stationed in Wangbei Province, and only retained a slightly strengthened local Second Class Guard Fleet responsible for combating piracy and clarifying and protecting the sea routes around the provinces.
At the same time, the Imperial Yongfu also announced the removal of the Military Constitutional Envoy in Wangbei, and only the Supervision Envoy was retained.
These two actions officially announced the end of Wangbei Mansion's status as the center of imperial affairs and an important military town.
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More than 100 years have passed, and after several turbulent historical changes, it has not dimmed the glory of the first city of the Far Song Dynasty in Nanyang.
With the advent of the Age of Discovery, commercial exchanges between the East and the West gradually flourished, and maritime trade reached a sharp peak. In addition to spices, porcelain, tea, and silk that were more expensive than gold in the West were produced in the Far Song Dynasty, and most of them were of high quality and cheaper, but they were all smuggled from their homeland and from countries in the East Asian seas.
In this way, Wangbei gradually evolved into a hub station for trade between the empire and East Asia, and became one of the two major commercial centers of the empire, one north and one west, alongside Yacheng.
At the same time, because it is closest to the homeland, when generations of imperial people look north to their homeland and are haunted by dreams, Wangbei has also become the favorite province for scholars and scholars to settle down, and the cultural center of the empire.
This is also the reason why Li Mao, who is full of peach and plums all over the world and has gradually become famous in the education and academic circles of the empire, has always been in love with the north and rooted in Changzhi for decades.
In the end, because it was closest to the homeland, throughout the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, and even at the end of the Ming Dynasty at this time, a large number of Chinese refugees were either secretly lured, or more actively migrated and fled to the empire.
When they crossed the ocean, they arrived at the powerful empire on the other side of the sea, where the legendary Chinese Zhao and Song orthodoxy was located, and where the Yan and Huang people's paradise was located...... The first stop is Wangbei Mansion City, which looks proudly north.
This also made Wangbei the province with the largest proportion of new subjects and the most active flow of people in all parts of the empire, and it has continued to this day.
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Wangbei Mansion has been vicissitudes in this way, but it is constantly changing. It continued to receive fresh Chinese blood, but it also continued to gradually transfuse blood to all parts of the empire. It is dazzling, with its simplicity, its magnificence, its vitality, its prosperity, its eternity, silently telling everything.
Now, this ancient and now more prosperous city is lying quietly on the side of the sea, and on a lazy afternoon, it welcomes another group of its guests.