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When Vice Admiral Lang Heshen, chief of staff of the Ming Atlantic Fleet, walked quickly into the Grand Palace in Paris, this palace that was once glorious and prosperous had become extremely desolate, and there were headless palace maids and black eunuchs everywhere, carrying large and small boxes, and went straight to the palace gate. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info [latest chapter reading] From time to time, people screamed, making the atmosphere in the Grand Palace even more gloomy.

Outside the imperial study, a large group of Qing officials in neat robes and gowns had already knelt down, all of them in tears, persuading the Qing Emperor Zhu Yongzhen in the calligraphy to quickly escape from the city that was about to fall.

Yes, the Qing Dynasty is coming to an end, it's really going to be over......

Because Zhu Yongzhen didn't want the Qing Dynasty to fall into the country, he did not listen to the advice of the old Empress Dowager Catherine, and immediately launched constitutional reform after the death of the Empress Dowager.

And this constitutional reform is not as simple as making a constitution and then everyone acting in accordance with it. The essence of constitutionalism is twofold: the first is to guarantee the basic rights and freedoms of every citizen; The second is the restriction of public power, and the authority and legitimacy of all public power comes from the constitution.

The first point is aimed at the people, and of course there is the problem of "flag people" and "Europeans". It has been an old rule of the Qing Dynasty for hundreds of years to use the flag to control Europe, but on the surface, the Qing court is still emphasizing the "flag and Europe family". So now that the constitution is going to be established, can it be said that the flag people are superior to the Europeans in this constitution? Can it be said that the flag man wants to hold power, and the Europeans can only be a pawn and run errands?

If it was in the era when Zhu Chongba and Zhu Yunwen were in power, it was not impossible to say this openly. At that time, the banner people were at their peak in force, and the Europeans were backward and beaten...... This Shenzhou person is superior, and the whole world recognizes it!

But what is the national situation of the Qing Dynasty now? It has long been repaired by the surrounding European countries. Moreover, there are twelve European new armies in the Qing Dynasty, and the European military leaders who control the new army, such as Berthier, Davout, Lana, Marmont, Bernadotte, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, etc., are all Europeans. And they all came out of the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood, how could the Qing constitution not take their opinions into account?

Moreover, behind the dispute between the flag and Europe is actually the conflict of interests! In order to resolve the contradiction between the flag and Europe, it is necessary for the flag people to give profits to the Europeans. But today's Qing Dynasty is worried about domestic and foreign troubles. It also owes a p-share foreign debt, and has an additional 180,000 Europeans to burn money for the new-style army, and it is necessary to carry out the so-called "self-improvement reform" and restore the military industry. Rebuild the navy and open new schools. There are more expenses of all kinds than ever before. Therefore, it is impossible to reduce taxes and make profits, so it can only intensify the looting. Such a situation was naturally taken advantage of by Napoleon's rebels, and basins of dirty water were poured directly on the people of the Great Qing Dynasty. As a result, the contradictions between the flag and Europe became more and more intensified. The bannermen who hold the power are even more reluctant to surrender power.

Therefore, the first focus of constitutional reform can only be avoided, so let's start with the second focus, which is to limit public power. Since public power is to be restricted, there is a question of who to restrict first, and then to whom to restrict. As the promoter and leader of constitutional reform, the Qing court naturally needs power, and without power, nothing can be successful.

Since the emperor and the imperial court could not restrict it, the local European people who held military power were naturally the key targets of the Qing constitutional reform...... Of course, the reason is very good, those magistrates who are in charge of the military have one hand and one soldier and one hand. Many of them also collude with foreign countries, despise the imperial court, and act like feudal towns, how can they not be restricted?

Moreover, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty himself is also a banner man, and his relatives and friends are all flag people. In the past, in order to compete for power with the old Empress Dowager Ekaterina, he reused the European Qingliu, but now that the Empress Dowager is gone, he himself has become the boss of two million banner people, so he naturally still thinks that the flag man is more reliable. Those Europeans who hold military power are all like chaotic ministers and thieves!

But the problem is that those rebellious ministers and thieves regard military power as their lifeline. I am afraid that my life will not be guaranteed after the handover. In order to retain their power, some European generals began to collude with the Napoleonians to promote European nationalism in the army. Use nationalism to oppose the constitutional banner of the imperial court.

As a result, although the Qing court imitated the Ming Dynasty, the army department and the army staff were established. But he couldn't control the European generals who supported their own troops and respected themselves.

The self-respecting European generals could not move, but those European doctors who could only write articles and take the imperial examination became the biggest victims of constitutional reform. Although constitutional reform was actually the first to be proposed by those who went to Beijing to take the examination, both the banner men who held the central power and the powerful local factions thought that they were in the way, and they all felt that these scholars did not understand anything and could not do anything. will only talk nonsense, and occupy the pit without, so that people who can do things can't come up.

As a result, the abolition of the imperial examination actually became the first major event to be done in the constitutional reform of the Qing Dynasty! Countless scholars who read the Four Books and Six Classics in elementary school and dreamed of "Ascending to Tianzi Hall" suddenly lost their goal in life because of a holy decree of the Qing Emperor. These people, who were supposed to be the basis of the Qing Dynasty's rule at the local level, became the enemies of the Qing Empire from the moment they lost the hope of becoming officials by examination—Napoleon's revolutionary party suddenly had millions more sympathizers, and tens of thousands of scholars directly joined the revolutionary tide. The revolutionary party suddenly had the potential to burn the prairie fire!

The real trigger for the rebellion was that the Qing court wanted to contact the military power of the Bohemian governor Scharnhorst.

Fearing that his head would be lost along with his military power, the German warlord took the plunge and launched a revolution in Prague, the capital of Bohemia, by telegram to Napoleon, the leader of the revolutionary party in exile in England. Bonaparte allegiance.

Immediately afterwards, the Austrian governor Gneisenau, the Hungarian governor Bernadotte, the Hamburg prefect Davout, the Berlin prefect Berthier, the Hessian prefect Marmont, the Bavarian prefect Rana and other European generals with military power announced their response. The entire Austrian Viceroyalty and most of the German Viceroyalty were all separated from the Qing Dynasty. Immediately, the rebellious local powerful factions convened an extraordinary parliament in Vienna to proclaim the establishment of the Republic of Europa and elect Napoleon. Bonaparte was the provisional Grand Commander.

And Napoleon. Bonaparte, after the end of the Provisional Congress, and his English adviser Arthur Brown. Together, Wellesley commanded the European Revolutionary Army in seven towns to march westward. On June 18, 541, in the county of Waterloo in the Belgian province, a fateful battle was fought against the new army of the Six Towns and Eight Banners under the command of the French governor of the Qing Dynasty, Hailancha......

The results of the battle were transmitted to the Admiralty of the Atlantic Fleet in Hong Kong three days earlier...... The revolutionary army has won a great victory! Those bannermen and new armies who were relied on by the Great Qing Dynasty as the support of the Great Wall could not withstand the offensive of the European revolutionary army at all!

When the news of the defeat and death of Hailancha reached Paris, the city of bannermen, which had been stable for more than 300 years, immediately fell into the greatest panic and chaos. Because everyone knows that the Qing Dynasty is about to fall!

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The Grand Palace, the Imperial Study.

Zhu Yongzhen, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, wore a blue-gray military uniform and walked around irritably. As soon as the news of the defeat at Waterloo came, he put on his military uniform as soon as possible. He said that he was going to personally lead his troops to fight Napoleon. But at this time, where is there any army in the Great Qing Kingdom that can be led by Zhu Yongzhen? Of the eight bannermen in total, six of the battles of Waterloo were heavily damaged, and less than 30,000 people fled back, and all their baggage and heavy weapons were lost. Quite a few lost their rifles. And one by one, they all lost their souls, and they didn't have the courage to fight again.

Although these so-called Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers have received formal military training, they are still the backbone of the city of Paris in their bones. It's okay to suppress the civil rebellion in peacetime, but now it's a new European army that really fights a tough battle. Where is the reason not to catch the blind?

Moreover, this chaos is different from any popular uprising encountered by the Qing Kingdom in the past. It's not a few thieves who rebel, but the whole world! In the provinces where the revolutionary army went, the Qing government immediately collapsed, not necessarily by the revolutionary army, but mostly by the local gentry and gangs...... Those scholars who were deprived of the power to be officials in the examination really dealt a fatal blow to the Qing Dynasty this time. Their defection gave the revolutionary army led by Napoleon its own base to raise food and recruit new soldiers. The loss of Waterloo can naturally be quickly compensated.

On the side of the Qing Dynasty, there were now only two complete towns and two new towns composed of defeated soldiers, with a total of no more than 60,000 guns. It was very reluctant to cover the escape of the imperial court and the bannermen in the city of Paris, where could they hope for anything to quell the rebellion and what to fight again?

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the Lord of the Ming Atlantic Fleet has arrived!"

A black eunuch stumbled in and reported loudly at the sight of the emperor.

"Coming? Quick, get him in! "Zhu Yongzhen's last hope is Daming, as if only Daming can save his country.

It's a pity that Lang and Shen didn't bring good news.

"Your Majesty. The Imperial Council of our country has made a decision to open Hong Kong, Macao, and the new Shenzhou Prefecture to Qing refugees...... The Atlantic Fleet will do everything in its power to ensure that every flag-bearer who wants to leave arrives safely at their destination. In addition, the Ming Empire welcomes His Majesty to take refuge and will grant His Majesty and His Majesty's heirs the title and treatment of Prince Qing......"

The Ming Empire did not intend to interfere in the Qing Revolution! As a matter of fact. Napoleon, the revolutionary, was supported by the Ming Empire.

In the eyes of the Ming Empire, the product of this revolution ...... The Republic of Europa is not destined to exist for long. Because the surrounding powers, the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom, the Kingdom of England, the Kingdom of Italy, the Kingdom of Serbia and the Kingdom of Spain, and even the Ming Empire, would not want a strong and united Republic of Europa to exist.

Moreover, the Republic of Europa was also riddled with warlords, and the nascent revolutionary regime did not have sufficient financial resources. Without a strong force, it is difficult to maintain the unity of the country.

When the Republic of Europe collapsed, the Ming Empire was able to divide and conquer it, fostering small but powerful European nation-states such as France, Germany, the Netherlands, Hungary, Austria, and Bohemia. Then rely on them to block the path of the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom's westward expansion. In this way, the only way for the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom to develop in the south and fight with the Mamluk Sultanate for the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and North Africa...... This is, of course, the situation that the Ming Empire wants to see.

Zhu Yongzhen slowly turned his head, and he couldn't see a little bit of brilliance in his eyes, he seemed to be looking at Lang Heshen, and seemed to have crossed him, looking at somewhere in the distance: "...... What did I do wrong? What exactly is being done wrong? Since I became pro-government, I have always wanted to restore the former prosperity of the Qing Dynasty, I have fought the battles that should be fought with all my might, and I have not pulled down anything of the reforms that should be carried out. But why do these Europeans rebel? Why didn't they give me a chance to complete constitutional reform? Why is that? ”

A series of questions, in fact, the answer Zhu Yongzhen already knew. It is the policy of outnumbering the people adopted by the Qing Dynasty that can no longer adapt to today's world and war patterns. Therefore, the more than 300 million Europeans in the Qing Dynasty are not a huge force to promote the country's development, but a huge hidden danger that threatens the country's stability. The Qing Dynasty had to devote most of its energy to guarding against the Europeans.

Two or three hundred years ago, the European states around the Qing Dynasty were not nation-states, but the property of the monarch or the church, and there was no essential difference from the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, the Qing Dynasty could rely on its financial advantage to suppress them. However, while the European states around the Qing Dynasty, including the Divine Heavenly Dao State and even the Mamluk Sultanate based in North Africa, were transformed into nation-states or quasi-nation-states (ethnic groups based on religion) to varying degrees, the Qing Empire was slow to complete the transformation. Naturally, such a country will not have the possibility of long-term survival.

This truth, the Empress Dowager Catherine has told him repeatedly a long time ago. And told him that the Qing Dynasty was not saved...... By the time the Banner People District was completely lost, the Great Qing Kingdom had already become a lifeless zombie. You can't save it, you can only find a way to delay time.

Of course, Lang Heshen also understood these truths, but he couldn't say it, and finally just let out a long sigh and bowed to Zhu Yongzhen: "Your Majesty, let's go, everyone knows the problems of the Qing Dynasty, and they can't be changed...... Today's difficulties were doomed hundreds of years ago. Therefore, there is no need for you, Your Majesty, to take all the responsibility on yourself...... Stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood! ”

Zhu Yongzhen smiled bitterly a few times: "Qingshan? Where is there a green mountain in the Qing Dynasty? But I won't stay in Paris and die in the Qing Dynasty...... I don't want to go to Daming to be any prince, I stay in Hong Kong, I know how bad the mess left by the Qing Kingdom is, I want to see what those chaotic parties can do to maintain their Republic of Europe! I will live to the end of the Republic of Europe! (To be continued.) )