The seventeenth princess Zhao Yutang was very suspicious in her heart, all the way from the imperial capital to the northwest, during which she also inspected the local garrisons of various provinces along the way, not to mention the real combat effectiveness, even the momentum of the army that was put out to put on the façade also gave people a feeling of casual lack of necessary training, these troops knew at a glance that they could not cope with the real battle, let alone expect them to win a war.

In contrast, her secret observation of the garrison troops in the northwest provinces is very different from the situation in the Guanxi provinces, no matter their training, the number of establishments, and the morale of the soldiers are not at the same level at all, which makes her have to admire Qin Dui for managing the army, think about it, if there is no such powerful army as the backing, why does he dare to arrogantly fight against the Hun people, and why dare to lead the troops alone to march to Beiloulan, where he had no foundation at that time?

The Taiping Sect surged up, and all parts of Kansai fell in a short period of time, which was not surprising to her. It is no wonder that a prepared army does not win against an unprepared division, not to mention that those garrison units cannot play a role at all. Without the cooperation of the local garrisons, would the regular army, which was already overstretched in the Empire, be able to exterminate those peaceful and chaotic parties? The girl had too many questions in her heart, but unfortunately no one could answer them.

Just when the two men and women in the northwest were still running around for their respective tasks, the officials at all levels of the vast majority of the two major counties in the north of the empire suddenly panicked and suddenly found that the attitude of the people in the jurisdiction who had always been submissive seemed to have turned over all of a sudden, and they drew their swords against each other when they said three wrong words, and the officials at all levels who had been invincible in collecting rent and taxes in the past seemed to be in trouble, and before these officials could react, the Taiping Sect uprising that swept the entire north of the empire had officially begun.

On June 30, the 19th year of the Apocalypse, under the planning of Xu Wenzhe, the young master of the Taiping Sect, the uprising first started in the middle of Pinglu Mansion in Beiyuan County. On the same day, 50,000 Taiping soldiers and civilians under the leadership of Xu Wenzhe ambushed the garrison of a wing that had received the news and was preparing to come to suppress the tax-resisting peasants, and then surrounded the garrison soldiers of the three wings who had come to reinforce them in one fell swoop, and the battle was unprecedentedly fierce. In the end, the garrison units of the three wings were completely annihilated, and nearly 3,000 of them joined the Taiping Army anyway before the battle, and the Taiping Army was in high spirits.

On July 14, Xu Wenzhe commanded 100,000 Taiping soldiers and civilians to march to Pinglu Mansion, which was empty in defense. The main imperial officials of Pinglu Province panicked and fled on the eve of the Taiping attack, and the Taiping army occupied the city of Pinglufu, the capital of Beiyuan County, which was second only to the capital Anyuan Province, without a single soldier, and in the following two days, the grassroots institutions at all levels of the empire in the whole province quickly collapsed. The Taiping Army began to take over local administration.

At the same time, in the early morning of July 20, the 19th year of the Apocalypse, the capital of Cangzhou, the southwestern capital of Yanyun County, was personally commanded by You Daofang, the master of the Taiping Sect who was sitting here, and nearly 100,000 urban poor and landless peasants suddenly poured into the streets of Fucheng under the instigation and planning and instigation of thousands of Taiping followers, besieging the city guard, Huo Jinchang, the city guard of Cangzhou Prefecture, fled in embarrassment, and ran more than 300 miles in one night to Beiping Mansion, the capital of Yanyun County. In this defection, three Wing Commanders loyal to the Empire were killed, and the rest surrendered and rebelled.

July 25th. Tu Yifei, director of the interior of Qinghe Prefecture in Beiyuan County, said that there was an important matter to discuss and lure the city guard and the administrative director of Qinghe Prefecture to his own mansion, beheaded the two, and announced that he would take over the entire Qinghe Mansion and accept the leadership of the Taiping Sect, and the garrison of the prefecture also announced that it would accept the management and leadership of the Taiping Sect on the same day.

On August 10, large-scale Taiping uprisings took place in Anwon, Lulong, and Yulin provinces, including the capital of Bukwon County, and the uprisings in these three prefectures were even more ferocious, especially in Anwon and Yulin prefectures. The rebels marched through the town, and the garrisons that came to suppress them either collapsed at the slightest touch or fled from the battle, and their condition was terrible.

August 18th. The city of Anyuan fell without resistance, before that, three wings of the garrison of a division had been destroyed in the battle, and the soldiers of the remaining two wings surrendered when the Taiping army approached the city, and nearly 1,000 imperial officials from Tang Degui, the county guard of Beiyuan County, surrendered. On the same day, the Imperial Yulin Mansion City Guard Xiang Qianqiu led his troops to surrender to the rapidly advancing Taiping army Yu Zhiyong. So far. Only the most remote of the five prefectures in the western part of the five prefectures of Beiyuan County has not yet completely fallen, where the garrison and the Taiping army are fighting fiercely, and the battle is in a state of stalemate.

On August 21st, You Daofang, the great master of the Taiping Sect who arrived in Anyuan Mansion City, announced the official establishment of the Taiping Holy Kingdom in the largest Anyuan Square in Anyuan City, temporarily set the capital of Anyuan, proclaimed himself the Taiping Holy King, designated the Taiping Sect as the state religion, and the army was officially named the Holy Religion Army, You Daofang also announced that he would take it as his mission to save all the suffering people in the empire and the dire situation, and vowed to let the people of the Holy Kingdom live a happy and happy life, in order to achieve this goal, it is first necessary to overthrow the decaying and declining rule of the Situ family in the empire.

On the same day, the political institutions of the Taiping Holy Kingdom were also established, the Holy King set up two ministers of civil and military, the minister of culture was in charge of government affairs, and the minister of military affairs was in charge of military affairs, the post of minister of culture was held by Miao Mingkun, who was in charge of economic and financial affairs of the former Taiping Sect, and the second disciple of You Daofang, Lan Bailin, served as the deputy minister of literature, the position of military minister was naturally held by Bo Jinchen, and the deputy was held by Xu Wenzhe, the eldest disciple of You Daofang. Since Bo Jinchen was in command in Guanxi, the responsibility of the Wu Xiangfu was mainly borne by Xu Wenzhe, and he also served as the general of the Holy Sect Army, holding the most elite 100,000 troops in the Holy Sect Army. At this point, the central power of the Taiping Holy Kingdom had taken shape.

On August 24, the Taiping rebel army of Yunzhong Province, another major prefecture in Yanyun County, near Anyuan Province, joined forces with the Holy Religious Army reinforced from Anyuan Province and captured the city of Yunzhong Province, and all the officials of Yunzhong Province surrendered.

In the area under its control, the Taiping Holy State also followed the example of the empire and appointed a large number of local officials, gradually improving the political institutions at all levels, in order to maintain stability in the region, You Daofang also made an exception to appoint several imperial officials to important positions, especially the former imperial Yulin city guard Xiang Qianqiu was appointed as the Yulin Mansion (equivalent to the position of the imperial city guard), which caused a lot of controversy within the church, but was suppressed by You Daofang with personal prestige.

This appointment also caused a sensation in the entire Taiping Sect-controlled area, and some landlords and gentry were secretly considering whether the existence and development of this Taiping Holy Kingdom would really have the possibility of replacing the empire. (To be continued.) )