The next day, Bob offered to interview the young Captain Shaw, but the request was readily denied, and the explanation given by the King of the West was that Captain Shaw had been transferred to the artillery unit, and the artillery unit, as a classified military unit, declined to be interviewed. Although Bob's request was denied, Bob still captured something from the expression of the West King's calf protector, and this Captain Xiao's background must not be simple, which strengthened Bob's belief that he wanted to interview this character. The request was denied, but as a veteran journalist, Bob had his own unique approach, just like the intelligence officer.

Xiao Yungui's reason for refusing Bob's interview request is actually very simple, that is, to protect Xiao Youhe, one is that he is too young, and the other is that if the hostile forces know that one of their sons is in the army, his safety will be very problematic. At the same time, Xiao Yungui didn't have time to pay attention to Bob's subsequent methods, and his attention was focused on the ongoing war.

Three days after the supply line of the Beijing camp was opened, Xiao Yungui issued the "Unification of the Whole Country and the Northern Expedition" to the world in the Nanyuan camp on the outskirts of Beijing, calling on the military and the people of the whole country to work together to complete the national reunification and realize the great era of comprehensive reunification of the country's multi-ethnic republic and common prosperity.

It is worth noting that this Northern Expedition essay was written by Hong Yun'er, and was edited by Zuo Zongtang, Xu Naizhao and other literati at that time, which changed the mention of expelling the Tatars and restoring China in the "Fengtian Seeking Hu Wei" issued by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom that year, and changed the main theme to unify the whole country, sweep away the chaos, and realize the great goal of the republic and common prosperity of all ethnic groups in the country, and carry out the final Northern Expedition against the separatist forces entrenched in the north.

The text no longer treats the Manchus as a regime, but relegates them to local separatist powers, and the words "expulsion of the Tatars" and the exclusion of other ethnic groups do not appear again. This was a major policy adjustment of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the later period of the goal of unifying the whole country.

With the great superiority of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in various battlefields across the country, the next step will be to solve the problem of unification of Mongolia, Xinjiang, Tibet, Guanwai and other places. And these places are precisely the places where the various nationalities live, if the word expelling the Tartars is used again. This will inevitably bring disadvantages to reunification and the stability of the localities after reunification.

The theory of the "republic of five ethnic groups" put forward in the article is described as follows: "The foundation of the country lies in the people. The Han, Manchu, Mongolian, Hui and Tibetan regions are one country, that is, the Han, Manchu, Mongolian, Hui and Tibetan ethnic groups are one person. It is called the unity of the nation. He also explained the uprising that took place before the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom occupied more than a dozen provinces: "At the beginning of the rise of the Heavenly Kingdom, the Qing court was divided from the Qing court, and the provinces were united, and Mongolia and Tibet were the same. The cardinal is formed in the center, and the longitude and latitude are circumferential in the four solstice, which is the unification of the territory. ”

At the same time, the text emphasized: "Now that the five ethnic groups are republicizing and co-prospering, all the Mongolian, Tibetan, and Huijiang regions are all part of the territory of our Chinese Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the Mongolian, Tibetan, and Hui ethnic groups in Xinjiang are all citizens of our Chinese Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and they can no longer have vassal names as in the Manchu Dynasty." After that, Mongolia, Tibet, Huijiang and other places should make overall plans. In order to seek the unity of internal affairs, and hope for the unity of the nation. The government of the Heavenly Kingdom did not have a special ministry in the Li Domain, and originally regarded Mongolia, Tibet, and Huijiang as equal to the inland provinces, and in the future, each of them should have a qiē government. All of them fall within the scope of internal administration. Now that the unified government has been formed, the affairs of the domain will be taken over by the kingdom of heaven......"

In this passage. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom emphasized that the places inhabited by the Manchus, Mongolians, Tibetans, and Hui were no longer vassal states of China, and made it clear that these places were an inseparable part of the whole of China. Meantime. Hong Yuner deliberately added the word "China" before the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which obviously reflects greater inclusiveness. Since then, the name of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of China has also appeared in front of everyone's eyes for the first time. Although this country name is a bit lengthy, the country name of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has been used for many years and cannot be abandoned, and the Western King has always inherited the mantle of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which cannot be given up lightly, and the word China represents the legitimacy of the entire land and nation, so this country name appeared before the Western King ascended the throne and issued the "Dingguo is Edict" in the future.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom welcomes warlords from all over the country to take the initiative to defect, and the text also promises that once the warlords from all over the country take the initiative to come to the country, the Kingdom of Heaven will treat them as national soldiers. At the same time, however, he also called on the military and civilians throughout the country to resolutely exterminate the remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the warlord armies that were stubbornly resisting.

It is not a cowardly expression of the cowardice of the rulers such as the King of the West, who have been in the customs for more than 200 years, and have been deeply immersed and integrated into the various ethnic groups in the customs from all social levels, and it is difficult to forcibly expel them. In the Great Southwest Roundabout Campaign carried out by Chen Yucheng's troops, the Manchus in many places were afraid of persecution and decided to fight to the death. The Manchurian banner households in Chengdu even distributed kerosene, and once the Taiping army invaded the city, everyone planned to set themselves on fire en masse, and they did not hesitate to burn the city. Because of the fear of the massacre of the people's army, many flag soldiers in Chengdu believed that "resistance is death, and failure to resist is death. ”

Fortunately, Chen Yucheng did not get dizzy at that time, but adopted the tactics of attacking the heart, he concentrated the nearby Manchu banner households to shout under the city, and at the same time actively sent envoys to negotiate with the Manchus in the city, saying that he would not kill innocents indiscriminately, so as to eliminate a disaster invisibly. Later, after the Taiping army entered Chengdu, they did not persecute the Manchus anymore, and only tried the Manchus with criminal punishments for the most heinous crimes, which laid a good foundation for Chen Yucheng's troops to sweep the northwest in the future.

The so-called "expulsion of the Tartars" is neither to drive out the hatred of extermination, nor to integrate together, but to drive the "aliens" back to their original places of residence, so as to achieve the goal of restoring China and recovering the Han dynasty. In other words, the main idea of the slogan issued at the beginning of the Taiping Rebellion did not necessarily need to be directed at the vast areas inhabited by ethnic minorities, and the new China did not necessarily include the vast territories of Northeast China, Inner and Outer Mongolia, Xinjiang, Tibet, and so on. This is the meaning of the so-called "expelling the Tatars and restoring China" in the founding ideology, and it is also a huge metaphor for the restoration of the 18 provinces of the Han nationality. Just imagine, if three-quarters of the country's territory were excluded from China by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, once the tide of separatism hit like a flood of beasts, the division of the country and the peril of the nation were inevitable.

After the success of the Taiping Rebellion and the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will become the builders of the new China. The reversal of roles required the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to quickly abandon its original line of uprising, and to resist the destructive xenophobic ideology and narrow national view more passively. What is intriguing is that this transformation has a high degree of uniformity in the national proposition of the main leadership of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Instead, the idea of "common prosperity of the republic of the five ethnic groups" quickly took off within the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Thus, this essay was born, which marked the beginning of the military struggle of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom from the initial resistance to the tyranny of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to the road of maintaining national unity.

However, this change is only a subjective change within the upper echelons of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, is it enough to ensure that all ethnic groups in the country ignore past grievances, forget the national tragedy that has just occurred and even the thousands of years of estrangement, believe in the value promotion of the "republic and common prosperity of the five ethnic groups" propagated by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, closely rally around the banner of the "Chinese nation" and the "Chinese Taiping Heavenly Kingdom", and consciously abandon the tendency of separatism? Of course, this is impossible, even if the new China has implemented the policy of national unity for decades, the ethnic issue can still be described as "a big matter", which affects the nerves of the people of the whole country; Placed within the pattern of this time and space, the arrival of the five-ethnic republic situation may not only be achieved by a simple ideological change at the top of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Therefore, the proposal of the concept of "republics and co-prosperity of the five ethnic groups" at the top level of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is a necessary and insufficient condition for the true realization of the republics and co-prosperity of the five ethnic groups, and is a key internal factor. At the same time, the true realization of the common prosperity of the republic of the five ethnic groups can only be brought about by combining the role of strong external factors.

In the face of foreign invasion, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's powerful armed forces were able to ensure that when Russia from the northwest invaded Xinjiang, Mongolia and other places by force, it could stand up and help the military and civilians of all ethnic groups in these places to preserve the territorial integrity of the country.

Prior to this, Russia had never given up its infiltration into Xinjiang, Mongolia and other places, and had used border trade to exploit the people of Xinjiang, Mongolia and other places at unequal value. In Mongolia, Xinjiang and other places with Russia in the border cities, a box of Russian-made inferior matches can be exchanged for a cow or two sheep, this lucrative and very unfair trade is just a microcosm, once the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom can penetrate into these places, a large number of cheap Jiangsu and Zhejiang industrial and commercial products will definitely be able to win the favor of the people in these places. The abundant mineral, agricultural and animal husbandry resources in Xinjiang, Mongolia and other places are also needed in China.

Once the Russians infiltrated these places, they would only see them as cheap places to obtain resources and dump products, and the people of these places who were unwilling to be enslaved by the Russians would surely fall to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Therefore, in any case, the top level of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom must first put forward the slogan of the republic and common prosperity of the five ethnic groups, occupy the moral high ground, first inherit and continue the sovereignty of the Manchu Qing over the above-mentioned places de jure the law, and then slowly heal the pain and maintain the unity, and integrate the various ethnic groups in the long river of time. The significance of this article is not limited to the Northern Expedition, but also extends to all aspects of the territorial sovereignty and national integration of the whole country in the future.

The best case scenario is that the Manchu Emperor will take the initiative to announce his abdication, so that Xinjiang, Mongolia, and Tibet, which were previously ruled by the Manchus, will be incorporated into the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the future.

However, it was almost impossible for the Manchus to take the initiative to do these things, and military strikes were still needed at this stage, so on the third day after the release of the document, the Taiping army in the suburbs of Beijing took the initiative to launch a military operation to sweep down the Qing army in the suburbs of Beijing after receiving sufficient supplies and troops...... (To be continued......)