115 Founding
The sound of gongs rang out in the streets and alleys of Kyiv, and the citizens of Kyiv City looked out of the windows with a hint of curiosity in fear, and passers-by and vendors in the streets and alleys saw the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army wearing round pointed iron helmets, flintlock pistols hanging steel swords from their waists, and wearing half-body cuirasses.
"Citizens, listen well, one person from each family can get a pound of black bread when they go out to observe the founding ceremony of the Kingdom of Heaven, and the great General of the Divine Son of Heaven will not force you, it is all voluntary, and when you get to the place, you can naturally see the location of the distribution of black bread."
Similar shouts quickly spread throughout the city of Kyiv under the shouts of white Taiping defectors who were fluent in local languages such as Polish and Ukrainian, along with the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army.
After Hong Tiancheng took the city of Kiev, defeated King Jan Kazimierz Vasa, and eliminated Khmelnitsky, as the strength of his army skyrocketed, this mentality naturally exploded.
The consequence of the salted fish jumping over the dragon gate is to become an upstart!
As a salted fish at the bottom of the society, Hong Tiancheng has experienced a series of life and death vendettas, and after the interracial war, after having enough strength to protect himself, he naturally can't wait to establish his supreme position, as well as prepare for a luxurious life in the future.
It is not applicable to Hong Tiancheng to build a city and build a city with a wide accumulation of grain, because he relied on the all-out war system to rise, and the all-out war system did not rely on the local natives to build an army, but relied on war and aggression to gradually increase, and it is natural that Hong Tiancheng, who did not have any restraints, would not continue to be a turtle with a shrunken head.
Modesty is only due to lack of strength, Napoleon was arrogant back then, and every time he fought, he would be scolded by his generals with blood, as if everyone in the world except him was a pig.
Not to mention Napoleon's bad nature, all the women he fancies, whether they have a husband or not, will eventually be put into their own bed by Napoleon, if the husband of a woman is interested, she can continue to live the life of a rich man, if you don't know what to do, Napoleon has not done anything that has evaporated from the world!
It was such a self-esteemed, ruthless tyrant who ended up becoming a hero to the French, and even enjoyed a reputation as a genius in the world.
Therefore, people's evaluation of great men is never determined by their moral character, human beings are very realistic creatures, they will only see achievements and results, no matter how conscientious, losers will always be losers, and even if some people feel unworthy, they will be put on all kinds of negative labels in the eyes of most people.
The most typical is Chongzhen in the late Ming Dynasty, who can be called the most hard-working emperor in the Ming Dynasty, but he was still detained as a faint monarch with unknown employment, not Chongzhen's IQ arrears, just because the Ming Dynasty died in his hands.
Why are Zhu Yuanzhang's beggars and Liu Bang such ruffians praised by future generations, and not because they became the founding kings?
Why did Genghis Khan and his children and grandchildren, who had a murderous appetite for slaughtering cities as a means of deterrence, and sleeping with the enemy's wife as their own hobby, become the spiritual glory of the Mongols?
Victory alone!
Hong Tiancheng, who has been tempered by the cruel reality of various societies in the 21st century, is naturally a more rational person, he knows very well what he needs and what he can have!
As a result, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was successfully established with the support of the descendants of the all-out war system under the command of Hong Tiancheng.
Zhytomyr, Lutsk, Kiev City is the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is now the three big city territories, Kiev City was temporarily established as the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, with Kiev City once as the capital of Kievan Rus, the overlord of Eastern Europe, the city of Kiev has a long status, in the hearts of Europeans does have the political status of being the capital, provided that it has the strength to keep it!
Even if Hong Tiancheng does not pay much attention to the face project, the necessary rituals are still needed, this is not to satisfy his own vanity, but to announce the strong rise of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to the ruled white civilians and external hostile forces.
Of course, it can also be seen as a strong ...... Taunt!
Hong Tiancheng, whose strength has skyrocketed, is no longer afraid of being targeted, even if he is beaten by the whole of Europe, he is fearless, the reason is very simple, the backward traffic environment and logistics system in the 17th century!
In this era, not to mention the train and railway lines, even the highways and official roads are all pitted, and the best transport fleet is the primitive mule and horse, commonly known as burning horse manure.
The most important logistical material in wartime, food, was transported by hordes of men and mule and horse convoys, and these people and mule and horse convoys themselves consumed food!
The consumption of a convoy for a day or two may not be much, but you must know that the convoy of transport in this era is much slower than the average pedestrian rush, and it takes longer than the march of an army!
The consumption on the road speaks for itself.
Because of this, in the era when railway lines were not popular, unless there were battlefields with developed maritime and coastal landing points, otherwise, an expedition could drag down a large country equivalent to the land area of the Manchu Qing Dynasty at its peak!
After all, wars at the national level are the mobilization of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people, and the daily consumption of food is an astronomical amount, which requires a large number of transportation people, mules and horse convoys to supply, and the consumption of this large number of transport convoys will create another astronomical amount, or a long-term cycle of continuous consumption!
Therefore, in ancient times, the unified East Asian China rarely launched expeditions to foreign countries, one was not worth it, and the other was too much consumption, and the reason why the European continent was in frequent wars was only one reason, their country had a small territory, many small countries, and complex alliances, and it would take less than a few days to fight a battle and jump across the national border to hit the enemy country......
Not to mention the short distance of the country's small crossing, the number of troops that need national war is also small, and the army of tens of thousands of people is a national army in the European continent in the 17th century, on the other hand, the Chinese court in the same period, tens of thousands of people are just the garrison troops of a province......
In this situation, Hong Tian's establishment of the country is naturally completely stress-free, and the backward transportation makes it difficult for the European countries to form a coalition army, and the Taiping Army, which is absolutely centralized, can be broken before the armies of the European continent countries are assembled, and Hong Tiancheng also intends to do so.
Of course, the most important purpose of the founding of the country is that Hongtian has become a 'justifiable' in the future wars, although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is a history of the rise of nouveau riche in the eyes of the European continent, but in the eyes of the common people, it is also a behemoth after all, a real country!