After the New Year of the ninth year of Yongchang, Beishun fell into a huge crisis, and the Shun army suffered a catastrophic defeat on the Huaiyang battlefield, losing a large area of territory in Anhui, and was forced by the Ming army to the gate of Shandong. More than half of the more than 100,000 Shun troops once stationed in Huaiyang were lost, and almost all local troops surrendered to the Ming army, although the Guards Battalion and other field battalions were able to retreat to Shandong because of the resolute resistance of the Huai'an Shun army, but these field troops also suffered heavy losses, and discarded a large amount of baggage and equipment.

What made the situation even more dangerous was that this time the Ming army advanced too quickly and lost too little, unlike the previous battle for Jiangsu, although the Shun army also eventually lost Nanjing, but the Ming army's troops also suffered heavy losses, and the Shun army's field troops were fully organized and had a large number of reserve troops. The situation is even more sinister now than it was when Zhejiang was lost just a few years ago, and the army of Beishun is even more disorganized than then, and there are no reinforcements to send in the rear, and there is no strategic depth enough to win respite for Beishun; On the contrary, the Ming army was far more powerful than at the end of the First World War in Zhejiang, and the Nanming cabinet established three group armies in one go, Zhejiang, Huguang and Jiangxi groups, each group would theoretically have the strength of six divisions, and now the Zhejiang and Jiangxi groups had been assembled in Anhui, which had just been captured by them, and twelve divisions had been assigned to ten, and the Huguang group army, which had six divisions, was preparing to start attacking Henan.

At the very beginning of the war, Li Zicheng received reports that the Ming army launched a rampant attack, but was repulsed by the defenders and began to counterattack along the Yangtze River; Soon after, the Ming army was strong and desperate to attack, while the Jianghuai defenders, after inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy, made a tactical contraction, waiting for an opportunity to launch a counterattack; After that, the front-line commanders of the Shun army were in fact out of the battlefield, and they hid in the rear to report the latest developments in the military situation to the imperial court and the king of Shun with their intuition and conjecture.

It was not until the defenders of Huai'an Mansion fought hard to block the rapid breakthrough of the Ming army that Niu Jinxing was vaguely informed that the Ming army had broken through the defense line of the Shun army and penetrated deep into the hinterland of Anhui; It was not until the Guards Battalion, Armored Battalion and other field troops were hastily withdrawn from Yangzhou Mansion that the Prime Minister's Mansion knew that these field troops had faced the danger of being annihilated; In the end, when Huai'an Mansion fell, and the field troops of the Shun army were counted in Shandong, and only 40,000 people remained in the eight infantry battalions and three cavalry battalions, the Prime Minister's Mansion figured out that the Shun army had not been under unified command during the whole war, and the battalion officers of each battalion discussed on their own and then carried out a breakthrough operation in twos and threes, and most of the previous war reports were fabricated by senior generals hiding in Shandong. Even at this time, Li Zicheng still didn't know as clearly as the Prime Minister's Mansion.

The reason why we can learn this is because of the mutual tilting between the senior generals, and the battalion officers who escaped death have chosen to remain silent, but most of them are angry and begin to denounce the command of the battle, and the defeat has also reduced the control of the battalion officers over their subordinates, and many lower-ranking officers have jumped out to attack the collapse of discipline and order in the Shun army in the past few months.

The surging reproach helped Niu Jinxing understand a lot of the actual situation on the front line, although he deliberately covered it up, but Li Zicheng's understanding of the situation was far more complete than before. The enraged King Shun planned to go to the front line to see it in person.

Since Li Shun opened the country, the bureaucracy has tried its best to use all kinds of excuses to let Li Zicheng stay in the palace honestly, since ancient times, as long as the emperor comes out to patrol the bureaucracy, he will make trouble, because in this way the emperor will become difficult to deceive, once the ruler with supreme authority finds out that the following is actually a lie, then I am afraid that there will be a big prison, not to mention how many people have fallen to the ground. Although for the whole country, removing a group of officials will not change anything, and their successors will soon become the same as their predecessors, but it is a great disaster for those unlucky officials, so once Li Zicheng revealed similar thoughts before, hundreds of officials would work together to dispel it with reasons such as safety, expenses, etc., and Li Zicheng, who wanted to be a wise man, heard this kind of remarks for several years. I also believe from the bottom of my heart that it is an immoral act to waste the people's fat and ointment and disturb the world for the sake of his desire to go out of the palace to inspect; Besides, the courtiers have repeatedly said that King Shun is too important, and the government is inseparable from his wise leadership far beyond Tang Dynasty and Song Zu, although staying in the palace may be a little boring, but this has the most important key significance for the well-being of the people of Dashun.

As a result, it is not until today that Li Zicheng, who has been boasted by hundreds of officials for several years to be more wise and martial than Tang Taizong and Ming Taizu, found that he actually didn't know anything - just like Niu Jinxing, Li Zicheng, who was touted every day, no longer knew how many catties and taels he had before he became a prisoner.

After the fiasco, of course, it is to shirk responsibility, and now Li Zicheng's case is full of accusations and abuses by local civil and military officials such as Liu Fangliang, Chen Zhe and Zhong Guinian, and they are now fighting lawsuits every day, trying their best to put all the responsibility for the failure on others - when they just lost Anhui, they also wanted to push these responsibilities to Xu Ping, forming a united front to accuse him of having fundamental hidden dangers in his deployment in Huaiyang, but when everyone realized that Xu Ping alone would definitely not be able to take all the responsibility for the fiasco, this united front collapsed, They collect black materials from each other and throw all the responsibility for the corruption of military discipline on the heads of others.

Seeing that the matter had reached the point of being out of control, Shun Ting finally decided that Chen Zhe was the main responsible person, and Liu Fangliang was an old comrade of King Shun, and his popularity in the court was also okay; As for Zhong Guinian, Niu Jinxing is the one who wants to die, so Chen Zhe seems to be the most suitable scapegoat to extinguish Li Zicheng's anger.

But Chen Zhe was far more cunning than the cabinet imagined, and when he found that the tone of the imperial court was becoming more and more harsh on him, and that the officials who had taken a lot of benefits from him in the past suddenly began to ignore him and even began to draw a clear line, the Shandong Jiedu envoy immediately made a decision and fled to Dengzhou with his cronies and family members to surrender to the Ming army. In Chen Zhe's last military plan, he once again showed his extraordinary military talent, not only did he and his men escape without danger, but even his family property was safely transported.

Before leaving, Chen Zhe threw out all the black materials he had collected, many of which were originally collected by Xu Ping's orders, but they were used by him to bargain with Niu Jinxing, and the result was kept secret. At the same time, the officials of the DPRK and China who have accepted bribes from Chen Zhe over the years have always been exposed, and Chen Zhe has always had the habit of taking notes, and he clearly recorded every bribe. Thrown along with these bombshells, there is also a detailed record of corruption in the Huaiyang Military Region, in which Chen Zhe clearly summarizes the reasons for the failure.

It wasn't until Chen Zhe hired people to paste the printed leaflets all over Jinan City, and even scattered some in Beijing, that the thunderous Shunting found that Chen Zhe had arrived safely in Dengzhou. There, Chen Zhe invoked a statement from Nanming's cabinet to ask for a pardon, and he did get it, that this person was no longer seen as a threat by Nanming, that his status as a count would be recognized, that his property would be protected, and that he would also receive a copy of the money issued by Nanming.

As a new dynasty, the bureaucracy could not cover the sky with one hand, and the news passed through their fingers made Li Zicheng no longer able to sit in the palace. However, it will take time for the imperial driver to march in person, and Li Zicheng is indeed worried that if he leaves Beijing, the rear will become more unscrupulous and chaotic, and before he can make all preparations, Li Zicheng personally rushed to Xu Ping's house, who was idle, and asked him to leave for Shandong immediately - since it was Xu Ping, then he would always have a way.

Soon after the end of the Huaiyang War, the Ming army's Huguang group also launched an attack on Henan, and it was not surprising that the Shun army suddenly suffered another fiasco, and soon lost most of Henan, and the Ming army's Huguang group then moved east with four divisions to the Shandong border. The three major groups of the Ming army, with a total of 14 divisions and a huge strength of more than 220,000 troops, will soon cooperate to launch an offensive operation against Shandong, while the Shun army on the opposite side is only more than 40,000. The Nanming cabinet intended to spend a summer stocking up on supplies for the divisions to attack, and then launch the Seventh Northern Expedition in the fall.

After Xu Ping came to the front line again, he said to Zhou Dongtian and other subordinates who came to greet him: "From now on, we are going to fight for ourselves. ”

The military situation was desperate, Shandong was threatened from three directions, the enemy's superiority in strength was more than five times, and the Shun army was in danger of defending and urgently needed to be reorganized. However, Dashun no longer has such materials and soldiers, and most of the recruits that Xu Ping has trained hard in the first battle of Huaiyang have also been lost, and the materials in reserve have been completely lost, and the enemy does not seem to have much time for Xu Ping to prepare for war. Prime Minister Niu Jinxing in the rear is said to be considering resuming the examination method and doing his best to squeeze the people who are still under the rule of Dashun, but Xu Ping feels that this kind of dying struggle may not bring much benefit.

"Lack of soldiers, lack of weapons, lack of morale." Only Xu Ping still seemed confident, and he was determined to continue the battle until Nan Mingken accepted a reasonable terms for peace talks, even if Dashun could not survive, Xu Ping at least had to find a way to survive for King Shun and his subordinates: "Let's start with the easiest, that is, morale." ”

The officers suffered heavy losses in Huaiyang, and Xu Ping severely disposed of the remaining officers, and he carefully investigated the performance and previous behavior of each officer in the army on the Huaiyang battlefield, and dismissed a number of people from their posts and drove them out of the army.

"These brothers can go to Nanming, anyway, they can probably be pardoned now," Xu Ping explained to his subordinates: "I hope they don't reveal our military information for many years, but in fact, there is nothing to worry about, we don't have too many secrets." ”

Xu Ping has been restoring military discipline instead of expanding the army, and he feels that it may not be of much use to have 10,000 to 20,000 more people now, and the first thing to ensure is that the army is still a cohesive fighting collective.

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While the Ming army was advancing in high spirits, the Nanming cabinet carried out a very unsuccessful coup d'état.

Both the Constituent Assembly and the Cabinet hoped for the speedy resignation of the superintendent Ming Tai Zi, who was morally a more dangerous enemy than Huang Shi, who was old and had repeatedly expressed support for the Parliament, and who would most likely try to restore his ancestral business when he reached adulthood; In addition, the Constituent Assembly wanted Huang Shi to usurp the throne in order to cause some damage to his reputation, and Prime Minister Cao Cheng had always been white-faced, and giving Huang Shi a seat would help him continue to weaken his prestige among the people, and it would also completely prevent him from forming alliances with those loyal to the Ming family, if there were any such people.

The Constituent Assembly has absolute political and military strength, but without an excuse, the prince of the prison country has no rights, and there is no natural and no mistake, and the eunuch system has also been abolished by the Duke of Qi, and it is not easy to even say that he is shameless. In the end, Miao Shoufu planned to use the method of luring the snake out of the hole, so that the prince of the prison country would first launch an anti-parliamentary coup, and then the parliament could use the power of thunder to wipe out the chaotic party.

However, the key to luring the snake out of the hole is in addition to the bait: the bait is big enough, that is, to restore the actual power of the emperor, and the other party is indeed a snake with the ability to attack, and now the prince of the prison country is a harmless rabbit, except for the weak mother, there is only a group of powerless literati left. Therefore, before the introduction of the prince of the prison state, Miao Shoufu and the cabinet agreed that the prince of the prison state must first be given the right to carry out a coup d'état, and at first glance this plan seems to be more perfect, if the other party's force to launch a coup d'état is in their own hands, then of course the other party is even less likely to succeed.

However, how to reasonably and legally send this force into the hands of the prince of the prison was a big problem, and Miao Shoufu ordered the minister of defense to instruct a group of officers to go to the prince of the prison to show their loyalty. But the Minister of Defense wanted Miu Shoufu to give him a written order, because if the Minister of Defense gave a military man the words "help someone somehow overthrow the parliamentary system and the cabinet", he would be guilty of treason. And Miao Shoufu was reluctant to give this written order, because he did not want to be accused by the opposition of plotting treachery, and if he was willing to give it, then he would not have to instruct the Minister of Defense in the first place, and just give the order directly.

After finally persuading the secretary of defense to look for a candidate for action before receiving a formal order, the soldiers of the army branch who were identified were unwilling to play the role of "traitor" before receiving a written order.

The air force generals said that they could accept a verbal order directly from Miao Shoufu to have the famous commander of the airborne commando, the puppet Tota Li Tianwang, who had made great contributions to the rescue operation in Beijing, go to the prince of Jianguo to show his loyalty.

After hearing the plan of action from Miu Shoufu's mouth, the Commando Leader said that he was willing to sacrifice his name for his country, but the Commando Leader pointed out that in order to be realistic, he might need to submit some petitions to the Crown Prince, and he needed a written declaration of immunity to ensure that all the crimes he committed while carrying out his anti-intermediary activities, even murder, would be pardoned.

He held a secret meeting within the ruling coalition, which was actually attended by all the Labour and League MPs of the Constituent Assembly, and everyone felt that such judicial immunity was far beyond the competence of the Cabinet (this Miu Shoufu had already known that he wanted everyone to study that the Constituent Assembly might not have such authority). In the end, the result of the discussion was inconclusive, and many parliamentarians said that they would never vote in favor of the issue, and they did not want to be seen as despicable by the voters.

Remembering Ren Hongcheng's ambiguous attitude towards this, Miao Shoufu brought the prime minister of the Donglin Party to discuss the matter together, Ren Hongcheng felt that this matter was very good, he expressed his great support for Miao Shoufu's conspiracy, but it was limited to verbal support, when it came to the issue of immunity for killing, Ren Hongcheng said that he could not do this kind of thing, and after the Donglin Party held a secret meeting to study (it was also a secret meeting attended by all the parliamentarians), he was not worried about the issue of immunity but the possibility of the Kuomintang using this to smear the party.

In the end, everyone felt that if this kind of thing was to be done, they had to do it together, and no one could hide on the side to prevent their hands from getting bloody. A secret meeting of all the members of the Constituent Assembly (still in the parliamentary hall, but it was held at a time to adjourn, avoiding the media. More than a dozen parties expressed their opinions, and tonight there was no recorder but there was a legal adviser brought by everyone. These legal advisers believe that this immunity is very problematic, at present only the army and the police have immunity from injuring and killing people, and the immunity of the military from killing during the war is a matter of course, and the immunity of the police when enforcing the law is also easy to understand - if they do not stop the criminals, they will cause harm to society and civilians, and the police attack is passive. But it is difficult to rationalize the exemption of the possible crimes of the Air Force Commando, because the prince of Nanming did not try to harm anyone, but the Constituent Assembly lured him into committing the crime, in other words, if the Constituent Assembly did not toss this matter, no one would be harmed, then this immunity became difficult to establish.

A legal adviser also raised the serious issue that even if the Constituent Assembly had approved the immunity, the Supreme Sentral could still veto the bill even though the Nanming judiciary had become independent. If the bill was indeed rejected by the Supreme Judge, the commando captain would be guilty of murder, and the person who instructed him to do so would be guilty of abetting murder—and Miao Shoufu would certainly not have escaped.

After discovering this danger, Miao Shoufu immediately said that he could not do this alone, otherwise he knew that these opposition parliamentarians would definitely fall into the trap if something happened. Miao Shoufu asked the Constituent Assembly to first pass the bill and then send it to the Criminal Prosecution Division for inspection, and only after the criminal officer did not declare the bill illegal could he start taking action...... This is for the benefit of the Constituent Assembly, and Miao Shoufu believes that his own safety should be ensured, and his idea is the same as that of the captain of the airborne commando.

But once this bill is passed, the conspiracy will immediately be revealed in broad daylight, and even if the Criminal Division does not veto this proposal, it will not try to lure the snake out of the hole.

Almost all the delegates to the Constituent Assembly were happy to see the Ming Emperor abdicate, and most of them, after weighing the pros and cons, thought that even if they agreed with the proposal, they would be guaranteed to continue to win, and these people demanded that Miao Shoufu bravely take responsibility, and they also promised to be willing to pass this proposal in the future, which would also be exempt for Miao Shoufu; In order for the plan to be successfully achieved, everyone suggested that Miao Shoufu also pull the nine supreme criminal officers into the conspiracy gang, and let them promise not to veto this proposal - now the upper house has not been prepared, Qi Guogong has promised and should not veto this proposal of the lower house, and the only trouble is a few supreme criminal officers.

After some quarrels, Miao Shoufu agreed to the plan of getting on the bus first and then making up the ticket, and it was true that once the proposal was passed first, the conspiracy was completely exposed, and he asked everyone to sign a guarantee to guarantee the passage of the bill. But this request was rejected by most of the lawmakers who expressed their support for the action, who did not want to be caught in the hands of Miao. But they didn't give a guarantee, Miao Shoufu resolutely refused to start acting, and the final compromise agreement was that Miao Shoufu would first bring in several top criminal judges, and after the criminal officer promised to recognize the legality of the bill, they would give Miao Shoufu a guarantee to put forward a bill.

Although he knew that this request was obviously contrary to the spirit of judicial independence, in order to carry out the conspiracy to the end (in fact, Miao Shoufu was already half discouraged at this time, but he liked to do things from beginning to end. Miao Shoufu still went to the nine supreme criminal judges, but was categorically rejected by six of them: the criminal officers did not participate in legislative discussions or interfere in other forms in other forms in legislation, but only reviewed whether the bill violated the spirit of the constitution after it was passed by the two houses and approved by Qi Guogong - this point was not only written in the records of the Constituent Assembly itself, but also repeatedly emphasized by Qi Guogong to the criminal judges.

Out of curiosity, the remaining three Supreme Prosecutors, who were not so conscious and so thorough, asked Miao Shoufu what kind of proposal he wanted to pass. Two of them smiled and sent off the guests, telling them that the Constituent Assembly would know their answer after the proposal was submitted, and only one of them could not resist Miao Shoufu's bitter pleading, and closed the door of the study, leaving only him and Miao Shoufu:

"This matter is only between you and me, and I will never admit that I have interfered in legislative affairs beforehand."

"Of course, of course." Miao Shoufu nodded repeatedly.

"I don't think it's in line with the spirit of the Constitution, it's for the sake of some people's illusions of being harmed, and condoning de facto harm crimes."

"However, if Prince Ming abdicates, the constitutional system of our dynasty will be able to ...... This is supposed to be an exemption for the purpose of deterring or preventing crime, right? Miao Shoufu argued.

"Unless you can prove that even if you don't instigate His Majesty, he will definitely carry out a coup d'état to harm the constitutional system, and then you can stop or prevent crime." The criminal officer shook his head.

"If I could prove it...... If I can prove it, then why am I doing this? Miao Shoufu said with a smile and a smile.

At the same time that Miao Shoufu was in the hands of the criminal officer, the Donglin Party and the Kuomintang also invited many staff officers, from the lawyer to the provincial and government criminal officers.

In Chen Zizhuang's living room, the criminal officer of Ying Tianfu heard what they meant and began to shake his head: "What? Are the members of the Constituent Assembly unable to obey even the laws you have set for yourself? ”

"Where did we not comply?"

"All cases involving the death penalty will inevitably be tried in the Sentencing Hall, even if the Supreme Sentencing Division allows your bill to pass - I doubt it, even if you charge His Majesty with a coup d'état attempt, this case will probably still be in the hands of the lower officials, right?" Seeing that Chen Zizhuang and Ren Hongcheng both nodded, the criminal officer continued to comment: "If Your Majesty uses your proposal as evidence, then I personally think that he must be treated leniently, because His Majesty was instigated, and His Majesty is still a child, because there are further lenient treatments for minors; You are different, the crime is about intent and action, and your proposal proves that you have the intention to instigate someone's coup d'état - whatever the reason for your birth, and the proposal itself is an action. When the lightest punishment is given to His Majesty, I will also issue arrest warrants for all the doctors who voted in favor of the proposal, all of whom were guilty of treason for instigating the coup; If someone is injured in a coup d'état, then the crime of intentional injury is added, and if someone dies, then murder is added. ”

Ren Hongcheng is still a little close, he has not been engaged in constitutional construction, and Chen Zizhuang has been speechless, he participated in the whole process of the constitution-making, and it is still continuing, but sometimes affected by the position causes people to be unable to look at the problem objectively, and now as soon as the criminal officer reminds Chen Zizhuang, he knows that the parliament will not be able to stand no matter what.

"Doctors have immunity, and if enough people vote for it, and they are not afraid of losing the next re-election, it is possible to veto all impeachments and rely on immunity to hold on until you step down, but once you lose the immunity of the parliamentarians, you will be charged with treason, assault and murder." Ying Tianfu's arraignment officer looked at Chen Zizhuang and Ren Hongcheng's expressions, and shook his head slightly: "If you really get your wish, then the prison is prepared for you, and if you don't want to go to prison, you can consider launching a real coup d'état, overthrowing our constitutional system and the constitution you have set, and supporting Lord Shoufu as the new emperor." ”

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Before the Constituent Assembly and the Cabinet terminated the conspiracy on their own, the news had reached the palace, and the Empress was shocked and went straight to Hangzhou with the prince of the prison state to beg the Duke of Qi to spare their lives, and insisted on granting the throne to Huangshi, and promised to abdicate so that Xian would never associate with the frustrated scholars again—in a sense, the coup plot of Miao Shoufu's mess did have the desired effect.

When the Empress returned to Nanjing with Her Majesty the Eunuch, she found that the powerful and insidious enemies were shirking each other's responsibilities, and both the ruling and opposition parties were trying to clear themselves.

Yellowstone is not too surprised by this, the constitutional system has in many ways the incomparable efficiency advantage of an autocratic system, but framing its own people is certainly not one of them - not that it does not have this ability, but it is ridiculously inefficient compared to an authoritarian government, so Yellowstone is not worried that one day the parliamentary army will stand in front of his door and say something "for the threat of possible future, the parliament will give you death." Something like that.

Sending off Empress Hongguang and the crown prince, who were not yet adapted to the constitutional system, Huangshi continued to prepare his gifts to the European scientific community. Although scientists have a country, science has no borders, just as the people who are most looking forward to the rise in housing prices have always been the people who own the most real estate, and the one with the greatest benefits in scientific progress must be the one with the most widespread education and the most powerful national strength. According to Huangshi's experience, generally speaking, the more confident the country's investment in education, the more confident in their country's talent selection system and academic research level, the more they generally hope for rapid progress in science, for example, if there is some scientific theory in Huangshi's previous life that proves that long-distance, high-speed interstellar navigation is feasible, then the most welcome must be the United States, which thinks it can occupy an absolute advantage in interstellar colonization, no matter which country's scientists propose, it is welcome, which is understood in Huangshi as the so-called strong mentality; On the other hand, those who are suspicious of their country's system, the current state of academia and the talent selection mechanism (they probably do not admit it, but hide their worries deep in their hearts). If we don't, it's better that others don't have one – this is because they don't have self-confidence and fear that other countries will further widen the gap with themselves in scientific progress.

Of course, Huang Shi admits that this mentality is completely reasonable, and he asks himself if, what if, if he lives in a country where academic corruption, professors worship money, teachers' morality is corrupted, plagiarism is glorious, and the success of fraud can be replicated, and male students do not call teachers bosses, and female disciples do not call teachers husbands, then he will also have a serious weakness mentality, and he is very unconfident that his country can fully enjoy the benefits of scientific progress.

In the past, Huangshi always heard a saying: what kind of people there are, what kind of government there is. When he was young, he also believed it to be true, but now he thinks that this sentence should actually be reversed: what kind of government there is, what kind of people there is, that is, the so-called upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, and the jackal does not need to ask the fox when he is in charge.

As a twin of democratic thought, Huangshi believes that the spirit of science is influenced by the system in addition to the popularization of education. Suppose, just if, if there is a country where the most famous masters of the academy who were once known for their humanistic spirit say that "the disparity between the rich and the poor in the country is not really big enough," or "the country should learn from Korea the most." Or: "Ninety-nine percent of the petitioners are insane", Huang Shi believes that his weak psychology will definitely become more serious, probably to the point of mental illness - falling into a state that is easily bewitched by the outside world and always does not know the truth. Because if you want to believe that the flower of science blooms under such a system, you must believe that these masters are schizophrenic - they dare not step beyond the thunder pool and cling to the powerful in their daily lives, but in scientific exploration, they are lively and not afraid of power. There is no denying that there is such a possibility, but strictly speaking, the probability is relatively low.

However, this is not the case with great China, where the investment in education is huge, and the constitutional system is even more than the world, and there is no country on this earth that has a greater proportion of investment in education than China, and there is no country where the cost of emancipating the mind and thinking independently is lower than China. So Huang Shi confidently sent his gift to the European scientific community, and not only in China, but he intended to establish a fund and a series of prizes, where everyone who could contribute to science would receive a prize, and every institution that would contribute to scientific progress would be funded—the leaders of great powers have their own different mentality.

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After learning that the Shun army was defeated in the Huaiyang battlefield, Sun Kewang immediately signed an agreement with Li Fengjiao, who had not yet left, and Li Dingguo was also urgently recruited to the Shandong battlefield at the same time as Xu Ping's recovery, and the latter also went out of the mountain again to advance and retreat with Xu Ping, and the immortal army that defected to the king of Jin in these days was all taken to the Shandong battlefield by Li Dingguo. Sun Kewang, who was already desperate for the battle situation, assured Li Fengjiao that he would raid Shanxi when he was ready, and take down his fourth brother's family, who did not know the destiny of heaven, and present it to the king of Qi and the Constituent Assembly as a greeting gift. This kind of military action would further shorten the duration of the war, and would also greatly reduce the losses of the Southern army, and Li Fengjiao assured that Sun Kewang's loyalty would not be forgotten by the Constituent Assembly, and not only would he be able to keep most of the land that Li Shun had given him, but even some or all of the territory of Shanxi could be considered for thirty years. In addition, there is also a clause that Sun Kewang will be renamed the King of Shaanxi, to show that he and Li Shun are cut off.

Compared with Sun Kewang, Li Chengdong in Sichuan did not have much room for bargaining, and the Ming army did not attack him only because the Constituent Assembly had already felt that he was indigestion, and after the news of the defeat of Huaiyang, the loss of Henan, and the loss of half of Shandong reached Sichuan, Li Chengdong also immediately expressed his willingness to change banners, and even expressed his willingness to send troops to crusade against the remnants of the Shun army in Henan to show his service. After clearly informing Li Chengdong several times that even if he sent troops to attack Henan, the Sichuan army would have to withdraw from the entire territory of Henan in the future, Li Chengdong still said that he was willing to serve and would never covet the land of Henan.

There was no time to celebrate Huangshi's acceptance of the throne, Li Fengjiao still needed to go to Liaodong again, he had to convince Wu Sangui before the outbreak of the great war in Shandong, so as to bring the greatest military benefits to the Ming army, and at this time Li Fengjiao was also convinced that the Liao king would give him a satisfactory answer on this trip.

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In May, King Shun announced that he was going to drive the army to Shandong, before the general Liu Zongmin had brought the last batch of troops directly under Beijing to Shandong, and now is gathering to Beijing is the Qinwang troops from the Qin, Jin, and Liao domains, to be precise, the Qin domain and the Liao domain, the Jin king Li Dingguo has already rushed to Shandong with the army early, and the troops he brought have more than 20,000 people, many of which are the old base troops of the old Sanxi battalion, plus the troops after Xu Ping's reorganization have a total of more than 60,000 people.

"Liaodong People's Observer" said that the road of war is tortuous, the future is optimistic, and the final victory will definitely belong to Dashun. After the report was read out, a large number of enthusiastic Liaodong people in Liaoyang chanted slogans to march on the streets, and they each had a copy of "Liaodong Chronicles", which was vigorously held up in the air and waved, and the crowd passionately expressed that they would resolutely fight with the Ming army to the end, and shed the last drop of blood to defend the Great Shun Dynasty.

When passing through the palace of the Liao king, the excited crowd found the figure of the Liao king, who was about to personally lead the team to Beijing to fight to the death with the Shun lord and the remnants of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

Hundreds of people let out thunderous cheers in the direction of King Liao:

"Long live Dashun, the King of Liao is nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine years old!"

His Royal Highness Wu Sangui, the King of Liao, who was dressed in a draped cloth, stood on the high platform, his left palm was raised upwards and did not move, and the five fingers of his right hand were brought together, and he gently patted rhythmically on his stiff left palm:

"Long live the unity of all the clans of Quanshun, and the people of Liaodong are nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine years old!"

After tossing for a day, after sunset, everyone in Liaoyang had just returned home and were busy cooking on the fire, when suddenly there was a gong outside the door.

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"Great news!"

"Liaodong People's Observer" published outside the number, recently the temples of the whole Liao are boiling, today all the temples inside and outside Liaoyang City, the city god in the temple, and the Taoist temple in the Sanqing have spoken together, these statues not only collectively appeared to say that this time the Liao master will win, but also unanimously predicted that the great man like the King of Liao can continue to benefit the Liao domain for a long time, and the gods and Buddhas of all walks of life have assured the elders of Liaodong that His Royal Highness Wu Sangui can have at least one hundred and fifty years of longevity. "Liaodong People's Observer" also said that one hundred and fifty years of longevity is at least, and the gods and Buddhas did not say that they died, and it is not unusual for the king of Liao to live for a few hundred years at that time.

The hungry people of Liaoyang suddenly boiled again, they didn't care about hunger and exhaustion, and once again held the "Liaodong Chronicles" poured out of the streets and alleys, warmly celebrating the message from the gods and Buddhas.

When the people of Liaoyang were once again walking around the streets with lanterns and gongs and drums, those who did not go out to congratulate the Liao King after the gong sounded were also arrested by the people of the Anju Division, a newly established new organization led by Chen Yuanyuan, the concubine of the Liao Wang. Now this former Qinglou woman has "the most loving Liao Fan mother who is the most loving to the people of Liaodong." And "the closest relatives of the people of all ethnic groups in Liaodong".

A group of prisoners were found to be resentful by Anjusi, and they tried to fool them by using excuses such as "I didn't hear the gong with bad ears", "I was too hungry to eat a bite of food before going out", and "I was changing my shoes because my feet hurt in the afternoon", and there were two "repentant and resentful factions" who were sent to the Changbai Mountain labor camp along with these resentful factions, one of whom was found bouncing around in the crowd, although he claimed that he was lame because his leg was lame. However, Anjusi discovered that his true intention was to deliberately make a fool of himself in an attempt to divert the attention of the people who loved the Liao king; The other grinned too much when he laughed, and although he tried his best to argue that he was particularly happy to hear that the King of Liao would live to be one hundred and fifty years old, the conscientious and responsible Anjusi staff believed that he was laughing at the report of the Liaodong People's Observer - the two guys who had been restored to their status as "resentful factions" had lost the title of "repentant" they once had, and would be sent to the mountains and forests again tomorrow after a street parade.

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In September of the ninth year of Yongchang, three months after Huang Naiming's oath to go on the expedition, the king of Qi, who had been in Hangzhou for a long time, returned to Nanjing. The crown prince of the Ming Dynasty issued two edicts, the first of which was to succeed his father, the Hongguang Emperor, who was still a prisoner in Beijing, as the king, followed by the abdication edict, in which the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty passed the throne to Huangshi, the king of Qi.

Many of King Qi's subordinates went to Shandong with the crown prince Huang Naiming, so this abdication ceremony seemed a bit deserted, and there were more media reporters than King Qi's relatives, friends, and old ones. After King Qi carried out this sudden attack abdication ceremony, the media reporters who came here were still a little incredulous - Ming is over like this? How could such a major event as the change of court be done so rashly? There was no meditation platform, no fanfare ceremony, just an edict was read out in front of everyone.

After throwing the edict of the last emperor to the media reporters to quench his thirst, the king of Qi went to the tomb of Taizu of the Ming Dynasty to worship, about what the king of Qi said to the founder of the Ming Dynasty, reporters and scholars have endless conjectures, and in various later literary works, different authors also wrote a lot of tearful sacrifices. In particular, although the king of Qi accepted the abdication of the Ming emperor, but did not accept the crown sent by the other party, this matter aroused a lot of discussions, the king of Qi did not destroy the Ming Tai Temple but turned it into a museum, and he himself only announced that he was the king of Qi as the ruling king of China.

At the time, many people thought that this was a gesture by the king of Qi, thinking that he would regain the crown of the ownerless after the unification of China, and even if he himself remained a courtier until his death, the descendants of the king of Qi would posthumously give him the title of founding emperor - few people realized that this was the end of the title of emperor since the beginning of the Qin Dynasty.

"The emperor of all dynasties and the Son of Heaven ......" When Huang Shi started his nondescript sacrifice in front of the mausoleum of Ming Taizu, there was only one Xia Wanchun by his side, and after hearing such a beginning, Xia Wanchun's brows furrowed tightly, this is the mausoleum of Ming Taizu, what did he do in the past dynasties?

However, Xia Wanchun was still listening carefully, and he had a hunch in his heart that what he heard next would cause a sensation throughout the country and would be passed on for a long time - after all, few people had the opportunity to stand in their position at such a grand moment as the change of dynasty, and it seemed that no one would hear the sacrificial prayers of the King of Qi except himself, which would be the talk of Xia Wanchun's life, and relatives, friends, and descendants would take the trouble to ask again and again.

Xia Wanchun's luck was driven crazy with jealousy by those who had no chance to do it, but no matter how they inquired afterwards, Xia Wanchun kept silent with a serious face, although this increased the room for countless literati to create, but also made the curiosity of others more irrepressible.

Decades later, when Xia Wanchun was lying on the sickbed surrounded by his children and grandchildren, several of his sons and sons-in-law knelt in front of him and begged him for the last time not to take this secret to the King of Qi, but Xia Wanchun, whose heart was like stone, refused the bitter pleas of his closest relatives for the last time......

At this time, Xia Wanchun, who has been known as a prodigy since he was a child and has a superhuman memory, pricked up his ears and listened carefully to the words of King Qi, for fear of missing even a syllable, the sacrificial text is very short, it is simply too short to speak, King Qi suddenly laughed after reading it over and over again, and the laughter was full of smug pride, and Xia Wanchun also read it silently many times - when decades later, Xia Wanchun, who was almost a humanoid tape recorder, worked hard to learn to become an expert in Fujian, Hakka, Tianjin and many dialects of Liaodong, He still remembered every slightest trill he heard at this moment, the pronunciation and tone of his voice several times were exactly the same, and he was very passionate, Xia Wanchun was convinced that this was a very meaningful sentence:

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