Chapter 90: The War of Unification (1)

With the roar of Hong Tiangui of the Taiping Society, Daqing's braids were talked about, and the self-proclaimed "iron-beaten" Jiangshan Sheji collapsed!

This was really a roar from himself, because in the vast land of Shenzhou on this star, except for Hong Tiangui and the Taiping forces he taught, most of the Chinese people were still mixed and stiff.

And that small cluster of flames that could ignite the whole era of the new wave was still in the making, and there was no time to form a general revolutionary trend of thought.

If there is no Hong Tiangui, the "iron fighting" of the Daqing Dynasty will continue for another hundred and eighty years.

But since the moment when the Great Ball of Light came out of the Sea of Chaos and allowed Edward, the Eternal Speaker, to discover this world and descend on the independent incarnation of Hong Tiangui, everything has been developed since then, and there has been no if!

On November 21, 1863 in the Western Era, the imperial city of Beiping was destroyed, and the seventh year of the Shengci year of the Daqing Dynasty was still not over after all.

Even at this time, most of the country was in the hands of feudal ministers loyal to the Daqing Dynasty.

However, the collective rush of the entire royal family and the central magnates still announced the de facto collapse of the Daqing Dynasty, which had dominated the vast land of Shenzhou for 327 years after two hundred years of chaotic war in the last years of the previous dynasty.

And the very funny thing is that it was almost halfway through December 1863 AD.

From those places where the vanguard troops of the Taiping Society in the suburbs of Beijing did not have time to control, the people who fled to all parts of Daqing in a hurry informed the earth-shattering news that "Beiping was destroyed, and the Empress Dowager Lafayette and the little emperor fell into the hands of the enemy", and informed the bureaucrats and bureaucrats everywhere.

There are still a large number of Daqing bureaucrats who do not believe the nonsense of these refugees, and even put the informants in prison because of their rumors about the royal family.

In the feudal era, there were actually only a few influential scholars, Confucian scholars, landlords and wealthy merchants in a county or prefecture in a region, and these people were severely attacked by the Taiping Society, imprisoned in advance, and did not let go of a single one.

The words of a group of fart people, and such ridiculous news, which feudal bureaucrat in Daqing would really believe it?

And a very small number of Daqing officials, who were relatively responsible, sent a telegram to Jingshi to inquire and received a normal reply as usual, but they also quickly left behind the news brought by these fleeing people.

It can be said that during this period of time, the hidden methods used by Hong Tiangui before his invasion of Beiping once again played a huge role under the rotten and high-ranking bureaucratic system of feudal society.

The entire Daqing Jingshi fell for almost a month, and the whole country was still at a loss.

But concealment is just concealment after all, with the approach of the most important festival of the year of the Oriental people, the "Spring Festival", more and more people go to Daqing Jingshi.

After all, the number of vanguard troops led by Hong Tiangui was only more than 50,000 people, and even if a large number of Chinese green battalion troops surrendered during this period of time were added, the difficulty of blocking the news of the fall of Beijing increased exponentially.

But at this time, the Taiping Society, President Hong at this time, didn't care about the spread of these news.

In addition to still imitating the tone of the Daqing Dynasty in the past in the telegram, and replying to the governors and governors of various places as usual, others said that they should let it be!

Hong Tiangui's rash army is only the vanguard army of the Taiping Unification Army after all, in order to occupy the entire Shenzhou, where is there enough for only 50,000 or 60,000 troops?

In the past five years, due to the "cooperation" of the corrupt bureaucrats in Daqing, the Taiping Society, which has grown to a population of 20 million, has been dispatched, and the troops that the Taiping Society really used to occupy the whole country have arrived at their respective attack sites one after another and began to attackΒ·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·

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At the top of a two-story Western-style flat-roofed villa in the St. George's Concession in Shanglu, the owner cleverly designed it into a small and delicate open roof garden.

"Sir Hilt, what a nice house you have!"

St. George's Minister to the Daqing Dynasty, Lord Martel, while sipping black tea, looked at the roof garden, the great merchant Sir Hilt collected the exotic flowers and plants from Daqing, and said enviously.

This kind of villa architectural design, which was very common in modern society in later generations, at least in this era, is still very rare and novel.

"Hahaha, my friend Martel, what pot of flowers and plants do you have your eye on?"

"Then I'll send you to your residence!"

The great merchant Sir Hilt had known Lord Martel, the Minister of St. George's Mist, when he was a university student, and they were old friends and classmates, and they spoke more casually.

I think that at the beginning, both of them studied plant potions in the alchemy department of Wudu Wang University, but unfortunately, as the magic tide went away, supernatural plants have become extinct on a large scale in recent decades, and plant potions, which was once quite hot, gradually and completely declined.

Now, one of them has become a diplomat in the kingdom, and the other has inherited the family's chamber of commerce, and they have all embarked on a completely different path than they imagined when they were younger.

"Do you know the news that has been circulating in Daqing recently?"

Sir Hilt, the great merchant, said to his fellow ministers, with a mysterious expression.

"Oh? What are you talking about about the fall of Beiping rumored by the Daqing people? You, a foreigner, would also believe this kind of gossip? ”

"Is it true or not?"

"Of course it's fake!"

Lord Martel, Minister of St. George's, replied in the affirmative.

I think that when he got the news from a few of his fellow St. George's civilians who were doing business in Beijing, he sent a telegram in a panic to inquire about Shanglu's Futai, but the pigtailed Futai swore that it was all nonsense.

Afterwards, he also scolded the few St. George civilian merchants fiercely, causing him to lose such a big face with those barbaric pigtailed officials in Daqing.

Is that really the case?

Sir Hilt, the great merchant, did not speak, but nodded, thinking about the news that had been recently passed on to him by the Chinese stewards in the shops he had bought in the capital, and then silently sipped the Inca coffee in front of him.

He didn't believe the news of the stewardship at first.

But during this time, he did have many business friends around him, and they were all selling off the high-quality industries around Daqing Jingshi at low prices, which made him become suspicious.

Is there really something wrong with this Jingshi of the Eastern Daqing Dynasty?

"So, what's that?"

Just as Sir Hilt, the great merchant, was pondering, and Martel, the minister of St. George, was enjoying a cup of tea.

Downstairs, a group of Chinese porters who were carrying sundries interrupted their rhythm at this time.

"The clouds in the sky, how, how have they changed!"

"Ahh That's an airship! ”

"It's the airship of the Taiping traitors!"

When the big merchants and ministers heard the call, they hurriedly looked up.

I saw that in the sky that should have been paved with white clouds, most of the white clouds turned into giant war airships in a haze, which was very familiar to the two St. Georges.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

Dense propeller fighters flew down from the sky and dropped hundreds of bombs on Shanglu City.

However, instead of gunpowder and shrapnel, these bombs were filled with stacks of colored drawing paper that flew in the sky after the explosion.

One of the pieces of drawing paper, along with the wind, flew into the small garden at the top of the Western flat-topped villa, and landed right next to the big businessman Lord Hilter, who was prostrate on the ground, trying to avoid the impact of the bombing, and he couldn't help but look at it boldly.

After many years of doing business in the vast land of China, he can still understand the oriental language.

I saw that on the drawing paper, the most noble group of people in this country knelt on the ground very clearly and embarrassed.

Behind them, hang eight eye-catching oriental characters - "Expel the Tartars, Restore China".

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