The blood-red afterglow of the setting sun shone on the battlefield.

The smoke has long since been extinguished.

Smoke and bonfires have also risen in the tents on the edge of the battlefield.

A small number of soldiers were left on the battlefield, armed with spears and bows and arrows, searching for the wounded among the corpses stacked in layers and even in the shape of hills.

Shen Lian stood on a "hill".

This man, who should be regarded as extremely attractive no matter what era he looks at, has only one emotion on his face that is close to "loneliness" at this time.

The reason why it is used to describe "close" is actually because this expression is too difficult to explain in words.

This is a look that a person can understand, but cannot describe.

Just like this battlefield.

Shen Lian knew that in today's battle, about 300,000 people died on this battlefield.

There are more than 200,000 people on their own side, more than 50,000 border troops and Shanhaiguan defenders, and more than 100,000 Jurchens.

On this day, the winner was divided in this pool of blood.

Even Shen Lian, who had already cultivated a cold and hard heart in the dark and bloody life of Jinyiwei, was shocked by the tragedy on the battlefield at this moment and couldn't speak.

Long.

He turned and walked down the hillside of the corpse, down which a horse with its claws torn open by its neck was helplessly waiting for death.

Shen Lian stopped.

In the setting sun, a sharp blade-shaped bone spur slowly pierced from under the cortex and muscles on his right arm......

Poof!

Shen Lian knelt on one knee and used the bone blade on his arm to completely pierce the neck of the dying war horse.

He straightened up.

Under the blood-colored afterglow, the bone spurs slowly retracted into the body, as if they had never appeared before.

……

The Jurchens were defeated.

From the moment Huang Taiji led the last 40,000 cavalry to rush into the battlefield to support, they were already defeated.

Because this time, among the 400,000 troops discharged by Luo Shen, the last 100,000 reserve troops who did not join the battlefield were all aberrants parasitized by the second-generation white worms.

If the Jurchens fled directly on horseback, they might be in a long-distance pursuit, and these aberrants would not have a very good way to take them.

But when everyone joined the battlefield, and hundreds of thousands of people from the three sides were entangled, the addition of 100,000 aberrations was an incomparably fatal factor.

And this made Shen Lian also shocked and saddened by the huge casualties...... It didn't matter to the monster in the Forbidden City.

The impact of the Battle of Shanhaiguan is more than just the outcome of a battle.

Just as the Battle of Sarhu, which reversed the offensive and defensive posture of the Ming Empire and the Later Jin Dynasty many years ago, this battle that brought together the last elite of the Ming Dynasty and the main force of the Later Jin Dynasty also affected the situation in the Far East in the following years.

Of course.

In fact, even if the result of this battle is the victory of the Jurchens and the Ming army, as long as Luo Shen, the evil god, still stays in the world of embroidered spring swords, all the final results are destined to not change.

It's just that the loss of the main force of the Jurchens this time led to the direct stabilization of the situation in the entire north, and also allowed Luo Shen to draw troops to go directly south that year.

Less than a year.

Driven by the killer power of the White Worm Clan and the Aberrations, the Clans soon pushed the army all the way to the southernmost part of the empire.

Under the weakness of the Ming army and the decay of the Ming court, several nondescript small courts of the Southern Ming Dynasty that were hastily formed were soon destroyed.

Local fierce resistance also collapsed under the strong force and numerical superiority of the aberrants.

After discovering that the hideous deformities were not cannibalistic, the wave of rebellion in various places quickly collapsed, and only some lonely heroes who insisted on "fighting demons" and some small organizations in the shadows were still active.

However, all this can no longer shake the rule of the dependents over the entire Ming Dynasty.

Year 1629.

The second year of Chongzhen in history.

The dependents' army basically captured the entire territory of the Ming Dynasty, and only a small amount of resistance remained in some remote areas.

this year.

The name of the Ming Dynasty was retained, but the names of the successive emperors were abolished, and the last emperor of the Zhu Ming imperial family, Zhu Youzhen, announced his abdication.

As the king of the dead country.

Chongzhen's ending was much better than that of his predecessors, and under Luo Shen's instructions, Chongzhen retained a part of his property and a mansion in the capital, and was able to continue to live as a commoner with his queen, concubine, and a pair of daughters.

Same.

The new imperial court changed the system of three provinces and six ministries to a new structure with the "Diet", "Cabinet", and "Ministry of Justice" as the core of power.

Among them, the National Assembly is composed of 3,000 members, except for the 1,427 counties of the Ming Dynasty, each county has a member of the name, and the other seats of the members are directly appointed by the state capitals, local celebrities, elected or directly appointed by the gods.

But.

Although the National Assembly is large in size and has legislative power and the power to remove the Prime Minister from the cabinet, it is not involved in day-to-day governance and judicial matters.

And there are only two regular meetings a year, summer and winter.

If there are special circumstances that require an additional session of the National Assembly, it can only be held if more than half of the nine cabinet elders vote, or if the Prime Minister directly initiates it.

Note: There is no restriction on the special will of the gods.

The cabinet used the name of the Ming Empire, but it was different from the era when the emperor ruled directly. The cabinet power of the new empire was more direct and centralized.

The nine elders represent the highest political power in the country.

In addition to the Speaker of the National Assembly, the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, and the Minister of Justice of the Ministry of Justice, each of the six ministries still has one seat for the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Households.

The final Ministry of Justice was a new department that was particularly independent and strengthened by the original Criminal Department.

Unlike the other "six ministries", which are still under the management of the Cabinet, the Ministry of Justice has been established as "independent personnel", "independent management", and "independent judiciary".

Except for laws re-enacted by the National Assembly, routine civil and court cases and trials are handled by the Ministry of Justice.

The Cabinet and other departments are not allowed to interfere.

At the same time, in order to ensure that the Ministry of Justice is not affected by the imperial court to the greatest extent, in addition to the daily operating expenses of the Ministry of Justice and the salaries of personnel at all levels, they have been raised by two levels, and they have the right to 'priority allocation'.

It avoided the embarrassment of being financially stuck by the imperial court.

But with high salaries inevitably control the number of people.

As a result, in addition to the post of 'National Attorney General', the Ministry of Justice has only seven 'Imperial Chancellors' appointed by the National Assembly for life, who are responsible for the final interpretation and adjudication of Imperial laws.

Below them are the 'state judges' of each state and the 'judges' of the counties.

The total number of people is only 300 more than the country's 1,427 counties.

Of course.

Because of the extremely high salaries, these judges can hire 'masters' or 'secretaries' at their own expense, but these people's expenses are borne by the judges, and they are not allowed to participate directly in the trial of legal cases, only the right to write reports.

Of course.

If there is only the Diet, the Cabinet and the Ministry of Justice, the whole country cannot function.

Therefore.

In addition to the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Police, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Medical Affairs, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Public Administration, the Ministry of Water Resources, and the Ministry of Culture, which had evolved from the original departments or were newly established or split, became the main departments of daily administration.