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Chapter 179: China Produces Emperors This Year (5)

Nanzhili, Haizhou Mansion, Huaguo Mountain (also known as Yuntai Mountain)

A verdant mountain with strange rocks, facing the surging waves day and night, stands proudly in the middle of the sea!

This is Wu Chengen's "Journey to the West", the immortal mountain in the sea that hatched the stone monkey Monkey King! Huaguo Mountain!

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Huaguo Mountain in Haizhou was not like modern times, because of long-term sediment accumulation, the coastline expanded, and finally gradually connected with the six places in the west, but it was still an island standing in the sea as described in "Journey to the West", separated from Haizhou by a vast ocean.

As described in "Journey to the West", the terrain of Huaguo Mountain is rugged and the mountains are continuous, and even if there is only a little flat land, most of it is mainly saline-alkali land and sandy land, which cannot be cultivated. So apart from a few fishermen and one or two extremely dilapidated Taoist temples, there are hardly any people. Although because of the wide spread of "Journey to the West", this once unknown Huaguo Mountain has gained some popularity in China at this time, but after all, the tourism industry of the Ming Dynasty cannot be compared with modern times, and the chaotic times at the end of the Ming Dynasty are even more suitable for sightseeing, so Huaguo Mountain in the Chongzhen period is still desolate.

However, for the Traverser Group, which uses the Sea Fleet as the global mobile force, this island is an excellent base for advancement. It can penetrate and influence the entire East China Coastal Plain, and retreat only requires a small number of ships and 6 warbands to ensure the safety of the entire island. The towering cliffs on the island can also be used to set up navigation lighthouses and guard posts, although the island itself is not abundant, but the most critical fresh water for the navy is quite abundant, Huaguo Mountain is full of gurgling streams and springs, and the "Water Curtain Cave" described in "Journey to the West" is not made up.

Therefore, long before Wang Qiu and the others entered this time and space, the Lingao Crossing Group, whose base camp was located on Hainan Island, sent Lu Wenyuan, who was in charge of intelligence work in the north, to purchase a manor on the island of Huaguoshan, called "Monkey King Village", as an intelligence station and a transit station for commodity sales. If the time is ripe, it can also be transformed into a springboard for the northern strategy, similar to Hong Kong Island and Zhoushan during the Opium War.

However, with the chaotic entry of the Chinese government in the modern world, and the emergence of the "Global Chinese Traveler Alliance" in this time and space, the strategic plan of the Hainan Island Crossing Group has been completely disrupted. Due to the Huameng's successful incorporation of Chen Xinshuai, who was entrenched in the entire Shandong Peninsula, and his Dengzhou Zhenjun, which had a more ideal springboard for the peninsula, Huaguoshan, the island base, naturally lost its value and remained idle for a long time.

Next, on the Huaibei Plain on the other side of Huaguo Mountain, the Ming Dynasty official army Wenxiang Sect rebel army and the Manchu Eight Banners killed each other, and staged a wonderful drama of "praying mantis catching cicadas, yellow finches behind". After a fierce battle, the Manchu Eight Banners became the final victor, and Wang Ke, the once arrogant leader of the Wenxiang Sect, was defeated and captured, and the two Huai and more than 20 counties that were originally entrenched by the Wenxiang Sect also became the trophies of the Qing army.

However, there were also a small number of Wenxiang sect members who refused to take refuge in the Manchu Tartars, but supported the young daughter of the former sect leader Xu Hongru, Xu Xin'er, and managed to hug the thighs of the traversers, and then gathered thousands of remnants who refused to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, continued to defend Haizhou, and received a small amount of arms assistance from the Huameng.

However, after all, these remnants of the Smelling Fragrance Sect are weak, and they are among the rabble, and they also lack a foundation in Haizhou, even if it is only a few tentative sneak attacks by a small group of Eight Banner soldiers, they have beaten the Smelling Fragrance Sect in Haizhou to the left. In addition, the local gentry in Haizhou also continued to raise troops to rebel, so that the remnants of the incense sect who came to their homes even lost the vital Haizhou Port for a time.

Fortunately, the Qing army quickly shifted the focus of the attack to Jiangnan and did not invest too much energy in Haizhou, so these incense-smelling sectarians who were like waste wood on the battlefield finally got a chance to survive. But in the face of such a crisis, which is like a candle in the wind, all the incense masters felt that there was no safe place on the big 6, so they sent the "holy aunt" Xu Xin'er to the Monkey King Village in Huaguo Mountain, praying for the protection of the "thief".

Anyway, this is just a Lori's "holy aunt", in the end, it's just a symbolic flag, and no one will take her will seriously. On the contrary, if Xu Xin'er is handed over to the "short-haired uncles" as hostages, it will allow them to fool the down-and-out people into more assistance.

Besides, if they really can't stand on the big 6, they can escape to Huaguo Mountain together and eat with Shenggu.

After studying the situation, the authorities of the Huameng League felt that it was a matter of course to accept the refuge of such a "political ally."

So, the "Holy Aunt" Xu Xin'er stayed in the Monkey King Village in Huaguo Mountain, accepted the hospitality of the island owner Lu Wenyuan, and arranged for the teacher to teach her.

Next, with a series of changes in the south of the Yangtze River, as well as the internal strife of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, the external military pressure of the remnants of the Wenxiang Sect in Haizhou was greatly reduced, and they were able to temporarily watch the fire from the other side under the protection of the "Ao-Song Dynasty". After enjoying a peaceful life like this, these guys all gave up their thoughts of fighting for hegemony in the world, and only thought about continuing to occupy the mountains as kings in Haizhou, and live happily one day at a time.

Although these remnants of the Wenxiang Sect are very mixed with the streets, and they can't even occupy the entire territory of Haizhou, for example, Muyang County, which is close to the inner 6, was taken away by the Qing soldiers, but with the help of the traverser fleet, they barely held such a small piece of territory as Haizhou City and Ganyu County by the sea, and the acres of land are generally saline and barren, and the crops are very small, but it has the largest salt field in the Ming Dynasty at that time, and the Wenxiang Sect can rely on selling salt to obtain huge profits. In addition, by helping the traverser recruit Huaibei refugees, transfer them to the sea at Haizhou port, and take a profit from the labor fees, the people of Haizhou have a very nourishing life.

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However, the small days of the Haizhou Wenxiang Sect suddenly encountered a big crisis in the spring of this year!

Their sect leader, Wang Ke, actually managed to escape from the cage of the Jurchen Tartars, returned to the old nest of the Wenxiang Sect in the north and made a comeback, setting off a lot of momentum in one breath, not only ascending the throne again, but also laying down the territory of nearly 100 counties in Hebei, and establishing the "Mahayana Kingdom" for 800 miles in a decent manner!

Originally, this incident of being born in the north had little to do with these remnants of the Smelling Fragrance Sect in Haizhou. After all, between the city of Haizhou where they were staying and the "Mahayana Kingdom" established by Sect Master Wang Ke in Hebei, there was also an entire Shandong Province, plus a "Dajin Kingdom" of Dolgon, which could be called incompatible. But the problem is that the greed of the human heart is always endless, after the establishment of the "Mahayana State" in Hebei, Wang Ke Sect Leader naturally remembered the old department of the Wenxiang Sect scattered in Lianghuai, and actually sent people to the south to recruit, wanting to dig up the corner of the Great Qing Kingdom, the Dajin Kingdom and the Haizhou "Holy Aunt". And there are really some people in Haizhou who are confused by Wang Ke's identity as the sect leader and the honorific title of "Emperor of the Mahayana Kingdom", which leads to a commotion within this small group.

In this regard, several incense masters and Dharma protectors who have set up their own doors in Haizhou are all very worried. After breaking up for so long, of course they didn't want to listen to the orders of the sect leader thousands of miles away, and the Wang Ke sect leader, who was not very broad-minded, might not be able to tolerate them as anti-bones.

But the problem is that for the Wenxiang Sect, Wang Ke is equivalent to the status of the Pope of Rome among Catholics, and with this "Holy Aunt" in Haizhou, he is really not qualified to fight with him, not to mention that Wang Ke now has the bonus of the title of emperor...... Although all the more rational and powerful people will not take this kind of reckless title seriously, but there are still many ignorant and foolish people in this world.

At this moment, these guys suddenly heard that Zu Dashou, the king of Jin who was entrenched in Youyan and Shanxi, actually got the tacit approval of the "Australian thief" and openly sacrificed to the sky and called the emperor. As long as Xu Xin'er is also the emperor, then both sides are empires, and it seems that she is not afraid of the "Mahayana Kingdom" sending people over to bewitch and "pull sheep"! Of course, in order to reassure Huameng, Xu Xin'er, who has become a female emperor, can continue to live in Huaguo Mountain and never talk nonsense.

As a result, they really put forward this idea and request to the Huameng side through the owner of Luwenyuan Island in Huaguo Mountain Monkey King Village.

When the Huameng received this news, it was indeed initially scorched by thunder, but after thinking about it carefully, it had a new idea, after all, as the world hegemon destined to conquer the earth in the future, with the continuous development of the Huameng's power, there will definitely be many vassal countries of all kinds in the future, and how to deal with the relationship with these vassal forces is obviously also a topic that tests the ability of the Huameng rulers. Anyway, such a thing will definitely happen, so it seems that it is not bad to simply take advantage of this opportunity to get an emperor out to practice first.

Although it is a bit strange to ask an "empire" to recognize a republic as its suzerain......

And it feels even stranger to let a little Lori be the emperor in Huaguo Mountain, are you sure this is not a female monkey who wants to be a Monkey King?

In short, Huameng readily agreed to the strange request of the Haizhou Wenxiang Sect to let the "Holy Aunt" Xu Xin'er ascend the throne and become the emperor, and single-handedly undertook the entire emperor ceremony. Even the president of the country heard about it and was so amused that he even wrote a canonized document in his private capacity.

Next, a noisy and lively ceremony of enthronement and proclamation of the emperor was organized in Huaguo Mountain, the hometown of Sun Wukong......

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ps: I was invited to dinner by my relatives today, and I came back very late, just to get out of this point, let's come out first.