467th IX: Republic of Penglai

The logistics were cut off and faced with encirclement and interception, and the 910,000 coalition troops led by the original governor of Fudao fell into a desperate situation in an instant. However, after all, the original recovery road is the original recovery road, and in the face of the fatal crisis of the four bread sandwiches, the original recovery road can still fiercely tear apart the land encirclement network of the Zhao domain and the Lu domain with his bare hands, and the frightened Zhao domain king fled overseas in embarrassment.

Despite the victorious retreat, the loss of Yuan Fudao was undoubted, and its 910,000 coalition troops finally returned only 70,000 unharmed, and the former elite was scattered. Smelling the smell of blood in the original resumption of the Dao, the forces that surrendered or feared the original resumption of the road in previous years turned their faces one after another, except for the three kingdoms of the Zhao Domain, the Lu Domain, and the Yan Domain, the Ming Domain declared war on the original Restoration Dao, the Han Domain declared war on the Restoration Dao, the Tang Domain declared war on the Restoration Dao, and the Zhou Domain declared war on the Restoration Dao, and in an instant there was hatred everywhere.

Although Yuan Fudao won several partial victories in a row, the Grand Alliance relied on abundant human resources to gradually gain an overall advantage.

In 1760, the Emperor rebelled against the alliance and invaded Kyoto, and Hara Fudo was forced to surrender.

In 1761, the Great Alliance forced Wei Qinxi, the 17th emperor of the Wei Xia Dynasty, to sign a peace treaty with the Imperial Cabinet, which was not controlled by Wei Qinxi, and the imperial territory was restored to its pre-June Revolution size. The passionate progress of the Zhuxia Republic and the hard work of the original recovery path were cleared together in an instant.

The only change was that the emperor completely became the mascot of the hypocrite monarch, and the cabinet began to fully dominate the four provinces of the Xia Kingdom.

In 1764, Wei Dong fell ill and died at the age of 69.

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Then, there was the ninth.

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From 1764 to 1782, when Wei Dongsheng left, the Penglai colony was in turmoil.

The war of rebellion against the emperor ended, and the feudal lords and cabinet ministers who had fled overseas returned to the old Kyushu one after another. However, the republican trend of thought in the Zhuxia Republic, the hidden nail planted by the original restoration to sweep away the old Kyushu, and the ideological enlightenment on the eve of the industrial revolution all seriously intensified the domestic contradictions of the old Kyushu feudal states. In wartime, the system prevails over everything else, and these hidden dangers give way to contradictions between the enemy and us. With the advent of peace, various unstable factors began to challenge the cabinets of the feudal domains, and the feudal states did not have enough finances and enough troops to suppress the Penglai colony.

At the same time, the vested interests of the colonies that had grown up during the war of rebellion were no longer willing to be driven by the old Kyushu cabinet, and they demanded the establishment of an independent republic through armed struggle and diplomatic negotiations.

In 1766, the Vietnamese colony of Penglai fell apart, and the real-world Mexican region established the Republic of Penglai; In the real world, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and other places established the Eastern Wilderness Republic; In the real world of the United States, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Texas, Oklahoma, and other states formed the Republic of Tokatsu. A few years later, the Republic of Tokatsu and its neighbors demarcated their borders and incorporated Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, New Mexico, and other sparsely populated areas.

In the same year, the Vietnamese colony of Penglai fell apart, and the Republic of Southern Penglai was established in Peru, Bolivia, Chile and other places in the real world; In the real world, Ecuador, Colombia and other places established the Martial Father Republic.

In the same year, the Tonghai Governorate collapsed and the Tonghai Republic was established.

In the same year, the colony of Nanpenglai collapsed, and the real-world Venezuela and other places established the New Zhejiang Republic.

In the same year, the summer Penglai South Penglai Festival collapsed, and the real-world Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana and other places established the Water Township Republic.

In 1767, the colony of Penglai collapsed, and the Republic of the Western Continent was established in Brazil and other places in the real world.

In the same year, the colony of Wu in North Penglai collapsed, and the Republic of New Wu was established in places such as eastern Canada and the northeastern United States. After demarcating its borders with the territories, the territory of the Republic of Neuochow covers the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Nunavut and the United States states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Formont.

In 1769, the Penglai colony of Lu Fan completely collapsed, and the Republic of Haiqi was established in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and other places in the real world. In the real world, the provinces of Yukon, Northwest Territories, British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan in Canada, and Alaska, Washington, Montana, Oregon, Iowa, Wyoming, California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and other states in the United States established the Kingdom of Kinley; In the real world, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and other places formed the Republic of Hailu.

So far, in just a few years, there have been 14 republics in Penglai Colony, including the Northern Penglai Republic, the Central Penglai Republic, the Eastern Wilderness Republic, the Dongsheng Republic, the Southern Penglai Republic, the Wufu Republic, the Tonghai Republic, the New Zhejiang Republic, the Water Township Republic, the Xilu Republic, the Xinwu Republic, the Haiqi Republic, the Jinlai Republic, and the Hailu Republic.

In terms of area, the Western Continent Republic ranked first and the Jinlai Republic ranked second, and the territory is only slightly inferior to the real-world Huaguo, which is very scary at first glance. However, in terms of population size, the sense of existence of these republics is suddenly very thin, and the Western Continent Republic, which ranks first in terms of population, has only 6.12 million Zhuxia descendants, the Central Penglai Republic, which ranks second, has about 3.75 million Zhuxia descendants, and the Northern Penglai Republic, which ranks third, has about 2.61 million Zhuxia descendants.

On the other hand, in the old Kyushu, the Lu domain alone had a population of 50.8 million.

Although the 14th Republic of Penglai gained independence by virtue of its favorable time and location, they were limited by the size of their population and were destined to be unable to influence the world situation in the short term.

All of the above are the general trend of history.

The camera moves to Wei Dongsheng's small perspective.

During the eighth life, the identity background was unexpectedly lowered to the eighth level.

Wei Dongsheng's nominal father in this life is just a small employee of an ordinary enterprise. The typical difference between the eighth nominal father and the seventh nominal father is that the seventh nominal father has a bright future and can afford to send his children to expensive high-end private schools if he is frugal; The titular father of the eighth generation was just a typical small citizen with shy pockets, who could afford to support his children's education, but he could never afford the tuition and miscellaneous fees of high-end private education.

Of course, these thresholds can't stop Wei Dongsheng.

As long as he has the talent for exam-oriented education, Wei Dongsheng can easily change his identity by taking the fast track of Guozijian to repeat his studies for a year.

Therefore, let's not talk about the management of the 8th generation.

During the training of the ninth generation, Wei Dongsheng's identity background was lowered to the ninth class.

Wei Dongsheng's nominal father in this life, whose occupation is a coolie with a lower status, relies on physical fitness to support his family; The titular mother is a female textile factory worker, who works hard to earn overtime pay. The nominal father and the nominal mother died in 1781, leaving Wei Dongsheng with a total inheritance of 52.25 yuan (Lu Yuan), no house, no fixed assets such as fields.

How much purchasing power is 52.25 yuan?

According to Wei Dongsheng's rough statistics, the per capita GDP of Lu Fan is about 209 yuan.

A simple horizontal comparison of the real world, assuming that China's per capita GDP in 2016 was 53,817 yuan, and the 52.25 yuan inheritance left by Wei Dongsheng's nominal father was equivalent to about 13,454 yuan. Think about what you can do with the 13,454 yuan in the real world, and you can understand how shabby the inheritance left by the titular father to Wei Dongsheng.

Of course, Wei Dongsheng doesn't care about how much money is in the inheritance.

With Wei Dongsheng's business experience, as long as this world is still a normal society, he will definitely not starve to death.

Compared with the amount of inheritance, Wei Dongsheng cares more about the reform of the Guozijian system.

Since the spread of republican ideology, the cabinet has become the mainstream political system. Taking the Lu clan and the imperial family as an example, now there are revolutionary calls, and the old-fashioned faction, the non-action faction, the republican faction, the classless faction, etc., all point the finger at the cabinet prime minister rather than the mascot-like royal family or royal family. Taking the Lu Cabinet as an example, the current political pattern is that the conservative faction and the Wuwei faction love and kill each other, and the Wuwei faction advocates the rule of Taoism by doing nothing; The conservative faction is the traditional cabinet faction, but now that the cabinet system is perfect, it is inappropriate to call it the cabinet faction, and it has been criticized by other factions as the stubborn "old party".

Cabinet ministers originated from the election of cabinet members, and as the cabinet system became more and more popular among the people, the system of group discussion and election was also institutionalized and expanded. With the spread of the terrifying speed of the mass election system, the traditional bureaucratic system has gradually collapsed since the Qin and Han dynasties, and the group election bureaucracy has slowly become the mainstream. Soon after, the mass election system escaped to the people, and the scholars began to call for the expansion of the scope of election, so that the people also had the power to supervise the bureaucracy. Before you know it, the cabinet election system has gradually evolved into a well-known electoral culture in the real world.

In 1775, in order to win the cabinet election, the Wuwei faction sensationally raised the issue of reforming the election system by the group election. After the ruling cabinet of the Wuwei faction fulfilled its promise, it immediately carried out drastic reforms, greatly lowering the threshold for group deliberation qualifications, resulting in a sharp increase in the number of voters who are eligible for mass deliberation to 1.35 million.

And that's probably a good thing.

However, the Guozijian system collapsed.

Just think about it, since the election of officials by the group has become the mainstream, what kind of national prison is the country doing!

After the cabinet suspended the privileges of the Guozijian superintendent, the sub-eunuch of the Lu Dynasty became more and more decadent, and was immediately reorganized into the Luxia superintendent. The inmates of the Guozi prison have no political privileges, and the inmates of other invigilators naturally have no political privileges at all, and all the prison graduates are forced to find another way. At the same time, Weihe College and Heshu Institute of Technology, which did not rely on political privileges at the beginning, suddenly stood out from the crowd, and their prestige quickly surpassed that of a group of national supervisors, monopolizing the first and second places in the university rankings.

In 1782, Weihe College was known as the first college in Zhuxia.

It's a pity that the first honor of Zhuxia in Weihe Academy is just a lame general. The social status of Weihe College is similar to that of well-known universities in the real world, and the honor bonus of outstanding graduates is very limited, and it is difficult for students to rely on a diploma to break through the shackles of class.

Compared with the real world, in terms of the scope of China, the graduates of Weihe College are the undergraduate graduates of Yenching University or Tsinghua University, although they have a certain social status, but they do not want to be on an equal footing with the fifth class or even the fourth class; In the world, the graduates of Weihe College are only equivalent to the undergraduate graduates of Harvard University, Stanford University, Cambridge University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other universities, and they are far less valuable than Guozi Jian students.