The 420th history reverses

Just when Wei Dongsheng was regretting, the inferior product suddenly brought a surprise tomorrow: the tenth reincarnation is a continuous rebirth, and the second life will still be experienced in the same world. That is to say, after the eighteen-day preparation period in the real world, Wei Dongsheng will come to the other world again in 1348 + 18 = 1366 to witness the evolution of the Xia Yuan Revolution after his death.

Unfortunately, there is also a new restriction on inferior products in the Tomorrow Ring: Wei Dongsheng is forbidden to use the first inheritance to take advantage of it.

The so-called first-generation heritage includes but is not limited to resources such as potential connections and invisible assets.

In short, the political and economic resources accumulated in the first life belong to the experience of the first life, and Wei Dongsheng cannot use the results of the first life to opportunistically reduce the difficulty of the second life. For example, Wei Dongsheng left a gold treasure in a certain place in his first life, and in his second life, he secretly took it out and became a rich man in an instant. For example, Wei Dongsheng was familiar with the personalities and court secrets of many civil and military generals, and if he used this private knowledge to his liking, he would definitely be able to rise in a short period of time. These opportunistic tricks are contrary to the purpose of the course of the tenth reincarnation, and Wei Dongsheng must be strictly disciplined.

The first life is the first life, and the second life is the second life.

Even with such and such limitations, the continuous experience of the same world has a different taste, at least Wei Dongsheng can appreciate what he did in the first life from a second perspective.

On the 18th, the preparation period passed in a hurry, and the second life experience slowly kicked off.

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The perspective returns to another world.

On August 8, 1348, Wei Hansheng (Wei Dongsheng) fell ill and died in Bianliang, and the strategic decisive battle of the Northern Expedition to Yuan Dadu came to naught.

The following month, Wei Antang, the eldest son of Wei Dong, rushed to the front line of Bianliang and ascended the throne as emperor with the support of a group of civil ministers and military generals; In the second month, Wei Anhao, the fourth son of Wei Dongsheng, ascended the throne in Java and proclaimed himself emperor, reprimanding Wei Antang for rebelling against the successor bill formulated by Wei Hansheng (Wei Dongsheng), and calling on people from all over the world to discuss it.

It is said that in order to avoid frequent military encounters among the heirs, Wei Dongsheng formulated a strict law on the succession to the throne in the form of ancestral training: there are virtuous and virtuous, and there are no virtuous heirs.

Wei Dongsheng and Yang Nian'an had four sons and five daughters, giving birth to a total of nine children. The Succession Act stipulates that the fourth son, Wei Anhao, will be ranked as the first heir on the grounds of "virtuous", and the eldest son, Wei Antang, will be ranked as the second heir, the second son will be ranked as the third heir, and the third son will be ranked as the fourth heir. If Wei Anhao's heir or eldest son on the grounds of "virtuous" is over 24 years old at the time of his death, Wei Anhao's heir will bypass Wei Antang and obtain the status of the first heir of Wei Dongsheng's estate; If Wei Anhao's heirs were under the age of twenty-four at the time of his death, the eldest son, Wei Antang, would override Wei Anhao's heirs and become the first heir to Wei Dongsheng's estate.

The Successor Act considers all sorts of contingencies, and the provisions are quite cumbersome, so there is no need to go into detail here.

In short, the fourth son, Wei Anhao, is the heir that Wei Dongsheng truly recognizes.

When Wei Dongsheng made a northern expedition to the Central Plains, he ordered Wei Anhao to supervise the Nanyang Islands as the crown prince, and his rule in the Nanyang was quite stable. However, perhaps because of the increasing contradictions between the local heroes of the Central Plains and the remnants of the Southern Song Dynasty in Nanyang, the front-line civil and military generals were shocked to ignore the successor bill formulated by Wei Dongsheng, as if Zhao Kuangyin and Chen Qiao mutinied, and supported the eldest son Wei Antang as the second emperor of the Wei Xia Dynasty. As a result, the Wei Xia Dynasty was suddenly divided into two major plates, the mainland faction represented by the Central Plains courtiers and generals declared their allegiance to Wei Antang, and the maritime faction represented by the Nanyang Wenchen generals declared their allegiance to Wei Anhao, which is known as the Wei Xia Succession War.

From 1348 to 1355, the mainland faction won successive victories, and even successfully uprooted the Ryukyu Advance Military Base, which Wei Dongsheng had spent more than ten years building. And Wei Anhao, the theoretical orthodox heir of the Wei Xia Dynasty, could only retreat to the Nanyang Islands and rely on the ocean moat to stop Wei Anhao's pursuit.

During this period, Wei Antang died in 1350 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Wei Xiuwen, as the third emperor of the Wei Xia dynasty. Because the mainland faction represents the collective interests of the local civil and military generals in the Central Plains, the inheritance from Wei Antang to Wei Xiuwen is not turbulent, and even because of Wei Xiuwen's weak character, these civil and military generals are often able to act more conveniently.

In 1355, the War of the Succession came to an abrupt turning point.

However, after seven years of recuperation, the remnants of the Mengyuan forces broke through the Yellow River defense line of Wei Xia, and the two provinces of Henan and Shandong fell one after another. After the rout of the Yellow River defense line, the people were boiling, accusing Wei Anhao and Wei Xiuwen's uncle and nephew of ignoring the last orders of the first emperor and only caring about fighting for power and profit. And because Wei Anhao was the legitimate heir who was truly recognized by Wei Dongsheng, Wei Xiuwen and the senior officials of the mainland faction were facing heavy pressure from public opinion, and thousands of grassroots soldiers were war-weary, and they were unwilling to continue to fight Wei Anhao despite the fall of Henan and Shandong.

Fortunately, the loss of the Yellow River defense line did not destroy the Wei Xia regime.

Since Wei Dongsheng went to the Central Plains, disasters have occurred frequently in China, especially in Henan. The mainland faction and the maritime faction were busy with the war of succession to the throne, and would rather put their limited supplies into the battle to capture the Ryukyus than urgently rescue the refugees in Henan and Shandong. After the fall of the Yellow River defense line, Meng Yuan naturally refused to embezzle military funds for disaster relief, and the economic crisis and military crisis led to the two provinces of Henan and Shandong being full of hungry people and thieves in an instant, which effectively delayed the further southern invasion of Meng Yuan.

However, how did Wei Anhao care about the fall of the Yellow River defense line?

At the moment when the Central Plains may be repeating the danger of Shenzhou's land sinking, Wei Anhao resolutely "the relatives are painful, and the enemies are fast", and led the elite naval army to raid the coastal provinces. In 1357, Wei Anhao thwarted Wei Xiuwen's counterattack in Ningbo Prefecture and effectively ruled Liangguang, Fujian, and parts of Zhejiang.

At the same time, Wei Xiuwen made a fatal mistake.

Wei Xiuwen hated the two major stains of the loss of the Yellow River defense line and the fiasco of Ningbo Mansion, and believed that the reason why he dominated half of Thailand and China but could not help the little Wei Anhao was because the military generals of Wenchen were almost warlords, and they regarded the War of Succession as an opportunity to grow stronger, and they were not willing to sincerely help Wei Xiuwen completely defeat Wei Anhao. In order to improve administrative efficiency and unite the military power in various places, Wei Xiuwen, at the suggestion of his close ministers, decided to strengthen the centralization of power, or directly or indirectly depose the warlords with real power in various places.

In the face of Wei Xiuwen's arbitrary and independent policy of cutting the feudal domain, the real power generals almost immediately switched to Wei Anhao.

Unlike Wei Xiuwen's assumption of centralization, Wei Anhao knew that the warlords in various places had grown in the War of Succession, and the difficulty of gradually defeating the warlords in various places was simply higher than Wei Dongsheng's expulsion of the Tartars. In the absence of the power to exterminate the warlords in various places and centralize power, Wei Anhao will not only find it difficult to realize his dream for the rest of his life, but the Wei Xia Dynasty will also collapse and disintegrate rapidly.

After several months of deliberation, Wei Anhao resolutely joined forces with the warlords in Hangzhou and signed the famous "Covenant of Honoring the King".

The Hangzhou Covenant stipulates:

Article 1: Emperor Gaozu (Wei Dongsheng) ancestral precepts are sacred and inviolable, and all titles of succession must comply with the Successor Act, and the false titles of the puppet emperor Wei Antang and the puppet emperor Wei Xiuwen are removed.

Article 2: Stop all civil wars, work together to expel Meng Yuan, and realize Emperor Gaozu's expulsion of the Tartars.

Article 3: The ancestral training is sacred, the title is sacred, and the emperor has no right to depose all titles unless the vassal really rebels.

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Wait a minute.

The Hangzhou Covenant was undoubtedly a historical regression, and the concept of centralization and unification, which had been developing continuously since the Tang and Song dynasties, was ruthlessly trampled on by Wei Anhao, and the Wei Xia Dynasty suddenly became similar to the Ji and Zhou royal families of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, or the Liu Han Dynasty before the Tui En Ling.

The Great Unification regressed to the sub-feudal system.

In 1358, Wei Anhao triumphantly marched into Nanzhili, abolished the false titles of Wei Antang and Wei Xiuwen's father and son, and became the only and true second emperor of the Wei Xia Dynasty. In order to restrain Wei Anhao, the real power soldiers did not allow Wei Anhao to kill Wei Anhao and the Tang dynasty in the name of respecting the king and the alliance. Wei Anhao compromised with the real power generals, but was afraid that Wei Xiuwen would become the benchmark banner of the real power generals against him, so he simply moved Wei Xiuwen to the real world of Sumatra, taking the name of the "Three Buddhas Kingdom" and named Wei Xiuwen as the "King of Buddhas".

Subsequently, Wei Anhao used the strategy of driving tigers and wolves, releasing a small number of duke bait to lure the powerful soldiers to crusade against Meng Yuan.

Maybe it's the deliberate interference of the inferior Tomorrow Ring, or maybe it's the resurgence of the general trend of history, Wei Dongsheng saw many famous people in the real world.

Taking Ming Taizu Zhu Chongba as an example, he was shocked to become one of the powerful generals of the Wei Xia Dynasty, and united Xu Da, Chang Yuchun and other township parties. After Wei Anhao moved Wei Xiuwen, Zhu Chongba held high the banner of respecting the king and was ordered to go on the Northern Expedition, during which he made great achievements, and was cited by Wei Anhao as a foreign aid with a different surname because of his low-key personality. In 1361, Zhu Chongba defeated Goryeo, and Jin Jue became the Duke of Goryeo. Zhu Chongba disliked the name of Goryeo and wanted to change the name of Goryeo to Korea. Based on certain considerations, Wei Anhao vetoed Zhu Chongba's request for Joseon, and instead took the name of Lelang County during the Han Dynasty and changed it to the Duke of Goryeo to the Duke of Lelang.

Another example is Ming Yuzhen, who also held high the banner of respecting the king and led the army into Sichuan. Ming Yuzhen won Sichuan, and immediately took Sichuan as a foundation business, during which instead of cooperating with the Wei Xia Dynasty's crusade against the Mengyuan national policy, he secretly communicated with some Mengyuan forces. Wei Anhao did not hesitate to regard Ming Yuzhen as a typical example, and induced other powerful soldiers to enter Sichuan, and Ming Yuzhen was defeated and retreated. Ming Yuzhen has been respectful to the imperial court since then, and Wei Anhao simply gave Yunnan to Ming Yuzhen in order to curb other foreign surnames. Ming Yuzhen immediately took the surname as her name and called Ming Guogong.

For example, Chen Youliang, Wei Anhao relied on him to subdue Ming Yuzhen. Although he was reluctant, Wei Anhao had no choice but to seal Sichuan to the seemingly respectful Chen Youliang. Chen Youliang immediately took Han as his clan and was called the Duke of Han.

Another example is Mao Gui, a well-known Red Turban Army general in the real world, who was also ordered to march north with the banner of King Zhengyi, and successfully destroyed the capital of Mengyuan. Wei Anhao divided the Inner Mongolia region in the real world to Mao Gui according to local conditions. Mao Guiyan never forgot the grace of Emperor Gaozu and Wei Anhao from generation to generation, so he took Wei as his clan and called Wei Guogong.

Another example is Li Siqi, who was loyal to Chakhan Timur in real-world history, and also served Meng Yuan in this world to resist Wei Xia's soldiers. However, Li Siqi knew the situation best, and when he saw that the pattern of the Wei Xia Dynasty sweeping the world had been decided, he immediately sent an envoy to Xia. Wei Anhao considered that Gansu was already beyond his reach, and even if he sent troops to defeat Li Siqi, he would have to divide Gansu and other places to other powerful generals, so he simply accepted Li Siqi leniently. Li Siqi claimed to be a descendant of Li Tang, with Tang as his clan, and was called Tang Guogong.