481st Republic

Mao Jiuzhong did not compromise.

As soon as Mao Shangde made a move, Mao Jiuzhong quickly led more than 100 elite horsemen back to the capital of Wei. Although Mao Jiuzhong only had a few hundred horsemen, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty of Wei surrendered, obediently deposed Wei Shangde, and supported Mao Jiuzhong as the fourteenth prince of Wei. As a result, Mao Jiuzhong reunited the hearts of the Wei people in the form of Duke Shengmeng and Duke of Wei Domain.

The vassal states of the Central Plains were immediately in an uproar, and immediately gathered the anti-Wei allied forces as quickly as possible.

In order to avoid Wei from falling into the quagmire of war, Mao Jiuzhong quickly used diplomacy to ease the hostility of the Central Plains vassal states, and took the initiative to abdicate to his third son Mao Shanghe in less than half a year after ascending to the Duke of Wei Domain. But Mao Jiuzhong was obviously unwilling to divide the two countries, and immediately asked the steppe tribes to elect him as the Great Khan. The steppe tribes rejoiced and put forward the honorific titles of Bogda, Chechen Khan, Tengrigugechi Khan and so on in the Mongolian language. Mao Jiuzhong considered it for several months, but abandoned the name of Khan in the Mongolian language and called himself Tian Khan in the precedent of the Li Tang Dynasty.

In this way, Mao Jiuzhong was equivalent to establishing a new political system different from the Wei Xia Empire, and ruled all the steppe tribes in the name of Tian Khan. With the new authority of the Tian Khan, even if the Duke of Shengmeng and the Duke of Wei could not unify the administration, they could still unite under the banner of the Tian Khan.

Such a small trick can't fool the Central Plains vassal states.

Differences must still be resolved by force.

From 1606 to 1608, Mao Jiuzhong fought a series of fierce battles with the anti-Wei allies, and the smoke of gunfire filled the whole of northern China. Mao Jiuzhong is worthy of being Mao Jiuzhong, and he continued to maintain the prestige of a hundred victories in a hundred battles for three years, and the anti-Wei allied army fought was miserable. Taking Lu Guo, one of the core leaders of the anti-Wei alliance, as an example, Mao Jiuzhong first broke into the territory of Henan Province to encourage Henan Province to secede from Lu State, and drove the rebel army of Henan Province to attack Lu State itself; When the Lu State was in chaos, Mao Jiuzhong suddenly led the army to break through the defense system of the Lu State, instigated some nobles to restrict the royal power, and successfully induced a new round of Lu civil war.

It's a pity that Mao Jiuzhong's opponent is not only Lu Guo.

Reinforcements from the royal family, Chu State, Han State, Wu State and other vassal states continued to go to the front line of the battlefield. Especially the royal family, the Wei clan knew that if the Wei State became bigger, the Wei Xia Dynasty would inevitably come to an end, and they all regarded the anti-Wei war as a cruel struggle to the death.

In 1594, Wei Daoya was assassinated and died, and was succeeded by his clan relative Emperor Wei Shun, who was the fourteenth emperor of the Wei Xia Dynasty.

Completely different from the mediocre and inactive three brothers Wei Daodan, Wei Daoqi, Wei Daoya, etc., after Emperor Wei Shun succeeded to the throne, he not only overthrew his relatives who had monopolized the government for more than 30 years with clever tricks, but also established friendly relations with the domestic aristocratic family forces, and was called the virtuous emperor at that time. Internally, Emperor Wei Shun actively persuaded the aristocratic families to curb the Wei dynasty and warn them that they would not benefit at all if they connived at Mao Jiuzhong's seizure of the world; Externally, Emperor Wei Shun actively contacted the vassal states and called on "the relatives of the Wei family to fight against Mao Rebellion".

Under the leadership of Emperor Wei Shun, one army after another went to the front line, and if I defeat you, don't think about living and besieging Mao Jiuzhong. In the face of Emperor Wei Shun's undying encirclement network, the shortcomings of Wei's population size became clearer and clearer. By 1608, the anti-Wei allies had been defeated repeatedly to the point that the army was demoralized, and desertion had become the norm; The young and strong people of the Wei State also died in three or four percent of the battles, almost every family wore linen and filial piety, and the war-weariness of the people was even greater than that of the anti-Wei allied army.

Since neither side could defeat the other, peace talks became the only option.

After more than ten months of interest negotiations, Mao Jiuzhong and Emperor Wei Shun signed the Jinan Covenant, which symbolized the new order of Kyushu, in Jinan Mansion of Lu State.

The Covenant of Jinan stipulated that the imperial family and the vassals recognized the legitimacy of the alliance between Wei Yan and Liaodong and the alliance of Jizhou of Wei and Zhao, and the four prefectures of Liaoxi and Youzhou became the inherent territory of Wei. Mao Jiuzhong promised to retreat to the Shengmeng domain and never set foot in the territory of the Wei domain for the rest of his life, otherwise the royal family and the feudal domains would immediately form a third anti-Wei alliance.

In addition to the focus of Wei, the Jinan Covenant also settled the disputes of other vassal states. For example, in the decades-long Vietnam-Wu War, the imperial family and the vassal domains, including the Wei state, forced the Yue and Wu states to end the war completely, and the royal family and the Wu state continued to protect the independence of the country. This meant that the alliance between Vietnam and Wei was dissolved, and Wei Guo regained its status as a vassal state with independent diplomatic powers.

The Yue State wanted to oppose but had no way, and the royal army or the Wu army tempered by the two anti-Wei wars, although they were repeatedly defeated in front of Mao Jiuzhong, could easily beat the alliance between the two countries. The Yue country, which set off the Age of Discovery, has fallen behind unconsciously.

After the independence of the country, the momentum of the Yue country withered even more, and it no longer regained the glory of the era of the phalanx of the Vietnamese warriors.

The camera turned to Mao Jiuzhong again.

Perhaps Mao Jiuzhong was born to belong to war, and the first thing he did when he returned to the Shengmeng domain was to declare war on the Ottoman Empire. The undefeated Mao Jiuzhong naturally defeated the Ottoman Empire once again and forced the Ottoman Empire to cede the South Caucasus to him.

As soon as he beat the Ottoman Empire, Mao Jiuzhong led his army to kill the Russian Empire.

Speaking of the Russian Empire, at this time it was in a period of famous chaos.

After the first Russian Tsar Ivan IV was killed by the cane, the only heir to the bloodline was his mentally handicapped son Fyodor Ivanovich. Fyodor died childless, and the Rurik dynasty became extinct. From the very beginning of Fyodor's succession to the throne, the Regency Council waged a fierce struggle, and when the Rurik dynasty became extinct, Boris Godunov, a Tatar nobleman who had fallen and became emperor, calmly ascended the throne through the Council of the Gentry. Unfortunately, Godunov's position was not stable. After the fall of Godunov, Pseudo-Dimitri came to Moscow with the support of the aristocracy.

In 1605, Shuisky took advantage of the chaos to kill the pseudo-Dimitri in Moscow, and was immediately elected Tsar of Russia by his supporters.

In 1607, the Polish-Lithuanian United Kingdom declared that Pseudo-Dimitri was not dead and sent troops to assist him in returning to Moscow to restore the throne. After three years of chaotic fighting, Shuisky reluctantly announced his abdication, Moscow surrendered, and Polish troops occupied the Kremlin. The Provisional Government of the Seven Nobles of Russia and the Polish Army agreed that Russia would allow Vladislav, the son of King Sigmund III of the United Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania, to come to Russia as Tsar. However, due to religious conflicts and other contradictions, many areas not occupied by Poland refused to recognize the contract signed between the Provisional Government of the Seven Nobility and the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, and spontaneously formed militias to resist the Polish invaders.

This is the most chaotic period in Russia.

Russia is divided internally, and all kinds of powerful people are coming from outside. With the intervention forces of the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania in the east, the Crimean Khanate in the south taking the opportunity to occupy Ryazan, and Sweden in the north to capture Novgorod, there is hardly a peaceful place in Russia.

As early as when Godunov was in power in the Russian Empire, Mao Jiuzhong wanted to solve the Russian Empire once and for all. However, the change of Wei State delayed him for four or five years, and now Mao Jiuzhong was forced to retreat to the Shengmeng Domain, and vowed not to return to the Wei Domain for the rest of his life, so he simply managed his Shengmeng Domain more carefully. After repelling the Ottoman Empire, Mao Jiuzhong once again set his sights on the Russian Empire.

In 1611, Mao Jiuzhong commanded 35,000 elite infantry cavalry of Wei and more than 200,000 servant soldiers to slaughter the Russian Empire. The shattered Russian Empire was powerless to resist and fell everywhere it went. As an aside, Russia has been indirectly ruled by the Mongols for more than 200 years, and the influence of Tatar blood and Tatar culture is far-reaching. At this time, Russia had just completely ended Mongol rule for more than 100 years, and Tatar influence was even more pervasive. Ivan the Terrible, for example, whose mother Yelena was a descendant of the Mongol Golden Horde; Another example is Godunov, the minister who unveiled the chaotic period in Russia, who was himself a declining Tatar aristocracy. Just like the gentlemen's meeting was willing to recommend Godunov to the throne, when Mao Jiuzhong was unstoppable and entered Moscow, a group of nobles also knelt down in front of Mao Jiuzhong obediently.

Mao Jiuzhong immediately demonstrated his military skills to the Russian people, calmly defeating the Swedish invaders in the north, the Crimean Khanate invaders in the south, and the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania in the east more easily, and even leading his troops to recklessly turn around the territory of Austria. Who dares to resist?

As a result, the Russian Empire was easily incorporated into the Mongol vassal states, and after more than 100 years of free Russian tribes from Mongol rule, the era of Zhuxia rule was ushered in.

This era belongs to Mao Jiuzhong.

From Sweden to the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, from the Holy Roman Empire to the Ottoman Empire, from Iran to the Mughal Empire, from the Yan Domain to the Zhao Domain, the Jin Domain, the Zhou Domain, the Tang Domain, the Lu Domain, and the Imperial Family, no one could defeat Mao Jiuzhong on land. Mao Jiuzhong's military prestige far surpassed that of famous generals such as Bai Qi, Wu Qi, Sun Wu, Sun Bin, Wei Qing, and Huo Quzhi, and the area conquered also surpassed that of Temujin hundreds of years ago.

Wei Dongsheng had to admire Mao Jiuzhong.

In all fairness, if we are allowed to climb the science and technology tree and farm to engage in cross-era scientific and technological crushing, Wei Dongsheng is also confident that he will run rampant all over the world. But if there were restrictions such as banning the dissemination of natural sciences and social sciences, and using the same theories, the same weapons, the same tactics and the polemics of the world's heroes, Wei Dongsheng suddenly lost his confidence in victory, how could he dare to ignore the distance like Mao Jiuzhong, and fight from the Yan Empire to the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire.

Wei Dongsheng admired Mao Jiuzhong's undefeated military might.

Of course, Mao Jiuzhong's sudden rise also disrupted many of Wei Dongsheng's plans. At the beginning of the Sixth Generation, Wei Dongsheng was worried about the frequent civil wars in Kyushu and thought about how to end the fragmentation of Zhuxia. Mao Jiuzhong's performance in the quagmire of Zhao State indirectly told Wei Dongsheng that a simple decisive victory in the war might not be beneficial, as strong as Mao Jiuzhong, it would be difficult to completely destroy the order of Wei Xia's separation, let alone other generals?

Mao Jiuzhong also brought an unexpected joy.

During the second anti-Wei siege, Mao Jiuzhong actively pushed the Lu nobles to weaken the royal family. After several years of chaotic warfare, a new aristocrat named Van Byk led a group of handicraftsmen and maritime merchants to defeat the Lu royal family. However, the Lu royal family fled to the royal territory in time, and controlled the domestic forces to continue the struggle against Fan Bik. Annoyed that the Lu royal family refused to cooperate with the signing of the surrender agreement, Fan Bike simply announced the abolition of the Lu royal family and the establishment of the Luyu Republic.

Abolishing royal privileges and establishing a republic without a king, Van Bik fired the first shot to dismantle the feudal order.

It was also the first republic within the Weixia Empire.