465th VIII: The Great Revolution

Wei Dongsheng devoted himself to Weixia basic education, and time was fleeting.

In 1695, Wei Dongsheng died at the age of 60.

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Then, there was the eighth.

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Since Wei Anhao restarted the order of separation, the various feudal domains have been fighting endlessly.

In 1692, the three northern feudatories of Yan, Wei, and Zhao fell into a melee again, sometimes with Wei and Yan allied, and sometimes with Wei and Zhao.

The stalemate lasted until 1699, when the three feudatories signed a peace treaty, and the Wei clan ceded Jizhou Mansion and Duoyan Mansion to the Zhao Domain. However, with the repeated defeats of the Jiang clan and the Wei domain, the Yan clan and the Zhao clan gradually stepped on the corpse of the Wei clan to achieve the prestige of the northern two heroes. Without the common enemy of the Wei Domain, the contradictions between the Yan Domain and the Zhao Domain intensified sharply, and the harmony of the Wei Dynasty was no longer restored.

In 1705, the Zhao domain retried the Xuanfu, Kuanhe Mansion (Chengde City), Duoyan Mansion (Chifeng City) and other prefectures and counties that were illegally occupied by Mao Jiuzhong, and demanded that the Wei domain return all the inherent territory of the Zhao domain. The Yan clan immediately strongly opposed it, and formed a four-nation alliance with the imperial family, the Jin domain, and the Wei domain to contain the Zhao domain; Zhao also tried to find other allies and concluded a four-nation alliance with the Lu, Zhou, and Tang domains. Because the territory of the four feudal domains such as the Lu Domain, the Zhao Domain, the Zhou Domain, and the Tang Domain seemed to be a rough one, everyone called them the Lianheng Alliance based on the allusions of the Lianheng Alliance, and the Four-Power Alliance of the Imperial Family, the Jin Domain, the Wei Domain, and the Yan Domain was called the Heheng Alliance.

In 1707, with a skirmish between the Lu Naval Force and the Imperial Navy as the trigger, the Lianheng Alliance officially declared war on the Hezong Alliance.

In 1713, the Yue clan joined the Hezong Alliance, and the Wei clan joined the Lianheng Alliance, and the scale of the war was further expanded, except for the Wu Domain, which was regarded as a buffer zone, which remained armed and neutral, and the coast of Kyushu was filled with gunsmoke.

This great melee that swept Kyushu was finally won by the Lianheng Alliance.

At the last moment, the Yan clan defected and carved up the Wei domain with the Zhao domain, the Zhou domain, and the Tang domain: the Yan domain took the Haithorn Mansion and the Jinshan Domain, and extended its power to the eastern part of the Mongolian Plateau; Zhao Fan took back the lost land of Xuanfu, Kuanhe Mansion, and Duoyan Mansion; Zhou Fan took back the Yulin Mansion that had been occupied by Mao Shang in the past; The Tang clan took the southern frontier set up by Mao Jiuzhong in the previous year to annex the Yarkand Khanate.

Due to the timely defection of the Yue and Yan domains, their strength still existed, and their losses were very limited.

Only the royal family is as miserable as the Wei Domain.

After the end of the Jin Succession War, the Central Plains vassal states deliberately weakened the imperial family, and in addition to Henan Province and Zhejiang Province, Ryukyu Island and Penghu Islands were also forced to establish Ryukyu Earls. The Ryukyu Earl was nominally under the administration of the Imperial Family, but in practice it became a free port ravaged by the Yue Domain, the Wei Domain, the Wu Domain, the Lu Domain, the Zhao Domain, and the Yan Domain. Now that the Spring and Autumn Order evolved into the Warring States Order, the Lu Fan simply abolished the Earl of Ryukyu and pocketed the Ryukyu and Penghu Islands.

In addition to the Ryukyu Island and the Penghu Islands, many colonies directly under the imperial family were also forced to cede to the Lu Domain.

In particular, the royal family's North Penglai colony was almost completely seized by the Lu Domain, and only a few island strongholds in the Penglai Islands remained.

It's a pity that Lu Fan didn't get the fruitful results.

In 1727, the colonial rule policy of the Lu clan attracted the dissatisfaction of the royal family, and the immigrants from the four provinces directly under the royal family, including Hubei, Jiangxi, Anhui, and Jiangsu, united unprecedentedly, and suddenly fired a gun against the colonial rule of the Lu clan.

Since the second wave of the Great Voyage of the Maritime Alliance of Wu, Xia, and Lu, after more than 100 years of trivial intrigues, the royal family has gradually integrated the North Penglai Colony into one. Before the cession to the Lu Domain, the royal North Penglai Colony had included the real-world states of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and other states in the United States. Although the core area may be limited to coastal towns, this is a colony of Xia Beipenglai that is recognized by the maritime vassal states.

Just like the American Revolutionary War in the real world, the Xia North Penglai Colony has formed a unique interest group after more than 100 years of multiplication. Moreover, the people of the provinces directly under the royal family regarded the cession of the North Penglai Colony as a great shame, and they brought their own dry food to Penglai to support the independence struggle of the Xia North Penglai Colony; The Yue Domain, the Wei Domain, the Wu Domain, the Zhao Domain, and the Yan Domain were also not happy with the Lu Domain's annexation of the Xia North Penglai Colony, and they successively openly and secretly supported the Xia North Penglai Colony and the Lu Domain to fight to the end.

As a result, the Xia North Penglai Colony ushered in the dawn of victory just like the American Revolutionary War in the real world.

After a difficult six-year war, the Xia North Penglai Colony successfully escaped the colonial rule of the Lu Domain. Because the maritime vassals had their own interests, they unanimously did not support the royal family to restore their rule in the North Penglai Colony, and tacitly encouraged the Xia North Penglai Colony to establish the North Penglai Republic. The Republic of North Penglai thus established the first independent regime of Penglai, which was similar to the relationship between Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom in the real world, declaring eternal allegiance to the Wei Xia royal family, but refusing the royal government's interference in the internal affairs of the Republic of North Penglai.

The Northern Penglai Republic became the twenty-fourth vassal state of the Weixia Empire.

Similar to the real-world United States, the Republic of Northern Penglai was full of vitality when it was first established. From 1733 to 1738, in just five years, the Republic of Northern Penglai redefined its sphere of influence with Penglai and Penglai, which belonged to Vietnam, and Penglai, which belonged to Lu, and incorporated Tennessee and Illinois into the territory of the real world.

However, at this time, no one cared about the expansion of the Mandate of Heaven in the Republic of North Penglai.

In 1723, Wei Junyang died and was succeeded by his great-grandson Wei Qinxi, who was the seventeenth emperor of the Wei Xia Dynasty.

The great rout of the war of the alliance ruined Wei Junyang's life of wisdom, and soon after Wei Qinxi succeeded to the throne, he indirectly supported the Republic of North Penglai to break away from the colonial rule of the Lu domain, and for a while he was quite like a wise monarch. It is a pity that the imperial court represented by Wei Qinxi ignored the internal contradictions.

With the gradual development of natural sciences, the glory of the industrial revolution began to emerge over the years.

Take the most famous textile industry as an example, it is the advantage of the royal industry, the royal family monopolizes high-end products, dominates the mid-end products, and the low-end also has the quantitative advantage brought by the population size, and can almost single-handedly beat the world. Rao is a maritime empire like Wu Fan, and he can only make profits by monopolizing maritime trade, and has no ability to compete with the royal family in the textile industry.

Lu Fan is even worse.

To tell the truth coldly, compared with the Suzhou Mansion where "the voice of the machine is heard by the household", Lu Fan has no tradition of weaving at all.

However, the Industrial Revolution was able to bridge the gap between tradition.

With the advent of shuttles, mule machines, and various textile machines, the textile industry of the Lu Dynasty was shocked to catch up with the unimaginable speed of the four provinces of the royal family. In terms of historical brand image, the textile industry of Lu Fan is far inferior to that of the royal weavers; In terms of product quantity and cost control, the advantages of Lufan's textile industry are becoming more and more obvious.

With the rapid rise of the textile industry in Lufan, the royal textile industry has turned from prosperity to decline, and countless weavers have gone bankrupt in a large area in a short period of time. In the past, there were unstable factors, and they could not help but be forced to exile to the Penglai colony, but now the most extensive Xia North Penglai colony has been transformed into an independent Penglai Republic, how can there be a colony that can accommodate countless bankrupt weavers. In addition, without the constraints of colonial rule, even if bankrupt weavers can be sent to the Northern Penglai Republic through a cooperation agreement, it will be a destabilizing factor for the agglomeration of foreign vassals.

Without the pressure relief valve, the internal contradictions in the provinces directly under the royal family suddenly grew at an exponential speed.

Wei Qinxi regretfully did not perceive the risk, and instead of finding a way to resettle the bankrupt weavers in time, he spent the treasury a few years ago to support the Northern Penglai Republic and the Lu Domain.

In February 1738, a group of bankrupt weavers flocked to the Imperial Palace, and Wei Qinxi fled from Kyoto in a panic because he thought that a civil unrest had broken out in the royal capital. When Wei Qinxi realized that the other party was just a group of helpless bankrupt weavers, he laughed at himself and returned to Kyoto leisurely. Unexpectedly, in the days since Wei Qinxi left, the power structure of the imperial court has undergone earth-shaking changes. The frustrated faction represented by the bankrupt weavers, the republicans represented by the supporters of the Northern Penglai Republic, the capitalist faction represented by the emerging industrial class, and the cabinet faction represented by the envious Lu feudal system were eager to take this opportunity to change the imperial authority.

When Wei Qinxi returned to Kyoto, the situation was so complicated that he could not imagine it, and he was even forcibly placed under house arrest by the cabinet faction.

The factions negotiated until January 1740, and Wei Qinxi compromised and accepted the proposal of the cabinet faction, promising to follow the example of Lu Fan and adopt the cabinet system.

Of course, the loyal faction, represented by the traditional aristocratic families, was not willing to accept the cabinet faction. Under the guise of Wei Qinxi, the Zhongwang faction asked Wu Fan for reinforcements, and quickly conquered the royal capital, and wantonly hunted down and killed the main leaders of the cabinet faction in the name of rebellion.

Unfortunately, the people's hearts are already boiling, and the killing simply cannot stop the change.

The remnants of the cabinet, fearing that they would be joined by the loyal king, resolutely united all the forces of the capitalists, the republicans, and gathered bankrupt orito form a new army on behalf of the frustrated, and persuaded the old army to switch sides. In just forty-two days, the Chung Wang faction and the army of Wu Fanqin were driven out of Kyoto by the new army.

As the cabinet faction was killed by the loyalist faction, the capitalist faction and the republican faction suddenly became the main forces of the revolution, and among them, the republican faction had the most resolute attitude.

The republicans reorganized the cabinet, fiercely denounced Wei Qinxi's ten crimes, and announced that the privileges of Wei's descendants would be abolished and the Zhuxia Republic would be established.

Because the Zhuxia Republic was founded in June 1740, it is known as the June Revolution.

From the 1341 Wei Dongsheng Jianshuo to the June Revolution in 1740, the 400-year Wei Xia Dynasty finally came to an end.

Wei Dongsheng watched the Wei Xia Dynasty come to an end, and he was overwhelmed with emotion.

If the Republic of Northern Penglai is regarded as the North American War of Independence, the June Revolution may also be regarded as the French Revolution. In the real world, the North American Revolutionary War belonged to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the French Revolution was the glory of France. In this time and space, the Wei Xia royal family was particularly unlucky, and the North Penglai Colony became the North Penglai Republic, and the variables of the Great Revolution also fell on him.