The 455th rises and falls

Wei Daoqian's foundation was unstable and he was unable to purge the cabinet headed by Fan Bik, so he compromised and cautiously pacified the cabinet where various factions coexisted: "Only punish the head of Fan Bik, and do not ask anyone else." ”

Except for the first evil Fan Bike who was whipped and hung at the city gate, Fan Bike's Peng family was basically safe and sound, and even Wei Daoqian had to acquiesce to Fan Bike's eldest son to take refuge in its domain. Similar to Fan Bike's subordinate forces such as Wei Dongsheng, Wei Daoqian's retaliation was even more limited, and only the special financial allocation for Wei He Academy was stopped.

Wei Daoqian's compromise won the favor of the cabinet factions, and the Luyu Republic smoothly returned to the monarchy.

Before the signing of the Jinan Treaty in 1608, Fan Bike used Mao Jiuzhong's military authority to integrate Henan Province, and quickly annexed the Earl of Weihui, Luoyang, Nanyang, Runan and other territories, completely incorporating Henan Province into the territory of the Republic of Luyu. Wei Daoqian hated Fan Bike, but he gladly accepted the results of the efforts of Fan Bike and other industrial nobles, and regarded the old four earls as the inherent territory of the Lu domain. In order to appease the people of Henan Province, Wei Daoqian even privately renamed the Lu Domain as the United Kingdom of Lu and Henan, so as to permanently occupy Henan Province.

After three years of dormancy, Wei Daoqian gradually clarified the details of the cabinet faction, and immediately began to make small moves.

Wei Daoqian wanted to establish his prestige through a hearty victory, and then restore the authority of the monarchy. Choosing and choosing, Wei Daoqian chose Wu Fan as the target of killing chickens and monkeys. In the Lu-Wu War from 1612 to 1614, the previously infamous Lu Domain's navy was able to force the Wu Domain, which shows that the Wu Domain's navy was not as strong as imagined. In the seven years from 1614 to 1621, both the Luyu Republic and the Luyu United Kingdom were desperately building warships, and the naval strength would only be stronger, or they could easily crush the Wu Domain.

However, how could war be as simple as Wei Daoqian imagined.

First of all, an increase in the number of warships does not mean an increase in combat effectiveness. During the drastic transformation of the Luyu Republic back to the United Kingdom of Luyu, although the outstanding admirals who forced the victory of the Wu Domain in the past were so miserable that they were not dismissed from office, they were deliberately suppressed and restricted by the Lu Domain royal family, which seriously affected the combat effectiveness of the Lu Domain's navy. Second, after the end of the First War of Lu and Wu, the people of the Wu Domain regarded it as a great shame, and the cabinet worked hard to train the navy and study new tactics, which was obviously a qualitative change compared with the Wu Domain Navy nine years earlier.

When the second war broke out, the Lu navy did have an advantage for a time, but as the war dragged on, the new tactical system of the Wu navy gradually took effect, and the momentum became more and more fierce. The stalemate lasted until 1625, when Wu won many large-scale naval battles in a row, and even almost burned the port of Qingdao, forcing Lu Fan to cede land and pay reparations to admit defeat.

Wei Daoqian not only did not rebuild the authority of the royal family, but the second war between Lu and Yu became a stain on his life.

To tell the truth, the unprepared Lu Fan fought the prepared Wu Fan, and the Wu Fan was naturally closer to victory. But the people of the Lu Domain will not be so understanding, they can win nine years ago, how can they lose after the year? The answer is definitely not that Wu Fan's navy is too strong to challenge, but that Wei Daoqian is mediocre and incompetent, far inferior to Fan Bike.

In the face of the nation's accusations, Wei Daoqian had no choice but to continue to hibernate.

Of course, Wei Daoqian was very unwilling, and after the defeat on the frontal battlefield, he tried to seek diplomatic tactics to win, hoping to unite the royal family to attack by sea and land and completely defeat the Wu domain.

In 1616, Emperor Wei Shun was assassinated and died, and his eldest son Wei Shengming succeeded to the throne as the fifteenth emperor of the Wei Xia Dynasty.

Wei Shengming advocated the rule of inaction, and generally continued the policy of his father, Emperor Wei Shun, and prudently restored Wei's prestige with the concept of "diplomacy first, military secondary". Wei Shengming was particularly cautious in his use of troops, and easily refused to send troops to interfere in the internal affairs of the various domains, but the Wu domain was perhaps an exception. In recent years, the Wu Domain has aggressively seized the trade share of the old maritime empires such as the Yue Domain and the Wei Domain, and has gradually become a monopoly tumor by using naval superiority to block the emerging maritime states such as the Lu Domain, the Yan Domain, the Wei Domain, and the Zhao Domain. Not only the Lu Domain, but many vassal states wanted to weaken the Wu Domain, and they probably would not oppose the imperial family's use of troops against the Wu Domain.

Wei Shengming and Wei Daoqian secretly planned that in 1629, the imperial family gathered 200,000 foot cavalry to attack the Wu domain from land, and the imperial navy and the Lu domain navy attacked the Wu domain from the sea.

Tracing back to the beginning of the Wu Domain, it was a nail in the coffin for the Northern Chinese vassal to weaken the imperial family. Wu Fan always kept in mind the reason for the establishment of the domain, and did not hesitate to spend a huge amount of money to build a dense fortress on the border of Xia and Wu, called the Great Wall of Fortress. In just two months, the royal army quickly occupied the vast majority of the territory of the Wu Domain, and the Wu Domain could only rely on the difficult mountainous terrain to defend the prefecture, Taizhou, Wenzhou and other places.

The defeat of the Great Wall of Leng Bao was like a hurricane sweeping through the Wei Xia Empire, and the vassal states all sighed in incredible tones at this battle, enthusiastically eulogizing Wei Shengming as the lord of Zhongxing of the Wei Xia Dynasty.

In other words, during the time when Mao Jiuzhong won a hundred battles and won a hundred battles and ran rampant in the Old Continent, the two anti-Wei encirclement networks were easily torn apart by Mao Jiuzhong, and the performance of the royal family was hardly satisfactory. At that time, there was a lot of discussion, and they all said that Wei Xia had been in the country for nearly three hundred years, and it was time to change the dynasty. How do you think that at the critical moment of the life and death crisis of the Wei Xia Dynasty, Emperor Wei Shun first pacified the internal and external vassals, and led the Wei clan's relatives to resist the invasion of Mao Jiuzhong with difficulty; Later, there was an outstanding heir like Wei Shengming, who was able to beat the powerful Ocean Empire Wu Fan in just two months.

To some extent, Wei Shengming is more powerful than Mao Jiuzhong.

The reason why the Central Plains vassal states were able to drag Mao Jiuzhong to death was because of the fortresses all over the territory of the domains. Mao Jiuzhong was invincible in the field, and he was not afraid of the fortress fortress, but it always took countless hours and countless troops to capture a fortress. In terms of stopping Mao Jiuzhong's exploits, the fortress tactic is a well-deserved first achievement. The defense line of the Great Wall of the Fortress of the Wu Domain took the fortress tactics to the extreme, but Mao Jiuzhong's helpless fortress tactics were easily disintegrated by the royal army.

The imperial family mastered a new siege technique against the tactics of the old fortress, and the old fortresses in the territory of the Wei Xia Empire suddenly became useless buildings.

The royal family has been revived!

What to do?

There must be containment.

Overnight, the vassal states of the Central Plains changed their attitudes. Even if they were no longer satisfied with the Wu Domain's monopoly on maritime trade, they could not let the imperial family annex the Wu Domain, otherwise the powerful Imperial Family would definitely have to cut the domain again. In the face of the real threat, Wei Shengming's diplomatic skills were all useless, and the Yue Domain, Wei Domain, Yan Domain, Zhao Domain, Chu Domain, Ming Domain, Jiaozhi Domain, and other vassal states that were once hostile to Wu Domain changed their attitudes and turned around to support Wu Domain's resistance to the imperial family's reduction of the domain.

The above is the advance of the land battlefield.

The maritime battlefield is the territory of the Wu Domain, even if there are only three provinces left, the Wu Domain's navy can still beat the Xialu United Navy. At the same time, the Lu Cabinet was also afraid of the revival of the royal family, and opposed the thirst-quenching behavior of the Charu League, which gradually evolved into a full-scale conflict between the royal family and the cabinet. In 1631, Wei Daoqian died, and his eldest son, Wei Shunhui, succeeded him as king of the Lu domain. The Lu Clan's cabinet immediately forced Wei Shunhui to sign a peace treaty with the Wu Domain, making a 180-degree turn to support the Wu Domain's resistance to the imperial family.

Wei Shengming was unwilling to withdraw from the Wu Domain, and contacted his former enemy Wei Domain, hoping that the Wei Domain could involve Yan, Zhao, Lu and other domains in the north. Mao Shanghe, the Duke of the Wei Domain, was determined to fulfill Mao Jiuzhong's last wish, and immediately took advantage of the rare opportunity of the Xia-Wu War to declare war on the Wu Domain, but in fact, he sent troops from the land, eager to take the opportunity to annex the Zhao Domain.

How do you think, the result of the Wei-Zhao War once again shook the Wei-Xia Empire.

Wei Dalian, the eldest son of Wei Junxi, succeeded him as king of the Zhao domain in 1625 and did little for several years. At this time, he suddenly met Mao Shanghe, who was evaluated by "Tiger Father No Dog Son", but Wei Dalian was stabbed in the sac, and suddenly his sword came out of the sheath, and broke the Wei soldiers in Baoding Mansion, and Mao Shang even accidentally died of a random gun.

After capturing Mao Shanghe in World War I, Wei Dalian suddenly became a well-known military star in the world, and his neighbors Lu Fan all felt threatened.

Although Mao Shang is dead, the strength of the Wei Fan is still there. Besides, there were countless neighboring domains around the Zhao Domain, and Wei Dalian didn't dare to expand the results in a hurry. Wei Dalian calmly demanded that Wei Fan sign a peace treaty, depose Mao Jiuzhong's support for local forces such as Zhending Earl Domain, Hejian Earl Domain, and Baoding Earl State in the past, and take the opportunity to strengthen centralized power and completely control the land of Sanfu, Tai Ban fulfilled the long-cherished wish of his grandfather Wei Shunzong.

At the same time, Mao Shang died in the prime of life, and there was only one daughter under his knees. In terms of the traditional inheritance law of the Wei Xia Empire, the Wei Cabinet should find the Mao clan relatives to inherit the Duke of the Wei Domain in accordance with the law, but a noble minister named Jiang Zhongwei made a difficult move at the right time, ignoring the universal inheritance law of the Wei Xia Divided Empire on the grounds of "my Mao clan is inferior to the Wei clan", and insisted on electing Mao Shang, who was only 3 years old, and his orphan daughter Mao Siyu as the new Duke of the Wei Domain.

Jiang Zhongwei recommended Mao Siyu to succeed Wei not because he was loyal to Mao Shanghe, but because he wanted to usurp the country by marriage. As soon as Mao Siyu was promoted to the title of Duke of Wei Domain, Jiang Zhongwei created momentum for his 4-year-old son Jiang Weimu to be engaged to Mao Siyu, indirectly making his grandson the new lord of Wei Domain. Considering Jiang Zhongwei's selfishness, Wei Fan is afraid that it will be difficult for Wei Fan to have the glory of Mao Jiuzhong's era in a short period of time.

The rise and fall of each domain often affects the whole body.

Faced with the successive revival of the southern royal family and the northern Zhao domain, the Lu Clan's cabinet was full of a sense of crisis and painstakingly searched for new allies. Wu Fan, an old enemy, also became the best partner of Lu Fan again because of the need to curb the royal family. In 1633, Wu sent a large diplomatic delegation to visit Lu Fan to communicate on trade competition and the Penglai and Kunlun colonies, hoping to establish a stable Lu-Wu alliance from then on.

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Lu Fan Qingdao Mansion Weihe College.

After 24 years of hard work by Wei Dongsheng, Weihe College has formed a simple education system that includes six years of Mongolian learning (primary school), six years of learning (middle school), and irregular college (university). The glory of a graduate is attributed to himself, and the glory of a group of graduates is attributed to his alma mater.

Wei He Academy is getting better and better, but Wei Dongsheng's sixth body is getting older and worse.