471st Northern Union

In 1806, Wei Dongsheng honestly worked hard to become the Minister of Railways of Zhao Domain.

In 1807, the situation in the Zhou domain suddenly became turbulent.

It is said that when the Wei Domain was strong, the Zhou Fan took the initiative to give the Yulin Mansion and the Yan'an Mansion to the subordinates who were friendly to Mao Jiuzhong, and set up the Yulin Earl State and the Yan'an Earl State with a high degree of freedom. Later, Yulin Mansion was invaded by Mao Shang, the Duke of Wei Domain; During the melee of the Hezong and Heng Dynasty, the Zhou, Zhao, and Yan domains divided the Wei domain, and the Zhou domain took advantage of the situation to recover the Yulin Mansion; During the war against the Great Alliance, Prime Minister Yuan Fudao ordered the Zhou domain to allow Yulin Province to be autonomous; After the end of the War of the Great Alliance, the vassal states tolerated Yulin Prefecture and allowed Yulin Prefecture to continue to maintain its autonomy based on the careful intention of weakening the neighboring feudal domains.

In 1807, the trumpet of the Industrial Revolution sounded all over the summer, and the market demand gradually promoted the centralization of power among the feudal domains. The king of the Zhou domain considered the general situation and felt that the Zhao domain, the Lu domain, and the Yan domain were dirty with each other, and they might take the opportunity to integrate the Yan'an Mansion and the Yulin Mansion. Both the Earl of Yan'an and the Yulin Autonomous Mansion refused to let go of power, and actively begged for help from neighbors such as the Zhao Domain, the Tang Domain, the Han Domain, and the Jin Domain, and the Yulin Mansion even applied to join the Zhao Domain in the name of the Wei Domain's inheritance.

The Earl of Yan'an was unwilling to give in, and his mind was to be a chicken rather than a cow queen; Yulin Mansion's admiration for Zhao Fan is purely due to economic and cultural radiation.

In terms of political system, the Zhou Domain is similar to the Yan Domain, and it is a monarchy system in which the vassal kings rule everything. Although the Zhao Domain was inferior to the Lu Domain, the Xia Domain, the Wu Domain and other countries, it was also a relatively progressive monarchy constitution. Yulin Prefecture has been autonomous for a long time and hopes to join the Zhao Domain, which has a higher degree of institutional fit.

In terms of the economic system, the Zhao clan followed the Lu clan to start the industrial revolution, and although the national income was not as good as that of the Lu domain, which was cooking oil in a blazing fire, it quickly distanced itself from the inland feudal states such as the Zhou domain, the Jin domain, and the Tang domain. If there is a choice, if there is no treason and notoriety, the people of Yulin Mansion and Yan'an Mansion will definitely be willing to join the Zhao Domain.

The factions of the Zhao Domain's cabinet played for a while, and resolutely decided to send troops to interfere with the Zhou Domain's reduction of power.

The construction of the railway, which Wei Dongsheng had operated for many years, came in handy, and the Zhao Fan's troops reached the front line with ultra-high efficiency through rail transportation, and then formed a local strategic advantage, quickly defeating the main force of the Zhou Fan and the Jin State's reserve army to contain the interference of the Zhao Fan. Before the Tang Domain, the Yan Domain, the Lu Domain and other forces reacted, and the Zhao Domain had already established a victory. Unfortunately, Zhao was afraid of the large-scale interference of the Yan and Lu domains, and immediately after the victory, he signed a peace treaty with the Zhou and Jin domains, stipulating that Yulin would freely join the Zhao domain, and the Zhou domain would allow Yan'an to continue to maintain its independence; The Fenzhou Prefecture freely joined the Zhao Domain, and the Jin Domain granted the autonomy of Pingyang, Liaozhou, and Qinzhou Prefectures.

At the end of the Zhao-Zhou-Jin War, Wei Dongsheng was added to the cabinet with his railway merits, and was appointed as the right man of the three provincial courts, and was fully responsible for the industrial construction and transportation in the territory of the Zhao Domain.

Of course, neither the Yan Domain nor the Lu Domain would condone the bottomless expansion of the Zhao Domain. As soon as the hasty Zhao-Zhou-Jin War ended, the forces of the Lu Domain, the Yan Domain, and the Xia Dynasty formed an anti-Zhao encirclement with the Jin Domain, the Zhou Domain, the Tang Domain, and other feudal states. Before the peace treaty was officially written, the Jin, Zhou, and Tang feudal alliances began to actively prepare for war.

In all this, Zhao Fan won the war without smiling. If you are not careful, a few years later, it will be a situation of great siege from all sides of Luyan, Tang, Zhou, Jin and other vassal states. The court of the Zhao Dynasty was so worried that some people even proposed that the Yulin and Fenzhou Domains should be returned to the Zhou and Jin domains respectively, returning to the pre-war equilibrium situation.

In 1806, Wei Wenjun, who had just succeeded to the throne of the Zhao domain, was not reconciled.

Wei Wenjun's father neglected the military reform, and was not only obsessed with Buddhism, Taoism, Brahmanism and other religious mystical cultures for a long time, but also obsessed with the private feelings of a certain concubine in the harem. If it weren't for the relative peace of the international situation from 1795 to 1806, when he reigned, and if it weren't for the fact that the cabinet system greatly weakened the royal power, Wei Wenjun's father would have ruined the continuous revival of several generations of Zhao vassal kings.

In order to weaken the negative influence of Wei Wenjun's father, Wei Wenjun's grandfather once intervened when Wei Wenjun was obsessed with his concubine and instructed a clan general to raise Wei Wenjun. Under the influence of the clan generals, Wei Wenjun was born like military affairs, and when he was a little older, he joined the army to fight. By the time he succeeded to the vassal king of the Zhao domain, Wei Wenjun had grown into an outstanding young general. The main reason why Zhao decided to interfere in the internal affairs of the Zhou domain was that Wei Wenjun tried to sweep away the decadent will of his father's time.

Facing the cowardly ministers of his father's time, Wei Wenjun was very sad.

Wei Wenjun was not only not afraid of the interference of Lu Fan and Yan Fan, but also wanted to play the prestige of Zhao Fan. Wei Wenjun took advantage of the constitutional convenience of the monarch to frequently depose the ministers of the cowardly war faction and promote the new talents of the main war faction in a high-profile manner. Wei Wenjun, who did not hesitate to offend countless powerful subordinates, insisted on his own views and transferred Wei Dongsheng to the Privy Council, where he served as the deputy privy envoy equivalent to the vice chairman of the Chinese Military Commission in the real world. With the full support of Wei Wenjun, Wei Dongsheng was even able to play the function of a privy envoy as a privy deputy envoy, indirectly controlling all the military forces in the territory of the Zhao domain.

In 1809, the smell of gunpowder smoke in North China became stronger and stronger.

In order to deal with the crisis on all sides, Wei Dongsheng did his best to give full play to Zhao Fan's militaristic advantages, desperately expanded the army and expanded the army, and shocked to activate the mobilization order to pull up a huge military force of 2 million. The national strength of the Zhao domain could not maintain a force of 2 million, and if it took a little longer, it would be defeated by itself.

Knowing that Zhao had countless disadvantages, Wei Dongsheng persuaded Wei Wenjun to take the initiative to attack and take the lead in defeating the alliance of the three feudatories of Jin, Zhou and Tang.

In the spring of 1809, Wei Dongsheng ordered the generals of the Zhao Domain's main battle faction to lead 300,000 elites and 500,000 conscripted troops to march westward, mainly attacking the Jin and Zhou domains; Wei Dongsheng himself led 100,000 elite and 700,000 new troops to sit in Jizhou Mansion to block the possible interference of the Yan Domain; Wei Dongsheng urgently activated another secret move, ordering the old generals of Napoleon and Zhao Domain, who had been abducted from Corsica, to be stationed in the area of Guangping Mansion and Hejian Province to defend against the possible interference of the Lu Domain.

The battlefield on the Western Front was the smoothest, and the Jin Domain, Zhou Domain, and Tang Domain were all vulnerable, and they were quickly defeated by the elite of the Zhao Domain.

What to do with the three feudatories?

Wei Dongsheng took advantage of the prestige of the war to quickly take over the government, first taking advantage of the situation to become the prime minister of the Zhao domain, and then resolutely decided to completely annex the three feudatories in the name of the same clan and the same species in Zhuxia. In order to alleviate the resentment of the people in the three places, Wei Dongsheng took the initiative to persuade Wei Wenjun to abandon the name of Zhao Fan, take the ancient example of "three families divided into Jin" and go against the grain, and establish the Northern (North China) Federal Community.

Of course, the name has little effect, and the key is whether the specific policies can be put in place.

After the cabinet of Premier Zhao Fan of Wei Dongsheng, the Tang Dynasty was changed to Gansu Province, Zhou Dynasty to Shaanxi Province, Jin Dynasty to Shanxi Province, Wei Dynasty to Shuofang Province, and Zhao Dynasty to Hebei Province. At the same time, Wei Dongsheng used the power of the industrial revolution to actively encourage the flow of people and capital in the Five Elements Province to reduce their differences.

These are long-term policies.

In the short term, Wei Dongsheng recognized the uniqueness of the border areas and knew that the transportation base was everything. Wei Dongsheng was reluctant to support Mao Jiuzhong and Yuan Fudao in the past to unify Kyushu because the transportation conditions at that time were simply unable to maintain the super empire that spread from the northeast to Russia. Now with the railway, transportation is much easier, and the foundation of the empire's unification is stronger.

However, the construction of the frontier railway has not yet been completed, and the hasty expenditure of energy on the frontier will inevitably outweigh the losses.

In all this, Wei Dongsheng compromised, and with a kind face, he allowed the autonomy of the Wusizang region and the Western Regions, and sent the Tang royal family to Wusizang, allowing it to continue to rule Wusizang through democratic elections. Send the Zhou royal family to the northern frontier of the Western Regions, and send the Jin royal family to the southern frontier of the Western Regions, and allow the two families to continue to rule the Western Regions through democratic elections. After bidding farewell to the royal family of the three feudatories, Wei Dongsheng tolerated and allowed all forces loyal to the old royal family to follow the king of the three feudatories to defend the frontier, and the implication was to say: "If you want to be loyal to the king of the three feudatories, go to the frontier to be loyal." If you continue to stay in the Three Elements Province, don't think about acting under their banner again. ”

Wei Dongsheng finally ordered the elite soldiers to hold the Gan-Shaanxi passage and forbade the forces of the three feudatories to return to Inner Kyushu.

It will be difficult on the northern and southern fronts.

Let's talk about the battlefield of the northern front first, the Yan Domain dominates the three northeastern provinces, and remotely controls the Far East, Siberia, and Outer Mongolia. Wei Dongsheng has no intention of annexing the Yan Domain for the time being, focusing on defense and prohibiting the invasion of the Yan Domain. Facts have proved that compared with the hard-working Zhao Domain, the bloody inheritance of the Yan Domain's combat effectiveness is quite limited, and the King of the Yan Domain does not dare to mobilize the people to engage in a general decisive battle with the Northern Federation Community.

And the few victories of the Yan Domain in the distant frontier could hardly change the status quo.

Speaking of the Southern Front War, Lu Fan deserves to be the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, with high morale and extremely high combat effectiveness. Unlike the triumphant advance on the Western Front and the defensive counterattack advantage on the Northern Front, when the Northern Union forces confronted the Lu Domain, they basically lost three battles to win a battle. Fortunately, at present, military tactics are easier to defend than to attack, and the southern defense line operated by Zhao Fan with countless financial resources effectively blocked Lu Fan's pursuit of victory.

The stalemate lasted until 1812, and the battlefield on the Southern Front finally ushered in a turning point. However, it was the dark chess arranged by Wei Dongsheng that took effect slowly, and the foreign officer Napoleon suddenly showed his military talent and led the Northern Zhou troops to defeat the main force of the Lu Domain in three battles and three victories. At the same time, Wei Dongsheng's secret chess set up in the Lu Domain's country mobilized the workers' masses to fight against the Lu Domain's cabinet in time. In addition to obediently recognizing the status quo of the Northern Federation, he also had to cede the former Earls of Weihui and Luoyang in Henan Province to the Northern Federation Community.

The Lu Domain fell, and the Yan Domain was unable to support itself, so it had to be depressed and ceasing.

From 1809 to 1812, the north initially achieved a small unification, and at least the northern federation had the confidence to ignore the Yan and Lu domains.

Considering that the strength that can be effectively used is the real strength, Wei Dongsheng did not take advantage of the victory to expand the results, but stopped the expansion policy completely. Internally, Wei Dongsheng actively encouraged the coming electrical industrial revolution in the form of policies and regulations, and invested in infrastructure construction on a large scale, making every effort to integrate Gansu, Shuofang, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei and other northern provinces, and temporarily acting as an economic puppet in the distant border autonomous region; Externally, Wei Dongsheng preached geopolitical theory, saying that the Western Regions and Uszang were already the limit of the Northern Federation's rule, and that the Northern Federation could not and would not pursue the conquest of the Luo Domain, the Shengmeng Domain, the Anxi Domain, and the Fourteen Republics of Penglai.