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The political storm that swept Yanjing finally came, when the provisional military and political commissar announced the successor of the new emperor, the first thing the minister saw was that Situ Yuan, who was the elder brother, kowtowed to his younger brother Situ Lang, while the other two strong contenders for the throne, the eldest prince and the third prince, were nowhere to be seen, and almost everyone immediately knew that the first stage of this battle for the throne had ended. Although it is not clear who is the final victor at this time, the 79 Alliance has ensured the smooth transfer of the imperial throne and the stability of the empire's financial problems, and with the army loyal to Situ Lang and the Jiangnan Donghai that supports Situ Yuan around Yanjing as financial backing, the 79 Alliance has steadily controlled the situation of most of the empire, and the compromise reached between the two brothers of the Seventh Highness and the Ninth Highness has temporarily avoided a fragmented conflict.www.biquge.info

When the ministers saw Li Wufeng, the military and political envoy of the Northwest and the governor of Northern Luzon, who was an outsider, following closely behind Situ Yuan and bowing to Situ Lang, everyone knew that the most powerful foreign vassal of the emperor had also joined the Seventy-Nine Alliance, forming a powerful iron triangle, no wonder the eldest prince and the third prince had to retreat. And in this way, there is no suspense in the entire imperial situation, no matter what the attitude of His Royal Highness and the Third Highness is, as long as this iron triangle is stable, whether it is His Highness, the Third Highness, or any other internal force, it will not be able to challenge the throne of the Ninth Highness.

Wu Feng looked coldly at these guys who followed him and knelt down behind, these poor creatures who realized it later, they had no corresponding strength in their hands, and they had the consciousness and courage to gamble, and at this time when the lid had been lifted to show their allegiance to the new emperor, was it too late? With the establishment of the new emperor's team and the compromise with Situ Yuan, almost the entire government will undergo earth-shaking changes, and with the passing of Situ Mingyue, it is time for many old ministers to retire.

On January 18, 698 in the mainland Gregorian calendar, the new emperor of the empire, Situ Lang, finally ascended the long-awaited throne, and Situ Yuan also got his wish and was named the king of Chu, and the fief was Jiangnan County, but Jiangnan County still had to pay no less than the previous taxes to the empire every year, and the new emperor also canonized Li Wufeng as the king of Qin, and concurrently served as the envoy of the military and political festival of Guanxi, but Wufeng refused the post of king of Qin on the grounds that he did not dare to be crowned at the same time as His Royal Highness the King of Chu, and only accepted the post of envoy of the military and political festival of Guanxi.

The edict immediately following the succession of the new emperor soon spread throughout the world, with the Praetorian Guard, the Castle Guard, the 3rd, 4th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th Army Corps, as well as the Reading Force troops in the East China Sea and Jiangnan all pledged their allegiance to the new emperor.

On the contrary, Minister of Justice Sidon, who had been shouting for Situ Lang, took over the post of Minister of the Interior, and the post of Minister of Justice was replaced by Situ Yuan's line of Deputy Minister of Culture, Education, and Health, and at the same time, Wei Zhongxing was also removed from the post of Minister of Culture, Education and Health and replaced by another Vice Minister; Minister of Finance Tian Yi remained unchanged and still served as Minister of Finance, and at the same time established the Imperial Central Bank in accordance with Tian Yi's advice, and Tian Yi concurrently served as the Governor of the Imperial Central Bank; and Foreign Minister Sariden retired, instead of the representative of the Situ Yuan lineage, the former Donghai County Shoutang Fang.

Ma Yuanxiang was appointed Deputy Minister of Military Affairs and Commander of the Praetorian Guard Legion due to his decisive role in the battle for the throne, while Frey, another deputy commander of the Praetorian Legion, was directly relieved of his post. The commander of the City Guard Regiment, Yusuf, was surprisingly retained and supplemented by a large number of reservists, and the formation of five integrated divisions was soon restored.

A series of personnel changes are vigorously carried out in the dazzling people's eyes, although the appointment of local officials has not yet been changed, but the local officials who have smelled some smell have flocked to Yanjing to find their own way, running for their future and destiny, Yanjing suddenly presented a busy scene, almost everyone seems to have forgotten that the Kaman army is still eyeing Qinghe Mansion, immersed in the celebration of the new emperor's succession.

And in the edict of the new emperor, there is no mention of his two brothers-Situ Tai and Situ Jun, and Yanyun and Wuhu are also in a strange situation, Situ Tai and Situ Jun, who returned to their lair, in addition to the whole army and martial arts, never mention the succession of the new emperor in Yanjing, neither congratulations nor objections, as if Yanyun and Wuhu have become a paradise outside the reading power and the empire.

But not all changes are absent, the economy is subordinate to politics, but all subtle changes are often manifested in the economic aspect. Beginning in January 698, the financial departments of both Yanyun County and Wuhu County stopped handing over their financial revenues to the General Finance Bureau of Yanjing, and the customs departments stationed in Yunzhou and Dengzhou also automatically withheld the customs money that originally belonged to the Customs Department of the General Administration of Finance of the Imperial Empire, and turned it over to the Yanyun County Finance Bureau in Beiping, while the three northern provinces of the East China Sea, which were already under Situ Tai's hands, had completely stopped paying taxes to Jinling Mansion, the capital of Donghai County, which was controlled by Situ Yuan, and the situation in the East China Sea became tense.

In addition to criticizing these acts that bordered on rebellion in the court meeting, His Majesty the newly enthroned Emperor also began to order the Eighth and Ninth Corps to conduct large-scale military exercises, and the Seventh Army Corps stationed in Jiangnan also conducted joint military exercises on land and water with the Milan King [***] team in the deep border area between the two countries. Everything indicates that as the situation in Yanjing becomes more stable, many things will gradually be put on the agenda of His Majesty the Emperor, and not everything can tolerate this to continue, and it may not be long before the time comes to settle it.

On February 9, 698 in the mainland Gregorian calendar, less than a month after Situ Lang ascended the throne, 10,000 Japanese sailors raided the Cook Islands, which belonged to the Doton Kingdom, and occupied the Cook Islands in only three days, and on February 15, the Japanese people in the Doton Kingdom had not yet learned that the Cook Islands had been controlled and occupied by the Wats, so they threw all they had, and launched 60,000 troops to use the Cook Islands as a springboard to land at night, and landed on the Crescent Peninsula at the southeast end of the Doton Kingdom. Because the First Fleet of the Tang River Empire's naval forces, which was controlled by Situ Tai, not only did not give early warning to the Dotun Kingdom naval forces, but also quietly used some logistics ships to help the Japanese send soldiers to the Crescent Peninsula, the speed and efficiency of the Japanese attack were greatly improved.

On February 16, the Japanese people surrounded the most important port of the Crescent Peninsula and the largest military port of the Doton Kingdom - Fushan Port, 60,000 Japanese army and 10,000 sailors finally captured Fukuyama Port after three days and two nights of hard fighting, and finally captured Fukuyama Port after paying the price of more than 20,000 people, and the 20,000 army and 15,000 former sailors who defended Fukuyama Port were all killed, and the Japanese also captured a large number of ships of the Dotun Navy, and the naval force was greatly improved. On 20 February, the second group of 50,000 Japanese troops arrived at the port of Fushan by boat, and built a fortress with the 10,000 Japanese army in the area of the Jeolla Valley, the narrowest throat of the Crescent Peninsula 160 miles north of the port of Fukusan, and established a solid defensive line.

The Crescent Peninsula is an irregularly shaped narrow peninsula in the southeast of the Doton Kingdom, the north and middle of the peninsula are slender and narrow, the south is slightly wider, the climate is very different from the interior of the Doton Kingdom located in the northeast corner of the continent due to the influence of the ocean, warm and humid, the peninsula is mostly mountainous and hilly, with rich copper ore distribution. The only way to connect the peninsula to the interior of the Doton Kingdom is a belt valley along the eastern seashore, and next to the Jeolla Valley is the rugged and rugged Admiralty Mountains, which are steep and majestic, and the only passage is the Jeolla Valley, which is less than two kilometers wide.

On the one hand, the 200,000 troops stationed on the border with Yanshan were drawn out of 150,000 overnight, and urgently proposed to Situ Tai, who was inspecting the naval fleet in Yunzhou, to borrow the ships of the First Naval Fleet of the Empire to transport soldiers, but Situ Tai refused on the grounds that the ships could not go to sea during the winter maintenance period. The 150,000-strong army of the Dodonians had to brave the snow to march back to the interior of the kingdom of Dodon and then east along the sea.

It's a pity that time waits for no one, when the first cavalry troops of the Doton Kingdom arrived near the Jeolla Valley, it was ten days later, and the Japanese used cruel means to forcibly recruit and mobilize all the Dodons in this area to devote themselves to the construction of the Jeolla Valley fortress, and the Japanese army even except for 5,000 people to maintain the necessary vigilance, the rest of the tens of thousands of people also invested in the construction project, in just ten days, a small fortress has begun to take shape, although it is still very rudimentary, but enough to stop any attempt to go south. According to later statistics, during the construction period of only ten days, due to the cruel weather conditions and the severe torture and persecution of the Japanese construction superintendents, more than 3,000 people lay under the walls of the fortress, and the Japanese soldiers even paid the price of dozens of lives, which shows the difficulty of the construction of this fortress.

In the face of the 50,000 Japanese army and the valley fortress that was still constantly improving and strengthening, the Duotun cavalry, which reached less than 30,000 people, had to strengthen surveillance and reconnaissance, and patiently wait for the follow-up infantry force to follow, but when the 150,000 army was completely assembled in front of the valley fortress, another week had passed, and during this period, Tachihara Yamakawa had recruited reservists in the valley and had already reached Fukuyama Port, and all of them were put into the valley fortress for defense.

Thick war clouds began to loom over the Crescent Peninsula in the northeastern corner of the continent.

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