Chapter 558: Chang Kaishen's Northern Expedition

There was no shortage of visionaries in Middle-earth, who found that the Savage Dynasty was so weak that they could not even suppress the peasant uprising, and they were all suspicious of the myth of invincibility.

If it weren't for the many forces that rose up, the Sun and Moon Divine Cult gradually won the hearts of the people by virtue of the policy of exempting the land from taxation, threatening the fundamental interests of the gentry class, and the greedy careerists, the tigers, leopards and jackals hidden in various places, would have exposed their bloodthirsty minions long ago, vowing to take the biggest piece of fat from the aging and decaying dynasty body and get a piece of the pie.

It's a pity that the growing Sun and Moon Cult is just a pawn in someone's hands, and the flames of uprisings that are rising everywhere in the vast territory ruled by the Middle-earth Dynasty are burning violently in the corners of the empire, implying that the completely uncontrollable scorched black region is expanding rapidly.

In Shudi, which is known as the country of abundance, there are Taoist people who come down from Qingcheng Mountain, carrying a fiery golden light sword, and are good at saving people with water, and in just ten months, they gathered the hard workers of logging and releasing in the middle of the river, and raised the banner of righteousness against the savage dynasty.

The Taoist's real name is Qi Jinchan, who was originally a person who cultivated the truth and attained the Tao during the Chongzhen period of the previous dynasty, but because the killing was too heavy, he delayed the Taoist industry, and he has been practicing in the Futian Cave of Qingcheng Mountain. Unexpectedly, when the Yuan Shen comprehended the mystery, he got the guidance of the Mandate of Heaven in the underworld, and resolutely chose to go out of the mountain.

The Taoist people were able to become a climate in a short period of time, thanks to the many martial arts heroes who met in various parts of Sichuan when they walked the rivers and lakes with swords in the past, and they had a close relationship with each other, and they almost shared weal and woe. Therefore, as soon as he came out of the mountain, there were various families to transport military and political talents, food, medicinal materials and other materials.

Under the stormy meeting, Qi Jincian relied on the supplement of Futian Cave and Land, and drove the disciples to kill the enemy with his transcendent Taoist skills, which naturally won all battles, and turned the land of Sichuan and Shu into his own Taoist foundation with his backhand, which became a pattern of separation.

The two lakes, which are known as the granaries of the world, although the grain has been bumper year after year, but the savage dynasty has used troops internally and externally for many years, and the officials at all levels have exploited the interests of the land, and the peasants have actually fed on the bark and grass roots.

Guo Jing, the head of the six gates of Xiangyang Fucheng, was arrested and tortured because of a trivial matter, and he was arrested and tortured without asking for a reason, ready to beat him to death. not only angered the deep-rooted Guo family, but also aroused the long-suppressed anger of the people in the market.

Yang Kang, the righteous brother of Guo Jing's eight friends, gathered his friends on the rivers and lakes, but only thirty or fifty people, he forcibly broke into the defense city and rescued the righteous brother who had half his life left.

As the head catcher of the six gates, Guo Jing knew that there was no turning back from this matter, so he simply raised the banner of rebellion and used the heads of the savages stationed in the city to show off his martial arts. Immediately, the two of them gathered the brothers of the Yamen and friends on the Jianghu Road non-stop to seize control of Xiangyang City overnight.

The imperial territory of the Savage Dynasty, the revolutionary flames burning in the corners of the edges, began to spread to the hinterland of the Central Plains with the "fall" of Xiangyang.

The Sun and Moon Divine Sect played the banner of Juntian exemption, and gathered the appeal of hundreds of thousands of people in a short period of time, which was also learned and absorbed by other forces. Not to be outdone, or following the general trend, all in all, these dozen or so rebellious peasant forces are rapidly cutting down the foundations of the dynasty and ruling the gentry in the countryside of Middle-earth for thousands of years.

As the source of the revolutionary wave, Qiongya-Canton also had a peasant uprising, which was transformed into a commercial alliance of industrial and commercial capital, and there was not much resistance to Juntian, and many islands in the South China Sea were "fiefdoms" designated by each family, and as for the exemption from taxes and various excesses and miscellaneous taxes, they were very supportive.

With the acquiescence of Lu Bin and the connivance of the commercial alliance, the gentry in the traditional sense of Canton lost the land they had seized overnight, but no matter how much they were dissatisfied, the dock fort watchtowers built by the family could not resist the power of muskets and heavy artillery.

At the same time, the navies of the great powers of the Old Continent were blocked in the South China Sea by Lu Bin himself, and even if the Briteen Kingdom dispatched the most advanced steam ironclad ships, they could not carry the electromagnetic cannon of two hundred nautical miles.

As a result, the remnants of the dregs of the old era were lured by the high-ranking officials of various countries or forcibly forced to go to the "East" to adventure, including vampire assassins who are proficient in assassination and stealth, black knights who choose the path of depravity, and druid elders who are unwilling to obey the joint council of mages, etc., all kinds of strange people with special skills.

The Indochina Peninsula, which had been pacified, became chaotic again due to the infiltration of these people. They specifically targeted the folk rangers and knights of the "Middle-earth Empire", carried out planned booby-traps and encirclement and suppression, and even some members of the Organized War Armor Regiment were killed.

After Lu Bin learned of the heavy casualties, in a fit of rage, he used the book of the brigade mage to summon a demigod hero from the place of bones, although it appeared in this world, it was only the posture of a heroic spirit, but it could be fused with a like-minded warrior and transformed into a heroic warrior, and a mage killer who was determined and not confused by spells was derived from the situation.

As for the large number of vampire assassins, Lu Bin deliberately gave grace to teach the disciples the immortal path of the integration of law and martial arts. Sun Ripple, through the correct breathing, generates positive energy fluctuations, and specializes in restraining vampires with dark physiques.

The rest of the black knights, after all, are too few in number, and there are elites similar to the ring-breaking monk Wang Hu who are in charge, among which those who have successfully cultivated the Peacock Ming King Divine Mantra can even convert the black knights into their own promotion resources.

The force of the Middle-earth Dynasty was so strong that even the allied forces of the Old World could not start a fight, so the eyes of the top leaders of the great powers had to choose to look westward and choose the vast New World.

This time, it was the hidden Council of Mages who was responsible for the raid, but unfortunately, due to the insistence of the hard-line leader "Master Aberdeen", the churches of various countries were forced to send men as well, and the Holy See, which had lost its appeal, was at a loss for this and could not deal with it at all.

Lu Bin successfully stopped the allied forces of the countries in the Old Continent, and with the victory, he waved the Northern Expedition, which was divided into two routes: land and water. Chang Kaishen, the chief treasurer of the Thirteen Lines Yongfeng Firm, became the commander of the Northern Expeditionary Army on land due to the agreement on the arrangement of seats and fruits. All of a sudden, his popularity soared, and he was in the limelight in the Guangfu territory.

In addition to the most advanced flintlock pistols and siege weapon heavy artillery, the heavily armed Northern Expeditionary Army also has a four-legged self-propelled machine turret (tank), an all-terrain adaptable machine house (armored vehicle), a machine bird (glider) that cruis the sky, and an imposing machine suspension (airship).

Chang Kaishen, the commander of the Northern Expeditionary Army, after the military parade in the eastern campus of Guangfu Province, cut his will in public, vowing to expel the Tartars and restore my Chinese clothes.

Subsequently, the Northern Expeditionary Army, with a total of hundreds of thousands, divided into three routes, marched to southern Hunan, western Jiangxi, and Fujian, and on the way to the army, there were strongholds of commercial alliances to provide various supplies.

Even if the Northern Expeditionary Army left Guangfu, there was no shortage of various supplies, so the speed of the advance of the troops was extremely fast, and they continued to advance forward, like an avalanche in the mountains.

As the Northern Expeditionary Army successfully attacked the city and plundered the land, the agents of the commercial alliance in various places also made great gains in the field of commodity economic circulation.

However, the idea of exempting the land from taxation put forward by the rebels in various places had been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and even the Northern Expeditionary Army did not dare to go against this wave, and the traditional land gentry suffered heavy losses as a result, and they had to turn into the industrial and commercial industry in the face of reality, and use the accumulated assets to become factory owners and fill the vacancy of the commercial alliance.

The Northern Expeditionary Army organized production while destroying it, established a new government to administer the area, and restored normal order. Because they placed a large number of orders with their budding business partners, they survived the most difficult entrepreneurial period and successfully attracted these people.

Many discerning people who are well-versed in world affairs can see that the commander of the three armed forces, "Chang Kaishen", does have the atmosphere of competing for the Central Plains. After all, traditional land production does not accumulate much wealth, but small-scale workshop production, which can quickly accumulate astonishing wealth.

Even the traditional ticket number is no match for the new banks with business alliances all over the country, and not only does not need to pay custody fees for depositing money, but also has a lot of interest, and the only concern is that the principal cannot be withdrawn for a fixed period of five to ten years. However, for the sake of the possibility of the Northern Expeditionary Army seizing the world, it will not take a few years for Yanjing City in the north to be replaced.

The Fujian merchants were beaten to death by the Sun and Moon Divine Cult, and behind them was the Northern Expeditionary Army supported by the Commercial Alliance, and after entering Southern Fujian Province, they were immediately welcomed by all parties. However, the major shareholder behind the Sun Moon God Sect is Lu Bin, who sang with a white face and a red face, playing everyone in the palm of his hand.

The Sun Moon Divine Sect fought head-on with the Northern Expeditionary Army, and after losing a number of men due to inferior weapons, they were forced to spit out their territory and retreat to Ruijin County in eastern Jiangxi.

After the sect leader Dongfang Sheng learned from the pain, under the guidance of Lu Bin, he began to rectify the teaching affairs, and extracted the backbone from the Five Elements Banner to establish a teaching group, which was included in his own control in the name of the wings of the sect, such as Lin Baoyin, and had a direct armed group.

In January 4545, in the Yuantaiwu of Shazhouba, Ruijin County, Gansu Province, the Middle Earth Dynasty, at night, in the upstairs room of the old house, the sect leader Dongfang Sheng had not yet gone to bed, although this young man had commanded hundreds of thousands of sect members, but a blow from the Northern Expeditionary Army made the foundation of the Sun Moon God Sect fall apart.

Dongfang Sheng was a little anxious, walking around the room, until someone knocked on the door, he woke up, hurriedly went over to open it, and saw a familiar face, only then relieved.

The person who came was Lu Bin, who came secretly, and after a few years, his appearance still did not change, but Dongfang Sheng's face had a bit of the vicissitudes of time.

After a brief greeting, the two took their seats at their desks, and the flickering dim light stretched their figures for a long time.

Lu Bin was silent for a moment before he slowly said the purpose of this trip: "The uprisings in various provinces and places, but the fireworks that are fleeting in a blink of an eye, even the Northern Expeditionary Army cannot succeed, and it is destined to drive the world for the king and cut down the vines and branches all over the Savage Dynasty." ”

"As for you, if you want to make a difference, you must abandon the traditional religious ideas and replace them with a new program of fighting. In addition, I will teach you a good thing that can sweep the world in a corner of the world. ”

Lu Bin saw the eagerness on Dongfang Sheng's face, and he didn't need to lie to him, but just picked up the pen and wrote three big words on the blank paper: industrialization!

Later, Lu Bin began to recall his memories from a long time ago, grabbed a hardwood pen dipped in water again, and wrote down the battle program that history had proven on another blank piece of paper.

The hard nib of the pen moved on the rough paper, and the night outside was as quiet as ever, but as the words appeared, another world began to tremble.

The sturdy cages began to crumble, the blood-stained shackles began to rot, and the gods could not help but tremble even in their own realm. In every secret realm in the world, the bell of judgment rings, and even the highest heaven is eroded by the sight of the end.

Suddenly a light rain fell outside the hut, pouring on the pond, splashing continuous ripples, Lu Bin vaguely heard the cries of countless ghosts and gods, felt that the surrounding environment kept shaking and rotating, and his body was under extremely heavy pressure, but his right hand holding the pen was still writing words, writing the battle program to the last sentence.

“...... Proletarians of the whole world, unite!"