The capital of the Jin Empire was located in an intermountain basin surrounded by the Tien Shan Mountains and the Gisar-Alai Mountains. This mountain basin was originally called the Fergana Valley, but after being conquered by the westward migration of the Jin Empire, it was renamed the Wuji Valley and became the foundation of the Jin Empire. Bagua City, the capital of the Jin Empire, is located on the banks of the Syr Darya River in the middle of the basin.

If you look down from the air, you can find that the walls of this Bagua City look very much like a giant Bagua map composed of acquired gossip and innate gossip.

The outer city of Bagua City is called Houtian City, and eight groups of city walls were built according to the form of Houtian Bagua. Each group consists of several sections of walls arranged in different ways, all corresponding to one of the eight trigrams of the day after tomorrow. Each of these walls is also a fortress that can be maintained independently, surrounded by a section of unconnected moats, and the walls are built low and thick, facing the outside of the city, and there is an angle of about 60 degrees, which has a strong anti-artillery function. Between every two sets of walls, there is a city gate. It is said that it is a city gate, but in fact there is no door, and there is no gatehouse, just a gap everywhere. Sections of trenches were dug outside the gaps - in order to facilitate the entry and exit of people, these trenches were not dug in one piece, but in sections. It is very convenient to enter and exit in peacetime, and when fighting, use a horse gun and sandbag, and set up a cannon and machine gun, which is much better than the city gatehouse.

The inner city of Bagua City is called Xiantian City, and the layout and fortification are similar to those of Houtian City. And inside the congenital city, it is the bustling and lively street in the entire Central Asian region, and it is also the street with the most fairy temperament. Half of the pedestrians on the street are wearing Manchurian flag uniforms, and the men among them still have thick and long braids, while the other half are dressed as Taoists who cultivate immortals, both men and women, are wearing Taoist robes, with hair buns on their heads, long swords on their shoulders, and dusty hands, looking like people in the fairy road.

If anyone directly crosses into this gossip city and sees the "immortals" all over the street, they still think that they have entered a world where they can cultivate immortals!

What's even more amazing is that most of the "immortals" and mortals on this street are of mixed blood of the East Asian Mongol race and the Central Asian Hu people, and some of these "female cultivators" are also white-skinned, beautiful and long-legged, which is also a quite eye-catching landscape.

Occasionally, a caravan of horses passed by on the streets, and the knights on horseback wore long braids with arrow sleeves and triangular "electricity" on their backs. When the luan bell on the horse's hooves rang, the "immortals" and mortals on the street would automatically avoid on both sides. Everyone knows that this is the eighteen-mile rush of the telegraph office of the Tongzheng Department of the imperial court, and the news is transmitted between the Taiji Palace in Bagua City and the eighteen-mile shop telegraph office outside the city. What they pass on is all military aircraft, no, it is a major event of heaven, whoever wants to stand in their way and miss the opportunity of heaven is more than innocent.

Why is this telegraph office located eighteen miles outside the city of gossip?

This is, of course, because the poles and wires will break the feng shui of Bagua City!

This Jin Empire is very much believed in divination, divination, and feng shui...... The facts are in front of them, and they can't help but believe it. The reason why the Ming Dynasty was able to revive from the desperate situation back then was that there was a Zhuge Zhongshan who could pinch and calculate? And the reason why the Jin Empire was able to open another situation in Central Asia and continue to this day is also calculated by Zhuge Daxian by pinching his fingers.

Here in the Jin Empire, almost everyone knows the allusion of Zhuge Daxian watching the sky at night and counting the Jin Kingdom. It is said that Zhuge Daxian led his troops to the west for the last time, and he had already arrived in Yili, and suddenly he couldn't afford to get sick, and he felt that his time was short, so he asked his apprentice Nalan Mingzhu to push him out with a cart to watch the sky at night. After watching for half a night, and counting for half a night, I finally came to a conclusion that "the clear has been exhausted and the gold is especially good".

In other words, the number of Great Qing Qi has been exhausted, but the Qi of Houjin is not yet finished. According to Zhuge Daxian's careful calculations, if the Qing Dynasty changed back to the name of Jin, then Kangxi would be able to establish the Jin State in Central Asia, and then eight more emperors could be passed on. Even the name of the year and the name of the emperor were calculated...... That is, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Jiaqing, Daoguang, Xianfeng, Tongzhi, Guangxu, Xuantong.

And Nalan Mingzhu, who had insight into the heavenly machine, because he expected that his mentor Zhuge Wuzhong was about to kill him, immediately ran away to the Kangxi-Galdan coalition army that was stationed on the bank of the Chu River at that time, and told Kangxi about the heavenly machine. Kangxi immediately made a decision, changed the name of the country to Jin, and at the same time passed down the will, according to the results calculated by Zhuge Daxian, he set the year name and named the eight generations of Jin emperors...... That is to say, no matter how many masters have won the unification, they must change their name to Yinzhen and change to Yuan Yongzheng! This is the heavenly machine calculated by the great immortals, if you don't change it, it will be against the sky.

With this change, Kangxi soon got the news of the death of Zhuge Wuzhong Wang Xue in the army.

As soon as King Zhuge Wuzhong was killed, the Ming Dynasty no longer had the strength to conquer Central Asia in the west. However, Kangxi and Galdan, the two lost dogs, did not dare to think about the Eastern Expedition to the Ming Dynasty, but joined forces to march to Central Asia. The armies of Kangxi and Galdan are all veterans who have fought with King Zhuge Wuzhong for many years, and under the strong pressure of the opponent, they have also completed the upgrade, they can line up to shoot, charge against the wall, and can also coordinate with artillery and cavalry, and at the same time, the skills of archery and horse riding have not been lost. The combat effectiveness of these armies is not at all comparable to that of the Bukhara, Khiva and Kazakh khanates in Central Asia. Therefore, Kangxi and Galdan joined forces to sweep Central Asia very smoothly. The only accident was that Galdan was hunting in the Kazakh steppe when he ran into a group of Cossacks from nowhere and was shot indiscriminately and killed!

After Galdan's death, Kangxi took over the children and subordinates of his wife and concubine very righteously, and then settled down, chose the treasure land of Wuji Valley as the capital, and began to promote Taoism and fortune-telling.

I don't know if it's because the fortune telling is more accurate, the Jin Empire entered a fairly stable era after setting the capital of Wuji Valley. During this period, there were several anti-Jin uprisings launched by the Central Asian Celestial Cultists, but they were all defeated by the Jin Empire's army, which was armed with guns and cannons. And the two strong neighbors, Daming and Rakshasa, have also formed a tacit understanding because of mutual jealousy, and no one will touch the Jin Empire. Therefore, the life of this Jin Empire was quite stable, and the country was passed on to Daoguang, the fifth generation of kings of the Jin Empire (starting from Kangxi).

Daoguang is in his forties this year, and when he was young, he was still a little fairy-like, but as he got older, he got fatter and fatter, and the fat one was about to become a meat ball, and he didn't look like a Taoist immortal, but like a fat Maitreya. However, this fat Maitreya always looks sad, and it is rare to see his smiling face, it seems that he is a Maitreya who is suffering from depression.

And the reason for this fat Daoguang's melancholy is the word "poor". When the Jin Empire reached him, there was little money, the treasury was empty, taxes were insufficient, and the state's expenditures were increasing due to the military reforms that followed the Napoleonic Wars. At the end of the reign of Emperor Ama Jiaqing, the imperial court had to lose millions of taels of silver every year...... When he became the emperor, the account books of the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Internal Affairs Office given to him by the ministers of Tianji, He Shen, Tuo Jin, Wen Fu, and Sai Chong A were all "red letters"!

It made his heart cold...... It's all lost like this, can the Jin Empire pass on another four generations to Xuantong?

So after he took over as the emperor, he began to do everything possible to open up sources and reduce expenditure, wanting to refill the treasury of the Jin Empire.

However, it is easy to throttle, it is nothing more than the word "province", but it is difficult to open source......

In the dimly lit Wuji Palace, Emperor Daoguang was sitting alone behind the imperial case and asking for divination, of course he was also a fortune teller, and his calculations were quite accurate! At this moment, he was listless, propping up his big head, looking at the three copper coins used to shake the hexagram on the table, and said to himself: "Why is it another sleepy hexagram?" Is it true that my Dajin is going to be trapped in the barren land of the Western Regions? How should this big gold dilemma be solved? ”

When Emperor Daoguang was trying to crack it, the voice of his most trusted minister of heavenly machine, Mu Zhang'a, suddenly came to his ears: "Your Majesty, slave Mu Zhang'a, please see me." ”

Daoguang looked up at the door of the dimly lit Wuji Palace, and vaguely saw a figure standing there - now that it was dark, Daoguang was reluctant to light a lot of oil lamps, and there was no electricity in Bagua City.

"Is it Mu Zhang'a? Come on. Daoguang couldn't see the person clearly, but he still beckoned the man to come forward, not worrying about the assassin at all. Because every morning when he gets up, he will make a divination to see if there is any bloody disaster...... Today's hexagram shows that he is safe. And his hexagram was obviously very accurate, and the person who walked up to him was really Mu Zhang'a, who was a bit of a roe deer.

Mu Zhang'a held a bright yellow box in his hand, which was used to hold the fold.

"Your Majesty, it's an electric performance from Petersburg with Zhongtang." After Mu Zhang'a finished saluting, he handed the bright yellow box to Daoguang with both hands.

"Heshen's electrocution?" Daoguang asked, "Did he negotiate a deal with the Rakshasas to introduce the Suvorov rifle production line?" ”

It turned out that He Shen went to Petersburg to bring in the rear-loading rifles of the Rakshasas - not Mosin. The Nagant rifle, but the Suvorov rifle, because this type of rifle was designed and produced before the Napoleonic Wars, and Marshal Suvorov introduced Ming technology after making a proposal to Catherine II. Although the accuracy of this type of rifle is slightly worse, it is sturdy and durable, does not require too good maintenance, and does not pick bullets, which is very suitable for the national conditions of the Jin Empire. And the production cost is relatively low! Therefore, Emperor Daoguang liked it very much, and when the Jin Imperial Army had to change its rear-loading guns, he did not hesitate to pick the Suvorov rifle, and let his subordinates go to Petersburg to negotiate with Zhongtang to introduce it.

"If you go back to the emperor, you have already negotiated a contract with the new Tsar Nicholas I to introduce the Suvorov rifle production line...... The total contract is one million taels of silver! ”

Hearing that it would cost a million taels of silver, the fat Daoguang Emperor immediately felt a pain in his face.

Mu Zhang'a knew that the emperor was slamming the door, although the silver had to be spent, he would still nag for a long time. So he hurriedly diverted the topic and said, "In addition, there is a happy event to report to Hezhongtang." ”

"Happy event?" Daoguang asked, "What happy event?" ”

"Your Majesty, he made friends with a genius from the Ming Zhuge family in Petersburg." Mu Zhang'a said with a smile.

"Oh," Daoguang sounded a little disappointed, "Didn't he also become friends with Zhuge Youde back then, and didn't he touch anything in the end?" ”

"This is different," Mu Zhang'a said, "this Zhuge was hit in the head by a stray bullet in the Petersburg Rebellion a while ago, and his brain was hurt, and he was a little confused. ”

"A confused Zhuge ?" Daoguang frowned, "What's the use of making friends?" ”

Mu Zhang'a smiled and said: "Your Majesty, the telegram from Zhongtang said that although this Zhuge is confused, his talent is still there...... It is very likely that he will be ranked in the military division hall in the future! ”

"Really?" Emperor Daoguang suddenly came to his senses, and said to himself, "If I can take the opportunity to get the secret of the Zhuge family, my Dajin may be able to break the predicament!" ”

"Congratulations to the emperor," Mu Zhang'a said with a smile, "The opportunity is coming soon!" ”

"What chance?" Daoguang asked.

Mu Zhang'a said: "Your Majesty, the telegram from Zhongtang said that this foolish Zhuge wants to escort a female grand duke of the Rakshasa Kingdom to Daming, and she will pass by our Dajin Kingdom!" Your Majesty, this is a rare opportunity! ”